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Senator Valerie Woods is away in Ukraine attending a meeting of Parliamentarians for Global Action, but when her name began circulating earlier today, in respect of a scam involving the Sittee River Wildlife Reserve, she found it necessary to come forward and clear her name. Woods, who was employed at the Belize Tourism Board in […]
A thirty-seven-year-old San Pedro resident was executed on the veranda of his home on the island town. Cyril Jones was shot in the face on Tuesday night around seven-thirty when a gunman opened fire on him. Even before the gunman fled the scene, he pointed his weapon on another resident, who tonight is in fear […]
Written on November 14, 2018 | Posted in
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A convoy of vehicles book-ended by wailing sirens made its way along the George Price Highway this morning, en route to a location out west where a sizeable amount of drugs would be set afire. Inside the police van were fifteen bales of cocaine that were seized during an operation at the beginning of the month. […]
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When a suspicious single-engine aircraft touched down at an airstrip in Sarteneja over the weekend, residents who are wary of constant drug activity taking place in the north believed that it may have been a drug plane. An investigation has since revealed that it is registered to an American national who is now living in […]
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Did police foil yet another drug operation on the Coastal Road? Over the weekend, police spotted and pursued a number of persons traveling in a SUV near White Ridge on the Coastal Road. Cops say that they approached the heavily tinted SUV without license plate, but the vehicle took off towards the sea. Shortly after, […]
Written on November 12, 2018 | Posted in
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At today’s press briefing, police say they can’t say if a plane flying up north was involved in any illicit activity because there is no evidence to support that. The single engine aircraft was spotted at the Sarteneja airstrip for several hours on Sunday. The plane reportedly landed around nine in the morning, but it […]
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St. Matthew’s Government School in the Cayo District has been preyed upon by thieves more times this year than it has ever been since opening its doors to the children of that community several years ago. On Saturday, a classroom adjacent to the principal’s office was broken into and stolen from inside were a number […]
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Armed, masked burglars hit C.D.S. Gas twice in one month and police blame a ring of thieves targeting the Ladyville and surrounding villages. The gas station on Burrell Boom road was targeted by burglars for a second time after three on Sunday morning. The burglars broke in through the back and ransacked the place. To […]
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Owner of the C.D.S. Gas, Stephen Bisset, says he also believes the robbers are the same ones who robbed the gas station a month ago. Bisset, who is out of the country, told us via phone that he is disappointed that there was no response from 9-1-1. He says that a neighbor called repeatedly and […]
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An eighteen-year-old Belize City resident has been arrested and charged for the attempt made on the life of Damien Leslie, which occurred last Wednesday on Neal Pen Road in Belize City. In the aftermath of the shooting, police detained one of the alleged shooter in the incident. That person, Austin Williams was formally charged for […]
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Fifty-three-year-old Theodore Augustine is in custody pending drug-related charges. Police say that Augustine was busted with five parcels of marijuana amounting to over twelve point four pounds. The bust was made this morning at the northern border. Augustine was reportedly crossing the border in his taxi van when he was intercepted by customs officials. A […]
Written on November 9, 2018 | Posted in
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On Thursday, Belize suffered another black eye in the international media. The Federal Trade Commission shut down a multimillion-dollar real estate investment scam in southern Belize. It’s cause for great concern because Belize is one of the top tourism destinations and businessmen are looking to the country for possible investments. This latest revelation by the […]
After being hospitalized for a week, Samuel August Senior will face the full force of the law. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution has determined that he is to be charged for murder. Last Wednesday, Samuel Senior, after concluding his work shift, slammed a backhoe into a house belonging to his mother-in-law Louise […]
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The remains of twenty-two year old Roaring Creek resident Oswald Arnold were found on Wednesday morning. Arnold, who had been missing for six months, was feared dead. His family had been searching for his body and wanted closure, which tonight they finally have because Arnold’s remains were found along the Belize River in Teakettle. The […]
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American national Lamont ‘Monty’ Lipka was shot and killed inside his restaurant in San Pedro on May thirteenth. Since then, investigators have been working carefully to unravel the whodunit mystery. Earlier this week, their diligence paid off with the arrest of twenty-one-year-old Tracey Betancourt whom they believe had a hand in Lipka’s demise. While police […]
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The body of a seven-month baby was unearthed from a shallow grave in southern Belize. The remains were found at Trio Village in the backyard of Dominga Maku, the Guatemalan mother of the child. The baby died within twenty-four hours of birth and was buried on Monday. It is known that the mother did not […]
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We can report tonight that three Belizean siblings are being transported back to Belize from Guatemala via the western border. The siblings were found to be working in Livingston, Guatemala where Guatemalan authorities acting on an anonymous tip picked up the children. From what we have been able to ascertain, the three minors were put […]
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A multimillion dollars scam linked to Belize was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission in the US. The Federal Trade Commission reported today that Sanctuary Belize is an alleged one hundred million-dollar scam designed to attract retiring US citizens by guaranteeing buyers a pristine piece of land, equipped with world-class amenities, including a golf […]
Shortly after nine o’clock on Wednesday night, gunshots rang out on Neal’s Pen Road. When the shooting subsided, a Belize City resident was injured from a bullet that caught him in the right side of the neck. Twenty-four-year-old Damien Leslie remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. tonight following an attempt on his life that has left […]
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A four-year-old girl was reportedly raped by a member of her own family while in the care of her aunt in Belmopan. While the infant could not provide police with information on when the incident happened, she did confess to them that a relative made sexual contact with her. On November fifth, the child, accompanied […]
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Armed robberies of business establishments have not been confined to Belize City. On Tuesday, a Chinese store was jacked in the capital by an armed thief. The robbery was caught on tape and the perpetrator can be clearly identified. But the police say they have been unable to make any progress since the owner of […]
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Police today provided a few more details on the robbery of a store in San Ignacio. The business place, Lily’s, was robbed by armed thieves on Monday morning. Surveillance footage shows one of two robbers holding-up the store owner and demanding that he put the cash in a knapsack. While the suspects remain at large, […]
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A woman police constable has been arrested and charged for assaulting another woman inside an establishment in Orange Walk Town last Thursday. She is WPC Stephanie Patten attached to the San Pedro police formation. According to Seleny Mai, she was inside the premises along with another woman when she was attacked and beaten up by […]
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Human remains were found today and it is believed that the remains are that of twenty-year-old Oswald Arnold. Arnold, a Roaring Creek resident, went missing six months ago. He was last seen at the Iguana Creek Bridge before heading off for an overnight fishing trip with four friends. His friends returned the following day, but […]
Written on November 7, 2018 | Posted in
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As the family of Police Constable Osborne Martinez prepares to lay him to rest this Saturday, a third member of the PIV gang was arraigned for his murder. Tarique Myles is the last of a trio to face murder charges. Martinez was killed in the line of duty when he was shot to the chest […]
Written on November 6, 2018 | Posted in
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