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This morning in the High Court, David Arnold, charged for the execution-style murder of well-known Belize City deejay Andrew ‘Hard Rock’ Bennett, walked away a free man. Arnold had been committed to stand trial and for the past six months, he had been back and forth from the Belize Central Prison regarding the matter. At […]
Written on June 12, 2023 | Posted in
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On Friday night shots rang out at the basketball court behind the Charles Bartlett Hyde building in Belize City. When the gunfire subsided, Rosalind Ranguy had been shot to the foot. She was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where she is in a stable condition. Police say that two teenagers, one of whom is a minor, […]
Written on June 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-five-year-old Elvis Humes, an electrician of Bullet Tree Falls Village, has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, kept firearm without a gun license and kept ammunition without a gun license. The battery of charges follow a deadly shooting incident during a hunting trip over the weekend in Cayo District. Humes […]
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There numerous claims of bribery by motorists in attempt to catch a break when passing through checkpoints. But tonight, an employee of the Transport Department is in hot water after she was charged for extortion. Last Wednesday, three transport officers were detained in connection with a report made by Diaris Tepaz who claims that she […]
Written on June 12, 2023 | Posted in
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The sexual assault accusation against Punta Gorda Town Radiologist, Desmond Arzu, is currently being investigated by police. Reports are that Minister Bernard was among the first persons that the twenty-three-year-old victim reached out to with her complaint. But, it wasn’t until sometime after that Arzu was charged for the crime of sexual assault and placed […]
Written on June 8, 2023 | Posted in
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The roller-coaster ride that Jasmine Hartin has been on for the past few years seems to still be a part of her life. A week ago, the Supreme Court handed down a seventy-five-thousand-dollar fine and three hundred hours community service to Hartin for the manslaughter of Superintendent of Police, Henry Jemmoth. It was a straightforward […]
Written on June 7, 2023 | Posted in
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On Monday night, eighteen-year-old Trevor Thompson was targeted by a gunman on Fabers Road in Belize City. Was his murder retaliation for a shooting earlier that night or was it a case of silencing the victim of brutality caught on camera a couple years ago? In that incident, Thompson was tortured and the criminal case […]
Written on June 7, 2023 | Posted in
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There was also a murder over the weekend in Libertad Village in the Corozal District. Kurtis Usher was shot dead and his son grazed to the head when a gunman opened fire on the family as they arrived home on the night of June third. A high-powered rifle was used in Usher’s killing and it […]
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Another murder has been recorded in the wake of the weekend murders in Caye Caulker and Libertad Village. The latest homicide took place in Belize City. On Monday night, police responded to reports of a shooting incident on Fabers Road, near Saint John Vianney Primary School. There, they observed Trevor Thompson lying face down on […]
Written on June 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-six-year-old John Hyde Junior was arraigned on one count of murder in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this afternoon. This is in connection with the shooting death of forty-five-year-old Floyd Samuels in Caye Caulker on Saturday night. Hyde was ferried from the island along with several other detainees and was taken before Senior Magistrate Aretha […]
Written on June 6, 2023 | Posted in
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A pair of men, believed to be the culprits in the murder of Bowen & Bowen employee Shawn Menzies in November 2018, appeared in the High Court this morning. Eric Miranda and Jeffrey Contreras are accused of fatally shooting Menzies outside of his home on Lancaster Street. The trial against the suspects got underway before […]
Written on June 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Siblings Delson and Tione Paguada, as well as Timothy Carcamo, are also on trial for the murder of thirty-two-year-old Paul Jex that occurred in San Pedro in January 2018. Earlier today, a trial by judge without jury commenced before Justice Nigel Pilgrim in the High Court. The Paguada brothers and fifty-year-old Carcamo are accused of […]
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A construction supervisor was executed on Saturday night inside his home on Caye Caulker. It is the first murder on the island in several years and residents in the Black Neighborhood were startled at the report of gunfire in the vicinity. When the shooting subsided, Floyd Samuels was mortally wounded and his common-law wife had […]
Written on June 5, 2023 | Posted in
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Within hours, there were reports of another murder on Saturday night, only this time in Libertad Village in the Corozal District. Kurtis Usher had just returned home along with his common-law wife and their three-year-old son when a gunman opened fire in their direction. Usher was mortally wounded while the baby was grazed to the […]
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So what happens now for Hartin? We tried to ask her when she exited the courtroom today, but she was not talking. We also tried to get Jemmott’s sisters upon their exit, but they too declined comment. Hartin’s lawyer says she can leave the country, but with a sentence that stipulates that if she doesn’t […]
Written on May 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Over the past two weeks, two young women were brutally killed in Belize. The murders of nineteen-year-old Imari Galvez on the Hummingbird Highway and thirty-one-year-old Mirza Morales at her home in El Progresso Village, Cayo on Friday night shocked the nation. Today, Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow denounced the murder of women. He said that after […]
Written on May 30, 2023 | Posted in
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Last week, former Police Corporal, Kareem Martinez was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for the shooting death of Laddie Gillett. The fourteen-year-old boy was shot dead in Placencia in July of 2020. It was later revealed that the men in black were actually policemen who were summoned to investigate two suspicious youths who were […]
Written on May 30, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Darnell Arnold walked out of court a free man after the murder case against him fell through today. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions entered a case of nolle prosequi against Arnold, who had spent almost five years on remand. No reason was given in court for the discontinuation of the case […]
Written on May 30, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine-year-old Kevin Buller was remanded to the Belize Central Prison today on a charge of vehicle theft. The charge against him is in connection with the theft of a Toyota Hilux valued at seventy-five thousand dollars, belonging to Julissa Tun, a vegetable vendor. Buller, a resident of Iguana Street Extension, is accused of stealing the […]
Written on May 30, 2023 | Posted in
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The execution-style murder of thirty-one-year-old Mirza Morales on Saturday night in El Progresso Village, Cayo, has police seeking several persons of interest. Individuals whom they believe were involved in a double murder a few years ago. In that incident on June 23, 2019, San Pedro tour guide, Mario Graniel and American National, Doctor Gary Swank were shot dead while […]
Written on May 29, 2023 | Posted in
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It has been two weeks since the murder of Imari Galvez in the Cayo District. The nineteen-year-old’s body was discovered off the Hummingbird Highway three days after she went missing. Police have not yet made an arrest and today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams said the investigators are having some challenges in getting useful information. […]
Written on May 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Two security guards who are employed by the Belize City Council are recuperating from injuries they suffered when three thieves pounced on them. The incident happened overnight on Thursday, while the guards kept watch at the Michael Finnegan Market on East Collet Canal. The thieves broke into two stalls, including National Treats, by breaking in […]
Written on May 29, 2023 | Posted in
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A teenager was stabbed in the vicinity of the Pound Yard Bridge on Saturday and the alleged perpetrator is another male minor. The incident followed an argument between the two as the victim was walking in that area along with another minor. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hilberto Romero, who is the Regional Commander of Eastern […]
Written on May 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Sand Hill resident, Patrick Harris is back behind bars after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of Dillon Grinage. The incident occurred on December thirty-first, 2016 in Maskall Village at the junction of the Old Northern Highway. Grinage was shot multiple times and died shortly after while being taken to the K.H.M.H. […]
Written on May 25, 2023 | Posted in
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A man who, as a youth several years ago, sodomized his little brother, has been sentenced to two years probation with conditions. The man, who was sixteen at the time, admitted that he sodomized his younger brother, who was ten years old when the incident happened. Justice Antoinette Moore, who presided over the matter, placed […]
Written on May 25, 2023 | Posted in
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