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Two women have been charged with assault for unrelated attacks involving machetes. The first incident occurred in Seine Bight Village on Sunday between sixteen year old Alejandra Diego and thirty-five year old Valerie Bernard. According to the teen, around five that evening she was talking with some friends when a machete-wielding Bernard suddenly came after […]
Written on May 23, 2007 | Posted in
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A ten year old girl has drowned in the Belize River. According to police Jacqueline Carcamo of Belmopan was swimming near Banana Bank on Monday afternoon when she went under and did not resurface. She was accompanied by her mother and sister. Jacqueline’s body was recovered at the scene and a post-mortem conducted on Tuesday […]
Written on May 23, 2007 | Posted in
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Murders in Belize come in all shapes, sizes, and motives, but when it comes to sheer senseless cruelty, the one that occurred on Sunday in Belize City has few rivals. Wen Fei Xu, Daughter/Sister “This is something really, really tragic. It has already broken our family.” Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting According to Sue Wen Faye, around […]
Written on May 22, 2007 | Posted in
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A robbery gone wrong made for high police drama in Punta Gorda before dawn on Monday. According to authorities, around four-thirty that morning, two officers were dispatched to Cherrish Store on King Street to investigate a robbery in progress. The cops discovered the back door open and when they went inside, their flashlights found the […]
Written on May 22, 2007 | Posted in
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Around the same time that Raudalez was knocked down, another tragedy involving a young victim was unfolding in Dangriga at the residence of thirty-seven year old Antoinette Flowers. Police in that southern municipality report that Flowers was at home with her one year old daughter, Ann Marie Martinez, when the mother left the toddler in […]
Written on May 17, 2007 | Posted in
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A Belize City youth lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of yet another shooting. According to police, twenty-one year old Marvin Ramirez was critically wounded after an unidentified gunman shot him in the left side of the chest, abdomen, hip, thigh, wrist, and bicep. Ramirez reportedly came under a hail of bullets […]
Written on May 17, 2007 | Posted in
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A seventeen year old and his eighteen year old brother were today charged with rape and abetment respectively. According to court reports, a sixteen year old girl reported to police that she was walking on Euphrates Avenue on May eighth when she was dragged into an alley and held down by Rojan Staine while Stephen […]
Written on May 16, 2007 | Posted in
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Details remain sketchy, but a teenager has apparently drowned in the Mopan River near Santa Familia. According to police, around four this afternoon a watchman in the area heard the cries of some boys yelling that they saw someone go under the water and not resurface. The body was recovered and has been identified as […]
Written on May 15, 2007 | Posted in
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It was a bad day for burglars as police have made arrests in three separate cases. This morning, thirty-two year old Otis Carr appeared in the courtroom of Magistrate Sharon Fraser where he pled not guilty to Burglary. Carr is accused of breaking into a room at the Princess Hotel just before midnight on Sunday. […]
Written on May 15, 2007 | Posted in
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A young Orange Walk woman is dead and the murder appears to be a case of brutal rage committed by someone she knows. This morning I travelled to the scene of the Mother’s Day crime. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting There is no physical evidence to suggest that thirty-three year old Anna Maria Novelo fought off her […]
Written on May 14, 2007 | Posted in
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And while O.W. police hunt for a murderer, their counterparts in the old capital made arrests in a shooting which left a teen dead and another in the K.H.M.H. Authorities believe that twenty-year old Rushane Andrewin and twenty-three year old Troy Dawson were the men who opened fire on Meldrick Flowers and Michael Malic on […]
Written on May 14, 2007 | Posted in
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There may have not been a murder, but Belize City had its share of crime this weekend as several shootings and a stabbing have left five persons hospitalised. The first victim was fifteen year old Shaquille Billary of Banak Street. According to Billary, around seven on Friday night she was on Logwood Street when an […]
Written on May 14, 2007 | Posted in
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But while those robbers managed to escape, a group which tried to break into a Spanish Lookout restaurant were not so fortunate, thanks to some quick acting special constables. Around ten-thirty on Saturday night two Police Special Constables responded to reports that there was a burglary in progress at Midway Restaurant on Central Road. As […]
Written on May 14, 2007 | Posted in
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A Belize City man is at home recovering from gunshot wounds tonight following a shooting incident on Thursday. Forty-four year old McKoy Daniels has reported to police that around eight last night he was riding his bicycle on Mahogany Street when another cyclist approached from the opposite direction. According to Daniels, without warning the man […]
Written on May 11, 2007 | Posted in
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And while cops try to solve that crime, there is one more gun on the streets of Belize tonight as a businessman has reported his weapon missing. The unnamed owner is offering a thousand dollar reward for the return of his chrome thirty-eight revolver that disappeared from his vehicle somewhere between Belmopan and San Ignacio. […]
Written on May 11, 2007 | Posted in
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A convicted U.S. sex offender hiding out in Belize has been arrested and sent home. According to police, last September an arrest warrant was issued for forty-seven year old Randall Allen Smith after he failed to register as a sex offender following a conviction and jail term for the indecent assault of a female child […]
Written on May 10, 2007 | Posted in
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In other crime news, police have made arrests in separate shootings that occurred this week. According to investigators, twenty-two year old Carl Egbert Archer is the gunman who opened fire on twenty year old Meldric Flowers and fifteen year old Michael Malic, while the two were double riding on Raccoon Street Extension on Saturday night. […]
Written on May 10, 2007 | Posted in
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Four days after a Blue Marlin Drive home was burglarised and its owners robbed at gunpoint, Belize City police have arrested the three young men they strongly believe committed the crime. This morning, seventeen year old Julian Ebanks, twenty-six year old Nicholas Gordon, and twenty-eight year old Kenrick Reneau were all charged with Aggravated Burglary […]
Written on May 9, 2007 | Posted in
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One man is in the morgue and another in the hospital following a fatal weekend shooting in Belize City. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around eight-thirty on Saturday night twenty year old Meldric Tyrone Flowers was riding his bicycle on Raccoon Street Extension with fifteen year old Michael Malic sitting on the handle bar when they were […]
Written on May 7, 2007 | Posted in
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Authorities strongly believe that twenty-three year old Earl Crawford knows who shot him and why but police say he has not been cooperating with the investigation. Crawford was driving a Honda Civic on Dean Street towards Euphrates Avenue around eleven on Saturday night when upon reaching the intersection gunshots rang out. Crawford was hit in […]
Written on May 7, 2007 | Posted in
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Police and the law abiding public have eight more guns in the hands of criminals to worry about. No one would speak to us at Anchor Security, but tonight the company is without a number of its firearms following a hold up at its office on East Canal in Belize City. The company’s night supervisor […]
Written on May 7, 2007 | Posted in
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The tourism industry in the Cayo District has been rebounding nicely from a string of armed robberies last year on the road to the Caracol ancient Maya site, but a hold-up at Xunantunich is once again giving cause for concern. Police report around nine-thirty this morning a group of ten tourists were robbed at gun […]
Written on May 7, 2007 | Posted in
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In today’s tight economic times, administrators at many Belizean schools must depend on the business community’s kindness, parental support, and active fundraising efforts to meet the educational needs of our youngest citizens. So when school property is stolen or damaged, teachers and their students are especially hard hit. Such was the case today at St. […]
Written on May 7, 2007 | Posted in
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Belize City police have confirmed the identity of a man found dead on Belcan Bridge early Thursday morning. According to investigators, the corpse is that of Giovanni Martinez, a resident of Coney Drive. And while cops know who he is, tonight they are still trying to figure out how Martinez died. Because he had a […]
Written on May 4, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight there’s a body in the Belize City morgue and authorities are trying to solve a mystery. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Belize City police need your help in identifying this man found dead early this morning. The corpse, described only as wearing dreadlocks and sporting a gold tooth, was discovered on the Belcan Bridge. The obvious […]
Written on May 3, 2007 | Posted in
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