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As we told you earlier, the O.A.S. General Assembly closes tonight at the historic Antigua, Guatemala. For two days delegations have been discussing the need to urgently address the drug problem in the region. Belize’s Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington was among the last to make a contribution to the debate. He likened the drug problem […]
A Guatemalan farmer who was encroaching inside the Chiquibul Forest has been shot by local soldiers. According to reports, on Monday June third, after two p.m., while on a routine patrol, Belize Defense Force soldiers discovered a plantation and a thatch building in the Caballo Camp area of the forest. A Guatemalan national, with a […]
Written on June 5, 2013 | Posted in
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On June first one man was killed and another injured when they tried to intervene in an armed robbery at the La Choza bar in Belmopan. The robbers opened fire and customers at the bar Isabel Antonio Balona received fatal wounds to the chest and abdomen while Manuel Aquino was shot in the leg. Quick […]
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A robbery at a bar in Las Flores, Belmopan turned deadly for one of two patrons. The incident happened just past midnight on Saturday. There were at least four persons on duty as well as the manager, Joshua Lopez. A resident Salvadoran national and a visiting friend, also from Salvador, were at the neighborhood bar […]
Written on June 3, 2013 | Posted in
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Two relatives were shot over the weekend and one of them is clinging to life and the other is in critical condition. On Saturday night at around seven-twenty p.m., twenty-four year old Arthur Baptist and his uncle forty-four year old Melvin Baptist were socializing inside Melvin’s Barbershop on Neal’s Pen Road in South side Belize […]
Written on June 3, 2013 | Posted in
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The family of seventeen-year-old Brian Lopez Jr., a student of Ladyville Technical High School, is livid, following claims of physical and verbal abuse at the hands of a Ladyville police officer. The minor was on his way to school this morning when he was pulled over by police on mobile patrol in the area. While […]
Written on June 3, 2013 | Posted in
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With assistance from PACT, the Friends for Conservation conducted research from October to March on the effects of poaching of game species within the Chiquibil. The finding of the report shows that a large number of game meat as well as exotic birds including our national bird were being poached by illegal xateros and loggers. […]
Written on May 31, 2013 | Posted in
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The body of a Sand Hill resident was fished out of the river in Burrell Boom on Tuesday morning. It had multiple stab wounds; in fact, as many as twenty. And because of its state of decomposition it had to be buried on site. The grieving family, however, has now made proper burial arrangements for […]
Written on May 29, 2013 | Posted in
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At news time tonight, News Five has been unable to confirm if any charges have in fact been levied against anyone in connection with the destruction of the Noh Mul Mayan Archeological Site. The story was big news three weeks ago after it was discovered that on May ninth, a company owned by Orange Walk […]
Written on May 29, 2013 | Posted in
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Belize has a steady stream of illegal immigrants who are being trafficked all the way to the United States. Those who are poor and unable to afford to get illegitimate visas or passports become easily recognizable as they move through the country. But after a string of recent arrests of Indian nationals in Belize, our […]
There was no reported gun violence over the holiday weekend in the City, but police are tonight resuming an investigation into the shooting of thirty year old Jamile Richardson, who succumbed over the weekend to injuries he received during a hail of gunfire on Holy Thursday. “Cash,” as he was popularly known, was standing on […]
Written on May 28, 2013 | Posted in
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The badly decomposed body of a male person was pulled from the river in the village of Burrell Boom this morning. According to reports, just after nine Police were called to the scene about two miles due north of Burrell Boom in an area known as Henderson Bank by a person who saw the body […]
Written on May 28, 2013 | Posted in
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And while no alert occurred in time to save some of newborns, the neighbor of an elderly American Citizen was prevented from alerting him of the impending danger at his doorstep. No life was lost but a home invasion at gunpoint is one of the most harrowing experiences that can occur to a person. U.S. […]
Written on May 24, 2013 | Posted in
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If you fail the first time, then try again. Well the second attempt by a housekeeper had not only been successful but it also cost her a trip to the police department and her job. The building near the stoplight on Vernon Street houses several businesses and apartments. The security cam on Tuesday recorded forty […]
Written on May 24, 2013 | Posted in
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Twenty-five year old Jeremy Baptist went missing on Sunday night. He had been socializing at a party and never returned to this family. Something went awfully wrong on that night and this afternoon another resident was charged for his murder; but Baptist’s body has not been located. Police, have however, recovered a vessel which they […]
Written on May 23, 2013 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, the executive director of the women’s commission, Ann-Marie Williams, was robbed of her vehicle on Saturday night and tonight, another well-known businesswoman reports that her vehicle was also stolen. The manager of Hofius Belize Limited was robbed at gunpoint on Monday night at about seven. Jacqueline Roe had just parked her 2012 […]
Written on May 21, 2013 | Posted in
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A third group of illegal Indian nationals has been captured in the west as cases of human trafficking continue to increase. The seven nationals are part of a larger group that has been coming illegally across the western border in the past two weeks. On Monday, the group was intercepted in Esperanza and police moved […]
Written on May 21, 2013 | Posted in
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A sports instructor, employed at Nazarene Primary School, is tonight abstaining from work, following an incident during which he reportedly came to the aid of a student, who had allegedly been sodomized by a teacher. According to San Ignacio police, thirty-six year old Eddie Pinelo, who has since been remanded to prison, was arrested and […]
Written on May 21, 2013 | Posted in
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A Belize Defense Force Soldier was critically injured in Barbados on Friday night and his family is preparing to travel to the island. Forty-five year old Warrant Officer Andre Gabb is currently attached to the Caribbean Defense Pact’s Regional Security System also referred to as R.S.S. Gabb was along with two friends when he was […]
Just before news time, we spoke via phone to Rene Montero, Gabb’s cousin, who was with him at the time of the incident on Friday. Montero says that a group of Belizeans was about to go to his house for dinner, and half of the group got into a zedar, which is the Bajan version […]
A brazen robbery late Saturday night has left the Executive Director for the National Women’s Commission, Ann-Marie Williams traumatized. According to Williams, she was returning to her house on Durgeon Drive in Coral Grove Area in Belize City around eleven p.m. following the Miss Y Pageant that was held at the Bliss Center for the […]
Written on May 20, 2013 | Posted in
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A Belize City man remains admitted at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in a stable condition following a shooting incident around six a.m. on Saturday. Thirty-three year old Peter Castillo, better known as “Animal” had just gone to a house on Gill Street to visit a friend when several shots, some say up to five, […]
Written on May 20, 2013 | Posted in
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In the south today, drills cranked up as Treaty Belize Energy resumed operations at its San Juan Three well. There are two areas of concern according to OCEANA; that the company is going against a court ruling in mid-April which declared null and void six oil contracts including one that Princess Petroleum shares with Treaty […]
Written on May 17, 2013 | Posted in
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Notorious Belize City bad man Richard Russell may have been running from his past when he relocated to Belmopan, but he couldn’t run far or fast enough and on Thursday night one bullet fired into his face through the window of his house in the Salvapan area of Belmopan ended his life. A check of […]
Written on May 17, 2013 | Posted in
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And even as Diane Lamb grieves for Richard Russell, she is dealing with another loss. She claims that while Police were in her home on Thursday night, they stole money which she had in her purse in a drawer. She showed us the blood on the purse, which she alleges must have come from the […]
Written on May 17, 2013 | Posted in
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