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The National Trade Union Congress of Belize has called on the joint unions and the Government of Belize to go back to the negotiation table. But, since G.O.B. has already [.]
Apr 28, 2021
James Rudon
Have police nabbed one of the men involved in last Friday’s murder of Lionel Olivera Senior in Santa Elena? On Tuesday afternoon, Democracia resident James Rudon was wanted by police for his alleged involvement in the murder and he was found in possession of Olivera’s stolen firearm. He was caught during a search of a bus travelling from Dangriga to Independence Village. That gun is a nine millimetre Smith and Wesson brand weapon, found inside a backpack on the luggage rack above Rudon’s head. Rudon was detained and escorted to the police station. Also discovered was a magazine loaded with fourteen live rounds of Aguila brand ammunition. Police formally arrested and charged James Rudon for keeping a firearm without a gun license and kept ammunition without a gun license.
Apr 26, 2021
Lionel Olivera Sr.
Two murders were recorded over the weekend, in Santa Elena Town in the west and in Punta Gorda to the south. In today’s broadcast of criminal activities over the weekend, we begin with the murder of a retired B.D.F. soldier, who while working on duty as a security guard was killed and robbed of his firearm. The entire incident was caught on surveillance footage that was leaked on social media. News Five’s Duane Moody reports.
Duane Moody, Reporting
The cold-blooded murder of fifty-seven-year-old Lionel Olivera Senior was caught on surveillance camera outside Cayo One Stop Hardware Store on the George Price Highway in Santa Elena Town. There is where the former B.D.F. soldier worked for the past three to four years. But on the night of April twenty-third, two men came up to him, and fired a single shot at close range. He is then thrown to the ground and robbed of the company-issued firearm he carried.