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Just when you think you’ve exhausted all the different ways to chronicle a tragic death, along comes another senseless murder that forces us to describe that which defies rational description. The latest outrage occurred Sunday night just after nine in Belize City. The precise location is a house on the ironically named… Freedom Street. Jacqueline […]
Written on September 16, 2002 | Posted in
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A man from the Toledo District is at the K.H.M.H. tonight recovering from chop wounds he received over the weekend. According to the victim, forty-two year old village Alcalde, Juan Kib, the reason for the attack was a stolen bicycle. (Juan Kib, Alcalde, San Vicente Village, speaking in Ketchi) Domingo Pop, Chairman, San Vicente Village, […]
Written on September 16, 2002 | Posted in
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We’re not sure if the gunman was attracted by the newly raised prices for butane, but this morning the offices of one of the nation’s largest gas dealers was the victim of an armed robbery. At around ten-thirty a lone dark-skinned man walked into the offices of Southern Choice Butane Gas Company on the Northern […]
Written on September 13, 2002 | Posted in
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That bizarre string of drug related kidnappings is gradually being resolved. Yesterday the two suspects in the second kidnapping of Juan Mendoza were brought into Belize City Magistrate’s Court. They are seventeen-year-old Michael Heusner of Courtney Crescent and nineteen year old Noel Barrow of Consuelo Street, both in Belize City. The pair was charged with […]
Written on September 13, 2002 | Posted in
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Residents of Corozal Town awoke this morning to a shocking sight: the body of a young girl floating in the tranquil waters of the bay. Police were called around eight-thirty to an area near Rainbow Beach Park where the partially decomposed corpse was estimated to be that of an Hispanic female between four and seven […]
Written on September 12, 2002 | Posted in
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The unidentified drowning victim in Corozal is not the only mystery facing police tonight. A con man is apparently on the loose, and while no lives are in danger, he may put your wallet at risk. According to police reports, on August eighth one Jalal Mohammed Atich purchased a twelve thousand dollar welding machine from […]
Written on September 12, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight Belmopan police are investigating a robbery on the Hummingbird Highway that occurred late Sunday night. They report that around midnight seventy-three year old Hilberto Santos, a watchman for Bee Leaf Enterprises was working on the property when he saw a man standing near the company storeroom. Santos told police that when he approached the […]
Written on September 12, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight four of the men accused of the kidnapping of two Belize City residents over the weekend are out on bail. Contrary to what we reported last night, News 5 understands that P.C. Martin Castillo was charged with kidnapping but was offered and met bail of five thousand dollars. Two of his alleged accomplices: forty-one […]
Written on September 12, 2002 | Posted in
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This afternoon, twenty-three year old Police Constable Martin Castillo, and two BDF soldiers: thirty-two year old Juan Jimenez and Urbanos Teck, twenty-one, were escorted to Magistrate’s Court where they were arraigned on charges of kidnapping. It is alleged that the cop, the two soldiers and civilians Emerson Wade of Belize City and Wallington Russell of […]
Written on September 11, 2002 | Posted in
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If Sunday’s kidnapping and subsequent arrests were all there was to the bizarre incident it would still be a big story. But believe it or not, there’s more. Apparently, whoever wanted information from Juan Mendoza, wanted it so badly that on Tuesday they tried to kidnap him a second time. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline […]
Written on September 11, 2002 | Posted in
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In police news a Belize City man has been hospitalized after he was shot on Monday night. Twenty-two year old Herman Morris told police that he was riding his bike on Amara Avenue around seven o’clock when a green pickup stopped and its two occupants opened fire on him. A wounded Morris was taken to […]
Written on September 11, 2002 | Posted in
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No foul play is suspected, but a U.S. tourist has been found dead in his hotel room. On Tuesday police were called to the Biltmore Plaza on the Northern Highway where they were shown the body of thirty-seven year old Roy Self. Self, who had checked in the night before, was found fully clothed with […]
Written on September 11, 2002 | Posted in
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Police say their investigation into the death of six-month-old Amber Brittaney Camal continues. On Monday evening a post-mortem examination conducted on the baby’s body proved inconclusive. According to authorities, tissue samples have been taken and further tests will need to be conducted in order to determine the exact cause of death. Baby Camal died several […]
Written on September 11, 2002 | Posted in
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It’s a story that threatens to permanently and seriously damage the reputation of Belizean law enforcement: a uniformed police officer and two uniformed members of the Belize Defence Force involved in the kidnapping of two Belize City residents. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, around 11:00 Sunday morning, the officer and BDF soldiers, […]
Written on September 9, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight a young mother is mourning the loss of her only child, while the cops try to figure out what caused the infant to die. On Friday morning, the parents of six-month-old Amber Camal left her at the babysitter’s, but the next time they saw her, the child was in the hospital and close to […]
Written on September 9, 2002 | Posted in
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In terms of money stolen and firepower expended, yesterday’s armed robbery in the Mennonite community of Springfield, was not remarkable–at least when compared to the daily shootouts which have become part of life in Belize City. But myths die hard and the vision of tranquillity in the bucolic Belizean countryside is no more accurate than […]
Written on September 6, 2002 | Posted in
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Details are still hard to come by, but as I speak, Belmopan police are in the Mennonite community of Springfield investigating reports of an armed assault on residents. Eyewitnesses tell News 5 that around 5:00 p.m., several unmasked, but heavily armed men, invaded the community, located off the Hummingbird Highway, with robbery as the main […]
Written on September 5, 2002 | Posted in
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A robbery in Ladyville has left a merchant short of cash and a suspect in detention. Around 8:00 Tuesday night two men approached twenty-eight year old Alex Zheng as he closed up his shop on Marage Road in Ladyville. According to Zheng, one of the men fired a handgun in his direction, but the shot […]
Written on September 4, 2002 | Posted in
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After Sunday’s armed rape and robbery near El Pilar, authorities here said they were looking forward to co-operation from their counterparts across the border. Today that help became a reality when seven police officers, including the police chief, from the Guatemalan town of Melchor de Mencos, paid a visit to Belize. Joined by a team […]
Written on September 3, 2002 | Posted in
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In crime news from the city, two men have been injured in separate shooting incidents. Police report that on Saturday night eighteen-year-old Aaron Lizama of Second Street was shot in the hip after encountering a man at a party with whom he had a previous misunderstanding. Lizama was admitted to the K.H.M.H. in a stable […]
Written on September 3, 2002 | Posted in
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Most travellers are familiar with that sinking feeling when you suddenly realise that you have left your bag in the terminal after your bus or plane has already departed, with you aboard. We’re not sure if that same thing happened to a patron of the Novelos Bus Line, but there is an item sitting in […]
Written on September 3, 2002 | Posted in
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Recent history demonstrates that being a security guard is the most dangerous job in Belize today…and the shooting death of yet another watchman over the weekend only confirms that conclusion. While the cops search for clues, the cold blooded killers are still on the loose and as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports, it seems that […]
Written on September 2, 2002 | Posted in
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It may not have resulted in any deaths, but a mass robbery and rape Sunday morning in the Cayo District has police, local residents and government officials determined to solve the crime. The incident, reminiscent of the 1999 hold-up and murder on the Hummingbird Highway, took place on the road between Bullet Tree and the […]
Written on September 2, 2002 | Posted in
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Police investigations continue tonight into the brazen kidnapping of a Belize City businessman and his subsequent escape. Thirty-year-old George Herbert, a boat builder from Faber’s Road Extension told police that within an hour of his abduction, he managed to elude his captors unhurt. Details are still sketchy, but News 5 understands that after engaging in […]
Written on August 30, 2002 | Posted in
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All over Belize City tonight, residents are mulling over possible motives behind the latest crime to shock the community to the core. While we are used to seeing the bloodshed of murder, a brazen kidnapping in the middle of the day is close to unbelievable. News 5’s Janelle Chanona has the disturbing details. Janelle Chanona, […]
Written on August 29, 2002 | Posted in
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