While police in Belmopan track down an alleged murderer, in Orange Walk, the search continues for two men who held up a thirty-three year old housewife. According to police, Reina Romero told them that she and her three year old daughter were at home around one thirty Thursday afternoon when two men, one of them […]
After three days of brainstorming, prison superintendents of British dependent territories in the Caribbean have ended their annual support conference in Belize City. While for some it was a time to re-acquaint themselves with fellow superintendents, others took the opportunity to gather fresh ideas on tackling problems in their own prison system. Eric Smith, Director […]
In crime news, police in Orange Walk are investigating the murder of a sixty-four year old man. Acting upon information received, police say they visited a house at number thirty-two Maskal Street around nine o’clock last night where they found the body of Danilo Ramirez in front of the house. He had been shot to […]
Earlier this week we reported on a shooting incident in Belize City that sent a teenage girl to the emergency room. Reports on Tuesday were that the shooting was the result of a domestic dispute, but as I found out from the victim this morning, there may be more to the story than meets the […]
An eighteen year old Belize City man has been detained and police are looking for two other persons in connection with a burglary in Belize City last night. Thirty-four year old food vendor Floyd Young told police that his booth at the corner of Oleander and Mahogany Streets was broken into and that over three […]
A Belize City teenager is hospitalized in serious condition after she was shot in the abdomen. According to police reports sixteen year old Keiva Leslie was shot by another teenager, Kenrick Nuñez. Police say the two had apparently been in a relationship which was going sour. Nuñez it is reported, went to Leslie’s home on […]
Over the next few days the Department of Corrections will be under the close scrutiny of prison authorities from across the region. Belize is host this year for the annual meeting of Superintendents of Prisons of British dependent territories. As News Five’s Patrick Jones reports, although Belize is not a dependent territory, it stands to […]
A high ranking member of the Police Force will not stand trial for the alleged raped of a junior officer earlier this year. So says Commissioner of Police Ornel Brooks. The rape accusations were made by a female sergeant against her supervisor, Assistant Inspector of Police Eli Salazar, the officer commanding C.I.B. at Eastern Division. […]
That scandal safely defused, at least for the short run, it was time for the police to get back to the job they are hired to perform: that is fighting crime. And that job will be made a little bit easier thanks to some cash from Uncle Sam. The agreement signed today with the United […]
In other news from the world of broadcasting, it was supposed to have been a day of relaxation in Corozal for the staff of Love FM But what started out as a fun trip quickly turned nightmarish as a member of the Love crew fell victim to the waters of the Four Mile Lagoon. Twenty-six […]
A Ladyville resident is appealing to the public for assistance in recovering household items and personal belongings that were stolen from her house this morning. According to Michelle Bowen, her home was burglarized sometime between nine a.m. and midday. Bowen says the thief or thieves broke into the house through a bedroom window and made […]
An accusation of rape, which by definition involves the emotional issues of sex and violence, is always a difficult matter to deal with publicly. But a rape case coming to light this week has two additional complicated strikes against it, in that the alleged perpetrator is a police officer and so is his alleged victim. […]
A Toledo woman tonight lies in Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of multiple stab wounds. According to police reports, two masked men entered the home of forty-eight year old Maria Gomez in Jacintoville village Thursday afternoon in an attempt to rob her. When she resisted they stabbed her in the chest, shoulder, face and […]
A Corozal money changer and his family have been robbed of over eight thousand dollars in cash and jewelry. Thirty-one year old Raul Magaña told police that around seven thirty Thursday morning he was accosted as he was leaving his home in Louisville village by a masked man with a pump action shotgun. Magaña was […]
The results of a postmortem examination on the body of a woman who died several days after she was found in a swamp on the Northern Highway have been released. But instead of providing the conclusive answers the police were hoping for, it has raised even more questions. According to pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran, the […]
One of Belize’s most wanted criminals has today been scratched from the list. Victor Sanker an accused murderer who had escaped from Hattieville on August twenty-fifth, was killed in the village of San Antonio after a shootout with police. According to a police press release, officers from Corozal were called to San Antonio around two […]
While police may have one less accused murderer to deal with, tonight the pressure is building to clear up a major scandal within the Police Department itself. At the center of the mess is the Eastern Division office of C.I.B. where sources inform News Five that several high ranking cops are under investigation for the […]
In other crime news four Belize City men have been charged in connection with a drive by shooting. Eighteen year old Norris Leslie told police that around eleven thirty on the night of September twenty-first, while standing at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street, two shots were fired at him from a […]
In crime news, Belize City police are trying to piece together the circumstances surrounding what appears to be the murder of a Guatemalan woman. Although it was only reported on Monday, thirty six year old Dalila Martinez was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital around eleven twenty last Thursday night. According to police, she […]
While the Prime Minister’s speech was well received by Belizeans and visitors alike, there was one foreign diplomat who never made it to the park. On Saturday morning the French Ambassador to Belize, having traveled here for the occasion from her base in El Salvador, was beaten and robbed as she walked down the street […]
In crime news, an armed robbery overnight in Belize City has left one establishment considerably poorer and the police in hot pursuit of four alleged robbers. According to the officer commanding C.I.B. in Belize City, Eli Salazar, around ten thirty last night, four armed men walked into M.J.’s Pool and Bar on West Collet Canal […]
While police search for the guys who jacked the pool hall, their quick work has landed a teenage boy behind bars, charged with robbery. On Thursday, twenty-one year old student Orlando Novelo reported to police that he was the victim of a robbery that occurred around two o’clock on Thursday morning. Novelo told police that […]
While in Belize City it was tennis shoes and jewelry, thieves in Orange Walk preferred livestock. Three people have been arrested on charges of cattle theft. They are thirty-two year old Vicente Monroy, thirty-seven year old Edwardo Aguilar and thirty-nine year old Jose Santana. Their arrest is the result of a report made by fifty […]
One week after they were busted as they tried to cash some stolen Traveler’s Checks, a battery of charges has been laid against two foreign visitors. Thirty-nine year old Italian Karlheinz Gatsher and his thirty-six year old companion Maria Elena Sanz Rodriguez of Spain, have been charged with forgery, uttering a forged document, going equipped […]
It was an innovation implemented in the closing months of the U.D.P. administration and one that the new government has taken to heart. Today the first inmates released under the new parole program were let out of Hattieville to serve the rest of their sentences — provided they stay out of trouble — as free […]
