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A resident of Mahogany Heights is indebted to the court for four thousand, five hundred dollars after being charged for drug trafficking. Twenty-year-old Emmanuel Thompson pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply when he appeared unrepresented before the magistrate’s court earlier today. On Saturday, Thompson was caught red-handed in possession […]
Written on January 22, 2024 | Posted in
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Since the beginning of the week, we have been following a pair of allegations made against a well-known attorney here in Belize City. The lawyer is accused of raping two young ladies after a night of partying on the entertainment strip last Thursday. Since then, the Director of Public Prosecutions has been furnished with a […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Human Development has also issued a reminder for persons to be careful and vigilant while socializing and consuming alcohol. It has also committed to providing the necessary support and counseling to the victims. Isani Cayetano “The issue of victim blaming though, as you alluded to earlier, it would seem as though […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Belize City Council employee, Jimmy Estuardo Rojas, has been arrested and charged for the January twelfth murder of Jose Matus. As we reported, just after midday on Friday of last week, police responded to reports of shots fired on the corner of Singh Street and Rio Grande Crescent in Belize City. When they arrived […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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A fifty-two-year-old Belize City man was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Thursday night with gunshot injuries. Reports are that Kenrick Gill, also known as Bones, was walking on Hunters Lane when a gunman targeted him. Gill received a single gunshot to the left shoulder. He was treated for the injury and later […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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Three Belize City residents are lucky to be alive tonight after a gunman opened fire at their vehicle on Maskall Street. And, if that street sounds familiar, the last time we visited the area was to cover the Christmas Eve murder of Darnell Puerto and the shooting of his friend Jehvon Ramclam. Last night’s attempted […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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A teenager is left hospitalized after being stabbed last night in Ladyville. According to police reports, around three thirty pm, a sixteen-year-old male and his friends were on their way home from school when they encountered a seventeen-year-old male on Marage Road. The youths allegedly got into an argument that quickly escalated and turned violent […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old Ignatius Williams has been sentenced to eight years and three months at the Belize Central Prison after being convicted of the rape of a woman back in August 2019. On Wednesday evening, Justice Candace Nanton delivered a sentence after Williams pleaded guilty to rape and sparing the victim from having to testify against him […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers has been convicted for possession of a pipe used for smoking crack cocaine. The well-known street figure appeared unrepresented in the Magistrate’s Court earlier today where he was read single charge of possession of a pipe. Flowers wasted no time and pleaded guilty to the offense. A non-custodial sentence in the […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is yet to advise the Belize Police Department on what charges, if any, should be brought against an attorney-at-law who stands accused of raping a pair of young ladies in the early hours of Friday, January twelfth. Investigators have forwarded a file to the DPP and are […]
Written on January 17, 2024 | Posted in
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According to the instructor, on the morning that the young women showed up for the session, one of the students passed out on the floor and had to be cared for by someone she brought along with her. She also said that they were at the nightclub on Thursday night with one of their boyfriends […]
Written on January 17, 2024 | Posted in
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As told by the instructor, when the women regained consciousness later that morning, one of them inquired about what had taken place. Voice of: Instructor “The other young lady mentioned that she woke up naked and wanted to know what happened. The other student gave her a vague memory of what happened. She can’t […]
Written on January 17, 2024 | Posted in
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Two men who shot at police officers in Ladyville on Sunday night have been charged for aggravated assault with a firearm upon a police officer on duty. On Sunday, police responded to reports of a fight in progress in front of a bar on Woodpecker Road. When the officers arrived at the location, two men, […]
Written on January 17, 2024 | Posted in
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One mother is tonight looking for answers after her sixteen-year-old daughter went missing. On Monday night, police issued a missing poster for Virginia Hernandez. The teenager was in the care of the Human Services Department in Belmopan at the time of her disappearance. Her mother, Maria Hernandez, says she gave her child up for protective […]
Written on January 17, 2024 | Posted in
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Tonight, a prominent attorney and member of the United Democratic Party is under investigation, amid allegations being made by a pair of women involving the crime of rape. The incident reportedly happened at the lawyer’s residence here in Belize City in the wee small hours of Friday morning, after a night of socializing at a […]
Written on January 16, 2024 | Posted in
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ComPol Williams told the media this afternoon that the initial report was made after one of the alleged victims told her boyfriend what had taken place overnight. He also says that the police department is awaiting instructions from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions on how to proceed with the matter. Chester […]
Written on January 16, 2024 | Posted in
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Forty-eight-year-old Jose Matus was executed in Belize City around midday on Friday. The underworld figure was rubbed out with extreme prejudice by a pair of gunmen who unleashed a barrage of rounds on him from a nine millimeter handgun and an assault rifle. The murder which occurred at the corners of Singh and Rio Bravo […]
Written on January 16, 2024 | Posted in
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According to Commissioner Williams, the Belize Police Department has put in place various measures to prevent retaliatory shootings. He also says that the women who were injured along with Matus are likely collateral damage, as it is not believed that they had anything to do with the deadly attack on him. Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
Written on January 16, 2024 | Posted in
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A spate of shootings in Belize City on Thursday night preceded the murder of Jose Matus and, while investigators haven’t made any connections between those incidents, they are yet to make an arrest in any of those cases. Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero is the Regional Commander of Eastern Division. ACP Hilberto Romero, […]
Written on January 16, 2024 | Posted in
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This afternoon, shortly after twelve p.m., gunshots rang out in the vicinity of Grace Primary School on Faber’s Road Extension. Reports of an assault rifle being fired in succession reverberated across the neighborhood. When the shooting subsided, forty-eight-year-old Jose Matus was observed behind the steering wheel of his vehicle. He was mortally wounded. Also injured […]
Written on January 12, 2024 | Posted in
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Three young men were shot in separate incidents in Belize City between Thursday night and this morning. The victims have been identified as Shemar Smith, Joseph Leslie and Shane Nolberto. It is not certain if all three incidents are related. Fortunately, all three men are recovering at the hospital. Hipolito Novelo reports. Hipolito Novelo, […]
Written on January 12, 2024 | Posted in
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A man who was found guilty for the murder of his wife was today sentenced to life imprisonment. David Gonzalez listened as High Court Judge Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft sentenced him to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after he has served thirty-five years behind bars. The judge deducted the time that Gonzalez has already […]
Written on January 12, 2024 | Posted in
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Two youths who are charged with the rape of a fourteen-year-old girl were today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. They are eighteen-year-old Ikwan Reneau and a sixteen-year-old minor. The arraignment took all day as the issue of whether bail should be granted to the two accused persons was being contemplated. In the end, […]
Written on January 12, 2024 | Posted in
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The incident for which the teens are charged happened in the Saint Martin de Porres area on Monday inside an abandon house near the riverside. After an intense investigation and three nights in custody, police charged the two youths. The case against the minor and Reneau is set to come back before the court on […]
Written on January 12, 2024 | Posted in
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2023 is officially history and, as we had reported in our end-of-year review, it did so with far fewer murders than in the immediate past years. Today, the top brass of the Belize Police Department sat with Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa to discuss the 2023 crime report card. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams […]
Written on January 10, 2024 | Posted in
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