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Earlier today, Libertad villager Jermain Dion Zuniga was charged for the murder of Juan Arturo Mendez, which occurred in Concepcion Village on Sunday afternoon. The thirty-six-year-old construction worker was detained [...]
Written on May 24, 2022 | Posted in
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A post mortem examination on the body of seventy-nine-year-old Daniel Castellanos, a resident of Belmopan, certifies that he died of hypovolemic shock due to internal hemorrhage caused by multiple perforating [...]
Written on May 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Arrests are yet to be made for unrelated bomb threats that were called in at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and City Hall earlier this month. While an investigation remains [...]
Written on May 24, 2022 | Posted in
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The person, who attempted to poison almost two thousand residents of San Vicente Village, Toledo District sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning last week, has still not been arrested. [...]
Written on May 24, 2022 | Posted in
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Many families choose to live with their elders with the notion that it is safer and more convenient for them, especially when the time comes that their parents need to [...]
Written on May 23, 2022 | Posted in
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We now go to Concepcion Village where there was a deadly chopping incident. Family and friends believe that Arturo Mendez was cheated out of his life when he was hacked [...]
Written on May 23, 2022 | Posted in
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Fifty-nine-year-old Kevin Castillo and a minor were injured during a shooting incident on Friday night when they came under gunfire from an assailant who alighted a vehicle and took aim [...]
Written on May 23, 2022 | Posted in
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A trio of thieves dressed in camouflage hit a home in Hope Creek pretending to be police officers carrying out a raid, before making off with a sack full of [...]
Written on May 23, 2022 | Posted in
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On Monday, we featured the newly elected chairman of Double Head Cabbage Village, Roman McCulloch, after an independent slate led by him won the village council election. Well, tonight he [...]
Written on May 20, 2022 | Posted in
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A resort in the Cayo District was the target of a hold-up on Tuesday night and the perpetrators wounded two of three police officers who were responding to the call [...]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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The lives of the Director of the Belize Family Court and Commissioner of Police Chester Williams have reportedly come under threat by a high-profile respondent in a custody battle before [...]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A resident of Biscayne Village is in critical condition after he was shot on Tuesday evening in Belize City. Twenty-nine-year-old Evan Cain was walking on Jasmine Street in the Lake [...]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Deputy Mayor Micah Goodin has come under severe criticism from the United Democratic Party, following a weekend shooting in which he was involved. Shadow Minister of National Security Mike Peyrefitte [...]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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Also speaking on the matter, in his capacity as an attorney representing one of the men involved in the shooting, was OJ Elrington. Contrary to what the Commissioner of Police [...]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A man who was found guilty of the manslaughter of his common-law-wife was sentenced to three years in prison today. Andrew Caliz will only spend another eighteen months since he [...]
Written on May 17, 2022 | Posted in
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Multiple shots were fired in the vicinity of Newtown Barracks in the early hours of Saturday morning, leaving a twenty-year-old Belize City resident with a graze to the neck. It [...]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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Earlier today, News Five spoke with an eyewitness who was present at the time of the incident. He was in the company of Kenyon Tillett and several others and alleges [...]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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While details of the incident have been disclosed by the Belize Police Department, as well as persons who were on the scene of the shooting, an investigation is underway to [...]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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There was another shooting incident in Belize City that has left one man recovering from a gunshot wound to the left leg. Steve Ferrell was near the intersections of Central [...]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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Tonight, a woman from Ladyville is breaking her silence about a case of police brutality. Denise Pitts says that she was slammed to the ground by a police officer who [...]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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Pitts, a mother of four, paid over five thousand dollars for surgery, where she says that the procedure involved using a screw to join the broken bone. She wants justice [...]
Written on May 16, 2022 | Posted in
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MS-13 gang members are fleeing to Belize after a crackdown on gangs in El Salvador by its president, Nayib Bukele. President Bukele’s administration has been detaining gang members and putting [...]
Written on May 9, 2022 | Posted in
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A foiled burglary at a nightclub on the Philip Goldson Highway over the weekend has resulted in one of several thieves being shot. Belize City police responded to the Titanic [...]
Written on May 9, 2022 | Posted in
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There was also an attempt on the life of a villager in Seine Bight over the weekend. Frank Augustine was injured when someone shot him while he attempted to enter [...]
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An all-points bulletin remains in effect for the capture of Christon Rocha who is wanted by police for stabbing his former common-law wife Vanessa Reyes in Placencia during the Easter [...]
Written on May 9, 2022 | Posted in
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