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Police are investigating a chopping incident that has left a father hospitalized and his seventeen-year-old daughter the subject of that investigation. It happened on Tuesday afternoon in Saint Paul’s Bank, Belize District. Police say that when they arrived at the residence, they saw sixty-seven-year-old Antonio Fermin with a huge cut wound to his head. Fermin […]
Written on August 30, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-four-year-old Orel Leslie was gunned down in the Yarborough area of Belize City on Sunday night by persons believed to be affiliated with the rival PIV gang. It is the most recent execution to be carried out among feuding groups in the Old Capital. In the immediate aftermath of the deadly shooting that ended with […]
Written on August 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Belgian national Frik de Meyere was taken into police custody earlier today for questioning in connection with the murder of businessman Ricardo Borja. As we’ve reported, Borja was shot and killed as he sat inside his pickup truck outside of an apartment near Coney Drive on August nineteenth. In the wake of the murder, Belize […]
Written on August 29, 2023 | Posted in
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A Belize City man underwent surgery this afternoon to repair a bullet wound he suffered in Belize City this morning. The shooting happened around nine-twenty a.m., on Vernon Street near its junction with Pine Street, a short distance away from a checkpoint near Mayflower Street. Police say that twenty-seven-year-old Jahleel Goodger was sitting on the […]
Written on August 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Javier Martinez, a Mexican national who was detained by police along with six other men last Sunday, was slapped with another charge when he appeared in court earlier today. On Monday, Martinez pleaded guilty to the offense of failure to present himself to an immigration officer upon arrival into the country. He was fined […]
Written on August 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Residents in the area of Albert Street West and Yarborough in Belize City, are still shaken from the gun violence on Sunday night. They were, for the most part, inside their homes when what sounded like an automatic rifle unleashing rounds after rounds of bullets on a target permeated the air. There would be a […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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A former Belize Defense Force soldier has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison in connection with a shooting incident in Belize City. Reports are that on Saturday night, police responded to the scene of a shooting on Western Avenue. When they arrived, they were informed that two men on motorcycle were seen traveling on […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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A man was shot and stabbed in the Antelope Street Extension area on Sunday night and police say that he came under fire when three men went to rob a shop where he was. The victim, who was identified as Linsford McKenzie, reportedly discharged himself from the K.H.M.H. Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero, who […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-four-year-old Everal Sambula, a resident of Partridge Street in Belize City, has been acquitted of two firearms-related offenses. In May 2019, he was charged for kept unlicensed firearm and ammunition, after police said that he had knowledge of a thirty-eight special revolver and three rounds of matching ammunition. But in a trial before the lower […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Mexican national Javier Martinez was one of several persons arrested in Corozal last week under the belief that they were hired guns sent to Belize to carry out an execution. After several days in detention, the Belize Police Department was unable to link the men to organized crime. While six of his countrymen have since […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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A pair of armed thieves held up the employees of Puma Freetown service station on Saturday, before making off with an undisclosed sum of money. According to police, the duo arrived at the location and proceeded to relieve the gas attendants of cash at gunpoint, then entered the business and also robbed those inside of […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-six-year-old Shane Jones has been charged with robbery after he attacked a call center agent and her young child and stealing a purse containing money, bank cards, and several other personal documents. The incident happened on August eighteenth while Shayan Ramirez, a resident of Burrell Boom Village, was walking along East Collet Canal towards Novelo’s […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The proliferation of guns and ammunition in Belize has long been an issue for law enforcement. The abundance of illegal firearms also poses a very real citizen security threat for many law-abiding Belizeans. The unlawful importation of weapons into the country is widely regarded as an activity that takes place across porous land borders in […]
Written on August 25, 2023 | Posted in
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The Meighan brothers – Ellis and Tyrone will have to face the music next Wednesday, that is standing trial for being members of a gang. That ruling was handed down on Tuesday of this week against the car dealers of Banak Street, and the case was to continue today, but was adjourned because one of […]
Written on August 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Despite the so-called Sicario Seven going free, cartel infiltration in the north remains a serious concern for local law enforcement and national security. A high level meeting was held several weeks ago in Mexico City between government officials from Belize and Mexico to address the issues of drug trafficking and the presence of the Sinaloa […]
Written on August 24, 2023 | Posted in
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On Monday night, we told you about the execution of twenty-eight-year-old businessman Ricardo Borja outside of his Belize City apartment. Tonight, a leaked audio testimonial in which Borja reveals details of a sophisticated land fraud scheme that may just provide some insight into why he was murdered. In his testimonial, Borja names a real estate […]
Written on August 23, 2023 | Posted in
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The trial involving nine men, who were allegedly found inside a boat in the Hill Bank Lagoon with two bales of cocaine back in January 2021, kicked off today inside the Belize City Magistrates Court. The men were detained following the landing of a suspected drug plane. News of their detention made headlines at the […]
Written on August 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-one-year-old Joel Panting is mourning the loss of his younger sibling and has come forward seeking public assistance to cover his funeral expenses. As we reported, fifteen-year-old Nigel Ferguson lost his life to gang violence on Sunday evening, when he was taken to an abandoned property on Hunters Lane and stabbed to death. Ferguson was […]
Written on August 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Human remains were discovered along the Belize/Guatemala Border on Monday morning. Police responded to a report along the boundary line where they discovered human remains in some bushes. The body displayed what appeared to be gunshot wounds on the skull. An Alcatel phone was among the items found inside the deceased’s pants pockets. The corpse […]
Written on August 22, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning, the lifeless body of an unnamed male person was discovered along the Macal River in San Ignacio Town. According to Police, when they arrived on the scene they observed the motionless body of a male person in a crouch position and in an initial state of decomposition. There were no signs of injury […]
Written on August 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Dwayne Sutherland Junior, also known as Dwayne Anthony, the son of Superintendent of Police, Dwayne Sutherland Senior, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder. The charges stem from an incident in Lemonal Village on Saturday evening, in which Sutherland is accused of stabbing his grandfather, Tony Anthony and his grand-uncle, Russell Anthony. […]
Written on August 22, 2023 | Posted in
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During his routine press brief today, Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow also spoke on the perennial issue of crime and violence. On the heels of a bloody weekend that saw four murders being committed across the country, as well as the interception of seven Mexican nationals believed to be hired guns, the Leader of the United […]
Written on August 22, 2023 | Posted in
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An elderly man was held up and robbed of valuables and cash totaling over twenty-five thousand dollars early Monday morning in Orange Walk Town. The man, Albert Burns, reported to police that he was asleep inside his house and was awakened sometime around two-thirty Monday morning by some noise. Burns said he saw three thieves […]
Written on August 22, 2023 | Posted in
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There were four murders recorded over the weekend – two in Belize City and two out west, in the Cayo District and in two of the incidents, minors are the victims. We begin tonight’s newscast with the murder of a teenager, believed to be a minor, at Smith’s Family Farm on Branch Mouth Road of […]
Written on August 21, 2023 | Posted in
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A teenager was executed in an abandoned lot on Hunters Lane over the weekend. The fifteen-year-old ran afoul of the law on a number of occasions and was in fear of his life. But on Sunday night, fate caught up with Nigel Ferguson, as he was callously murder a distance from where he lived in […]
Written on August 21, 2023 | Posted in
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