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With the passing of Vivian Ramnarace, a third victim in the fatal December thirty-first attack, many are questioning the strength of the witness statement that was given to investigators prior to her death last Sunday. According to ComPol Williams, the police department remains committed to working the case with a view to successfully prosecute the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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A police officer who was on interdiction and a former policeman have been charged jointly for the murder of forty-three-year-old Elvis Polanco. The San Pedro businessman was robbed, before being shot and killed allegedly by the two men who are now in custody. Today, Edward Moraga and Winfield Mortis were arrested and charged for the […]
Written on January 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, former Assistant Commissioner of Police Marco Vidal visited the Belize Police Department. He did so in the company of Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith, following a stop at an establishment in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan on January fourteenth. He was accompanied by two other men who alighted a sports utility vehicle along […]
Written on January 19, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning, Home Affairs Minister Kareem Musa was a guest on Open Your Eyes. During his appearance on the morning show, Musa shared his view on what took place over the weekend regarding Marco Vidal’s visit to the establishment in Belmopan. He also detailed what transpired in the wake of the incident. Kareem Musa, […]
Written on January 19, 2023 | Posted in
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On the issue of witness intimidation, Minister Musa also spoke about witness protection programs that are being explored with other countries within the region, including Trinidad & Tobago. First, he shared his view on the video that has been in circulation. Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs “I am very, very, very disturbed, as […]
Written on January 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Former Deputy Commissioner of Police Marco Vidal is one of three persons who entered an establishment in Belize over the weekend, not far from where brothers Belize and Jon Ramnarace, as well as Vivian Belize-Ramnarace, were gunned down in the Belize Mopan area on New Year’s Eve. But what was his purpose for showing up […]
Written on January 18, 2023 | Posted in
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One man has been charged in connection with a fire in Santa Theresa Village, Toledo District. On the fourteen of January, police arrested and charged Miguel Bo for setting his relative’s house on fire. Reports are that Francisco Bo was inside his house with his children, when a fire broke. They escaped with injury, but […]
Written on January 18, 2023 | Posted in
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The family and friends of Belmopan resident Vivian Ramnarace are tonight mourning her passing, compounding the grief they have been experiencing since New Year’s Eve. The mother of one died on Sunday night, fifteen days after losing her husband and brother-in-law to a shooting incident in Belmopan that also left gravely injured. Over the last […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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The family of Vivian Ramnarace broke its silence today. Deon Pascacio, a relative of the deceased woman, spoke with Plus News today where he gave further details into the injuries that she sustained and her battle to survive over the past two weeks. Pascasio confirmed that Vivian suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the neck and […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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And, while the family of the murder victims is demanding justice, there are reports that a so-called relative of Police Corporal Elmer Nah visited a location in Belmopan not far from where the deadly shooting occurred. News Five has received surveillance footage of where the alleged family member made a visit on Saturday, along with […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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On Saturday morning, just before dawn, two thieves, one of whom was armed with a handgun, targeted the Belize City Council’s office which is located on Cemetery Road, at its junction with Partridge Street. The assailants held up the security guard on duty and stole his money, after which they made off with two heavy-duty […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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There have been several acts of violence in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan in the weeks leading up to the end of 2022, including the now triple murder of the Ramnarace family. And over the extended weekend, the Kuxlin Ha Government School was targeted by thieves, who got away with numerous items. The discovery […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A criminal and internal investigation are ongoing in Punta Gorda where a man was shot by a woman police officer on Saturday night in that southern municipality. Reports are that a patrol responded to reports of two armed masked men on a motorcycle. Reports are that one of the three officers, PC Luella Whyte spotted […]
Written on January 17, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Kyle Latchman remains unaccounted for, in the wake of his father’s murder. His family, despite searching various locations where it is believed that his remains would turn up, is no closer to determining his whereabouts. But they are, perhaps, a step closer to getting a sense of finality where the shooting death of Emert […]
Written on January 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Heusner will stand trial in the Supreme Court for the murder of Dorian Tzac, as well as the attempted murder of a fifteen-year-old minor. It is alleged that on January thirteenth, 2022, Heusner entered a home on Antelope Street Extension where Tzac and the minor were inside a bedroom. He reportedly opened fire […]
Written on January 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, Prime Minister John Briceño confirmed that the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, has recused herself from the Elmer Nah double homicide case. According to P.M. Briceño, while the D.P.P. no longer has relations with former Deputy Commissioner of Police Marco Vidal, the uncle of the accused, she has informed the Commissioner of […]
Written on January 11, 2023 | Posted in
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Christopher Sosa has been missing for the past six days, but his family only just reported his disappearance on January eighth. His family acknowledges that the twenty-nine-year-old has a criminal past and they believe that he may have been killed and his body dumped somewhere in the Belize District. His sister has led a search […]
Written on January 11, 2023 | Posted in
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Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cash! That is what two elderly brothers are claiming they lost during an aggravated burglary in Belmopan. The eighty-year-old and seventy-five-year-old siblings from Maya Mopan had just arrived home from working their farm on the night of October fourteenth, 2022, when a group of armed men barged into […]
Written on January 10, 2023 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department turned to seasoned attorney ‘Dickie’ Bradley to carefully review a set of files pertaining to former Woman Police Constable Michelle Brown’s alleged involvement in the death of Fareed Ahmad. It did so over the weekend after much public pressure was brought to bear on the department to reopen an investigation into […]
Written on January 10, 2023 | Posted in
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According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, the witnesses who cooperated with the investigation into the accident that killed Fareed Ahmad, testified in court that there wasn’t a third person inside the sports utility vehicle that night. He says that testifying to the contrary, all these many years later, would only call into question the […]
Written on January 10, 2023 | Posted in
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In the murder of Michael Williams, who was also shot and killed in the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan on December twenty-seventh, 2022, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams initially told reporters that his death was believed to be drug-related. On January third, he also told reporters at a press conference that the department believes that […]
Written on January 10, 2023 | Posted in
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Less than two weeks ago, on New Year’s Eve, American visitor J’Bria Michelle Bowens, from Indianapolis, was vacationing in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye along with her family when she was shot dead. The incident occurred near the Central Park and the nursing student was not the intended target of the shooting. The killing of a […]
Written on January 10, 2023 | Posted in
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Police have arrested and charged three of their fellow law enforcement officers in connection with the death of Andrew McDougal back in December 2022. McDougal succumbed to injuries he sustained after being thrown into the pan of a police mobile while being detained. As a result, police formally arrested and charged twenty-nine-year-old John Lucas and […]
Written on January 9, 2023 | Posted in
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In the wake of the shocking murders of brothers Jon and David Ramnarace in Belmopan on New Year’s Eve, the Belize Police Department, under public pressure to revisit the case of Fareed Ahmad who died in the presence of former Woman Police Constable Michelle Brown, turned over a sheaf of documents to seasoned attorney Richard […]
Written on January 9, 2023 | Posted in
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According to Bradley, after poring over the documents, he was satisfied that there’s insufficient evidence to support the claim that a third person was ever inside the vehicle at the time of the incident. He told the media during a press briefing this afternoon that the extent of Elmer Nah’s involvement had to do with […]
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