A bicycle seems to be at the root of another Belize City murder and police say they have the shooter. At around three thirty Tuesday a young man rode a bike to the A and R Service Station on North Front Street but one of the attendants, Alex Perez, recognized it as his own which […]
The report on yesterday’s news of a city wide raid on illegal boledo vendors came as a surprise to most residents of the old capital, who have come to accept the widespread practice as just one more facet of daily urban life. No more, reports Assistant Commissioner of Police Hughington Williams, who told us that […]
In crime news of a more violent nature a woman well known to those of us in the media was this morning the victim of what appears to be a brutal and random assault. Former B.C.B. marketing executive Anita Cheong was walking over the Pound Yard Bridge this morning around seven thirty when a man, […]
In yesterday’s newscast we reported on the knockdown and death of a bicyclist in the village of Hattieville. This morning I traveled to the roadside community and discovered that what many journalists all too often see only as a printed police report, has a far more personal and urgent meaning to the people touched by […]
The familiar sight of a tall mentally unstable man will no longer be seen around downtown Belize City as this morning his dead body was found at the city dump. The man, who apparently lived in an abandoned van at the site off the Western Highway, is allegedly from Dangriga and, while he is known […]
Like prostitution, it is an illegal activity, but the selling of unofficial boledo lottery has traditionally been ignored by law enforcement authorities. No longer. On Sunday police swooped down on seven Belize City business establishments and arrested six men and one woman for the offence of selling illegal lottery. The primary victim in the otherwise […]
Connoisseurs say the smaller the tail, the more delicate the taste. The law, however, says that when lobster tails fall below four ounces the fisherman may be eating dinner at Hattieville. This afternoon, fisheries officers arrested two embarrassed anglers after their vessel was searched and a total of one hundred and forty five illegal lobster […]
In crime news an eighteen year old Belize City man has been arrested for two robberies which occurred on Wednesday. At around four P.M. police report that fifteen year old Aaron Lopez was jacked by two men who relieved him of his converse tennis shoes. One of the men was identified by Lopez as Roland […]
In Dangriga police investigating one crime have apparently solved another. On Thursday night officers searched the house of seventeen year old Jason Rubio and while there they spotted thirty year old Gerald Cacho. Cacho, it turned out, had fled from a session of Magistrate’s Court back on August fourteenth. Cacho has been charged with escape […]
Today police say they are closer in bringing to justice the person they believe murdered fifteen year old Samantha Gordon on the weekend of November sixth. According to Inspector Simeon Alvarez, the Head of C.I.B., the department has been receiving a number of calls from people who have been providing them with information which has […]
Ever so often we hear reports of missing teenagers. More often than not they turn up safe and sound, perhaps having left home for a few days because of an argument with their parents, or because they have been urged by a group of friends to join them for a few days of unsupervised fun. […]
Police are on the lookout for a man who shot and killed twenty-two year old Emort Jefferson Michael sometime between nine and ten Tuesday night. Police say Michael, who lived on the third flat of a three storey wooden building at the corner of Cleghorn and Mapp Streets, had just returned home and was about […]
Medical authorities still don’t know how a young woman whose body was found on Sunday died and there do not appear to be any leads in the case which appears to be a murder in Ladyville. She has, however, been positively identified as Samantha Gordon of Belize City. Today News Five spoke with Samantha’s mother […]
A Corozal man has been brutally murdered at a ranch off the Santa Elena Road. Rafael Velasquez told police he dropped off his employee Seguro Galdamez Ayala around three thirty Monday afternoon but when he returned the man was dead. Police say there were two large chop wounds to Galdamez Ayala’s head and both hands […]
Reliable sources from the police’s Criminal Investigations Branch revealed that on Sunday an unidentified female body was found in the waters around the Vista Del Mar area. Sources say that the woman appears to be of Creole descent and is between seventeen to twenty two years in age. Identifiable marks on the body are many […]
Improving communication within the Belize Police Force was the focus of a handing over ceremony this afternoon at the Raccoon Street Police Station. News Five was there. In accepting the gift of sixteen thousand dollars worth of communication equipment from the U.S. government, Police Commissioner Ornel Brooks, says the donation symbolizes not only the close […]
San Pedro police are still trying to determine the identities of the two bodies found on the island last week Monday and Tuesday. The bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition. At this time the police do not suspect foul play but rather they are looking at two possibilities as to how they could […]
On the night of October twenty sixth, when most residents of San Pedro Town were trying to evacuate due to the threat of Hurricane Mitch, one American tourist was fighting for her life. Not from a hurricane, but from an intruder who came knocking at her apartment door at nine thirty that Monday night. Police […]
Police are investigating the discovery of two bodies on San Pedro. Authorities have yet to determine the who, how and why surrounding their deaths. In the first case, police were called out to the Siete Posas Bacalar Chico area of San Pedro where they found a highly decomposed body measuring six feet in height and […]
While most responsible citizens were in shelters inland or quietly waiting out the storm in their homes, there were those who tried to profit from an evacuation situation. Between the twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth of October fifty people, forty-two men and eight women were arrested for breaking into Chinese business establishments. Head of the Criminal Investigations […]
The protection of Belize’s marine resources got a boost today with the arrest of three people caught red-handed with illegal sized conch in their possession. Responding to a tip, fisheries personnel launched an operation early this morning in the area of Glover’s Reef Atoll. Within a couple of hours, three fishermen and their illegal payload […]
This afternoon the attorney, friends and family of Rhett Fuller, the young Belizean businessman presently facing extradition charges to the Unites States for allegedly being involved in a murder over nine years ago in Miami, called a press conference. They wanted to state their dissatisfaction about the way the matter is being handled. Attorney Kirk […]
Police have released details of an incident of domestic violence over the weekend which has the common law husband in custody for reportedly trying to kill his wife with a sawed off shotgun. Police and B.D.F. personnel responded to the scene on Vernon Street Sunday afternoon and were told by Amanda Gabourel that Richard Rudon […]
A report out of the north reveals that one of our modern grannies may be involved in activities other than baby sitting and crocheting doilies. Seventy-seven year old Saturnina Gamboa of Santa Martha Village was on Wednesday arrested and charged with drug trafficking. This is the result of an anti drug and firearms operation carried […]
Police have arrested a Belize City driver for allegedly having sexual relations with a twelve year old girl. The child told police last week that George Abrahams of Faber’s Road had sex with her on several occasions during September. The thirty year old man has been charged with two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge.
