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Her body was found in a shallow grave on a farm in Steadfast Village, but tonight, almost a week later, a post-mortem confirms that Julia Timotea Milian Moran died from blunt force trauma to the head. Overnight on Saturday, the body of the thirty-nine-year-old mother of four from Santa Cruz Village off the Southern Highway […]
Written on August 13, 2020 | Posted in
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An eighteen-year-old female is reported missing in San Ignacio Town. Sussy Guzman left her relative’s house on Saturday and has not been heard from or seen since then. Her family says that this is the first time that the teenager has been missing. They fear that something terrible has happened to her. Her sister Nerina […]
Written on August 13, 2020 | Posted in
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The body of Julia Timotea Milian Moran was found inside a shallow grave over the weekend and police believe her killer was well-known to her. The mother of four, who is originally from Honduras, lived in the village of Santa Cruz and police have arrested Jorge Leon from the village of Steadfast, who was last […]
Written on August 10, 2020 | Posted in
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Also here in Belize City, after three o’clock this morning, Trevor Gill was chopped on his hands and head. Gill was in deep slumber at his nephew’s house on New Road when he came under attack from an intruder who made his way inside the house through an unlocked door. Gill was taken to the […]
Written on August 10, 2020 | Posted in
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Is the MS-13 gang marking its territory in Belmopan? The Belize Police Department doesn’t believe so. In recent weeks, the gang has been tagging buildings and public spaces in Belmopan. And the most recent happened over the weekend at the Belmopan Nazarene Church. But this time, the gang has also left behind some ammunition on […]
Written on August 10, 2020 | Posted in
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But what does the Pastor of Belmopan Nazarene Church think of this gang tags on his church? Well, that Pastor happens to be our media colleague Louis Wade of Plus TV. Today, Wade said that he doesn’t believe the tags or the bullets were targets launched at his church, but thinks those were strategically placed. […]
Written on August 10, 2020 | Posted in
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A robber targeted a small grocery store this weekend. Around ten on Sunday morning, Belmopan Police officers were called out to Taisan Shop where an armed thief held up the proprietor of the establishment. It is the second time, robbers have hit the store. ACP Joseph Myvett tells us more. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
Written on August 10, 2020 | Posted in
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In recent weeks, we have been reporting on a string of robberies across the country, including Belmopan. Today, police encouraged business owners to be vigilant and call the police if they observe suspicious persons around their property. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “We do encourage more businesses to be vigilant and […]
Written on August 10, 2020 | Posted in
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On the night of August fifth, Shakeem Humes Senior was executed outside of his house in the Westlake area of the Eight Miles Community on the George Price Highway. The father of four was rushed to the K.H.M.H., but succumbed while receiving treatment. The police say that the murder was the result of an internal […]
Written on August 7, 2020 | Posted in
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On Thursday, the Police Department, in its bi-annual COMSTAT meeting held in Belmopan reviewed the crime statistics for the first half of 2020. As we reported, major crimes decreased by twenty-two point seven percent with murders down by twenty-four point one percent; that’s fifteen murders less in 2020, when compared to the same period last […]
Written on August 7, 2020 | Posted in
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A gang related murder occurred on Wednesday night. Skakeem Humes Senior was shot multiple times and died at the K.H.M.H. undergoing treatment. The police say that three men drove up to the Eight Miles community on the George Price Highway. The murder victim was repairing a vehicle along with friends when someone called out to […]
Written on August 6, 2020 | Posted in
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Police have arrested and charged two brothers in connection with the double murder that happened on Sunday, July nineteenth in San Ignacio. Thirty-one-year-old Minor Galindo and thirty-four-year-old David Galindo of Santa Elena were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Police say the brothers were connected to the fatal shooting that claimed the lives of footballer […]
Written on August 6, 2020 | Posted in
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Three employees of the Immigration Department have been detained by police in connection with drug trafficking but the men will not be formally charged until two weeks’ time. Police say the bust involves immigration workers travelling to a border village in the north to conduct the drug deal. What we know tonight is that on […]
Written on August 6, 2020 | Posted in
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A frontline worker was attacked by a resident who refused to wear a mask. This morning, Inspector Keith Clarke was scalded with boiling water near the Pound Yard Bridge when the officer informed an individual that the person was violating the quarantine rules, as it relates to the use of face masks. Unfortunately the officer […]
Written on August 6, 2020 | Posted in
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While crime is abundant, tonight police are reporting good crime stats for the first half of this year. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that major crimes are down, with specific reference to a decrease in murders particularly gang related murders in Belize City. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The contributing factor, we see […]
Written on August 6, 2020 | Posted in
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The family of murder victim Keona Ara is crying out for justice tonight. The eighteen-year-old was killed in a most savage way and her body set on fire and later found at a dumpsite by a caretaker in March 2017. Two suspects have been charged and one is now on bail. The horrific murder has […]
Written on August 4, 2020 | Posted in
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In the north, a forty-millimetre grenade launcher was discovered in Corozal. On Saturday afternoon, officers searched an overgrown property in the Dominguez Layout area and discovered the suspected military issued firearm, whose origin cannot be determined at this time. While no one was in the area, ACP Joseph Myvett says that the weapon was found […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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A taxi operator remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the head by his fare here in the City. On Sunday, Walter Staine was driving on North Front Street when it is believed that a passenger in his taxi fired a single shot to his head. […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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A U.S. retiree was injured in a home invasion in San Pedro over the weekend. Reports are that seventy-five-year-old John Wallace was at home in the San Pablo area on Saturday afternoon when around three-thirty, a Hispanic man entered his house. A struggle ensued and Wallace was cut multiple times to the hands and body […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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He was detained by police minutes after he inflicted a fatal stab wound to William Rubio near the Pound Yard Bridge on the night of July twenty-ninth. Over the weekend, Shedrack White was charged for the murder of the Saint Matthew’s villager. Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this afternoon remanded White to the Belize Central Prison. […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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A pair of thieves, believed to be responsible for a series of robberies in the west, hit a supermarket once again on Friday night. Around seven-thirty as patrons went about their shopping at Twenty-Eight Supermarket on the Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio, two gunmen wearing caps and face masks entered and robbed the owner […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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There was a murder in the city on Wednesday night. A man from Saint Matthews Village was murdered in around seven o’clock. A single stab ended the life of William Rubio, a construction worker and father of nine. The deadly incident happened in front of a pharmacy near the Pound Yard Bridge. The details of […]
Written on July 30, 2020 | Posted in
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The Ladyville community continues to reel over the murder of businessman Orin Velasquez. His life was taken for about two hundred dollars by robbers who shot and killed him inside his business ‘Breda O’s Pizza’ in Ladyville on Monday night. Since then, there has been an outpouring of support as Velasquez was a well-known and […]
Written on July 29, 2020 | Posted in
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Residents of Orange Walk acted swiftly today to make a citizen’s arrest. They held down a Ladyville resident and promptly handed him over to the police. The reports are that the man, seen in this photograph, had attempted a robbery but was caught and is in custody.
Written on July 29, 2020 | Posted in
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A well-known businessman from Ladyville was brutally shot and killed on Monday night in a robbery that turned deadly. It is second murder in that community in the past nine days. Now, Orin Velasquez is described as a pillar of the community and there has been an outpouring of grief as residents come to terms […]
Written on July 28, 2020 | Posted in
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