A pedestrian has reported to police that after almost being knocked down by a car, the driver then got out and tried to shoot him. Twenty-three year old Epitacio Navarro told police that around four thirty a.m. on Sunday he and three of his friends were walking on Newtown Barracks heading towards Cinderella Plaza to […]
Police are investigating the apparent suicide of a tourist at Caye Caulker. Tom Young Jr., owner of Tom’s Hotel on Caye Caulker, told News Five that around ten forty-five this morning, he discovered the body of Gordon James Higton, from the United Kingdom, hanging by what appeared to be a bag strap in the room’s […]
The occupants of a house which burned down on Nurse Seay Street on January seventh have been charged with arson. Rudolf Lopez Wade and his common law wife Marsha Cattouse reportedly got into an argument around two fifteen a.m. and knocked over a candle setting the house on fire. Police picked up Wade and Cattouse […]
It was billed as Belize’s largest cocaine bust ever: three point three million US dollars worth of drugs and four Colombians were taken into custody in March of 1997. One of the men was subsequently released and left the country after paying a fine but three others, Antonio Contreras Guerrero, Ramon Vasquez and Javier Martinez […]
On December twentieth, George “Junie Balls” McKenzie and Eugene “Jackie” Neal appeared in Magistrate’s Court after the two young men were charged with the possession of a prohibited firearm and unlicensed ammunition. The case is a high profile one as it’s the first time that government has hired a private attorney, well known human rights […]
In other crime news, this time from New York, up and coming rap star Jamal Barrow, son of Opposition Leader Dean Barrow, was today indicted by a grand jury for attempted murder. The charges arose out of an incident at a Manhattan night spot on December twenty-seventh when Barrow, in the company of music mogul […]
On Monday, January third, fifty-eight year old Eldrid Nuñez died in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he suffered a traumatic blow to the head on New Year’s Eve. On December thirty-first around three forty-five in the evening, Dangriga police had discovered Nuñez in an abandoned building he resided in on Sisters of Holy Family […]
While banter on local radio talk shows are often times just that, sometimes, call in shows do bring about changes in the community. On January third, Love FM reported to police that several Dangriga listeners had complained that officers fired their service revolvers into the air, for no apparent reason, on the night of December […]
It may not be as valuable as the bale of cocaine found floating by some surprised sport fishermen last year, but twenty-two and a half pounds of marijuana is still not a bad haul. That’s what a police marine patrol found near the southern end of Caye Caulker on Tuesday morning. Since weed is exported […]
Tonight police are on the lookout for an alleged murderer. Twenty-nine year old Victor Galvez is wanted for a killing that took place at the Cabbage Ridge area near Bomba in the Belize District. According to police they believe that on December twenty-fifth around four in the evening, Galvez was with one Nehemia Peraza Lopez, […]
Was a thirteen-year-old student abducted and then raped by two men in Orange Walk? That’s what the police are trying to determine as their investigation into the case continues. According to the teenage student she left home shortly after seven on Sunday evening to go buy bread… and took sometime to get back home. It […]
A burglar in Benque Viejo got away with some major loot over the Christmas holidays but today the suspect is in custody. Twenty-eight year old Nelson Hernandez has been charged with burglary and handling stolen goods after police found seventy-eight thousand dollars worth of jewelry buried in the backyard of his home. The jewelry is […]
The Mennonite Community of Spanish Lookout has always been known as easy pickings for criminals due to the Mennonites’ tradition of non-violence. And while in recent years a good number of Spanish Lookout residents have quietly purchased a shotgun or two, a number of high profile violent crimes have continued to plague the prosperous settlement. […]
As the National Fire Service continued their investigation into the New Year’s Eve conflagration on West Street, the very next night they were once again called out, this time to the corner of King and Albert Streets. Shortly after seven, someone in the neighborhood observed smoke coming from the V.J. Max Store. Although the fire […]
In a correction to a story we ran on Thursday night’s newscast, it was inmate Nero Smith who stabbed fellow prisoner Albert Broaster in his back and not the other way around as we had reported. Broaster remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in a stable condition. According to reports, Broaster was stabbed as […]
After two days in police custody, Mark Middleton and Glenford Gillett have been jointly charged for the murder of fellow Hattieville Prison inmate Gerald Tasher. Investigations have revealed that the attack was in retaliation for an assault that the deceased had earlier made on their friend Herman Lanza. Christy Castillo, Police Press Officer "Well investigations […]
While Dickie Bradley, Minister of Prisons had told News Five in an interview that those responsible for Tuesday night’s near riot at Hattieville would soon be punished, Jennifer Lovell, the Acting Superintendent of Prisons says so far the matter is still under investigation. Lovell told News Five that they have yet to identify who were […]
Two days after an eighty-two year old woman reported to police that she had been robbed and raped, a sixteen-year-old, Carlos Luna Caliz, has been arrested and charged for the crimes. The elderly woman from Corozal told police that on Tuesday, Caliz went to her home and told her that her son was being held […]
Thanks to a sting operation by the Fisheries Department, one Belize City restaurateur has become the catch of the day after he was netted for possessing undersized shellfish. According to Fisheries Officer Errol Diaz, on Wednesday a search in the kitchen of the Chong Sing Restaurant revealed one hundred fifteen undersized conch. The restaurant’s owner […]
It has not been a good week for Hattieville Prison. On Tuesday morning a twenty-four year old inmate, Gerald Tasher, was stabbed to death by a fellow prisoner… and by nightfall the reaction of the incarcerated population to a subsequent weapons search bordered on a riot. Shortly after nine cameraman Brent Toombs and I reached […]
Police suspect foul play in connection with the discovery of a body found floating in the Belize River today. Around nine forty-five this morning, police received an anonymous tip reporting that the body of a man was floating in the Belize River near mile five and a half on the Northern Highway. When members of […]
It appears tonight that nobody, absolutely nobody is safe from the criminal depravity which currently afflicts the nation… as police report that an eighty-two year old woman has become the latest victim of rape. The elderly woman from Corozal told police that on Tuesday around four in the afternoon, she was inside her home when […]
In an update to a story aired yesterday, twenty-five year old Miguel Angel Ayala has been arrested and charged for rape and murder after a woman’s body was found floating in the Macal River on Monday. Alexi Aldana was found face down in the river near the temporary bridge that connects Santa Elena and San […]
In crimes of a less serious nature Opposition Senator Audrey Matura Tillett was today found guilty of assault in the court of Magistrate Harrison Hewlett. The charges arose out of an incident on April thirteenth when Matura was involved in a dispute with another woman at the Belize Electricity Limited compound on Magazine Road. She […]
A fight during recreation time at Hattieville Prison has left one inmate dead. According to Wayne Moody, Director of Programs for the Department of Corrections, just after midday today, prisoners watched as a fellow inmate was stabbed and then chased around the prison yard until officers and other prisoners intervened. The prisoner was immediately rushed […]
