When word spread around Belize City last night that two security guards had been shot to death and a third wounded, the reaction was one of anger and disgust, but not necessarily of surprise, as attacks on security guards have regrettably become common. But when rumours were confirmed that two unsuspecting civilians had also been […]
He’s been in office less than two months, but for Police Commissioner Carmen Zetina, it may already feel like a lifetime. Today, while his men mounted a manhunt for two multiple murderers, the commissioner answered some questions put by News 5’s Stewart Krohn. The first inquired whether Zetina was optimistic about catching the pair of […]
One bright spot in an otherwise bad day for police occurred in Orange Walk, where it appears that authorities are making progress in solving last week’s spree of murder, rape and robbery in the north. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Twenty-seven year old Mark Vega of Orange Walk Town was today arraigned […]
Police arrested another criminal suspect today. Luis Castellanos of Red Creek Village in the Cayo District has been identified as the man who robbed the San Ignacio office of Belize Water Services on Tuesday. Three thousand, four hundred dollars in cash was given up by the cashier after the robber threatened the staff with a […]
A body found in the Salvapan suburb of the nation’s capital remains unidentified. The corpse, buried in a shallow grave was discovered on Sunday and according to police, belongs to an Hispanic man with long hair tied in a ponytail. The deceased was about five foot, eight inches tall, weighed one hundred and seventy-five pounds […]
And in the only item in today’s news that does not involve crime, three days of meetings ended in Belize City today for the tourism commission of Plan Puebla Panama. According to a government press release, the meetings were designed to come up with ideas to link the southern states of Mexico with the seven […]
