A tourist drowned this morning near Calabash Caye. Reports are that thirty five year old Suzzie Cho Lambrechts, a Korean woman married to an American, went diving with a group of six others and a diving instructor around nine a.m. Witnesses reported that Cho Lambrechts, an experienced diver appeared to be having cramps, but when […]
Three friends of former B.T.L. cashier Harrison Collins appeared in Magistrate’s Court today. They were charged in connection with the theft of over sixty-two thousand dollars in cash, checks and tele-cards from the B.T.L. Church Street office earlier this month. The trio, security guard Keith Welch, his common-law wife Jacqueline Gentle, and friend Anthony O’Brien, […]
Cashier Harrison Collins may still be out of reach, but police will be charging three of his friends in connection with the theft of over sixty two thousand dollars in cash, checks and tele-cards from the B.T.L. Church Street office. This evening C.I.B. officials confiscated five thousand dollars from the residence of K.B.H. security guard […]
Today the Police Department received a donation of five Suzuki motorcycles to assist the police in highway patrols and other enforcement duties within the city and countrywide. The cycles are a gift from the Honourary Consul General of Belize to the Dominican Republic, Eduardo Lama. According to Inspector Martin Yama, Head of Traffic Branch in […]
A special police operation yesterday has led to the recovery of a number of stolen goods. Head of C.I.B. Simeon Alvarez says that they recovered five nineteen inch colored televisions, a video camera, a weed eater and an assortment of jewelry. Police then detained seven people but released them after they proved they bought the […]
With a string of robberies in shops over the past couple of weeks, city residents are beginning to feel afraid to go to their corner grocery store. Today Faber’s Meat Shop on Douglas Jones Street, which has been serving the Belizean public since 1991, was the scene of the latest robbery, and owner Albert Faber […]
Two men have been charged in connection with an armed robbery at a business on Iguana Street on January fourteenth. Police say Ronald Cox, who turned himself in on Monday, and Jeffrey Flowers, apprehended during an attempted burglary at a shop on Jasmine Street, have been jointly charged with attempted murder, robbery, dangerous harm, and […]
There is an expression attributed to the U.S. mafia which says that when a man has been murdered he is “sleeping with the fishes”. Tonight that euphemism applies to three more Belizeans whose names are now added to those of a family of five who have been missing and presumed dead for over a month. […]
Police have detained the sister and brother-in law of former B.T.L. cashier, Harrison Collins, the man police believe stole over sixty-two thousand dollars in cash, checks and phone cards earlier this month. An arrest warrant has been issued for Collins but Head of C.I.B. Simeon Alvarez told News Five they do not believe he is […]
This afternoon police received a phone call from the Port Authority that an abandoned boat with bodies aboard had been discovered a mile and a half south, southeast of English Caye. The Port Authority says that two of their boatmen went out on a search this afternoon and called to report that they found two […]
A woman has reported that she was raped at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Friday. Police say Roberto Valdez reportedly went to the hospital around ten a.m. for treatment for head injuries and met a young woman from Punta Gorda. It is alleged that Valdez told her that her cousin wanted to see her […]
A warrant has been issued for Harrison Collins, the B.T.L. cashier who had been held for questioning following the disappearance of over sixty-two thousand dollars in cash, checks and phone cards from the Church Street office last week. Head of C.I.B. Simeon Alvarez told News Five Collins had been released because he had been held […]
Police also have news to report concerning a series of robberies against Chinese shops. Simeon Alvarez told News Five that two of the men wanted in connection with the incidents are now in custody and a third man has also been caught through the efforts of citizens. Alvarez says Ronald Cox gave himself up around […]
On Sunday morning, however, another criminal duo tried to rob a shop on Euphrates Avenue owned by Lui Chee but was unsuccessful. Chee told us around eleven thirty he was getting into his car when he saw two men enter the shop and then heard a commotion inside. One of his employees told News Five […]
Around nine thirty this morning, two young men walked down Iguana Street and approached the New Faw Chinese shop at seventeen Iguana Street. Shortly after, neighbors say shots rang out but by the time everyone reached the store, the men were gone and they saw shopkeeper, twenty year old Cao Sai lying on the ground […]
While the Ministry of National Security looks at the overall policing of the country and the composition of the high command, police in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye are giving new meaning to the words “community policing”. Today local police and the community came together to work out the details of a program everyone hopes will […]
The police have released their primary suspect in the investigation of the theft of over sixty-two thousand dollars in cash, checks and tele-cards from B.T.L.’s Church Street office over the weekend. C.I.B. tells News Five they had to let the cashier they had detained go since the time had exceeded seventy-two hours, but that they […]
Eighteen year old Dalton Reneau was sent to prison for theft today after he was apprehended by a Justice of the Peace. On Monday evening J.P. Thomas Greenwood was in the Yarborough area when he saw a little boy weeping. He asked the boy what was wrong and he told him he had been riding […]
In other police news, yesterday afternoon around two-thirty an argument erupted with two men at the corner of Dean and George Streets allegedly over money. As a result Duran Requeña was shot in his upper left arm. Requeña was treated and released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police say they are now looking for […]
Three days after the discovery that a large amount of money had been stolen from B.T.L.’s office on Church Street, police say they are close to making an arrest. Authorities tell News Five since there are no signs of a break-in they believe the theft of over fifty-seven thousand dollars in cash and checks and […]
The widow of Mayan leader Julian Cho says she expects to receive a copy of the police pathologist’s autopsy report on her husband’s death. Maggie Cho issued a statement today saying the Minister of National Security Jorge Espat has directed the police to provide her with the copy which she will forward to an independent […]
For a company that handles millions of dollars every year, the disappearance of a few thousand dollars may seem insignificant. But Belize Telecommunications Limited is taking very seriously the theft of thousands of dollars from their downtown office over the weekend. The concern is all the greater because, despite tight security, certain staff members have […]
Police are cracking down on people carrying large amounts of suspicious cash by pulling out their latest weapon in the fight against crime: the Income Tax Department. Police say last Wednesday they searched a vehicle belonging to Errol Usher of Wilson Street and found over eleven thousand dollars. The Income Tax Department was called in […]
An anti-crime operation over the weekend in the northern districts called, “Operation Brimstone” led to the arrest of eighty-eight people. According to the Ministry of National Security, Operation Brimstone is a response to the increase of robberies and related crimes in Orange Walk and Corozal. Targeted were those involved with illegal firearms, drug trafficking, handling […]
A tourist drowned yesterday afternoon near San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. Police say forty year old Karen Perkins, from Los Angeles, California was on a diving trip to Tuffy Dive site, one mile from the caye. Perkins and her companions were supposed to dive to fifty feet, however, the other divers reported that when Perkins reached […]
