As the season gets underway, criminals are on the loose. Tonight, there is yet another home invasion to report in the Belama Phase One area of Belize City. For the second time in less than two weeks, a house was targeted on Samuel Haynes Street, but police cannot ascertain if the masked and armed burglars […]
Former Belmopan Mayor and businessman Anthony Chanona was held at gunpoint on Monday night near Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on the Ring Road. He had just exited the church and was walking towards his pickup truck when two Hispanic men pounced on him. One of them was armed and pointed the weapon on Chanona, […]
ComPol Williams also addressed the media following this evening’s meeting and spoke of increased measures that will be put in place to ramp up police presence in the Garden City, during the Christmas Season and beyond. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Well first and foremost I must say thanks to Mr. Chanona, the Mayor […]
Police are yet to levy any charges in respect of Sunday’s murder of Glenford Hines Junior in Punta Gorda though one person is in custody. Hines was gunned down on Price Street and the general view is that he was not the intended target. In the aftermath of his senseless murder, there has been an […]
On December seventh, police formally arrested and charged Shane Jones for the murder of Edwin Usher. On December first, Usher was gravely beaten outside of a bar at the corner of Vernon and Johnson Streets in Belize City. He was taken to the K.H.M.H. but slipped into a coma. Usher died several days later at […]
Also appearing in court today was twenty-six-year-old Sydney Bucknor Junior, who is charged with the murder of his uncle, sixty-one-year-old Michael Bucknor. Sydney gave the police a caution statement in which he confessed to the 2016 murder. That statement was admitted into evidence after a voir dire, which is a trial within a trial, found […]
A woman is one of two murder victims of the weekend. In Dangriga, the community is stunned at the shocking killing of a thirty-six-year old woman who was killed and dumped in the sea where her body was found early Sunday morning. The well-known resident Jasmin Garcia, known around Dangriga as “Min-Min or Minaz,” was […]
Well-known Dangriga artist, Elsworth ‘Vida’ Magdaleno, spoke with News 5 this evening to condemn the killing of Jasmin Garcia. Garcia, as we told you, was killed and her body dumped in the sea in Dangriga. She is Magdaleno’s first cousin and today the artist says that while this killing has hit home for his family, […]
Police say that they are now looking for one person who may be able to assist in the murder investigation of thirty-six-year-old Jasmin Garcia. That person, according to police, is a resident of the town. Not much else is known about Garcia’s murder except that she was seen out socializing before she was found floating […]
Further south in Punta Gorda, Glenford Hines Junior was killed on Sunday morning. The latest murder victim was on Prince Street where his family lives. He was outside his house when a gunman opened fire. The Hines family believes that the bullets were meant for another person who was walking by. That person, Albert Valentine, […]
Earlier this year, Albert Valentine and another man identified as Adwan Usher were both arrested and charged for attempted murder, in the wake of an incident that occurred in Punta Gorda back in February. It is alleged that the pair of men had let loose a barrage of gunshots at a home on Queen Street. […]
There is a new case of police brutality to report. The violent incident was caught on camera and the images released on social media. It shows a police officer put a chokehold on a Belize City resident who was in front of a store on Faber’s Road. Another officer is seen holding down Anthony George […]
The Belize Peace Movement and Vision Inspired by the People were back in court this morning before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin where they are seeking leave to commence a judicial review challenging the Government of Belize in respect of a re-districting exercise. The disparity between the various constituencies as far as the number of registered […]
As earlier as eight a.m. today, reports reaching our newsroom were that the remnants of suspected plane were discovered somewhere in the village of Chan Chen in Corozal District, which is not far from the Mexican border. The images sent to us show that the suspected drug plane made the illegal landing before it either […]
The government’s war bill against the three major importers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas went to the Senate floor today. Prime Minister Dean Barrow and his government are at war with Belize Western Energy Limited, Gas Tomza, and Southern Choice Butane (Zeta Gas). This week, the PM used words such as mafia and cartel to describe the […]
In October, representatives of Belize Western Energy Limited, Gas Tomza, and Southern Choice Butane (Zeta Gas) met with Prime Minister Dean Barrow to discuss the National Gas Company which in six months will begin operations as the sole importer of butane in the country. In August, the government gave the nod to the National Gas […]
Former teacher Elito Puc was found dead a week after his disappearance. His headless body turned up along the Belize-Guatemala border on Thursday evening. The family says that they don’t know why he was killed, but they do know that he went across the border to Melchor between Thursday night and early Friday. Not much […]
There are serious allegations coming out of Santa Cruz Village in the Orange Walk District. The village is a hotspot for contraband and other illegal activities. The reports speak of the alleged drowning of an individual who was attempting to swim across the Rio Hondo River from Belize to Mexico, but was accosted by officials […]
Late on Thursday, Government announced that it had taken a decision to control and eventually phase out gill nets. Government says that the measures are to be carried out over a period of two years and are intended to control the overall negative impacts of gill nets in Belize. Other changes include immediate moratorium on […]
And so in the government’s decision to control and eventually phase out the use of gill nets in Belize, they turned down a two million dollar fund that the Coalition had worked to put together to help the eighty plus licensed gill net users to transition from gill net use. Chanona says that aid package […]
There have been six murders in the past seven days. Over the weekend four persons were killed, another was found dead on Wednesday and by today, there was one more murder to report. We start with the execution of Gerald “Bomba” Lamb from the village of Biscayne in the Belize District. Lamb was riding on […]
There is another murder, a retired teacher went missing a week ago; this afternoon his decapitated body was found at a bushy area on this side of the border near Melchor. Elito Puc was from the village of Succotz and according to his family, the forty-two year old left home heading to Melchor on November […]
The family of eighteen-year-old Michael Cobo from San Pedro is still reeling from his recent gruesome murder. Late on Wednesday, Cobo’s mother identified his body after he had been missing for days. The body was retrieved from the sea near the area of the Port of Belize in Belize City. The eighteen-year-old had travelled to […]
In respect of recent killing, one person is detained pending investigations into the fatal beat-down of Edwin Usher. The forty-nine-year-old handyman of Cedar Street died on November thirtieth; one week after he was viciously beaten outside a restaurant at the corner of Johnson and Vernon Streets in Belize City. The incident, which was captured on […]
Who shot Curassow resident Godwin Flowers and why? Police are investigating an attempt made on Flowers’ life on the evening of December third, just a stone’s throw from where he lives. Around six p.m. on Tuesday, the thirty-year-old messenger was at a shop when a gunman on a bicycle rode up to him and fired […]
