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Gender based violence is a subject often talked about in Belize…unfortunately because it’s so often practiced. The latest outrage occurred on Saturday night in Belize City. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Tonight this young mother of two little boys is recovering from stab wounds she suffered at the hands of her estranged […]
Written on November 5, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight Punta Gorda police are looking for the driver involved in a deadly hit and run accident on the Southern Highway over the weekend. Reports are that around two-thirty on Sunday morning the P.G. football team was returning from a game in Belmopan but as the driver approached the Big Falls Bridge, he spotted the […]
Written on November 5, 2007 | Posted in
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Late this afternoon, police officials were still locked in meetings with prosecutors following the arrest of three Ghanaian men and a Belizean woman in connection to what appears to be a major immigration scam. Details are still sketchy but we understand tonight that after months of surveillance today Belize City police and immigration officers conducted […]
Written on November 2, 2007 | Posted in
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Late breaking news tonight is that police have arrested and charged prisoner Deon Slusher for the murder of fellow inmate Gilroy Wade. There is very little information surrounding the arrest but we do understand that Slusher is serving a life sentence for the murder of Philip Chin. And while an arrest has been made, the […]
Written on November 2, 2007 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, another shooting in Belize City put three children in harm’s way. The incident took place around twelve-thirty on Thursday afternoon. According to twenty-one year old Clifton Flores, he was driving on Alligator Street with a female friend and the three children when three masked men jumped over a fence. One of the trio fired […]
Written on November 2, 2007 | Posted in
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A Corozal man is behind bars tonight after he was busted burglarizing a local business. According to police, around five on Thursday morning, neighbours of Patty’s Bistro on Fourth Avenue reported that a man had been spotted breaking into the eatery. When cops arrived at the scene, they found that someone had broken the lock […]
Written on November 2, 2007 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, authorities have also made an arrest in connection to the armed robbery of a bus driver. The accused is Ricky Valencia of Queen Charlotte Street. According to Belize City police, Valencia was one of two men who assaulted fifty-five year old Seaford Dawson, who works for James Bus Line, around eight-forty on Monday night, […]
Written on November 2, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight an internal investigation continues into a police shooting that has left a San Pedro man dead. According to an eyewitness, around ten-thirty on Wednesday night, twenty-six year old Jimmy Gutierrez was spotted carrying a weapon at Wet Willie’s Bar in the San Juan area. Someone tipped off the cops but by then Gutierrez was […]
Written on November 1, 2007 | Posted in
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Prison and police officials are investigating the fatal shooting of a prison inmate at the Hattieville Correctional Facility today. Chief Executive Officer at the Prison, Marlon Skeen, told News Five this evening that the incident occurred around three o’clock this afternoon while the prisoners were on recreational break near the Maximum security area of the […]
Written on November 1, 2007 | Posted in
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Two days after a bus driver was held up and robbed, Belize City police still have no leads as to who committed the crime. The victim, fifty-five year old Seaford Dawson, who works for James Bus Line, reported to authorities that around eight-forty on Monday night, he stopped at the Pound Yard Bridge to let […]
Written on October 31, 2007 | Posted in
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Twenty-two year old Darren Myvette, a resident of Georgeville Village, has been charged with carnal knowledge following an incident involving a twelve year old girl. When the child was taken for a medical examination it was also discovered that she is pregnant. According to police, the girl, in the company of her mother, told them […]
Written on October 31, 2007 | Posted in
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Police in Benque Viejo have been busy busting Guatemalans involved in the heavy cross border marijuana trade. On Monday morning they stopped two suspicious men carrying knapsacks and found seven pounds of weed in one and four pounds in another. Twenty year old Armando DeJesus Jimenez of Dolores, Guatemala and twenty-one year old Nelson Otoniel […]
Written on October 31, 2007 | Posted in
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And while the Police Department celebrated the newest cops to hit the block, this afternoon Minister of Home Affairs Ralph Fonseca responded to public outcry following the collapse to the Ben Bou-Nahra manslaughter case in the Supreme Court. According to Fonseca, the officers who took the stand have been charged with perjury and there has […]
Written on October 30, 2007 | Posted in
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The police have yet another hit and run mystery to solve. The accident that occurred just before seven on Monday night took the life of forty-eight year old Daniel Diaz. Diaz, a mason of Trial Farm Village in the Orange Walk District, was riding his bicycle on the right hand side of the Northern Highway […]
Written on October 30, 2007 | Posted in
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Customs officials have declined to comment on a case of forgery that Belize City police are investigating, telling News Five that the detective work has only just begun. According to the authorities, Miguel Uk, an enforcement officer with the Customs Department, reported that between the period of August eighth and October nineteenth of this year, […]
Written on October 30, 2007 | Posted in
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Two police officers whose failure to identify a defendant resulted in his acquittal were this morning arraigned before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. The two officers, forty-six year old Sergeant Anthony Polonio of Halfmoon Avenue, Belmopan, and forty-five year old Constable Darius Ramos of Faber’s Road in Belize City, were interdicted last Friday from active police […]
Written on October 29, 2007 | Posted in
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A teenager has been arrested and charged in connection with last week’s murder of a Corozal man. According to investigators, eighteen year old Arlo Joseph Carter is the person who bludgeoned fifty-five year old Ernesto Riverol to death sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning. Concerned neighbours later discovered Riverol’s body in a pool of […]
Written on October 29, 2007 | Posted in
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While Corozal police have made an arrest in the Riverol murder, tonight they are still looking for two robbers who stole thousands of dollars in cash and a handgun from a local businessman. Construction supplies retailer Ricardo Gomez has reported that around five-thirty on Friday evening, he was crossing the double lane boulevard that separates […]
Written on October 29, 2007 | Posted in
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Following the embarrassing collapse of the murder trial against Belize City businessman Ben Bou-Nahra because investigating officers could not identify the accused, today two of the three cops in question have been relieved of duty. According to police high command, the actions of the trio will be scrutinised by internal affairs to determine if disciplinary […]
Written on October 26, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight police are investigating the murder of a Corozal carpenter. According to authorities, this morning the body of fifty-five year old Ernesto Riverol was discovered in the living room of his Third Street home with serious injuries to the back of his head. Investigators believe the victim was killed sometime between late Thursday evening and […]
Written on October 26, 2007 | Posted in
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A hit and run accident in the Belize district has left one man dead. According to investigators, thirty-two year old Herbert Gillett, better known as “Peacemaker,” was riding his bike home around ten on Wednesday night when he was knocked down between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight on the Northern Highway. The Biscayne villager suffered serious […]
Written on October 26, 2007 | Posted in
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Over the last few years we have dutifully reported as members of the Belize Police Force increasingly engage in acts of criminal behaviour including homicide, rape, theft, extortion, smuggling and assorted brutalities far too numerous to mention. But on Wednesday when four police officers swore under oath that they could not identify Ben Bou-Nahra, the […]
Written on October 25, 2007 | Posted in
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Cops are not the only uniformed personnel under pressure tonight. A release from the U.S. Embassy reports that a B.D.F. soldier has been busted for running a visa scam. The man, identified only as Corporal Paul Adolphus, fraudulently helped eighteen Belizeans obtain U.S. visas by falsely affirming that they were members of the B.D.F. going […]
Written on October 25, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City police believe it was jealousy that caused one childhood friend to shoot another. The drama unfolded around ten-thirty on Tuesday morning outside the home of Elizabeth Martinez. Police investigations reveal that Martinez was sitting in her yard talking with twenty-eight year old Eric Jones when twenty-seven year old Norris Martinez, no relation to […]
Written on October 24, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City Police are not saying what kind of a mission they believe three suspects may have been on when their vehicle was intercepted by a police mobile patrol but what the officers found inside the car may have caught them by surprise. Authorities say around eight-thirty on Tuesday night they observed a grey Pontiac […]
Written on October 24, 2007 | Posted in
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