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It was a bloody weekend: there are three murders to report tonight, two traffic fatalities, and much more. But we start first in the city where an unusual blast interrupted the hectic pace of mid morning. It came from the Brown’s Butane Gas Service and was heard from far away when a faulty pressurized butane […]
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At the top of the newscast, we reported on the death of Elton Herrera, an employee of Brown’s Butane Gas Company. This afternoon, the Fire Department explained that the cause of the blast was the rapid expansion of the butane liquid in the cylinder. Divisional Officer of the Fire Department, Michael Middleton, says that the […]
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The weekend’s first homicide occurred in Big Falls Village in Toledo around seven o’clock on Saturday night when a single gunshot shattered the quiet of the night. It was the shot that ended the life of a well known businessman during an armed hold up at his store which is also houses his family home. […]
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Earlier we promised you details about the late Francis Johnston. He was the man who held a lease to farmland in Golden Stream Village which members of the Maya Leaders Alliance were contesting in court. This is because a Maya farmer, Alfonso Cal, had planted cacao on the land that Johnston had leased. Johnston bulldozed […]
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In another homicide, the brother of a cycling champion was slain on Sunday night in Belize City. Thirty-six year old Ellis “Peppa Gacho,” Meighan, was murdered near his home by a lone gunman. Ellis, a resident of Banak Street, was across the Central American Boulevard and was standing near a lamp post when his assailant […]
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In the third murder also on Sunday, this time up north in Orange Walk, twenty-two year old Marvin Lennens Stevens of Guinea Grass Village is facing murder charges for the homicide of Roberto Cal, a resident of the same village. Just after midnight Sunday morning, Stevens and thirty-seven year old Cal, got into an altercation. […]
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The school year has just opened but students at the Caye Caulker Roman Catholic School are taking the rest of the week off… and it’s no major holiday. An undetermined viral infection has raised serious concerns in the school and at least one third of the students have been sent home since classes started. Health […]
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While the primary school kids in Caye Caulker have fallen ill, the highways claimed the life of two individuals in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Sunday at three-thirty in the afternoon, three generations of the Marin family were caught in a brutal accident. It is believed that a tire blow out caused Genoveiva […]
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The second accident that occurred over the weekend involved a Belize City resident. Thirty-nine year old Lawrence Cleland, a tour guide of Faber’s Road was travelling alone in the direction of Scotland Half-moon towards Burrell Boom at five-forty-five on Sunday morning when disaster struck. It is not known if Cleland fell asleep at the wheel […]
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Early on the morning of the tenth September, quick police work averted a major break-in at the Customs Department on Caesar Ridge Road. It is believed it was an inside job and the thieves were looking for weapons. Today five men were charged for the break-in including two employees of the department who were on […]
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He came to Belize in July of this year, and tonight forty one year old Guyanese national, Calvin Fitzpatrick Lewis, finds himself in trouble with the law. The charge against him is a rare one, Preparation to a Crime. Police allege that on September third they searched Lewis’ house on Freshman Lane in the West […]
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And a Honduran man living in Belize City is spending his first night behind bars after he allegedly stabbed his neighbor and her two children. Twenty-five year old Alexis Rojas is accused of inflicting the injuries on the family on Saturday September twelfth on Mahogany Street Extension. According to police, they responded to a report […]
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The silver trophy is safely in the hands of the Belize National Basketball Team after their spectacular performance in the COCABA games in which they beat the other Central American teams and held the Mexicans at bay until the last seconds of a gripping game. But in Switzerland today, a hearing was held on the […]
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The Expo Belize Marketplace 2009 was held at the St. John’s Landivar Gymnasium over the weekend. The two days were a scorcher but the heat did not stop the crowd from looking for bargains amongst the one hundred plus businesses who signed up for the event. In case you didn’t make it out to the […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just logged on to this show we call Sports Monday. The national Celebrations always bring with it a plethora of sporting events and this year is no exception. So we take you immediately to the new and improved Albert Street Circuit for the start of the Elite Open […]
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The Customs Department has been hit several times by burglars who have tried to get past security to jack containers loaded with the popular illegal drug pseudoephedrine. Early Thursday morning, there was another major attack on the Customs and Excise Department at the corner of Caesar Ridge Road and Central American Boulevard. Heavy shooting took […]
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The tenth of September was mostly peaceful with few reports of unlawful activities during the day but there was heightened security around the city. But the night did not pass without a homicide. The most recent murder victim is twenty-four year old Collin Smith, better known as “Chingwang”. He was shot four times after midnight […]
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Traffic on one of the nation’s major highways would have been blocked if the one hundred and fifty plus taxi operators from Benque Viejo did not get their way. For days, they complained that some San Ignacio taxi operators were not adhering to the rotation system in place at the border. This meant that San […]
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There is a newborn in the Moya Flowers household. On Thursday she delivered her Mayoral speech for the September tenth celebrations and today Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers delivered her firstborn, a baby boy at eight minutes past two this afternoon at the Belize Medical Associates. He weighed seven pounds twelve ounces and the […]
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We report tonight the passing of well known personality, Bridget Cullerton, a woman that blazed many trails in the social and business sectors. Cullerton was born in Belize City in 1945 and was the eldest of ten children. She moved to the US in 1962, and tragedy struck shortly after when her mother and six […]
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The Conscious Youth Development Programme has been providing camps for children who are considered ‘at risk’ youths since 2008. The camps which include overnight activities are designed to inspire the youths to improve their lives. So allegations of sexual assaults and misconduct involving those in charge of the camps give the organization a black eye […]
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Buca Shell Gas Station at Miles two and a half on the Northern Highway was jacked on Wednesday. The culprits were captured on surveillance camera and were soon busted in a green Ford escort with the stolen cash. They were taken to court this morning and two of the four pleaded guilty to Robbery and […]
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A man charged with the Robbery of a supermarket is one of the Hattieville Prison’s latest guests after he was denied bail today. Thirty one year old Albert Middleton, also known as “Cracker”, is accused of holding up Miami Shopping Center on Euphrates Avenue on Thursday afternoon. Middleton allegedly entered the business, and pointed a […]
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Also in court, a man accused of setting a fire in January 2008, that almost gutted his sister’s home was found unfit to stand trial. Shortly before midday, a jury of seven women and two men, who had deliberated for less than thirty minutes, found that thirty-six year old Ernest Billary could not stand trial […]
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In other news, he has the distinction as the second Taiwanese president to walk Belizean soil. On that visit in September 2004, fifty-eight year old Chen Shui-Bian was bestowed with the Order of Belize and he was given the symbolic keys to the capital. Relations were at a highpoint and Belize like the rest of […]
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