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Unlike restaurants and other eateries that will now be able to expand their guest lists, churches remain closed to their flocks. The fear, according to PM Barrow, is that choirs, as well as celebrants, would be able to transmit the pathogen through the air when singing and preaching to the congregation. Notwithstanding the decision, the […]
Written on October 16, 2020 | Posted in
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When will schools be reopened for in-class attendance? While many have asked that question, the Belize National Teachers Union is seeking government’s consideration to have teachers prepare lesson plans from home. That’s because President Elena Smith has cited concerns about the safety of teachers amid a spike in the number cases among educators. Prime […]
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Turning to the prison break; a total of fourteen escapees have been recaptured; one was killed and thirteen others, between Thursday and today, were arraigned for escape charges. While nine have pleaded guilty to the charge and sentenced to one year in prison, four others are saying that they are innocent and were simply acting […]
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Two B.D.F. soldiers were injured during exchange of gunfire between the escaped prisoners and the security forces earlier this week; prisoner Akeem Tillett was shot and killed. Two other inmates at the central prison were also shot during a lockdown of tango seven on Tuesday and Stephan Jenkins perished from an injury to the buttocks. […]
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Outside the courtroom it was an emotional time for Stephanie Edwards. She the mother of recaptured prisoner Deon White, who was sentenced to a year in prison earlier today by Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford after he accepted guilt for the charge of escaping from prison. White was visibly limping as he was taken in and […]
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Tonight, the police and B.D.F. have recaptured five more escaped prisoners; fourteen remain on the lam following Monday’s epic jailbreak from the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville. A total of twenty-eight inmates made a daring break that started at one o’clock and lasted until six when they made their way out of the AdSeg area […]
Written on October 15, 2020 | Posted in
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Of the twenty-eight prisoners who broke out of the Belize Central Prison, thirteen have been recaptured so far, one is dead and fourteen are still at large. This morning, when Commissioner of Police Chester Williams updated the press on the prison breakout, there were nineteen prisoners on the run. But five of them were caught […]
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that he believes that many of the escapees have returned to their homes so he is warning those who are harbouring the men. Today, he called on those relatives and friends who are assisting the fugitives to get in touch with the police or to have the men hand […]
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On Wednesday night, the video of recaptured inmate Christopher Bradley went viral on Facebook. In the video, Bradley confessed that trustee Carlos Montejo was the mastermind behind the breakout and he also implicated prison guards in what happened on Monday when the group of twenty-eight fled the prison in wake of a lockdown. Today, Commissioner […]
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While the recording is out in the public, what does mean for inmate Christopher Bradley in prison? Today, Commissioner Williams was asked if that video may cause Bradley harm – considering that his confession implicates both inmates and guards. Williams says that he doesn’t believe the video puts Bradley at risk: Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
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The San Pedro man who is accused of murdering his wife was brought to Belize City this morning for arraignment at the Magistrate’s Court. David Gonzales is facing a charge of the killing of Marisela Gonzales. The twenty-eight-year-old mother of one was shot to the head and her body disposed of at a dumpsite on […]
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In the Freetown Division, Francis Fonseca of the People United Party has represented the division through thick and thin. This year, Fonseca, a former Minister of Education and former party leader, is facing a challenge from attorney Orson “OJ” Elrington from the U.D.P. It is Elrington’s first bid for electoral politics and he is doing […]
Written on October 15, 2020 | Posted in
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Police and B.D.F. continue with a manhunt in search of more than twenty prisoners, who escaped from the Hattieville prison on Monday evening after holding a prison guard for more than five hours in a cell. We’ll have more on the success of the search so far, but tonight we have an explosive confession by […]
Written on October 14, 2020 | Posted in
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Tonight twenty-two prison escapees remain on the run. Five are in police custody and one is dead. The prisoners who have been recaptured are Mark Pelayo who was caught on the Boom Road; Christopher Bradley and George Bednrick who were recaptured on Tuesday on the Coastal Road; Guatemalan national Juan Valentin Garcia who was recaptured […]
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On Tuesday, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also warned those who may be harbouring the inmates – pointing out that it is a crime to be assisting them. He also cautioned motorists. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I would like to say that the criminal code makes provision for anyone who aids any prisoner […]
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In the hunt for the escaped prisoners, Akeem Tillett was shot and killed on the Coastal Road. The news of his death was confirmed by his sister Shandy Pech. Tillett had been in and out of prison and was serving time for robbery. In a Facebook Live video statement posted on Tuesday, Pech reacts to […]
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Shandy Pech also shared with her online viewers that she was disappointed that her brother was a repeat robbery offender. In her live video, she reflected meeting her brother in jail after not seeing each other for many years. And as to circumstances under which he was killed on the Coastal Road, Pech says she […]
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Tonight, the family of Marisela Gonzales is speaking out. The twenty-eight-year-old mother of one was killed and her body was found semi-nude at a dumpsite in San Pedro over the weekend. Today, we spoke with Gonzales’ father via phone and he is demanding justice for his daughter. He says he is concerned that her husband […]
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And another one of Marisela Gonzales’ family members also took her concerns publicly today. Vigida Plietes was on a live facebook video appealing for help to get her niece’s body and commenting that her case appears to be put on the back burner. Plietes told online viewers that Gonzales’ body appears to be in the […]
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And after all that is said and done – police have formally arrested and charged David Gonzales for the crime of murder. Gonzales is accused of shooting his wife and discarding of her body at a dumpsite. Since the murder, multiple reports of domestic violence between the couple have surfaced. The murder is being widely […]
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On the campaign trail today we head to Port Loyola; a sprawling constituency of more than four thousand six hundred voters as of August which looks pretty much like the previous number of voters in the last elections. The campaign there is in full swing as three candidates: Gilroy Usher Senior of the P.U.P., Philip […]
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It is the largest jailbreak in recent history and one fatality has been confirmed as a result, while several others are injured and recaptured. As many as twenty-eight inmates managed to escape the Belize Central Prison on Monday evening after holding prison guards hostage for more than five hours. We’ll get to those details in […]
Written on October 13, 2020 | Posted in
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At news time, there are at least twenty-four prisoners on the lam; one has been killed and three have been recaptured in an operation in which police and the B.D.F. have pulled out all stops to get them back. The biggest prison break took place on Monday, a public and bank holiday. It started after […]
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The police and B.D.F. search stretched miles away from the Hattieville prison extending to the Coastal Road where there was an exchange of gunfire between a group of the escapees and law enforcement. But back at the prison, the situation remained tenuous giving way to an uprising this morning. More than one hundred prisoners in […]
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So far we are told that at least one prisoner was shot and killed and two others captured during an operation on the Coastal Road. Police and B.D.F. are still in the area trying to locate the escapees. The first prisoner to be recaptured was Mark Pelayo. He was detained near a checkpoint on the […]
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