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Forty-four-year-old Juan Carlos Novelo was arraigned today at the San Pedro Magistrate Court. He was read a single charge of murder. He is accused of murdering his girlfriend of six years, Leslie Verde, sometime on Saturday morning at their house in Caye Caulker Village. Due to the nature of the offense, no plea was taken […]
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As we’ve reported, this latest murder on La Isla Cariñosa has left residents in shock. Caye Caulker is known as a peaceful village with a low crime rate. This is the second murder to happen on the island this year. In June, forty-five-year-old Floyd Samuels was shot dead at his home. Back in 2016, fifty-one-year-old […]
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Fifty-two-year-old Dean Halliday was fatally stabbed by Feleecia Kerr, the daughter of his common-law wife, on Saturday evening. The deadly incident occurred in Maxboro where the Belize City resident had visited the home of Farah Bonner, reportedly unannounced and uninvited. While there an altercation ensued between Halliday and Bonner during which the mechanic allegedly inflicted […]
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Police have laid charges against a man in connection with a murder that occurred in April 2022, more than eighteen months ago. You might recall when Jose Cedillos was shot multiple times on Good Friday, 2022 in Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk. Reports are that Cedillos had threatened to assault a relative for monies that […]
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Nineteen-year-old Keon Straughan appeared unrepresented before the lower court this morning where he was arraigned on a single charge of kept ammunition without being granted a gun license by the Commissioner of Police. It is alleged that on Monday, Straughan, a resident of Allan Pitts Crescent, was busted while on Caesar Ridge Road with nine […]
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In early August, news broke that a Belizean worship leader was being accused by a few young women of indecent sexual assault. The number of accusations has grown to several since then. The National Evangelical Association of Belize, NEAB, issued a press release two days later, expressing shock at the news, but commending and offering […]
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Budram was taken into custody over the weekend and his attorney, Arthur Saldivar, says that while he thought Budram was kept in custody for longer than was necessary, the authorities treated him fairly and accommodated him when he needed to take care of other matters while in detention. Saldivar says that given the sensitive nature […]
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Is there tension brewing between the president of the National Association of Village Councils and the Stann Creek president of the District Association of Village Councils? Vincent Scott, the chairman of Santa Cruz Village, who is also the president of DAVCO, Stann Creek, stopped by our office recently where he alleges that he is being […]
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As we reported on Thursday of last week, there are two screw pumps at the Yarborough Pumping Station that are presently out of service. An engineer from Landustrie, a European company that has been active in the water technology sector, is scheduled to arrive in Belize in the days ahead to determine and correct the […]
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According to Moody, the objective is to drain the canals of excess water whenever they have reached capacity. At a rate of roughly five hundred gallons per second, the aim is to reduce the water level as quickly as possible. On the phone: Evondale Moody, Chief Engineer, MIDH “Ideally, the pumping station is supposed […]
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Everyone will remember the e-mail that the Leader of the Opposition, Moses Shyne Barrow wrote to the Speaker of the House, Valerie Woods back in August, which the Constitution and Foreign Affairs Committee met to discuss on October eleventh. In the letter, Barrow told the speaker that she had exposed herself to be a complete […]
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As we reported in our last edition of Five Point Breakdown, deliberate, repeated absenteeism in the House of Representatives is currently not a violation of the Standing Orders because there is a loophole in those rules that govern house attendance. The Standing Orders, as the Speaker of the House, Valerie Woods indicated to us, is […]
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The nineteenth edition of the Pan American Games was held in Chile from October twentieth to November fifth. It is considered the most important event of the Americas because it featured more than six thousand of the best athletes of the continent competing across thirty-eight sporting disciplines. Belizean athletes participated, including several from the Belize […]
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