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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that it’s a strategy being implemented by the department in the wake of a number of missing persons being abducted and taken to isolated areas to be murdered. Here’s how he explains it. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Over the past years, we have had a number of […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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The body of Oscar Cornel, a councillor with the Trial Farm Village Council in Orange Walk, was discovered floating after midday today. Cornel was missing at sea since Thursday evening after a small boat he was travelling in, namely Baby Giselle, collided with a bigger boat, Sir Alex several miles west of the island of […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Cornel’s sister, Marillin Cornel told News Five that Oscar was with her common-law-husband, Mario Rosales, who captained the small boat. Marillin says she became worried when hours had passed and Rosales did not contact her. It wasn’t until around ten p.m. that Rosales was found near a pier at Cayo Rosario; he had been swimming […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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A marine casualty investigation team is on the ground to determine what transpired in the fatal collision at sea. But even as that investigation is ongoing, Operations Officer at the Belize Coast Guard, Lieutenant Roque Canul says that there are concerns about risky practices by tour companies. Lt. Roque Canul, Operations Officer, Belize Coast […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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There was an officer-involved shooting in Belize City on Christmas Day which resulted in two sixteen-year-old boys receiving varying degrees of injuries to their lower extremities. Lionel Gordon and Denver Domingo live a stone’s throw away from where they were caught inside a Chinese business. When police met the duo, along with a third unidentified […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Daniel Bennett was also injured on Christmas Day around midday. The resident of Ramos Street was shot in the left side of the mouth while socializing on Mopan Street. Following the incident, he showed up at the Vernon Street Vehicle Checkpoint where he was bleeding profusely from the injury. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Just after midnight on Thursday, Belize City police were called to a bar on Newtown Barracks where they met forty-two-year-old Darrell Ramclam who reported that he was shot at. According to Ramclam, he was walking along Newtown Barracks when a male individual approached him, produced a firearm and fired several bullets in his direction. Ramclam […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Fifty-seven-year-old Anthony Edward Brown was found murdered inside his home in Eldridgeville, Toledo on Monday. He was stabbed to death the day prior. Investigators have so far uncovered that Brown was at home, near the outskirts of town, when he was attacked by two men who bound his feet and hands before stabbing him multiple […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Fifty-seven-year-old Anthony Brown was found dead inside his home in Eldridgeville, Toledo District on Monday. The lecturer of the University of Belize in Punta Gorda had been bound at the hands and feet and was stabbed multiple times. Sometime around midday, police were called to Brown’s residence near the outskirts of town where they observed […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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A second person has been arraigned for the July sixteenth, 2019 murder of clothing vendor, Jose Diaz. Leroy Haulze, who was initially charged for abetment to murder in this homicide, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning where he was read a single charge of murder. No plea was taken and Haulze was remanded […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The Government of Belize is the defendant in a constitutional challenge bought before the Supreme Court by the Belize Peace Movement. The pending legal matter revolves around the need for a redistricting exercise, to redistribute the number of registered voters per electoral district, considering the existing disparities. While the matter is considered to be live […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry has formally requested a copy of the contract signed by Imer Hernandez who recently signed on to an agreement to pave the Coastal Road. The request is being facilitated by the Ministry of Works which is in receipt of the correspondence from the private sector organization. But couldn’t […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The Attorney General, despite being rather snappy when it comes to the chamber of commerce, says that it’s not about purposely being confrontational but that the business organization tends to want to manage the affairs of government. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney General “It’s not a matter of not having a relationship with them or even […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The recent online attack aimed at Plus TV’s news director Shasta Wade has once again brought into focus a need for regulations to govern the social media space. Enacting legislation has been a slow process and, according to Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, his ministry is awaiting a response from the business community regarding a draft […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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The Bar Association is challenging the suspension of President Cheryl-Lyn Vidal from meetings of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission. Vidal, who is also the Director of Public Prosecutions, had been sidelined indefinitely from the activities of the J.L.S.C. by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin, who is also the chair of the commission. As such, a […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Two murders were recorded in less than seventy-two hours in Toledo District. On Saturday morning, as Punta Gorda Police responded to a call of a burglary near the dump site just outside of town, they discovered the mutilated body of a Jalacte resident under a bus shed. Macario Ical was chopped to the hands and […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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This afternoon, reports surfaced of yet another murder in the southernmost district of Toledo; this time, in Eldridgeville. Information to our newsroom is that police visited a house in that community and discovered the body of a man, who has since been identified as Anthony Brown Junior, a retired teacher of Cerro Road. News Five […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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There was also loss of life in the west over the weekend. In a freak accident, around nine-thirty p.m. on Friday, police were called to a work site just outside of Georgeville on the George Price Highway, between miles sixty and sixty-one. William Orellana, a forty-five-year-old resident of a Benque Viejo, was standing between a […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Four men and a minor will be spending Christmas behind bars after they were arraigned late this afternoon for attempted murder. Delroy Flowers, Bernard Lynch, Oliver Solis, Clive Stanford and a minor appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser where they were charged with unlawful imprisonment, attempted murder and dangerous harm upon Dorian August. Solis and […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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A most disturbing report of the rape of a minor was made over the weekend in Belize City. The sixteen-year-old girl says she was beaten and raped by a taxi driver on Friday night, after she missed the last bus to Dangriga. According to the report, the minor got in a cab and asked to […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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The upper house met this morning in a final session for 2019, to vote on the passage of legislation having to do with a slew of motions, including international banking. Today’s senate meeting succeeds a sitting of the House of Representatives on Friday where a number of these proposed laws were initially tabled. The International […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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The establishment of a Deposit Insurance Corporation, as well as a Deposit Insurance Fund, was also brought before parliament for second reading. The purpose of that piece of legislation is to provide protection for insured deposits against the risk of loss within an insured limit. Senator Aldo Salazar explains that the new scheme is not […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Five persons were successfully returned to shore at the Coast Guard Headquarters this afternoon. The group, including a little boy, was stranded at sea when the vessel they were out fishing in began taking in water and capsized somewhere between Water Caye and Goff‘s Caye. It was a traumatic experience, drifting out at sea in […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Fire and brimstone are pouring down on Jumoke Castro tonight. He is the son of U.D.P. Minister Edmond Castro and tonight he is feeling the wrath of not only the general public, but of powerful unions, political parties, elected parliamentarians and of Prime Minister Dean Barrow himself. Great Belize Productions Channel Five has issued a […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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There is much public outrage in the wake of revolting comments posted by Jumoke Castro on his social media page in which he threatens Plus TV’s Shasta Wade with sexual violence. That disgusting remark is being condemned in every corner, including the Public Service Union where the son of the Minister of Transport and National […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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