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There was a home invasion in San Ignacio Town on Easter Sunday that resulted in the murder of an elderly retiree. William Maxwell Smith returned to Belize in February and was here to oversee the construction of a resort in the Kontiki area, where he also resided. On the morning of April ninth, a pair […]
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The officers who responded promptly to the aggravated burglary are being recognized by the Belize Police Department for their quick work in apprehending one of the suspects not far from where the incident took place. Since the arrest and subsequent detention of a second suspect, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has given assurances that all […]
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Thirty-eight-year-old Francis Augustine, a resident of Hopkins Village, was butchered in the wee small hours of April sixth. When residents of that coastal community woke up on the morning of Holy Thursday, it was to the news that “Chingu” had been stabbed multiple times and left for dead in front of his home. It is […]
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Police have arrested and charged twenty-three-year-old Jermaine Bardalez, a fisherman of Belize City, forty-one-year-old Germaine “Horse” Garnett, a laborer of Saint Martin de Porres area, and twenty-three-year-old Tyrique Garnett of Ladyville, for the crimes of aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated assault. The arrests come several weeks after a foiled aggravated burglary at that […]
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Everyone knows long-time Carnival enthusiast and coach, Marina Welcome as the life of the party, so-to-speak. Every year for the better part of three decades, Welcome has been preparing, training, and coaching children to represent Jump Street in the carnival road march. But on Sunday evening, someone shot at the retired nurse’s house on Rio […]
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The Belize Police Department has lost a well-known colleague and so has the local media. Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood passed away this afternoon following a massive stroke that he suffered over the Easter weekend. The communications director, who had been serving in that capacity for the past three years, built a solid rapport with reporters, […]
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Lev Dermen, the Los Angeles-based businessman who made the news during his tax fraud trial in February 2020, when former Minister of National Security John Saldivar was named as receiving money in tranches from him, has been handed down a forty-year prison sentence. Dermen was one of five persons who were sentenced for the roles […]
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Back in November 2018, news broke of a multimillion-dollar real estate scam that had been operating in Belize for the better part of fifteen years. At the time, the Federal Trade Commission revealed that two-time convicted felon Andris Pukke, along with several associates, duped investors into buying Sanctuary Bay lots by falsely promising that the […]
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Today, the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Disaster Risk Management issued a release officially informing the public that a replacement for Lucy Fleming on the Environmental Tribunal has been named. The release says that following Fleming’s resignation, the minister has appointed Anthony Paul Hunt Senior as her replacement. Hunt will be representing the […]
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A significant amount of money, jewelry, cell phones, and shotguns were stolen in a burglary over the Easter holidays. The loot, valued at around thirty-eight thousand dollars, was removed from the home of a Los Lagos family that decided to take a trip during the extended weekend. Thieves cut a portion of the chain-link fence […]
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An Orange Walk resident lost his life on Thursday afternoon when his Ford Ranger pickup truck collided into a freightliner tractor on the George Price Highway. According to police, at around one p.m., thirty-two-year-old Ronald Hiron was driving a white freightliner truck towards Belmopan City and upon reaching mile twenty-eight; he saw a Ford Ranger […]
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Did a suspected drug lane that local law enforcement officials tracked overnight from South America land in Toledo District on Monday? That’s what the Belize Police Department and its counterparts are seeking to confirm. According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, the aircraft’s flight pattern was being monitored closely after departing from South America sometime […]
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Jankunu Productions is back with another one of its Belizean dramas. Belitopia is all about Belize in 2050. The futuristic play captures life in Belize now compared to life in Belize thirty years from today. Written by playwright Julie-Ann Ellis Bradley, Belitopia comes to life on Friday and Saturday nights inside the Bliss Centre for […]
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Good evening and welcome to this special edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. It was a weekend of celebration in sports for Belizeans near and far. We begin tonight’s coverage with the ninety-third running of the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. Well folks, if you have not already heard, the garland is […]
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