No arrests have been made in the murder of tour guide, Shawn Hemmans. The thirty-three-year-old King’s Park resident was viciously killed earlier this month at a house he frequented on Saint Thomas Street. Following the homicide, speculation ran amuck as to what motivated the crime which took place around seven-thirty that night. News Five’s Duane […]
Former basketball athlete and popular barbecue vendor, Bart Sanchez is reporting a case of police brutality at the hands of officers attached to the Gang Suppression Unit. Now, Sanchez is not linked to any gang in the city, but claims he was harassed when he picked up his phone to video GSU officers taking a […]
The sensational drug trafficking case involving embattled policeman Darrell “Tutsi” Usher fell apart in the lower court today, ending with an acquittal. In March 2017, the elder son of Gilroy Usher, P.U.P. Standard Bearer for Port Loyola, was charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply after he was reportedly connected to […]
The Orange Walk community is reeling from the murder of twenty-year-old Dwayne Avila-Cummings. The young UB student and promising basketball player was executed in the wee hours of Sunday. He had just left the Orange Walk Multipurpose Complex en route to his home at San Lorenzo Housing Site when he was gunned down. His body […]
Dwayne Cummings is the second UB student to be murdered in less than five days. He was a business student at the University of Belize. A statement from UB’s President Professor Clement Sankat reads, quote, Dwayne was a well-loved, out-going and an exceptional student-athlete at the University of Belize. He played basketball for the UB […]
Area Representative for Orange Walk East and Minister of State Responsible for National Security, Elodio Aragon Jr., says that he was angered to see a positive and promising star murdered for no apparent reason. According to Minister Aragon, the Belize Police Department is doing everything possible to identify and bring those responsible to justice. […]
According to reports, residents of the area where Cummings’ body was found say that they saw a suspicious vehicle in the area after gunshots were heard. Minister Aragon is appealing to persons with information to come forward and assist police with their investigation. Elodio Aragon Jr., Minister of State Responsible for National Security “A […]
The Belize Police Department is leaving no stones unturned in an effort to solve the murder of nineteen-year-old Masaki Yanai. The UB architecture student and his father, restaurateur Takayuki Yanai were both gunned down on Thursday night outside of the family home on Park Avenue in Buttonwood Bay. It is believed that three men traveling […]
A fatal road traffic accident claimed the life of a man who was ran over on the Southern Highway in the early hours of Sunday morning. Alvin Abad Paz was reportedly sitting on the edge of the road just outside of San Juan Village when a motorist knocked him down. Bad enough that Paz would […]
Victor Martinez, a resident of West Canal, is lucky to have escaped serious injury over the weekend when he was attacked by a lone gunman as he was entering his yard. The twenty-four-year-old was shot once in the palm of the right hand during an altercation with someone who wanted him dead. Police have ruled […]
A father and his only son came under attack on Thursday night at around six thirty during a brazen armed robbery. The son, a well-liked student of University of Belize, Masaki Yanai, did not survive the gun violence and his father Takayuki clings to life. He is the owner of the Taka Kitchen at the […]
A GSU raid this evening on a cluster of homes at a property on Freetown Road quickly turned into mayhem when the officers conducting the swoop opened fire into the crowded yard. We are not sure whether rubber bullets or live rounds were in fact discharged during the search. What we do know is that […]
A man believed to be Belizean was shot on Thursday afternoon in Erie City, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Investigators suspect that it was an upper-level drug deal gone bad which led to the seizure of a significant quantity of suspected heroin at the scene. One of the men from Chicago was shot in the chest and was […]
A heated verbal exchange between two men in Lord’s Bank Village ended with forty-two-year-old Enrique Pandy almost losing a finger from his left hand. Pandy reported to police that he was making his way on bicycle along Serosi Street when he encountered an individual with whom he has been having a dispute. One thing led […]
A major disaster was averted at midday thanks to quick thinking on the part of several tenants who also occupy the House of Shotokan building on Princess Margaret Drive. All indications are that a small fire had broken out in a kitchen at the rear of the dojo. While employees at the other end of […]
Peruvian national, Luis Miguel Marroquin, one of three visitors accused of preparation for a crime of theft at a Dangriga ATM, was denied bail in the Supreme Court of Justice Herbert Lord today. Crown Counsel, Riis Raymond Cattouse objected on many grounds including the prevalence of the crime and that the accused is a flight […]
An O.A.S. 2015 reports shows that Belize is the Central American country that has had the highest immigration since the early 1980’s. The foreign-born population in 2013 represented a little over fifteen percent of Belize’s total population – about sixty percent from Guatemala and El Salvador. Belize has long been sought after by groups of […]
Just before news time, a shooting took place at a private property on Park Avenue in Belize City. Our news team reports that a father and son were injured by armed robbers and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The victims are Chinese nationals, who were shot on the chest and taken to the […]
A pair of cousins is behind bars tonight for a wild shootout on the heavily trafficked Coney Drive in Belize City. On Wednesday afternoon, twenty-one-year-old Ulide Allen beat a hasty retreat amid a shower of bullets during the brazen exchange of gunfire with Belize City police. During the mid-afternoon shootout, a responding officer was grazed […]
Guatemalan national Anibal Avila is wanted by Belizean authorities, following an incident at the western border this morning during which he reportedly opened fire in the direction of the customs building at the Benque Viejo crossing. Avila, according to customs and immigration officials, has been denied entry to Belize on previous occasions after being arrested […]
A string of automotive fires in Punta Gorda on Wednesday morning has residents on edge and investigators working diligently to crack these most recent cases of arson. Vehicles belonging to Christon Foster, Patrick Avila and Burlington Jones were all destroyed by fire just before dawn on February sixth and police are now trying to determine […]
The case of Dion Zabaneh continues to play out in the news. He is the businessman, who along with his mother, Primrose Gabourel, was taken to court for offenses relating to a property of one point three acres in the Caribbean Shores area, specifically parcel number 4670. Zabaneh and Gabourel were taken to court by […]
The topic of gillnets is one that we have covered extensively on the news. As you know, the fishing gear has sharply divided sectors of the fishing industry and conservation groups. Gillnets are described as indiscriminate and destructive because it traps just about every species in its path. The Ministry of Fisheries has gone as […]
The Belize Federation of Fisheries is at odds again with the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association. The B.F.F. fired off a press release on Wednesday to call out TASA’s board for its ‘illegal’ composition. According to the federation, their reps have been removed from the board, which now only has two members. Nigel Martinez of the […]
Coney Drive here in the city was in mayhem and traffic backed up this afternoon after a shootout between police and two men known to the law. Police were on hot pursuit of a duo of men on motorcycle when the shootout occurred. The duo appeared suspicious to the cops and when they reached the […]
