Three days after the bloodiest weekend in the old capital, the Minister of Police, Doug Singh, presented a situation report on the three hour mayhem which occurred on early Sunday morning. As many as eighty persons have been canvassed and questioned in the neighbourhood where those murders occurred. And more than a hundred others spent […]
The failure of the police department to bring charges and the lack of convictions when they do, contribute to the loss of confidence in the system. The fear of witnesses to pass on relevant information is also a major concern. Hence the reason why, in addition to a homicide unit, the Ministry of Police now […]
If the witness protection program does not pan out, all is not loss. The Police department also intends to access technology that will enhance its crime solving capabilities. Following the lead of NBC’s Law and Order, the department is implementing a Homicide Unit. The police will soon procure a lab and equipment to harness human […]
Tropical Storm Karl passed over northern Belize early this morning. The north braced up and prepared; schools closed and shelters were on standby. Karl brought rains, strong winds and a power outage; that was about the worst. A News Five team headed out this morning and found that it was business as usual throughout Corozal […]
A business shutdown is being planned for Thursday. Too many lives have been lost, residents are clamouring for urgent and drastic measures to bring order and to put an end to the lawlessness on the streets. Belizeans for Justice is calling on the business community to join the fight against crime by closing shop. It’s […]
Funeral services will be held on Thursday for eight year old Eyannie Nunez, who was shot and killed as she slept in her bed early Sunday morning. Since the murder of the young girl, the public has expressed outrage and anger at the level of crime and violence that have plunged the streets of the […]
When we closed our newscast on Monday night we reported that NEMO was on alert; it has now put into effect a tropical storm watch for northern Belize. Well brace up, because earlier today a large band of rains that hovered about four hundred miles east of Belize strengthened to a tropical depression and later […]
The lifeless body of Denval Davis was discovered sometime around five-thirty this evening in front of Dr. Osbert Usher’s Dental Clinic on Magazine Road. The body was lying face up on the steps of the building. Unconfirmed reports are that Davis had visited the Matron Roberts Polyclinic to seek medical assistance and soon after, went […]
There is very little progress on the identity of a man whose decomposed remains were discovered in a creek off the Hummingbird Highway near Red Rose Farm at mile fourteen on Monday morning. A post mortem was conducted hours later at the scene due to the advanced state of decomposition. It certified that the skull […]
A crime wave continues to grip the. The statistics are shocking, since the beginning of September there have been thirteen reported murders; in Belize City alone, seven persons have been killed in fourteen days, including an eight year old girl early on Sunday morning. The public wants urgent action to restore security in the streets. […]
The lawlessness in the streets is unrelenting. This weekend alone, six murders were reported, but the one that touched many hearts was the slaying of an innocent eight year old school girl who was fast asleep in her house in Belize City. Most people want the madness to stop. Belizeans for Justice is one group […]
In December of 2008, Belize and Guatemala signed a special agreement called a compromis. It heralded the possibility that the border dispute between the two countries could be settled at the International Court of Justice since negotiations had failed. Under the agreement, both countries would need to hold simultaneous referenda. Earlier this year, government officials, […]
There is no bottom to the abyss to which crime has plunged. Six persons were murdered in the weekend’s wave of terror; four in the city and two in the west. How do you top this new record? There is yet no official comment, but there is general public outrage at the carnage, and we […]
The second minor in the weekend’s blood bath is seventeen year old Marlon Zelaya of Moya Street. The unexplained circumstances surrounding his murder have baffled residents in the St. Martin De Porres area, including his grandmother Margaret Zelaya. There are many theories for the motive behind the killing but none have been confirmed. His lifeless […]
Shortly after Marlon Zelaya’s murder on Sunday morning, a man riding his bicycle was shot twice on Castle Street. Everett Lincoln Davis was reforming his life after doing time in prison, but in the end, gun violence caught up with the twenty-five year old. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports on the third homicide in the […]
A seventy-three year old man was murdered while visiting his children in Belize City last week. While his murder remains unsolved, a sixty year old citizen was gunned down after seven on Sunday morning. Apolonio Salome left his home near the Entrance of Bird’s Isle on his bicycle to buy rice for Sunday dinner, but […]
Aside from the four homicides in the City, two additional bodies were found in the west. In Teakettle, dogs alerted a villager to a body that was found off a dirt road. The father of five children had left his Esperanza home to visit his daughter; he never made it. A single shot to his […]
The murder of Lyndon Mangar is not the only one that Belmopan police have to solve. This morning another lifeless body was discovered in a creek about a mile off the Hummingbird Highway near Red Rose Farm at mile fourteen. The man, who was clad in a pair of black pants, brown boots and black […]
Our headline story on Wednesday night was about the chilling murder of a woman, her common-law husband and one of her children. It is one of the most monstrous homicides, and it was witnessed by two other siblings in a remote farm off the northern highway. The children are left traumatized and in fear for […]
Belmopan police have charged four persons with the murder of twenty-two year old Jesse Jones of Ontario Village, Cayo. Jones was shot dead as he tried to bring two rival groups together to make amends. Three of the four are well known notorious figures: twenty-four year old Lionel Sampson, twenty-five year old Cecil Castillo and […]
Turning to news of a financial nature, it is known that Prime Minister Dean Barrow will use the occasion of Independence Day to announce the sale of shares in the government owned B.T.L. which he arbitrarily took over in August 2009. The sale was discussed today at a special meeting of the Social Security. There […]
In the courts, a nineteen year old was charged with the Attempted Murder of two police officers after a shooting around eight o’clock on Tuesday night. The officers, Abel Mendez and Abelio Itza, both of the Mahogany Street sub-station, were responding to a report of a robbery in progress on Partridge Street. On their way […]
The home of Hattieville resident Wendy Castillo was burglarized on Monday by culprits, believed to be her neighbours. Castillo’s husband got news of the break-in at around three o’clock that afternoon and they later found that sixteenth thousand, six hundred and ninety-five dollars in items were stolen. The thieves got their hands on everything that […]
The grisly murders of thirty-five year old Carmita Rivas, her fourteen year old son Carlos Wagner and her common-law-husband sixty-five year old Pantaleon Navarro, has the small northern community of Carmelita in a complete state of shock. Rivas and Navarro both lived with their eight children on a remote farm several miles off the northern […]
‘In cold blood’ is the only way to describe one of the most heinous murders that we have reported in our newscast. While most of the callous crimes are set in the confines of Belize City, this one takes place in the north. On Tuesday night, three family members were found murdered in Carmelita Village. […]
