San Ignacio Police had to be called in to keep the peace in the small community of Santa Familia on Sunday, as villagers massed near the community centre. They’re concerned about water issues in the village. They have access to that precious commodity for only a few hours each day, and even when they do […]
While several persons have been detained for questioning in reference to the murders and shootings that occurred in the past week, there have been no charges levied against anyone. The majority of the carnage occurred within the jurisdiction of Precinct Two and included the murder of Myron Smith, Leon Burgess, Davee Copius, Dwayne Hilton as […]
The internet and news outlets, including CNN, have been abuzz since Thursday and today about a company called CYNK Technology and its networking site Introbiz whose address was traced to the Matalon building here on Coney Drive. Introbiz is a social network operator that offered services to purchase the contact information of personalities including celebrities […]
Ramon Cervantes Senior was abducted on July first and killed on July second, beaten to death with a stick before being buried in a shallow grave. The men Police believe are part of the ring which carried out the heinous crime were charged with murder on July ninth, and for kidnapping on July tenth. The […]
A glaring concern expressed not only by Cervantes Junior but by residents of Orange Walk is that the three men arrested – Noe Gonzalez, Mateo Pott and Angel Antonio Cardenas – do not have the resources to have orchestrated the kidnapping and murder. The Cervantes family is convinced that it’s way bigger than that and […]
There was one shooting on Thursday night and going into the weekend there is concern that the gang violence could flare up. Tonight, the Belize Defense Force soldiers are back on the streets beefing up security, but the police have been unable to make progress in the spate of violence in which three persons were […]
The gun violence continued on Thursday night when at around eight forty-five shots rang out on the usually quiet Lizarraga Avenue in the King’s Park Area. Neighbours told News Five they heard as many as ten shots. When it was done, forty-year old Darryl Mayen lay on the ground bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to […]
On June twenty-eight, Michael ‘Spam’ Ysaguirre succumbed to injuries he reportedly received following an altercation near the Conch Shell Bay Fish Market. While it was initially ruled as a sudden death, his family, including younger sibling and former Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya, maintained that Spam had been murdered. In an interview with News Five […]
Who placed survey pegs on Goff Caye and what’s the plan for this beautiful, eminently accessible piece of Belizean paradise just eight miles from the mainland? That’s the million dollar question right about now. Last week questions abounded when it was reported that survey pegs appeared on the island. That suggests that somebody’s planning to […]
But while Minister Vega is focused on pointing political fingers at the previous administration, he may have to do some more digging to find out who is actually surveying Goff’s Caye. That’s because we tracked down Cervantes this afternoon. First, he verified that he indeed got a lease in 2002 based on a concept he […]
There is a development in the murder of Orange Walk’s Ramon Cervantes Senior. At around eleven a.m. this morning, accused murderers twenty-two year old Noe Daniel Gonzalez, twenty-eight year old Mateo Pott and nineteen year old Angel Antonio Cardenas were escorted back to Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. There they were read the formal charge of […]
The Faber’s Road Extension has been the scene of two vicious murders and a shooting in a span of twenty-four hours. Edwin ‘Drive’ Flowers, one of the leaders of the PIV gang, was shot but survived the hit on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday afternoon, a body was found floating in a sewer lagoon nearby. […]
Hours before the murder of Duane Hilton, police made a gruesome discovery. A body was found floating in an open sewer lagoon, it was horribly gutted and already decomposing. The identity of the body could not be immediately determined but police can now confirm it is Davee Copius of Jane Usher Boulevard. His mother says […]
Felicia Chen, the young mother who drowned three of her children at Belizean Beach in April 2013, returned to court this morning. At her previous appearance she was unrepresented and pleaded guilty to murder but Justice Troadio Gonzalez did not accept that plea. Today, Chen pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder but guilty […]
The foundations of the Orange Walk community have been shaken by the recent violence and malicious conspiracy. Even as Police have been able to recover two bodies of persons abducted and cruelly beaten to death, they concede that it is a tangled web and there is much information they are still trying to unravel. We […]
On Wednesday, the first step to getting justice for the families of Ramon Cervantes Sr. and Sonia Maribel Abac was taken, with the formal arraignment of Noe Gonzales, Mateo Pott and Angel Antonio Cardenas. But it will take much more than that to quell the unease caused by the vicious crimes. For the community, the […]
Last week there was some consternation and concern when survey pegs appeared on the much used and much loved Goff’s Caye. It may not be a world heritage site, but for many years it has been the caye of choice for residents who want some sand, sea and sun for a day. So that’s why […]
Leader of the PIV gang, Edwin Flowers, was shot on Tuesday night on Neal’s Pen Road….just a stone’s throw from where the body of unidentified man was found this afternoon. Before news time tonight, there was another murder in the city, also on Fabers Road. What we know so far is that two persons were […]
At exactly five thirty this evening, three men were escorted to the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court for formal arraignment. These men are believed to be part of a criminal gang which kidnapped and murdered seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Sr. Since Monday Orange Walk residents have crowded the Magistrate Court surrounds, and despite the lateness […]
Tonight a tangled web of abduction, criminal conspiracy and violent murder in the Orange Walk district continues to dominate the news. We can report that the body of a second person, a woman, was found in a well on a farm on the Honey Camp road, five miles out of Orange Walk Town. Police were […]
We revisit the developing story in Orange Walk where the body of a Sonia Abac. At exactly five p.m. today, Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch, Assistant Commissioner of Police Russell Blackett, released official information on the identity of the body discovered on the Honey Camp road. He also confirmed the Manuel Castillo connection […]
Even as NCIB Head Russell Blackett was confirming the discovery of Sonia Abac, the grieving family of the woman who had been missing since April twenty-third were laying her remains to rest at the Piemont Cemetery. She was identified by her clothes and other items found with her remains. Her family is convinced that deportee […]
Another body was found this afternoon. It is that of a young man who remains unidentified up to news time. The body was floating on the sewer lagoon off Faber’s Road and while partially decomposed, there were traces of blood on the bank of the creek which leads investigators to believe, that the young man […]
Urban warfare continues to grip the city. On Tuesday night around nine o’clock, PIV gang leader, thirty-one year old Edwin Flowers, was shot to the head, but has so far survived the shooting and is in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Flowers was shot to the forehead, left arm and upper chest. While police […]
The brutal murder of Ramon Cervantes Senior from Orange Walk Town is shrouded in mystery and up until tonight no one has been charged. But there is breaking news tonight as the investigations continue. News Five Mike Rudon has been in Orange Walk following this story and has returned to the farm where Cervantes’ body […]
