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We begin tonight’s newscast with a triple fatality that occurred on Friday night on the Philip Goldson Highway near Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute at mile ten. Kurtis Belisle was the driver of a pickup truck and traveling along with him were the Davis sisters Virginia and Dorothy and Virginia’s daughter, Torrie. Belisle was reportedly […]
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The first murder for the year occurred just minutes into the New Year and the victim was Lionel Budna, a twenty-five-year-old of Central American Boulevard. Back then, the family told News Five that they believed that his killer was someone he knew. Budna was shot twice and died on the spot. On Sunday, approximately five […]
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This morning in the High Court, David Arnold, charged for the execution-style murder of well-known Belize City deejay Andrew ‘Hard Rock’ Bennett, walked away a free man. Arnold had been committed to stand trial and for the past six months, he had been back and forth from the Belize Central Prison regarding the matter. At […]
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On Friday night shots rang out at the basketball court behind the Charles Bartlett Hyde building in Belize City. When the gunfire subsided, Rosalind Ranguy had been shot to the foot. She was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where she is in a stable condition. Police say that two teenagers, one of whom is a minor, […]
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An employee of Blancaneaux Lodge lost her life in a massive fire that engulfed a sports utility vehicle on Sunday night in the Cayo District. Irene Gonzalez was driving alone along the San Antonio Road when the SUV went up in flames. It is unclear whether the thirty-year-old set the vehicle on fire or the […]
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Three families have been displaced by an early morning fire on Rivero Street in Belize City. If the area sounds familiar that is because just last week, an eighteen-year-old resident was shot dead a couple blocks away on Fabers Road and there has been tension in the area ever since. In fact, one of the […]
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Forty-five-year-old Elvis Humes, an electrician of Bullet Tree Falls Village, has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, kept firearm without a gun license and kept ammunition without a gun license. The battery of charges follow a deadly shooting incident during a hunting trip over the weekend in Cayo District. Humes […]
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A freak accident in Corozal has left one man dead. Reports are that Carey McCulloch was at home in San Antonio Village, Corozal when a beam fell on his head while dismantling a structure. He was rushed to the Corozal Community Hospital and then transferred to the K.H.M.H. where he succumbed to his injuries early […]
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The murder of thirty-seven-year-old Kurtis Usher that took place nine days ago in Libertad Village sent shockwaves across the relatively peaceful community. Later on we will tell you how the Belize Police Department is working to restore a sense of safety in the community. But first, following the shooting incident, police found a license nine […]
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And, while ComPol Williams was waiting on the outcome of Usher’s case before taking action, he did not waste any time in revoking Marybeth Wade’s gun license, after concluding that she received it through fraudulent means. According to ComPol Williams, he signed off on an application that painted a squeaky clean picture of Marybeth Wade. […]
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We also asked ComPol Williams if he believes there is a black market for gun license operating in Belize and if he thinks high ranking police officer are involved. Here is how that conversation went. Paul Lopez “Are you aware then that there is a gun license black market operations here in Belize and […]
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Last Monday we visited Libertad Village in the Corozal District where thirty-seven-year-old Kurtis Usher was gunned down in front of his home and his three-year-old son was grazed to the head. Today, we headed back to the community with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and a team of senior officers for a community meet and […]
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Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow has written to Chief Executive Officer Jason Liberty of the Royal Caribbean Group regarding the company’s recently signed Memorandum of Understanding with Portico and Boskalis. In the five-page letter, Barrow writes, “the harrowing revelations of illegal, unauthorized, and unethical one-sided offerings in the Portico Definitive Agreement are enough to give one […]
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This morning on Open Your Eyes, Minister of Tourism & Diaspora Relations Anthony Mahler also weighed in on the chaotic state of cruise tourism development in the country. As we’ve reported, Mahler and Minister of State Chris Coye have been tasked with meeting with Portico, Royal Caribbean and Boskalis to revisit the controversial Definitive Agreement. […]
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More specifically, Mahler said that they have started the process of scrutinizing the Definitive Agreement with a view to remove parts of the contract that are deemed excessive. Anthony Mahler, Minister of Tourism & Diaspora Relations “Inside of Belize, we‘ve started to dissect the Definitive Agreement just to say, this can‘t work, this can […]
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There numerous claims of bribery by motorists in attempt to catch a break when passing through checkpoints. But tonight, an employee of the Transport Department is in hot water after she was charged for extortion. Last Wednesday, three transport officers were detained in connection with a report made by Diaris Tepaz who claims that she […]
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Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. “Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made”, that a quote from Gabby Douglas, an American Gymnast. And boy, did the Under-Sixteen Girls Football National Team have a hard day when they played against Costa Rica’s Under-Sixteen National Team […]
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