Police are currently at the corner of Mosul Street and Cemetery Road processing the scene of a late evening murder in the Old Capital. News Five has confirmed that a forty-four-year-old businessman of Vernon Street was shot and quickly rushed to the K.H.M.H. for treatment, but soon after succumbed. In the mayhem in the city, […]
There was also gun violence in Sand Hill, Belize District, where a resident was injured and recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot inside his bathroom. Around ten o’clock this morning, Ivan Hyde, who is a labourer of mile nineteen on the Phillip Goldson Highway, was shot multiple times to the […]
But there is a spike of violence in the village that the police are trying to mitigate. It appears outside of rivalry in the area; there is a person of interest, who ComPol Chester Williams says is the ringleader. That person was recently released from prison and he is believed to be involved in the […]
While it is believed that the lower half of a young male body, discovered on Monday morning in the river behind Sand Hill Village, is believed to be that of sixteen-year-old Doren Grinage, police maintain that until the results of a DNA test, will they be able to positively identify the body. Denise Grinage and […]
Attorney Oscar Selgado made headlines on Monday evening after being arraigned for the crime of abetment to commit murder. It is alleged that the well-known criminal lawyer contracted the services of a so-called hired gun to do away with a woman who reportedly filed a complaint against him before the Judicial and Legal Services Commission […]
While it is the second time Selgado has been pursued by law enforcement, the ComPol says that the attorney is not being targeted. In fact, he says that there is sufficient proof that Selgado ordered and conspired to have Barnes murdered. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “It is not a matter, as some people […]
There is breaking news tonight. News Five has been able to confirm that attorney Oscar Selgado will be needing an attorney for himself. While the details are brief at this time, we have learnt that the police have in their hands critical information in terms of a recording in which Selgado is heard talking to […]
The family of a missing minor made a shocking discovery this morning. A body was fished out of the Belize River in the area of Sand Hill and the Grinage family believes it to be sixteen-year-old Doren Grinage who was last heard from almost a week ago, on Tuesday. The Grinage’s had conducted searches in […]
According to Police, Doren was last seen alive on July ninth around five-thirty p.m. around mile nineteen on the Old Northern Highway. As we said, the lower half of a body, believed to be that of a young male, was retrieved this morning from the river behind Sand Hill. The family believes that it is […]
Fidel Bardalez suffered a horrible death at the hands of his murderer. He was beaten and chopped to death multiple times and his body left along the Hummingbird Highway. The Alta Vista resident left his home in the village on Friday night to hang out with friends; hours later, his body was found. His family […]
A minor is in police detention pending the investigation into the brutal murder of Bardalez. According to ACP Joseph Myvett, Bardalez and the minor, both believed to have been consuming alcohol, got involved in an altercation during which the minor produced a machete and inflicted the fatal wounds on Bardalez. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
Joseph Budna is home safe, following a daring and successful escape from a Guatemalan prison where he was serving a twenty-five-year sentence for kidnapping and extortion. It was his second attempt at freedom, having fled briefly from another penitentiary in 2014. According to the Camalote resident, he crossed the western border into Belize shortly after […]
According to Budna, on Thursday a group of plainclothes police officers swooped down on him as he was walking along the George Price Highway near Camalote Village. With guns trained on him, Budna was taken into custody in Belmopan where he was held for a little over forty-eight hours. When News Five spoke with Commissioner […]
There are not too many places where you would feel safe, but now not even the hospitals can bring any sense of security. This afternoon in Dangriga, a resident was shot as he entered a car on the compound of the Southern Regional Hospital. Edwin Nasario was placed in a stretcher and rushed inside, but […]
An impromptu protest took place today at the compound of the national referral hospital over an issue that has been simmering since June. It has to do with pensions for which about a one hundred staff members have contributed to, but there is uncertainty if they will be able to collect. The staff claims the […]
A group of robbers did not get too far after executing a well-planned armed robbery. On Thursday night, the masked robbers accosted the owner of Cooking Master on Saint Thomas Street in Belize City and forced him into the restaurant. They fired shots and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from under the restaurant counter […]
While robbers targeted a restaurant on Saint Thomas Street, in the south side a teen was shot multiple times on Thursday night and is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Eighteen-year-old Raheem Chambers was on M and Y Street walking towards Holy Emmanuel Street when he was attacked by a man who pulled out […]
Tonight, Joseph Budna remains in police custody and not at the Central Prison in Hattieville. He escaped from Guatemala earlier this year, in May, and ended up in Camalote, Cayo where an operation carried out by the Belize Police Department on Thursday morning led to his apprehension. Budna was serving a thirty-year sentence for kidnapping […]
Budna has a checkered past and as it relates to his troubles in neighbouring Guatemala, ComPol Chester Williams says that sans extradition treaty, there are protocols in place to hand over the wanted man to their Guatemalan counterparts. Williams says prisoner exchanges have taken place multiple times in the past for persons wanted by Belize […]
The Sanctuary Bay scam is one that has many legs. One of the allegations made by the Federal Trade Commission in relation to Sanctuary Belize lands at the Central Bank of Belize. According to documents filed in U.S. courts, the Central Bank allegedly knew about the fraud, but did nothing. In 2016, former governor of […]
A group of U.S. nationals, who arrived on a scheduled cruise ship call this morning, had a huge scare. The visitors were heading to the Belize Zoo when the bus they were travelling in, burst into flames near Hattieville before they reached their destination on the George Price Highway. The fire sent a plume of […]
Five additional persons have been charged and arraigned for their alleged involvement in a case of human smuggling that was intercepted by police on Tuesday afternoon. It is being categorized as human smuggling and not human trafficking because it is believed that four Honduran nationals—two minors and two adults, who illegally entered the country—were being […]
Even before the five were arraigned today, Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett shared details on the investigation surrounding the alleged human smuggling. He says that the operation, which led to the detention of the seven Belizeans and four Honduran nationals, was carried out by Orange Walk Police with assistance from Ladyville Police. According to […]
Escape prisoner Joseph Budna has been captured in Belize and remains in custody. Back in May of this year, the thirty-eight-year-old Belizean, who is serving a thirty-year sentence in a Guatemalan prison for kidnapping and escape, absconded from lawful custody while at a hospital in San Benito, Guatemala. It is the second time that he […]
The official result of a post-mortem has been released by the Police Department in the murder of Yanira Novelo in Orange Walk. It shows that the young mother had a horrible death as she was manually strangled by her killer. But according to police, Novelo also had multiple cut wounds to the chest area. The […]
