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Young Stars, Assassins & Garage Crew win in BTTA team table tennis

Young Stars, Assassins & Garage Crew win in BTTA team table tennis

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:33

The Young Stars, Assassins and Garage Crew all enjoyed victories in the 2nd Division of the Belize Table Tennis Association second annual team table tennis competition, while the Bombers and Suga City teams posted wins in the 1st ...

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Court Of Appeal revokes 17 year sentence for carnal knowledge conviction

Court Of Appeal revokes 17 year sentence for carnal knowledge conviction

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:31

San Joaquin farmer Romero Jimenez, 52, who was convicted of carnal knowledge of a girl, 14, and was sentenced to 17 years, won his appeal on Tuesday, October 12. The Belize Court of Appeal quashed his conviction, set ...

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Kelly Street man charged with indecent assault – complainant is a sixteen year old girl

Kelly Street man charged with indecent assault – complainant is a sixteen year old girl

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:29

Austin De Costa, 36, a laborer of 19 Kelly Street who allegedly committed a sexual assault on a girl, 16, was charged with aggravated assault of an indecent nature when he appeared in Magistrate’s Court #6 on Tuesday, ...

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Lawrence Dawson Fined $6,000 for robbing and wounding Roy Davis

Lawrence Dawson Fined $6,000 for robbing and wounding Roy Davis

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:28

Lawrence Dawson, 22, one of two men who were charged with robbery and wounding for a case in which the complainant was free lance reporter Roy Davis, 56, was found guilty of the charges in Magistrate’s Court #8 ...

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Police Constable walks from extortion charge

Police Constable walks from extortion charge

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:26

Police constable Andre Almendarez, 25, who was charged with extortion, was freed of the charge on Tuesday, October 12, when it was dismissed by Justice Adolph Lucas because the complainant, Salvadoran national, Roberto Ponce, 27, failed to appear ...

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Prison officer fined $10,000 jail weed

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:25

Roy Valentine, 30, a prison officer residing at Mahogany Heights who was caught trying ti smuggle 60 grams of cannabis into Belize Central prison located in Hattieville, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking when he appeared yesterday in Magistrate’s Court #5. Magistrate Albert Hoare fined him $10,000 and gave him until December ...

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Court orders dive operators to pay family of doctor who drowned during tour

Court orders dive operators to pay family of doctor who drowned during tour

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:24

Supreme Court Justice, Oswald Legall, delivered justice in the case of a young promising doctor who visited Belize a few years ago and whose life was cut short, and by his ruling, it was negligence that caused it.  It all ...

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Murder record continues to soar in 2010

Murder record continues to soar in 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:22

Murders number 101 and 102 for this year happened on the morning of Friday, October 8th, 2010, and both had the appearance of first-hand vengeance rather than a paid hit.  They were gruesome in nature, as if the perpetrators deliberately set out ...

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Wild Wild West on the Southside

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:21

The violence continues on Belize City streets, with shootings occurring day or night despite the toothless "Jaguar" that is supposed to be prowling for the criminal element.  There were two more on Wednesday night and Thursday morning and the Police are clueless as to the identities of the gunmen. The first ...

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Eyannie’s Home Torched 1 Month After her Murder!

Eyannie’s Home Torched 1 Month After her Murder!

Friday, October 15, 2010 8:20

Exactly one month after someone inched up against a window to a room where eight year old Eyannie Nunez lay asleep and shot her to death, either the same person or someone else returned to the scene on Zericote ...

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