Commander of Eastern Division South Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett would normally appear on the news for the community policing work he continues to do, but tonight the senior police officer is in the hot seat, facing tremendous scrutiny. Gillett was involved in a road traffic accident over the weekend. The incident occurred in the wee […]
Two officers have been suspended pending further investigation into a suspected drug plane in southern Belize. Police Constables Peter Graham and John Ordonez are in trouble with the law tonight because of their alleged involvement in the illegal landing of a single engine aircraft in Barranco Village, Toledo District. During today’s police press brief, Deputy […]
News Five has been reliably informed that the aircraft was not making a drop, but was in fact carrying out a pickup. As has been seen in previous suspected drug plane landings, the aircrafts are normally gutted to make space for the illicit cargo. But this case was different. As the evidence has shown thus […]
A joint operation on Saturday resulted in police discovering more than seventy pounds of marijuana. Police say that the operation was conducted near the Casa Maya Road of the Shawville area of San Ignacio Town. The operation led to the discovery of seventy-one point seven-five pounds of marijuana. ASP Alejandro Cowo shared more details. […]
Police are investigating the savage beating and stabbing of Paul Moro. Moro and his wife were at a wedding on Saturday in Burrell Boom Village when he got into an altercation with another person. As the couple left the event, a group of men attacked and stabbed Moro. Police shared more details. ASP Alejandro […]
Thirty-six-year-old Ernie Miranda was fatally stabbed on Thursday night sometime before twelve a.m. His lifeless body was not discovered until Friday morning by sanitation workers collecting garbage on Morning Glory Street in the vicinity of Sadie Vernon High School. But the man we’ve all reported on as Ernie Miranda is actually Earl Abraham Hyatt. That’s […]
A young man was shot on Sunday evening and investigators believe that it may be gang related. The victim is twenty-two-year-old David Diaz and it is reported that he is associated with the Back-a-Town Crips Gang of Orange Walk Town. He was shot while he was near a barber shop, known to be a hub […]
Police in Hopkins Village are investigating a shooting incident which left forty-five-year-old Alvin Lopez injured. Lopez was inside his home in the village when he heard gunshots. He told police that it happened early this morning sometime after midnight, as he was entering his bedroom. He received a gunshot wound to the knee. Police told […]
The saga of Iverson Neal who went missing from Belize City on December eleventh, has come to a positive end. The twenty-three-year-old was found alive near the outskirts of Belmopan on Saturday afternoon sometime around four p.m., by someone who spotted him just outside of the city. That individual wasted no time in apprehending Neal […]
Benson Jerry Butler was found alive and in good health over the weekend. The fifty-three-year-old resident of West Lake Area of Western Paradise Village had been reported missing last week after his family and friends did not hear from him since December second. That was when he had left home en route to Belize City […]
A man is in police custody and facing firearm offences. He is thirty-seven-year-old Marvin Monge and according to police, he was busted with a handgun at a checkpoint early this morning. Police had set up a routine checkpoint at the junction of Monkey River and the Southern Highway when they intercepted a James Bus. Police […]
Someone’s Christmas plans were ruined on Saturday after police in Caye Caulker confiscated twenty-one cases of contraband Mexican beers on Saturday afternoon. Police say officers searched a cargo at Ocean Ferry and discovered fourteen and a half cases of Corona canned beers and seven cases of Superior canned beers. The beers were handed over to […]
On Friday morning, a house fire on Cleghorn Street destroyed the upper flat of a two-storey wooden structure. The blaze was the result of a tenant deliberately setting his room on fire. While it was initially reported as a failed suicide attempt, investigators have learned that the renter may be suffering from mental health issues. […]
Fire completely destroyed a house at mile sixteen on the Stann Creek Valley Road over the weekend. A family of eight lost all their personal belongings, as well as the roof over their heads around ten-thirty on Saturday morning when a fire broke out inside their home in Steadfast Village. The owners of the property, […]
The inaugural flight from Minneapolis courtesy of Sun Country Airlines landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport around eleven a.m. on Saturday. The flight, which will bring tourists to Belize every Saturday, is seasonal and will only add to the already increased number of airlines now coming to the Jewel. News Five’s Duane Moody was […]
Golden Tree Hotel was temporarily closed down by the Belize Tourism Board for having violated the Hotel and Tourists Accommodation Act due to non-payment. Within twenty-four hours, the owners of the recently renovated hotel on Coney Drive, were able to clear its arrears on the mandatory hotel tax payments and was reopened. Director of Marketing […]
Back in November we told you about the shooting death of on-duty cop, Osbourne Martinez. The twenty-seven-year-old Police Constable was shot and killed when he responded to an armed robbery in downtown Belize City. Martinez ran into one of three thieves who robbed the Belcove Hotel on Regent Street that morning. The shocking and tragic […]
The joy of Christmas is being able to spend time with family and friends. The spirit of the season is rooted in the celebration of the birth of Christ, a time of year when caring and sharing is at the heart of Yuletide. Earlier today, Bishop Phillip Wright of the Anglican Diocese shared with us […]
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