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You may have heard of new legislation in the form of the Firearm Act, and today thirty-three year old Michelle Baltazar became the first person to be convicted and sentenced under the new policy. Baltazar appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to keeping a point twenty caliber round of ammunition and to possession of […]
Written on August 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Thieves made away with two firearms when they broke into the house of a watchman from the Cayo District. Thirty-one year old Honario Tun of Red Creek area in Santa Elena reported that between six and eight-thirty Sunday night, his house was burglarized and his sixteen gauge single action Stevens shotgun and air rifle were […]
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People’s property and belongings have been going missing frequently nowadays and today was no different. This time a vehicle was stolen from in front of its owner’s house. Yesterday, at four fifteen in the afternoon, Taxi driver, twenty-three year old, Andy Cruz of East Canal, Belize City reported that between the hours of twelve twenty […]
Written on August 19, 2008 | Posted in
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In other news from the police blotter, twenty-five year old Lenny Benguche of Marage Road in Ladyville was found with a white transparent plastic bag containing fifteen pieces of crack cocaine. The drugs were unearthed during a search of Benguche by police patrolling the Compassion area of Ladyville. As result, he was arrested and charged […]
Written on August 19, 2008 | Posted in
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The results of a survey conducted in Belize a couple years ago revealed that in addition to child abuse, the country’s children were also regular victims of commercial sexual exploitation. The issue is a complex one as unlike child abuse, CSEC has its roots in poverty and for many victims and their families it is […]
Written on August 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Municipal elections are not due until 2009, but with heavy in-fighting and public quarrels, the U.D.P. has begun early mayoral conventions in districts and the cities. There are plenty candidates to go around with the U.D.P. in control of all town councils and city councils around the country. Punta Gorda, however, sticks out, where the […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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And from politics in the capital city we go south to Punta Gorda where police and the Fire Department are investigating a series of fires that completely gutted four houses in the southern village of Crique Sarco, Toledo. The fires have attracted the attention of police because the dwellings belong to three members of one […]
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Two women were taken to court this morning in connection with the ongoing investigation into the rape and brutal murder of a Belize City single mother Sandra Ruiz, on August tenth. The two are related to Darrel Grant, who has already been arrested and charged with Ruiz’s murder. Police had the two women in custody […]
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Domestic abuse is often reported to the police and then regularly dismissed in Court. And today at Magistrate Court number one, twenty-eight year old Claudia Saunders told Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie that she does not want any further court action against her alleged attacker and husband, thirty-five year old Brian Saunders. On Friday, nightclub owner […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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There is no end to reports of crime and violence, and over the weekend, two more persons were injured in separate shootings, one of them critically. Police investigations reveal that the first victim, twenty-eight year old Angel Dorado, who is an agent at Ready Call Center on Newtown Barracks, was riding with a woman on […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Not too often, victims survive bullets, in particularly when the gunshots penetrate the skull and brain. And while the majority of the cases we’ve reported have ended in loss of life and grief, there is one minor that has a good chance of leading a normal life after he was wounded last week. Such is […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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A Guatemalan waitress has reported to police that she was raped at around one o’clock on Sunday morning. According to the thirty-three year old woman, she left her workplace with a male customer who she knew only as ‘Castillo’ and went to the man’s house on Water Lane. The woman says Castillo then dragged her […]
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Robbers took advantage of the absence of a car dealer and emptied the man’s house presumably between July twenty-fourth and August seventeenth. On his return from a trip abroad yesterday, forty-year old Marvin Williams of Neal Pen Road, reported to the police that his house had been burglarized. Williams was robbed of forty-six thousand, three […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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A twenty year old man has been charged with Suppression of Evidence, not a charge we hear of often. Police arrested and charged Michael ‘Quacky’ Foreman of Louise Bevans Street in Belize City for attempting to get a sixteen year old minor to drop a charge of Aggravated Assault. The young man, along with his […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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The Belize Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club have announced the recipients of its first ever Employer of the Year awards. At a ceremony on Friday night Scotiabank walked away with the title of Overall Best Employer and Best Physical Environment. Other awardees include Citrus Products of Belize, named as the Best Industry Employer, […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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The Belize Kidney Association has a new president and executive. The organisation held its Annual General Meeting at the Belize Institute of Management on Saturday and elected Andrea Cox as president, Olga Herrera as vice president, Godfrey Sosa as secretary and Ruby Nicholas was elected as Treasurer. Five other officers were also elected to serve […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Gentle Touch grabs 3rd consecutive championship Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this version of Sports Monday. Week four of the RF&G Cup Tournament brought Benque DC to the M.C.C. Grounds for the long awaited shoot-out with the Belize Defence Force. And the Military wastes no time in going offensive when Evan […]
Written on August 18, 2008 | Posted in
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Police have detained a man pending charges of kidnapping after he reportedly took his own wife hostage today. The incident unfolded just after eleven this morning when Brian Saunders visited his wife, Claudia Saunders, a senior employee at the Belize Zoo. The couple became embroiled in an argument during which Brian began to choke Claudia. […]
Written on August 15, 2008 | Posted in
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A Benque resident has been charged with Drug Trafficking. On Thursday, police stopped twenty-two year old Jose Antonio Mis at the western border and searched him. In the left side of his pants waist, they found four black plastic bags with a beige substance inside, suspected of being crack cocaine and weighing in at three […]
Written on August 15, 2008 | Posted in
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This morning, Cecil Castillo, also known as ‘Saddest’, was charged with four offences: Robbery, Burglary, Damage to Property, and a Mischievous Act. And the complainant is none other than his girlfriend. Thirty-two year old Leonora Stevens reported that around two-fifteen p.m. on Thursday, she was in her yard when Castillo stole her beach cruiser bicycle. […]
Written on August 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Three persons were involved in a crash on the Northern Highway, leaving one of them critically injured. At about nine-thirty Thursday night, Eusebio Urbina, was driving from Corozal to Orange Walk with twenty-two year old Lelett Calderon, a domestic of San Roman Village and Sandra Bautista, a forty-eight year old teacher, also of San Roman. […]
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A two storey structure on Victor Street in Benque went up in flames around six-eighteen Thursday night. The wooden upper portion of the structure was completely destroyed while the lower flat only received water and smoke damages. Fortunately the occupants, who were in the building when the fire started, managed to escape unharmed. The house […]
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Two sixteen year old students appeared in the Family Court this morning to answer to firearm charges in separate incidents. The first youngster was busted on Thursday with a pen gun in his back pocket when police stopped to search him on the corner of Berkley and Plues Street. He was charged with keeping a […]
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The increase in violent crimes has threatened the personal and commercial security of residents across the country, but tonight News Five’s Marion Ali discovered that it is also posing serious challenges to Belize’s tertiary referral centre: the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Marion Ali, Reporting According to Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital’s Director Medical Services, Doctor Khalid […]
Written on August 15, 2008 | Posted in
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Two women who were found to be in possession of jewelry belonging to murdered victim, thirty-nine year old Sandra Ruiz are tonight in police custody. News Five understands that the women led police to the stolen items at a Belize City pawnshop. While we cannot yet release their names, they have been identified as the […]
Written on August 15, 2008 | Posted in
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