Shootout at Corozal Ferry; Man Drowns After
A man reportedly drowned at around one-thirty this afternoon, following a shootout between two groups near the Pueblo Nuevo Ferry. The man who drowned was reportedly along with one of [...]
A man reportedly drowned at around one-thirty this afternoon, following a shootout between two groups near the Pueblo Nuevo Ferry. The man who drowned was reportedly along with one of [...]
Belize City resident Ronlee Petillo has been accused of being a member of the George Street Gang (GSG) and was arraigned before Magistrate Dennison Mannon earlier today. Petillo, who was [...]
As many as three prisoners escaped while being escorted to the Belize Central Prison over the last four to five months. The most recent escapee, twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Foster, did so [...]
This morning in the lower courts, the daughter of a well-known city councilor was denied bail when she was brought up on a charge of manslaughter by negligence. Tehje Vaughn [...]
A man was shot dead near his house by a gunman who hid under the victim’s back step. While there are reports that the deceased was not the intended target, [...]
Were the confiscated cannabis edibles that created chaos at Saint Luke’s Methodist last week properly handed over as evidence to the police department? That’s the question that was put to [...]
There is major development in the case of the weed laced candies that hospitalized several children on Tuesday. National Exhibit Keeper for the Belize Police Department, Mario Bustillos, has been [...]
Cabinet has received a full update on the cannabis candies that affected several Belize City primary school students. Cabinet has urged the Minister of Home Affairs, Kareen Musa, to exert [...]
The crime wave, at least in the Belize District, has taken off again, with three murders in two days, two of them occurring only seven hours apart on Thursday. The [...]
A man died late this evening following a shooting incident in the King’s Parks area of Belize City. The victim has been identified as thirty-year-old Charles Canton. Canton was found [...]
And while the police department reports that major crimes have been on the decline since 2020, Barrow says this does not absolve the current government of how bad things currently [...]
A young man, who lived in Independence Village and had just come to Belize City to visit with friends, was shot and killed sometime after one this afternoon. The victim, [...]
While with ComPol Chester Williams, he was also asked for an update on the investigation into the murder of Armando Williams. The sixty-year-old Swallow Street resident, who also goes by [...]
Just before midday today police were called out to the scene of what is believed to be yet another murder in Ladyville. It’s the third murder to be recorded in [...]
Tonight, thirty-three patients are receiving medical attention at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after suffering marijuana intoxication. Twenty-seven of them are children who are attending primary school, between the ages [...]
Thirty-nine-year-old Miguel Encalada was arraigned on two counts of murder on Monday. His court appearance where he was unrepresented by legal counsel, followed the shooting death of his common-law wife [...]
There are several unanswered questions that have been posed to investigators, including a possible angle that may have involved drugs. Here’s how ACP Romero responded to those queries. Reporter [...]
Thirty-eight-year-old Wilford Dawson was injured during an officer-involved shooting on Sunday night in Gardenia Village. That is because he allegedly refused to stand down when instructed by officers responding to [...]
Miguel Encalada, the Ladyville resident who is accused of the murder of his common-law-wife, fifty-year-old Desiree Gonzalez Rowland and his own brother, twenty-five-year-old George Encalada Rochester, appeared in the Belize [...]
Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Walford has been sentenced to forty-eight years in prison for the execution-style murder of American national Lamont Edward Lipka in May 2018. The deadly incident took place in [...]
Two men who police have blamed for last week’s shooting of well-known street figure, Jervis Valencia appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today. They are Logwood Street resident, twenty-five-year-old [...]
A man was shot by police in Gardenia Village on Sunday night after he allegedly became disorderly and then charged at police with a piece of board. Police information is [...]
The Ladyville community was stunned on Thursday afternoon when reports of a double murder began to surface in the village. Indeed, a man and a woman were found dead inside [...]
A man and a woman were found dead inside a residence in Ladyville shortly after midday today. The two were businesswoman, fifty-year-old Deserie Gonzalez Rowland and her brother-in-law, twenty-five-year-old George [...]
Chairman of Ladyville, Bernardo Bennett, also told News Five that the incident brings back eerie memories of what happened over a decade ago, when an entire family was murdered inside [...]
