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A man was callously murdered overnight near the Western Pines community. The killer apparently used a cement block to kill David Phillips, otherwise known as Goofy. The incident happened behind [...]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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On Tuesday at midday, the Belize Defense Force was informed that a contraption which appears to be an explosive object had been found on an aircraft belonging to Maya Island [...]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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A Mahogany Heights resident has been convicted of drug trafficking after police discovered one hundred and seventeen grams of cannabis in her home. Reports are that on Wednesday night, police [...]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Also in Mahogany Heights Village, a family of four was busted with forty-one grams of marijuana. On Wednesday, police visited the home of Stephanie Copious and executed a search warrant [...]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier today, an eighteen-year-old was facing seven years for burglary, until his mother appeared in court to drop the charge. Brian Hilton is accused of breaking into his mother’s home [...]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The conch season officially opens on Sunday, October first, and will run through to the end of June 2024. If the production quota is realized earlier, the conch season will [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-three-year-old Walter Martinez, a Honduran national pleaded guilty to failure to produce a visitors permit on demand when he appeared before a Senior Magistrate earlier today. On Tuesday, Martinez was [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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It was an outrageous story two days ago when it broke: a man embroiled in an argument with a woman over food, another man stepped in to part the fight, [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Ronlee Petillo, a Belize City resident who is well known to law enforcement, has been committed to stand trial for rape. When he appeared before the Chief Magistrate earlier today, [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Jose Luis Eguizabal appeared unrepresented before the lower courts today where he was fined for being in possession of fifteen pieces of conch during the closed season. On September [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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A man was stabbed to death during a fight in Belmopan on Sunday. Reports are that the victim, Elmer Canto, was embroiled in a fight with a woman at a barbecue [...]
Written on September 25, 2023 | Posted in
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The fatal stabbing in Belmopan was not the only crime-related news that unfolded over the weekend in the Garden City. Police, on Saturday evening, also discovered a hand grenade in [...]
Written on September 25, 2023 | Posted in
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ComPol Williams further clarified that there is not a limit on the amount of gun licenses a single individual can possess. He noted that there are individuals with up to [...]
Written on September 25, 2023 | Posted in
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Seventy-year-old Jose Lopez, a security guard on a farm in Belize District, is lucky to have been spared jail time after being charged with kept unlicensed ammunitions. On September eighteenth, [...]
Written on September 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Calvin McKay is spending the next three years in prison after he was convicted for two curfew violations during the states of emergency in 2020 at the time of [...]
Written on September 22, 2023 | Posted in
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In the lower courts today, twenty-five-year-old Tyrek Tyrone Gillett, a police officer, was granted bail after being charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend and threatening to kill her. Gillett, a resident [...]
Written on September 20, 2023 | Posted in
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An ex-convict, who has spent time in jail for the murder of Alfonso Eck while in prison, is back behind bars tonight after he was charged with robbery and placed [...]
Written on September 20, 2023 | Posted in
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In the wee small hours of this morning, a burglar broke into the residence of Justice Nigel Pilgrim in the Hollywood area of Lord’s Bank Village. The forty-four-year-old High Court [...]
Written on September 18, 2023 | Posted in
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There was also a shooting on Custard Apple Street in Belize City over the weekend that left one man injured. Since the start of the September Celebrations, the police department [...]
Written on September 18, 2023 | Posted in
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A Belize City woman claims that she was brutalized by police officers at the Raccoon Street Police Station when she went to file a report over the weekend. Fifty-two-year-old Sherlette [...]
Written on September 18, 2023 | Posted in
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The sound of gunshots permeated the dead of night on Far West Street in Punta Gorda Town in the early hours of Saturday morning, as a woman and her common-law [...]
Written on September 18, 2023 | Posted in
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On Thursday, reporters asked Minister Fonseca for his thoughts on the topic of gun license reform, as the discussion rages on, and with amendments to the Firearms Act already being [...]
Written on September 15, 2023 | Posted in
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An elderly man is hospitalized tonight after he was attacked by a gunman in Santa Elena Town. Just after two a.m., seventy-three-year-old Natalio Castaneda was at his home on Carmen [...]
Written on September 14, 2023 | Posted in
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The taxi operator responsible for toppling and damaging the bust of Belizean national hero Philip Goldson when he collided into the monument on Saturday morning, has been charged for driving [...]
Written on September 14, 2023 | Posted in
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A resident of Police Street who is presently on remand for a murder committed in 2022, has been found guilty of aggravated assault with a firearm upon a police officer. [...]
Written on September 14, 2023 | Posted in
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