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A fugitive wanted by the Belize Police Department was caught by authorities in Guatemala this morning. Twenty-one-year-old Sergio Pineda was arrested by Guatemalan police following an armed attack in Río Dulce, Livingston, during which a person died. Guatemalan police retrieved two firearms and a motorcycle from the scene. Pineda had escaped from police custody in […]
Written on April 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The government’s decision to cancel the Brads’ Gaming Group Limited Boledo contract has taken centre stage as people who have patronized the game for the past decades will have to temporarily suspend their nightly and Sunday lottery gambling hobby. The B.G.G.L. license will be officially revoked on May second, which means that the Sunday Lottery […]
Written on April 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department has determined that one of their own, an officer who has been on interdiction since March 2021, was the intended recipient of a consignment of weed gummies that were shipped from the United States. When the barrel arrived at the Port of Belize and customs officials inspected the shipment, they suspected […]
Written on April 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The consignment of cannabis edibles was shipped to Police Constable Akeem Gamboa four months ago, but the barrel was never claimed at the Customs and Excise Department. Gamboa had been removed from active duty since March 2021 when he, along with his sibling, also a policeman, got into a physical altercation with a fellow officer […]
Written on April 27, 2023 | Posted in
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According to the Commissioner of Police, the news on Wednesday evening, of the former police officer being the intended recipient of the barrel effectively thwarted a sting operation that was being planned by the department. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The barrel came in and what we would normally do is that due to […]
Written on April 27, 2023 | Posted in
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When we caught up with him today in Orange Walk, we also asked Prime Minister John Briceño about the incident involving the cannabis-infused gummies. According to the P.M., he became outraged when he first heard the news and ordered that an investigation be immediately launched into the matter. He later found out that the gummies […]
Written on April 27, 2023 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, the National Evangelical Association of Belize (NEAB) rattled off a social media statement noting that the church in Belize has taken a firm stance over the past few years against the legalization of marijuana. The association went on to say that, “It will open doors to illegal connections, it will seriously endanger Belize’s […]
Written on April 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one primary school students and seven adults were hospitalized on Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind marijuana intoxication outbreak. The incident continues to make headlines, as investigations are being carried out by the Belize Police Department, the Ministry of Education, as well as the Ministry of Human Development. What we have been able to gather since the […]
Written on April 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The individual employed by the Belize Police Department as an exhibit keeper is presently in custody, as an internal investigation continues. According to Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa, there were no protocols that were followed in the disposal of the drug-laced candies and no permission was given to the exhibit keeper to discard the […]
Written on April 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Tuesday’s incident has also brought into sharp focus the need for policies where school vendors are concerned. While the issue had been discussed previously, there were no approved measures in place to vet the street side sellers. Here’s more from the Minister of Education. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education “The school vendors issue, of […]
Written on April 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Not lost in what transpired on Tuesday is the responsibility that each vendor has to ensure that the products and food items being sold at school are safe for human consumption. From the police department’s perspective, Minister Kareem Musa reiterated that the Ministry of Home Affairs is committed to transparency when dealing with the issue […]
Written on April 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The Lotteries Committee has taken a decision to revoke the exclusive license held by Brads Gaming Group Limited (B.G.G.L.) to administer the Government Lotteries. A release from the Government of Belize states that the committee decided to revoke the exclusive license held by Brads due to, “material and substantial breaches of the conditions of exclusive […]
Written on April 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, thirty-three patients are receiving medical attention at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after suffering marijuana intoxication. Twenty-seven of them are children who are attending primary school, between the ages of four and fifteen. Earlier today, students were being hospitalized with symptoms, including vomiting and nausea. It is believed that they ate sweets that were […]
Written on April 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Another grandparent gave the media an interview just after four p.m. outside the K.H.M.H. She revealed that she took home several packets of the marijuana-infused gummies since yesterday. She informed us that she received the gummies from a friend with the understanding that they were snacks for children. She says, her diabetic husband ate the […]
Written on April 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Police have launched an investigation into the distribution of the drug-infused gummies. Late this evening, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hilberto Romero, briefed the media on what police have learned so far. A.C.P. Romero also confirmed that police have several persons detained. ACP Hilberto Romero, Regional Commander, Eastern Division “Police visited the KHMH where reports […]
Written on April 25, 2023 | Posted in
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As we said, one woman has reported that she got a hold of seven packs of gummies since Monday evening. Given her account, police are questioning whether the gummies are being widely distributed across Belize City. Also, A.C.P. Romero says samples have been sent to the forensic laboratory for testing. ACP Hilberto Romero, Regional […]
Written on April 25, 2023 | Posted in
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In an update to our lead story involving the mass hospitalization of primary school students earlier today, News Five is reliably informed that there was a recent confiscation of similar cannabis edibles by the Anti-Narcotics Unit of the Belize Police Department. That quantity of marijuana-laced treats was turned over to the exhibit keeper who, we […]
Written on April 25, 2023 | Posted in
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The trial of Jasmine Hartin has ended almost as quickly as it began today before Supreme Court Judge, Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. The case ended this evening with Hartin pleading guilty to manslaughter by negligence for the shooting death of Superintendent of Police Henry Jemmott, who was forty-two when he was killed on a pier in […]
Written on April 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Miguel Encalada, the Ladyville resident who is accused of the murder of his common-law-wife, fifty-year-old Desiree Gonzalez Rowland and his own brother, twenty-five-year-old George Encalada Rochester, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to face the charges. The thirty-nine-year-old barber is charged with two counts of murder. While speculation is still rife that the […]
Written on April 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Miguel Encalada’s mother, Yolanda Encalada, was at the court today and she said that Miguel Encalada and Desiree Gonzalez Rowland had a loving relationship and that George Encalada Rochester had just moved in the area from Corozal days before he ended up murdered. Like the family of Desiree Gonzalez Rowland, Yolanda Encalada told us that […]
Written on April 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Walford has been sentenced to forty-eight years in prison for the execution-style murder of American national Lamont Edward Lipka in May 2018. The deadly incident took place in San Pedro when Walford and Tracey Betancourt entered Tropicana Restaurant and Bar and shot Lipka multiple times inside his place of business. While Betancourt has […]
Written on April 24, 2023 | Posted in
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We’ve reported on the lawsuit filed by several former employees of S.O.S. Security Firm against the company for non-payment of salaries. Today, the court ruled that the company should deposit the monies owed to its former employees before July third or else. The security guards went on a go-slow or did not show up to […]
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Two men who police have blamed for last week’s shooting of well-known street figure, Jervis Valencia appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today. They are Logwood Street resident, twenty-five-year-old Lyndon Alexander Saint Claire of Pickwoad Street and twenty-three-year-old Kareem Kelly, a construction worker of Mayflower Street. Police maintain that at around eleven-thirty on April […]
Written on April 24, 2023 | Posted in
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A man was shot by police in Gardenia Village on Sunday night after he allegedly became disorderly and then charged at police with a piece of board. Police information is that sometime around seven-thirty on Sunday night; they were summoned to the area, which is a shop, owned by relatives of the man, thirty-eight-year-old Wilford […]
Written on April 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Guilty – that is the verdict handed down today by Justice Antoinette Moore in the trial by judge alone for the manslaughter of Laddie Gillett. Former Corporal of Police Kareem Martinez stood trial earlier this year and today, almost two years after the fatal shooting of fourteen-year-old Laddie in Placencia, his fate was decided. Martinez […]
Written on April 21, 2023 | Posted in
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