Police have charged a laborer from San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Joseph Budna, with an unnatural crime and aggravated assault following reports a 14 year old boy that he was raped. The teen told police he was walking with some friends near Louisiana Field, Orange Walk on Saturday evening when a Creole man stopped and asked […]
That was the latest from Guatemala, but for those of you who missed News Five’s special report on Sunday, which aired again at noon today and is posted on our website, we’d like to repeat a portion of our interview with Police Constable Sanchez on Sunday. He and the entire patrol reported that they had […]
After a day and a half of searching, shortly after seven on Saturday morning, the body of Kelvin “Brambles” Barrow was found floating in the water, just a few yards off the New Brighton Beach. Barrow disappeared underwater on Thursday after walking out to sea in an attempt to elude the police. Earlier that afternoon […]
A teenage boy has reported being raped in the Orange Walk District. The fourteen year old told police he was walking with some friends near Louisiana Field on the evening of the twenty-sixth, when a Creole man stopped and asked if one of them would translate for him. The youth agreed to do the favor, […]
On Sunday an inmate received minor surgery after he was chopped at Hattieville prison. According to the Department of Corrections, the incident happened shortly after nine Sunday morning. Reports are that Paul Ysaguirre went to the institution’s kitchen, but after entering the building he was confronted by fellow inmate, Bert Elijio. The inmates are alleged […]
The day after the body of 14-year-old Noemi Hernandez was found, police called a press conference to talk about how they are going to handle this, the 4th murder of a Belize City girl. It is actually the 5th if you include the unexplained death of Samantha Gordon. While the police pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran […]
The body of a man believed to have drowned yesterday in the sea off the Port Loyola area has still not been found. At the time of his disappearance, Kelvin Dennis Barrow was trying to elude police. The pursuit had both Barrow and an officer in the sea for over an hour in plain view […]
A 29 year old man from Santa Elena Cayo, Mark Hyde has been charged with rape and indecent assault following accusations that he drugged a young woman and raped her on the nineteenth of February. The woman told police she accepted a drink from Hyde at Legend 2000 nightclub in Santa Elena Town, and the […]
In another case, this time in the Orange Walk District, a cane cutter from Douglas Village, has been charged with incest, indecent assault and rape. His seven and eight year old half sisters told police he had raped them several times over the last year. The girls reported the matter on the Tuesday but the […]
Today the worst fears of a missing girl’s family and friends were confirmed. The body of 14 year old Noemi Hernandez was found at the mouth of the Belize River apparently murdered. A BDF Soldier made the discovery around 11:00am but it was several hours before the child’s clothing was identified by the father. The […]
At news time tonight, the body of a man believed to have drowned earlier this afternoon in the sea off the Port Loyola area has still not been found. But he didn’t take a pleasure swim and have an accident; he was being chased by police. There are two sides to the story, with witnesses […]
Police in Cayo are investigating a claim by a young woman that she was drugged and raped in the early hours of February 19th. The 24 year old says she was at the “Legend 2000” nightclub in Santa Elena Town, when a male acquaintance bought her a drink and insisted she drink. She says she […]
Another inmate of the Hattieville Prison has escaped from custody. Police say on Wednesday afternoon, 22 year old Jordi Espat, was taken from the prison with a group going on a work program and sometime later it was discovered that Espat was missing. Police say Prison Authorities have not told them where Espat was working […]
Its been nine days and police have still been unable to locate the mother of a newborn baby murdered and left on the bank of Havana Creek in Dangriga. The investigation has been hindered by the fact that no one in the area wants to talk. Now, while there have been reports that the mother […]
Three Belizeans and an American have been charged with drug trafficking, after a quantity of cocaine was found in their vehicle while they were attempting to cross the border into Mexico on Tuesday. 37 year old Peter Herrera, 27 year old Sydney Ellis and 25 year old Bernard Talbert, all laborers of #52 St. Thomas. […]
Last Thursday the Immigration Department visited the Pepsi Cola factory in Ladyville and escorted the general manager and sales manager, a father and son off the compound. According to Immigration, both Guatemalans had arrived in the country two weeks ago and had taken up employment at the plant although they had no work permit. The […]
Just two days after News Five ran a story on heightened security measures and efforts to improve overcrowding at the Hattieville Prison Correctional Facility, another inmate has been fatally stabbed at the compound. It is the third death since the beginning of the year. News Five understands that this time the incident did not take […]
The mother of a child who was picked up in the street by a stranger last week on Euphrates Avenue has apparently reconsidered her request not to press charges and today police picked up twenty-eight year old Harold Smith for a second time. The mother came back to the police on Saturday and asked that […]
In July Blanca Chinchilla of New Road reported that a police constable punched her at the Traffic Office at the Raccoon Street Station. The constable claimed he did know the woman but that she showed up drunk around 2:30am and tried to choke him so he pushed her off. He says she fell and hit […]
The media in Belize rarely has to report on prison breaks, because it seems anyone who really wants to leave Hattieville can find a way to escape without damaging their cell. Or, if they are really “facey,” they just slip off their handcuffs and run away while being escorted to or from court. Both scenarios […]
Police say the mother of a child who witnesses claim was almost abducted near St. Ignatius school on Monday afternoon has declined to file a formal report or press charges. Channel Seven News spoke with a witness, who declined to be identified on camera, that on Wednesday he and a co-worker stopped a man who […]
Three prisoners who escaped from the Department of Corrections on February 15th have been apprehended. The trio were taken into custody around 8:00 this morning on the Western Highway. Eighteen year old Edwardo Alcoser was serving five years for burglary, thirty-five year old Reuben Galdamez was serving one year for theft and nineteen year old […]
In police news, an anti-drug operation has resulted in the destruction of a small marijuana plantation near the Old Northern Highway and Corozalito. Police say the plantation measured fifty by seventy-five feet and contained about two hundred plants.
A fisherman from Caye Caulker has reported that his skiff was stolen sometime early Tuesday. James Rosado told police about 6:00am he realized the boat was missing from its mooring in the village. The twenty-five foot Mexican skiff is white with brown stripes. A forty-horse power Yamaha engine was attached for a total value of […]
A manhunt has been launched for three inmates who escaped from the Department of Corrections in Hattieville. The prisoners, eighteen year old Edwardo Alcoser, thirty-five year old Rueben Galdamez and nineteen year old Pedro Gongora were working on an agricultural project across from the institution when they made a run for freedom. Jennifer Lovell, Acting […]
