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This morning in Independence Village, thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Parks was shot multiple times by someone known to him. Parks was sitting on his verandah when he heard someone call him by name. When he made a check to see who it was, Parks was fired upon and received as many as four shots to the body. […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A tourist staying in Punta Gorda says that she has been robbed multiple times and authorities down there didn’t take her report seriously. DeeAnn Steiner of Utah in the U.S.A. says that she has been in Belize since November of last year. She says she plans to relocate to Belize although she has encountered shady […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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A Salvadoran national wanted in his home country for participating in criminal activity described as domestic terrorism, was nabbed in Belize earlier this week. Police caught up with the fugitive in Bella Vista Village and are working with immigration authorities to deport him to El Salvador where he is expected to face charges. Bella Vista, […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Where is Alison MacKenzie? The forty-three-year-old tourist from the United States remains missing tonight after she vanished during an overnight tour on Rendezvous Caye. What should have been a short, fun trip, has turned into heartache for her Arizona family. Search efforts today for MacKenzie have all proved futile. At news time, what we do […]
Written on January 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Darell Duran was targeted by a lone gunman on Monday night as he walked along Arlington Drive in Belize City. Sometime before eight o’clock, police were called to the K.H.M.H. where they saw Duran suffering from a gunshot wound to the left upper hand. It is not clear what led to the armed assault; […]
Written on January 21, 2020 | Posted in
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An American woman is missing in Belize and her family is desperately trying to find her. Tourist Alison MacKenzie has been in Belize since December and on Friday she and her boyfriend headed out to Rendezvous Caye – a small island some forty minutes away from Belize City. MacKenzie was onboard an overnight tour with […]
Written on January 20, 2020 | Posted in
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Gwen Liz High School is back in the news tonight. There was a huge brawl among various groups of students at Gwen Lizarraga High School on Friday which forced classes to be suspended for the remainder of the day. News Five understands that police officers and an ambulance had to be called to the scene […]
Written on January 20, 2020 | Posted in
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A hotel just outside of Belmopan City limits was targeted by armed burglars on Saturday night. While there were no guests at the hotel, a security guard says that he was accosted by three thieves who escaped with several items including a television set from one of the rooms. Luckily, the security guard was not […]
Written on January 20, 2020 | Posted in
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There were two acts of gun violence recorded over the weekend in the west in Bella Vista Village and up north in San Andres Village, Corozal. Police are looking for a resident of Bella Vista, who they say, entered the apartment of Edilson Clavel on Saturday night and opened fire at him and two other […]
Written on January 20, 2020 | Posted in
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Also in Corozal, a San Andres resident was targeted by a gunman while hanging out on a basketball court in the village. Marlon Palacio escaped serious injury and says the shooting says was motivated by an altercation he had with the gunman just moments before. The nature of the argument is not known, but police […]
Written on January 20, 2020 | Posted in
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A Roaring Creek resident has been charged for the murder of Timroy Neal that happened back in December of last year. Police say that the man they were looking for, David Cruz, handed himself in to police this week. Cruz has been arrested and charged for Neal’s murder that was captured on surveillance cameras in […]
Written on January 16, 2020 | Posted in
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The fifty-three-year-old owner of a popular resort off the coast of Dangriga has been hit with a rape charge. Police say that Wilfred Pascascio, the proprietor of Yok Ha resort on Waterfoot Caye, allegedly raped an eighteen-year-old female earlier this week. Senior Superintendent Hilbert Romero tells us more. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, […]
Written on January 16, 2020 | Posted in
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A man is expected to be charged for the chopping of a police officer in Stann Creek. Police say that twenty-six-year-old Byron Ramos of Cow Pen village chopped a police constable when he responded to a report of an assault that was being committed by Ramos. Hilberto Romero of the National C.I.B. shares details. […]
Written on January 16, 2020 | Posted in
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Shifting to crime, on Wednesday, we reported on the shooting that left Kurtis Campbell with injuries to his back. Campbell was riding his bike when he was shot on Tuesday night in Belize City. Police say that they have arrested and charged the man who did it. A nineteen-year-old was slapped with attempted murder, among […]
Written on January 16, 2020 | Posted in
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A Belize City Security Guard was robbed of his cell phone on Wednesday night in Belize City. Police say the guard was at his place of work when two men held him up and robbed him of his phone. Police told the press today that they don’t have any suspects. Superintendent Alejandro Cowo shares details […]
Written on January 16, 2020 | Posted in
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A Belize City man was shot on Tuesday night. Around eight-twenty, thirty-year-old Kurtis James Campbell was riding his bike on South Creek and when he arrived near Muhammad Ali Street, he noticed a motorcycle behind him. Campbell told police that the cycle sped off, passed him and then stopped next to Seagull Bridge. He reported […]
Written on January 15, 2020 | Posted in
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A police officer was injured while confronting an armed man in Cow Pen Village. According to police, just before eight on Tuesday morning, the cops were called out to the village where they met sixty-seven-year-old Narciso Manzano, who reported that his son, twenty-six-year-old Byron Ramos, whom he has a protection order against, was assaulting his […]
Written on January 15, 2020 | Posted in
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For two days, police looked for the man who is accused in the brutal killing of a three-year-old child. On Sunday, Kenrick Longsworth was captured in Isabella Bank in an extensive manhunt mounted by the police. He was taken to court under heavy police escort this morning for arraignment for murder. Three-year-old Mark Tuyul Junior […]
Written on January 14, 2020 | Posted in
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A storm is brewing in the ruling United Democratic Party ahead of its national convention in February. This on the heels of the release of U.S. court documents of a massive tax fraud case. One of the documents is a deposition, eighteen pages long, against Lev Aslan Dermen by his business partner. Dermen is originally […]
Written on January 14, 2020 | Posted in
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A disturbing report of rape is emerging from southern Belize. The Belize Police Department confirmed today that police in Dangriga are investigating a case of rape. Information to News Five is that a resort owner is being investigated for the sexual assault upon an eighteen-year-old housekeeper. According to the victim, the rape occurred at the […]
Written on January 14, 2020 | Posted in
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The victim in a shooting incident in Hattieville is in detention. On January tenth, gunmen turned up at the home of Tyrone Belisle when he was with his family, Belisle fled, but was hit on the leg. Since then he has been picked up by the police, released and then detained again. Belisle’s family says […]
Written on January 14, 2020 | Posted in
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On Friday night, a young mother came home to find her three-year-old son dead inside their house on Lovely Lane, the heart of Jungle, which is the Pickstock hutment in Belize City. His two siblings, were badly injured, they had been brutally beaten and sexually abused. Zema Castillo rushed the child to the K.H.M.H., but […]
Written on January 13, 2020 | Posted in
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Both sides of the families agree that signs of domestic abuse were detected in the relationship between Zema Castillo and Kenrick Longworth was releases from prison last year for a charge of attempted murder. The violence would lead to the unfortunate death of three-year old Mark Tuyul Junior. Isani Cayetano spoke to the mothers of […]
Written on January 13, 2020 | Posted in
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This morning, the Belize Police Department, led by Commissioner Chester Williams, held a press conference to discuss the weekend tragedy. ComPol Williams began by giving an official police account of what transpired at the family’s Lovely Lane residence. Notwithstanding the tragedy and the sensitive nature of what took place, he believes that there is a […]
Written on January 13, 2020 | Posted in
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The arrest of Kenrick Longsworth on Sunday afternoon brought to an end an intense manhunt that had been undertaken by police officers in Belize City since Friday evening. While his capture in Isabella Bank was successful, it wasn’t without controversy. That’s because a swarm of officers descended on Pickstock Hutment earlier in the morning in […]
Written on January 13, 2020 | Posted in
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