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Another sore spot for the Ahmad family, aside from the murder of their loved one, is the rounding up of its members back in 2016 by the Special Branch of the police department. During that operation as many as twenty persons, including pregnant wives, young children and grandparents, were taken into police custody and held […]
Written on January 11, 2018 | Posted in
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It is a position that Elrington, himself a former defense counsel, agrees with. The family should have been given the opportunity to contact its lawyers and should have been provided with a reasonable explanation for being raided. He promised them that he would personally look into the incident and prepare a report chronicling his findings […]
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The ball is in motion for a provisional warrant to be sought for attorney Andrew Bennett’s arrest. That is because Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington has signed documents that will allow the office of the Attorney General to proceed with a request for Bennett’s detention. It is expected that he will be arrested and […]
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The allegation of a sexual assault on a sixteen-year-old-boy made headlines this week. The alleged perpetrator is well-known taxi-man Roy “Bullet” Craig, who police say was found nude along with the minor in a hotel room. Bullet has denied the claims by the young boy and was taken before the court on a charge of […]
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There have been three murders in the first eleven days of the year. Today, police said they are still questioning persons in the killings of Leon Garcia and Frederick Smith in Belize City. Garcia and Smith were fatally shot while out socializing on separate occasions. Smith was the last murder for 2017 and Garcia was […]
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On Monday we reported on a video posted on Facebook where claims were made from certain gang quarters claiming responsibility for Garcia’s death. When we spoke with Police earlier this week, they didn’t have any information on the video. Today, CIB personnel Alejandro Cowo says he has not seen the video, but investigators have looked […]
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Police have arrested and charged a minor for killing twenty-eight-year-old Shakira Villanueva in a road traffic accident. The sixteen-year-old was driving a vehicle without a license when he knocked down and killed Villanueva while she was crossing a street at the entrance of Guinea Grass Village in Orange Walk. The accident happened around nine p.m. […]
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The cruel slaying of a young jaguar and its dumping in the Belize River has raised the ire of conservationists and the public alike. The cat, which is protected by law, was found dead earlier this week in the Belize River; it had been shot and its head cut off. Another jaguar was found dead […]
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An argument in downtown Belize City ending in an apparent stabbing on Sunday morning landed sixty-four-year-old businesswoman Jennifer Garcia in court. Garcia is accused of stabbing Ingrid McKay with a twelve-inch knitting needle after a quarrel over McKay’s partner Conrad Jackson while at the Battlefield Park. Garcia allegedly told McKay that Jackson wanted a relationship […]
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Fifty-two-year-old Roger Kenrick Jones, a refrigerator technician of Belize City, must pay three hundred dollars in fines after being busted with cocaine in December. Jones was caught when a police officer on mobile patrol on East Collet Canal saw him drop an object on the ground, which turned out to be the cocaine wrapped in […]
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There is a degree of disquiet among some students at the national university over a change in the date of graduation from February to June. Some students have complained that the postponement gets in the way of his pursuit of another degree as well as a job opportunity. This afternoon, the University of Belize President […]
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Still a little shaky from Tuesday night’s earthquake and tsunami scare? You’re not alone. Nearly forty-eight hours later, emergency preparedness responders are still marveling at Belize’s close call and formulating plans and ideals for the next time. Belize is located not far from the Swan Islands transform fault which produced another knee-buckler in 2009. That […]
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Vulnerable populations, such as the stevedores who were out on the sugar boat on Tuesday night, should be covered in terms of planning by their employers as well as their own personal plans. CEMO Coordinator, Phillip Willoughby also drew our attention to an erroneous social media post claiming that a tsunami would hit around four-thirty […]
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Comments Off on NEMO, CEMO, Red Cross Assess on-the-Ground Response, Find Good and Bad
For the most part, none of the countries in the region reported any damage to buildings and other infrastructure. But here in Belize the Ministry of Works, supported by the National Emergency Management Organization, is conducting assessments of Belize’s established bridges to ensure that they are sound and safe. The City Emergency Management Organization, according […]
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The reef report card was released on Wednesday in Belize City. We reported on Belize’s two point eight grade average, which conservationists gave the country after extensive research conducted on its reef. A total of three hundred and nineteen coral reef sites were studied along the coasts of Belize, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The report […]
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Over the past few years, we have reported on the managed access program in Belize being implemented by the Fisheries Department, Environmental Defense Fund and other local conservation partners. It started out as a pilot program at the Port Honduras Marine Reserve and Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve – a program used to reduce fishing pressure […]
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In news from the Belize City Council, residents of the area north of Cinderella Plaza up to the Barracks, including Kelly Street, Baymen Avenue, Wilson Street, Hunter’s Alley, Matron Roberts Street, Calle Al Mar and Simon Lamb Street should expect to see personnel from the Council and Ministry of Health in their area on Saturday […]
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Many of us grew up with parents forcing us to take our vitamins. Whether it was cod-liver oil or Flinstones vitamins, our parents all believed that it would make us get sick less and grow stronger. How much of this is true? That’s what we attempt to find out in tonight’s Healthy Living. Marleni […]
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The tremors of a strong seven point six earthquake in Great Swan Island in Honduras were felt as far as Mexico and various areas of the country. Residents in Belize City, up north in Corozal as well as in other coastal areas felt the tremors shortly after nine o’clock on Tuesday night. The warning that […]
Written on January 10, 2018 | Posted in
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Comments Off on The Earth Moved off Honduras on Tuesday Night; Tsunami Threat Causes Brief Panic
The tsunami threat caused a panic in the prime tourism island of San Pedro where residents took no chances and moved to safer buildings and shelters that were immediately opened to accommodate the rush of persons. Sea waters were reportedly receding, but in the following story News Five’s Duane Moody looks at the recent phenomenon […]
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Adding to the frenzy following the offshore tremor was the perceived recession of seawater ahead of a resulting tsunami. As we said, it turns out that a phenomenon known as a spring tide has been occurring for the past several days, prior to the earthquake. Many took to social media to post images, as well […]
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The Mesoamerican Reef provides economic, social and cultural benefits to Belize. It is valued around a billion dollars and recent reports show that just four of Belize’s seven marine protected areas provide up to nineteen million U.S. dollars per year in economic benefits from tourism recreation. But the reef is exposed to a number of […]
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The fate of twenty-eight-year-old Krismar Espinosa of Orange Walk was today in the hands of a twelve-member jury. Espinosa was tried for the second time for the murder of fellow Central Prison inmate Keon Swasey on Christmas Eve, 2009. Swasey was stabbed in the chest twice with a homemade kitchen knife and the murder was […]
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A fifteen-year-old girl accuses a man more than three times her age of sexually abusing her for almost a year. Fifty-two-year-old Jose Ardon was initially charged with two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with the minor, but today he was read an additional nine counts before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. According to the minor, the […]
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A Belize City man was remanded on Tuesday for an assault that left one man injured. On December twenty-ninth, 2017, Edgar Richards was talking to a friend on Emma Street when forty-five-year-old Paul Jex Senior, armed with a machete, rode up to him and chopped one of his hands. Jex Senior appeared before Senior Magistrate […]
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