Women all over the country are walking their children to school these days to protect them from child molesters and other criminals, but this morning shortly after eight a.m. it was a mother who was attacked. News Five was in Hattieville today where a woman, still shaken from her encounter with a prison escapee, told […]
Police have picked up a second suspect and charged him with the murder of twenty-two year old Devon Velasquez, a musician from Caye Caulker. Punta Gorda police apprehended Kevin Myvette in the Go De Strong Area. Myvette of Neal Pen Road is being jointly charged with Christopher Castillo who was taken in earlier this week, […]
A young man is in the hospital with a bullet lodged in his skull after he was shot on Wednesday night. Twenty-three year old Mark Conorque was riding his bicycle on Vernon Street around nine thirty. As he approached Berger Field he heard someone call out, when he turned around he was shot in the […]
The body of a man who is believed to have drowned in Soldier Creek was found this morning. Twenty-one year old Fenton Bowen of Manatee Gales Point had gone hunting with two friends on Tuesday. They reported that as soon as the trio arrived at the creek, Bowen took off his boots and jumped in. […]
The new Commissioner of Police Hughinton Williams and his Assistant Commissioners Carmen Zetina and Hugh Cain promised to do what they can to bring down crime, especially in Belize City. The residents of one neighborhood, which resembles a war zone, are desperate for help and hoping the police will tackle the violence in their area […]
On Monday, Augustina Reyes told News Five she does not know who would want to kill her common-law-husband taxi driver Philip Pou. Following our interview, police picked up Reyes Monday afternoon and subjected her to intensive questioning. She was released this evening. She reported Pou missing Friday night after he failed to return to their […]
The police have taken into custody Christopher Castillo and are on the lookout for Kevin Myvette. The young men are wanted for the murder of twenty-two year old Devon Velasquez, a musician from Caye Caulker. Velasquez was vacationing in the city when he was stabbed and chopped to death on Sunday night on Pelican Street. […]
Meanwhile family members of the deceased are upset because they were not allowed to witness the autopsy. According to Carolyn Cadle, the family had been given permission by the medical examiner to view the procedure but was denied entry to the morgue by a C.I.B. officer. Cadle contends her rights have been violated. Carolyn Cadle, […]
Eight months after the body of fifteen year old Samantha Gordon was found floating in the waters off Vista Del Mar in Ladyville, the FBI lab in Washington DC has sent its first report back to Belize. Dr. Mario Estradabran, the police pathologist told News Five that vaginal swabs were done on Gordon and these […]
While the public will be watching the new Commissioner of Police closely, hoping he can do more to bring crime under control, over the weekend another Belize City man was killed. Who murdered Philip Pou and why? At the moment, no one has any answers, least of all his family. Everyday fifty-year-old Philip Pou parked […]
After two days of intense investigation of the entire Belmopan police formation, a police officer has been charged with murder. Constable Jesus Canton appeared in court today and was charged with the death of Daniel Tillett, a detainee who died while in police custody on Independence Day. The officer in charge of the station Inspector […]
Characterizing it as a raid on a “portable ammunition factory” and saying that police would be available for questions on this major event, the police held a press conference at the Raccoon Street Station this afternoon. But if they were criticized about saying too much about their cases in the past, today they swung completely […]
Twelve Belizean fishermen have been arrested for catching undersized lobsters and fishing without valid licenses by Fisheries Department patrols this week at Glover’s Reef Atoll and southern waters. One hundred and sixty-four lobsters were confiscated and the men were fined over six thousand dollars which includes court costs. The Fisheries Department urges the public to […]
Today the family of Daniel Tillett came together in mourning and continues to question the manner in which he died. Just before four p.m. September twenty-first, the husband and father of two was at Independence Park, Belmopan, celebrating the holiday with his family when he was arrested. Police claim he was involved in a fight […]
A freak accident appears to have contributed to the death of an employee of the Nova Shrimp Company. Catarino Sho was found dead in one of the ponds at Nova’s Toledo Branch on Independence Day. Jim Hyde of Nova Companies Limited told News Five today Sho was struck by lightning as he maneuvered around the […]
Saying they will have zero tolerance for crime, the Ministry of National Security is investigating every officer who was on duty at the Belmopan Police Station on Independence Day following what appears to be the death of a prisoner. The results of a postmortem late this evening, which revealed that thirty-eight year old Daniel Tillett […]
An employee of the Nova Shrimp Company’s Toledo branch was found dead in one of the ponds on Independence Day. Police report that the body of Catarino Sho was discovered around five p.m. A supervisor reported seeing Sho feeding shrimp around one thirty that afternoon. It is not clear at this point what happened after […]
A second man has been apprehended for the shooting death of Paul Garbutt and the attempted murder of Paul Welsh on September eleventh. Twenty-two year old Michael Pau of Pinks Alley has been jointly charged with Stanley Bradley for the incidents at separate locations on East Canal in Belize City. The two men are accused […]
A customs officer who reportedly celebrated Independence Day by firing shots into the air has been arrested. Thirty-seven year old Thomas Young of Guadelupe Crescent was charged with discharging a firearm in public at midnight on Independence Day. Police report that he was behind the City Centre apparently under the influence of alcohol when he […]
A quarrel between two teenagers in San Ignacio turned deadly early Sunday morning. Around one a.m. John Carlos Zetina and Guadelupe August, both age seventeen, were in a Chinese restaurant on Burns Avenue when Zetina reportedly stabbed August in the throat. August was brought to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he died around seven […]
Later that same day, Hipolito Gomez a forty-two year old Guatemalan reported to police that eighteen year old Elston Gomez attacked him with a machete and chopped him in the right side of his head. Hipolito was taken to the Belmopan Hospital where he remains in a stable condition. Charges have yet to be filed […]
A twenty-year-old Hattieville inmate lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital under guard after he was stabbed at the prison. According to the police, the incident took place around nine forty-five on Thursday morning. Emmerson Middleton was on his free period when Mark Stuart, another inmate reportedly approached him, pulled out a weapon and stabbed […]
Almost a week after the murder of Levan Hinds on Kraal Road on September tenth, police have picked up their prime suspect and charged him. On Thursday night police located twenty-six year old Anthony O’Connor hiding in an attic at a home on West Canal. He has been charged with murder. Arthur Young and Kimberly […]
On September tenth, Levan Hinds was shot to death allegedly over a tape recorder. Police suspect the incident led to another shootout over the holiday weekend which resulted in the death of one fisherman and the death of another at the fish market by the Vernon Street Bridge. Today police say they are looking for […]
A mechanic has been charged with burglary and rape. According to police, George Waight of a Mahogany Street Extension address was picked up after a twenty-eight year old Guatemalan domestic identified Waight as the man who entered her workplace and raped her. The incident is alleged to have taken place around midday on September thirteenth. […]
