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The latest and most vicious homicide occurred this morning in murder capital, Belize City and according to our records it is the twenty-sixth murder since the beginning of this year. Twenty seven year old Lacey Rosales, originally from Sand Hill, returned to Belize from the United States only a few months ago and was not […]
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And in the murder of Chinese national Hui Lin Chen on Saturday night in Orange Walk Town, cops continue to hunt for a second suspect they consider armed and dangerous. Although police have not yet released the identity and details of this suspect, they have concentrated their search for him in the Belize and Orange […]
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The ongoing murder trial at the Supreme Court of Brandon Tillett and James Escarpeta has run into a hitch and that is because one witness has been shot and the other developed amnesia. Sherlett Arnold, the chief witness in the murder of Kevin Parks, who was scheduled to take the witness stand on Wednesday, was […]
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The Arnold sisters were not the only Belize City residents who were shot on Monday night. A little after eleven, police visited a shooting victim at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Thirty-nine year old Elroy Saldano said that he was walking on East Canal when two men chased him into a yard and shot him. […]
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It has been only a week since we reported a forgery case. In that case, a man tried to cash a forged cheque of almost ten thousand dollars. In this latest case, a San Pedro resident almost allegedly got away with swindling a parcel of land worth over half of a million dollars. Twenty-three year […]
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A traffic accident that occurred in the Chiquibul Area has left some B.D.F. soldiers with varying degrees of fractures. At around seven this morning, six soldiers were being driven to the Silver Camp station from Camp Belizario when the steering wheel of the vehicle developed difficulties. Driver, Private A. Lucas lost control and the B.D.F. […]
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This afternoon, the office of the Prime Minister announced that Juan Coy, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation from the Toledo West Constituency has been suspended for intervening in an incident involving uncustomed goods being brought into Belize and which reportedly ended up with Coy. The incident happened […]
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But in Belize City, one politician has moved up the ranks. In a close vote at City Hall late this evening, first time politician and newly elected City Councillor, Dion Leslie, edged out Wayne Usher, a second-time slugger and staunch supporter of Mayor Zenaida Moya, in his bid for Deputy Mayor. Leslie, who received nine […]
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Court of Appeal’s Justices: Boyd Carey, Cecil Morrison and President Elliott Mottley today made their ruling in the Ara Macao appeal before them. The issue brought on by Ara Macao and their attorney, Elson Kaseke, sought for the Chief Justice’s ruling of last May to be set aside based on the choice of words that […]
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The number of reported robberies continues to increase and law enforcement officials are trying to play catch up. Today twenty-one year old Allison Coye Junior of Central American Boulevard appeared in Magistrates’ Court accused of holding up seventeen year old Shanel Mendoza on Fabers Road and taking her cell phone and gold chain. Coye pleaded […]
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And in an update to a fire on Monday at La Isla Bonita, six month old Tiarra Shantia Lara who received third degree burns to her head and hands is said to be in stable condition and still undergoing treatment at the K.H.M.H. The fire broke around three-thirty Monday afternoon in San Pedrito Area of […]
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The Belize Softball Federation and fans of the sport are tonight mourning the death of Isolene Heath who passed away in the United States. Heath was a star player on the National Women’s Softball Team of Belize, known as British Honduras in 1968 and competed in the first Caribbean softball tournament. The athlete was known […]
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If you’re not employed in the field, chances are you didn’t know that for the last three years, March seventeenth has been observed as World Social Work Day. To commemorate the occasion today for the first time locally, members of the University of Belize Social Work Student Association performed a community service at the Causarina […]
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If you have had enough of all the crime and social ills and starving for wholesome family fun, there is a show that caters to Belizeans and viewers of all ages … and you can catch it every Saturday at our Church Street Yaad or live on this station. We’re talking about Channel Five’s Hit […]
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