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Police are not calling the death of Victor Pratt a murder just yet – yes, you heard that right. Today, the officer in charge of the Crime Investigation Branch for the Eastern Division told the press that Pratt’s death is being treated as a death investigation at this time. What they have gathered so far […]
Written on September 18, 2020 | Posted in
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Police say that they have arrested and charged a man following a disturbing video that shows a woman being viciously beaten. The incident was captured a couple days ago near the Pound Yard Bridge in Belize City. Today, police say that the beat down was over a bicycle. While the woman hasn’t given a formal […]
Written on September 18, 2020 | Posted in
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Police say robbers from Guatemala tried to take a stolen vehicle across the border but couldn’t because it was bogged in mud. A man from Succotz reported to police that four armed men robbed him of his truck on the Black Rock Road. A search of the area led to the discovery of the truck […]
Written on September 18, 2020 | Posted in
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Initially classified as the result of a traffic fatality, the death of Victor Pratt is now a murder. Pratt’s body was found on the Old Northern Highway on Tuesday afternoon and a post mortem now reveals that he was shot and killed. The father of two was riding his motorcycle heading to Belize City when […]
Written on September 17, 2020 | Posted in
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Police have cracked the murder of Dangriga resident, Andrew Flores who was killed on the night of September tenth. Flores’ brother-in-law, Whitfield Fisher Junior was captured over the weekend and this afternoon, he was arraigned in the Magistrate Court for the charge of murder. Fisher Junior lived in the same apartment on Kelly Street as […]
Written on September 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Twenty-four-year-old Raheem Gordon has narrowly escaped a second attempt on his life. The Belize City resident was inside a vehicle on Causarina Street when he came under attack. Two gunmen opened fire and while Gordon ran for his life, he was hit on the head and arm. In 2018, he was at home when he […]
Written on September 14, 2020 | Posted in
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A Belize City shop owner was stabbed in the wee hours of this morning while he was socializing with four others. Police say that sixty-year-old Alfonso Ayuso was hanging out and drinking with persons he knew when two of the men suddenly turned on him to rob him. While they didn’t manage to rob the […]
Written on September 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Domestic abuse is well-known to occur rampantly, though not often these cases are captured on video. But over the weekend, a disturbing video surfaced on social media of a woman being beaten by a man. The brutality occurred near the Pound Yard Bridge in Belize City as passersby watched but did nothing to assist the […]
Written on September 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Police say that Humana People to People store in Independence Village in the south was robbed on Saturday. The manager reported to police that around one-thirty that afternoon, two men entered the store and held them up at gunpoint. Here’s more from ACP Joseph Myvett. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police […]
Written on September 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Two persons were arrested over stolen computers in Orange Walk Town. Police say that a twenty-two-year-old and a sixteen-year-old were arrested and charged in connection with the computers that were stolen from a primary school. The principal went to the school on the morning of September ninth and around nine-thirty, he discovered that the school […]
Written on September 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Where is fifty-six-year-old Florita Harris? On Saturday, Emmett Usher reported to police that Harris was last seen on September ninth at the upper flat of this building on Levi Slusher Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. According to Usher, he left for work around seven o’clock that morning and when he […]
Written on September 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Tonight police are looking for Whitfield Fisher, the suspect in the murder of his brother-in-law, Andrew Flores. Flores was killed inside an apartment on Kelly Street on the night of the tenth of September. Though he was rushed to the K.H.M.H, the deep cut wound to his throat turned fatal. Trouble started when a guest […]
Written on September 11, 2020 | Posted in
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The Francisco family is tonight reeling over the unfortunate death of one of their own. Morgan Francisco Junior took his own life on September tenth as the world observed Suicide Prevention Day. Francisco Junior, according to his family, was suffering from bouts of severe depression and on Thursday night, an encounter with the police over […]
Written on September 11, 2020 | Posted in
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A cop is in a quarantine facility tonight after he drove across the northern border and went to Chetumal. P.C. Mesa is said to have been dressed in police attire when he went across the border to reportedly purchase vehicle parts. As you know the border is closed and the police are charged with ensuring […]
Written on September 11, 2020 | Posted in
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Turning to crime, there was another murder in the Old capital on Monday night; it occurred on the heels of two other killings over the weekend. Dangriga resident, Nelson “Ricky” Miguel, had moved to Belize City since the start of the COVID 19 pandemic in March. He was inside a car on Faber Road Extension […]
Written on September 8, 2020 | Posted in
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A shocking video has surfaced on social media of a very alarming situation occurring in the Belmopan area. The video was released by a concerned Belizean; police as well as the Human Development Department and Helpage Belize have met to review the situation. The video captures an elderly man, being shown into a house which […]
Written on September 8, 2020 | Posted in
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And today – the Commissioner also took some time to answer questions in respect to the investigative team to be assembled to look into the senate special select committee report. Public hearings took place for more than a year looking into the immigration department where visas and nationalities were issued illegally left, right and centre, […]
Written on September 8, 2020 | Posted in
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A Belize City family remains quarantined at a facility in Cayo after holding a family gathering on Friday night in Belize City. Present at the gathering was Pashwan Stuart who was about to celebrate her sister’s twenty-eighth birthday when her brother arrived. Her brother is COVID-19 positive, and according to Stuart, he was told to […]
Written on September 8, 2020 | Posted in
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The two minors who were arrested for the shooting of police constable Wilbert Chi have been released. A third person, a twenty-year-old man, remains in police custody. Chi was shot while he was on a motorcycle on Ebony Street in Belize City. Hours after the shooting, police officers descended at the barracks on Ebony Street, arresting […]
Written on September 8, 2020 | Posted in
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Since the curfew was lifted, there has been a string of crimes, including murders over the past several days. Today, the press asked Commissioner of Police about this. He says that while several of the officers on the ground were occupied with locating PC Bernard Ical – they are now back but that the department […]
Written on September 8, 2020 | Posted in
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Criminals were on a rampage over the weekend; three men were killed in separate incidents and there was further violence in the City and elsewhere. On Sunday night, death came knocking at the door of twenty-five year old Dellin Dougal. Dougal was at home on Mckay Boulevard when two gunmen walked upon the steps of […]
Written on September 7, 2020 | Posted in
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There was a second murder in Belize City. A mechanic was shot while inside his vehicle on Santa Barbara Street on Friday night. Thirty-seven year old Edwin Vanegas was murdered after he left a party in the Port Loyola area. Police say he had an argument with another man and was shot and killed as […]
Written on September 7, 2020 | Posted in
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The third murder for the weekend takes us to Hattieville, where O’Neil Ferguson was murdered inside his home in the Village. Ferguson’s family describes him as a giving and friendly person but there was someone who wanted him dead. Ferguson was shot several times on Friday night and his girlfriend was also injured during the […]
Written on September 7, 2020 | Posted in
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Still on COVID 19; a Belize City family was detained on Friday and sent to quarantine in San Ignacio. Pashwan Stuart says that she along with a few family members were at home on Aloe Vera Street getting ready to celebrate her sister’s twenty-eighth birthday when her brother showed up. The problem here is that […]
Written on September 7, 2020 | Posted in
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Tonight two minors and a twenty-year old are in detention following the shooting of police constable Wilbert Chi. It happened on Ebony Street in Belize City on Sunday night when Chi was traversing the area. The minors were picked up during a police raid at the barracks on Ebony Street. But their mother says that […]
Written on September 7, 2020 | Posted in
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