Just as our evening newscast was wrapping up on Thursday night, shots rang out on Partridge Street in Belize City. The life of twenty-seven-year-old forklift driver Augustine Coc was ended by a gunman who came up to him and fired several shots in his direction. Coc was heading home to his family on Haulze Street […]
There’s another murder to report, this time it happened in southern Belize where thirty-seven-year-old Darwin Chavarria met a gruesome end in Punta Gorda. The Cattle Landing resident was last seen alive around ten on Wednesday morning and when he didn’t return home, his family filed a missing person’s report on Thursday. We are told that […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with a brazen shooting incident in the north during which the victim fortunately escaped grave injury and is now hospitalized. In San Andres Village, Corozal District, an attempt was made on the life of Benigno Loria, a well-known figure in the area. He was at his residence when he was struck […]
Siblings Brandon and Hubert Baptist and two other Belize City residents were released from police custody earlier today, after being detained by police on Wednesday while they were at home on Police Street. The men told News Five this evening that they were inside their yard when a team of officers from the Gang Suppression […]
Also detained during the sweep was well-known footballer Floyd Jones who says he was at the barbershop inside the family yard when he, too, was taken into custody. According to Jones, the arresting officers insisted that a photograph of himself be taken, along with his fingerprints, despite not being charged for a criminal offense. […]
There was a brazen armed robbery in Spanish Lookout on Wednesday afternoon. Salesman Michael Escalante reported to police upon walking out of Farmers Trading Center in Spanish Lookout, he was accosted by two gunmen armed with shotguns. They demanded that he hand over the keys to his 2020 Wingle pickup truck valued at fifty thousand […]
A father of two was killed in Belize City on Monday night. Keith Courtenay Junior was in his yard when the assailants attacked him. He tried to escape from his killers but he couldn’t get away from their bullets. The family reports that they heard the shots ring out in their neighborhood but they didn’t […]
As you heard just now, Keith Courtney Junior’s family can’t say exactly why he was killed, although they acknowledged that he was being harassed by the members of his former gang. And tonight, police are saying that so far the investigation shows that Courtenay wasn’t the intended target. C.I.B. Commander for Eastern Division, Superintendent Alejandro […]
Another mother is grieving the loss of a teenage son to gun violence tonight. Florentina Baltazar’s son was gunned down on Neal’s Pen Road on Monday night, several minutes after leaving his cousin’s home. Admittedly, Micah Baltazar was no saint, but his mother says that he was simply misunderstood. Police, on the other hand, say […]
There was a shooting incident in Belize City on Friday night that has left two men hospitalized. Police say that the men were socializing when the shooter attacked them. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero says that the gun violence is believed to be the result of a feud between two gangs. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, […]
Police arrested more than one hundred persons over the weekend for violating the Quarantine Regulations. The offences ranged from failure to wear a face mask, to breaking social distancing rule, to breach of curfew and hosting or attending a restricted event. Commissioner Chester Williams gave the media an update on the arrests. Chester Williams, […]
And so, with all those violations – that brings us to the Belize Police Department’s response moving forward. Today, Commissioner Chester Williams told the press that they are taking sort of a different direction – that is, they are employing new strategies to deal with law breakers in an effort to stem the rising cases […]
As the task force is activated to police the regulations, moving forward they are looking for ways to minimize close contact with the public. One way of doing that – which will see arrests reduced – is to ticket the law breakers. Commissioner Williams says that he has been in discussion with the ministers of […]
There was a fire on Stadium Street in Orange Walk on Friday. Police say that a resident reported that he was away from his property when he was informed that one of the unoccupied houses in his yard was on fire. ACP Joseph Myvett say that an investigation is ongoing as the owner believes his […]
A pair of robbers targeted the BWEL outlet in Ranchito Village in Corozal on Friday. ACP Joseph Myvett says that the thieves held up the workers shortly after they opened for business just after seven that morning. Police were called out to the scene around eight. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch […]
The murder trial of P.C. Michelle Brown ended today in the Belize City Supreme Court after closing submissions by both the prosecution and defense before Justice Colin Williams. Justice Williams will deliver his verdict next Friday in a case that went on for almost three weeks and involved sworn testimonies from twenty prosecution witnesses. Some […]
Late this evening, the Office of the Commissioner of Police confirmed that a suspected drug plane landed in southern Belize. Information was received from international counterparts of three suspect tracks coming out of South America and we can confirm tonight that one made a clandestine landing in an area of southern Belize that is not […]
While we were with the Minister of Home Affairs, we asked him how closely the government is working with regional counterparts to track and survey unknown aircrafts. Of note is that tackling narco-trafficking, including the illegal landing of drug planes and the use of Belize as a transhipment point was among the People’s United Party’s […]
There was a huge marijuana bust overnight in Belize District. A vehicle travelling on the Philip Goldson Highway was intercepted by police officers when the driver attempted to evade a checkpoint near the entrance to the Vista Del Mar community, near Manatee Lookout. Information is that a Volkswagen car was transporting a large quantity of […]
A fireman was executed while on duty in Punta Gorda on Friday evening. Rudolph Matura had not too long reported to work and was seated inside the fire station when he was fatally shot through a window. The incident happened sometime after six p.m. while Matura and a colleague were both at work. Police say […]
Gunfire erupted in Lake Independence once again on Sunday morning and when the smoke cleared, a twenty-six-year-old resident of Tibruce Street was fighting for his life after being shot multiple times. Ryan Cole remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. in critical condition tonight and is preparing for an emergency surgery on Wednesday, as his liver has […]
Since the rash of gang-related shootings began on November twenty-third, the Belize Police Department has staged several interventions with feuding groups in the Lake Independence area. Despite their efforts to quell the violence in that community, another shooting was reported on Sunday that is believed to be an internal row within one gang. According to […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams is calling out the media for the inaccuracy of a story that was uploaded to social media on Sunday morning in which it was reported that Ryan Cole had been murdered inside his home during the shooting incident. Cole is critically injured and remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. His family […]
Last Thursday, we reported on a fire in Pomona Village that claimed the life of Vernon Williams. The forty-five-year-old was inside his house when a fire broke around nine o’clock on the night of December second. It is believed that the fire may have been intentionally set by Williams, but that is still under investigation. […]
A rather disturbing video of a boy detailing a vile sexual attack against him was posted on social media this morning. The video was taken in Roaring Creek Village, Cayo, and in it, the boy says that he was forced to perform a sexual act on a male he identified as “Popeye”. The boy said […]
