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A Dangriga man has died while in the custody of police. Authorities have launched a full investigation to determine what caused the death of eighteen year old Fredrick Martinez. Preliminary reports are that around five-thirty on Sunday evening Martinez, described by police as a mental patient, assaulted a taxi driver and was threatening other people. […]
Written on June 6, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City police have detained one man in connection with a shooting incident that has left a thirty-seven year old woman hospitalised. According to police, around eight on Tuesday night Gaye McKenzie was standing outside her family’s residence at the corner of Ebony and Sittee Streets talking with another woman when she was shot in […]
Written on June 6, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight a popular sculptor is behind bars, accused of a sexual assault. This morning forty-nine year old Curl Gordon appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie where he was formally arraigned on one count of unlawful carnal knowledge. No plea was taken as the matter is an indictable offence. During the proceeding the prosecution objected to […]
Written on June 6, 2007 | Posted in
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Three people have been arrested for attempting to intimidate a witness in a criminal trial. Based on a report by the witness that he was accosted on Saturday, prior to the trial police have arrested sixty-five year old Ramon Barahona, thirty-six year old Jesus Echeverria, and fifty-one year old Azucena Tesecum, all of Corozal Town. […]
Written on June 6, 2007 | Posted in
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An Independence villager is hospitalized tonight, following a stabbing in that southern community late Saturday. According to family members, around eleven-thirty that night, twenty-two year old Baudillo Vargas was riding his bicycle near the cemetery when he was struck in the back with a machete. Vargas fell and was hit again in the forehead and […]
Written on June 4, 2007 | Posted in
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The epidemic of break-ins at public institutions has spread to the nation’s premier cultural site, the beautifully recreated Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. The worst part was that this crime was not perpetrated by a bunch of kids out for mischief. William Neal, Executive Director, ICA “The security guard was not terribly hurt but […]
Written on June 4, 2007 | Posted in
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In his first televised interview, today political activist Derek Aikman gave his account of his bizarre kidnapping that occurred five days ago. Aikman was a guest on Krem Television’s Wake Up Belize Morning Vibes where he shared an incredible story, beginning with how he was taken hostage. According to Aikman, just after eight on Sunday […]
Written on June 1, 2007 | Posted in
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Separate attacks at two city schools have sent a security guard to hospital and left a teacher walking to work. In the first incident, before seven this morning, staff and students of All Saints Primary showed up to school only to find blood all over one of the verandas and their security guard missing. Subsequent […]
Written on June 1, 2007 | Posted in
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Derek Aikman has been released from the hospital and returned to his home. Aikman, who went missing for two days in what appears to be a bizarre kidnapping, was found Tuesday night on the Western Highway bound, gagged, and blindfolded with duct tape. Today I visited him at his residence on the Boom Road and […]
Written on May 31, 2007 | Posted in
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Police say it was a longstanding family dispute that led to the senseless and brutal stabbing of three family members in the Cayo District. Investigations reveal that for some time forty-six year old Jose Herman Ochaeta, a woodworking instructor at C.E.T. San Ignacio, and the Lucero family, also of San Ignacio, have been feuding and […]
Written on May 31, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City police have arrested the thirty-five year old mother of three they detained following Tuesday’s fire on Collet Canal. The woman, Salvadoran Mirna Nunez, has been charged with child neglect. Authorities say Nunez’s three, six, and seven year old children were left home alone in their apartment where it is alleged that they set […]
Written on May 31, 2007 | Posted in
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Police have launched a countrywide manhunt for an accused killer following the death of a Stann Creek district resident on Monday. According to police, forty-one year old Floyd Ogaldez of number thirty-three Oak Street in Dangriga is one of four men who police believe are responsible for the fatal stabbing of Steadfast villager, twenty-three year […]
Written on May 31, 2007 | Posted in
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First, the easy part: Derek Aikman is alive and well and reunited with his family. Now, the hard part: there is no discernable motive for the kidnapping so until Aikman is well enough and inclined to tell his story, there will remain far more questions than answers. For now, the only thing we can be […]
Written on May 30, 2007 | Posted in
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Police believe they know what started yesterday’s fire on Collet Canal and have detained a thirty-five year old resident of one of the building’s apartments. Investigations reveal that the thirty-five year old woman in question left her three children, ages three, six, and seven, alone in the apartment and it appears that they set a […]
Written on May 30, 2007 | Posted in
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Three men have been arrested and charged with the murder for the death of Adrian Cruz in Steadfast Village. The twenty-four year old Cruz died on Monday in Southern Regional Hospital while undergoing treatment for stab wounds he suffered earlier that day. The three charged are Hansel Lopez, Gilroy Taylor, and Darren Chiu.
Written on May 30, 2007 | Posted in
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There are no major breaks to announce the disappearance of Derek Aikman. Aikman, a former minister of government who was just beginning to reprise a role as a political activist, has not been heard from since Monday morning and police continue to treat the case as a kidnapping, albeit one with no logical motive. Today […]
Written on May 29, 2007 | Posted in
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In an update to another fire, the one that occurred on Sunday in the Mesopotamia division, investigators say the cause of the blaze is arson. Cops do have a suspect but have declined to name him. The motive behind the incident is believed to be a domestic dispute between residents in the area. The fire […]
Written on May 29, 2007 | Posted in
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A man is in police custody tonight, pending charges in connection with a fatal shooting on Sunday evening. Nineteen year old Kevin Arnold was shot five times by a lone gunman on Armadillo Street around eight that night and pronounced dead on arrival at the K.H.M.H. Police investigations into the incident so far have netted […]
Written on May 29, 2007 | Posted in
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The charge may not be as serious as murder, but three men have been convicted of crimes against the environment. According to a release from the Belize Audubon Society, the trio was detained on Sunday for illegal fishing at Halfmoon Caye Natural Monument. Specifically, they had harvested three hundred and forty-six conchs from the waters […]
Written on May 29, 2007 | Posted in
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A Belize City man is dead tonight, the victim of yet another fatal city shooting. Police reports are that around eight on Sunday night, twenty-one year old Kevin Arnold was walking on Armadillo Street when an unidentified young man rode up beside him on a bicycle and fired numerous shots. The victim sustained gunshot wounds […]
Written on May 28, 2007 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, police have made two arrests following a robbery turned shooting that occurred last weekend. This morning, seventeen year old Devon Saldano and a minor were formally charged with attempted murder, robbery, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm. The suspects were arrested following a report by twenty-one year old Ian Gaynair. The […]
Written on May 28, 2007 | Posted in
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While it was a day of peaceful protest in Belmopan, a shooting in the old capital landed a twelve year old in the hospital. Around nine-thirty this morning, St. Ignatius student Benjamin Hyde was walking toward his house at 165 West Canal when two masked gunmen opened fire in the neighbourhood. It is not known […]
Written on May 25, 2007 | Posted in
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The University of Belize is the latest educational institution to suffer a break-in. According to a police press release, on Wednesday morning the library assistant at the Freetown Road campus filed a report that sometime between five p.m. on Tuesday and eight Wednesday morning its Engineering Resource Centre was burglarised. Stolen from the room were […]
Written on May 24, 2007 | Posted in
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This morning’s fire would not have been big news if a number of other blazes, deliberately set last night, had succeeded. Politics, it seems, was being expressed through arson. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Shortly after midnight someone threw what is believed to be kerosene on the Women’s Department building on Albert Street and set it on […]
Written on May 23, 2007 | Posted in
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Police have added to the woes of Mark Medina, the man charged yesterday with the murder of businesswoman Cui Su Xhau. Today the twenty-three year old was additionally charged with Aggravated Burglary based on a complaint filed by a resident of Ordonez Avenue. Eighteen year old Michael Cocom told police that on Friday morning a […]
Written on May 23, 2007 | Posted in
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