Earlier this week, murder charges against five men were dropped because the case file was not provided by the office of the D.P.P. The murder trial of Timroy Neal began earlier this week but also fell apart today when the court was informed of an all too familiar reason—that the main witness cannot be found. […]
Eighty year old Gerald Gentle, a resident of corner of Haynes and Neal Penn Road, was charged for drug trafficking when he was busted with almost sixty-three pounds of weed. At around eleven-thirty this morning, a team of police and B.D.F. soldiers searched two houses, both which Gentle claimed belonged to him. In one […]
Not too long after Prime Minister Dean Barrow introduced Operation Restore Belize—designed to re-establish confidence in the Police and a sense of order to Belize City streets—yet another police constable is facing charges of misconduct. An allegation of extortion has been filed against police constable, twenty nine year old Elvis Mai. The charge follows a […]
A Camalote Villager finds himself in all kinds of trouble with the law after he was formally arraigned on several indictable charges. Omar Woodye is charged with ten counts of obtaining property by deception, one count of forgery and one count of uttering a false document. The charges follow a report by Zhi Yiang Zhang […]
A man who allegedly confessed to killing a man because of a sexual act was yesterday convicted of murder. Twenty-two year old Arturo Eck faces a maximum sentence of life behind bars as a result of the 2007 murder of forty-nine year old Eugenio Tzul. Tzul, a resident of San Joaquin village, was found badly […]
There was a strange case of a kitchen utensil in Magistrate’s court today. There was the woman who lent the pot, the woman who borrowed it, the claim that it was stolen, the fact that it was never returned, and the other woman who owned a pot, but not the one presented in court, which […]
Yesterday we reported that following a meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow on June seventh, 2010, Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh urgently convened back-to-back meetings with his judges and then with members of the Bar Executive. The CJ informed the Bar Executive that he would be leaving office in September, would not be hearing any new […]
The savage attack of an elderly resident of Tropical Park a few weeks ago, but only reported this week, has stirred controversy between dog owners and advocates who insist on the passage of legislation to ban ownership of Pit Bull terriers. In the wake of the pit bull attack on May thirty-first which later claimed […]
It was big news one year ago when the manager and owner of Omni Networks and Fultec Systems, Dean Fuller, was charged with laundering over six point five million dollars. The alleged offenses brought by the Financial Intelligence Unit were said to have occurred between October ninth 2007 and January first 2009. It was an […]
We do not normally hear from the Bar Association, but the retirement of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh pulled the attorneys out of their lull. The Bar on Tuesday night, passed a rare resolution chiding the government for the way it has treated the Chief Justice and by this afternoon, the government responded in kind. But […]
As we told you earlier, late this afternoon, the government responded to the Bar resolution. According to G.O.B. “it utterly rejects the assertion that the tenure of the Chief Justice has been treated in an ‘unseemly manner’ by the Government of Belize.” Government says there is no constitutional impasse since the constitutional provisions are being […]
There is an alarming number of criminal cases that fall when they get to court for varied reasons. In instances, witnesses are fearful and do not want to testify, other times there is a lack of evidence and still yet sometimes the case files are not ready. The low rate of conviction coupled with the […]
The results of the Primary School Examinations were made public two weeks ago. There was reason for excitement and celebration because the scores showed improvement over last year’s. This morning, the thirty students who topped the exams nationwide were acknowledged by the Ministry of Education in the presence of teachers, parents and their peers at […]
In the Supreme Court, a jury this afternoon reached a verdict in the trial of a Cayo resident who had been charged with the murder of his uncle. Kenneth Garcia stood accused of murdering fifty-four year old Sergio Amilcar Garcia back in 2006. The incident occurred between eight and nine o’clock on September twenty-second at […]
The tragic death of a Hattieville man caused by two ferocious pit bulls went unreported when it happened two weeks ago. How that fell under the radar, is still a mystery, because the man was attacked, died several days later and still the results of an autopsy did not raise any red flags by the […]
According to Patnett, an incident occurred a few nights prior to the attack when several young men entered her property and began banging on her door. Despite reporting the incident to Hattieville police, it prompted her to have the dogs transported from Belize City to her residence in Tropical Park. Patnett said she released the […]
Two men are in custody for the cold-blooded murder of Marlon Rivera that occurred in San Ignacio this past weekend. They are Trevor Lamb and Adrian Arzu, who are facing charges of abetment to commit murder and abetment to commit attempted murder. The two are believed to have retrieved the weapon used in the murder […]
Crime is at an all time high but what does it take to get a conviction or even proceed to trial? Well, five men bolted from the Magistrate Court this morning when charges against them were struck out even before a preliminary inquiry got underway. It was no ordinary case, four were facing murder, all […]
In the most recent murder of San Ignacio resident, Marlon Rivera, the culprit was identified as Dionicio Salazar, by the surviving victim. Salazar was initially convicted for murder, but on appeal, he was freed despite the testimony of an eyewitness. Earlier today in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, four persons were released even before proceeding […]
Cases of dengue also known as break-bone fever are usual for this time of the year because of the large quantity of mosquitoes that breed during the rainy season. We got confirmation from the Director of Health Services, Doctor Michael Pitts, that there was one confirmed case and five suspected cases showing up at the […]
There were at least three shootings over the weekend in the City, but the crime wave spilled to the west on Sunday night. More on the shootings later, but in San Ignacio, one man was killed and another was badly injured in an early morning shooting. It is believed the shooting was motivated by revenge […]
The execution style murder of Southside gang leader, Andre Trapp, took place last Thursday in the most unlikely of places during broad daylight, the area of the Magistrate Court. Today two men with links to the police were arraigned for the murder. It is believed that the hit on Trapp was a contract killing, but […]
The Court of Appeal today made a decision on the case of the Belize Telemedia Employees Trust versus the Government of Belize. The case was brought about after the Barrow administration compulsorily acquired B.T.L. last August. Trustees representing the Employees Trust, Dean Boyce and Keith Arnold, initially took the case to the Supreme Court challenging […]
The prospects look good for Telemedia employees, but we did not know how good. Trustee of the Employee Trust, Dean Boyce, told us what the value of the over twenty percent shares is worth. Dean Boyce, Trustee, BTL Employees’ Trust “The B.T.L. Employees’ Trust owns about twenty-three percent of the shareholdings of B.T.L. and it […]
An entire family was today escorted to the Belize City Magistrate Court on a firearm charge this morning. It follows a shooting on Mayflower Street on June thirteenth which led to a search of the home of Ralph Sherlock Martinez, a.k.a. “Mini-man,” where police discovered a point twenty-two revolver. Police claim that while on patrol […]
