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Belize and Guatemala traded protest notes earlier this year over two inter-linked issues: Guatemala employing offensive maps of the countries linked together except for a jagged line, and Belize using the word ‘border’ in a documentary about the Belize Defence Force. While one seems heavier than the other, Foreign Minister Elrington said they agreed to […]
Written on December 19, 2017 | Posted in
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Guatemala is planning its referendum on the International Court of Justice question for next April fifteenth. If a simple majority is achieved the ball moves to Belize’s court to vote later in 2018, after our municipal elections and re-registration. Minister Elrington detailed what Guatemala’s plans are at this point and how Belize is maneuvering, including […]
Written on December 19, 2017 | Posted in
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A duo was arraigned today in the Magistrate Court for a cocaine bust made in the City over the weekend. The men are from Caye Caulker and Lords Bank, Belize City. Information is that they were being monitored and on Sunday police moved in on them. Aside from the five kilos of cocaine stashed in […]
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Fifty-three-year-old Dennis Bodden, a sanitation worker with the Belize City Council, is yet to appear before the magistrate’s court where he will face charges in connection with a near-fatal assault on his coworker on Monday. Bodden, along with Michael Tesecum and several others, sat inside a work bus during their lunch break. According to an […]
Written on December 19, 2017 | Posted in
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Charges, if any, are yet to be preferred on a suspect who is presently in police custody after being released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital earlier today. According to investigators, Osbaldo Nieto, matches the description of a man who was seen struggling with fifty-three-year-old Mark Vasquez near the Radisson pier on Saturday night. During […]
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A B.B.O.C. bus run out west was held up a by a pair of thieves on Monday night in the vicinity of Camalote Village. According to forty-two-year-old Betty Torres, a conductor employed with the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative, a pair of men boarded the vehicle around six p.m. One of them then produced a handgun […]
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Two pistols and a trove of ammunition were stolen from the University of Belize Punta Gorda Campus. Police say that burglars broke into an office sometime between seven on Monday night and ten o’clock this morning. UB Administrator Roy Polonio reported that once the burglars gained entry to the building, they made their way into […]
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A Belize City mason from the Gungulung area remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for stab injuries to the chest and back. On Monday night, Sherman Sanker had been stabbed multiple times at Moe’s Pizza Grill on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The act of violence stems from an altercation around six-forty-five that day […]
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Twenty-one-year-old Nutmeg Street resident, Dean Nembhard Junior is spending his first night behind bars at the Central Prison after he was arraigned today for the robbery at Monica’s Pawn Shop. Last Thursday, businessman Dorian Usher was robbed at gunpoint outside of the pawn shop; four days later, police arrested and charged Nembhard Junior for the […]
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The criminal past of Jorge Abraham Jaen, the Miami investor behind the multi-million dollar investment in the Basil Jones Airstrip to convert it into a full-scale international airport, continues to unravel. News Five has received copies of the Articles of Association for International Airport Alliance LLC, the apparent parent company of International Airport Alliance Belize […]
Written on December 19, 2017 | Posted in
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There’s more on the proposed international airport. The People’s United Party today reacted to the announcement of a proposed multimillion dollar international airport on San Pedro. Calling it ‘Déjà Vu All Over Again,’ the P.U.P. says that the news that the investor is actually a realtor based in Miami with no experience in building or […]
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A new home for the holidays is a wish for many at this time of the year. With space a scarce commodity in the Old Capital, any initiative to provide shelter is welcomed. But residents of a ‘long barracks’ property scheduled to be torn down are up in arms tonight, because they feel their area […]
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Earlier we made mention of the first meeting between Foreign Minister Elrington and his Guatemalan counterpart, Sandra Jovel Polanco who succeeded Carlos Raul Morales in August. Polanco is the first female Foreign Minister of Guatemala. She asked for the meeting on the sidelines of the SICA summit and a full rundown of Belize-Guatemala affairs was […]
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It’s arguably one of the most trafficked bridges in the country of Belize, but also one of the more poorly maintained. The Government of Belize and M and M Engineering signed an eleven-point-three million dollar contract to construct a new Roaring Creek Bridge connecting the village to Belmopan at Mile forty-eight on the George Price […]
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Santa is in town! He is here to bring some cheer to needy families and so today he was out in full force giving away hams around the city. This is the fourth year that he is helping to make some families’ Christmas brighter but he is not ready to disclose his identity. The secret […]
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As we head to the end of the year, the murder count keeps going up. The bloodbath started on Friday morning with the murder of Jaime Pelayo in Orange Walk. That homicide was followed by murders in Independence village in the south, in the capital, Belmopan, and in Belize City. Mark Vasquez, a well known […]
Written on December 18, 2017 | Posted in
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The capital city, Belmopan, according to our archives, has seen no less than eight cab drivers murdered between 2009 and 2017. While each circumstance is different, the coincidence is too pat for residents, who like to think of themselves as a close-knit community. The latest murder victim is close to home, as sixty-nine year old […]
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In southern Belize, a twenty-one-year-old student was stabbed and killed in Independence Village. Several men attacked Victor Pau and stabbed him several times on Saturday night. His body was found early on Sunday morning. Police say they are questioning three men in connection with Pau’s killing. His family say they are devastated by his murder […]
Written on December 18, 2017 | Posted in
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As we reported, thirty-five-year-old Jaime Pelayo was gunned down in Orange Walk Town on Friday morning, as he stood outside of a nightclub conversing with two women. The shooting incident also left one of the women injured when she was grazed by bullets. Tonight, police are closer to making an arrest since they are now […]
Written on December 18, 2017 | Posted in
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Is the government in bed with a conman in the case of the multi-million dollar Basil Jones airstrip development project? The project is being spearheaded by the International Airport Alliance Belize Limited who proposes a state-of-the art facility for private charters and select flights to the island. However, questions have been raised about Jorge Abraham […]
Written on December 18, 2017 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Natural Resources has been investigating procedures as it relates to the mining of aggregate for road works at the Santa Cruz quarry outside of Santa Elena Town, where an explosion last week killed one man and wounded several others. Tonight, News Five has confirmed with C.E.O. in the Ministry Sharon Ramclam-Young that […]
Written on December 18, 2017 | Posted in
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There was further violence in the city aside from the murder and cocaine bust. A scuffle inside a popular nightclub in Belize City ended with stab wounds being inflicted on Tariq Tzul. He was injured twice in the stomach by someone he had a misunderstanding with. It is not clear whether the incident was gang […]
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A sanitation worker is another victim of violence. This morning forty-year-old Michael Tesecum was inside a parked bus when another worker chopped him twice to the head with a machete. After the first blow to the head, Tesecum fell unconscious but another chop wound was inflicted on him by fifty-three-year-old Dennis Bodden. Other workers in […]
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A carefully orchestrated sting operation has proven successful for the Belize Police Department as they were able to arrest a pair of Belize City men who were in possession of over five parcels of cocaine. The duo had reportedly met up at a local restaurant where they planned the drug transaction. According to Assistant Commissioner […]
Written on December 18, 2017 | Posted in
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Dion Bruce is accused of shooting Aaron Carter to death in July of 2010 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. In 2014, then-Chief Magistrate Ann-Marie Smith ordered his extradition to face a long list of charges including murder, attempted murder and possession of a firearm. Nearly four years later he continues to languish in jail pending an […]
Written on December 18, 2017 | Posted in
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