Gun violence is creeping back in the south side of the City where another senseless murder took place less than twenty-hours after the shooting death of Guatemalan national Ruben Esquivel during a home invasion. At about eleven o’clock on Wednesday night, twenty-three-year-old Christian Velasquez was executed by a gunman who opened fire from a vehicle. […]
Even as police continue to investigate the murder of Velasquez, this afternoon shots rang out in that same area of Antelope Street Extension. Information to News Five is that around two-thirty p.m. Ryne Arnold and Marion Ramirez were traveling in this Ford Explorer SUV seen here in the vicinity of Pitters and Antelope Streets on […]
Artist Shyne Barrow dropped a bombshell today when he abruptly resigned from the Belizean Society of Composers Authors Publishers. A leaked letter bearing today’s date and signed by the PM’s son, announces his sudden resignation to the BSCAP membership on the heels of claims by the former C.E.O. and current chair, Heather Cunningham, that she […]
Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood…he was one of three liaison officers within the Belize Police Department assigned to facilitate the media with daily situation reports and interviews. Tonight, he is no longer a member of the Media Relations Unit after being abruptly transferred on Wednesday. Yearwood’s relocation to a desk job at Precinct Three came just a […]
As we told you on Wednesday night, Nevis Betancourth was charged with the murder of Jose Castellanos that happened at a restaurant in Santa Elena, Cayo on July twenty-eighth. Bentancourth was hospitalized since then under police protection; his arm was almost severed when Castellanos chopped him with a machete. Betancourth’s family contends that he acted […]
Dueck says that Betancourth still needs medical attention for the chop wound on his arm and remains in pain. But he says that Police didn’t allow him to receive that much needed doctor’s care – instead they removed him from the hospital and slapped him with a murder charge. Jimmy Dueck, Brother-in-law of Nevis […]
A national from Guatemala arrived in the country a few days ago to get away from personal problems. But instead his life was cut short in a deadly home invasion even before the crack of dawn this morning. Forty-five-year-old Ruben Esquivel Aguilar was shot multiple times in the kitchen of his sister’s house. Two armed […]
San Ignacio Police have arrested and charged Nevis Betancourth for the murder of Jose “El Chele” Castellanos. Betancourth was hospitalized for several days following the deadly incident that happened at a fast food restaurant in Santa Elena. The chopping/shooting happened on July twenty-seventh around eight that night. According to witnesses, there was a brief exchange […]
Hours prior to the murder of Ruben Esquivel, shots rang out several blocks away on Sarstoon Street in the Old Capital. Just after midnight on Tuesday, thirty-four-year-old Michael Aspinal, a resident of Kraal Road was shot to the leg and arm. There are few details that police can confirm. Superintendent Daniel Arzu explains. Supt. […]
We can finally confirm tonight that the San Pedro police are looking for Wasani and Jafari Castro, following the aggravated assault of twenty-one-year-old Kevin Brown at a resort on the island since the weekend. Police say that the sons of Minister Edmond “Clear the Land” Castro cannot be located since Sunday, but had beaten Brown […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice has issued written reasons for its decision in the case of Progresso Heights Limited versus Wilfred Elrington and Pitts and Elrington. On July twenty-first, the court ordered Elrington and his firm to return all the conveyancing documents that Progresso Heights Limited sent from Florida to Elrington’s wife between September 2009 […]
News Five continues its perusal of one hundred and eighteen land documents leaked recently that show a land scheme which enriched friends and families of former Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega. We took you through the switching scheme employed by the Vega family of western Cayo District, relatives of the Gaspar and German Vega clan […]
The Belize Central Prison is bursting at its seams as the number of inmates stands at one thousand three hundred. Of that amount, four hundred and fifty-two are awaiting trial for crimes that range from petty offenses to murder. Today, the Belmopan Police took a group of youths to the prison for a life lesson, […]
The proliferation of guns and ammunition across the western border near Benque Viejo del Carmen is a recurrent problem that is openly acknowledged by the Belize Police Department. But tonight, gun-running of illegal weapons from Guatemala at the hands of a cop takes on a totally different complexion for the department. On Monday night, a […]
The firearm, as we’ve mentioned, is a nine millimeter handgun from Guatemala with a matching serial number. The fact that it was found in the possession of an officer, concealed inside a vehicle he was driving, has raised eyebrows. Reporter “Is it a concern for you all that a police officer was at the […]
There is another cop in hot water. Senior officer, Superintendent Dinsdale Thompson was busted in Arenal Village on Friday by customs officials in possession of a quantity of contraband pharmaceuticals. While the drugs were confiscated, Thompson settled the matter quietly for an undisclosed sum. Still, he is under investigation by the Professional Standards Branch of […]
Two persons, including a minor, were shot on Cleghorn Street in Belize City on Monday night sometime after ten o’clock. When police arrived at the scene, the victims had been rushed to the K.H.M.H. Fourteen-year-old Jaheem Pipersburgh was hit to the left wrist, upper chest and upper right back while thirty-six-year-old Fiona Spain was shot […]
There was a grisly discovery this morning in the Stann Creek District where the decomposing body of a Guatemalan farmer was found on a road in Alta Vista Village. Forty-nine-year-old Cesar Augusto Monroy was hacked to death along the Davis Falls Road. He had been chopped on the neck and left hand. Around six-thirty a.m., […]
Are taxi drivers at risk in Belize City? According to police, no more than usual. Thirty-nine-year-old Thomas Staine was murdered overnight on Monday, his stab-riddled body recovered from the Collet Canal two hours after his taxi was found abandoned with blood stains on the passenger seat at the corner of King Street and Amara Avenue. […]
A News Five team headed to Corozal overnight to capture what was happening on the ground as the northern municipality prepared for a first impending storm in the 2017 hurricane season. Given the destruction caused by Hurricane Earl a year ago, all systems were in full gear to avert or at least contain damages. Duane […]
Tropical Storm Franklin, it’s the first weather system during this year’s hurricane season to pose a threat to northern Belize. The severe offshore storm continues it path, heading west-north-west at thirteen miles per hour with maximum winds of up to sixty miles per hour. With the National Emergency Management Organization fully activated since Sunday, efforts […]
In Belize City, Councilor Phillip Willoughby is spearheading the efforts of the City Emergency Management Organization, CEMO, and met earlier this evening with law enforcement officials, as well as representatives of other government agencies. The last bus north left from Belize City at five p.m. today, following instructions from NEMO that all public transportation traveling […]
An outline of the coordinated efforts involving the Belize Defense Force, the police department, as well as the National Fire Service was shared with the media. Fuel stations in Belize City will remain open to the public during normal hours of operation. Phillip Willoughby, CEMO Coordinator “What will be taking place, that you saw […]
While the city prepares for the heavy winds and downpour that will accompany the passage of Tropical Storm Franklin, residents won’t be allowed to purchase alcohol. That’s because a decision has been taken to prohibit the sale of liquor until an all-clear has been issued after the storm. That decision, says Willoughby, was agreed upon […]
As we mentioned a news five team is currently in Corozal Town. Tropical storm Franklin is scheduled to hit north of Corozal, along the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Residents are prepared and our crew found that the town is rather calm. Reporter Duane Moody and cameraman Rick Romero file this report. Duane Moody In […]
