Police are appealing to the public to help solve the murder of an infant, which was found with its throat cut in Dangriga over the weekend. The investigation into the terrible discovery on Saturday continues but police say anyone who knows anything at all is urged to come forward or call Dangriga police or the […]
It was a terrible discovery to begin with and now the story appears to be even more shocking. A post mortem today on an infant found over the weekend in Dangriga indicates that it was not an aborted fetus but a healthy child–born alive–whose throat was deliberately cut. Police are now treating the case as […]
Today an escaped prisoner was apprehended by police on Caesar Ridge Road, but it took a bullet to stop him. News Five was called to the scene this afternoon. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting After being on the run for three weeks, the police finally caught up with twenty-four year old Dennis “Desho” Quilter. The prisoner apparently […]
A police officer has been suspended and BDF soldier and a civilian are hospitalized following an incident in Douglas Village early Sunday morning. Although Orange Walk Police and Internal Affairs are still trying to determine exactly what occurred, initial investigations indicate that around three am, following a village fair, some youths were having an argument. […]
A fishing co-op in Belize City was robbed on Friday morning. According to police, Iman Ken, an employee of Northern Fisherman’s Cooperative, was just getting out of his vehicle in front of the building on North Front street when a man approached him with a gun and demanded money. Ken handed over a bag, with […]
The body of an infant was found in Dangriga on Saturday morning. A passerby found the corpse on the bank of Havana Creek. It is not known at this time if the child was a full term stillborn or an aborted fetus.
Two weeks ago Emolyn Burgess bought a car. However, the young woman claims that ever since she bought the vehicle, someone has been trying to destroy it. She says about a week ago someone threw a bottle filled with gasoline and tried to set the car on fire. Her family managed to save the car, […]
Police have arrested a man from Independence after he allegedly brought a fourteen year old Guatemalan girl to Belize and then raped her. The girl claims she met Raul Acevedo in Rio Dulce, Guatemala on the fourth of February and he transported her to Belize on the sixth. She told police that the same day […]
A bartender from Cow Pen says he was attacked and injured for no apparent reason early this morning. The victim, thirty-seven year old Jose Gonzalez says he went outside around 2 o’clock this morning, when suddenly a man armed with a machete came towards him and began chopping. Gonzalez was injured on his left hand, […]
Violent outbursts inside the walls of the Hattieville prison seem to be weekly events these days and this week was no different. Initial media reports were that two prisoners got into a fight in the prison yard on Wednesday morning over the spoils of a robbery on the “outside”. One was stabbed. Today Lloyd Augustus […]
While police have yet to make an arrest in the attack on shopkeeper Uan Wuu Ming on Tuesday morning, they have found a .38 caliber revolver. Police say they believe one of the assailants dropped it when he ran away from the scene at the corner of Dean Street and Euphrates Avenue. Although police initially […]
One week ago grocer Wu Wuo Zheng on Jane Usher Boulevard was hit in the head with a gun as two men robbed his shop. On Monday night it happened again to Lee Chao Jheng on Gill Street. This morning a third attack: Uan Wuu Ming was hit repeatedly with a gun butt in front […]
Channel Seven television reporter Keith Swift was arrested on Monday during an anti-crime operation and charged today with a mischievous act and insulting a police officer. He maintains he did nothing wrong and that the officers began taunting HIM from the moment they approached him at the corner of Kraal Road and Waight Street, a […]
As bizarre as it seems, three prison officers have been charged with three counts of robbery and two counts of aggravated assault following a hold up early Friday morning. Germain Uttley and Carl Robinson told police they were walking on Waight Street around two a.m. when a Department of Corrections vehicle pulled up alongside them. […]
Police still have no suspects in a robbery at Chen’s shop at thirty four Jane Usher Boulevard on Tuesday. Police say shortly after 9:00pm, two men armed with an iron rod and a gun entered the shop. Wu Wuo Zheng said as the men entered the shop, the man holding the rod pushed his hand […]
It appears tonight that a police patrol in an area off Central American Boulevard saved the life of a Belize City man last weekend. According to an officer in the Dragon Unit, while on Arlington Drive around six-thirty last Friday evening, he saw three men hitting a man over the head with a piece of […]
It may not have been rape, but tonight a sixteen-year-old from Franks Eddy Village was arrested after he allegedly had sex with a twelve-year-old. According to police reports, around five-thirty p.m. on Monday January twenty-fourth, the teenager asked the young girl to meet him behind a school building and when she went there, they had […]
It had been twenty-five years since attorney Simeon Sampson had prosecuted a case, but the lawyer most famous for his talents as a defense attorney and his zeal to appeal death penalty cases, won his case against George “Junie Balls” McKenzie and Eugene Neal today. Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord sentenced McKenzie and Neal to four […]
In crime news, a taxi driver picked up by police for questioning over the weekend has been charged with rape. Thirty-five years old Austin Rivero of Antelope Street in Belize City also faces charges of indecent assault in connection with an incident shortly after four am on Friday. A twenty-six year old woman has alleged […]
Dangriga police are looking for two men after they robbed a hardware storeowner and one of his employees around eleven-thirty this morning. Employees tell News Five that Orlando Habet had already gotten into his Blazer in front of Habet’s Hardware on St. Vincent Street, when a man rode up on a bike and put a […]
This afternoon Marlon Budd was escorted over to Magistrate Court. He is charged with the brutal murder of twenty-six year old Oscar Perez on January twenty-second. Perez was in the company of his common law wife, Glenda Castro and his brother Edwin Perez when he was shot in the head near the Salvation Army Primary […]
Today, people of the Port Loyola area are still shocked after a well known resident was arrested and charged with the indecent assault of a little girl. In our newscast on Wednesday night we reported that witnesses claim the child had gone to Port Loyola Shopping Centre on Caesar Ridge Road on Monday evening. But […]
Marlon Budd, who was being sought by police yesterday in connection with the murder of Oscar Perez over the weekend, has turned himself in. Budd is the sixth man police detained for questioning after twenty-six year old Oscar Perez was shot twice in front of his common law wife and his brother after the trio […]
Public awareness about sex crimes against children, especially little girls, has certainly increased but awareness appears not to have stopped one man from allegedly molesting a child in public. The witnesses reported the incident to the police and the man was arrested. Reports are the man, who lives near Caesar Ridge Road took a ten […]
Today, twenty-one year old Eustagio Blanco was charged with two counts of murder and robbery in connection with the beating death of Hipolito Muy and Orlando Reyes on the San Juan/San Pablo road in the Orange Walk district. The men who worked in the Vector Control Programme in the Ministry of Health had gone to […]
