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There is a lot of crime news, but tonight we start our newscast with a historic event that occurred in Guatemala City on Monday. A Belizean delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, was there to join the Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Carlos Raul Morales, in signing an amendment to the original special […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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According to the original Special Agreement, a simultaneous referenda was scheduled for October 2013, but Guatemala decided it was not proceeding with it and for years, it did not support taking the territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice. But all that has now changed and Guatemala is now aggressively pursuing that route. We […]
Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales told the media that for both countries to move forward, the bilateral agenda between the two must be separate from the territorial dispute. This strategy resulted in the signing of a number of agreements at the SICA summit last December in Placencia. Nine of these have now gone through the […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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A gruesome killing in the Valley of Peace Road, Cayo has left a family devastated and shaken up. They can’t say why Edilberto Madrid was gruesomely murdered in a neighborhood where he was well-known. The Roaring Creek resident and tattoo artist has been charged for Attempted Murder, Kept Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition, among other charges, […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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While that murder was in Valley of Peace, on Friday evening, as the extended holiday weekend was just getting underway, gun violence erupted once more on the south side of the City. A gunman opened fire on two men who were hanging out in a yard. One died as he underwent surgery, while the other […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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Also on the crime blotter, twenty-four-year-old Shawn Pascasio was stabbed multiple times on Sunday morning during an altercation outside of Elements Nightclub on Newtown Barracks. Pascasio was reportedly standing on the sidewalk in the company of several others when a fight broke out. During the fracas a knife was produced and the Muhammad Ali Street […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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The wanton bloodlust over the holiday weekend culminated on Monday night with a violent attack on a pair of Belize City men who were seated in front of their home near the Wilton Cumberbatch Field. After seven p.m., Mark Gentle and Calvin Cumberbatch were assailed by a pair of gunmen who fired multiple shots at […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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A sixteen-year-old minor remains in police custody tonight after firing a nine millimeter handgun at a vehicle on Saturday. The shooting took place near the corners of King Street and Amara Avenue. While no one was injured during the incident, the windshield of the vehicle was damaged. Quick response led to the apprehension of the […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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A police operation early this morning in Benque Viejo has resulted in the arrests of four men, charged with the cultivation of marijuana. At around five-thirty, members of the Quick Response Team executed a search warrant on the home of Andy Chen in the Lomas del Rodeo Area of town. In a locked apartment in […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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News Five has been able to confirm that C.E.O. in the Ministry of Immigration and sister of the Minister of National Security, Candelaria Saldivar, has been placed on administrative leave since last week. Sources tell us that she is on leave while the Office of the Prime Minister finds some other posting for her. Since […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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A family in Lord’s Bank, Ladyville has been displaced after a fire swept through their wooden bungalow house. Despite efforts by the fire department to extinguish the blaze, it quickly spread, destroying the house and its contents and killing the family’s pet. Doran Russell and family left their home minutes before it went up in […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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A Belize City man who was locked down for thirty-eight days on firearms offences was in the Supreme Court today after he sued the government for wrongful imprisonment. The case dates back to April eighteenth, 2012, when Police raided a home on Peter Seco Street and found two shotguns and ammunition. Allyson Major was not […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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Sylvestre says that they are basing the case on two arguments. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Allyson Major “One, that his constitutional right not to be arrested, not to be detained, not to lose his freedom unless there is reasonable suspicion…that right was violated. There was no reasonable suspicion for this man to be arrested […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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Raccoon Street resident, nineteen year old Fredrick Smith was today arraigned for the May twenty-second armed robbery at M and M’s Engineering on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Last Friday around three-thirty in the afternoon, over twenty thousand dollars in cash and cheques were robbed from the company; the employees were also relieved of their personal […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven teams in brightly coloured ocean-going kayaks – forty-two gruelling miles from San Pedro Town to the northern-most creek bordering Mexico, and then back to town. The eleventh Lagoon/Reef Eco-Challenge, observers say, was one of the closest ever, with the teams finishing in record time. The annual race is a test of physical and mental […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 4 team semi-pro basketball playoffs got off with a bang over the weekend and we’ve got the head on collision between the #1 seed, Cayo Western Ballaz and the #4 seed, Dangriga Warriors inside the Sacred Heart High School Gymnasium Friday night. The […]
Written on May 26, 2015 | Posted in
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Since he went missing on April thirtieth, the family of Densfield Bowen, feared the worst. Tonight, as they grieve, they are preparing to lay him to rest and close a sad chapter of their lives. Bowen, a stevedore and an alleged gang affiliate, was found dead on Thursday afternoon near Mile eight on the George […]
Written on May 22, 2015 | Posted in
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A Belize City resident was shot on Thursday night in Belize City. Thirty two year old Luis Dominguez was riding his bike on JR Street shortly before eight last night when a man came out of a yard and fired several shots at him. Dominguez, we understand, was hit twice, once to the neck area […]
Written on May 22, 2015 | Posted in
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There is a very ugly situation brewing in the village of Santa Marta in the Orange Walk District, and it involves squatting. Thirteen farmers cleared and cultivated five hundred and twenty acres of land decades ago. They have been working the land since then, primarily to grow cane. But the land is privately owned, part […]
What’s the connection between Minister of State Edmond Castro and Santa Marta in the Orange Walk District? Well, you would think none, but you would be wrong. Earlier this week Castro was battered by the media who were asking him if he was squatting on privately owned land in Santa Marta. Government, as well as […]
Caleb Orozco. He has become the face of the LGBT Community and he has been in news for years challenging section 53 of the Belize Constitution. Well, this is not about that challenge. But, maybe it is that challenge that landed him in the prestigious New York Times. Today an article of almost five thousand […]
So, what does a major spread in the New York Times do for the LGBT Community? Caleb says it is about showing just how real it is for persons from community and he wants to raise awareness. And from the article it seems as if though Orozco has been facing the brunt of the discrimination, […]
An interesting case came up today in the Benque Viejo Magistrate Court. It involves six Cuban nationals, three men and three females, who were detained two weeks ago in the general area of the Mayan site Xunantunich, Cayo District. According to reports, the Cubans were initially remanded for illegal entry but when they appeared in […]
Written on May 22, 2015 | Posted in
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The Gang Suppression Unit conducted anti-drug operations on Thursday and this morning in Belize City. On Thursday evening, the GSU searched a one bedroom house on Lacroix Boulevard owned by Jermaine Randy Rodriguez, a shop vendor. In his house, a total of four hundred and seventy one grams of cannabis was found concealed in a […]
Written on May 22, 2015 | Posted in
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A number of bail applications were heard today in the Supreme Court before Justice Troadio John Gonzalez including three are high profile cases. Ladyville businessman, Hilberto Perez, who was charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of sixty year old Daniel Trapp, received bail of ten thousand dollars. Trapp was allegedly shot after he was […]
Written on May 22, 2015 | Posted in
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