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And while police have made inroads in the grenade attack, cops are working overtime to tighten security around the city in light of the many activities planned this month. One such event which is expected to attract a large crowd is an open air reggae concert scheduled for this coming Saturday at the M.C.C. Grounds. […]
Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in
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You will know by now that the recent amendment to the Firearm Act guarantees a free ticket to prison if you are found in possession of firearms or ammunition without the required licenses and that no bail is allowed. Twenty-seven year old, construction worker of Kelly Street, Steven Lemoine, is behind bars tonight for violating […]
Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Ladyville residents can breathe easier tonight as five minors who allegedly went on a robbery rampage have been nabbed by police. The five were charged today for the string of burglaries that occurred in the village between August first and September eleventh. In the first instance, three of the minors who appeared in court were […]
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Two Austrians found themselves entangled in the local legal system and on Monday, faced charges of Possession of a Controlled Drug. While travelling by bus from Punta Gorda to Belize City, Andreas Erker reported to police that his knapsack, containing his camera and cell phone, was stolen. Police became suspicious, did not buy his story […]
Written on September 17, 2008 | Posted in
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An alert Belize Bank teller at the Orange Walk Branch reported to authorities that at about three o’clock on Monday afternoon, she discovered a counterfeit Belize fifty dollar bill with serial number DB110865 in a night deposit bag. The deposit had been made by a business establishment that has since said it was not aware […]
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Police made a sensational announcement today with the arrest of a nineteen year old Belize City man ten days after a hand grenade was hurled at a crowd during the last leg of the Carnival Road March on Princess Margaret Drive on September sixth. Richard Flores, of Buttonwood Bay, appeared in court twice today but […]
Written on September 16, 2008 | Posted in
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And tonight there is more bad news resulting from the escalating street violence involving gangs that has caught the attention of the foreign press and is landing Belize a black eye. An investigative documentary is circulating on the internet that portrays Belize as one of the world’s most dangerous countries where gangs rule. The piece, […]
Written on September 16, 2008 | Posted in
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Also in Magistrates’ Court, charges against Mark Vernon, a nineteen year old stevedore, were struck out today. Vernon was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm in connection with a shooting between nine-thirty and ten o’clock on the night of July tenth. Vernon was freed of the charges because […]
Written on September 16, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have two persons in custody and are looking for three others in connection with an alleged kidnapping. According to thirty-nine year old taxi driver, Marcos Alvarez Campos, around five Monday morning a young lady and a man stopped him on Queen Victoria Avenue in Orange Walk Town and asked to be taken to Asuncion […]
Written on September 16, 2008 | Posted in
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We have reported various cases of rape in the same neighborhood in Belize City in the past few weeks and tonight there is a new case to add to the growing list. A twenty-six year old woman reports that at two-thirty this morning while she was at the corner of Iguana and Pelican Street Extension […]
Written on September 16, 2008 | Posted in
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Belizean and Guatemalan officials may be edging close to an agreement to take the territorial dispute to the I.C.J., but on the ground, the B.D.F. has been busy securing Belize’s border. And tonight there are disturbing reports that a Belize Defence Force soldier was attacked and hacked over the weekend, well within Belizean territory in […]
Written on September 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Last week we reported murder in the village of Cotton Tree and tonight another man has been murdered in Georgeville, also in the Cayo District. A fight between two villagers over an old beef involving a woman has ended in the death of one man and the arrest of the other. When witnesses saw twenty-eight […]
Written on September 15, 2008 | Posted in
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There appears to be a notable increase in rape cases reported throughout Belize and a pattern seems to be emerging in a Belize City neighborhood. The most recent case reported to police took place about five streets from the previous incidents on Antelope Street. A twenty-one year old woman claims that at about five-fifteen on […]
Written on September 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Thirty-six year old Asher Brown, also known as Larry Sutherland, was charged today with Keeping a Firearm and Ammunition without a License. Following a naked search at the Queen Street Police Station, Brown was found in possession of a point twenty-five pistol with five rounds of ammunition. Just after midnight this morning, police received reports […]
Written on September 15, 2008 | Posted in
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His first job was to guard the court, but now a Belize City man has been locked up by a magistrate of the same court he once protected. Twenty-eight year old David Phillips A.K.A. “Goofy”, a former security guard of the Magistrates Court, was remanded to prison today after he was charged with Robbery. At […]
Written on September 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have another murder to solve, this time in the village of Cotton Tree where a Salvadoran national was shot to death and robbery may not be the only motive. Just before his death, the man was seen drinking with friends at his home and earlier in the day his girlfriend walked out on him […]
Written on September 12, 2008 | Posted in
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And in news from the courts, forty-six year old labourer of Burrell Boom, Stanton Gillett, was today sentenced for Burglary. Gillett claimed in court the offence was in fact about weed he did not deliver. Gillett will spend five years behind bars after he was found guilty of burglarizing his neighbour’s house. The incident occurred […]
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A second accused wanted in the jacking of Orange Walk businessman, Celso Leal, appeared in Court today and was charged with Robbery. He is security Guard, forty-six year old Mark James, who appeared in Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the charge. James, along with accomplice Richard ‘Richie’ Russell who was charged yesterday for […]
Written on September 12, 2008 | Posted in
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They have been victims of robberies countless times and remain a target for jackers. And tonight there is a report that a Bowen and Bowen delivery truck was been held up. Thirty-six year old salesman, Michael Rowland, reported to police that around three-thirty yesterday afternoon he was making a delivery to an address on Sarstoon […]
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And in an update to the death of Bertie Lee Murphy, the seventy-two year old Peace Corp who was found dead in her home on Tuesday September ninth, the cause is still yet to be determined. As we had previously reported, there were two theories to her death, the first that she died of natural […]
Written on September 12, 2008 | Posted in
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Three prison inmates who escaped from the Hattieville Correctional Facility on Sunday night remain at large and two are believed to have crossed the borders back to their native Guatemala. The two are Rene Morente, who was serving time for Aggravated Burglary and on remand for murder; and Rene Ramos, who was behind bars for […]
Written on September 12, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have not yet pressed any charges following the grenade scare at Saturday’s carnival, but the British Army Training Support Unit Belize has publicly confirmed that the explosive device came from a batch of one hundred and sixty delivered to Belize in August of 2007. BATSUB was able to identify the grenade by the serial […]
Written on September 11, 2008 | Posted in
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There are fortunately no serious incidents of crime to report from Wednesday’s Tenth Day Celebrations in Belize City. And while some may say the turnout of spectators was respectable, when compared to previous years, the parade was lacking in numbers. The last float that is normally flanked by thousands of Belizeans jumping up to the […]
Written on September 11, 2008 | Posted in
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In news from the courts, Darren Banks, who has an extensive rap sheet, was this morning charged with Attempted Theft and released on bail in the case of the twenty foot container at the Port Authority compound in Belize City which was loaded with ten million ephedrine pills. Banks, who was represented by attorney Dickie […]
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Nineteen year old fisherman, Jamie Young of Turneffe Island, has been remanded to custody for Keeping Ammunition Without a Gun License. Young appeared in court today after police found him with fifty-nine rounds of nine millimeter ammunition. Young, represented by attorneys Dickie Bradley and David Moralez, told the court that the bullets belonged to his […]
Written on September 11, 2008 | Posted in
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