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Ramon Vasquez, the owner of the Channel Nine television station, is out on a two thousand five hundred dollar bail tonight. Vasquez was taken to court this morning and was charged with Causing Harm to police constable Newton Martinez and driving a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Vasquez pleaded not guilty and his […]
Written on October 14, 2008 | Posted in
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A man who was found with a hundred dollar counterfeit note, has been fined a little more, one hundred and fifty dollars. And twenty-two year old Roger Pott also lost his job at Habet and Habet Hardware Store. Magistrate Sharon Frazer gave Pott until November thirtieth to pay the fine and if he doesn’t, he […]
Written on October 14, 2008 | Posted in
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It wasn’t the ice cream but the cash that was too sweet to resist in an early morning hold up in downtown San Pedro. Manelly’s Ice Cream parlor, located only a few doors away from the Belize Bank was robbed at eight a.m. this morning by three men. According to the owner, forty four year […]
Written on October 14, 2008 | Posted in
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There are new reports of cases involving carnal knowledge. On Sunday, a fifteen year old girl reported to police that she visited a friend at his workplace in Orange Walk Town where he had sexual intercourse with her. Police have detained eighteen year old Felix Caliz pending charges of Carnal Knowledge. In another case; this […]
Written on October 14, 2008 | Posted in
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While some were offering training, a group of thirty Special Constables were sworn in during a ceremony at the Raccoon Street Police Station in Belize City. The ceremony on Sunday marked two days of rigorous training received by the Special Constables. The programme, spearheaded by Deputy Officer Commanding the Eastern Division Police Formation, Senior Superintendent […]
Written on October 14, 2008 | Posted in
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The jealous man accused of the stabbing murder of thirty-seven year old Salvadoran Roberto Jimenez in San Pedro on Wednesday, has been remanded to the Hattieville Prison. Alvaro Gregorio reportedly dodged Jimenez as he went to have lunch with Gregorio’s ex common-law-wife Aura Molina. The victim was stabbed twice and his demise was instant. Gregorio […]
Written on October 10, 2008 | Posted in
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Earlier in the newscast, we reported on the murder of a San Pedro resident, and now there is another disturbing report from the island. The incident has prompted reaction from Francis Wilson, the local Manager of Holy Cross Anglican School in San Pedro Town, who has written a letter expressing outrage over the beating of […]
Written on October 10, 2008 | Posted in
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A seventeen year old youth of Bella Vista Village, Stann Creek has been charged with Attempted Rape for the second time in as many weeks. Two weeks ago the youth attempted to rape a woman on the street side in the village. Police, who were on patrol in the area nabbed the seventeen year old, […]
Written on October 10, 2008 | Posted in
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In another case of carnal knowledge, this time involving a teacher, twenty-four year old Sylvestre Coy has been formally arrested and charged for two counts of Carnal Knowledge he allegedly committed against one of his students. The thirteen year old girl reported to police that the incident first started in November of last year when […]
Written on October 10, 2008 | Posted in
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In news just in, the body of a man was brought to Belize City about an hour ago from Turneffe Island where he was reportedly murdered. Officers of the Crimes Investigations branch are trying to solve the shooting death of thirty-three year old Kirk Smith. Smith, a fisherman of Sarstoon Street, Belize City, had left […]
Written on October 10, 2008 | Posted in
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While his job is to uphold the law, today a traffic officer was charged for just the opposite when he appeared in court for Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Thirty year old, Mark Banner of Hattieville is spending his first night behind bars on remand for the offense he allegedly committed against a fourteen year old girl. […]
Written on October 9, 2008 | Posted in
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San Pedro police have caught up with thirty-seven year old Alvaro Gregorio, who was on the run since the stabbing death of Salvadoran Roberto Jimenez of the San Mateo area of the island shortly after midday on Wednesday. Gregorio was nabbed in a police manhunt around ten this morning in an abandoned house about two […]
Written on October 9, 2008 | Posted in
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In the Magistrates’ Court meanwhile, thirty-one year old Roger Pennil of Belama Phase Three, Belize City pleaded guilty to Theft in connection with an incident at the Princess Hotel and Casino marina on Wednesday night. The charge for which Pennil was arrested follows a report by the Marina manager, forty-four year old Angel Espat, who […]
Written on October 9, 2008 | Posted in
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It appeared that there was a ceasefire on murder cases, but today in the nation’s favourite tourism destination, jealously was at the heart of the latest murder case, when an enraged former common-law husband turned on another man who he thought had relations with his ex. The incident occurred in the San Mateo area, one […]
Written on October 8, 2008 | Posted in
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And in Magistrates’ Court, thirty-two year old Paul Faber, the brother of the Minister of Education, was fined five hundred dollars after he pleaded guilty to the possession of five point nine grams of cannabis. Magistrate Aretha Ford gave Faber until November tenth to pay the fine. If he defaults on payment, he will serve […]
Written on October 8, 2008 | Posted in
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Two brazen teenagers from Corozal Town reportedly held up an elderly man at the Santa Elena border and made away with fifty pesos, the equivalent of ten Belize dollars, and an additional twelve dollars in cash. According to Ernesto Pech, the incident occurred at about two-thirty yesterday afternoon at an open lot in the border […]
Written on October 8, 2008 | Posted in
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We begin tonight’s newscast with a report of a Police Internal Affairs Unit investigation of two police officers assigned to the Ladyville Police Station for the beating of two of their own. The allegations of assault came from two officers from the Queen Street Police Detachment. The drama reportedly unfolded around six last Friday evening […]
Written on October 7, 2008 | Posted in
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In news from the Belmopan courts, Michael Broaster and Reginald Ruiz were charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm of Noel Herrera. Broaster was additionally charged with discharging a firearm in public. In the incident near the Belmopan court house, Herrera was injured on the right side of his […]
Written on October 7, 2008 | Posted in
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Two women appeared in Court today and were charged with the theft of a ball of Dutch cheese. The two, forty-seven year old Claudette Bennett and fifty year old Juana Bermudez, both pleaded not guilty to the charge before Magistrate Robert Ordonez who offered bail of two thousand five hundred dollars each. Thirty-eight year old […]
Written on October 6, 2008 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, three men managed to get away after jacking the Come ‘n’ Go Gas station located on Burrell Boom Road on Saturday afternoon. The three culprits were masked and dressed in black long sleeve shirts and dark pants. And according to station manager, Andrei Alamilla, the robbers were brandishing two shotguns and a knife. Alamilla […]
Written on October 6, 2008 | Posted in
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A U.S. national will spend the next few days behind bars after he was detained at the International Airport as he was attempting to leave Belize yesterday. Twenty-six year old Mathew Johnson of Missouri, who was attempting to board his four o’clock flight, appeared in court today and was charged with Keeping a Prohibited firearm […]
Written on October 3, 2008 | Posted in
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A new jury will have to be empanelled in the case of a forty-three year old Guatemalan charged with the incest of his fourteen year old daughter. After failing to show up for his trial on September thirtieth, Justice Troadio Gonzalez discharged the jury and issued a warrant for the man’s arrest. But about an […]
Written on October 3, 2008 | Posted in
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The long arm of the law has caught up with Sherwin Roca. The eighteen year old is alleged to have participated in the kidnapping and robbery ofFausto Lopez and Mary Romero. When Roca appeared in court this morning, he was charged with two counts each of Kidnapping and Robbery, and three counts of Aggravated Assault, […]
Written on October 2, 2008 | Posted in
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There is another case of carnal knowledge to report tonight. On Wednesday a mother from San Jose Village in Orange Walk District reported to Corozal police that her fifteen year old daughter went to work early Tuesday morning at the Commercial Free Zone and did not return home. Information led police to the residence of […]
Written on October 2, 2008 | Posted in
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A man is currently in the hospital suffering from gunshot wounds. On Wednesday, police visited the Western Regional Hospital where they found Guatemalan national, Byron Roberto Broaster, with injuries to his right upper arm and back. Twenty-one year old Santos Ramirez, watchman of Equestrian Academy at Mile fifty-four on the Western Highway, told police that […]
Written on October 2, 2008 | Posted in
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