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Today a seventeen-year-old girl from Ontario was charged with attempted murder and dangerous harm following the stabbing of another girl earlier this week. According to Police Press Officer Christy Castillo, Orpha Hyde told officers she stabbed Kenreen Hewlett in self-defense. Sixteen year old Kenreen Hewlett was stabbed in her neck, shoulder, abdomen and twice in […]
Written on December 8, 1999 | Posted in
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A teenaged girl from Ontario Village in the Cayo District lies in the Belmopan Hospital with multiple stab wounds after reportedly being attacked by another girl. Police say they have reason to believe Kenreen Hewlett may have been stabbed because of a long-standing dispute with a seventeen-year-old student. The incident occurred shortly before eight on […]
Written on December 7, 1999 | Posted in
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As the Gardiner family prepares to bury twenty year old Tanya Gardiner on Thursday, the police are still trying to find out what unfolded inside the young woman’s house on Saturday that caused a twelve gauge sawed off shot gun to go off killing her. According to Mark Anthony August, the victim’s boyfriend, Gardiner was […]
Written on December 7, 1999 | Posted in
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Three people were inside a house in Belize City at midnight on Saturday when the gun went off killing a young woman. The two witnesses, one of them her boyfriend, say it was an accident or maybe even suicide. But Tanya Gardiner’s family and friends aren’t buying the story. While police won’t comment on the […]
Written on December 6, 1999 | Posted in
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In other police news, a Toyota truck was stolen from in front of seventy-eight Cemetery Road over the weekend. Wan Sit Ghan reported that sometime between eight thirty p.m. and midnight on December fourth his blue Toyota supercab pickup disappeared. It is valued at ten thousand dollars.
Written on December 6, 1999 | Posted in
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A Belmopan businessman faces charges of illegal logging after he allegedly tried to outrun police in a truck they say was part of a logging operation near the Hector Silva Airstrip. Belmopan reported that around ten p.m. Tuesday night they observed two trucks parked near the airstrip. When officers approached they say forty-one year old […]
Written on December 2, 1999 | Posted in
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While Caye Caulker might be best known for the reef and relaxation, residents of the island say rum and the end of Police Week added bullets to the cool breezes. Justo Kib says he was on Caye Caulker’s Front Street late Saturday night when he met a police officer in plain clothes who told him […]
Written on November 30, 1999 | Posted in
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The family of little Ezekiel Nesbitt who died in Punta Gorda earlier this month under mysterious circumstances has gotten the results of a second autopsy, performed at their request by a pathologist in Florida. Dr. Abdullah Fatteh from the Broward County, Florida coroner’s office told News Five today that he could not comment on the […]
Written on November 29, 1999 | Posted in
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A sixteen-year-old Belize City youth has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the shooting of a San Ignacio jeweler last week. The youth has also been charged with dangerous harm, attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. Two men, Jermaine August of Belmopan and Amin August of Santa Elena, have also been charged […]
Written on November 29, 1999 | Posted in
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Police are looking for a prisoner who escaped on Tuesday morning while being transported to Hattieville from Corozal. Nineteen year old Marcos Popper is reported to have jumped out of a police pickup truck as it slowed to go over a speed bump just outside Orange Walk. Police say he had been wearing handcuffs but […]
Written on November 25, 1999 | Posted in
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Belize City police are also asking the public to be on the lookout for someone they want to bring in for questioning. Police say they are trying to locate Anthony Mortis following a string of burglaries after he left the Department of Corrections. He is Creole, six foot, three inches tall and approximately one hundred […]
Written on November 25, 1999 | Posted in
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Police are questioning four people in connection with an armed robbery attempt in San Ignacio on Wednesday. Jewelry storeowner Oscar Cano was shot in the neck by a dark skinned man who entered the shop around three p.m. The assailant told Cano to put several pieces of gold jewelry in his bag and when Cano […]
Written on November 25, 1999 | Posted in
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The inquiry into what has been described as a “breach” of procedure at the Hattieville Prison has concluded. Minister Responsible for Prisons Dickie Bradley, told News Five today that inmate Raymond Flowers did not simply walk out of the prison gates to have a fun weekend in the city last month but went through the […]
Written on November 24, 1999 | Posted in
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The gathering only just broke up but the happening at Queen Street was a star studded event. No less than ten Ministers of Government were on hand for the dedication of the newly refurbished Eastern Division Police Headquarters and the receipt of a couple of vehicles and assorted crime fighting gear from the US Embassy. […]
Written on November 24, 1999 | Posted in
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For those who tuned in this afternoon to the live radio broadcast of the opening of Eastern Division, there was a glaring reminder that criminals never take the day off. At the start of the broadcast, LOVE FM went live to Belmopan for a report on a shooting at a jewelry store in San Ignacio. […]
Written on November 24, 1999 | Posted in
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Two Corozal fishermen were arrested in San Pedro when several rolls of counterfeit money were found in their pockets. Acting on a tip police picked up Arremio Wiltshire and Wilmer Amilcar Sanroya Tuesday morning on Barrier Reef Drive after a police search revealed the men had two hundred eighty-five fake one hundred dollar bills. Police […]
Written on November 24, 1999 | Posted in
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Police are looking for a Belize City man accused of raping a woman in a warehouse in Conch Shell Bay. The thirty-four year old woman told police that on Sunday night around nine she and David Gillett otherwise know as “Snu” were at the warehouse waiting for a third person when Gillett raped her. She […]
Written on November 23, 1999 | Posted in
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Three vehicles were stolen over the holiday weekend in Belize City. Early in the morning of November nineteenth Alma Paredes had her 1993 brown and gold Honda Accord stolen from in front of her home on East Canal. That night a 1980 red Oldsmobile belonging to Adrian Bradley disappeared from the corner of South Street […]
Written on November 23, 1999 | Posted in
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It was a tragedy that saddened all of Punta Gorda. On Tuesday night, a little boy was playing near the sea while his father was inside a restaurant. Moments later the child was gone and a drunk, incoherent man burst into tears when asked about the boy. Two hours later, the horrifying discovery of Ezekiel […]
Written on November 22, 1999 | Posted in
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It’s not the first time the Sunshine Preschool across from St. John’s Cathedral has been targeted by thieves. But this time, the culprits took everything they could carry. Today a shocked and saddened staff tried to clean up the mess and figure out what to do this time to make the school more secure. When […]
Written on November 22, 1999 | Posted in
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Residents of Punta Gorda Town are still reeling after the seemingly inexplicable death of five-year-old Ezekiel Nesbitt. He was found floating in the sea just yards from the restaurant where his father and sister were waiting for food. He had been brutally beaten. No one knows why. Those who knew Ezekiel, or Zeke as he […]
Written on November 18, 1999 | Posted in
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But while the rights of children were being promoted today in Belize City, in Punta Gorda police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and death of a five year old boy on Tuesday night. At this time they are treating the case as a homicide and have detained a man for questioning. The child’s […]
Written on November 17, 1999 | Posted in
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It’s been four working days since the Minister responsible for Prisons said he would be launching an inquiry into why a prison inmate, Raymond Flowers was at a football game in Belize City — apparently unsupervised — on November seventh. The matter is still not resolved. Today, News Five was finally able to obtain a […]
Written on November 16, 1999 | Posted in
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Although they are no longer referring to it as a “certification” process the United States government today released its list of countries President Bill Clinton considers to be major illicit drug producing or drug transit countries. Belize, which was on the list of “major” countries last year has been moved to the list of “regions […]
Written on November 16, 1999 | Posted in
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The police have arrested two men in connection with a burglary at the Xtra House on Cemetery Road. Twenty-eight year old Errol Swift of Amara Avenue and thirty-five year old Andy Avilez of Ebony Street were today charged with burglary. The store’s owner Vinod Chawla reported the break in occurred sometime between ten Friday night […]
Written on November 16, 1999 | Posted in
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