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Also in the courts, two Bengali men were fined two thousand dollars each today after they pleaded guilty for Failure to Comply with the Condition of their visitor’s permit and overstaying their welcome in Belize. Twenty seven year old Fokrul Amin and twenty-six year old Sanu Miah, two immigrants from Bangladesh, came to Belize on […]
Written on November 27, 2008 | Posted in
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In last night’s newscast we reported a shooting on Carmen Street in Santa Elena, Cayo in which two persons were shot. And tonight there is another report that a third individual was shot on the same street just minutes before. Eighteen year old Christine Dawson was walking with a friend at about eight-thirty p.m. on […]
Written on November 27, 2008 | Posted in
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In a report just coming in, police will have to try a little harder to find who is responsible for the murder of taxi driver, thirty-six year old David Gabourel. That’s because today the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, instructed the cops not to bring charges against Gabourel’s two neighbours in their custody. News […]
Written on November 26, 2008 | Posted in
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A walk by a group of friends last night ended in chaos. Eighteen year old Christine Dawson was walking near a basketball court in Santa Elena, Cayo around eight-thirty Tuesday night with some friends when she was injured in a shooting. She was transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where she underwent surgery today. […]
Written on November 26, 2008 | Posted in
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There is some break into the investigations on the grenade that exploded on Faber’s Road on the night of November fourteenth. No one was injured but News Five has confirmed that a woman living in the yard where the grenade exploded found the fly-off lever and handed it in to police over the weekend. Police […]
Written on November 26, 2008 | Posted in
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And police have made some inroads into the stabbing murder on November fifteenth of taxi driver, thirty-six year old David Gabourel. This morning, based on eyewitness accounts, cops detained two of Gabourel’s neighbours and are expected to lay murder charges against them tomorrow. Gabourel’s body was discovered beside his house at thirty-six Kelly Street in […]
Written on November 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In crime news, a Belize City drug store was robbed after midday on Monday. Two workers of Community Sports and Nutrition Pharmacy, at the corner of Barrack Road and Hyde’s Lane were going through a regular business day until a man, about five feet, four inches in height, slim built, with a low haircut and […]
Written on November 25, 2008 | Posted in
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In another case of theft, a 2006 model vehicle belonging to Channel Broadcasting Cable was stolen over the weekend. Thirty-eight year old Abelardo Olivera, a cable technician for CBC, parked the white Mitsubishi L200 pickup, bearing license plate C- 30329 on Cairo Street. The vehicle, valued at forty thousand dollars, was stolen between two-thirty and […]
Written on November 25, 2008 | Posted in
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And in the island of San Pedro, one man has been arrested and police are looking for another regarding the sex abuse of a fourteen year old student of Las Flores Area. Yesterday the minor reported to police that back in December 2007, eighteen year old Jose Santos visited her at home and had sexual […]
Written on November 25, 2008 | Posted in
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There are two types of thieves—sloppy ones, who leave behind evidence and smart ones, who police find hard to catch due to nifty handiwork. Over the weekend, the newly opened Atlantic Bank Branch at the corner of Cemetery and Magazine Roads was jacked by a set of criminal masterminds. The perpetrators entered from behind the […]
Written on November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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The bank did not lose cash, but a family is tonight mourning the loss of one of its members. On Friday night, twenty-eight Robert Brown came home from work and shortly after, he jumped back on his bike to go hang out with friends; it was the last time his family would see him alive. […]
Written on November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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And in Orange Walk, police are investigating a shooting incident which resulted in the death of a Douglas Village resident. On Saturday night, nineteen year old George Cortez White returned to the San Pablo Community Centre, where he has been staying since his village was evacuated during the flooding. White was inebriated and according to […]
Written on November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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And in more news from the court, a security guard and a bartender were charged with Robbery when they appeared in Magistrate’s Court. Today, twenty-six year old, Silvano Bustillo and nineteen year old Anibal Lemus were charged for stealing a purse containing one hundred dollars from A and E conductor, Kevin Kuylen. Bustillo and Lemus […]
Written on November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Also in the Magistrate’s Court, thirty-seven year old Denfield “Daddy Russian” Bennett was charged with Theft today. The former rapper allegedly stole a laptop computer from a car that was parked on Regent Street in front of the Supreme Court and Magistrate Sharon Frazer charged him for the crime. Bennett pleaded not guilty to the […]
Written on November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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A trio of cunning burglars robbed a Stann Creek security guard of over four thousand dollars worth of items. On Sunday, forty year old Steve Quilter was at home with his girlfriend when around twelve-twenty there was a knock at the door. A voice from outside shouted, “Police, we come to search for illegal stuff” […]
Written on November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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The country is commemorating sixteen Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence, but on Sunday a woman found herself a victim of such an attack. Yesterday Orange Walk police visited the Northern Regional Hospital where they found twenty year old Amavir Mendez of Temash Street unconscious with a wound to her head. Investigations reveal that […]
Written on November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Eighteen year old Jhermack Lopez, a labourer of Amara Avenue, who allegedly broke into the house of his ex-girlfriend twenty-three year old Lisa Alvarez and choked her, was charged with Burglary when he appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. Magistrate Tracy Sosa offered Lopez a bail of four thousand dollars and adjourned his case until January […]
Written on November 20, 2008 | Posted in
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A thief who tried to rob a man of his gold chain was caught dead in his tracks. Twenty-one year old Victor Gibbs reported to police that around six-fifteen Wednesday morning, he and a friend were standing in front of his house when a tall male with braided hair rode up to them on a […]
Written on November 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Criminal elements were on a rampage over the weekend wreaking havoc in the City and around the country. There was one murder, a grenade explosion, robberies and plenty more crime. We start first with a murder in the wee hours of Saturday morning in Belize City. Jose Sanchez has a report. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Thirty-six […]
Written on November 17, 2008 | Posted in
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A loud bang shattered across Port Loyola last Friday night just after seven p.m. Memories of Mayflower Street and the Carnival Day grenade echoed into the night. Near the junction with Kraal and Fabers road, the neighbourhood was afraid, fragments tore into trees and walls and a large hole was found in a yard. But […]
Written on November 17, 2008 | Posted in
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With all the crime, a police officer who fell asleep on the job is now facing his peers. Since the officer dozed off in the company of Belize Defence Soldiers and a police officer, you would think he was safe. Well think again because this is what happened to twenty-four year old Police Constable Daniel […]
Written on November 17, 2008 | Posted in
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And if the missing officer’s pistol was not enough to embarrass the police department, there is an allegation that a Senior Superintendent has been busted by the Customs Department for contraband liquor. While one litre of alcohol is permitted across the border, the officer allegedly had on him an entire case of Jamaican Appleton rum. […]
Written on November 17, 2008 | Posted in
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But back in Belize City, a number of taxi drivers were targeted over the weekend by robbers and in the case of Leon Young, they included minors on a rampage. At about three-thirty a.m. on Sunday morning, police visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw twenty-four year old Leon Young, a taxi driver […]
Written on November 17, 2008 | Posted in
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And in related news, on Saturday night at around nine-thirty, the cops received information that fifty year old Gustavo Baeza suffered a single gunshot wound to his left clavicle. The victim, businessman of Sapodilla Street in Orange Walk Town, was accompanied by sixteen year old Anna Lainez of Banak Street. Both Baeza and Lainez were […]
Written on November 17, 2008 | Posted in
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But if that was not bad enough, there is a second report of bestiality in the course of a month to report tonight. On Saturday, police formally arrested and charged twenty-seven year old Lisandro Matu of Patchakan Village in Corozal District with Committing an Unnatural Crime. The incident occurred when cane farmer, Omar Vallejas told […]
Written on November 17, 2008 | Posted in
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