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Belize City resident Ronlee Petillo has been accused of being a member of the George Street Gang (GSG) and was arraigned before Magistrate Dennison Mannon earlier today. Petillo, who was recently granted bail for rape and aggravated assault with a firearm, pleaded not guilty to the charge. According to the allegations, Petillo, who resides on […]
Written on May 3, 2023 | Posted in
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As many as three prisoners escaped while being escorted to the Belize Central Prison over the last four to five months. The most recent escapee, twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Foster, did so on Tuesday, April eighteenth. Thirteen days later, on May first, Foster was arraigned on a single charge of escape from lawful custody. He is accused […]
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The controversial issue of Haitian nationals arriving in Belize before being smuggled or trafficked onward to the United States continues to raise serious concerns. While the matter presents an awkward situation for CARICOM nationals, in the context of free movement across the region, the Immigration Department has had to implement specific measures to stem the […]
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The deadly house fire on Tuesday morning in Belize City that claimed the life of a young mother and her two children remains under investigation by the National Fire Service. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Human Development has also been working closely with the family of the deceased woman. According to Minister Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, social workers […]
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In the wake of the decision taken by the court to deny bail to Tehje Vaughn for the shooting death of Charles Canton, the Association of Defense Attorneys has issued a release saying that it is concern about two recent incidents involving the liberty of Belizeans who appeared before the courts. The association, which was […]
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The Association of Defense Attorneys agrees, however, that bail could have been denied for various reasons, including for protection of the defendant or that the person poses as a flight risk. But the association is also concerned about the interpretation of the law. Michelle Trapp, Vice President, Association of Defense Attorneys “Having to do […]
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Marconi Leal Junior has been reassigned as C.E.O. at the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs. As we’ve reported, C.E.O. Leal and Minister of Transport, Youth and Sports Rodwell Ferguson were at odds for some time and the irreparable break up of their professional relationship led to Leal’s reassignment. Since April twenty-fourth, […]
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The Boledo frenzy has waned with the temporary suspension of the nightly draw and the Sunday Lottery, but an alternative game – Scratch and Win allows players to find out whether they’ve won on their investment immediately, that’s as fast as you can scratch the ticket to find out. Scratch and Win’s latest winner, Pedro, […]
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Several persons lost their lives over the extended weekend and we’ll have these stories for you later. But we begin our newscast tonight with this morning’s inferno on Antelope Street Extension that has gripped the nation. A mother and her two children – one three years old and the other only three months old – […]
Written on May 2, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning in the lower courts, the daughter of a well-known city councilor was denied bail when she was brought up on a charge of manslaughter by negligence. Tehje Vaughn has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison until July third, when she is scheduled to go before the Chief Magistrate Jayani Wegodapola. Vaughn, who […]
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A man was shot dead near his house by a gunman who hid under the victim’s back step. While there are reports that the deceased was not the intended target, police are saying that in fact, he was. Sometime before eight-thirty on Sunday morning, twenty-nine-year-old Adrian Pook was reportedly walking on an unnamed street near […]
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Today in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, Anthony Carballo Junior, was arraigned on a charge of murder for the killing last week Thursday of thirty-year-old Silvian Swift on Antelope Street. Due to the nature of the offence, bail was denied and Carballo was remanded to the Belize Central Prison until June 2023. Swift was standing […]
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Twenty-two-year-old Everald Martinez, who was charged with rape and murder of his seventeen-month-old stepdaughter, walked out of the courtroom a free man today. Martinez had spent five years behind bars for the incident after baby Allyssa Nunez was sexually molested, raped and beaten with a blunt object in March of 2018. Supreme Court Justice Ricardo […]
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Belize has submitted a Memorial to the International Court of Justice (I.C.J.) in The Hague, in the ongoing sovereignty dispute over the Sapodilla Cayes with Honduras. G.O.B. says that the Memorial, delivered to the Deputy Registrar of the I.C.J., Jean-Pelé Fomété, vigorously defends Belize’s ownership of the Cayes and requests that the Court declares that […]
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A recent poll conducted by former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Michael Ashcroft, has revealed that almost half of the countries in King Charles’ realms, including Canada and Australia, would choose to become republics if a referendum were held today. The survey of eleven thousand, two hundred and fifty-one persons across fourteen overseas countries found that […]
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The lucrative contract to administer the nightly Boledo, as well as the Sunday Lottery Draw, has been cancelled. The termination of that agreement which was granted to Brads Gaming Group Limited by the previous government came into force today with the suspension of all related activities, including the sale of tickets. In a press release […]
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The Leadership Intervention Unit, despite its effort at working closely with gang members to change their lives and circumstances, is going through a rough patch. L.I.U. Chairman William Dawson passed away earlier this year and in the ensuing months there have been several incidents, including recidivism, that have plagued the organization. Those incidents have also […]
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According to ComPol Williams, several interventions have been done in an attempt to quell recent flare ups among the gangs. Efforts have also been made to prevent reprisals in the case of two murders that occurred in Belize City last week. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “We have been able to ensure that with […]
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Jervis Valencia, also a member of the Leadership Intervention Unit, was shot a little over a week ago, as he was reportedly returning to his neighborhood following an L.I.U. activity. He remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. where he is recovering from injuries received to one of his legs. But the Belize City resident, from his […]
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Were the confiscated cannabis edibles that created chaos at Saint Luke’s Methodist last week properly handed over as evidence to the police department? That’s the question that was put to the Commissioner of Police when he sat down with the media this afternoon. Here’s the latest on that investigation. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police […]
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Oscar Requeña, the Area Representative for Toledo West, was involved in a traffic mishap on Sunday night that left several villages in Toledo without electricity for a short period. Reports are that sometime around eight p.m., Requeña was driving from San Antonio Village to Mafredi Village when he swerved off the road and crashed into […]
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While there was loss of lives in this morning’s fire on Antelope Street Extension, a Haitian national is in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital having survived a fire inside a vehicle. On Saturday, thirty-one-year-old Davidson Estiverne received various degrees of burns to the body when he set himself on fire inside an […]
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There was also a fire in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City on Sunday; fortunately, no one was injured in that blaze. But the National Fire Service is reporting that the two-storey wooden structure, while abandoned by its owner, it was being occupied by someone. Kenneth Mortis says that the fire was due […]
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There were several other fires reported over the extended weekend. In Orange Walk, the Mayan Garden Resort on the Philip Goldson Highway, popularly known for its buffalo burgers, went up in flames. The fire broke sometime around three o’clock on Sunday afternoon and spread quickly to consume several structures on the property. The losses are […]
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The three-day trade show that Belizeans across the country look forward to in Belmopan is now history, but even under the sweltering heat, this year’s attendance surpassed last year’s. The Ministry of Agriculture reports that over thirty-four thousand persons visited the event at the National Agriculture and Trade Show Grounds at the entrance to Belmopan. […]
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