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The police have been cracking down on the number of vehicles which have been stolen and taken across the western border into Guatemala. While there has been progress, today, Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett confirmed to the media that two vehicles that were stolen have been located in Guatemala and the process has begun […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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There was an officer-involved shooting in Belize City on Christmas Day which resulted in two sixteen-year-old boys receiving varying degrees of injuries to their lower extremities. Lionel Gordon and Denver Domingo live a stone’s throw away from where they were caught inside a Chinese business. When police met the duo, along with a third unidentified […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Daniel Bennett was also injured on Christmas Day around midday. The resident of Ramos Street was shot in the left side of the mouth while socializing on Mopan Street. Following the incident, he showed up at the Vernon Street Vehicle Checkpoint where he was bleeding profusely from the injury. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Just after midnight on Thursday, Belize City police were called to a bar on Newtown Barracks where they met forty-two-year-old Darrell Ramclam who reported that he was shot at. According to Ramclam, he was walking along Newtown Barracks when a male individual approached him, produced a firearm and fired several bullets in his direction. Ramclam […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Fifty-seven-year-old Anthony Edward Brown was found murdered inside his home in Eldridgeville, Toledo on Monday. He was stabbed to death the day prior. Investigators have so far uncovered that Brown was at home, near the outskirts of town, when he was attacked by two men who bound his feet and hands before stabbing him multiple […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Fifty-seven-year-old Anthony Brown was found dead inside his home in Eldridgeville, Toledo District on Monday. The lecturer of the University of Belize in Punta Gorda had been bound at the hands and feet and was stabbed multiple times. Sometime around midday, police were called to Brown’s residence near the outskirts of town where they observed […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Downtown Belize City and in all municipalities across the country, residents are out and about doing their last minute shopping in preparation for the Christmas holidays. As these shoppers go about their merry way, they can do so with little fear of being targeted because additional officers have been placed on the ground as part […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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In the case of delivery trucks, ComPol Williams says that deliverymen can request assistance from police while doing deliveries in respective areas as an added security measure. Crime prevention, however, is not only incumbent on the police department. Williams shared tips for shoppers and merchants during this time. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Two murders were recorded in less than seventy-two hours in Toledo District. On Saturday morning, as Punta Gorda Police responded to a call of a burglary near the dump site just outside of town, they discovered the mutilated body of a Jalacte resident under a bus shed. Macario Ical was chopped to the hands and […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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This afternoon, reports surfaced of yet another murder in the southernmost district of Toledo; this time, in Eldridgeville. Information to our newsroom is that police visited a house in that community and discovered the body of a man, who has since been identified as Anthony Brown Junior, a retired teacher of Cerro Road. News Five […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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There was also loss of life in the west over the weekend. In a freak accident, around nine-thirty p.m. on Friday, police were called to a work site just outside of Georgeville on the George Price Highway, between miles sixty and sixty-one. William Orellana, a forty-five-year-old resident of a Benque Viejo, was standing between a […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Four men and a minor will be spending Christmas behind bars after they were arraigned late this afternoon for attempted murder. Delroy Flowers, Bernard Lynch, Oliver Solis, Clive Stanford and a minor appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser where they were charged with unlawful imprisonment, attempted murder and dangerous harm upon Dorian August. Solis and […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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A most disturbing report of the rape of a minor was made over the weekend in Belize City. The sixteen-year-old girl says she was beaten and raped by a taxi driver on Friday night, after she missed the last bus to Dangriga. According to the report, the minor got in a cab and asked to […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Senator Godwin Hulse, whose son was arrested and charged last week for an alleged domestic violence offense, addressed the upper chamber on adjournment today. He spoke of the incident involving Kenzle Hulse and Nicole Usher, as well as the impact it has had on their daughter. He also condemned the social media post in which […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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A police constable and a B.D.F. corporal were shot by suspected contrabandistas on the Rio Hondo River in Santa Cruz Village, Orange Walk District. Around eight-thirty p.m. on December twenty-second, a joint security patrol was traversing the bank of the river when they spotted three men in a canoe with flashlights on the other side […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Two groups of U.S. nationals were robbed on the north end of San Pedro on Friday morning. Visitor Paul Maurl reported that around ten a.m., he and his family left a resort in San Pedro to go fishing on the northern tip of the island. On their return to the resort, four masked men armed […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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In Belize City, security guard Denzel Halliday was also robbed of over a hundred and fifty dollars while on duty at the Belize District Education Centre on Mahogany Street Extension. Halliday reported to police that around three a.m. on December twenty-first, three men, one armed with a knife, entered the compound and held him up. […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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There is much public outrage in the wake of revolting comments posted by Jumoke Castro on his social media page in which he threatens Plus TV’s Shasta Wade with sexual violence. That disgusting remark is being condemned in every corner, including the Public Service Union where the son of the Minister of Transport and National […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Pastor Louis Wade and his wife have since contacted the police department, expressing concerns over the social media comment made by Jumoke Castro. Knowing that the comment was made by a public officer, the Wades have been advised to make a formal complaint to the Public Services Commission since its regulations speak to the conduct […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Today, a press release surfaced on social media on Cyber Crime Legislation. According to the release, the Office of the Special Envoy in collaboration with the Office of the Speaker of the House, Ministry of Human Development, the Attorney General’s Ministry, the Central Information Technology Office, the Ministry of National Security and the Public Utilities […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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According to our records, the murder count so far for 2019 is at one hundred and thirty-one homicides; it is dangerously close to 2018’s figures of a hundred and forty-four cases. The 2019 stats show that there were several incidents of multiple killings, including the five men murdered near Mapp Caye, among other double and […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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There have been eight murders in one week. The most recent is Guatemalan national who was chopped to death inside his house in Frank’s Eddy, Belize District, on Wednesday night. And his seventeen-year-old common-law-wife believes it was triggered by jealousy. Two men showed up at the house of the victim, Efrain Coc after ten o’clock. […]
Written on December 19, 2019 | Posted in
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Thirty-two-year-old Mario Huezo has been charged with two counts of murder. Huezo stands accused of callously killing his parents, Rafael and Nanny Huezo, whose bodies were discovered on Monday morning. They lay dead inside their Orange Walk Town house on Stadium Street. The thirty-year-old appeared before Magistrate Patricia Arana today where he was arraigned for […]
Written on December 19, 2019 | Posted in
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Shooting victim Richard O’Neil from Ordonez Street, Belize City, succumbs while undergoing treatment at the K.H.M.H. O’Neil was abducted on November twenty-sixth in Belize City and taken to an area along the Boom/Hattieville Road where he was shot multiple times. The gunman left him for death, but O’Neil survived, getting assistance from residents in the […]
Written on December 19, 2019 | Posted in
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Seventeen-year-old Belmopan native Damion Bregal was chopped to death and his body dumped along the Young Gyal Road in Teakettle Village, Cayo. The teen went missing last week without a trace and his family embarked on a fruitless search for days until Tuesday evening when police received reports of a decomposing body on a feeder […]
Written on December 19, 2019 | Posted in
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