The cycle of unbridled violence spilled across the country over the weekend. In tonight’s newscast we report on two murders, two daring robbery attempts which ended fatally for the perpetrators, a body found at Turneffe, parcels of suspected cocaine found in Caye Caulker and other violent acts that plunged the nation deeper into fear. It […]
Aside from the murder of Kashif Jeffries, the other homicide took place in Roaring Creek Village around eight o’clock, also on Sunday and this time, the victim was only sixteen years old. According to all accounts, it was another case of an “old beef” among youths that escalated into a vicious attack on two. One […]
Heading west, two men presumably Guatemalans, tried to carry out a dangerous robbery on a D and E Bus from San Ignacio to Benque Viejo del Carmen around seven-fifteen on Sunday night. The incident was botched by a bold bus crew and passengers who bravely took on the two armed men. In the process, one […]
That Guatemalan has been identified as Wilson Paz Dominguez of Escuintla Santa Lucia, Guatemala. Meanwhile, News Five met the driver of the bus, nineteen year old Ernesto Castillo Junior at his family business in Benque Viejo today and while he was still shaken by the incident, he was also ready to get back on the […]
During the chaos, nineteen year old Lucia Carrillo jumped through the back door while the bus was still moving and she suffered a fractured skull. She remains critically injured in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. News Five spoke with an eyewitness who was standing in front of a shop when the passenger leaped from the […]
Another robber met his match in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye when two hunters stopped him dead in his tracks. The hunters were returning home when they ran into a road block set up by two robbers in a poorly lit area, north of the island. The robbers pulled out a handgun and were surprised when […]
In the city, shortly after the tragic shooting of Kashif Jeffries in the Port Loyola area on Saturday afternoon the sound of gunfire erupted once again, this time on the opposite side of Central American Boulevard. Reports are that twenty-four year old Kimberly Ciego a resident of Jane Usher Boulevard was riding on a scooter […]
Caye Caulker police found a red ice box in an area north of the island at around nine on Sunday morning. But it was not cold beers inside, in fact what they found were fourteen parcels wrapped in brown masking tape and believed to be compressed cocaine. No one was at the site of the […]
Five inmates broke out of Tango Ten, a medium security section of the Belize Central Prison just after midnight today. Up to tonight authorities are still on the hunt for the prisoners who breached the security systems and overpowered the prison officer on duty. Among the inmates on the run is thirty year old Terry […]
Meanwhile a police officer was stabbed at a nightclub around nine on Saturday night. He escaped alive but severely injured and lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Deputy Officer Commanding the San Ignacio Police formation, Inspector Dinsdale Thompson, told us how it happened. Insp. Dinsdale Thompson “One police constable by the name of Rogelio […]
A fire has totally destroyed a nightclub and partially damaged a house on Carillo Puerto Street in San Ignacio Town. The blaze was reported around three on Sunday morning and according to Inspector Dinsdale Thompson, there is not much to go on but a hunch. Insp. Dinsdale Thompson “A house was under fire. Upon arriving […]
It was a major scandal coming out of the Immigration Department when in 2006, one hundred machine readable Belizean passports mysteriously went missing. The discovery was made just days after a social event was held at the department on September eighth for Audrey Bennett, a finance officer going on leave, to hand over the reins […]
He has been tutoring children of all ages for six years, but today thirty four year old Andrew Lord, a resident of Elston Kerr Street, was charged with a single count of aggravated assault of an indent nature after a report that he assaulted a ten year-old student. Lord is accused of assaulting the child […]
Three men have been accused of importing pills that contain ephedrine into country. Twenty-nine year old Amin Fokrul, a salesman from Bangladesh appeared in court today to face charges of importing restricted goods when he along with two other men identified as Fakhrul Alam Salim and Afsar Miah were found in possession of fifteen thousand […]
A seventeen year old minor is now well enough to stand trial in the daring mid-morning robbery of Accents Gift Center at the corners of Queen and North Front Streets in Belize City. The minor was today slapped with a bevy of charges including four counts of attempted murder, a single count of use of […]
Feeding programs have become an integral part of many schools. At St Martin de Porres on Partridge Street, the program will now be administered in more comfortable surroundings. The kitchen and feeding area have been improved with the help of the British Caribbean Bank International Limited who invested in the upgrades to make eating and […]
The police department uncovered fourteen parcels of suspected cocaine on Sunday on the island of Caye Caulker. The find is only a drop in the bucket when it comes to the amount of drugs that are shipped from South America on its way to the United States. The United States Southern Command Counter drug program […]
The biggest news on the international music scene today is the highly anticipated release of Shyne’s first song since he’s been out of prison. Moses Michael Leviy, the Belizean born rapper, signed a seven digit contract with Def Jam Records on February twenty-second when the company’s C.E.O., L.A. Reid, flew all the way to Belize […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley. This is Sports Monday. We begin with yesterday’s showdown in the Caribbean Motors Cup tournament at the M.C.C. Grounds where the defending champions, the Belize Defence Force, hosted Georgetown Ibayani in a tale of teams streaking in different directions. We’re fifteen minutes in when Kenroy Authors of Ibayani eats this […]
