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Police are investigating the shooting death of a resident of the Chula Vista area of Corozal Town. Rafael Sansores was at a close friend’s house in the White Cocal area and while playing with a pellet gun, it accidentally discharged. The pellet struck Sansores to the chest; he was rushed to the Corozal Community Hospital […]
Written on April 1, 2020 | Posted in
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Police are swiftly enforcing state of emergency regulations. In San Pedro where a mother and daughter have the virus, three persons were charged with “Breach of Curfew Conditions.” This is because their children were out after six p.m., which is not allowed on the island during this period. They were fined five hundred dollars and […]
Written on March 31, 2020 | Posted in
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Attorney Arthur Saldivar is the second person to be charged for spreading false information in relation to COVID-19. The charge comes after Saldivar made a Facebook post on Saturday, claiming that a group of persons coming from Los Angeles, California, including someone who isn’t a national, were being facilitated entry into Belize through the northern […]
Written on March 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Police say that they have arrested a group of men for failing to comply with the social distancing act in light of COVID-19. The arrest was made at a bar in the north, where the owner of the establishment was also slapped with a separate charge for refusing to close his liquor establishment. Assistant Commissioner […]
Written on March 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Police are coming down hard on persons who do not observe quarantine measures in place. Over the weekend, three persons were charged for public drinking in the south. Police say that they men were drinking together outside of a business in Red Bank. The men, according to police, were also not adhering to social distancing […]
Written on March 30, 2020 | Posted in
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And in a separate case – but related to the issue of public drinking – we turn to an incident that allegedly involves a senior police officer. A video was shared over the weekend on Facebook in which the voice of Deputy Commissioner of Police Edward Broaster was heard to be saying that he was […]
Written on March 30, 2020 | Posted in
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On Saturday morning, around eight o’clock, police conducted a search at a residence in San Ignacio where they found unlicensed ammunition. Three persons, who were at the residence at the time, were arrested and charged. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “San Ignacio Police conducted a search at the home of Neville […]
Written on March 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Forty-one-year-old Kenrick Reneau was shot in the foot this morning. The resident of Consuelo Street was shot by police when he attempted to flee the scene of an attempted burglary. Reneau reportedly tried to break into Qin’s Shop on Mahogany Street in Belize City this morning sometime around three. The owners of the business were […]
Written on March 27, 2020 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Erika Vargas, a resident of Orange Walk Town, is the first person on record to be charged with spreading false news. The arraignment follows a stern warning from Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte on Wednesday in respect of the dissemination of false information regarding COVID-19. In a social media post on her Facebook account on […]
Written on March 26, 2020 | Posted in
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In other news, an Orange Walk man was found dead in a pond. Police say that no injuries were observed on the body and it is suspected that Nolasco Gonzalez, a resident of Santa Martha Village, drowned. A post-mortem is scheduled to take place to determine the cause of death. Senior Superintendent of Police Hilberto […]
Written on March 26, 2020 | Posted in
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Police are looking for four men who committed a robbery and shooting in Bella Vista Village earlier this week. On Monday, the assailants held up a security guard and robbed him of his cell phone and some money. The robbers then lured out another man from the southern village and when he tried to escape […]
Written on March 26, 2020 | Posted in
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An argument between in-laws has left one person hospitalized and another facing an attempted murder charge. Police say that during the early hours of Tuesday morning, a family was socializing at a house in Belize City when they got into a dispute and one man pulled out a knife and stabbed another multiple times. […]
Written on March 26, 2020 | Posted in
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Since the round-up of gang members in Belize City, the gun violence has subsided. But there was a murder recorded over the weekend in southern Belize. Around midday on March twenty-first, the body of a resident from Bladen Village in the Toledo District was discovered near the Swasey Bridge between miles forty-five and forty-six on […]
Written on March 23, 2020 | Posted in
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It’s been almost a week since five-year-old Kia Herbert was senselessly murdered inside her house on Pitter Street in Belize City; she was with her mother, Frances Herbert when shots were fired from outside towards the bedroom in which they were sleeping. On Saturday, police charged two men for her killing as well as the […]
Written on March 23, 2020 | Posted in
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As the crackdown of suspected gang members continues, police today hoarded away a first group of affiliates. The men were picked up at different times and places and kept in the custody of the police. This morning, they were carted away to the Belize Central Prison where they will remain for thirty days, including the […]
Written on March 20, 2020 | Posted in
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The full force of the law to crack down on crime came down as early as three o’clock on Wednesday morning when the round up began in neighbourhoods in the city. Later in the day, the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams announced a state of emergency in eight hot spots and the publication of the […]
Written on March 20, 2020 | Posted in
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Several persons were arraigned this evening in the lower courts after being charged for crimes ranging from attempted murder to murder. On Tuesday afternoon, twenty-two-year-old Derrick King, an employee of Bowen and Bowen Limited, was ruthless gunned down as he delivered beverages along with a coworker on Orange Street. Police investigations are now suggesting that […]
Written on March 20, 2020 | Posted in
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At a press conference this evening, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams provided an update on operations being conducted under the existing state of emergency, beginning with an increase in the number of suspected gang members who were initially detained on Wednesday morning. The ComPol reiterated Wednesday’s message to anyone found harboring these wanted individuals who […]
Written on March 20, 2020 | Posted in
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Investigators are closer to making arrests in at least three of the murders that occurred earlier this week. According to Commissioner Williams, they have made significant inroads in cracking the cases during which two minors, Kia Herbert and Dominic Rhamdas, were senselessly shot and killed inside their homes while they slumbered. Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
Written on March 20, 2020 | Posted in
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ComPol Chester Williams stopped short of divulging operational details of police activities that are scheduled for this weekend, suffice to say that the ramped up presence of officers in the designated hotspots will remain indefinitely. As for any legal challenged that may arise from this thirty-day period of detention, the top cop says that several […]
Written on March 20, 2020 | Posted in
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The recent spike in gun violence in the Old Capital claimed the lives of two innocent children in two separate incidents. Five-year-old Kia Herbert was fatally shot on Tuesday as she was sleeping at her home on Pitter Street. On Sunday, four-year-old Dominic Rhamdas was fast asleep at his King’s Park area home when the gunman released […]
Written on March 19, 2020 | Posted in
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Also speaking on the topic was Minister of Education, Youth, and Sport Patrick Faber. Kia Herbert was a constituent in the Collet Division which is, Faber’s constituency. The Minister says that the murder of the two innocent children touched home. He says it is the responsibility of the wider population to take care of and […]
Written on March 19, 2020 | Posted in
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The coronavirus, crime and the recent crash of a B.D.F. helicopter, in which four soldiers perished; are heavy and hugely critical issues facing the nation. First on the matter of crime, a press conference was held this afternoon by the top brass of the Police Department. The biggest item to come out of that is […]
Written on March 18, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on South Side Belize City Under State of Emergency, Again
While police conducted an early morning raid today, it is believed that a number of persons, who are wanted for involvement in gang activity, may have given them the slip and are headed to other parts of the country. According to ComPol Chester Williams, a bulletin with the identities and photographs of all those individuals […]
Written on March 18, 2020 | Posted in
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It is expected that of the eighty-two persons, who are presently in custody and are headed to the Belize Central Prison for the next thirty days, a number of them—through their respective attorneys—will be seeking judicial relief via the Supreme Court. They will likely be applying for bail. But Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte told the […]
Written on March 18, 2020 | Posted in
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