All posts by Patrick E. Jones

  • Drug trafficking charges for Belize City shopkeeper

    Belize City, Belize. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Thirty-one year old Jermaine Rodriguez, a shopkeeper of 91 Lacroix Boulevard, was charged with 2 counts of drug trafficking when he appeared today before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. Rodriguez pled...

    • Posted May 26, 2015
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  • Man accused of sexually assaulting his granddaughter

    San Pedro town, Ambergris Caye. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Police in San Pedro town on Ambergris Caye have arrested and charged a man for the sexual assault of his granddaughter. Due to the nature of the crime...

    • Posted May 26, 2015
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  • Belize and Guatemala amend Special Agreement

    San Ignacio town, Cayo. Monday, May 25, 2015. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belize Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington and his Guatemalan counterpart Carlos Morales today signed an amendment to the Compromis or Special Agreement signed in 2008...

    • Posted May 25, 2015
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  • Belizean student wins regional video competition

    San Ignacio Town, Cayo. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Belizean student 17 year old Tysha Roni Roches who attends St. Catherine Academy had won the 2015 Regional World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Video Competition. Roches’ winning entry...

    • Posted May 21, 2015
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  • Body of Denfield Bowen found

    Belize City. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Three weeks after he left home and did not return reports late this evening suggested that the body of 27 year old Denfield “LL” Bowen, Jr. was found off the George...

    • Posted May 21, 2015
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  • Guatemalan poachers kill Tapir in the Chiquibul Forest

    San Ignacio town, Cayo. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Friends for Conservation and Development today reported that poachers, suspected to be from across the border in Guatemala, have killed an adult Mountain Cow or Tapir. The carcass of...

    • Posted May 21, 2015
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  • Police make arrest in Independence village shooting

    Independence, Stann Creek. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Two days after an early morning shooting incident in Independence village, Stann Creek, police have arrested and charged one person. 26 year old Albert Moody, Jr., a resident of the...

    • Posted May 21, 2015
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  • Fatal shooting incident in Belize City

    Belize City, Belize. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Two persons are in police detention pending investigations of a murder last night in Belize City. Twenty six year old Kareem Grant dies while undergoing medical treatment at the Karl...

    • Posted May 21, 2015
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  • Orange Walk men arraigned on arson charge

    Orange Walk town. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Two men were formally arraigned on a single charge of arson when they appeared in the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court this afternoon. Efrain Alpuche and Saul Vasquez are accused of...

    • Posted May 20, 2015
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  • Placencia man busted with crack cocaine

    Placencia village, Stann Creek. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Placencia police have arrested and charged a man for the possession of controlled drug. Thirty eight year old Marlon Wright was intercepted by a team of police officers on...

    • Posted May 20, 2015
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