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During today’s police press brief in Belmopan, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams was asked about the crime statistics for the first six weeks of the year. There have been a number of murders, but major crimes are still down when compared to other years. ComPol Williams says that Belize has been doing well when compared […]
Written on February 22, 2021 | Posted in
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For some time now, there has been a seeming increase in property crimes, including home invasions, robberies and vehicle theft. It is something that the Belize Police Department has been trying to get a grip on, even with its limited human resources and assets. As it finalizes its strategy going forward, ComPol Chester Williams says […]
Written on February 22, 2021 | Posted in
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Imagine you are just going about your business at home on a normal afternoon when suddenly armed men are at your door. That is exactly what happened to one family in the Belize District on Wednesday. Although it turned out the men were at the wrong house, today the gunmen are still at large, and […]
Written on February 18, 2021 | Posted in
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There was a home invasion in Ladyville this afternoon. Reports to News Five are that three men stormed inside the house that’s located near the police station and held up a family at gunpoint. Information is that the mother and her children were inside at the time of the attack and she begged the robbers […]
Written on February 17, 2021 | Posted in
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In November, Floyd Carter Senior was murdered in Belize City. On Tuesday night, his son was gunned down on Tuesday night on Serosi Street in the Lord’s Bank. Was there a connection? News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting A third death for the Carter family in three months – it is a […]
Written on February 17, 2021 | Posted in
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While there are two persons in custody for questioning in the murder of Carter Junior, police have yet to arrest the motorcycle killer in the callous execution of Jerome McLaren. The twenty-one-year-old was killed in front of his family on Cleghorn Street on Monday night when the gunman rode up, entered the residence and unleashed […]
Written on February 17, 2021 | Posted in
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How did Rafael Garrido die? That’s what the police and his family wants to know as they await the results of an autopsy that is being conducted on his body. Garrido went missing on February third on the Philip Goldson Highway near the Crooked Tree cut-off, but twelve days later, his decomposing body was discovered […]
Written on February 17, 2021 | Posted in
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This afternoon, thirty-one-year-old Janine Lamb and thirty-eight-year-old Eugene Thompson were shot near the intersection of Plues and Bishop Streets in Belize City. Thompson was hit multiple times, including once to the neck and thigh, while Lamb was shot on the right side, to his buttocks and ankle. Police say information is that around two-fifteen, a […]
Written on February 16, 2021 | Posted in
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He was a former boxing athlete who represented the Jewel internationally, but on Tuesday night, Jerome McLaren was executed in Belize City. The callous murder was carried out in front of McLaren’s mother and other residents from the neighbourhood. Who wanted him dead and why, remains a mystery tonight, but News Five’s Duane Moody went […]
Written on February 16, 2021 | Posted in
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There was a sad ending on Monday for the loved ones of a man who had been missing since February third. Rafael Garrido’s remains were discovered in a shallow grave between miles fifty-one and fifty-two on the Hummingbird Highway. While the family now has closure, they are asking looking for answers…and justice for Rafael. […]
Written on February 16, 2021 | Posted in
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Also during Nomination Day in Belmopan, News Five caught up with Belmopan Area Representative and Junior Minister in the Ministry of National Defense and Border Security, Oscar Mira. We asked him about reports of sexual assault cases at Price Barracks. A retired soldier himself, Minister Mira says that he has a zero tolerance policy for […]
Written on February 16, 2021 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation, after consultation with the Fisheries Department, announced last Friday that the close of the lobster season has been extended for another two weeks to February twenty-eighth. The decision was made after a request was tabled by the fishermen cooperatives for an adjustment of the Fisheries Regulation. The […]
Written on February 16, 2021 | Posted in
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The body of a Hispanic man was discovered in a shallow grave off the Hummingbird Highway just outside Belmopan near the Pollack Farms. The body has been identified as a man who has been missing for some time now. Early this morning, police were called out to the area for the gruesome discovery of a […]
Written on February 15, 2021 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, there was another police-involved shooting on Saturday on Marine Parade in Belize City. Akeem Patterson was on Marine Parade when a machete-wielding man chopped him on the head. The police were called, and the assailant, identified as Francis Ramos, attacked one of the officers who pulled out his service-issued weapon and fired […]
Written on February 15, 2021 | Posted in
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A contractor was busy at work over the weekend when two thieves ambushed him. The robbery happened in Orange Walk. The contractor was working on a building at the Louisiana Government Preschool. The thieves, one armed with a gun, accosted Wilber Vega and robbed him of his wallet and other personal items. ACP Joseph Myvett […]
Written on February 15, 2021 | Posted in
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Last week, we reported on the murder of Orange Walk resident Michael Escalante. Escalante’s body was discovered in the grass on the side of the road around mile thirty-three on the George Price Highway; his 2017 Wingle pickup was missing. But as we found out from ACP Joseph Myvett today, investigators do not believe that […]
Written on February 15, 2021 | Posted in
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In the latest update to the investigation of the murder of Jose Santos, ComPol Chester Williams says that the police are seeking two persons. The Armenia villager, who relocated to the Western Paradise Village for work, was shot multiple times last Tuesday as he delivered bread to a shop on Mahogany Street in Belize City; […]
Written on February 15, 2021 | Posted in
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The body of forty-seven-year-old Michael Escalante was found dumped on the George Price Highway just before midday on Wednesday. The Belize Police Department is actively searching for Escalante’s missing red four-door Great Wall Wingle pickup truck that was stolen. Escalante was found dead between miles thirty-three and thirty-four in a pool of blood. Witnesses say […]
Written on February 11, 2021 | Posted in
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A team of residents from Benque Viejo Del Carmen and Succotz carried out a search and rescue effort inside the Belize-Guatemala border. The search started this morning after local news outlets in Melchor shared that an eight-year-old girl went missing late Tuesday evening. They reported that the child’s clothing and bicycle were found in some […]
Written on February 10, 2021 | Posted in
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The victim of Monday’s midmorning shooting, forty-three-year-old Jose Santos, died early this morning at the K.H.M.H. The delivery truck driver was shot several times at around ten while making a delivery at Tow Tow on Mahogany Street in Belize City. A security camera captured the murder, and it showed the killer on a bicycle casually […]
Written on February 9, 2021 | Posted in
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An employee of the Institute of Archaeology was the victim of an armed robbery on the El Pilar Road in the Cayo District. Belmopan resident Mauricio Alvarado was driving the institute’s 2017 Toyota Hilux on the road in the Bullet Tree Falls Village when three armed masked men came in his path. He stopped the […]
Written on February 9, 2021 | Posted in
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There is a spike in piracy at sea. Since mid-January and as recent as this morning, fishers have been the target of armed robbers. The thieves have been taking advantage of their vulnerability and robbing them of their products and their engines. It is a perennial problem that law enforcement agencies have been trying to […]
Written on February 9, 2021 | Posted in
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One year ago, in February 2020, the Fisheries Resources Bill was passed in the House of Representatives. The legislation allowed for a framework to be put in place for vessel monitoring systems. Its objective was to monitor that vessels were in-keeping with the fisheries regulations within and outside the marine reserve. It would also increase […]
Written on February 9, 2021 | Posted in
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He has been missing for three weeks, and tonight, Albert Ferguson Junior’s family fears the worst. The father of one was last seen in the village on Sittee River on January eighteenth. Since then, his family and friends have not seen him or heard from him. His sister Terry Ledlan says that it is unlike […]
Written on February 9, 2021 | Posted in
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The Ferguson family is pleading for anyone with information to locate Albert Junior to contact them. Ledlan says that the family is desperate for answers or any information that can help. Terry Ledlan, Sister of Albert Ferguson Jr. “I came here today to please to the public and everyone, you all know my brother […]
Written on February 9, 2021 | Posted in
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