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. […]
