All posts by Patrick E. Jones

  • Passenger bus crushes woman’s foot

    A woman’s foot was crushed by the front wheel of a passenger bus on Monday morning in Hattieville village, Belize District.  Police have identified the victim as Rachel Burke. According to the official report, Burke was a...

    • Posted August 13, 2013
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  • Passenger bus runs off Hummingbird Highway; passengers unhurt

    No one was seriously hurt when a passenger bus heading from Dangriga town to Belmopan went off the Hummingbird Highway near Armenia village early this morning.  The incident happened around 7:30 am.  Both the bus and the...

    • Posted August 13, 2013
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  • Winners of the patriotic song competition announced

    The 2013 National Song Competition was held on Saturday night, August 10th at the Memorial Park in Belize City.  At the end of the competition, three Belizean artists walked away with top prizes in each of three...

    • Posted August 12, 2013
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  • PUP parliamentarian says she feels “hurted” by comments from her colleague

    The Honorable the member for Belize Rural Central Mrs. Dolores Balderamos Garcia spoke out publicly on Monday about comments directed at her fellow parliamentarian, the member for Mesopotamia, the Honorable Michael Finnegan during a House of Representatives...

    • Posted August 12, 2013
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  • BDF Youth Cadet Corps completes summer camp

    The annual summer camp for the Belize Defence Force Youth Cadet Corps was held this year in the Toledo district. The venue for the event which ran from August 3 to August 10 was the Julian Cho...

    • Posted August 12, 2013
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  • Body of man reported missing is found

    One week after he was reported missing, the decomposed body of Elias Ku was retrieved from the New River in Trial Farm village, Orange Walk over the weekend.  The official police report says that a post mortem...

    • Posted August 12, 2013
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  • Policeman and civilian charged for drug trafficking

    Police constable Darrell Swazo, 29, and Herbie Moriera, 30, of Ladyville village, Belize district have been arrested and charged for the crime of drug trafficking.  The duo was busted on Friday afternoon at a checkpoint in Santa...

    • Posted August 12, 2013
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  • Police look for duo who allegedly beat up a policeman

    The Belize Police department today released details of the incident surrounding the death of a policeman over the weekend.  PC Roy Fernandez, 26, died on Saturday evening, almost a week after he was badly beaten up in...

    • Posted August 12, 2013
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  • Belize to take part in CONCACAF U-15 football tournament

    Belize will have representation at the Concacaf U-15 championship tournament which will be held in Grand Cayman from August 14 to August 25.  The team, comprising 18 players and a coaching/technical staff of 4, is scheduled to...

    • Posted August 11, 2013
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  • Tractor crashes into house in Camalote village

    No one was hurt when a tractor crashed into a residential home in Camalote village, Cayo on Saturday afternoon.  Gertrude Palacio and her family were in their living room when the mid-afternoon incident happened. West Vision understands...

    • Posted August 11, 2013
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