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The number of deaths associated with recent road traffic accidents is alarming. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that the police department will be working diligently to enforce highway laws in an attempt to prevent further accidents. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “We are seeing that the traffic fatalities on our highways are becoming […]
Written on November 29, 2019 | Posted in
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Sixty-seven-year-old retired police officer Edwardo Wade was among the seven persons who perished in the horrific traffic accident on Wednesday afternoon. Wade was inside a red SUV which was being driven by his daughter, Lourdes Wade, who also died along with Mayra Alcoser. The trio was heading back to Belmopan when Lourdes attempted to overtake […]
Written on November 29, 2019 | Posted in
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On Sunday, November twenty-fourth, a gunman sprayed the Martin’s residence on Antelope Street Extension with bullets. That same shooter shot one-year-old Melanie Martinez who was asleep in the house and twenty-three-year-old Mervin Martin, and his girlfriend sixteen-year-old Chanteuse Martinez who were near the gate. Investigators say they have arrested the shooter. On Thursday, a male minor was […]
Written on November 29, 2019 | Posted in
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A family of three was displaced following a fire this afternoon on Arlington Drive in Belize City. Charles Castillo believes that his mentally-ill brother is responsible. The National Fire Service was notified and responded quickly to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby structures. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Just after […]
Written on November 29, 2019 | Posted in
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It has been a deadly twenty-four hours on the country’s major thoroughfares where three separate road traffic accidents have claimed as many as nine lives. Seven persons are confirmed dead as a result of the horrendous traffic accident on Wednesday afternoon along the George Price Highway, near Hattieville. Lourdes Wade was driving a red Chevy Sports […]
Written on November 28, 2019 | Posted in
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In San Joaquin Village in Corozal District less than three hours later, a fifty-three-year-old resident of Ranchito was knocked down and killed by a motorist who failed to stop and render aid. Esteban Arana is the latest victim of a hit and run incident in the north. Earlier today, Dalila Ical travelled to Ranchito where […]
Written on November 28, 2019 | Posted in
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Another tourist has died in another road traffic accident that happened around three thirty this afternoon in the outskirts of Carmelita Village in Orange Walk District. We understand that the woman was on a tour with her family members, two adults and two children, and were heading back to Belize City. Their tour operator was […]
Written on November 28, 2019 | Posted in
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Another dead prisoner is being recorded from inside the walls of the Queen Street Police Station and the Police Department is conducting an investigation into what happened. Police confirmed today that Jose Espinosa hung himself with a shoelace inside a prison cell within two hours of being detained for common assault. But there seems to […]
Written on November 28, 2019 | Posted in
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On Tuesday, Joseph Vaccaro, a resident of Neal Pen Road, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the murder of well-known businessman Zheng Liu. Liu was executed near mile four of the George Price Highway after receiving a call that a vehicle he imported had broken down on the road. He picked up […]
Written on November 28, 2019 | Posted in
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Richard O’Neil remains in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. following an attempt on his life on Wednesday. In the wee hours of that morning, O’Neil says that he was kidnapped by three persons, forced into a car and taken to the Boom/Hattieville Road. He was shot several times and left for dead. An injured O’Neil […]
Written on November 28, 2019 | Posted in
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It has not been a good week for minors, three of whom have been victims of gun violence in less than twenty-four hours. The youngest, a one-year-old baby was asleep with her grandmother inside their house when she was struck by a bullet. Sixteen-year-old Chantuse Martinez was also injured in the gunfire on Sunday night. […]
Written on November 28, 2019 | Posted in
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A celebration of a son being recruited into the Belize Coast Guard has ended in tragedy for one Belmopan family and several others are mourning the loss of their loved ones, following a massive road traffic accident this afternoon along the George Price Highway which claimed multiple lives. The collision of a sports utility vehicle […]
Written on November 27, 2019 | Posted in
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A construction worker of Ordonez Street is tonight in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after an attempt was made on his life overnight. Richard O’Neil was reportedly kidnapped from Belize City and taken to an area along the Boom/Hattieville Road where he was shot multiple times. But he survived the attack and managed to […]
Written on November 27, 2019 | Posted in
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There were several burglaries reported in the Belama area over the past twenty-four hours, but on Tuesday afternoon around 1:15, an elderly woman was assaulted during a home invasion on Samuel Haynes Street in the Belama Phase One area of Belize City. Sandhill villager Alma Rodriguez told police that around midday, while babysitting a two-year-old, […]
Written on November 27, 2019 | Posted in
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The search for three Belize City youths who set out to sea last Friday has since become a recovery operation as personnel from the Belize Coast Guard are now focused on finding the bodies of Sheldon Gibson, Elijah Usher Jr. and fourteen-year-old Kevin Roches. The trio left en route to Mapp Caye on November twenty-second […]
Written on November 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Turning to the courts…Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser committed Salvadoran national Efrain Martinez to stand trial for the January 2019 murder of Guatemalan national Elmer Salazar. The fifty-four-year-old former employee of Belize Marine and Mooring Services will appear in the January 2020 session of the Supreme Court. After a preliminary inquiry, Chief Magistrate Fraser determined that […]
Written on November 27, 2019 | Posted in
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Glenford Diego is spending his first night on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for a robbery charge. He is accused of robbing Dollar Grocery Store on Water Lane in Belize City. He pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded to the Kolbe Foundation until […]
Written on November 27, 2019 | Posted in
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This morning at the Coast Guard Headquarters in Belize City, eighty-seven new recruits were officially welcomed into the maritime law enforcement agency. While these men and women were formally inducted into the organization, they will be led by a new officer in charge. This morning at the passing out ceremony, Captain Elton Bennett was recognized […]
Written on November 27, 2019 | Posted in
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The execution style murder of prominent businessman Zheng Liu continues to rock the Chinese community and the thousands who knew and liked one of the owners of the Eighty Eight Group of Companies on Central American Boulevard. Liu was called by cell phone on Friday night by an associate; he left the store and headed […]
Written on November 26, 2019 | Posted in
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Three fisher folks have not been located and their families are coming to terms with the notion that they may not be alive. The trio embarked on a fishing trip last Friday to the area of Mapp Caye, well-known for an ongoing fishing turf war. The Coast Guard and the police have been conducting search […]
Written on November 26, 2019 | Posted in
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While coast guard personnel were out combing the area of Drowned Caye, several miles away from where Gibson and two other fishermen went missing, they happened upon a vessel that they have been searching for since mid-January. At first it was believed that the vessel belonged to Gibson, but the small fiberglass boat, is now […]
Written on November 26, 2019 | Posted in
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In a developing story, after thirty-five years of service in the Collet Division of Belize City, the Pine Street Preschool off Vernon Street has closed its doors. Today, police officers were dispatched to the school to keep the peace while Ministry of Education-appointed teachers removed teaching supplies. The closure stems from a dispute between the […]
Written on November 26, 2019 | Posted in
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The duo says that they were soon to become pensionable and would have retired in 2021. They have met with the Chief Education Officer, Doctor Carol Babb, and an emergency meeting is being called for this Wednesday with the Ministry. Anthony and Slusher have since sought the advice of an attorney to determine the way […]
Written on November 26, 2019 | Posted in
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A developing scandal in India is being linked to Belize. In the centre of the storm is Godman Nithyananda, a spiritual leader, who fled India, even though his passport had expired, by using a fake Venezuelan passport. The accused rapist, torturer and abductor is said to be hiding in this region and Indian media houses […]
Written on November 26, 2019 | Posted in
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Commander of the Belize Defense Force, Brigadier General Steven Ortega confirmed that two Guatemalan families have illegally settled on Belize’s side of the border in Benque. The Barrio el Juda squatting problem continues to be an issue not only for private landowner Jorge Espat, but for the government as well. Ortega says that the O.A.S. […]
Written on November 26, 2019 | Posted in
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