Shortly around six this morning Ruben Crawford a tour guide of Crooked Tree Village made a gruesome discovery. He found a partially decomposed body of a man floating in the Crooked Tree Lagoon. The man, who is of a dark complexion, has been identified as one Melvin “Bogo” Rhaburn, a fisherman of Carmelita Village. According […]
Another man has been arrested and remanded to Hattieville Prison after he allegedly molested two minors in his neighborhood on Monday March twenty ninth. This time the children were only five and seven years old. Thirty eight year old Michael Reneau of number forty Plues Street in Belize City was picked up by police on […]
Two days after the police detained Michael Williams for a second time in connection with the brutal rape and murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic, the police have still been unable to make an arrest. And in fact, police are now saying that due to the extremely sensitive nature of the case no […]
A man whose name is well known to basketball fans has been arrested for drug trafficking. Clinton “Pulu” Lightburn was taken into custody after he reportedly attempted to evade a B.D.F./police checkpoint at the junction of the Burrell Boom Road and the Northern Highway Wednesday night. Police say Lightburn’s red Isuzu Trooper was observed coming […]
Less than twenty four hours after four prisoners made their break for freedom from their maximum security cell at the Hattieville Prison early Tuesday morning, three of the convicts are now safely behind bars. The fourth is at the K.H.M.H. being treated for a gunshot wound to his leg. Three of the men were caught […]
Police now have four men in custody and are looking for a fifth in connection with the robbery and shooting death of Lee Yun Chong of Jasmin Street. Chong was shot after three masked men entered the grocery store Monday night. Despite the fact that the shopkeeper handed over some cash he was shot in […]
The attorney for Michael Williams, Kirk Anderson, has objected to the police department’s account of an incident involving a minor which resulted in her pressing indecent assault charges. Yesterday Head of C.I.B. Simeon Alvarez told News Five that the twelve year old told police in January that Williams had offered her a ride and had […]
The murder of Jackie Malic earlier this month is still on everyone’s mind, but as brutal and shocking as her death was, she was not the first. In October another little girl was terrorized, tortured and then killed. Her body was dumped, like a sack of garbage, on a side road. Her killer has so […]
If the police didn’t have enough problems trying to find the man who could be Belize’s first serial killer, last night another Chinese shop was the scene of a cold-blooded murder. This time the victim and his wife were both attacked by their assailants who made off with an undetermined amount. As usual, police have […]
Today Hattieville prisoners remained in lock down and were denied recreation time and visitation as most of the institution’s security guards were out on a massive manhunt for four inmates who escaped from what authorities describe as the maximum security area around one forty five this morning. Those who escaped include two notorious criminals convicted […]
Forty year old mechanic Michael Williams has been picked up once again for questioning in connection with the murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic. The child disappeared last Monday and her body was found two days later on a feeder road near mile 8 on the Western Highway. This evening police confirmed that […]
In yet another case of sexual abuse against minors, a fourteen year old girl of Dangriga reported that she was sexually assaulted on Tuesday March sixteenth. The child told police that she was at a funeral when she was approached by Mark Diego who asked her to accompany him to the Round House which is […]
A confrontation between a joint Police/B.D.F. operation and men in camouflage gear yesterday left a Salvadoran man dead. National Security says two men surprised their patrol and fired at them just as they were about to destroy a marijuana plantation around mile 38 on the Northern Highway. The patrol reportedly returned fire fatally wounding a […]
While the students of S.J.C. took their concerns to the streets, the Minister of Youth Development met with concerned members of the community indoors today to talk about the violence and ways of preventing further incidents. Among the topics was the need for people to report abuse when they see it and what will happen […]
In related news, the release of the two suspects in the murder of 12 year old Jackie Malic was not well received by her family. Fabiana Scott, Malic’s aunt tells News Five she is also offended by the number of reports she said are being falsely made against her niece. Fabiana Scott, Aunt “I am […]
Reactions of kids Student #1, Holy Redeemer School “My parents told me not to go in their cars if they tell me they want to go drive, that they will go and pick you up.” Student #2, Holy Redeemer School “They tell me not to take things from other people. Just wait until somebody comes […]
A little girl, who should have spent this afternoon doing her homework and talking to her friends, was instead eulogized at the church across the street from her school. Jackie Fern Malic’s murder, so similar to the October slaying of Sherilee Nicholas, who would have been celebrating her 13th birthday next week, has sparked feelings […]
For their part, despite intense pressure to find the killer, two days after the gruesome discovery of Jackie Fern Malic’s body police say they do not yet know for certain who killed the young girl, or why. According to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, Head of the Criminal Investigations Branch, they have detained two men for questioning. […]
Yesterday police urged parents and teachers to work together to protect the children and monitor their behavior. Today News Five spoke with some teachers, all of whom reacted strongly to the brutal murder of this young St. Ignatius Student who is so much like the students they work with everyday. Lavern Andrewin, Teacher, St. Luke’s […]
Some shoppers had just stopped in to pick up a few items before heading home, but they and the staff of Extra House on Church Street were held up and robbed at gun point on Thursday evening around 6:15. The five men, masked and armed with handguns and shotguns, then fled the scene with the […]
It sent shockwaves through the city when the sad news was reported yesterday that twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic’s body had been found off a feeder road by mile eight on the Western Highway. Malic was reported missing on Monday after failing to show up for class or report home that night. The results […]
The grisly murders of young girls, particularly the cases of Sherilee Nicholas and Jackie Malic have parents all over Belize wondering what they can do to protect their children and how they should explain such inexplicable events. The nation’s leader is also grappling with these issues as well as how the society can put an […]
“Strengthening Alternatives to Custody in Belize” was the topic of a one-day conference held today at the Fiesta Inn. The seminar, which is hosted by the Ministry of Human Development, Women and Youth and supported by V.S.O. – Belize, looked at the progress of the present alternatives to custody and in what ways they can […]
It’s happened again, another schoolgirl has been found murdered. The news that the body of St. Ignatius student, missing since Monday, had been found this morning on the Western Highway shocked and outraged the nation. It is the fourth death of a young girl in a few months. A terrible pattern seems to be emerging […]
In Belmopan a seventeen year old has been arrested and charged in connection with a stabbing death in Salvapan early Sunday morning. Guatemalan Manulo Gomez appeared in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was formally charged with the murder of Freddie Marroquin. Witnesses told police that twenty year old Niglas Montejo and seventeen year old […]
