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While there was no shortage of murders over the New Year’s weekend on a whole the holiday season seemed largely free of traditional crimes against property … and the law enforcement community says it’s no accident. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It was a combination of heightened police security and an alert neighbourhood watch that caught two […]
Written on January 2, 2007 | Posted in
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Tonight the family of a Belize City entrepreneur is keeping vigil at the K.H.M.H. after their loved one was caught in the cross fire of another violent eruption in what police are calling a turf war. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has the disturbing details. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Tonight twenty two year old Carlos Barrera is […]
Written on December 29, 2006 | Posted in
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Just as police began to investigate the shooting incident at the corner of George and Dean Streets, detectives received word of a stabbing incident in another part of southside Belize City. When officers arrived at the scene, they found twenty-seven year old fisherman Barrington Logan better known as Barry gravely injured. He was rushed to […]
Written on December 29, 2006 | Posted in
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Amid the joy and merry making of Christmas Day, one Belize City family found itself in the throes of anguish as a domestic dispute turned deadly. And more disturbingly, the main witnesses to the crime were the couple’s two young sons. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around six p.m. on Christmas day, thirty-two year old Karel Ogaldez […]
Written on December 27, 2006 | Posted in
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In the Cayo district, homicide detectives continue to investigate an incident in San Ignacio that resulted in the death of a teenager. According to police reports, eighteen year old Chris Rosales and his friends were walking on Burns Avenue around midnight on Christmas Eve when they were attacked by another group of men. When the […]
Written on December 27, 2006 | Posted in
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A young man from Dangriga is lucky to be alive tonight following an incident on Christmas Eve. This morning the victim gave me his side of the story from his hospital bed. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Tonight twenty-one year old Dangriga resident Evan Martinez lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from injuries he suffered […]
Written on December 27, 2006 | Posted in
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And while some members of the Belize Police Department are busy spreading Christmas cheer, other colleagues are busy investigating crimes. In the Cayo district, homicide detectives are looking for two teenagers accused of murder. According to investigators, around eight thirty on Thursday night, sixteen year old Elriquez Orellano was walking in Roaring Creek village when […]
Written on December 22, 2006 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, in Mullins River a fight for the affection of a female relative got bloody when two cousins decided to settle the argument with a machete. According to Dangriga police, thirty-three year old Troy Benard and his cousin Carlton Benard both like the same woman, who just happens to be their cousin. Things got dirty […]
Written on December 22, 2006 | Posted in
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Officers in the south had their hands full on Thursday night as a traffic accident on the Stann Creek Valley road claimed a man’s life. Thirty-five year old Cowpen businessman Elmer Aguirre has reported to police that around seven that night he was driving his cargo truck towards Silk Grass Village when he knocked down […]
Written on December 22, 2006 | Posted in
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A Coca Cola truck driver was held up at gunpoint Wednesday and robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash. According to a report from Bowen and Bowen Limited, at four thirty p.m. a driver and his sideman were making their usual sales rounds when they stopped at Perez Hardware at the corner of Woodpecker and […]
Written on December 21, 2006 | Posted in
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A Toledo man has died, apparently as the result of an accidental drowning. The body of eighteen year old Fermin Choc of Crique Sarco was found by a search and rescue team at the bottom of the Temash River near the village. He was last seen on Tuesday morning talking to another man by his […]
Written on December 21, 2006 | Posted in
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He cheated death this weekend when a bullet-proof vest stopped two slugs to his chest. Today I spoke to the man whose name is still prefaced by the word “marked.” Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Belize City police say they still have no leads into the attempted murder of twenty-three year old Raymond Myers. Myers was sitting […]
Written on December 19, 2006 | Posted in
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More details are emerging regarding the background of James Ernest Thompson, The U.S. fugitive turned over by Belize authorities to the F.B.I. yesterday and flown back to the States. According internet reports from U.S. media sources, Thompson, also known as Earnest James Ujaama, entered into a plea bargain with U.S. federal prosecutors in April 2003 […]
Written on December 19, 2006 | Posted in
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If the recent epidemic of gangland style shooting murders in Belize City makes us reflect on the kind of society we have created for our youths, the homicide by slit throat that occurred in Orange Walk over the weekend may cause us to question the state of our domestic relationships. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. […]
Written on December 18, 2006 | Posted in
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In Belize City police are investigating a more familiar type of homicide which occurred late Sunday night. After receiving reports around nine p.m. of shots fired on Berkeley Street in the area of Wagner’s lane, cops discovered thirty year old William “Cat” Usher, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the face and chest. Usher was […]
Written on December 18, 2006 | Posted in
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Only two days after Leonard “Ghost” Myers was remanded to Hattieville Prison on a charge of Murder for the death of fourteen year old Rodney Cornorquie, police report that a gunman fired several shots at Myers’ brother on Friday night. It appears, however, that twenty-three year old Raymond Myers was prepared, as although the two […]
Written on December 18, 2006 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department has bagged another U.S. fugitive. This time, however, instead of a tax dodger, bigamist or sex offender they hit the jackpot, nabbing a suspect with ties to the world of terrorism. Forty-one year old Ernest James Thompson, also known as James Ujaama and Bilal Ahmed, violated parole in the United States […]
Written on December 18, 2006 | Posted in
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Three sisters are recovering from injuries resulting from a hit and run which took place Friday evening in the Dump Area of Punta Gorda. Twenty-one year old Martina Cal received severe head and body injuries and was later transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where she remains in a serious but stable condition. Twelve […]
Written on December 18, 2006 | Posted in
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Today the police department, acting on a directive from the D.P.P., arrested one of its own and charged him for the crime of Murder. The charges against Constable Jesus Maroquin stem from an incident on September twenty-seventh in Los Lagos. On that day, police responded to a burglary in progress at a home in the […]
Written on December 18, 2006 | Posted in
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Killing with impunity: that seems to be the latest style on the streets of Belize City as young men settle scores and battle for turf. We can search deeply for the causes and wonder where this is all heading, but like both the perpetrators and victims, we stay very much concerned about the here and […]
Written on December 11, 2006 | Posted in
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Police also used this afternoon’s press conference to brief the public on the case of young Rodney Conorquie. Homicide detectives believe it was an ongoing rivalry between two Belize City gangs that led to Wednesday evening’s murder of the innocent victim. Supt. Chester Williams, Officer Commanding, C.I.B.
Written on December 8, 2006 | Posted in
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We won’t say that the unthinkable happened Wednesday evening because when it comes to unvarnished violence in Belize, these days nothing can come as a surprise. But the fatal massacre of an unarmed innocent teenager on the streets of Belize City is about as bad as it gets. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has the tragic […]
Written on December 7, 2006 | Posted in
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Making good on their pledge to act quickly following Monday night’s murder in Conch Shell Bay, police today arrested and charged one suspect and are hot on the heels of another. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Twenty-five year old Leonardo Cassanova, a fisherman and resident of the Conch Shell Bay Area is one of the persons police […]
Written on December 6, 2006 | Posted in
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Just about the time viewers of last night’s newscast were learning details of the killing of Oscar Westby on Faber’s Road another homicide was being committed, this time, in the Conch Shell Bay area of Belize City. Like many previous execution style killings, the victim never had a chance. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Twenty-four year old […]
Written on December 5, 2006 | Posted in
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Too many guns and too many people willing to use them. That’s the situation in Belize City as this weekend saw another series of shooting incidents that left one man in the morgue and three others in the hospital. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the details. Janelle Chanona, Reporting On Sunday evening, the occupants of […]
Written on December 4, 2006 | Posted in
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