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It is not yet classified as murder, but tonight the family of a Georgetown Village resident is asserting that their loved one was burned to death by her enraged common-law husband. Around eleven o’clock on the night of March twenty-fourth, twenty-two year old Avett Augustine and her common-law husband Alvin Guzman, both suffering from burns, […]
Written on April 1, 2008 | Posted in
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And while police will eventually determine whether Augustine’s death is classified as a homicide, there is no such question regarding the twenty-seven murders recorded during the first three months of 2008. That’s three more than last year’s record pace and while virtually everyone acknowledges we’re in the midst of a crisis, there is little consensus […]
Written on April 1, 2008 | Posted in
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And that pain is acutely felt by Lovine Herbert, who lost her only son, Leonard, to gun violence over three years ago. Lovine Herbert, mother of 2004 murder victim “Some day when I think bout ah I just feel like do something bad out ah di way. Just because I believe eena God and I […]
Written on April 1, 2008 | Posted in
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On Monday, we reported that a warrant was out for the arrest of twenty year old Edwin Bardalez and it did not take long for him to be taken into custody. This morning Bardalez appeared in Magistrates’ Court to answer to charges for the Sunday shooting of fifty-seven year old Glen Rivero. Bardalez was arraigned […]
Written on April 1, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have also made arrests in another weekend crime. This morning twenty-one year old Alwick Olivera and nineteen year old Cordel Flowers were taken to Magistrates’ Court and charged with Murder and Conspiracy to Commit Murder in the death of Tyrone Castellanos. The twenty year old was on Central American Boulevard around forty-five a.m. on […]
Written on April 1, 2008 | Posted in
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Another day, another murder. That seems to be the disturbing trend developing in Belize City and while there’s no end in sight, tonight the good news is there have been breaks in several of the cases under investigation. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details. Marion Ali, Reporting The fact that several people were around […]
Written on March 31, 2008 | Posted in
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Over the weekend police also filed charges in connection to last Thursday’s deadly shooting. Tonight nineteen year old Leon Gray and twenty-two year old Brandon Smith are jointly accused of Murder, Attempted Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Deadly Means of Harm, Dangerous Harm, and Possession of Prohibited Firearm and Ammunition. Smith was additionally charged with […]
Written on March 31, 2008 | Posted in
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It doesn’t come as much of a surprise but a press release issued by the Police Department has confirmed that the three forgetful cops who changed their stories on the stand during the Ben Bou-Nahra trial have been dismissed from the public service. In January, a police tribunal found Clement Cacho, Darius Ramos and Anthony […]
Written on March 31, 2008 | Posted in
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He was originally brought up on aggravated assault charges but tonight a Belize City man is in jail because he owed the court big money. According to reports, twenty-seven year old Elwin Lewis was charged with Aggravated Assault with a Firearm, Common Assault, and Using Threatening Words against his ex-common-law wife, thirty-four year old Carolyn […]
Written on March 28, 2008 | Posted in
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They are scheduled to stand trial in April for murder but today Taedron Bennett and Joseph Kee were back in court, charged with another crime. According to court reports, on Tuesday Chief Security Officer at the Belize Central Prison Rose Kelly conducted routine searches in the remand section. But Kelly says when the officers looked […]
Written on March 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Three separate shootings in twenty-four hours have left two people dead, three others injured and the police with more questions than answers. Our coverage of the carnage begins in an alley off Lakeview Street. Marion Ali, Reporting When twenty-five year old Leon Beeks left his girlfriend’s home this morning to go to work, she never […]
Written on March 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Everyone has an idea how we can solve the crime problem. Some feel tougher laws and harsher penalties would do the trick. Others say more education and reform initiatives would break the cycle of violence. But it’s clear that no one proposal will be the answer. Within that context, today government and law enforcement officials […]
Written on March 27, 2008 | Posted in
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The Belize Unit Trust on Central American Boulevard was the target of thieves during an afternoon hold-up on Tuesday. Around two-thirty, three youths armed with guns and one wearing a mask, entered the business and held the security guard, two tellers, and nine customers at gunpoint. The men then went behind the counter and cleaned […]
Written on March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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While police try to track down the thieves of Tuesday’s heist, today the justice system started proceedings against two others. Since March sixteenth, eighteen year old Cardinal Welch Myvette has been admitted to the K.H.M.H. recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg, but today he was well enough to face the music for his […]
Written on March 26, 2008 | Posted in
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Considering that it was a four day holiday weekend and that we are in the midst of an epidemic of fatal violence, the fact that there is only one murder to report tonight can almost be considered good news. That’s how bad things are. The fact is that every homicide brings more than its share […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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The weekend’s second reported shooting occurred in Independence Village about three hours later. This time, it would leave a man in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the right side of the chest and abdomen. Twenty-two year old Nicholas Swazo told police that someone inside a green Ford Ranger pickup shot him as he walked […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Orange Walk police have two cases of sexual assault on their hands. In the first case, the twenty-five year old victim said she awoke around two-thirty on Saturday morning to find a man in front of her bed. The woman reported to police that the man muffled her screams for help with a blanket then […]
Written on March 25, 2008 | Posted in
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A seventy-three year old man was targeted as he arrived home Tuesday night and beaten by two men as he entered his yard on Bradley’s Crescent in the Belama Phase Two area. The owner of Subway, Ron Boetel, recounted how it happened. Ron Boetel, Beaten and Robbed at Home “I got home about seven-fifteen and […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have also made arrests in the Saturday night robbery of Galaxy Supermarket in Belama Phase Two. Twenty-six year old Deon Lord and twenty-two year old Clifton Flores were today charged in Magistrates’ Court with two counts of Robbery and Conspiracy to Commit Robbery. A third man, Cardinal Welch Myvette, who was detained at the […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Two police constables accused of beating a prisoner were formally arraigned today. Alister Casey and John Myvette were charged with Wounding. They pled not guilty and were released on one thousand dollars bail. They will reappear on May seventh. The two cops are accused of beating Kevin “Possum” Dawson with clubs while he was being […]
Written on March 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Last Friday we reported of the clever scheme one prisoner carried out for what turned out to be a brief moment of freedom. Kevin Dawson, also known as Possum, was caught last Thursday in Corozal after he swapped identities with another prisoner to trick the court into thinking he was someone else. But while in […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Today there was a shooting but its victim was lucky to escape death. Twenty-two year old Delroy Matura underwent surgery this afternoon after he was shot several times this morning on Neal’s Pen Road. His cousin, who did not want to appear on camera, told us what she knows of the attack. Police said they […]
Written on March 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Politics, corruption and missing money may be foremost on the nation’s consciousness these last few weeks, but if the epidemic of senseless homicides now gripping the nation is allowed to continue, there may one day be nobody left to care about those weighty matters of state. News Five’s Marion Ali reports that the latest murder […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Punta Gorda police have arrested and charged a teacher for engaging in sex with a student. A thirteen year old girl from Dolores village has accused twenty-two year old Marcos Chub of taking her into a classroom and sexually assaulting her. As a result of their investigation, on Saturday police charged Chub with one count […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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One rapist who cannot even pretend to be innocent was today sentenced for his crime. Mark Cardinez, convicted two weeks ago of rape in the Supreme Court, will spend the next eighteen years behind bars. This morning Justice Michelle Arana heard mitigation pleas from Cardinez’ wife, a friend, and his lawyer, Ernest Staine. She also […]
Written on March 18, 2008 | Posted in
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