A domestic argument between a man and his former common-law wife ended with him being fatally stabbed on Sunday morning. Forty-seven-year-old Albert Broaster was stabbed twice to the upper body as he walked with Lisa Lauriano on Bocotora Street. The two were engaged in a verbal exchange when Lauriano reportedly produced a knife and inflicted […]
Police are seeking a suspect in the murder of Belmopan resident William Puc. His body was found in an area near a creek off Costa Rica Street Extension on Friday evening. It appeared that Puc had been socializing with a group of men in the area, but an argument ensued and things took a turn […]
Police are questioning whether a stabbing that occurred a short distance from where Puc was murdered is connected. Esvin Arana was at home when he was ambushed by two individuals and wounded. Arana’s brother does not think the attack is related. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police were called to the […]
A well-known LGBT activist Derricia Castillo Salazar is out on bail tonight after being accused of stabbing a woman in the face at a hotel in San Pedro early on Sunday morning. Salazar appeared in San Pedro Magistrate’s Court this morning where she was arraigned on charges of wounding. She was offered and met bail […]
As Belize City reels from a weekend of savagery, this morning, yet another youth was gunned down execution-style. But was his killing a retaliatory act for a shooting last night? King was identified as the gunman in an attack on a family at their house on Mayflower Street in Belize City. Marion Ali went looking […]
In another incident gone viral, a police officer is seen pepper-spraying two young men already in hand-cuffs. As News Five found out, the Commissioner of Police has acted swiftly in the case. Glenford Tillett, Victim of Alleged Police Brutality “The police man approaches me a vicious kind of way and ih spray pepper spray […]
Two people lost their lives by drowning over the weekend. Juan Avendano was with a team operating on some pipes in the Placencia Lagoon on Sunday when he went under. Divers in the area later helped retrieve his body. In Corozal, an evening of socializing on the Corozal seaside proved fatal for San Antonio Village […]
Forty-six-year-old Medardo Canelo and his nephew, thirty-three-year-old Lawrence Canelo were shot and killed inside their place of business in Punta Gorda last night. The double murder took place during curfew hours, but while the men lived where they worked, their killer moved in and out of the neighborhood freely. The shooting happened on Cayo Street […]
The double homicide in Punta Gorda last night occurred during curfew hours and, despite the fact that both victims were at home, police are revisiting their strategy to further enforce the restriction of movement after nine p.m. According to Communications Director Fitzroy Yearwood, they have observed shops that still conduct business inside of the curfew […]
As we reported last night, a security guard from the Northern Fishermen Cooperative in Belize City was robbed of twenty-five thousand dollars in cash on Thursday evening. Linsberg Diaz told police he was walking towards the office on North Front Street when he was accosted by two armed thieves. The men relieved him of a […]
There’s a tragic story from the West as a young man being hailed as a hero drowned. Witnesses say David Klassen was trying to save a child in the river when he went under and never came up again. After an extensive search, this afternoon members of the Belize Coast Guard, Spanish Lookout Emergency Response […]
This afternoon, the Belize Police Department confirmed the recovery of a body from the Belize River believed to be that of twenty-eight-year-old David Klassen. According to Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood, Klassen almost made it across the river to rescue a person in distress when he went under and did not resurface. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, […]
There are reports of a drowning in Billy White Village in the Cayo District. A young man, David Klassen, reportedly went in to save a girl who was having trouble in the water, but he never surfaced. We hope to have more details in Friday’s newscast.
Police have arrested and charged twenty-year-old Dashay Williams for the murder of fourteen-year-old Kwamie Williams. Investigators believe that Dashay, a resident of Dangriga Town, shot Kwamie after he was not able to locate his intended target. ComPol Williams gave us an update on their investigation. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Yesterday, police were able […]
A Belize City man initially reported missing then found hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. has died. Joel Aguilar had been in coma for several days. His family believes he was ambushed and beaten, but police have been having a hard time ascertaining what really transpired in his case. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I communicate […]
Thirty-year-old Eder Hall was killed on Wednesday morning by a lone gunman who shot him as he stood at a deli on Second Street South in Corozal Town. The incident happened in the open shortly before nine a.m. While Hall attempted to elude his attacker, he did not get far. When the gunman caught up […]
This evening a security guard reported that he was held up and robbed of twenty-five thousand dollars in cash while on North Front Street in Belize City. Linsberg Diaz told police he was walking from the Northern Fisherman Cooperative building towards the pay office at the back of the compound when two men came up […]
There was an execution-style murder in Corozal Town this morning when a thirty-year-old resident of Chan Chen Village was gunned down while purchasing food on South Street. Eder Hall was placing an order at the deli when an unknown man appeared on the scene and stood beside him. That individual, it is reported, then produced […]
In Tuesday’s newscast we brought you part one of a story on the murders of three teenage boys within the last three weeks. The stories of their lives and circumstances of their deaths may differ, but these incidents have Belizeans asking themselves what we can do to prevent the loss of other young lives. Tonight […]
The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Council alongside the International Organization for Migration continues to promote their “People not Property” awareness campaign. This morning, a representative of the effort was a guest on Open Your Eyes Morning Show. The Focal Point at ATIPS, Juanna Murillo, shared the fact that human trafficking is a reality in Belize. She […]
Official details from the Belize Police Department on the murder of Kwamie Williams were shared at today’s press briefing in Belize City. The fourteen-year-old was shot dead as he was walking to a relative’s house on Gumagarugu Street in Dangriga. The gunman, who was on a bicycle reportedly made an about turn firing the deadly […]
There were several shootings reported over the weekend; one in Belize City and the other in the Forest Home community in Toledo. The most recent occurred just after midday on Sunday in Fullers Alley. Francis Parham, who is wheelchair-bound, was sitting on a veranda when two men on bicycles rode up and fired several shots. […]
Later on Sunday night, police responded to shots fired in Forest Home Village in Toledo. Fredrick Bahadur as well as Selvin and Winston Ramclam were sitting outside a wooden house when two persons travelling on a motorcycle rode up and fired a barrage of bullets in their direction. Bahadur and Selvin were hit; they were […]
There were several other shootings in Belize City, but no one was injured. Shamar Nicholas, the minor who was fatally wounded in a police-involved shooting the previous week, was laid to rest on Saturday in Rancho Dolores, Belize District. Reports to our newsroom are that later that day, shots were fired at his family’s house. […]
On Saturday evening, yet another Bowen and Bowen delivery truck was targeted by thieves, this time in the Kontiki area of San Ignacio Town. Gilbert Philips and two sidemen were on a route delivery when three masked men armed with a shotgun, a crowbar and a knife approached and robbed them of their personal belongings. […]
