On Tuesday night, we broke the story that police had made a major bust involving a blue Crown Victoria taxi. The incident happened on Monday night at the Shell Gas station in Ladyville but was not reported until today in the daily police blotter and from details now available, the car was loaded with an […]
Belmopan police still need your help in identifying another body that was found on Wednesday morning in the west. The cops still have very little to go by, but it is known that during the post mortem today, three slugs were removed from the body of the Hispanic man. Those slugs have not yet been […]
As we invariably do, tonight’s newscast began with the story of another murder. It is the third so far for this week and the month is just four days old. Crime is the number one pressing problem that the government has to solve. A long term initiative, Restore Belize, was unveiled by the government back […]
The latest murder victim was found on Monday night in an area where several other homicides have been reported. The body of the Hispanic man was discovered shortly after ten about a hundred feet off the Western Highway on Mount Pleasant Road between miles forty-five and forty-six. According to police, the identity of the man […]
On Monday night we reported that a pregnant woman was viciously attacked as she and her family slept at their Neal Pen Road home. The victim is twenty-eight year old Valerie Sheran, who was seven months pregnant with her third child. She is still hospitalized recovering from injuries allegedly inflicted by her ex-boyfriend, twenty-one year […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you that police need your help in identifying a man found dead on the Western Highway. They also need your assistance in locating driver of a heavy duty vehicle that was involved in a road fatality on Monday night. The hit and run occurred on the Hummingbird Highway at […]
The Police Department has removed three more weapons off the street and it is believed the owners could have been on their way to commit a crime when they were busted. After eight on Monday night, two officers of the Ladyville Police Station intercepted a blue Crown Victoria taxi. Several men were inside and upon […]
Restore Belize was launched back in May as the government’s initiative to rein in crime. It is a complex and multi-faceted approach. In the meantime, however, the murders and other forms of violence have continued to spiral out of control. Earlier today, “I am Belize” the theme song for Restore Belize was launched as part […]
On July fifteenth David White, the common-law-husband of court personality, Lavern Longsworth was doused and set on fire during an argument at their home on Castle Street. White died this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was hospitalized since the incident. Longsworth, who is known as a victim of domestic abuse, was […]
There’s another tragic story to report tonight. A mother to be was stabbed before dawn at her home on Neal’s Pen Road. The incident was not reported in the daily police sitrep, but Valerie Sherann was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after three o’clock this morning. Sherann, who was seven months pregnant, was […]
Eighteen year old Gilroy Barrow was killed on M and M Street in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City on July twenty ninth. Barrow was shot six times by gunmen whom family members claim were once his friends. His sister, Sherilee, claims that the former friends threatened to kill Gilroy because of […]
Esso Ramon’s Gas Station at two miles on the Northern Highway was robbed over the weekend. It seems that the robbers were casing the joint before moving in since they waited until the manager closed the business and then they followed him to his home on Dolphin Street. When Ricardo Gongora exited his van, two […]
The President of Honduras Porfirio Lobo and a delegation arrived at the PGIA at ten o’clock this morning on private aircraft and left some five hours later. It is his first visit and he used the occasion to lobby support from Belize and by extension CARCIOM, for his country’s reinstatement to the thirty-three member Organization […]
There’s another homicide to add to the grim statistics. An eighteen year old was murdered just before midnight in the old capital. Gilroy Barrow was shot and killed in the Gungulung area by persons that were waiting for him. Whether or not he had a sense of his foreboding fate, in the last twenty-four hours […]
There was other gun violence in the city; a robbery at a restaurant on Orange Street in Belize City almost turned fatal when a customer intervened in the situation. According to forty-three year old Chong Wu Tan, the owner of Olympic Restaurant, on Thursday night at seven-forty p.m. three men with bandanas over their faces, […]
Given the dismal crime statistics, on Thursday night we asked our viewers if they thought that the proposed fast track court will improve the conviction rate? On our e-poll, the margin of votes was not wide between those who thought that it would and others who were not convinced. One viewer said “I believe so! […]
For weeks there have been reports among tourism stakeholders that a price increase at national parks and archeological sites would soon come on stream. A few days ago, the Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, dispatched an email indicating that the fees at Actun Tunichil Muknal would have been raised to fifty dollars, […]
Last Wednesday we reported that food rations had been stolen from the B.D.F. storage room at Price Barracks in Ladyville. News Five got confirmation today that the soldier who will be criminally prosecuted did not act alone. There is word that a Warrant Officer Class two Sergeant Major and a woman Staff Sergeant colluded in […]
Minister of Police, Doug Singh has been on the job for seven weeks and in this period he has had a lot to say, in fact maybe more than any other predecessor. Singh has spoken about the hands-on-approach of his Commissioner of Police which he thinks is ineffective and the fat cops in the […]
But Minister Singh is not recanting. He told News Five this afternoon that the comments he made on the morning show were misconstrued. While he apologized for the tactlessness of his remark, Singh remained steadfast in saying that there needs to be dialogue about the reality of the crime and violence that is affecting Belize […]
What was once called the case of the rogue cop is now the case of the two Jermaines. Detective Corporal Jermaine Mangar was initially charged along with Jermaine Palacio and Ernie Miranda for attempting to rob Chon Saan Palace. This was in April when the allegations were made about a ring of rogue cops operating […]
The Attorney General’s Ministry has announced it is setting up a fast track court to expedite criminal cases. Crime statistics are alarming and it is independently confirmed that the conviction rate is poorer than poor, according to research released this week. Tonight we ask the question: Do you believe that the fast track court will […]
Just after eleven this morning, a young student lost his life in a traffic accident in the Ladyville area. Dale Sibley was heading on bicycle to his home when he was hit by a vehicle traveling toward Belize City. He apparently was distracted by his IPod and did not hear that a car was approaching […]
He has made the headlines for three consecutive weeks now and Belize’s top fake cop is talking from behind the prison walls. Aaron Wilson was exposed by Shannon Martinez after he allegedly fondled her and stole her cell phone. Wilson called News Five today from the Hattieville Prison to say he was set up by […]
Just after nine this morning a hail of bullets was unleashed in the old capital and while that’s not unusual to that area, fortunately no one was hurt. A lone gunman walked past Dave’s Furniture World, which was already opened for business and opened fire. News Five’s Marion Ali was at the scene soon after. […]
