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A Belizean businessman will appear in court tomorrow to answer charges for various customs offences. According to a release from the Customs and Excise Department, twenty-seven year old Jitendra Chawla, owner of J.C. Belize and the Xtra House Supermarket on Cemetery Road, has evaded custom duties, falsified declaration forms, obstructed the duties of a customs […]
Written on July 3, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight a husband is behind bars after he viciously stabbed his wife in front of several eyewitnesses and then left her to die on the floor. The couple, both employees of the Belize Defence Force, were known to have a stormy relationship, but many had hoped the marriage would not end in violence. News 5’s […]
Written on July 2, 2002 | Posted in
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An intensive manhunt is underway tonight as officials search for an escaped convict on the run. Details of how the prisoner managed to escape the confines of his cell in the maximum-security section of the facility are being withheld. But News 5 understands that sometime during bed check at approximately 9:30 on Saturday night and […]
Written on July 2, 2002 | Posted in
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A Belize City taxidriver is without his car tonight after armed bandits held him up on Monday night. According to police, around 9:00 p.m. on Monday, taxidriver Eston Young was driving on Vernon Street when two men flagged him down and asked to be taken to an address near Gwen Lizarraga High School. One man […]
Written on July 2, 2002 | Posted in
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A teenager attacked by three men armed with a metal bat is at home tonight recuperating from head trauma and not a fractured skull as originally reported by police. Family members declined to be interviewed by News 5 today about the incident involving thirteen year old Jose Ayala, fearing retaliation. However, we understand that the […]
Written on July 2, 2002 | Posted in
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A Belmopan man is recovering from multiple stab wounds, a consequence of helping a woman being attacked. According to officers from the capital city, around 2:30 Sunday morning, Clifford Matute of Roaring Creek was at a dance at Chun’s Bar in the village when he saw a couple get into a fight. Matute told the […]
Written on July 1, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight, Belize City teenagers have been charged with murder in connection with the death of an elderly man. Last week Wednesday, sixty-four year old Cleophas Burgess succumbed to injuries he received after he was hit in the head with a blunt instrument. This afternoon, two of the accused, fifteen year old Lionel Sampson and eighteen […]
Written on July 1, 2002 | Posted in
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As the Burgess family mourns the loss of a loved one, another Belize City family is keeping a bedside vigil at the K.H.M.H. after their teenaged son was also hit in the head with a bat. According to police, thirteen-year-old Jose Ayala was standing at the corner of Freedom Street and Unity Boulevard when three […]
Written on July 1, 2002 | Posted in
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A Sunday night fight over borrowed money has left one man suffering from chop wounds to the head. According to fisherman Anibal Chuc, just before 9:00 on Sunday night, he met a man he knew as “Spanish” in the Conch Shell Bay Area in Belize City. Chuc says he asked Spanish for the fifty dollars […]
Written on July 1, 2002 | Posted in
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According to Belize City police, on average, everyday three burglaries are reported. But authorities believed many other break-ins go undocumented as homeowners simply double up on security and hope it doesn’t happen again. Over the weekend, one of the latest victims was a priest living in Ladyville. Around six-thirty Saturday evening, Father Oliver Smalls was […]
Written on July 1, 2002 | Posted in
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Today, Belizean authorities have confirmed that the six soldiers arrested in the death of fourteen-year-old David Zabaneh Jr. will answer to the charge of murder. The men were part of the British Army’s Gurkha regiment training in Belize in May 2001 when as many as twenty-five of the highly trained soldiers got into a fight […]
Written on June 28, 2002 | Posted in
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A Dangriga man remains hospitalised tonight recovering from a stab wound. According to officers from the Southern Command, around 8:30 Thursday night, twenty-three year old Wallace Mohammed got into a fight with another man whom he knew. Mohammed says a knife was introduced to the scuffle and when it was over, he had been stabbed […]
Written on June 28, 2002 | Posted in
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A businesswoman from Orange Walk has reported being robbed of thousands of dollars. According to thirty-two year old Fang Yue-mei, proprietor of Shanghai Restaurant, sometime between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, a thief or thieves broke into her home located on Belize Road and stole approximately fourteen thousand Belize dollars in Belizean, Mexican and […]
Written on June 28, 2002 | Posted in
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And since we’re already on the topic of money, we thought it wise to tell you that today, the Central Bank sent out a press release warning the Belizean public that once again, funny money is on the market. According to the Bank, fake Belizean bills are in circulation in several denominations. There are several […]
Written on June 28, 2002 | Posted in
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The wheels of justice may have moved slowly in the death of David Zabaneh, but they have moved nonetheless. Today it was announced that six soldiers of the British Army’s Gurkha regiment have been charged with the killing of the fourteen year old S.J.C. student, which occurred in Raul’s Rose Garden in May of last […]
Written on June 27, 2002 | Posted in
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What started out as just one more unsolved assault and burglary has now turned into a case of murder. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story of a distraught family that is hoping viewers can provide some badly needed answers. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting One week ago, sixty-four year old Cleophas Burgess was relaxing in the […]
Written on June 27, 2002 | Posted in
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We’re not sure whether this next news item falls under the heading of sports or crime, but in any case it’s a crying shame. Last night at the Belize City Centre, while San Cas U.B. and the Raiders battled on the court in the first half of their B.B.A. match-up, an enterprising group of thieves […]
Written on June 27, 2002 | Posted in
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Tonight a San Pedro woman is at home recovering from a gunshot wound she received while in Belize City. According to twenty-seven year old Elaine Mejia, a resident of the Boca del Rio area in San Pedro, she was walking on East Canal around 1:00 this morning when she heard a loud noise then felt […]
Written on June 26, 2002 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, another islander remains in critical condition tonight as he recovers from stab wounds sustained early this morning. According to Caye Caulker police, nineteen year old Edward Requena was walking on Back Street around 1:00 a.m. when a man he recognised came up to him. Requena says the man pulled out a knife and stabbed […]
Written on June 26, 2002 | Posted in
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A Belize City family is still in shock and disbelief tonight after their daughter claims she was raped as she slept in her bed. According to police, a fourteen-year-old girl has reported that around 3:00 on Monday morning, she was asleep in her room when she woke up to see a man standing at the […]
Written on June 26, 2002 | Posted in
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The rumour mill was in high gear today after reports emerged that Belize’s two most wanted men: Patrick Robateau and Leslie Pipersburg, had been caught by Mexican police in Chetumal and handed over to the Belize Police Department. That rumour, however, has proven false. The Police Department went on record today denying that the killers […]
Written on June 26, 2002 | Posted in
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In crime news, charges have been filed against a man who savagely attacked his victim with a bat. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-three year old Lyle Price lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital suffering from a fractured skull. Price was attacked by one Marlon Garnett just outside of his Dolphin […]
Written on June 25, 2002 | Posted in
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Police are still looking for the criminal or criminals who broke into a pair of downtown Belize City businesses. According to the victim, the thieves were talented, but not particularly lucky. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This morning, employees of Eduardo Martinez and Sons Limited and the Caribbean Holidays Travel Agency, located at number 81 Albert Street, […]
Written on June 25, 2002 | Posted in
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A San Pedro man is in police custody tonight on the charge of the murder of his uncle. According to officers on the island, twenty-year-old Johnny Leslie Rancharan has been arrested and charged after he stabbed his relative twice in the chest. Reports are that Rancharan and his thirty-five year old uncle, Simeon Williams, had […]
Written on June 24, 2002 | Posted in
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Eight Belize City children are without their father tonight after he was gunned down over the weekend. According to police reports, thirty-seven year old Anthony “Oats” Usher, a popular newspaper vendor, was with friends on the Berkeley Street Bridge around 2:00 a.m. on Saturday. News 5 understands that shortly after a young man, twenty-four year […]
Written on June 24, 2002 | Posted in
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