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Have you seen Denvo Banner Duhaney? The twenty-seven-year-old resident of Lemonal village in the Belize District has been missing for approximately ten days and his family fears the worst. “String”, as he is affectionately known by family and peers, was last seen socializing in the village at a victory party and since then, no one […]
Written on August 19, 2014 | Posted in
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It’s Tuesday and that means another round of competition in Channel Five’s latest entertainment show, If You Can Sing It Bring It. After some eight weeks of competition, it is now down to the final three vocalists that will take the stage tonight. This week, they will be performing their original tracks that will display […]
Written on August 19, 2014 | Posted in
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News Five has managed to confirm that there was a murder moments ago in Hopkins. Details are sketchy at this point because officers have been dispatched to the scene, but we are informed that a teacher and her husband were brutally chopped, allegedly during the commission of a robbery. The teacher was killed while her […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura has been placed on interdiction for his involvement in a fatal road traffic accident which occurred early Saturday morning. Police were called to mile seventy-one on the George Price Highway at just after five-thirty, to the scene of a collision between a government-issued Nissan Pathfinder and a blue Toyota […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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There is a great deal of outrage tonight surrounding a fatal traffic accident near Succotz early Saturday morning. It involved a vehicle driven by Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura, and resulted in one fatality and one man still fighting for his life in the KHMH. We’ll have full coverage of that incident and subsequent […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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And on the heels of outrage at that video, there are allegations that Segura received special attention on the scene. Eyewitnesses told News Five today that Segura was taken from the scene by Police, and when he showed up at the polyclinic later, he had taken a bath and changed his clothes. There are also […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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Two men were shot at over the weekend and tonight one of the alleged shooters is behind bars on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail this afternoon by Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. Twenty-two year old Devon Bailey, a Construction Worker of Raccoon Street in Belize City was slapped with […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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Cayo Police are tonight on a manhunt for the killer of a resident of Unitedville who was fatally stabbed early Saturday morning. It happened at around three a.m. at the corner of Albert Street in the village. Thirty-seven-year-old Victor Vargas was stabbed in the neck, and bled to death shortly after, as he tried to […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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Police have not officially released the name of the man wanted for Vargas’ murder, but one woman from Unitedville is convinced that her nineteen year old son is the suspect. Today, Arita Gomez told us that she was picked up by Police and locked down on Saturday as Police tried to find her son Steven. […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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Also in the west, the Gang Suppression Unit conducted an eight-hour operation targeting drug dealers and peddlers in the San Ignacio area. Around five-thirty a.m. on Saturday, the unit searched the Geronimo Thompson Street residence of forty-seven year old Mark Francis Peters. According to the GSU, Peters and three other persons were inside the house […]
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Thirty-eight year old Oscar Rubio was taken to the K.H.M.H. by the police after he was found drunk in the Belize Constitution Park in late July and two weeks later, he was laying dead at the morgue. Rubio died as a result of an injury he sustained during an altercation at the Conch Shell Bay […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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The desecration of a loved one’s grave by vandals or others who are intent on unlawfully occupying precious funereal estate is an injustice that is not limited to the Lord Ridge Cemetery. In fact, we have reported numerous instances where headstones are damaged, skeletal remains are unearthed and tombs often looted. Tonight, a Ladyville family […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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The public health system is once again under intense scrutiny, following the suspension of a pair of administrators from the Primary Care Provider Clinics in Dangriga and Punta Gorda, respectively. Harry Sabal and Kayla Hoare have both been temporarily removed from their posts after it was discovered that there are financial irregularities at their individual […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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“Inspiring Solutions to Global Challenges through Innovation and Creativity.” That’s the theme of a seminar being hosted by the Public Utilities Commission in which tech savvy youths are being trained to create their own mobile apps. It was an initiative that was launched a few weeks ago and today dozens of teenagers gathered in Belize […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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The preliminary results of the 2014 CXC Exams, sat in May and June, are in and, while the top scorers are yet to be named, a total of three thousand, forty-nine students signed up to sit thirty-two of the thirty-five subjects offered in the annual assessment. This year has seen a nominal decrease of one […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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On Saturday, the first in a year-long series of Belize Jazz Fusion Culture Concerts was held at the Biltmore Best Western Hotel, where a host of performers and musicians entertained an audience of young and old with renditions of contemporary music. Advertised as the Belize Jazz ‘N Culture Show, the two-hour program featured guitarists, keyboardists […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We caught up with Saturday night semi-final showdown in Firms Division Basketball as BWSL and the Belize Bank/Airport faced off in game II for the rights to move on to the championship round. On Friday night the Bank/Airport combination had ran over BWSL 60 […]
Written on August 18, 2014 | Posted in
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There was a serious accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway this morning. It happened between miles six and seven, where a loaded Ramos Shuttle Bus heading from Lord’s Bank to the city crashed almost head on into a red pickup truck, driven at the time by thirty-one year old Hugo Campos. The impact was massive, […]
Written on August 15, 2014 | Posted in
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The accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway happened at exactly eleven o’clock, and just a half an hour after that there was another accident on the George Price Highway. It happened just outside of Belize City, at mile two. Fifty two year old Rigoberto Itch was on the road when he was hit by a […]
Written on August 15, 2014 | Posted in
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Police are currently investigating a murder in Belize City – that of thirty-eight-year-old Oscar Richard Rubio. The investigation started on Thursday, when law enforcement officers were informed of a death by the KHMH and called to the morgue. But here’s the thing. It was Police officers who took Rubio to the KHMH on July thirtieth, […]
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Since absconding to Belize in October 2013, many questions have been raised concerning the fugitive status of Dr. Errol Elrington, sibling of Foreign Affairs Minister Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington. In the wake of initial media coverage, many, including Prime Minister Barrow, would chime in on the matter and subsequently the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself. But […]
Written on August 15, 2014 | Posted in
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The funeral of Ernest ‘JawMeighan’ Meighan this afternoon at Central Assembly of God drew hundreds of mourners, one of the largest gatherings of funeral-goers in Belize City of late. The audience was comprised of cyclists in uniform, childhood friends of the slain rider, family and friends, as well as onlookers who drove slowly in order […]
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Ernest ‘Jawmeighan’ Meighan was killed on August ninth, executed with a single bullet to the back of the head. Police have maintained an intensive investigation into the slaying of the cycling icon, but no charges have been levied. Originally Police claimed that the motive was retaliation for the slaying of Chryslin Gladden, but today much […]
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On Thursday, a group of journalists from across the local media participated in a round-table with U.S. Ambassador Carlos Moreno at the embassy in Belmopan. During the forum a range of issues were discussed, including financial assistance offered to UNIBAM to advance its awareness campaign on stigma and discrimination, gay marriage, Belize’s border dispute with Guatemala, the justice […]
Written on August 15, 2014 | Posted in
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While the constitutional challenge to repeal Section Fifty-Three of Belize’s Criminal Code remains before the Supreme Court, a decision is yet to be handed down by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin on the matter. It is no secret however, that the claimant, UNIBAM’s executive director Caleb Orozco, has received grant funding from the U.S. Embassy to […]
Written on August 15, 2014 | Posted in
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