He had been on the run evading the long arms of the law for some time and has had the dubious reputation as one of Belize’s most notorious criminals. Most recently he was wanted for the March fourteenth murder of restaurant owner Samuel Ortiz and the Valentine’s Day murder of Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson, both in […]
The month of July ends with a record breaking number of murders in one night. Police have been unable to solve the four murders of the weekend and now they have their hands full with Wednesday night’s triple murders. The first murder evolved out of a stabbing between two men, twenty-five year old Robert Taylor […]
The second deadly incident occurred around eight-thirty last night while the victim was at his girlfriend’s house on Lavender Street in the Saint Martin de Porres area. Twenty-one year old Travis Westby, a printer with the Amandala Newspaper, was riddled with bullets when his lifeless body arrived at the K.H.M.H. Police have no clues to […]
Wednesday night was deadly. A third victim was murdered as he rode his bicycle on Holy Emmanuel Street. For the family of twenty-three year old Kenton Lewis, it is difficult to understand what led to his murder, but they say they hold no animosity towards his killer. Inspector Julio Valdez “One Kenton Lewis of a […]
Her son went missing and the remains of twenty-four year old Pedro Guzman, were found on Saturday, July twenty-sixth. On Monday his mother, Lorraine Guzman, thought that the body retrieved from the Calla Creek Road was her son. Dutifully, she identified his shoe at the morgue in Belize City and based on her description, the […]
Three persons are detained for separate drugs busts on the island of San Pedro. Around one this morning police conducted a search at the home of twenty-three year old Jermaine Jacobs and discovered a plastic bag with just over eight ounces of cannabis. Another five pounds of weed was found in a suitcase. Police have […]
Two Americans and a Belizean have been arrested for ammunition-related charges. Sixty-seven year old Marion Cunningham Jr., twenty-three year old Simon Sisco and a fifteen year old minor of Benque Viejo Town were jointly charged with eight counts of Kept Unlicensed Ammunition and two counts of Kept Prohibited Ammunition. According to police reports, on Monday […]
A twenty-two year old was remanded to Hattieville prison today after holding up a Chinese grocer twice. Delroy Chaplin of West Collet Canal was charged with six counts of Burglary and Unlicensed Ammunition when he appeared in court this afternoon. Xaio Hua Zhu reported to police that on July twenty-first she was sweeping her Meighan […]
A sting operation by the police to bring control to the sale of illegal lottery has yielded five arrests in the course of this week of persons who sold the lottery to undercover agents. Two vendors were arraigned this morning in the Magistrate Court; fifty year old Wai Ming Cheng and twenty-three year old Melanie […]
With crime out of control, authorities and concerned residents are looking for ways to fight back. The revitalisation of the Conscious Youth Development Program earlier this year is one initiative that government hopes will help to put an end to the violence. Today, the CYDP held a short ceremony to recognise over thirty residents of […]
Tonight there is good news to report on a story we aired last week on the closure of Maya Papaya. According to Co-owner Abe Dyck, the company was able to get some funding from its U.S. buyers to pay employees and on Thursday restarted operations. By phone today, Dyck told News Five that the situation […]
This week’s revelation of a living room Miss Belize pageant left a bitter taste in your mouth, but there is a pageant coming up that you are invited to and you will get the opportunity to meet all the contestants and enjoy the glamour and glitz of the international Reina De La Costa Maya Pageant, […]
If you have heard about Hollywood and Bollywood, well now there’s Nollywood! It’s the buzz around town and it has to do with a different selection of movies; so get your coke and popcorn ready. Jose Sanchez has more. Jose Sanchez, Reporting From Africa to Belize; a new dialogue within the African Diaspora has surfaced. […]
A police prosecutor is in the hot seat for missing evidence in the sensational case involving businessman, Jose Shoman. The Belize City businessman was freed of charges on July eleventh but the case is far from over and the prosecutor, Sergeant Ludwig Castillo, is on interdiction while a police tribunal decides his fate. Shoman was […]
Meanwhile in Dangriga, a police sergeant felt the full brunt of the law and has been demoted to the rank of corporal. The officer was additionally fined three hundred dollars after a tribunal of his peers found him guilty of Neglect of Duty. Sergeant Reymundo Reyes was placed on interdiction in mid-May of this year […]
And in Belize City, this morning police stopped a robber dead in his tracks as he struggled with the owner of a Chinese store on Meighan Avenue in the King’s Park area. The police caught twenty-two year old Leroy Chaplin armed with a point twenty-five pistol struggling with Zhu Hua Xino, the proprietor of the […]
And in another part of the city a delivery man was not so lucky. Just before noon Tuesday, forty-three year old Cirilo Ical was robbed at gunpoint while making a delivery of sugar on Mahogany Street. Ical was apparently being trailed by robbers who jacked him as he parked his delivery truck in front of […]
And in news from the Magistrate Court, a U.B. student is behind bars today for keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. He is twenty-seven year old Giovanni Remijio Duran. Police report that they busted Duran with a nine millimeter pistol with fourteen rounds in its magazine around two-thirty a.m. this morning. According to the cops, […]
And a charge of Attempted Murder and six other offences were placed on eighteen year old Cameron Blease when he appeared in Court today. The other charges include Dangerous Harm, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and four counts of Aggravated Assault. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to Blease that she cannot take a plea […]
But two men had charges dismissed in court today. The two, twenty-one year old Keith Middleton and nineteen year old Marlon Foreman, were charged with aggravated assault for an incident on November first, in which three children and two adults were shot at. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers dismissed the charges when one of the adult complainants, […]
Not all news from the police is bad. And today they put up a brave and generous face as the men in uniform “did the right thing” with young people from across the country. Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting In an era when crime and violence are the order of the day, the Police […]
Just before this newscast, a stabbing was reported at the Pound Yard Bridge, in front of a hotdog vendor and in an area in close proximity of the Pound Yard stop. While police have not released the names of the individuals involved in this latest stabbing in Belize City, we did get an interview with […]
Next April over six hundred children aged seven to eleven will converge on Camp Oakley for the fifth Central American Cub Scout Encounter. It is the first time that Belize is hosting the biennial event, which will feature scouts from ten countries, and local organisers are intent on making it a success. But with the […]
When prison C.E.O., Marlon Skeen, handed in his resignation two weeks ago, the Kolbe Foundation appointed Mel Auil Junior as acting Chief Executive Officer. On Friday, the board will meet to decide whether the businessman will stay in the post. Auil’s professional background includes serving as general manager of his family’s business, J.M.A. Motors; acting […]
Exactly two weeks ago, a Belize City man was crying for help to solve health hazards caused by garbage trucks parked at his home near the Pound Yard Bridge. Today News Five’s Jose Sanchez has an update. Jose Sanchez, Reporting On July fifteenth we were approached by Colin Ebanks, who lives near Pound Yard Bridge. […]
