A man was shot in Belize City today. It happened in broad daylight and the victim has been identified as Jose Santos, a forty-three-year-old truck driver of Eight Miles. Santos was inside a delivery truck on Mahogany Street when he was shot by a man on a bicycle. News Five was first on the scene […]
Why would police shoot an elderly man? That’s the question that the media tried to get answers to today. Sixty-seven-year-old Lionel Llewellyn Arnold Senior is in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Arnold Senior was shot once by a Belize City police officer on Friday night on Lakeview Street. According to the Officer Commanding Professional […]
Tonight, the family of Rafael Patrick Garrido is seeking the public’s assistance in locating him. He was last seen on Wednesday, February third. Before his disappearance, Garrido had made a trip to Orange Walk to conduct a business transaction. Garrido was dropped off at mile thirty-one on the Philip Goldson Highway on their return, and […]
The nine men nabbed following the drug plane landing on February fifth today received Supreme Court bail. The men were charged with possession of a controlled drug with the intent to supply after being found with two bales of cocaine. They were also charged for breach of curfew. Special Patrol officer Tyrell Talbert, Police Constable […]
And while those nine accused were receiving bail, elsewhere in the country, police were destroying almost a ton of cocaine from that very same drug plane. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting The sweltering heat emission from the burning pile could be felt from afar. This man-made pit was set up by […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs will introduce a new National Crime Fighting Strategy by mid-February. The Belize Police Department will implement the plan of action to tackle the scourge of violent crimes across the country. The strategy will also look closely at the issue of domestic abuse since incidents of such offenses have gone up […]
Teachers of Unity Presbyterian School in south side Belize City are tonight once again pleading for help as their classrooms have been burglarized for the second time this month. It is a perennial problem that the school has been facing, and it seems that this time, they have been left alone to deal with the […]
Two Corozaleños were busted with a stash of drugs at a checkpoint on Monday evening. Around five o’clock, cops at the Manatee Lookout stopped a pickup truck with Orange Walk license plate driven by Herman Friesen of Little Belize and passenger Gerardo Lino of Progresso Village. The police officers searched the vehicle and discovered one […]
Police have reported that a man died by shooting himself in what they call a shooting death. It was not a case of suicide. On Tuesday evening, the farmer, Alfred Bernard Junior, from Old Mullins River Road in Stann Creek accidentally shot himself. He was found dead sometime after five p.m. with gunshot wounds to […]
Michael Faux and Erwin Lanza were the last to be captured from twenty-eight inmates who escaped from the Belize Central Prison in October 2020. The men were caught and returned to jail over the weekend and appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford on Tuesday where they were charged and sentenced additionally for their escape. In […]
Some three weeks ago, at the start of the school term in January, close to a hundred tablets for distance learning were stolen from Sadie Vernon High School in Belize City. At least five persons were captured by street cameras leaving the area with plastic bags used to carry the devices. Close to fifty were […]
Like the brazen killing of shopkeeper Abel Bardalez last Friday, on Monday night armed, masked thieves entered the home of a Belizean tax collector on Monday night not only ransacked the place, stole jewellery and a gun, but also tied up the family and attempted to kidnap Nan Cheng’s, one-year-old baby. Cheng managed to escape […]
On Monday, Attorney Dickie Bradley and attorney Leeroy Banner represented nine men from rural Belize District, who appeared in the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court, after police intercepted them inside a boat on Hill Bank Lagoon. Bradley told the media that his clients were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when police caught […]
It is no secret that over the years members of the Belize Police Department, at various ranks, have been accused of being involved in narco-trafficking. Whether facilitating the landing of drug planes or acting as mules transporting quantities of marijuana across the country. Several officers have been arrested and charged for their roles in illicit […]
There was a shooting in Punta Gorda Town on Monday morning that has left one man hospitalized. Police report that Charles Nines was chopping a school compound around ten-fifteen that morning when a man he knows approached him. The man took out a nine millimeter pistol and fired several shots injuring Nunez. Police say that […]
Police have made progress in a shooting that took place in Belize City. On Monday evening, Jervis Valencia was shot several times while sitting in a yard in an alley on the Mayflower area. Police arrested and charged one man in connection with the shooting. The cops say that the attack resulted from internal gang […]
This morning in Orange Walk Town, nine men detained since Friday morning following the crash landing of a drug plane with dozens of bales of cocaine were arraigned in that jurisdiction’s magistrate’s court. Represented by attorneys Dickie Bradley and Leeroy Banner, the men were slapped with a drug trafficking offence and for violating a quarantine […]
Meanwhile, over the weekend, the police discovered an additional three bales of cocaine. Police reportedly went looking in the Crooked Tree Lagoon, and there they found the bales of drugs which contained a total of ninety packets. The drugs are from the drug plane that landed last week Friday. You’ll recall we told you that […]
And while the Commission will look into irregularities in those sales, what about the allegations against former Minister of Works Rene Montero? The Attorney General’s Ministry is one of three government agencies presently looking into allegations of impropriety at the Ministry of Works under former minister. In early January, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing, […]
A shopkeeper in Belmopan was shot and killed after he tried to fight off a robber. The deadly incident happened last Friday in the Maya Mopan area. Abel Bardalez was inside his shop along with two deliverymen when the robber tried to hold them up. Bardalez didn’t comply with the thief’s orders and he pursued […]
The last of the remaining escaped prisoners are behind bars tonight. Police captured Michael Faux and Erwin Lanza on Sunday morning. They were the only two prisoners who remained on the run from the twenty-eight that broke out of the prison back in October. Commissioner Chester Williams told the press today that they were able […]
A hunting trip went horribly wrong in Corozal on Sunday evening. Police say three men went on a hunting trip near Libertad Village and at around six that evening one of the men heard some noises in the bushes and mistakenly took his hunting partner for a deer. He fired off the shots that killed […]
A sixteen-year-old boy has been arrested and charged for the murder of Dangriga businessman Kenrick Drysdale. Last week we told you the story of how the car-wash owner was gunned down at his business. Police say they have the minor who did it, as well as the weapon that was used in the crime. At […]
Last week Friday, we reported on the discovery of Eli Chan’s body on a farm in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan. As you heard in that interview on Friday, Chan’s relatives believed that he was killed. They say that they saw injuries on the body, but tonight police’s account is different. ACP Joseph Myvett […]
Robbers targeted a gas station in Dangriga over the weekend. According to police, three men robbed the Puma Gas Station on Havana Street in that southern municipality around six-forty on Saturday night. Police say that manager Lenford Valdez was wrapping up for the day when the robbers entered the business. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
