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Police are looking for two men in connection with a robbery that occurred early Sunday afternoon. Celso Leal, a thirty-two year old farmer of the San Carlos Area in Orange Walk Town, reported to police that around two-thirty he was relieved of five thousand eight hundred dollars which he intended to use to purchase a […]
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The Belmopan branch of the furniture and appliance store, Courts was burglarized over the weekend. According to forty year old manager, Sharon Morris, between one p.m. on Saturday and seven-thirty Monday morning when the store was closed for the weekend, it was broken into. The burglars stole cell phones, digital cameras, two laptops, a weed […]
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Since February, the bumpy ride on Albert and Regent Streets has been compounded by street closures due to construction work in anticipation of the upgrading of the downtown area. And over the weekend when a grader rolled into town and streets were once again blocked off, residents watched with excitement as it appeared that the […]
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The National Council on Aging is looking for a few Golden Age Heroes. On the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons on October first, N.C.A. will be honouring one older person from each district with the Golden Heroes Award and as such is asking for nominees. Candidates must be sixty years or older, […]
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And it wasn’t just the crime situation that the Erotic Mas Band is concerned about as we reported in the first segment of our newscast. Following in the footsteps of the Jam Jam Mas Band, this morning, Erotic fired off a four-page letter to President of the Belize Carnival Association protesting the results of the […]
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The flag raising ceremony is a traditional and symbolic act on every Independence Eve since 1981 when Belize became a free and independent nation. And this year, another flag will be hoisted on the eve of September tenth and if you trafficked near mile three on the Northern Highway the day after the General Elections, […]
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Regional entertainer Oscar B is back in town as part of the September celebrations. The artist will have two concerts for Belizeans, one tonight for a grown-up audience and another scheduled for tomorrow for youths. Oscar B, Entertainer “Tonight is built basically for the grown folks so what is expected tonight is less of the […]
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The streets of Bagdad may be safer than Belize City tonight as a fourth grenade, aimed at a thick crowd of revelers, interrupts the carnival road march. And at news time tonight two people have been detained by police following what could have had a disastrous ending were it not for a twist of fate […]
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While there were no casualties in the grenade attack, a car dealer died of gunshot wounds this weekend. Police retrieved the body of eighteen year old Stanley Moguel about a hundred yards away from the Haulover Bridge shortly after six on Sunday morning. The body which was lying face down on the left shoulder of […]
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At the tail end of the carnival, while thousands of onlookers were converged on Princess Margaret Drive in front of Jabiru Auto Rental, another violent incident sent the crowds scrambling for cover. One person was injured by gunshots and others were injured when bottles were hurled into the air. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
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The shootings were not confined to Saturday. On Sunday night two Belize City men who were hanging-out near a popular Asian establishment on Central American Boulevard, became the targets of a shoot-out. Lee’s Shopping City also known as Archie’s, was where thirty year old Patrick Kerr of Flamboyant Street and twenty-two year old Leo Palacio […]
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And in another incident in the West Landivar area, just before six o’clock, a motor cycle driven by an adventurous man ran off the road. The incident occurred at the entrance to St. John’s Junior College when thirty year old Michael Brown who was driving his Honda CBR 600 motorcycle on Princess Margaret heading from […]
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Acting on tip-offs, Fisheries Officers made a double bust today in Belize City; the first at around two-thirty this afternoon at Wanton Restaurant on New Road. On the second floor of the building which houses the residential quarters, fisheries officers discovered several bags containing one hundred ninety-six conchs and two bags of twenty-two undersized lobsters. […]
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Taking advantage of a black-out and to make life even more dangerous, three inmates busted out of Hattieville prison sometime between two-thirty and two-forty-five on Sunday morning by picking a lock. Word from prison officials is that the inmates may be heading west and north. They are Rene Morente, a Guatemalan national serving time for […]
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It’s not as common an occurrence as road collisions, but over the weekend, one more plane crash was added to the country’s list of air incidents. Around nine-forty on Sunday morning, Roy Bradley, piloting a Tropic Air Caravan made an emergency landing in the waters near Belizean Beach. The plane had just taken off from […]
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The Stars Restaurant and Bar in Roaring Creek Village went up in flames Sunday night. When fire officials arrived at the scene around ten-forty-five, they found the entire upper floor of the two storey wooden structure ablaze. The lower flat of the building was a popular bar and restaurant frequented by travelers on the Western […]
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Luck can come in different ways and a man’s luck changed for the better after he won Wednesday night’s Lotto Jackpot of a hundred and thirty-two thousand, five hundred dollars. This afternoon, seventy year old Santiago Coyoc of Xiabe Village in the Corozal District, picked up his big cheque from Tropical Gaming Company in Belize […]
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re most welcome this issue of Sports Monday. We take you immediately to Sand Lighters Promenade here in the city where the Belize Triathlon Association staged the ninth Lionman event as part of the tenth Celebrations. It happened yesterday. For the defending champion Jose Alberto Xol of Guatemala, being […]
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Maintaining the integrity of our lengthy border with Guatemala is an uphill battle for local NGOs and security forces and an incident late last week has reinforced that point. On August twenty-sixth a multi-agency patrol consisting of ten Belize Defence Force soldiers, four rangers and a guide from the Ya’axche Conservation Trust, embarked on a […]
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It is said that progress brings problems and tonight that adage is playing out in southern village of Seine Bight. As part of the project to pave the Placencia Road, plans were made for the Seine Bight community centre to be demolished and a new multi-purpose building erected in its stead … but that new […]
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Two police officers attached to the Belize City Traffic Branch are tonight being sought on charges of Extortion. This follows a report made this afternoon by Jovanni Requeña, who said he was stopped during a traffic inspection around midnight on Thursday. Requeña alleges that when Corporal Orvin Tejeda and a Constable Leonardo observed that he […]
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A businessman in Spanish lookout was the victim of a scary robbery. Thirty-three year old Dennis Dueck reported to police that around four-thirty on Thursday evening, two men dressed in black entered his store, Diverse Trades Cell Phone Shop. One of the men had a knife, which he placed to Dueck’s throat demanding money, while […]
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Authorities are cracking down on the sale of illegal lottery and tonight four more merchants have been charged. Today in Magistrates’ Court, thirty-two year old Cai Hua Tan, twenty-eight year old Guan Ning Wu, twenty-two year old Feng Luo, and thirty-three year old Guoquin Chen, pled not guilty to the charges. The four have business […]
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A seventeen year old boy who was charged on Thursday with Attempted Murder was today sentenced to six months in prison. The teen appeared in the Belize Family Court and was found guilty of keeping a nine millimeter pistol with seven rounds of ammunition in its magazine and was given three months for each offence. […]
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He was accused of attempting to sodomize a nineteen year old male last year, but tonight Albert Hendy is a free man. Hendy was charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature, Aggravated Burglary, Wounding, and Damage to Property for the incident which occurred on October fourteenth, 2007. But when the thirty-four year old construction […]
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