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Senior Magistrate Dorothy Flowers has committed twenty year-old Rushane Andrewin and twenty-three year old Troy Dawson to stand trial for murder in the Supreme Court. This morning Flowers ruled that the evidence presented in the preliminary inquiry for the men was sufficient for them to face trial. Andrewin and Dawson are accused in the shooting […]
Written on February 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Fifty-four year old Graciliano Coc, who was found guilty last week of the attempted murder of his cousin, thirty-eight year old Emiliano Pop, was sentenced to eight years in prison today by Justice Adolph Lucas in Dangriga Supreme Court. Coc, who was not represented by an attorney, did not offer any plea for mitigation. Crown […]
Written on February 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Luis Cardenas, who handed himself in to police following last week’s double murder in Orange Walk Town, has been remanded to the Hattieville Prison—but not on a charge of homicide … at least not yet. The eighteen year old Cardenas was charged with the armed robbery of Janine’s Shop on Sarstoon Street in that municipality […]
Written on February 19, 2008 | Posted in
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In Placencia, police have charged twenty-four year old Brian Vernon in connection with the fatal shooting of twenty-five year old Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson. While police do not believe Vernon was the triggerman, they have charged him with Conspiracy to Commit Murder. Vernon was picked up on Saturday in the village and is expected to appear […]
Written on February 19, 2008 | Posted in
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This afternoon police escorted four men to court, including one of their fellow officers, whom they believe were behind the Valentine’s Day murder of Roberto Torres and Eugene Flores and the wounding of Ron Thomas. The men, twenty-two year old Ryan Felix, twenty-one year old Albert Allen, twenty-eight year old Earl Hamilton and twenty-one year […]
Written on February 18, 2008 | Posted in
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A man wanted for questioning over last week’s double murder of Jose Ricalde and Nazim Romero and the shooting of Noe Perez has turned himself in to police. Luis Cardenas visited the Orange Walk Police Station on Friday and police have already charged him with two counts of Robbery for crimes which occurred in that […]
Written on February 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Police are looking for a man after he allegedly raped a woman inside her home. The fifty-six year old housewife, who lives at mile forty-four on the Old Northern Highway, told Orange Walk police that she was alone at home around ten on Sunday morning when a man she knows as Sergio Betancourt came to […]
Written on February 18, 2008 | Posted in
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A Benque Viejo resident accused of child molestation has been convicted of the crime. It took the jury less than two hours to find thirty-two year old Raul Rivero guilty of the Carnal Knowledge of a ten year old girl. During trial, the victim, who is now twelve years old, took the stand and told […]
Written on February 18, 2008 | Posted in
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The wheels of the judicial system often turn slowly but swift justice has been handed down to two burglars who broke into a Belize City home on Sunday morning. According to court reports, fifty-one year old Eneyda Perera left her house at mile two and a half at about five past nine but fifteen minutes […]
Written on February 18, 2008 | Posted in
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When it comes to fatal violence, the year started out on a hopeful note but in the last week a string of murders from north to south has put a damper on any post election euphoria and reminded Belizeans that partisan politics alone will not solve our most serious social problems. News Five’s Marion Ali […]
Written on February 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Shortly after the smoke cleared in Belize City, police in Placencia had their hands full with a murder in that picturesque village. Around nine p.m. twenty-five year old Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson was found dead in his home, the victim of gunshot wounds to the chest and back. Cops believe that Henderson had engaged in a […]
Written on February 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Meanwhile in the Corozal District police were called to an abandoned cane field where they found the body of fifty year taxi driver Eduardo Samos. Samos, who resides on the Consejo Road had been shot in the face. No suspects have been arrested as police investigations continue. These latest homicides bring the total number of […]
Written on February 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Last night we visited San Pedro to chronicle an execution style murder. Tonight there’s another hit to report, this time in Orange Walk, which left two men dead and one injured. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Emerita Ramos, Mother of Nazim Romero “What he do, he take away a son of one person […]
Written on February 14, 2008 | Posted in
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There was another fatal shooting today, late this evening on Gill Street in Belize City. News Five’s Marion Ali is just in from the hospital where Senior Superintendent Chester Williams gave her some of the details. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, O.C., Eastern Division “Sometime around five-fifteen there about, the police were called to Gill Street […]
Written on February 14, 2008 | Posted in
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Belize City police are tonight looking for two men in connection with a home invasion which left a housewife injured and fourteen thousand dollars poorer. The victim is thirty year old Fromi Daly, a resident of Dean Street. According to Daly, about a quarter to five on Wednesday morning she was coming out of her […]
Written on February 14, 2008 | Posted in
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It was the kind of killing that would hardly raise an eyebrow in Belize City, but when a body is found pumped full of lead on Ambergris Caye, it’s big news. Marion Ali visited the island today and found several people who heard shots, but none who actually witnessed the murder. Marion Ali, Reporting Residents […]
Written on February 13, 2008 | Posted in
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Orange Walk police have concluded that the fire early on the morning of election day at the Orange Walk East Women’s Group Resource Centre was intentionally set. This morning Michael Middleton of the National Fire Service told News Five that inside the computer room they found a bottle stuffed with a piece of cloth that […]
Written on February 13, 2008 | Posted in
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His picture was distributed by police in connection with the third shooting that occurred early Saturday morning in Belize City and by this afternoon Leroy Ramsey had been arrested and charged. Police say they responded to a tip that the twenty-two year old was at a house on Neal’s Pen Road and, when they arrived […]
Written on February 12, 2008 | Posted in
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Eighteen year old Kenroy Parham, one of two masked men who allegedly stole fifty dollars from Allison Hemsley, a security guard of Mahogany Heights, was charged with Robbery and Harm when he appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers could not offer Parham bail because the robbery was committed with a firearm and she […]
Written on February 12, 2008 | Posted in
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Belize City is no stranger to gang violence but in the wee hours of Saturday morning that cycle of murder and fatal retaliation reached a new level of insanity that left two dead and thirteen wounded. It also left a community, already wary of going out at night, locked down in fear. News Five’s Marion […]
Written on February 11, 2008 | Posted in
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Bullets weren’t the only violent objects flying over the weekend as a machete was also used to seriously hurt a Belize City man. According to investigators, around eleven on Friday night forty-four year old Kirk Craig was at the corner of St. Joseph and Nurse Seay Streets when he got into a fight with another […]
Written on February 11, 2008 | Posted in
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A well known Belize City electronics store has significantly less stock tonight. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Since Korea Electronics moved to its permanent location late last year at the former Peyrefitte Brothers Warehouse at Cinderella Plaza thieves have targeted them twice. The most recent burglary occurred between Sunday night and Monday […]
Written on February 6, 2008 | Posted in
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Police suspect foul play in the death of a woman from August Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District and are now looking for her husband. This is after a post mortem on her body revealed she died of an injury to the head caused by a blunt object. Twenty-five year old Erwin Blanco told […]
Written on February 5, 2008 | Posted in
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Police and government officials are investigating how thieves could have gotten into the Fisheries Department headquarters on Princess Margaret Drive and stolen three licensed handguns. The break-in occurred around eight last night during a heavy downpour. Fisheries security guard, fifty-seven year old Ronnie Castillo, told police that he was sheltering from the rain in the […]
Written on February 5, 2008 | Posted in
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When we last visited Dangriga’s Christ the King Anglican school in November it was to report on it’s preparations for Garifuna Settlement Day. Tonight the news is less pleasant, as over the weekend thieves broke in, not once, but twice. The first break-in occurred between Friday night and Sunday morning and was detected by a […]
Written on February 5, 2008 | Posted in
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