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You heard here on News Five how well known businessman John Zabaneh has been cleared of the ‘Kingpin’ label. Zabaneh and alleged associates were designated as a trafficking organization and operatives of the Sinaloa Cartel in Belize. But for five years Zabaneh challenged the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control and just weeks ago he […]
The fatal shooting of thirty-year-old Dwayne Almendarez on August fifteenth, in Yo Creek Village, has resulted in a single charge of manslaughter being brought against a customs officer earlier today. Almendarez was among several passengers on a commuter bus who were involved in an altercation with B.D.F. and customs officers at a checkpoint along the […]
Written on August 30, 2017 | Posted in
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No one has been charged for the discarding of a baby boy in the east canal of Belize City. The discovery of a dead baby with its umbilical cord still attached occurred on July twentieth; it was inside a black plastic bag and was fished out of the waterway by a sanitation worker who was […]
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Overnight on Monday, a burglary was reported at a house of worship in Belize City. Enterprising thieves broke into the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses on Cemetery Road and stole various electronic items which church members raised donations to acquire. This afternoon we spoke to church elder Abel Vera to find out what happened. […]
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It’s been weeks since the media has been invited to a meet and greet organized by the Police Department. But today, we found out from the Regional Commander for Eastern Division South, Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal, that members of the department have been meeting with residents, but that the media’s presence has been preventing the […]
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There were simultaneous meet and greets taking place all over the south side of Belize City. While we caught up with Senior Superintendent Vidal on Lindo’s Alley, officers were also on the ground on Love, Pride and Sweet Avenue, and surrounding areas. Vidal says gang activities have raised alarm among residents especially with the upcoming […]
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For the second time in several months, a well-known Belizean artist is the victim of an armed robbery. The most recent and brazen attack occurred this morning near the Lord Ridge Cemetery in which dancehall star Dajah Young was held up at gunpoint by a robber who pounced on her as she walked along the […]
Written on August 29, 2017 | Posted in
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Following months of calm, the bloodbath in the month of August has resulted in eight murders. Not all, but it is considered that most of the killings are gang-related. So is a pact between the rival gangs holding? That’s questionable, but what is known is that the thriving drug trade is behind a spate of […]
Written on August 29, 2017 | Posted in
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Nineteen-year-old Kadeem Augustine was remanded to the Belize Central Prison on Friday, after pleading guilty to harming his girlfriend. The teenager, who claims to be in love with his girlfriend, reportedly beat her up when he found out that she was not at a house where she said she would have been visiting. According to […]
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Twenty-one-year-old Maximiliano Morey, a security guard of Milpa Area, Ladyville, is in hot water after making off with a vehicle from Belize Electricity Limited’s Magazine Road compound on Saturday. It is alleged that Morey took his supervisor’s D-Max pickup without permission. According to the watchman, he was under the impression that it was assigned to […]
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Police have issued a bulletin for an eighteen-year-old Orange Walkenos who is wanted for a vicious crime that occurred last Thursday in the village of San Jose in the north. According to reports, Ronald Reyes also known as Pito made an attempt on the life of fifteen-year-old minor of the same village. The minor was […]
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Has the gang truce in the city fallen apart? This month alone, there have been as many as eight murders in the Old Capital where August has turned out to be the most murderous month for 2017. This morning, as early as eight o’clock, a man was killed near his house on Curl Thompson Street […]
Written on August 28, 2017 | Posted in
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Following Friday evening’s news, police announced the arrest of two men in connection with the murder of Windell Gibson and attempted murder of Karon Santos. The men were shot by assailants on Lindo’s Alley in an attempt to get to another person in the area who escaped. Today, twenty-six-year-old Orlando Salazar of South Creek, and […]
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Lyndon Dean Flowers is accused of the rape of a fourteen-year-old girl on Ambergris Caye in July. Today, he was read charges alongside his attorney Oscar Selgado in the court of Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. According to the teenager, Flowers raped her on the third of July, but she was afraid to report the matter because […]
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There have been as eight murders in the city this month and all indications are that the killings have broken the fragile truce. Today, Eastern Division South’s Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal told the media that the division is doing everything to curb the violence but that what we are seeing on the streets is only […]
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Guatemalan authorities have arrested a Belizean man they believe is behind a criminal structure dedicated to cloning credit cards for the purpose of fraud. Guatemalan news sources say fifty-seven-year-old Harold Lindsay Amos Rodriguez was held after attempting to avoid a checkpoint in the Nueva Montserrat section of Guatemala City and using a firearm to attempt […]
There have now been four murders in Belize City in as many days, and seven so far in the month of August. At news time Thursday evening, twenty-six-year-old Windell Gibson of Lawrence Avenue, Belize City, lay dead in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital of multiple gunshot wounds. He was shot as many as eight times […]
Written on August 25, 2017 | Posted in
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As if police did not have enough on their plate to deal with this week, another shooting was reported near downtown Belize City. The officer in charge of the Crimes Investigation Branch for Belize City, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, shares details. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., CIB, Belize City “There was a shooting this morning at […]
Written on August 25, 2017 | Posted in
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The body of eighteen-year-old Crevan Cardinez was recovered from the shallow waters in front of the Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airstrip on Thursday morning. Cardinez, living in Belize City but originally a resident of San Lorenzo area, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District, was brutally attacked inside a boat on Wednesday, stabbed multiple times and […]
Written on August 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Police are also chasing leads in at least one other murder reported this week. Around two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, the body of a man was discovered some three hundred and thirty feet off the road between miles three and four on the George Price Highway. It has since been identified as that of twenty-five-year-old […]
Written on August 25, 2017 | Posted in
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Last Wednesday, Minister of Human Development Anthony Martinez and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte met with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as part of a roundtable seminar on trafficking in persons organized by the Human Trafficking Institute. It comes on the heels of the State Department’s report which leaves Belize at Tier Three, as one […]
One finding of the report that clearly rankles the Barrow administration is the references to trafficking-related complicity by government officials, including those at high levels. Try though he might, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte said he could not get the U.S. officials he spoke to in Washington to reveal who those persons might be. But while […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with a third murder to report in just over twenty-four hours. Gunmen executed the attack with precision in broad daylight through Lindos Alley late this afternoon around four-thirty. Dead is one Windell Gibson, while Keron Santos continues to fight for his life at news time, at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. […]
Written on August 24, 2017 | Posted in
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A team of divers from the police department, the coastguard and civilians gave up the search for an unidentified body on Wednesday evening, following a report of foul play in the waters just off Princess Margaret Drive. While the incident unfolded in plain view a short distance from the shoreline near St. Anthony’s Trading Company, […]
Written on August 24, 2017 | Posted in
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Meanwhile the body of a man found off the George Price Highway on Wednesday has also been identified as a Belize City resident of a Neal’s Pen Road Extension address. Was twenty-five-year-old Linton Wilshire taken from his house, his throat slit and then his body dumped off the George Price Highway? And is his murder […]
Written on August 24, 2017 | Posted in
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