There’s good news and then there’s not so good news to report tonight from the southern coastal town of Punta Gorda. The good news is that the quick actions of the police resulted in the speedy apprehension of an accused forgery artist, John Gabriel, after the check he issued to a local shop, turned out […]
Still in Toledo, no foul play is suspected in the death of a U.S. national in the village of Hopeville. Forty nine-year old John Richard Marik’s lifeless body was discovered on a sofa in his living room early this morning by his wife. According to Mrs. Marik, her husband had earlier been complaining of chest […]
In other crime news, Belize City police have arrested and charged one of their own in connection with a shooting incident late Thursday night at a popular night-club on the Western Highway. P.C. Eddison Castillo is charged with the crimes of wounding and the use of deadly means of harm. The charges result from a […]
This evening the mood at the Coca Cola Factory in Ladyville was somber, as one of the company’s longtime drivers was killed and a co-worker wounded during a holdup on the Old Northern Highway. While reports are sketchy at this time, it is reported that driver Anthony Felix and his sideman, twenty-two year old Allan […]
In other crime news police have arrested a suspect in the chopping death of an Orange Walk man on Saturday night. Thirty-two year old Guatemalan Rene Trochez has been charged for the crimes of murder and conspiracy to murder. Two other suspects are still being sought by police although reports into News Five late this […]
In other news from the north, the pool of detainees continues to increase as Corozal police have detained seven more people for questioning in connection with Friday’s hold-up of a travel agency. According to police, three people stole a car from the farm of Jesus Sosa on the Consejo Road, and used the vehicle to […]
He fought as vigorously as he could, taking his case as far as the Court of Appeals but in the end U.S. citizen Tommy Edward Crutchfield lost the battle and today found himself winging his way back to Miami. According to a release from the Solicitor General’s Office, Crutchfield was deported from Belize this afternoon […]
In Belize we have grown used to the shock of sudden crime and senseless taking of life by gun or machete. Tonight we are reminded that the plague of random violence is not limited by national boundaries, as we report news of the death of a Belizean in Mexico. Susan Caroline Hulse, better known as […]
Beginning this week there will be some changes in courtrooms across the country as the Law Reform Act, passed in the last sitting of the National Assembly, went into effect on August first. The act abolishes the offence of attempted suicide, although it will still be a crime to encourage another person to take his […]
It was one of those weekends when you hope there’s a new roll of paper in the fax machine, as the lines from Police headquarters in Belmopan were buzzing fast and furious. The most dramatic news involved a case of murder in Orange Walk. Twenty five year old Guatemalan Martha Magdalena Garcia told police that […]
Meanwhile in Belize City a stabbing early Saturday morning has resulted in the death of a twenty three year old man. According to police reports Angel Briceño of Morning Glory Street was shooting pool on Partridge Street when he became involved in an altercation with three men. As a result he was stabbed in the […]
On Friday afternoon a team of robbers struck in Corozal Town. About two forty five three masked men entered the office of Jal’s Travel Agency. Two had guns as well as machetes. The three women employees were robbed of their jewelry and the business was relieved of three hundred and eighty U.S. dollars as well […]
A shooting incident in Orange Walk has police scratching their heads in skepticism. Twenty three year old Marlon Conorque of Carmelita Village told police that around nine thirty Friday night he was walking through the village when he was approached by two Creole men. He claims that one of them pulled out a gun and […]
There’s a popular song by Punta rocker Mohobub Flores which describes the hopes of some young men in Belize’s coastal communities who are trying to solve their financial problems by finding a certain package washed up on the beach. Not surprisingly the song is entitled “Kilo”. Last Friday in San Pedro an incident occurred that […]
Residents of the southern districts have experienced some bad luck this week. On Thursday evening in the village of San Juan in the Stann Creek District a twenty-one year old Guatemalan died as the result of a freak accident. Rafael Santos Juarez was reportedly riding his bicycle through the village when he lost control and […]
In crime news, police in Belize City have nabbed two young men on robbery charges, resulting from separate incidents. Twenty year old Jason Flowers was arrested and charged on Thursday for the robbery of a Chinese shop on Oleander Street. The proprietor, Shu Wo Hui, told police that shortly after eleven o’clock on Tuesday morning, […]
The police department has confirmed that two suspects in the murder of a U.S. tourist have been captured in Honduras. Norman “Butch” Martin and Carlos Castro are in the custody of Honduran police while a third suspect, Glenford Westby, is still on the loose, presumably in Honduras. According to national C.I.B. Chief Gerald Westby, Belizean […]
There has been a major break in the murder of a tourist earlier this month on the Placencia Peninsula. According to sources News Five considers reliable, Norman “Butch” Martin, one of three suspects in the July fifth killing of Raymond Kirk at Singing Sands resort, has been apprehended by police in Honduras. A team of […]
Three days after a senior church group from New York arrived in Belize for a one week vacation, one of its members has died of natural causes in his hotel. According to the police, the body of seventy-seven year old George Owen Dalrymple, who was staying at the Fiesta Inn, was discovered by a friend. […]
A child has died by drowning in Seine Bight Village. According to Independence police, four year old Chester Williams and several other young children had ventured out twenty five yards away from Williams’ home Tuesday evening to play in a deep water hole. Suddenly, the boys told police, Williams went under and never resurfaced. The […]
For several months he was one of Belize’s most wanted fugitives but unlike his more famous colleague, Wensworth Mangar, who died in a hail of police bullets, Douglas Williams was quietly apprehended on June third. This morning, shortly past midnight, Williams was found dead in his maximum-security cell at Hattieville Prison. According to a police […]
Another visitor to Belize has died, although in this case no foul play is suspected. Fifty-six year old Irene Bein, a tourist from New York, was snorkeling at Hol Chan Marine Reserve, along with her twenty two year old son, when she began experiencing breathing problems and passed out. She was taken ashore, where CPR […]
Police in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, believe they’ve finally caught up with a robber who has held up at least two of the island’s drinking establishments during the past couple of weeks. Lius Lima Carrera, a twenty-one year old Guatemalan resident of San Pedro, has been charged with two counts of robbery and aggravated assault. […]
While there is no major crime news to report tonight a postmortem has confirmed that a death in Belize City early Wednesday morning, was not the result of a criminal act, just a tragic one. Dr. Mario Estradabran has concluded that fisherman David Mejia, whose body was found outside a Pickstock Street rum depot, died […]
Word has been received from California that a Belizean has been killed in a helicopter crash. Thirty year old Jose Castillo of Corozal had been working for the last five years as a power and airframe mechanic for Heavy Lift Helicopters of Apple Valley, California. Late last month he was among a number of Heavy […]
