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A trio of thieves dressed in camouflage hit a home in Hope Creek pretending to be police officers carrying out a raid, before making off with a sack full of money. The home invasion happened around ten p.m. on Thursday night at the residence of fifty-seven-year-old Esther Crispia. The men led the woman inside her […]
Written on May 23, 2022 | Posted in
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On Monday, we featured the newly elected chairman of Double Head Cabbage Village, Roman McCulloch, after an independent slate led by him won the village council election. Well, tonight he is back in the news, but this time under more unfortunate circumstances. McCulloch’s warehouse, located on his property, was destroyed by fire and he believes […]
Written on May 20, 2022 | Posted in
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A resort in the Cayo District was the target of a hold-up on Tuesday night and the perpetrators wounded two of three police officers who were responding to the call for help. The incident happened sometime after ten p.m., at the Kukulcan Resort. The maintenance worker, Micias (Mi-see-as) Tzib, reported to Police that he was […]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The lives of the Director of the Belize Family Court and Commissioner of Police Chester Williams have reportedly come under threat by a high-profile respondent in a custody battle before the court. Reports are that the hit was orchestrated by a woman whose case has been before the court for almost a year and is […]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A resident of Biscayne Village is in critical condition after he was shot on Tuesday evening in Belize City. Twenty-nine-year-old Evan Cain was walking on Jasmine Street in the Lake Independence area sometime around five-thirty p.m. when he heard a gunshot and realized that he had been hit. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told News […]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Deputy Mayor Micah Goodin has come under severe criticism from the United Democratic Party, following a weekend shooting in which he was involved. Shadow Minister of National Security Mike Peyrefitte maintains that the sitting Minister of Home Affairs, his Chief Executive Officer and the Commissioner of Police should demit office forthwith. He points to Saturday […]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Also speaking on the matter, in his capacity as an attorney representing one of the men involved in the shooting, was OJ Elrington. Contrary to what the Commissioner of Police has stated on record, Elrington says that Micah Goodin was not detained for thirty-six hours. In fact, he says that when he arrived at the […]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A man who was found guilty of the manslaughter of his common-law-wife was sentenced to three years in prison today. Andrew Caliz will only spend another eighteen months since he has already spent half the time awaiting trial. The incident happened on May fourteenth, 2019 at a cabana in Big Falls Village, Toledo. The couple […]
Written on May 17, 2022 | Posted in
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Multiple shots were fired in the vicinity of Newtown Barracks in the early hours of Saturday morning, leaving a twenty-year-old Belize City resident with a graze to the neck. It happened after a night of partying on the entertainment strip and the incident involved Deputy Mayor Micah Goodin and his entourage. According to eyewitnesses, an […]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier today, News Five spoke with an eyewitness who was present at the time of the incident. He was in the company of Kenyon Tillett and several others and alleges that they were approached by Goodin and his friends. He recounts off-camera how the incident on Newtown Barracks unfolded. Voice of: Eyewitness “Upon leaving […]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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While details of the incident have been disclosed by the Belize Police Department, as well as persons who were on the scene of the shooting, an investigation is underway to determine whether the three men involved were consuming alcohol at the establishment. According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, if the men are found to […]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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There was another shooting incident in Belize City that has left one man recovering from a gunshot wound to the left leg. Steve Ferrell was near the intersections of Central American Boulevard and Neal’s Pen Road near 88 Shopping Center when he came under attack by someone who fired multiple shots in his direction. Assistant […]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, a woman from Ladyville is breaking her silence about a case of police brutality. Denise Pitts says that she was slammed to the ground by a police officer who had responded to a fight at a bar in Belize City. While Pitts says she was not involved in the altercation, she asked to return […]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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Pitts, a mother of four, paid over five thousand dollars for surgery, where she says that the procedure involved using a screw to join the broken bone. She wants justice and needs assistance because she will be out of work for the next three months. It’s a most horrific experience which Pitts says was a […]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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MS-13 gang members are fleeing to Belize after a crackdown on gangs in El Salvador by its president, Nayib Bukele. President Bukele’s administration has been detaining gang members and putting them in though conditions inside Salvador prisons. This response came after the nation experienced its highest single day murder toll a month ago. Now, some […]
Written on May 9, 2022 | Posted in
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A foiled burglary at a nightclub on the Philip Goldson Highway over the weekend has resulted in one of several thieves being shot. Belize City police responded to the Titanic Nightclub, formerly Dream Like City, where they encountered four men fleeing the scene of the burglary. One of them produced a firearm and opened fire […]
Written on May 9, 2022 | Posted in
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There was also an attempt on the life of a villager in Seine Bight over the weekend. Frank Augustine was injured when someone shot him while he attempted to enter his vehicle. A suspect is being sought in connection with this shooting. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “A Seine Bight resident, […]
Written on May 9, 2022 | Posted in
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An all-points bulletin remains in effect for the capture of Christon Rocha who is wanted by police for stabbing his former common-law wife Vanessa Reyes in Placencia during the Easter weekend. Despite issuing wanted posters at various border points across the country, Rocha, a Honduran national, is yet to be apprehended. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, […]
Written on May 9, 2022 | Posted in
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Fausto Teck was arraigned on a single charge of murder this morning, in the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court for the stabbing death of Chris Rodriguez. Today, family and friends of the deceased gathered near Columbus Park across from the police station, which houses the court on the second floor. Cell phone footage sent to News […]
Written on May 6, 2022 | Posted in
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He was among the twenty-eight prisoners who escaped from the Belize Central Prison in October of 2020, and was one of the first five to be apprehended near mile twenty-five along the George Price Highway. And, on Wednesday, Deandre Guiffaro received a sentence of fifteen years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to the charge of […]
Written on May 6, 2022 | Posted in
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A family’s worst fear was confirmed this afternoon, when a search party looking for missing Belize City resident Emir Cansino Junior discovered his body off the John Smith Link Road. The body was already in a state of decomposition and there were multiple apparent gunshot wounds. The scene was tense and emotions were running high […]
Written on May 5, 2022 | Posted in
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Just before five p.m. today, police confirmed that they have formally arrested and charged twenty-year-old Fausto Teck for the crime of murder in the stabbing death of Chris Rodriguez. On Tuesday evening, the caretaker of the Norman Broaster Stadium got into a fight with Rodriguez, who was stabbed twice and died at the Western Regional […]
Written on May 5, 2022 | Posted in
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A nineteen-year-old athlete was stabbed multiple times on Tuesday night by a caretaker at the Norman Broaster Stadium in San Ignacio. The incident has sent shockwaves across the Twin Towns and the rest of the country because Chris Rodriguez was a talented young footballer who was simply out honing his skill when the deadly incident […]
Written on May 4, 2022 | Posted in
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In a release issued today, the Minister of Youth, Sports and Transport and the Minister of State along with the National Sports Council express heartfelt condolences to the Rodriguez family on the loss of Chris Anthony Rodriguez. The release says that the unfortunate incident occurred at one of its sporting facilities and that the sports […]
Written on May 4, 2022 | Posted in
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The opposition is taking the Briceño administration to task for seemingly mishandling the situation involving the endangered plants and the manner in which government attempted to circumvent existing regulations that should have prevented ministerial interference. Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition “The prime minister intervened to do a favor for his employee of twenty […]
Written on May 4, 2022 | Posted in
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