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And while the trans border war against drugs takes precedence, Perdomo says our neighbours to our north and west have also been helpful in trying to solve murders of Belizeans that take place in their countries. Since the beginning of the year at least three Belizeans have been killed in neighbouring Melchor. While there have […]
Written on April 16, 2009 | Posted in
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And a boat valued at fifteen thousand dollars was stolen from Saint George’s Caye. Forty-eight year old David Rowlands said that on Wednesday between two and six a.m. his fiberglass skiff named “Good Enough” disappeared from the dock behind the caye. Luckily, the vessel was found later the same day at the Putostock area nine […]
Written on April 16, 2009 | Posted in
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In the other Easter murder, San Ignacio police are still trying to put their hands on a motive and a suspect in the shooting murder of fifty-three year old Felix Cocom. Cocom’s body was discovered on his farm in the Lower Barton Creek area, some five miles off the Western Highway in Blackman Eddy, Cayo […]
Written on April 15, 2009 | Posted in
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On Monday night after ten p.m., thirty-six year old nursing student Uwaoma Nelson Onwunali was murdered inside his taxi cab. The body of the Nigerian national was found inside his red Mazda Protégé between Curl Thompson Street and Jane Usher Boulevard. Doctor Hugh Sanchez conducted a post-mortem examination on Onwunali’s body and classified the cause […]
Written on April 15, 2009 | Posted in
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A Nigerian national who made his way to Belize looking for greener pastures met his death in a most horrific way. The man was two classes away from completing a nursing programme and had carved out plans for his immediate future, but before the Easter break was over, all that was shattered. Jose Sanchez reports […]
Written on April 14, 2009 | Posted in
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The other murder that occurred over the Easter weekend happened in the ordinarily serene lower Barton Creek area in the Cayo District where police discovered the body of one of its residents. Felix Cocom was viciously murdered, shot multiple times to the abdomen and chest. News Five traveled west to try to find out what […]
Written on April 14, 2009 | Posted in
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In an update to the Holy Thursday gruesome slaying of Honduran national, forty-five year old Rudolfo Villatoro, two male minors from Dangriga have been arrested and charged with Murder. Villatoro’s dismembered body was found in an abandoned outdoor latrine on Samwood Road behind Habet Hardware. He had reportedly been in the company of three persons, […]
Written on April 14, 2009 | Posted in
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We begin tonight’s news cast with a story of a gruesome murder on the eve of one of the most important dates on the Christian calendar. It occurred in Dangriga where a Honduran who was out socializing did not live to see his forty-sixth birthday because he was brutally murdered and his body was found […]
Written on April 9, 2009 | Posted in
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Orange Walk police have detained one person pending charges following an assault on a woman in that municipality. Just before midnight on Wednesday thirty year old Lilian Hernandez, a waitress at Paraiso Bar in Trial Farm Village, arrived at the Northern Regional Hospital with a cut wound to her neck. Hernandez told police that she […]
Written on April 9, 2009 | Posted in
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Another business was robbed of cash and other items this week. Song Yu Rong who operates K.K. Grocery at the corner of Gill and Sanker Streets told police that she was inside the business at around nine-thirty on Wednesday morning when she was surprised by three thieves. Song was about to purchase beers from a […]
Written on April 9, 2009 | Posted in
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The murder of two Belizeans on the Guatemalan side of the border is under investigation by authorities in Melchor de Mencos. On this side, the cops say they have little information and no motive in the weekend murders. The first victim was from the village of Succotz and the other was from neighbouring Benque Viejo […]
Written on April 7, 2009 | Posted in
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Two Belize City youths were shot on Monday night on Kraal Road, and while they will live to see another day, the frequency of teen related crimes has become the subject of our nightly news headlines. On March twenty-sixth, sixteen year old Sharife Smith was murdered and his friend, also sixteen, was arrested on a […]
Written on April 7, 2009 | Posted in
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The Fire Department is short of over fifteen thousand dollars in cash tonight. Assistant Fire Chief, forty-five year old Ted Smith, reported to police that between March twenty-third and April fifth, a manila envelope containing the money was stolen from a filing cabinet in his office at the fire service station headquarters on Cleghorn Street. […]
Written on April 7, 2009 | Posted in
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We last heard from him in the House of Representatives for the 2009-2010 budget debate. And one of the major issues brought up by Freetown Area Representative, Francis Fonseca, was the absence of a clear crime control strategy. Since the issue of crime is dominant in the media, when Fonseca took the couch on Channel […]
Written on April 7, 2009 | Posted in
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The twenty-ninth murder for 2009 happened just before seven-thirty last Friday night on the boundary between the Collet and Port Loyola Divisions as the old capital continues to be plagued by the highest number of homicides in the jewel. Friday night’s murder was carried out by one man who opened fire on a group of […]
Written on April 6, 2009 | Posted in
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And there are two more murders to report tonight that also occurred over the weekend, but this time across the western border in Melchor de Mencos. Details are beginning to come in and Benque Viejo police have confirmed that two Belizeans were shot dead in separate incidents in the neighboring town. The first victim, twenty-two […]
Written on April 6, 2009 | Posted in
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In other crime news, two men were shot in Belize City at about five thirty p.m. on April fourth. Twenty seven year old Terry Felix and twenty three year old Edward Thompson were standing in front of Excelsior High School on Faber’s Road when they were shot by a lone gunman. Felix’s mother, Therese was […]
Written on April 6, 2009 | Posted in
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The Best Bake Bakery opened only three months ago on Western Avenue in Belize City and already it has been hit by robbers who made off with over four hundred dollars when they held up the bakery. Owner of the recently opened bakery, Zebedee Peterson Junior told News Five that the incident occurred around two […]
Written on April 6, 2009 | Posted in
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There is another twist to the story of a wooden house on Elston Kerr Street that was destroyed by fire last Thursday. There is now reason to believe the fire was deliberate. The home belonged to twenty eight year old Kimberly Trapp who today told News Five that she has been “going through some changes” […]
Written on April 6, 2009 | Posted in
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An international conman who is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States was caught in Belize on Monday. The police department took several days to release the information because they had to trace the web of deceit that took root as far as Australia and the Canary islands. Forty three year […]
Written on April 2, 2009 | Posted in
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There is information tonight that the Orange Walk Forest office on Liberty Avenue today seized logs from two trucks believed to have been illegally felled from a protected area near the Honey Camp Lagoon. If the information reaching our news centre is accurate, then there is cause for concern because we understand that four persons […]
Written on April 2, 2009 | Posted in
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On March fourth, an elderly resident of Chan Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District was brutally attacked outside his home. Eighty year old Jose Caal, a father of sixteen children, fell unconscious and had to be rushed to the hospital. He did not survive the attack and before his demise, he was able to […]
Written on April 2, 2009 | Posted in
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We begin tonight’s newscast as we have in the past few weeks with another chilling story of murder in the old capital. This time the story also involves suicide and Belize City police believe it is an open and shut case of a young couple, who lived on Antelope Street Extension in the Collet Division. […]
Written on March 31, 2009 | Posted in
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Thieves in the city continue to grow more brazen and the latest victim was targeted as he exited the Scotiabank A.T.M. on Albert Street. Twenty-five year old James Bradley told police that at seven-forty Monday night he withdrew eight hundred dollars from the A.T.M. and was making his way to his car when two men […]
Written on March 31, 2009 | Posted in
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Another learning institution has been targeted by thieves who broke into the school and stole a laptop computer and documents. The break-in occurred overnight at Saint John’s Vianney on Faber’s Road in Belize City and when teachers arrived for classes this morning they discovered that the thieves had entered through a window. The culprits took […]
Written on March 31, 2009 | Posted in
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