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Teachers and students across the country are officially on Christmas vacation. Some are enjoying time with friends and family, while others are catching up with their to-do list ahead of the long weekend. In spite of the festive holiday spirit, both are once again locked into a situation that is not necessarily of their own […]
The United Nations is set to appoint an independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity issues, following three contentious rounds of voting at the international body in New York City. Belize has consistently voted in favour of LGBT rights issues at the U.N., and on this issue twice voted in favour of appointing the […]
Crime continues to grip the city. A shooting overnight has left a fifty-three year old Belize City resident hospitalized. Griffith Moody was outside his home on Lakeview Street with a friend when three masked men, one wielding a firearm, held them up and demanded his belongings. Fearing for his life, Moody handed over a gold […]
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Gardenia Mechanic Dean Dawson was knocked down and killed earlier in March of this year and so far there has been a lot of back and forth, but no one has been charged. The driver of the vehicle is Dorian Pakeman of the Government Press Office. He was put on leave following a urine sample […]
Police are no closer to identifying the body of the woman retrieved from the Belize River last Wednesday. When it was fished out of the river, it was noted that the body had several cut wounds and post-mortem certified that she died as a result of the cuts to her head. Although Police announced that […]
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After as many as forty years, a double murder case has been cracked. An American from California has been charged with two counts of maritime murder for the deaths of a British couple in their mid-twenties who had travelled to Belize. Seventy-five year old Silas Duane Boston is accused of luring Christopher Farmer and Peta […]
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A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal will have significant bearing on the lives of inmates convicted for murder. The decision primarily hinges on parole rules mandating that those serving life sentences for homicides are not to be considered, much less granted parole. The court in October determined that the Criminal Code is unconstitutional […]
Thirty-six-year-old Chester Noralez, a repeat offender, accused of brutally attacking an elderly neighbor last year, is home free tonight after the court struck out the matter against him because his case file could not be found. Ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant was beaten to a bloody pulp and left for dead during an aggravated burglary on December […]
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Two Belize City men will have to stand trial for murder at the April 2017 session of the Supreme Court as well as a slew of other offenses including attempted murder dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm and aggravated burglary. Initially, Windell Thurton, Byron Flowers, and the alleged mastermind Max Orosco were charged […]
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Around this time in 2015, Rural Eastern Division Police based in Ladyville were stopping buses along the Philip Goldson Highway at a checkpoint. They selected certain passengers and in typical fashion, aggressively questioned them about their activities and imagined complaints and queries, not unlike a real traffic stop. However, nobody went to jail, or paid […]
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Kris Kringle, Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus – fairytale or not – a Secret Santa was out and about today spreading Christmas cheer from Ladyville to Belize City with his elves – well, more like his helpers from the Belize Police Department. A Samaritan, who has given Christmas cheer in the past, decided to pull out […]
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The Police’s Secret Santa was all over the Belize District today. This afternoon he came down to Southside and specifically to Iguana Street, where a mother and step-mother of thirteen was taken to Public Supermarket on Central American Boulevard on the pretext of responding to a “complaint.” However, Dawn Faber was quite happy with the […]
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While residents are finalizing their last minute shopping and preparations for Christmas, the sad reality is that it is also a time when there is an increase in the number of robberies and burglaries. The Eastern Division South command has been on the beat, stopping criminals in their tracks. Since the start of the month, […]
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For most Belizeans Christmas is a time of spreading cheer but it’s also a time when criminals spread fear –robbing and burglarizing homes. Those criminal elements have been around the Ladyville area looking for places to target. We asked Regional Commander ACP Edward Broaster what residents in his jurisdiction should do help keep themselves and […]
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for twelve Belize City families who otherwise would have had things a bit harder this time of year. Thanks to an enduring partnership between the Belize Bank and the Mercy Kitchen, these families, six of them from the Gungulung area, are recipients of food hampers. Those goodies […]
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There are only four more shopping days before the Christmas. Across the City, the rush and buzz is in the air as shoppers look for deals. But what items are people purchasing for their families and friends this Christmas? That’s what intern Maria Reneau and Duane Moody went to find out and visited a couple […]
