Eamon Courtenay is also the attorney for Smart, currently waiting for a judgment in a case against the Public Utilities Commission at the Caribbean Court of Justice. It involves the payment of fees for what is called a point to point link. Smart claims that they are being grossly overcharged for the license. There’s an […]
Today, thirty-eight-year-old Elario Elijio walked out of Supreme Court a free man after four years on remand for the death of John Myers in 2012. Elijio and Myers were drinking together on Mahogany Street when Elijio allegedly punched Myers in the face, causing him to fall and hit his head on the pavement. The prosecution […]
Albert Genitty, a phlebotomist employed at the NHI clinic in Port Loyola, will spend three years behind bars after he was convicted today of sexual assault of a customer at the lab. Genitty was accused of inappropriately touching the woman, twenty-seven, when she went to the lab to do a battery of tests in 2015. […]
More than six months after he was charged for a sensational home invasion in Burrell Boom, Paul Jex Junior is back behind bars, charged with rape during that same incident in December, 2015. Jex Junior had been charged with at least eight other persons for a robbery at the home of Sarkis Abou-Nehra. Abou-Nehra and […]
Today, exactly seven months after the aggravated burglary of the home of Lebanese Consul, Sarkis Bou-Nehra, Rural Eastern Division Police are looking to charge four additional suspects. In fact, a DNA sample sent out following the rape of a female at the home has come back positive as that of twenty-one-year-old Paul Jex Junior, a […]
Fifteen persons, including ten Salvadoran men, a Belizean farmer and four Salvadoran women were today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for different offenses mounting from an alleged smuggling ring. Twenty-two-year-old Valley of Peace resident, Anivar Alvarenga was first to be arraigned; it is alleged that he aided and abetted the fourteen Salvadoran nationals […]
The decision of the three-member Permanent Court of Arbitration is in, and tonight we’ve got a first look at the figures contained in the hundred and thirty-nine page document. Just as very brief background – the Claimant in the matter was Dunkeld International Investments Limited, an Ashcroft company, and the respondent was the Government of […]
Two men have been arrested and charged for the murder of Francisco Ack, who was chopped to death in the remote southern village of San Benito Poite last Saturday. Ack was hacked and left for dead in some bushes a short distance away from the primary school and was discovered sometime later by residents in […]
In March of last year, Moses Sulph entered into an agreement with an individual to order a number of items which would later be purchased upon delivery. When the products arrived the customer was unable to pay her bill because she was reportedly strapped for cash. Sulph, a trader, agreed to a payment plan with […]
After a year of numerous court appearances, the Santa Cruz Thirteen has been freed of all charges stemming from the unlawful arrest of Rupert Myles. This morning, Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl Lynn Vidal withdrew charges against the villagers, stating that there is, “no intention to lay charges against the accused in the future.” In […]
Late this evening, the Customs Department dragged to court five Mexican nationals and two Belizeans from the San Jose, Orange Walk for uncustomed goods in respect of two hundred and fifteen hammocks. The items were found in their possession last week Thursday during a raid at mile seventeen on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The group included […]
On February twenty-third, Justice Courtney Abel ruled that B.T.L. and Mek Mi Rich, MMR, colluded to steal the concept for the game-show from Curtis Swasey. It was a landmark ruling and a major black-eye for B.T.L. Mek Mi Rich, with directors Andre Vega and Sanjay Hotchandani had closed its doors when the lawsuit was first […]
What was also clear at the conclusion of the case in February is that the twenty-five thousand awarded to Swasey as compensation was not satisfactory to the claimant. The Judge’s hands were tied because MMR’s profits from the game show were not available so it could not be entered into the equation. But it’s not […]
After two nights on remand at the Belize Central Prison, thirty-five year old police officer, Urbie Alamilla is out on bail granted to him this morning by Supreme Court Judge, Justice Antoinette Moore. Bail was set at eight thousand dollars and the Justice imposed conditions that Alamilla has to meet. He is to surrender all […]
Three men who were caught in the act of burglarizing a house on Franklin Street, Belize City, claim it was all a police set-up. The media was called in at about ninety-thirty on Wednesday morning and captured footage of the scene as police descended on the burglars. The front wooden door and burglar bar door […]
Gay rights activist Caleb Orozco and members of the local LGBT community are eagerly anticipating a decision from the Supreme Court on a constitutional challenge to strikeout Section Fifty-three of the Criminal Code. The case has been languishing before the high court since 2013 after submissions had been heard by all interested parties, including the […]
Caleb Orozco, Executive Director of UNIBAM, is at the forefront of the LGBT movement in Belize. He has been long anticipating the court ruling and today he spoke of the consequences of having come this far with the challenge. Caleb Orozco, Gay Rights Activist “From an advocacy perspective, no other legal case has triggered […]
An attempted murder suspect who was fingered as one of two shooters in Monday night’s shooting in the city is tonight behind bars serving a one month prison term. Anthony Crawford was busted at the Queen Street Police Station in possession of a small quantity of marijuana in the detention cell area following the shooting. Crawford appeared this […]
The June session of the Supreme Court started today. Aside from numerous indictments, Justice Troadio John Gonzalez also dealt with the case of Alden Sutherland, who was charged for the arson of a sixty-thousand dollar vehicle belonging to the Manager of the Jewellery Exchange Center. After taking a number of factors into consideration and Sutherland’s […]
Tonight, thirty-five year old police constable Urbie Alamilla is on the other side of the law and on remand at the Belize Central Prison. This evening, he was denied bail for the offense of discharging a firearm in at Green Jade Restaurant located between miles eight and nine on the Phillip Goldson Highway on Saturday. […]
The case against former C.E.O. in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Peter Allen, wrapped up this afternoon in the Supreme Court where submissions were made on behalf of Chief Pharmacist Sharon Anderson. The defamation suit was brought against Allen and Procurement Manager Arik Lima, of Central Medical Stores, following the circulation of an email containing […]
At the time of the dissemination of that email, a subsequent press conference held by the Ministry of Health also conveyed the fabricated information. The falsehood prompted the Public Service Union to demand answers from the Ministry of Health. Panton says that the C.E.O. had no right to slander his client. Herbert Panton, Attorney […]
In its defense, government, through Deputy Solicitor General Nigel Hawke, contends that the email was confidential and presented its argument from that position. But the content of the email was made public a few days later during a press brief held by the Ministry of Health. Herbert Panton, Attorney for Sharon Anderson “One of […]
Late this evening, a fifteen-year old minor was arraigned in court for Friday’s Queen Street shooting involving a police officer and three other persons. The minor is facing a slew of charges, fourteen in all. Four are for attempted murder upon forty-four old Elroy Saldano of Pink’s Alley, thirty-four year old school warden Graciela Castillo […]
Late this evening, the trial of Ronlee Petillo and Matthew Smith charged with the murder of fruit vendor, Miguel Angel Rivera concluded before Judge Adolph Lucas. The murder occurred on March eleventh, 2011 at the Michael Finnegan Market. Petillo once again beat a murder rap and so did Smith. In the trial by judge alone, […]
