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Over the weekend, the family of Kyle Latchman were out in the Port Loyola area searching for closure after they received information to suggest that his body was disposed of in the area. The twenty-three-year-old was last seen on Boxing Day, 2022 and is believed to have been murdered and his body buried. Today, Assistant […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Former Police Constable Dion Bellini has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of drug trafficking. The conviction comes a little over two years following a bust near the outskirts of Orange Walk Town. Sometime around midday on December twenty-fourth, 2020, Bellini, a resident of a San Martin address in Belmopan, […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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A male minor, age seventeen, is the second suspect to have been charged with the murder of Emert Flowers who was gunned down at his residence on Racecourse Street on January twelfth. The teenager appeared before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman earlier today where he was arraigned on a single count in the presence of a […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Former Coast Guard officer Keyren Tzib is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after failing to appear in court. Tzib was detained by police on February twenty-third when she skipped a court date for a case of attempted murder. The warrant for Tzib’s arrest was issued by Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. In court today, […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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An Orange Walk resident is tonight clinging to life at the Northern Medical Specialist Plaza after he was shot multiple times this morning just outside of his house on Cuello Street in that northern municipality. Even as he was shot, Bradford Hall got into his pickup truck along with his son, but loss control of […]
Written on February 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Residents in Roaring Creek Village are still reeling from a deadly Wednesday afternoon attack that claimed the life of a high school student. On Wednesday afternoon, fifteen-year-old Dane Matute Junior and a group of his teenage peers decided to go for a swim in the village. While socializing along the creek side the group was […]
Written on February 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Back in December, thirty-two-year-old Corporal Arturo Leal was charged for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Today when he appeared in the lower court, the officer was read another charge stemming from the incident in 2022. This is after his urine sample was returned from the lab and tested positive for […]
Written on February 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Cobrado Lewis Cole, a construction worker, and twenty-nine-year-old Alicia Courtenay Tec, a babysitter, both of a Tibruce Street address, appeared unrepresented in the magistrate’s court today where they were each read a single charge of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply to another person. That is after they were found with […]
Written on February 23, 2023 | Posted in
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A teenager is dead and another is hospitalized, following a shooting incident in Roaring Creek Village. Information to News Five is that just before one thirty p.m., fifteen-year-old Dane Matute Junior and Kaylen Wade were swimming with a group in the vicinity of Guanacaste Park when at least three shots were heard. Moments later, the […]
Written on February 22, 2023 | Posted in
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The result of a post-mortem examination is still pending in the death of thirty-five-year-old Elrick Lee Vairez. His body was discovered on Tuesday evening near Montego Bay Caye, located approximately eight miles north of Belize City, and one day after he was reported missing by a fisherman with whom he travelled to the private island […]
Written on February 22, 2023 | Posted in
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The Embassy of Belize in Mexico is investigating reports of a Belizean woman gone missing in Tijuana. A Belize City family reportedly informed the embassy that they received information suggesting that their relative was shot and killed in Tijuana during a robbery at a gas station. The woman is said to have been residing in […]
Written on February 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Barkley Allen Junior, a resident of Orange Walk Town who is believed to be mentally challenged, appeared in the magistrate’s court in Belize City today where he was arraigned for arson, harm, and breach of a protection order. Allen is accused of burning down his grandmother’s residence in Orange Walk on February sixteenth. The […]
Written on February 22, 2023 | Posted in
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It’s been just over a week since we’ve reported on a murder or even a case of gun violence across the country. That is until this morning when the body of a man was discovered inside the Lord Ridge Cemetery in Belize City. He had been executed and his body believed to have been dumped […]
Written on February 21, 2023 | Posted in
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A recent report by Insight Crime suggests that the murder rate of Belize has decreased from one hundred and twenty-five homicides recorded in 2021 to one hundred and thirteen in 2022. That brings Belize’s homicide rate to twenty-five point six per hundred thousand. It’s good news for the country and the work of the Belize […]
Written on February 21, 2023 | Posted in
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There were no reports of loss of life over the weekend; in fact, according to our archives, there was no gun violence recorded since last Monday. There is, however, a disturbing report of a sexual assault out west. The incident occurred on the fifteenth of February when a forty-five-year-old woman woke up to find that […]
Written on February 20, 2023 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department recently activated a police substation in the Maya Mopan community on the outskirts of Belmopan. That twenty-four-hour presence by officers may have very well saved the life of Wilber Rivera, a resident of the area who was the victim of an attack by four persons, including three minors. Emilio Saqui, along […]
Written on February 20, 2023 | Posted in
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On Sunday, there was a brazen robbery of a businessman on Mahogany Street Extension in Belize City and it was allegedly committed by minors. Police say that the forty-two-year-old was sitting inside his vehicle when he was accosted by armed gunmen on bicycles. They stole two thousand dollars in cash and a phone. Quick response […]
Written on February 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Police have charged twenty-three-year-old Ryan McCulluch with attempted murder in connection with a shooting that occurred on February fourteenth in Ladyville. McCulluch is accused of opening fire on sixteen-year-old Kylee Gordon and twenty-year-old Harrison Parks on Edwin Parks Avenue in Ladyville Village. Sometime after seven that night, Gordon and twenty-one-year-old Orson Parks were walking in […]
Written on February 20, 2023 | Posted in
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A female teen and her twenty-one-year-old cousin are lucky to be alive tonight. That is after a gunman targeted them in Lords Bank Village. The shooting incident occurred last night around seven p.m. while the two were walking along Edwin Parks Street. It is believed that the shooting is in relation to another murder that […]
Written on February 15, 2023 | Posted in
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An American family vacationing in Belize is mourning the loss of a loved one. What was supposed to be a tropical getaway for the family of seventeen-year-old American student Logan Ceylon Pratt and her family ended in tragedy. The teenager was swimming in the ocean off the coast of Ambergris Caye when she was hit […]
Written on February 15, 2023 | Posted in
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On Monday, we reported that police were investigating the death of a man found dead inside his home in Belize City. The deceased, Richard Thurton, was found inside the house at the corner of Penn Road and Fairweather Street dead. A post-mortem examination revealed that he died from blunt force trauma, and police indicated that they observed […]
Written on February 15, 2023 | Posted in
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Police are looking for a man who they believe murdered his friend early this morning in Belize City. The incident happened in front of the victim’s home just as he and his girlfriend had arrived. He was reportedly out socializing earlier with the alleged gunman, and things got out of hand. The two became embroiled […]
Written on February 13, 2023 | Posted in
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Two weeks ago, a man was found dead inside his home, and now following a post-mortem examination, police have launched an investigation into his death. That’s because the post-mortem revealed that the man died from blunt force trauma. Richard Thurton was reportedly found dead inside his house on Penn Road. Still, police have just begun […]
Written on February 13, 2023 | Posted in
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Police also shed light today on the murder of Auburn Rivero, whose body was found last Friday in the Lord’s Bank area where he lived with chop wounds to his body. Rivero’s body was found on Old Well Road in Lord’s Bank. A.S.P Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “So far they have […]
Written on February 13, 2023 | Posted in
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There was another murder in Toledo over the weekend. The Belize Police Department’s Communications Director, Fitzroy Yearwood shared the details with the media today. A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “On Saturday the eleventh February, 2023 around five a.m., police visited a scene where they saw the motionless body with several stab […]
Written on February 13, 2023 | Posted in
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