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The tables have turned for two men, twenty-seven-year-old Wilmer Polanco and twenty-seven-year-old Manual Sacul, who alleged they were held at gunpoint and robbed on Saturday night. The employees of Recinos’ Imports told Roaring Creek police that at around ten o’clock they were in the company’s white freight liner truck traveling from Belize City to the Cayo […]
Written on December 9, 2019 | Posted in
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The Deputy Mayor of Benque Viejo del Carman, fifty-six-year-old Alvaro Gongora was carjacked on Friday morning. Gongora, along with two of his employees, was on the Arenal Road in his 2015 Ford Explorer when they were held up at gunpoint. The masked Hispanic men demanded the keys to the vehicle. Gongora complied and the robbers sped off […]
Written on December 9, 2019 | Posted in
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Police in the Cayo District are investigating a scary home invasion which occurred on Saturday night during which another vehicle was stolen. Thirty-six-year-old Alvin Chi was enjoying a peaceful night with his family in the village of San Jose Succotz when three masked men gained entrance inside their house, terrorizing the Chi family. The assailants […]
Written on December 9, 2019 | Posted in
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Belize celebrates its third year having signed on to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC. Since 2016, when government was brought to its knees during an eleven-day strike effected by the Belize National Teachers Union, there hasn’t been much in terms of progress. There still isn’t a functional Integrity Commission, neither is there a […]
Written on December 9, 2019 | Posted in
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Last week we reported on the gruesome murder of former teacher Elito Puc. He was reported missing the week before and the family discovered that he had gone across the border to Melchor. The details of what he was doing in Guatemala are still unclear and the family told us that they also didn’t know […]
Written on December 9, 2019 | Posted in
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Gerald “Bomba” Lamb of Biscayne, Belize District, died on Saturday morning while on life support. Lamb was a victim of a shooter who released a barrage of bullets targeting him, hitting him three times; twice to the head and once to the chest. The incident occurred on November fourth while Lamb and a friend were […]
Written on December 9, 2019 | Posted in
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Belmopan resident Desmore Bowman remains missing tonight. He was last seen ten days ago on Friday, November twenty-ninth in the Young Bank area with another man. His mother, Mary Coleman, says he left home to go to Western Union to collect some money and has not been heard from since then. His family believes that […]
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Concern is growing over twenty-two-year-old Devon Tariq Lopez. Lopez has not been seen or heard from since a week ago, on Monday, December second. The authorities are asking for the public’s assistance in locating the Belize City youth. Lopez left his home in Belama Phase Three to meet a friend after he received a call. […]
Written on December 9, 2019 | Posted in
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As earlier as eight a.m. today, reports reaching our newsroom were that the remnants of suspected plane were discovered somewhere in the village of Chan Chen in Corozal District, which is not far from the Mexican border. The images sent to us show that the suspected drug plane made the illegal landing before it either […]
Written on December 6, 2019 | Posted in
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Former teacher Elito Puc was found dead a week after his disappearance. His headless body turned up along the Belize-Guatemala border on Thursday evening. The family says that they don’t know why he was killed, but they do know that he went across the border to Melchor between Thursday night and early Friday. Not much […]
Written on December 6, 2019 | Posted in
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There are serious allegations coming out of Santa Cruz Village in the Orange Walk District. The village is a hotspot for contraband and other illegal activities. The reports speak of the alleged drowning of an individual who was attempting to swim across the Rio Hondo River from Belize to Mexico, but was accosted by officials […]
Written on December 6, 2019 | Posted in
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In an on camera interview with News Five on December fifth, Vanessa Neal, the first cousin of Gerald Lamb, said that he had died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Lamb was shot three times to the head and once to the chest as he rode on a motorcycle with a friend near at mile […]
Written on December 6, 2019 | Posted in
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Prison authorities at the Hattieville Prison have confirmed that an inmate was discovered dead. The Guatemalan inmate was behind bars since June 2018 for Burglary, Theft and Damage to Property. The report is that he was found on Thursday night at around nine o’clock with a cloth around his neck which was attached to a […]
Written on December 6, 2019 | Posted in
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There have been six murders in the past seven days. Over the weekend four persons were killed, another was found dead on Wednesday and by today, there was one more murder to report. We start with the execution of Gerald “Bomba” Lamb from the village of Biscayne in the Belize District. Lamb was riding on […]
Written on December 5, 2019 | Posted in
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There is another murder, a retired teacher went missing a week ago; this afternoon his decapitated body was found at a bushy area on this side of the border near Melchor. Elito Puc was from the village of Succotz and according to his family, the forty-two year old left home heading to Melchor on November […]
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The family of eighteen-year-old Michael Cobo from San Pedro is still reeling from his recent gruesome murder. Late on Wednesday, Cobo’s mother identified his body after he had been missing for days. The body was retrieved from the sea near the area of the Port of Belize in Belize City. The eighteen-year-old had travelled to […]
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In respect of recent killing, one person is detained pending investigations into the fatal beat-down of Edwin Usher. The forty-nine-year-old handyman of Cedar Street died on November thirtieth; one week after he was viciously beaten outside a restaurant at the corner of Johnson and Vernon Streets in Belize City. The incident, which was captured on […]
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Who shot Curassow resident Godwin Flowers and why? Police are investigating an attempt made on Flowers’ life on the evening of December third, just a stone’s throw from where he lives. Around six p.m. on Tuesday, the thirty-year-old messenger was at a shop when a gunman on a bicycle rode up to him and fired […]
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Criminal activity is heightening as the Christmas Season gets underway. In the Barton Creek area in Cayo today, a Mennonite couple was attacked by two men dressed in police uniforms. Peter Lowen and his wife were travelling on a horse and cart when they were stopped by the armed fake cops who were riding on […]
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A San Pedro family travelled to Belize City today for the difficult task of identifying a body. Reports spread quickly this morning that a badly decomposed body had been located in the sea not far from the Port of Belize. The Cobo family had reason to believe that one of their own, Michael Cobo, who […]
Written on December 4, 2019 | Posted in
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The Puc family from Succotz Village in the west remain on edge tonight since their loved one has not been seen or heard from for six days. Elito Puc, a resident of Arenal Road in Benque Viejo was last seen alive on November twenty-eighth when he left his house claiming that he was headed to […]
Written on December 4, 2019 | Posted in
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Earlier you heard that the family of Michael Cobo has identified his body. But have you seen Densmore Bowman? The Belmopan resident was last seen on Friday night in the Young Bank area with another man, but since then no one has been able to locate him. Search efforts in and around Belmopan have proven […]
Written on December 4, 2019 | Posted in
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An investigation has been launched into the death of a resident of Cedar Street in Belize City. Edwin Usher died over the weekend at the K.H.M.H. after he was beaten badly one week earlier. The incident, which was captured on surveillance video, occurred on November twenty-third around two p.m. in front of Li Zhen Store […]
Written on December 3, 2019 | Posted in
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The common-law husband of an American national has been charged for her murder. Fifty-year-old Wendy Dardano, a nurse attached to the Hopkins Satellite Clinic was murdered over the weekend; stabbed to the chest and her body dumped in a garbage bin. Even before the discovery, her common-law husband Leroy Alexander Lorenzo was detained since it […]
Written on December 3, 2019 | Posted in
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The month of December started in a painful way for three families who lost loved ones in violent and separate incidents. We go first to southern Belize where an American nurse was killed in a most gruesome manner. Fifty-year-old Wendy Dardano was well-known and liked in Hopkins where she moved to months ago. As she […]
Written on December 2, 2019 | Posted in
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