The Xtra House Shopping Center on Church Street as well as its branch on Cemetery Road seem to have more than their share of hold-ups and robberies. This time owner Vinod Chawla is reporting that a briefcase he left overnight in the Cemetery Road store was stolen and over thirty-seven thousand dollars in cash and […]
Police have made an arrest in the shooting of a shopkeeper on Neal Pen Road on November seventh. Eighteen year old Delbert Hines of fifty-eight Iguana Street Extension has been charged with the attempted murder and robbery of Zhou Liang Huai. Hines is accused of approaching Huai as he was closing Eighty-eight Shopping Center and […]
Two men accused of a shooting spree at the corner of Mayflower and Vernon Streets on November seventh, appeared in Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Brian Brown and Carlos Abram were charged with four counts of attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm after a civilian and two undercover police officers were injured by […]
Even as communication technology continues to advance, some Belizean communities have had to live with the fact that contacting the outside world is still not as easy as picking up the phone. This not only applies to homes, but even rural police stations. In a joint effort with the Ministry of National Security, today, Belize […]
After six days of beating the bushes, rounding up and bringing in a continuous parade of suspects, police have made their first arrests in connection with the shooting of two undercover police officers and a civilian last weekend. Forty-two year old electrician Brian Brown and twenty-eight year old stevedore Carlos Abram have been charged with […]
There has been speculation in some segments of the press that an escaped prisoner, Raymond Flowers, is a suspect in the murder of Raymond Williams at “the Hangar” last Thursday night. However, Commissioner of Police Hughington Williams told News Five today that this is not the case. He also said that there have in fact […]
Since 1998, the Ministry of National Security has been strengthening the Police Department to help combat crime. Today the ministry introduced yet another initiative. A National Crime Prevention Council composed of community-based organizations, professional bodies and the private sector has been established to study crime and violence in Belize. They will recommend policies and oversee […]
Every time it happens, people ask: where were the parents? This time the mother was at work when her baby fell into a bucket of water and drowned. News Five was on Faber’s Road today to find out who was supposed to be watching the baby. Baby Eric Castillo is believed to have drowned when […]
In police news, almost four thousand marijuana plants were destroyed during a joint police/B.D.F. patrol on Sunday in the Toledo District. Police report that over the course of several hours they discovered five marijuana plantations four miles west of San Pedro Colombia Village. The plants ranged from five to ten feet tall and one hundred […]
They were in front of a neighborhood shop Sunday evening when suddenly a car pulled out and a shower of bullets rained down. Three men were hit and children on the street ducked for cover. As the car sped away it riddled a nearby house with bullets. News Five spoke with one of the victims […]
On Thursday night Raymond Williams was shot and killed in his white convertible while parked on one of the streets near the municipal airstrip. His companion Janet Vasquez told police she survived the ordeal by jumping into the sea. Today she told News Five about her swim to safety and denied allegations that she may […]
A Belize City shopkeeper was shot during a robbery attempt on Sunday night. Zhou Liang Huai reported he was closing up his shop, Eighty-eight Shopping Center on the Corner of Central American Boulevard and Neal Pen Road when a man tried to rob him. When he refused to hand anything over, the robber shot him […]
She may just be unlucky, but two men in Janet Vasquez’s life have ended up dead. Tonight police are trying to find out if there is any connection between the murders of her boyfriend Emil Franklin in January near English Caye and the killing of Raymond Williams on Thursday night. Franklin had been detained by […]
In May, Keith Hamilton replaced veteran prison superintendent Bernard Adolphus and was hailed as the man who was going to take control of the prison and prevent escapes. After only a few months, however, it seems Hamilton has stepped down, and the prison keys have been handed over to Jennifer Lovell, the Director of Rehabilitation. […]
In crime news, the sons of a police officer have been charged with murder following a drunken brawl on Halloween which led to the death of thirty-six year old Javier Moralez. Police say eighteen year old Lisandro Matu and nineteen year old Luis Matu were drinking with Moralez at the New Capital Restaurant in Belmopan […]
A visit from someone she knew sent one Belize City woman to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to her head over the weekend. Just after two on October thirtieth, twenty-two year old Kenisha Murillo was at home on Nargusta Street when a sixteen year old youth put a gun to her […]
The body of a man found two weeks ago partially wrapped in black plastic, has been identified. Earlier today Noel Martinez identified the body to be that of his cousin, Wilmer Nathan Reyes Salinas Martinez, a twenty-five year old from Orange Walk Town. Noel Martinez says Wilmer Martinez left for Placencia on the twenty-second of […]
A police search in some cool places netted them hot items in a Belmopan home yesterday. Police went to twenty-five Sinsonte Street where they found seventy grams of cannabis in the refrigerator. Stacked away in a white cooler were a total of two hundred and forty three counterfeit one hundred-dollar Belizean bills and one thirty-eight […]
Orange Walk police are asking the public to help them identify the body of a man discovered on Tuesday near Pasture Street. Several laborers told police that they found the body of a Hispanic man shortly before noon. It was partially wrapped in a black plastic bag and had cut wounds to the head near […]
Three men, including former gang leader George “Junie Balls” McKenzie, were charged with possession of a prohibited firearm when a nine millimeter submachine gun was recovered during a police search over the weekend. Police report that they searched a taxi at a gas station on the Northern Highway around one thirty a.m. Sunday morning and […]
Following the death of a James Bus driver on Thursday, both the driver and the conductor of a Z-Line Bus were today charged with murder. But it appears that upon reconsideration the charges will be downgraded to manslaughter. According to Director of Public Prosecutions Adolf Lucas it would have been difficult for prosecutors to argue […]
The passengers have long complained about buses racing on the nation’s highways, but today the competition turned deadly, leaving a driver from James Bus Line dead and two employees from Z-Line in police custody. Police say as soon as the two buses left Punta Gorda for Belize City at around eight thirty this morning, they […]
Nine days after a Belize City moneylender was gunned down near St. John’s Cathedral, two men, one of them a deportee from the U.S., were charged with murder. Although one of the accused was initially detained almost immediately after the incident, ever mindful of the recent cases which were dismissed due to lack of evidence, […]
A fugitive from Guatemala was escorted by police to the border at Benque Viejo Del Carmen and handed over to Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday. Virgilio Ramirez was one of four brothers taken into custody October seventh near the southern village of San Vicente by a joint police/B.D.F. patrol when illegal weapons and ammunition were discovered […]
Stann Creek police apprehended a suspect in an armed robbery on Sunday, but shot him in the shoulder while trying to make the arrest. Reports are that twenty-two year old Polo Melendez was spotted near Lynam College in Pomona around ten a.m. this morning, but when police approach he resisted arrest. During the struggle, police […]
