On Tuesday we reported about the suicide of Michael Virgin, the American firefighter had made previous attempts on his life. The cops in the U.S. were looking for him because his wife indicated he sent emails to her expressing his tendency to try again. But it seems that on the heels of his suicide on […]
While Scott James Heinke escaped facing the courts in the United States by committing suicide, there is another U.S. national running from the law who has a different method of evading justice. According to the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office in Texas, a man going by the name of Sayeed Jaffer Koya is wanted for Sexual […]
The current question on our online poll is asking viewers and readers if they feel that the Gang Suppression Unit is using excessive force on civilians. And the answer from seventy-five percent of voters is a resounding no. The general sentiment is that a little excessive force could serve as a deterrent to the deadly […]
A team of medical professionals is in Belize for one week to provide medical, health and wellness services to at least one thousand residents. In the Belize District, the group is conducting screening, education and a health awareness campaign. The initiative is a collaboration of the Ministry of Health with a Christian-based organization, Health and […]
On April sixth of this month, five persons were charged in connection with a bank robbery at Heritage Bank in Orange Walk. The heist was suspected to be an inside job, and that was confirmed when police moved in on Samantha Carlos, the bank manager. She was arrested along with Ricky Valencio, Noel Usher, B.D.F. […]
The gang war that is being fought in quiet and productive communities is racking up unapologetic collateral damage. Innocent bystanders are no longer being spared but targeted by gunmen who can’t find their opponents in rival neighborhoods. A minor, sixteen year old Trevor Neal, who was shot on Wednesday, died early this morning. And this […]
The Human Rights Commission of Belize has been in existence for over two decades. Its service to the citizens of the country has been well noted over the years, particularly when justice has not been delivered. The Human Rights Commission issued a release earlier today defending the very people whose mission is to help and […]
Today was another bustling cruise ship day in the tourism zone on North Front Street. While tourists were soaking up the street culture, the Belize Port Authority, the Department of Environment and the Fort Street Tourism Village were assessing the damage of an oil leak near the village. According to reports, a fuel pipe broke […]
Weighing close to six hundred pounds, Alberto Neal may very well be the heaviest man in Belize but it isn’t a title that the Santa Elena resident is celebrating; in fact, it is life-threatening. Up to a few years ago, the truck driver was living a normal life unaware of an underactive thyroid condition. The […]
In court today, it was a bittersweet case ending for twenty-six year old Bryant Gentle Junior, who was facing five charges that are linked to two separate incidents. Charges of Wounding, Robbery, Kept Unlicensed Firearm and Kept Unlicensed Ammunition were levied after Gentle was accused of robbing a security guard at knifepoint and injuring him […]
Former police officer, Michael Diaz, appears to have taken up a new career as a chain snatcher. He was dismissed from the Police Department in December, 2010 following a Theft conviction for stealing a gold chain from Eberto Castellanos. As a first time offender, Diaz’ was spared prison time and his penalty was a fine […]
The north of the country has not experienced the violent crimes that have spread from Belize City to Cayo. However, the Corozal Police Formation has been hot on the trail of criminals in surrounding villages as well as in the town. In this past month alone, officers have returned three American fugitives that were hiding […]
The trickle of blood on West Street near its intersection with Cemetery Road where sixteen year old Trevor Neal was discovered this morning adds to the ongoing bloodbath in Belize City. While the minor was riding his bicycle to work shortly after seven this morning he was accosted from behind by two armed men who […]
Just before five o’clock today a jury decided on the fate of a B.D.F. soldier who was accused with the murder of his wife. Raquel Requeña had separated from her husband, Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez in November, 2007, and when he found out that she had a new boyfriend, he flew into a jealous rage and […]
Tonight’s question is: Do you think the Gang Suppression Unit is using excessive force on civilians? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
On Monday, US national Michael Virgin, checked in at a local hotel in La Isla Bonita. It seemed as if he had come to vacation in San Pedro, but before midday today Virgin was found dead in his hotel room. The forty-one year old US National left notes behind indicating that he was having problems […]
A forty year old woman, Lucilla Bartley, a single mother of two, is at the Central Prison tonight. She is among a small number of women to be charged with murder. The only other woman charged recently, is Lavern Longsworth, also known as Antichrist, who is awaiting trial for the murder of her common-law-husband. Bartley […]
There was another stabbing and it involved forty-one year old Elvis Rhamdas, a Belize City fisherman of a Central American Boulevard Address. Sometime around nine o’clock p.m. on Holy Thursday, Rhamdas, who was standing at the corner of New Road and Victoria Street, got involved in an altercation with a group of men. One of […]
While two families grieve the deaths of their loved ones, it didn’t turn out as tragic for a mother and son in Orange Walk Town. Two armed robbers burst into a store belonging to Chinese nationals at the start of the Easter holidays. They held up the store owner and fired indiscriminately in the air. […]
A recent victim of robbery passed away and now the crime has been upgraded to murder. He is murder victim number forty. On April twelfth, two salesmen were robbed at Belize Food Supply on the Northern Highway. After nine p.m. a truck driven by Carlos Alvarado and his sideman Armando Castellanos entered the compound of […]
Three men and a woman believed to be linked to the ruthless Los Pelones cartel have been arrested in Cancun and according to the Mexican media; two of the suspects are Belizeans. On Thursday afternoon, the Mexican Police received an anonymous tip that a group of suspicious persons were at a house in the area […]
James “Raindrops” Swan Senior, the highly connected man whose house was raided on Monday morning, has been granted bail due to a health condition. Members of the Belize Police Department including the Gang Suppression Unit swarmed Swan’s family home at Mile one on the Northern Highway beginning at four o’clock in the morning. The search […]
A family who lives on the Hummingbird Highway is grieving the death of one of their own. Thirty-nine year old Edgar Otoniel Guerra, a laborer of Armenia Village and a father of seven children, was killed in a freak accident as he waited for a bus on Wednesday. It happened at mile fifteen on the […]
This Good Friday, fish will be the preferred dish on many tables among Catholic families. It is a tradition that is related to the day when Catholics typically abstain from meat. Fish was once affordable, but when we made our rounds this morning, it is prohibitively high. In fact, the pound of fish at Conch […]
Turning to Tuesday’s question; in past years, foreign riders have been taking away the coveted title of Cross Country Champ and the prestigious garland of the nation’s biggest sporting event. The last time a Belizean wore the garland was back in 2006 when Shane Vasquez made the sprint to the finishing line. So on Tuesday […]
