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While no one was injured when the Toledo vehicle burst into flames, a robbery in the Corozal District over the weekend left a resident of Santa Clara Village hospitalized at the Northern Regional Hospital. Around six this past Saturday, thirty-five year old Caesar Canul, was returning home from a full day’s work—exchanging monies at the […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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In August of 2007, he was arrested and charged for robbing Esso Gas Station in Ladyville of over forty thousand dollars in cash. And in October of last year, nineteen year old Akeem Gotoy was admitted in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot several times to the back. Tonight, Gotoy, now twenty, […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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And in the old capital, a resident has been detained in connection with a rape that occurred on Saturday. Nineteen year old Carlos Montejo also known as “Pollo” was taken into custody after he was reportedly accused as one of two persons who raped a young woman at the Isidora Beaton Stadium in the Garden […]
Written on December 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, part of a study called the Male Social Participation and Violence Study in Belize, was released. The research will not be completed until June 2010 but the initial findings of the group led by Doctor Herbert Gayle of Jamaica showed that with a statistic of thirty four murders in 2008, the jewel […]
Written on December 17, 2009 | Posted in
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Belize’s strategic location makes it a common port for transnational smuggling of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking. According to international reports, a Guyanese National was charged in the United States on Wednesday with Conspiracy and Alien Smuggling for her role in attempting to enter four Indian nationals into the US via Belize and other […]
Written on December 17, 2009 | Posted in
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Sometime around five this morning, twenty-eight year old Dwayne Lopez died while receiving medical treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Lopez was admitted last Monday evening after he was shot in the lower back while standing with a friend at the corner of Supal Street and Kut Avenue. Despite several surgeries he did not […]
Written on December 17, 2009 | Posted in
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But the driver of a Quality Poultry delivery truck was more fortunate. Just after three p.m. today two thieves approached the vehicle, which was delivering chickens and turkeys for an upcoming wedding in Hattieville, and fired several shots at the occupants. None of the bullets hit their target and while one of the men ran […]
Written on December 17, 2009 | Posted in
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San Ignacio police suspect foul play in the death of a man whose corpse was retrieved from near the banks of the Mopan River on Monday. The discovery was made in the Water Pump Area. The victim, fifty-eight year old Jorge Noe Mejia of San Pedro Town had what appeared to be a small cut […]
Written on December 15, 2009 | Posted in
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It is a well known that the number of murders have spiraled. In 2008, the turbulence in the streets of Belize was aggravated by the introduction of fragment grenades. After the infamous explosion on Mayflower Street, stakeholders began to take a serious look at the increase in violence and the arsenal that have been unleashed […]
Written on December 15, 2009 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, a fruit and vegetable vendor is clinging to life tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Early Sunday morning, Desidorio Garcia was attacked and badly beaten when he was heading to the market, where he worked for three years selling for a stall owner. The vendor originally lived at mile twenty-eight on the Hummingbird […]
Written on December 14, 2009 | Posted in
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Turning to crime, a robbery victim was spared from becoming the latest statistic since he was able to protect himself and his attacker is instead hospitalized. The incident happened after midnight on Saturday on a dangerous part of Banak Street. The police department is withholding the name of the victim, but the culprit is twenty […]
Written on December 14, 2009 | Posted in
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This week has been a deadly one so far. There have been three murders and the latest two were recorded this morning when shots rang out in separate incidents, but in the same hood. The shootings happened just two blocks away and within one hour of each other and shortly after the two victims were […]
Written on December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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This morning’s second murder was around seven-twenty at the corner of Kraal and Faber’s Road. The victim was shot several times at close range by someone on a bicycle. The shooter was so brazen to carry out his act that armed Belize Defense Force and uniformed police officers patrolling nearby did not deter him. Reports […]
Written on December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, a man who was shot on Monday evening remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Dwane Lopez of Supal Street was shot in the back at around six-twenty-five on Monday evening on the same street. But police do not believe that Lopez was the intended victim. Instead, they strongly suspect the […]
Written on December 9, 2009 | Posted in
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There was an execution style homicide in the City between Monday night and Tuesday morning. It involves a mechanic who was brutally murdered some time during the night and left on the street side. On Monday night, twenty-one year old Leonel Jose Donaire left his home for the last time of his life. His uncle […]
Written on December 8, 2009 | Posted in
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And in Belize City this afternoon a shooting took place under the nose of the police. The victim, Oming Veliz, is tonight hospitalized under stable condition after he was shot in the shoulder in the vicinity of the Raccoon Street Police Station. Just before four this afternoon, Veliz, also known as “Mama Chica”, was at […]
Written on December 7, 2009 | Posted in
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While the legal debate over a loan continues to rage, the life of a woman ended on Thursday night at her home. The woman, Mercedes Carrillo, had just moved to Burrell Boom Village to begin a new life. The forty year old mother was allegedly in an abusive relationship and it is the man in […]
Written on December 4, 2009 | Posted in
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There is a report that a convicted sex offender who was wanted in the U.S. has been apprehended in Belize. Robert Snyder, who has been in Belize since August of 2008 and has been acting as a chess instructor, was apprehended after a Saturday night feature on America’s Most Wanted. What’s worrying is that the […]
Written on December 4, 2009 | Posted in
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There is not much development in Wednesday afternoon’s armed robbery at GS- Com on Baymen Avenue. While the company’s six cameras picked up the incident as it unfolded, none of the employees or customers could identify the robbers because they wore caps and covered their faces. The two thieves entered the business at two thirty-one […]
Written on December 3, 2009 | Posted in
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In Belize City, robbers jacked a computer business and made away with thousands of dollars. GS-COM, a computer and accessories outlet on Baymen Avenue was held up by two armed men who entered the business around two-thirty this afternoon. Marion Ali has a chronological rundown of the four-minute robbery that was caught on tape. Marion […]
Written on December 2, 2009 | Posted in
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There has not been a murder in the city since Jason Coombs was killed on November eleventh. That murder was apparently well executed and until today no arrests have been made. On Monday night, however, that brief reprieve was shattered with the murder of Edward “Eddie” Barrow Smith. Eddie’s family believes his homicide was caused […]
Written on December 1, 2009 | Posted in
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Turning to crime news, a seventy-eight year old man and his family were the victims of a home invasion last week, which was not reported in the police blotter until today. It happened at mile twenty-five on the Hummingbird Highway in the Stann Creek District. According to the police, when Catalino Reyes got home at […]
Written on November 30, 2009 | Posted in
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While the Chiac family received bad news, another Cayo resident is lucky to be alive. On Friday night, Alexander Montero, a resident of Teakettle was brutally wounded during an incident at a local bar. Superintendent Guzman said that the wounds could have been worse, but Montero will soon be released from the hospital. One man […]
Written on November 30, 2009 | Posted in
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Police are investigating the theft of a laptop that they fear could result in cases of identity theft. That’s because the stolen computer belongs to the Government of Belize and was issued to the head of the Vital Statistics Unit, Lovina Daniels. It contains confidential birth certificate information for the entire country. Daniels had the […]
Written on November 27, 2009 | Posted in
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A police constable was injured during an altercation on Thursday night. P.C. Eric Patt was socializing at the Cabana Bar on East Collet Canal when he got into a fight with Eusebio Cal. Cal then attacked Patt with a broken bottle and stabbed him in his abdomen. Patt was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
Written on November 27, 2009 | Posted in
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