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Photo: Superintendent Gerald Jones, Deputy for HNCIB

by Charles Gladden

ORANGE WALK TOWN, Thurs. Nov. 10, 2022

Alarm began to spread among parents all over the country after reports began circulating this week about separate failed attempts to kidnap two little girls – a 6-year-old from Orange Walk Town and a 12-year-old in Belize City. There were even claims that a mystery van had been trailing children, and that a police officer had issued warnings about the van in a WhatsApp chat group. Police are now claiming, however, following an investigation by the department, that the two minors made up the stories about being lured by kidnappers.

On Tuesday, November 8, at around 4:00 p.m., Mimi Novelo, the mother of the 6-year-old in Orange Walk, made a social media post in which she desperately begged members of the public to assist her in locating her little girl, a student of St. Peter’s Anglican School, who went missing after classes finished at 2:30 in the afternoon.

Novelo said that she made checks at all the possible familiar locations to which the child could have gone, but the little girl was nowhere to be found.

“… We searched all over in the school. I found my bigger daughter; she was in her class. I call her … I ask her where is her little sister. She said, ‘Mommy, I don’t know where she is.’ She asks if she didn’t go with Tio Luis. I told her, ‘No, Tio Luis says she is not there’. She said, ‘Mommy, where she could have gone?’ and I told her, ‘I don’t know; let’s go find her.’ I ask everywhere. I even went to A & R. I walk way back by SP, and I said ‘you know what: I can’t do this by myself.’ I called all my family members. I called people that I know and went to the police station,” said Novelo.

She further noted that her daughter is an exceptionally friendly child who has a tendency to hug those around her, including her teachers, and that it possibly made her a target for a woman who lured her away by offering her ice cream.

“A man who told me that he recognized my daughter told me that she was playing in the park. I told him I went to the park and my daughter was not there, and he said ‘no, she is there, and I scolded her to come back.’ He said she was with a Creole lady with a little girl; they were playing, and he said she [was] coming, and so I ran to see my daughter. My daughter was afraid, like she was scared. Maybe she thought I would beat her, but then I said I can’t just go and beat my daughter. I’m happy that my daughter is alive and walking toward me. I ran to my daughter and I hug my daughter, and when I saw my daughter, I ask her what happened, and why did you [go]. She said, ‘Mom, there was a black lady with a little girl. I was standing there in the shop and they told me that will take me to buy ice cream.’ My daughter’s weakness is ice cream … ‘She took me to buy ice cream, and then we went to play and then the lady afterward went away.’ I told my daughter already not [to] talk to strangers, do not take [anything] from strangers,” Novelo said.

The other purported kidnapping attempt took place in Belize City and reportedly involved a 12-year-old girl who said that she was in the vicinity of 88 Shopping Center at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Pen Road when two mysterious men attempted to kidnap her and put her into a heavily tinted black van. But she said that they did not succeed in seizing her because there was an onlooker on the street who saw what was happening.

Members of the public became aware of the child’s claims after the circulation of a WhatsApp voice note that had reportedly been sent to a chat group for parents of students at a particular school by a female assistant police superintendent, who is herself a mother, who stated in that message, “CIB officers have interviewed the child in the presence of her parents and the child was really shaken up and doesn’t really want to go in depth. However, the child is saying that this occurred at 88 Shopping Center that is located corner Neal Pen Road and Central American Boulevard by the stoplight. She is saying that she was coming to school this morning when she was approached from behind. Occupants of the vehicle were two dark complexioned male persons and the van is black and tinted. Presently, police are investigating the matter, trying to view cameras in the area. For right now I am asking all those on this blog or who could pass on this information to alert and inform people to have their children be on the lookout. I get to understand this said van was in Ladyville.”

When local reporters were briefed via Zoom by Superintendent Gerald Jones, Deputy of the Police Department’s HNICB, however, he said that their investigation into the claims has revealed that both stories were fabricated. He went on to say that the police plan to interview the parents of the children, and if police decide to bring charges in connection with the incidents, those charges will be levied against the parents.

Additionally, he said that reports of a mysterious black van in the city—accompanied by images of the van that were circulated on social media to alert parents—were also found to be false.

“[As] I said, we have conducted investigations that have been proven to us not to be true, and we just want to assure the general public to remain alert still. In whatever a situation may occur in terms of reports, bring it forward to the police, and we will investigate all these matters and give assurance to the public,” said Jones.

Jones said that the Police Department, by means of media platforms, as well as community policing efforts that will include visits to schools, will be spreading awareness to young ones and the public about actual abduction cases.

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Basta droga a keda confisca y un arma di candela

ORANJESTAD (AAN):  Diabierna mainta un mama S.S. di 65 aña cu su yiu muher S.S.A. di 30 aña, y e yiu homber S.J.A. di 31 aña a presenta dilanti Hues pa tratamento di un caso di bendemento di droga . Ta asina cu na Maart 2022, Polis a haci investigacion na un cas na Rooi Koochi y na Sero Alejandro caminda a haya basta droga y un arma di candela.

   Yiu muher kier tuma tur culpa: Segun S.S.A., e tabata esun cu ta bende y ta worde yama Chichimona. El a para riba cu e tabata bende y su ruman y su mama no ta bende.

   Hues a bisa cu segun agentenan e mama S.S. a bisa cu e ta worde yama Chichimona y cu e tabata bende pero a stop. Hues a confronta S.S.A. cu su mama ta bisa cu yiu S.S.A. tabata bende pa 6 aña mientras cu S.S.A. ta bisa cu den e periodo di Pandemia di Covid-19 e tabata bende mas o menos 1 aña y 6 luna.

   Droga y arma haya den cas: Hues a mustra cu na e cas na Rooi Koochi, unda S.S.A. ta biba, a haya arma di candela, balansa, placa den diferente pochi, pilder XTC. En total a haya 13 gram di cocaina y 18 gram di marihuana.

   Segun S.S.A. eynan e tabata prepara e droganan pa e bende na cas di su mama na Sero Alejandro. Ta asina cu S.S.A. tin 4 yiu menor di edad y tabata cobra Onderstand y bende Snackbox.

    Fiscal a baha pisa: Fiscal a bisa cu e ta haya legalmente proba cu e trio aki tabata bende. El a cuminsa cu S.S.A., caminda el a bisa cu dia 16 Maart 2019, S.S.A. a destrui windshield patras di auto di un persona.

   Tambe 1 Mei 2019, S.S.A. a maltrata un dama door di dal’e cu mokete y ranca su cabey.

   Exigi 3 aña di prison pa yiu muher: Fiscal a bisa cu e ta haya legalmente proba e bendemento di cocaina, marihuana, ecstasy (XTC). Tambe cu a haya un arma di candela den lachi di cashi cerca S.S.A. Fiscal a mustra cu S.S.A. mes a bisa cu e tin un arma pa defensa propio door cu el a worde atraca na December 2020.

   Fiscal a sigui bisa cu Polis a haya na e apartamento di S.S.A. na Rooi Koochi, 13.4 gram di cocaina, 18.7 gram di marihuana, 2 pilder di XTC y na e cas na Sero Alejandro a haya 131 gram di cocaina, 980 gram di marihuana.

   Pa loke ta e periodo di bende, Fiscal a bisa cu S.S.A. ta insisti cu ta durante 1 aña y 6 luna, tempo di Covid, e tabata bende. Fiscal a bisa cu e mesun mama S.S. a bisa na Polis cu su yiu S.S.A. tin 6 aña ta bende. E ruman muher di S.S.A. a declara cu S.S.A. tin 8 aña ta bende.

   Diferente comprador di droga a bisa entre 3 y 10 aña a cumpra for di S.S.A. Fiscal a mustra cu S.S.A. mes a bisa Polis cu e tin 7 pa 8 aña ta bende. Tres aña na Rooi Cochi y promer cu esey na su mama S.S. na Sero Alejandro. Pa cu e periodo Fiscal a conclui cu e ta 6 aña. El a exigi 6 aña di prison y placanan haya lo keda confisca.

   Exigi 10 aña di prison pa e mama: Fiscal a sigui bisa cu e mama S.S. tambe ta worde acusa di bende. Na e cas na Sero Alejandro a haya 131 gram di cocaina y 980 gram di marihuana. S.S. a declara cu e tin 20 aña ta bende pero no constant. El a bisa cu ultimo tempo e no ta bende mas sino su yiunan S.S.A. y S.J.A. El a bisa cu e yiu homber S.J.A., tin 3 aña ta bende.

   Fiscal a bisa cu tin diferente testigo a bisa cu a cumpra 10, 12, 15 aña for di e mama S.S. kende ta worde yama Chichimona. Fiscal a conclui cu S.S. tabata bende pa 10 aña. Fiscal a bisa cu bendemento di droga ta causa hopi tristeza den famianan. El a exigi 10 aña di prison.

   Exigi 3 aña di prison pa yiu homber: Fiscal a bisa cu e yiu homber S.J.A. tabata den exterior ora Polis a haci investigacion. E tambe ta worde acusa di bendemento di droga. Fiscal a mustra riba declaracion di e mama S.S., kende a bisa cu su yiu homber S.J.A. ta bende pa 3 aña. Tambe cu e ruman muher S.S.A. a bisa cu el a haya sa 2 aña pasa, cu su ruman homber S.J.A. ta bende.

   Ademas tin testigonan ta bisa cu entre 2, 3, 8, 10, 12 y 15 aña a cumpra for di S.J.A. Fiscal a conclui cu e periodo di bendemento ta 3 aña. El a exigi 3 aña di prison pa S.J.A. y e mas cu 7 mil Florin cu a haya lo keda confisca. 

   Defensa di Abogado: Abogado mr. D.Croes a bisa cu S.S.A. a admiti di tabata bende droga y cu e arma ta di dje for di principio. E unico discusion tin ta e periodo cu e lo tabata bende. El a bisa cu ora cu el a papia cu S.S.A. tocante e periodo, S.S.A. a bisa cu el a bisa cu e tabata biba un periodo di 8 aña.

   El a bisa cu ta durante e periodo di Covid el a bende droga pa sobrevivi cu su 4 yiunan. E abogado a bisa Hues cu e bendemento di droga ta un fayo cu S.S.A. a haci. E abogado a bisa cu e ta haya cu declaracion di e testigonan ta dudoso.

   El a mustra cu un ruman muher a bisa cu e tin hopi tempo no ta bay cerca su ruman pasobra e no ta bon cu e famia. E abogado ta haya cu con e ruman ta bisa cu S.S.A. tabata bende siendo cu e no ta bay eynan.

   S.S.A. den su otro declaracionnan el a pone enfasis cu no a bende asina largo sino durante 1 aña y 6 luna. El a pidi Hues pa tene cuenta cu S.S.A. tin 30 aña y 4 yiu menor di edad. Ta promer biaha cu el a cay sera. E abogado a bisa cu Polis a confisca u tas cu 2 mil Florin, prendanan di oro. El a puntra si por haya esakinan back.

   Abogado mr. Illes di S.S. y S.J.A. a bisa cu e ta uni cu mr. Croes, e declaracion di e testigonan ta dudoso. E abogado a bisa cu tur dos a reconoce di tabata bende. E discusion ta riba e periodo. S.J.A. a bisa cu e tin algun luna ta bende. Su mama S.S. a bisa tambe cu S.J.A. a cuminsa bende pa algun luna. E ta kere cu mester pone un periodo mas cortico cu Fiscal a pone.

   El a bisa cu S.S. a bisa cu el a cuminsa 20 aña pasa y no constant y no ta bende mas. E ta laga na opinion di Hues pa dicidi. E abogado a pidi pa S.S. haya back e cadena y renchi di oro cu a keda confisca.

   Huez a cera tratamento di e caso, y a bisa cu Diabierna 2 di December mainta e lo dicta sentencia.

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Edwin Jacobs, director:

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Director di SVb, Edwin Jacobs a duna di conoce cu recien nan a lansa un aplicacion (App) pa pensionadonan y ta desaroyando e App pa e trahador.

            A sigui bisa na momento cu tin un App tin acceso na bo informacion na SVb pa por haya sa si bo ta registra of no y pa cual dunador di trabao, kico ta bo salario cu bo ta wordo sigura cu ne. Ta bay ta transparente pa cu e trahador pa e por haya e informacion aki tambe.

            Esaki tabata mas prome riba nan plan. 15 di November 2019 a cuminsa cu e web portal pa e dunador di trabao caminda cu el a haya acceso directo na tur informacion di su compania y di su trahadornan. E siguiente aña mester a pas’e bek pa e trahador. Pandemia a yega y loonsubsidie tin SVb ainda ocupa, a splica.

            Pero na e momentonan aki, e compania ta desaroyando e App pa e trahadornan caminda nan ta haya acceso na e informacion y nan sa si nan ta registra si of no, Jacobs a duna di conoce.

            Semper e emailnan di SVb ta disponibel den caso cu un trahador kier duna algun tip of informacion y SVb lo percura pa haci nan investigacion discretamente, a remarca.  

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