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The body of Iran Jones was found two Saturdays ago in a shallow grave in Biscayne Village. The thirty-year-old was a main witness in a murder trial just prior to his murder and he had relocated to Hattieville in fear of his safety. His family had said that he had received threats following his testimony […]
Written on July 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-year-old Dwayne Tillett, charged with the attempted murder of Aaron Matura, appeared in court to face a charge of attempted murder today. Tillett appeared unrepresented this evening before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman, where he was read a charge of attempted murder on the life of Aaron Matura that occurred on Sunday, July third, during a […]
Written on July 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Security guard, thirty-one-year-old Kelvin Todd is recovering from gunshot wounds to his left shoulder and left hand after a brazen Wednesday evening attack at his house. Todd was at home on Reggae Street sometime after four p.m., when someone knocked at his front door. But when he went to open it, in the doorway stood […]
Written on July 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Police have detained a number of persons pending investigation, following a number of shots fired last night on Unity Street, in the Port Loyola area of Belize City. Today, Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams shared that investigators made the detentions based on what they observed when they arrived at the scene. He did not say […]
Written on July 6, 2023 | Posted in
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It has been almost two months since nineteen-year-old Imari Galvez was found murdered off the Hummingbird Highway. The Belmopan resident had left home two days prior to the discovery of her body and the last information from police back then was that they had her I-phone and were in the process of asking for assistance […]
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Today, surveillance footage from the area of Rivero Street and Fabers Road was leaked and ended up on social media. The video clips capture the killing of sixteen-year-old Jahfeth Stamp and the subsequent shooting of forty-three-year-old Wayne Matura. It is believed that the videos were shared with police to assist with the investigation, but were […]
Written on July 5, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, Angela Lopez, the mother of sixteen-year-old Jahfeth Stamp, visited our office. She is seeking financial assistance with the burial of her only child. She is also demanding justice for the callous manner in which the minor was shot and killed. Admittedly, Lopez said that her son was no saint, he did not own […]
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The police have not yet issued any details into the murder of eighteen-year-old Gabrel Tillett. The youth’s mutilated body was found in the Lord Ridge Cemetery on Tuesday morning, after he disappeared Monday night. Missing was his pants and cell phone and while police try to solve this latest murder; Tillett’s family says he was […]
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Former Cop Elmer Nah returned to the Belmopan Magistrate Court this morning for partial disclosure in the triple homicide case of David, Jon and Viviane Ramnarace. The three were socializing on Jon and Viviane’s property on News Years night in Belmopan when a lone gunman ambushed them. David and Jon died that night as a […]
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The family of the slain victims rallied outside the courtroom this morning in Belmopan. Saldivar says the family is cautiously optimistic that justice will be served. They are, however, concerned about the favorable treatment that Nah appears to be enjoying. Arthur Saldivar, Legal Advisor for Ramnarace Family “The family remains cautiously optimistic that due […]
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Two men have been charged in connection with a brawl and subsequent injuries at the Elton Gillett Park in Burrell Boom. In that incident, Coast Guard officer, Daniel Sabido was seriously injured and left partially paralyzed. Fifty-two-year-old Garrison Nicholson of Burrell Boom Village was charged with aggravated assault with a machete and was granted bail […]
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Well-known criminal figure, Brandon Taylor, also known as Brandon Bowen, is out on bail on a charge of robbery. The charge against Taylor is in relation to a hold-up at the Belize Healthcare Partners Limited on Monday, June twenty-sixth. On that day, the cashier at the hospital was help up by a man who exited […]
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A woman took to Facebook this week to ask for help for her sister after she was attacked and brutally beaten, allegedly by her common-law husband. Jamile Bodden-Henry wrote as part of her post, asking that the justice system doesn’t grant the accused bail, after having viciously attacked her sister with a knife. Bodden-Henry included […]
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Police have a new murder to solve in Belize City. This morning, investigators were summoned to the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery where they discovered the body of Gabriel Tillett, an eighteen-year-old labourer of the Pitter Street area, near Antelope Street Extension. That is a few blocks away from where the youth’s body was found. Someone passing […]
Written on July 4, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin tonight’s newscast with the shooting death of a sixteen-year-old minor that occurred on Rivero Street on Sunday. The minor reportedly went to commit a crime, but his would-be responded and shot him dead. Even as he took his last breath face down on the ground, his partner in crime would retrieve the gun […]
Written on July 3, 2023 | Posted in
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An altercation at the Elton Gillett Park in Burrell Boom last Friday night has left a Coast Guard officer unconscious and partially paralyzed and several persons in police detention. The story has two main versions, one that accuses the Coast Guard Officer, Daniel Sabido of being the attacker, and another that has him as a […]
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A little boy was knocked down and killed in Corozal Town shortly after midday on Sunday. It happened just after the seven-year-old and his family had left church and were riding their bicycles on Third Street, heading home. Today, Asuceli Chan told News Five via phone that her son, Juan Osorio, was riding his bicycle, […]
Written on July 3, 2023 | Posted in
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A chopping incident in Bella Vista on Saturday has left Edgar Lorenzama with a severed arm after he was viciously attacked by an individual with whom he had an altercation in the village. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero, police are looking for Giovannie Beltran in relation to the incident. A.C.P., Hilberto […]
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Nineteen-year-old Mark Godoy has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after he appeared unrepresented in the lower courts this morning. The Santa Barbara Street resident was busted on Saturday in possession of an unlicensed firearm and ten live rounds of ammunition. He was taken before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman where he was read charges […]
Written on July 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Two days after well-known Orange Walk jockey Anthony Deras was chopped and stabbed to death by two of his nephews, police have formally arrested and charged nineteen-year-old Myron Betancourt and a seventeen-year-old jointly for the crime of murder. Deras, a forty-seven-year-old employee of the Orange Walk Town Council, was involved in an altercation with the […]
Written on June 29, 2023 | Posted in
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The family of Iran “Basco” Jones is preparing for his funeral after they positively identified him as the murder victim who was found in Biscayne Village on Saturday afternoon. The corpse was callously dumped in a shallow grave off a feeder road and was detected by someone who was going hunting in the area. On […]
Written on June 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Rayford Mejia has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of the murder of Police Constable Osbourne Martinez. That decision was handed down in the courtroom of Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft earlier today. Mejia won’t be eligible for parole until after serving twenty-five years of his sentence. PC Martinez, who was […]
Written on June 29, 2023 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court, a pair of police officers, Isaias Sanchez and Rosario Romero, were cleared of serious charges following instructions from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to withdraw charges of manslaughter by negligence against them. This is in respective of the death of twenty-year-old Derrick Uh, who perished […]
Written on June 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Port Loyola Area Representative Gilroy Usher Senior and his son, who bears his namesake, appeared in court before the Chief Magistrate. Gilroy Usher Junior has been charged with damage to property after he allegedly damaged shutters, as well as a glass door, at his father’s place of business. A family dispute resulted in criminal charges […]
Written on June 29, 2023 | Posted in
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We’ve reported earlier this month on the increasing narco activity in the northern part of the country. Criminal organizations from Mexico are coming further south, threatening to enter into Belizean territory. And so, recently, the Briceño administration went to parliament for a supplementary budget to counter narco activities in the north. Orange Walk South Area […]
Written on June 29, 2023 | Posted in
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