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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams reacted to the guilty verdict handed down earlier today against former Corporal of Police Kareem Martinez. Recently, police officers have been at the center of convictions, accused of disproportionate, unnecessary and unreasonable conduct that have ended in irreparable harm. ComPol Williams says that he was expecting the ruling from the […]
Written on April 21, 2023 | Posted in
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Following the verdict, defense attorney Oscar Selgado, who represented Kareem Martinez in the trial, maintained that there is no evidence and no scientific proof that his client fired the shot that killed Laddie Gillett. Selgado told the media that he intends to appeal the decision of the court. But according to attorney-at-law Dickie Bradley, the […]
Written on April 21, 2023 | Posted in
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Prior to issuing the guilty verdict, Justice Antoinette Moore referred to the Convention on the Rights of a Child and spoke of the need for more training of police officers as it relates to the Firearms Act and the Police Act, as well as the constitution. Back in January, the Justice for Laddie Foundation, during […]
Written on April 21, 2023 | Posted in
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The Ladyville community was stunned on Thursday afternoon when reports of a double murder began to surface in the village. Indeed, a man and a woman were found dead inside the woman’s residence that she shared with her common-law-husband, who is the police department’s suspect in the pair of homicides. The woman, fifty-year-old Desiree Gonzalez […]
Written on April 21, 2023 | Posted in
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A man and a woman were found dead inside a residence in Ladyville shortly after midday today. The two were businesswoman, fifty-year-old Deserie Gonzalez Rowland and her brother-in-law, twenty-five-year-old George Encalada. Police reportedly took the main suspect, known to both victims, into custody at the scene. The circumstances surrounding the double homicide are what have […]
Written on April 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Chairman of Ladyville, Bernardo Bennett, also told News Five that the incident brings back eerie memories of what happened over a decade ago, when an entire family was murdered inside their home. Bennett speaks about the deceased woman and the accused man that he grew up with decades ago. Bernardo Bennett, Chairman, Ladyville “I […]
Written on April 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Former Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Service, Reynaldo Verde, has been deported to Belize after serving a stint in a U.S. prison. He had been locked up abroad since September 2019 when he was busted by F.B.I. officials at Dulles International Airport in Washington, following allegations of extortion. The senior public officer was returning […]
Written on April 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Thieves broke into the Treasury Department’s Dangriga Branch back in March and made good their escape with forty-thousand dollars. Reports are that the culprits pried off the burglar bars on the bathroom window to gain entry. Police have been investigating, but there have been little to no leads in that investigation. This morning we caught […]
Written on April 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, News Five caught up with Minister of Sustainable Development Orlando Habet and asked for an update on the tribunal as it relates to the proposed Port of Belize Expansion Project that has been rejected by the Department of Environment. As we’ve reported, the British Caribbean Bank and Prize Investment Holdings have invoked the […]
Written on April 20, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin our newscast tonight with a decision that was handed down in the High Court earlier today by Justice Ricardo O‘Neil Sandcroft. Three former law enforcement officers have been sentenced to fifteen years in prison after they were convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of a bartender in San Pedro in March 2016. […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Well-known street figure Jervis Diamond Valencia was the target of a gunman earlier today when shots were fired in the vicinity of Logwood Street in Belize City. According to police in the area, officers were on foot patrol near Ebony Street when they heard reports of gunfire. When they arrived at the scene they observed […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Two bills were passed through the Senate today that will provide greater access to legal aid for persons unable to afford the service. The authority to assign attorneys for legal aid purposes falls under the Senior Courts Act. An amendment is now being made to that act that will see such powers removed from the […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Union Senator, Elena Smith, also made contributions to the debate on the amendments being made to the Senior Court Act and the passage of the Legal Aid Bill. The National Trade Union Congress of Belize is concerned that these legal aid services will be exploited by persons who are positioned to pay for their own […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, we are premiering our latest news product, a bi-weekly segment that we have dubbed “The Five Point Breakdown”. It is a comprehensive analysis of complex social, political, and economic issues that are presented in an easy to understand format. Tonight’s explainer journalism feature looks at the population census and its impact on economic development. […]
Written on April 19, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize just recently welcomed and hosted the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Doctor Tsai Ing-Wen who was on a state visit to the Jewel and today, exactly two weeks after the president’s departure, the wife of the President of Mexico, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (Mew-ler) arrived in Belize bearing gifts. The visit from Müller […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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And while the wife of the Mexican President came bearing gifts, her short visit created quite a bit of inconvenience for motorists and commuters in Belize City. Traffic was backed up for miles along the Phillip Goldson Highway for just over two hours. But, could this long wait have been avoided if there were better […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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The man who used to field questions from the media and share information on police news every Monday will be laid to rest on Friday, following a wake at the House of Culture on Thursday night, starting at six. Fittingly, today it was the family of Assistant Superintendent of Police, Fitzroy Yearwood who sat at […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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But Yearwood would never recover. His family said that even though he had rebounded well in the past from near-death situations caused by health complications, this time the prognosis from the get-go was grim. His brain had swollen and was hemorrhaging and it happened at a spot where doctors decided they could do nothing to […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Fitzroy Yearwood had initially signed up with the Belize Defense Force, but didn’t like that job and left. He then joined the Belize Police Department in 1996 and even though his health had dealt him a few stiff blows, he rose through the ranks to Assistant Superintendent of Police, the post he held up until […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A team of law enforcement officers, as well as personnel from the National Forensics Science Services, is on the ground in southern Belize tonight. After a week of searching, including aerial surveys of a far-flung location in Toledo District, the party, led by members of the Belize Police Department, discovered the burnt vestiges of an […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A pair of Belize City men, believed to be among three persons who robbed and fatally shot a vegetable vendor last Wednesday, appeared before the new Chief Magistrate earlier today. Twenty-three-year-old Milton Nunez, a resident of mile two and a half on the George Price Highway and twenty-one-year-old Emerson Elijio, a car washer of a […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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Two Belize City men who are part of the Leadership Intervention Unit were shot while socializing over the weekend on Amara Street. Ronlee Petillo and Alyon Domingo were at a yard on Amara Avenue on Saturday evening when shots rang out and the two sustained gunshot wounds. According to the Belize Police Department’s Regional Commander […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A family is mourning the loss of their loved one who died in a traffic accident early this morning on the Philip Goldson Highway. It happened between miles thirteen and fourteen in the wee hours today, and claimed the life of thirty-two-year-old Leonel Cabanas, a resident of Sand Hill Village. The father of four had […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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On Saturday night, a fire broke inside a concrete structure in the Saint Martin de Porres area of Belize City. It was reportedly home to Glenford Webster, a person, residents, say who has a mental condition and lived in the house alone. The structure had no electricity and the fire is believed to have been […]
Written on April 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A Belize Defense Force soldier lost his life in a hit and run on the Phillip Goldson Highway in Ladyville. Reports are that just before ten p.m. on Thursday, thirty-eight-year-old Hector Cho was lying on the highway motionless when a concerned motorist stopped and exited his vehicle to inform another motorist of a body on […]
Written on April 14, 2023 | Posted in
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