A teenager has been arraigned for the armed robbery of popular Sunnyside Bakery on Racecourse Street in Belize City. “Sunny and Tan,” as it is otherwise known, was targeted by robbers six days ago and police have since been able to charge one of the alleged suspects. Damion Saldano of Euphrates Avenue was arraigned this […]
The story of a horrid triple murder at a home on the George Price Highway continues to unfold, as new details emerge on what took place at mile ten on Tuesday. News Five understands that the family home of forty-four-year-old Alarice Andrewin was also being occupied by a tenant whose girlfriend, a Guatemalan national who […]
This morning at Excelsior High School it was classes as usual but with the presence of a team of counselors. They were on hand to support the grieving members of staff, as well as the students, whose principal was among the trio of victims slain in Tuesday’s horrific incident. We caught up with high school […]
Former teacher and mainstay at Excelsior, Marshal Nunez, also visited the campus this morning to lend moral support to the mourning students. He has been around the school for the past thirty years and quickly befriended Andrewin when she took the job as acting principal several months ago. Marshal Nunez, Former Board Member, Excelsior […]
Former deputy Director of Health Services Augustina Elijio remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, after she was stabbed multiple times by a mental health patient on Tuesday afternoon. The fifty-seven-year-old psychiatric nurse practitioner was at the Port Loyola Health Centre when a patient, who has since been identified as Collin Frances […]
Four men have been criminally charged for the brazen armed robbery which was committed in Dangriga Town this past weekend. Investigators strongly believe that thirty nine-year-old Fredrick Anthony Arzu, thirty-four-year-old Marvin Amaya, twenty-year-old Travan Smith, and Edmond Camal are the culprits who barged into Family City Imports on George Price Drive and proceeded to rob […]
The spate of armed robberies across the country has seen a ramping up of police patrols in several municipalities. Notwithstanding the efforts of the police department, home invasions and burglaries are also on the rise. During the press brief today, Commissioner Williams took umbrage to a release issued by the Belize National Teachers Union asking […]
The case against Andre Vega commenced today before Supreme Court Justice Courtenay Abel. It made headlines back in 2016 when it was reported that Vega, who is the son of the then Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, received a huge financial compensation for prime land near Haulover Bridge. The land in question is more than […]
A horrifying discovery was made this afternoon at a home on the George Price Highway. The lifeless bodies of three persons, including a high school principal whose absence from work today prompted the very phone call which led to their location, were found inside the isolated residence. On the scene, police were able to confirm […]
Late this evening, Superintendent Hilberto Romero spoke with the media and provided details of a preliminary investigation. Supt. Hilberto Romero, CIB, Belize City “Around 3:00 p.m. police responded to a call at mile ten on the George Price Highway. It is a residential area; one house is situated in this particular area. Police entered […]
Just after four this evening, there was an attack on an employee at the Port Loyola Health Centre on Faber’s Road. Matron Augustina Elijio, who retired in December from her post as the Deputy Director of Health Services, was stabbed to the abdomen and the chest by a patient she had treated earlier in the […]
A resident of Sandhill is tonight recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the arm. Around eight-thirty on Monday night, Jordan Murillo who lives at mile sixteen on the Philip Goldson Highway left his home in the village and headed to a store when he was approached by an unknown […]
Police in Belmopan are investigating the death of a two-month-old baby boy. Thevane Banner was rushed by his parents to the Western Regional Hospital on Saturday after he began experiencing breathing complications. According to the father, Troy Banner, Baby Thevane was choking on food and had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency attention. […]
In the lower courts this afternoon, attorney Andrew Bennett appeared once again before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazier, where he continues to face extradition to the United States for his purported role in a money laundering operation. Bennett is represented by fellow attorneys Anthony Sylvestre and Iliana Swift. During today’s proceedings, concerns were raised about electronic […]
There was a murder in Belize City on Sunday morning in an area off Cemetery Road known as Taylor’s Alley. Just before nine-thirty a.m., gunfire erupted and despite attempting to flee from his attacker, Alvin ‘Big Ben’ Cumberbatch was mortally wounded when a round caught him in the upper body. The thirty-six-year-old security guard, a […]
Three men have been arrested in connection with a brazen armed robbery which police say they committed, with a fourth accomplice, in Dangriga Town. On Saturday night, four men, three who were wielding firearms, targeted Family City Imports on George Price Drive. The robbers stormed into the establishment, held the employees at gunpoint before escaping […]
One of the oldest and most well-known Belizean bakeries was robbed on Friday night. Police say that two armed men walked into Sunny Side Bakery on Racecourse Street in Belize City just before seven o’clock and held up the owner and his wife. One of the robbers trained a point thirty-eight revolver at the owner’s […]
Two armed robbers held up two butane delivery-men in Hattieville on Friday. Salesman Tyrique Arana and his co-worker were out delivering gas around ten-thirty that morning when they were approached by the pair of thieves. The men used t-shirts with cut-out holes for their eyes to conceal their identity. ASP Alejandro Cowo says that a […]
Police are investigating the death of a two-month-old baby. On Saturday, a man in Camalote village took his son Thevane Banner to the Western Regional Hospital. There he told doctors that he was feeding the baby when he started to experience difficulties breathing. The baby was pronounced dead and health officials called in the police. […]
Three persons received varying degrees of injuries this morning when the taxi they were in overturned on mile three along the Stann Creek Valley Road. It happened shortly after eleven o’clock when the driver of the taxi, thirty-five-year-old Vinson Hill of Ladyville was transporting two passengers, thirty-three-year-old Deshawn White of Dangriga and thirty-eight-year-old Nicole Gary. […]
As of midnight tonight, the pump price for premium gasoline will increase. The new price will be eleven dollars and fifty-four cents, an increase of twenty-four cents and six cents less than the twelve dollars margin. Motorists may find a bit of relief with the decrease in price for diesel. The pump price for diesel […]
Tonight, businessman Bradley Roe and Music Ambassador Shyne Barrow are making headlines, following an incident on the night of May eleventh during which Shyne was physically assaulted by the Ladyville resident. According to a statement recorded at Precinct Four, following the altercation, Shyne reported that he was approached by Roe inside an establishment at the […]
Two U.S. nationals were rescued on Thursday night after their forty foot sailboat “Shambella” grounded on the Belize Barrier Reef. At around eighty thirty pm, the Belize Coast Guard received a distress signal from Shambella in the Sapodilla Caye Marine Reserve. A team from the Forward Operating Base at Hunting Caye was immediately deployed for […]
According to Lieutenant Soberanis, the couple was making their way from Cuba to Rio Dulce in Guatemala. Soberanis says that the captain of the vessel is currently detained at Hunting Caye until an in-depth assessment of the extent of the damage to the reef is concluded. Lt. Gregory Soberanis, Belize National Coast Guard “D.O.E. […]
A Belize City woman was robbed at gunpoint at around eight o’clock on Thursday night. Thirty-year-old Rachel Wallace was riding her bicycle near the Lord Ridge Cemetery when she was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a pistol. The men grabbed Wallace and pulled her off her bicycle and dragged her […]
