While police decline to report recent incidents of serious crime, except twice a week, at the same time they have little to say regarding a number of unsolved murders. Chief among them is the killing of thirteen year old Sherilee Nicholas. The Belize City girl, missing since September, was found stabbed to death on October […]
It is the Monday after a holiday weekend, a time when viewers like to catch up on three days worth of news, including reports on which of their friends and neighbors may have been robbed, raped, beaten, killed or caught in a traffic accident. The task of providing that kind of information has now been […]
A Sunday outing at the makeshift beach near the Municipal Airstrip has ended in tragedy. According to police, seventeen year old Gilroy Hilton of a Neal Pen Road address, had just arrived at the popular swimming area with three of his friends. Ten minutes later, around three thirty, the young man apparently dove into the […]
A well-known journalist has been held up at gunpoint and robbed of her jewelry. Dawn Sampson, a television reporter for Channel Seven, was walking with her sister-in-law and brother down Central American Boulevard on Boxing Day evening when they were approached by twenty year old Steven Terry and a man known only to police as […]
All was not quiet on Christmas Day in Sandhill as a long running dispute between family members has left one hospitalized and another arrested. According to police, one Charles Canton and his brother-in-law, Doug Stoyfhich were having a misunderstanding in Canton’s yard when it is alleged Canton shot Stoyfhich in his buttocks. According to police […]
On Tuesday, December fifteenth, twenty-six year old Mark Henry was injured during an alleged shoot-out he had with police as he hid from them underneath his house on North Creek Road in Belize City. Henry, who received shots to his right upper leg, left lower leg, left side of his buttocks and right upper arm, […]
And a late report from Punta Gorda indicates that a prisoner in the town’s jail has committed suicide. Twenty-three year old Jerry Ash, who had been arrested in Punta Gorda on Christmas for a robbery committed in Dangriga, was found yesterday in his cell hanging from the neck. It is believed that a lacing from […]
A Belize City businessman is hospitalized following a shooting at his club on Central American Boulevard early this morning. Police say around four thirty-five a.m. they were alerted by a taximan that three men had broken into the W.B. Pool and Bar located at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Trinity Street. Police responded […]
A lighthouse keeper, his wife and their children disappeared on their way to English Caye over a week ago. Their boat has been found but there is still no sign of the family. Today News Five spoke with relatives about this strange case and their refusal to give up the search. On Wednesday December sixteenth […]
Three men from Sittee River have been arrested for the murder of Efraim Rowley who was gunned down in a poolroom Friday night, but the Kelly family is still uneasy and believes the whole incident could have been avoided if police had been more responsive. Today News Five spoke with the father of a woman […]
A second person has died as a result of a fire on Tibruce Street on Sunday night. Police tell News Five that George Joseph died this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital of his injuries. His common law wife Isolene Garcia was killed in the fire which began around nine thirty p.m. Police and […]
Orange Walk police are investigating a holdup and robbery at the Come and Go Gas Station around six forty-five, Sunday evening. According to police reports, a masked man, wearing camouflage clothing and armed with a machine gun, walked into the station and demanded money. Police say after an undetermined amount of cash was handed over, […]
She may have turned forty-three years old today, but when Estell Bood visited our station, Bood was not in the mood to celebrate her birthday. According to the irate resident of Ebony Street, shortly before seven Sunday evening, three policemen pulled up outside her house while one identified by neighbors as “Benguche” forced himself into […]
As part of a prisoner transfer agreement between Mexico and Belize, last Friday, three more prisoners were received from the Mexican prison authorities in Chetumal. Present for the transfer were Salvador Figueroa, Belize’s Ambassador to Mexico and Bernard Adolphus, Superintendent of Prisons. The prisoners who were all serving ten year sentences for drug trafficking, are […]
This morning, if you passed by the Belchina Bridge, you could not help but notice several B.D.F. soldiers armed and decked out in their camouflaged uniforms. No, the men were not out looking for escaped prisoners but rather conducting a joint operation with police to try and curb crime and drug related activities in the […]
There are new developments in an old murder case. And, for the first time the Privy Council in London has referred a case back to the Belize Court of Appeal tasking them to consider new evidence, evidence Attorney Kirk Anderson believes will prove an innocent man is in prison. Since July ninth, 1993 twenty-nine year […]
All was not quiet on North Creek last night as a shootout between two men prompted a police response which led to one of the men being shot several times. News Five was at the scene this morning. It is not the first time that twenty-six year old Mark Henry has been in trouble with […]
It was not long after the change of government in August that reports began to surface of alleged improprieties at the Belize Airports Authority. And while the newly appointed Authority has been carefully examining the acts of its predecessor, police this week have made their first arrest. Rurico Alvarado, former Chief Executive Officer of the […]
The Immigration Department is cracking down on those working illegally in Belize. Three Mexican men, all contract workers at the Fiesta Inn were detained by the department today because they failed to produce work permits. Then shortly after, the department made its way to the Belize Biltmore Plaza where one person was taken into custody […]
A young woman accused of helping her sister give birth in a Belmopan public restroom and then abandoning the baby in a trash bin appeared in court this morning. Twenty year old Beverly Flores of Dangriga has been charged with attempted murder, abandonment of infant likely to cause grevious harm and endeavoring to conceal a […]
Saturday afternoon Belmopan Police officers responded to many phone calls about blood on the floor of a public bathroom at the Belmopan Market Square. After they conducted a search of the area, they found a plastic bag containing a pair of jeans soaked in blood. To their horror the officers then found another plastic bag […]
Less than a month ago a man reportedly forced his way into the home of a Ladyville woman, brutally beat her, tied her up, raped her and then set her house on fire. Fortunately for the victim she managed to escape from the flames. Over the weekend the police captured the man they believe is […]
It took six hours for one hundred and thirty members of the police, Dragon Unit and B.D.F. to complete a sting operation at the Hattieville Prison that took place shortly after five this morning. News Five was in Hattieville today to find out more about what Superintendent of Prisons Bernard Adolphus is calling a “Shake-up.” […]
In crime news, a brutal beating in Belize City has lead to the arrest of three men. Twenty-six year old Mark Gordon reported to police that about nine Monday night while he was walking on East Canal he was allegedly approached by Frederick Neal, with whom he had previously argued. A chase ensued to Marva’s […]
In crime news, Corozal police report a shooting incident involving an ex-police constable. Twenty-three year old Antonio Roberto Goff of Corozal Town told police that on Monday while in an altercation with a man he claimed owed him money, former police constable Andy Palma intervened by using vulgar words against him. About thirty minutes later […]
