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Police are also investigating a robbery of a Bowen and Bowen delivery truck in the Valley of Peace community. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon, and the thieves made off with money and personal items. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero says the police have no suspects in custody at this point, but that they are investigating […]
Written on November 7, 2022 | Posted in
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On Monday night around seven o’clock, gunshots rang out in the New Site area of Dangriga. A man had been shot dead, but his body was not discovered until twelve hours later, around seven a.m. today at the entrance to the lower flat of a two-story building where he had been house-sitting. News Five’s Duane […]
Written on November 1, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a murder recorded on Monday night in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. That community has been relatively quiet, but around six-thirty p.m., gunshots echoed across the neighbourhood. Calvin Palma, who had just recently been staying in the area on Curl Thompson Street, was killed as he headed back home from […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-year-old coast guard officer Emmanuel McFadzean was arraigned earlier today on three counts of arson, following a fire on Saturday night that completely destroyed a coast guard patrol boat. This morning, the resident of Double Head Cabbage appeared before the magistrate’s court in the presence of attorneys Richard “Dickie” Bradley and Leeroy Banner. McFadzean, who […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize High School has been getting some unwanted attention. Thieves attempted to break into an office on the high school’s compound. This incident happened over the weekend. Fortunately, they did not make off with anything, because they were unsuccessful in gaining access. Administrators returned to school on Monday to a vandalized burglar barred door. […]
Written on October 25, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Coast Guard is one boat short of an entire fleet of patrol vessels. That’s because on Saturday night, a thirty-eight foot Boston Whaler, outfitted with three, two hundred and fifty horsepower outboard engines, was gutted by fire. It’s a massive loss for the maritime law enforcement agency which is investigating the fire, along […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Police have formally arrested and charged Raymundo Castellanos, a fisherman, for arson in relation to a fire last Thursday in the Riversdale community in southern Belize. Just after midday on October twentieth, police responded to a report of a house fire in the Riversdale area and found a wooden house belonging to Zulma Aguirre engulfed […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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There is a murder to report tonight, following the passing of John Jeffords this afternoon. Jeffords was admitted at the K.H.M.H. in a critical condition for injuries he sustained during a beat down on Friday. His sister, Osey Jeffords reported to police that the forty-two-year-old mental health patient of a George Street address left home […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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A Caye Caulker resident is in a critical, but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed during an altercation on the island last Thursday. Rafael Marin was discovered on Avenida Langosta Street suffering from a stab wound to his lower abdomen. Investigation revealed that at about ten p.m., the nineteen-year-old […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Investigators, as well as a family from Hopkins Village, are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination on the body of Abraham Rodriguez. Rodriguez, whose body washed ashore over the weekend near a resort in the village, is believed to have had a mental health condition. Police were called out to retrieve the body which […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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A thirty-eight-year-old man died at the San Ignacio Hospital’s Accident and Emergency ward on Sunday night. Initial reports were that Calcutta resident, Manuel Manzanero was awaiting treatment when he collapsed and died outside the ward. Those reports brought the hospital under heavy scrutiny, because it would mean that a patient in critical condition was not […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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There is a disturbing report of rape coming out of Ladyville tonight. A seventeen-year-old female is claiming that she was out socialising with a group of persons and ended up at Eruptions Nightclub. While the minor was not to be at the nightclub, she says that at some point, she lost consciousness and woke up […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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An elderly U.S. national living in San Ignacio is the most recent victim of a home invasion. On Saturday, seventy-five-year-old Sheldon Dannelly was at home with a female friend when two gunmen entered his house and robbed them of approximately twenty-four thousand dollars in cash and items. These include a wallet containing three hundred U.S. […]
Written on October 24, 2022 | Posted in
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There was an execution-style murder this morning in Belize City where a young man’s life was brought to an abrupt end in what appears to be serious friction within one of the south side gangs. While many were on their way to work at various stores and offices on Albert Street, just one block over, […]
Written on October 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The gang land execution of Deandre Adolphus happened several hours before the new Regional Commander for Eastern Division was set to meet with residents of various Belize City hotspots, including Mayflower Street, Lake Independence, Police Street and La Croix Boulevard. This afternoon, Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero, accompanied by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Dr. Richard Rosado […]
Written on October 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Deputy ComPol Rosado who spearheaded today’s meet and greet with the gangs, has been working closely with the Leadership Intervention Unit to address the chronic issues of gang violence and criminality in Belize City. He says that for meaningful change to take place, there must first be a change in philosophy and approach. Dr. […]
Written on October 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier today, the Belize Police Department issued a wanted posted for George Lopez, a fugitive of the law. The nineteen-year-old was on remand at the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville on a charge of murder. But he didn’t escape from behind prison walls; in fact, Lopez was transported to Dangriga for trial when he escaped […]
Written on October 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The guessing game in tracking illicit activity when it comes to drug plane landings is soon to be over. The Belize Defence Force will shortly acquire an air asset, by way of a donation from the United States government, to assist not only in the expansion of its air wing, but also the improvement of […]
Written on October 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, police formally arrested and charged two Roaring Creek men for the crimes of robbery and aggravated assault. Nineteen-year-old Jahirm Thomas and twenty-two-year-old Derry Bennett were slapped with two counts of robbery and a single charge of aggravated assault on forty-four-year-old Jose Arnoldo Garcia, a Belizean Farmer of Armenia Village, Cayo District. The charges stem […]
Written on October 19, 2022 | Posted in
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A small wooden house in Dangriga was gutted by fire on Tuesday night. Police say they were summoned to the area on George Price Drive around eight that night where they saw a one-bedroom measuring about twelve by twenty 20 feet engulfed in flames. Occupants, Shamel Ogaldez and Denson Flores reported that they were not […]
Written on October 19, 2022 | Posted in
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Police have taken another illegal weapon off the streets, this time in Placencia Village. Police say that on Tuesday they searched an abandoned lot near the airstrip and found the Mossberg brand shotgun. No one was in the area at the time of the discovery, so labelled the firearm as found property.
Written on October 19, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a fatal shooting in Burrell Boom Village on Sunday night that left one man dead and three others injured. But at this time, it is not being categorised as a murder, but rather a death investigation because the deceased, a father of three from Reggae Street, is believed to have been the gunman […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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On Sunday morning, Police Constable Lorray Arzu succumbed to injuries she received during a shooting incident in Dangriga a few days earlier. The twenty-seven-year-old officer had been placed on life support inside the Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital since being transported from the Southern Regional Hospital on Wednesday night. It’s a […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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This morning, Assistant Superintendent of Police Fitzroy Yearwood, as well as Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa spoke fondly of the fallen constable. In an appearance on Open Your Eyes earlier, Musa recalled PC Arzu being a member of the very first intake since he took over as Minister of Home Affairs. ASP Fitzroy […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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A resident of Antelope Street Extension has been charged in connection with a near fatal chopping incident in Scotland Halfmoon on Saturday afternoon. Just before four o’clock today, Roberto Arana was reportedly attacked by a group of men and brutally chopped multiple times to the head and body. He remains hospitalised at this time in […]
Written on October 17, 2022 | Posted in
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