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A man who was charged last month along with two underage brothers for gang-related activity is out on bail tonight after attorney, Oscar Selgado convinced Supreme Court Justice, Herbert Lord that the charge against his client was not grave enough to deprive him of his right to freedom while he awaits trial. Justice Lord agreed and […]
Written on May 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A Belize Defense Force soldier found himself on the wrong side of the law this morning. He was placed under arrest by police officers on a West Line bus that was traveling on the George Price Highway. The incident was caught on camera by one of the commuters. The thirty-second video shows S.P.U. officers pushing […]
Written on May 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Bowen and Bowen Limited has fired three employees but not due to the COVID 19. It is because police in Pomona Village found seventy-three point eight grams of marijuana in the delivery truck. It was on May fifteenth that Melvin Velasquez was intercepted by police officers who informed him and his co-workers that a search […]
Written on May 21, 2020 | Posted in
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The three Mexican nationals who were placed in quarantine on Thursday have escaped from the facility. The men, Gabriel Vargas de la Cruz, Noel Gonzalez Alamilla and Arturo Pedro Cordero, are from a small village called Xcalak in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, Quintana Roo. The Belize Coast Guard’s Maritime Law Team busted the […]
Written on May 15, 2020 | Posted in
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A group of Guatemalan nationals were clearly not avoiding the Corona beer during the corona virus pandemic. On Thursday afternoon, the group was busted in the Calla Creek area of the Cayo District with the contraband beers. Officers attached to the Mobile Interdiction Team came up on the group around four p.m. while on patrol […]
Written on May 15, 2020 | Posted in
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Some Belizeans were also found to be conducting illegal fishing. Around two-thirty on Wednesday, the Belize Coast Guard’s Maritime Law Enforcement Team intercepted a fishing boat in the Corozal Bay area. Two Belizean fishermen from Sarteneja were found on board. The men, according to the coast guard, didn’t have a license for the gillnet they […]
Written on May 15, 2020 | Posted in
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There has been little crime reported across the country, except for in Dangriga where there was a flare up of violence due to warring gang groups in that southern municipality. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams spoke to News Five today about the mitigation of crime in that area. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “When […]
Written on May 15, 2020 | Posted in
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Three Mexican fishermen have been arrested for illegal fishing in Belize. The Belize Coast Guard’s Maritime Law Enforcement Team busted the Mexican trio in the Bacalar Chico area around three-thirty this morning. The Coast Guard’s report says that the vessel tried to evade the patrol team and in the process, they dumped their products and […]
Written on May 14, 2020 | Posted in
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The destruction of several clandestine airstrips across the country is an ongoing exercise being carried out by the Ministry of National Security, in light of their usage for the illegal landing of drug planes. While Chief Executive Officer Felix Enriquez did not divulge operational details or specific locations, he told News Five via phone this […]
Written on May 13, 2020 | Posted in
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Several clandestine airstrips have been identified for destruction in the Toledo District where an operation led by the Belize Defense Force will continue to see these makeshift runways being destroyed in the days ahead. The coordinated destruction exercise is being carried out by the B.D.F. demolition squad as part of the Ministry of National Security’s […]
Written on May 12, 2020 | Posted in
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The sighting of heavily armed police officers with guns drawn at an ambulance transporting a patient has triggered debate and raised questions about the driver of vehicle as well as the police. There is the matter of the risk to the life of the patient as well as the behaviour of the cops at the […]
Written on May 12, 2020 | Posted in
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An ambulance was stopped by heavily armed police at the Hattieville junction on Sunday afternoon. It was coming from Hopkins in the south and was transporting a patient accompanied by her daughter. A woman inside the ambulance was heard pleading that her mother was ill. The scary sight of the police drawing their weapons at […]
Written on May 11, 2020 | Posted in
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Even though the police department found out that the ambulance was in fact transporting a patient, and so the life of a the patient was at risk, the Commissioner of Police is demanding an apology from Southern Emergency Services for the manner in which the ambulance driver reportedly conducted himself at the checkpoints. On the […]
Written on May 11, 2020 | Posted in
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There was a home invasion in Ladyville in which an elderly man was brutally stabbed multiple times. Sixty-one-year-old Michael Avilez was inside him house when two persons stomped in the door and robbed him of one hundred and ten dollars, but not before gun butting him to the head and stabbing him twice to the […]
Written on May 11, 2020 | Posted in
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An American national was busted up north for entering Belize illegally over the weekend via the Corozal Free Zone. According to police, the man was intercepted while attempting to make his way through a hole in the fence of the compound. He was immediately detained and taken into quarantine where he managed to escape from […]
Written on May 11, 2020 | Posted in
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Even though it is now twenty-eight days without any new confirmed case of COVID-19, a state of emergency remains in place for the country. Thousands have already been charged for offenses under the emergency power regulations and over the weekend, an additional one hundred and fifty-six persons were added to the list. Sixty-three persons failed […]
Written on May 11, 2020 | Posted in
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A Guatemalan labourer is in big trouble with the law tonight for a slew of firearm offenses. Police say that on Sunday in Santa Cruz Village, Stann Creek District, Geovanni Castro was discovered with three firearms, one of which is a high-powered rifle with a scope that is prohibited in Belize; he was also found […]
Written on May 11, 2020 | Posted in
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In recent weeks, there has been a spike in gun violence in Dangriga where four persons were injured in separate shootings. The incidents, according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, were the result of rivalry between two groups in that southern municipality. Well since then, several operations were carried out in the south of the […]
Written on May 11, 2020 | Posted in
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A police officer finds himself among a group of sixty other individuals who are the latest group charged in the police crackdown of violators of the state of emergency. The borders remain closed and one person was picked up for illegal entry which presents a problem to health authorities to prevent the spread of the […]
Written on May 7, 2020 | Posted in
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The police department is at the front lines of enforcing the state of emergency. But ensuring compliance with the regulations has opened up opportunity for abuse. There is the well known case of a mentally challenged woman coerced into having sex and videoed by officers. In San Pedro, separate videos circulated showing officers hitting two […]
Written on May 7, 2020 | Posted in
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A Belize City teenager also felt the wrath of the police at the beginning of the week. In this case, Karim Barona left his girlfriend’s house after five in the morning. Admittedly, he was not wearing a mask and Barona was taken to the police station where his nightmare began. Hipolito Novelo files the following […]
Written on May 7, 2020 | Posted in
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There has not been any reported drug plane landings since the start of the COVID-19 crisis. In fact, the last drug plane landed on the Coastal Road on February twenty-seventh, 2020. But it does not mean that the movement of drugs has ceased; narcos are always looking for new ways to export the drugs. According […]
Written on May 6, 2020 | Posted in
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A teenage boy, who is believed to have brutally killed fifty-four-year-old Matias Alpuche, is in the custody of Orange Walk Police. He was caught on Tuesday morning after investigators launched an operation. The alleged juvenile killer was caught in a car while on the Guinea Grass Road in the Orange Walk District, but is believed […]
Written on May 6, 2020 | Posted in
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The full force of the law unexpectedly came down on Body 2000 this morning. The popular gym, located on Coney Drive, closed during the state of emergency and is not among the list of businesses that can yet reopen. But this morning, shutters were down when police dropped by and found five persons inside the […]
Written on May 5, 2020 | Posted in
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The weekend ended in tragedy for the family of a taxi man in the north. Fifty-four year old Matias Alpuche was stabbed to death by his fare in the Petsville area of Orange Walk. Prior to his savage stabbing he had visited with his estranged wife and set out to work. He did not live […]
Written on May 4, 2020 | Posted in
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