Tonight, twenty-seven year old Cassian Young of Mosul Street, Belize City is on remand at the Belize Central Prison for a robbery which occurred on June eleventh. His attorney, Herbert Panton argued in court that there is no evidence against Young and that it is unjust to charge him for the crime which took place […]
Coastguard officer, Keyren Tzib has been back and forth at court for two cases; the manslaughter of her boyfriend for which she is out on bail. The other case against her is for the attempted murder of another officer. Today, she learnt that she will have to stand trial at the Supreme Court for the […]
A decision was handed down this morning, in respect of the murder of eighty-four year Samuel Price, the brother of the late father of the nation George Price. Thirty-year old Shane Gillett of Burrell Boom is said to have confessed to his neighbour then given police a caution statement in late 2011, five months after […]
A father from Bella Vista, Stann Creek, who was accused of committing a heinous crime of raping and sodomizing an eight-year-old girl in February 2014, is tonight a free man after he was acquitted in a trial by nine women jurors. Jose Pana was accused of rape and an unnatural crime, but was today acquitted […]
Spoonaz Café, the well-known and popular business place on North Front Street, Belize City, was burglarized recently and the culprit was caught on a surveillance camera. He has been identified as Derick Garbutt, who was arraigned this evening on a single charge of burglary to which he pleaded not guilty. There was heavy objection to […]
Tonight, a Belize City man is on remand at the Belize Central Prison for allegedly sexually abusing a minor between November 2015 and May 2016. Twenty-seven-year old Burley Kenyon Murphy, an unemployed, was arraigned this morning in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and slapped with five counts of unlawful sexual intercourse upon a fifteen-year old girl. […]
There is a much anticipated judgment tonight from the Caribbean Court of Justice. The CCJ has set aside a claim brought by gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson against the governments of Belize and Trinidad and Tobago. The immigration case was filed in 2013 and required the CCJ to make a ruling on state legislation that […]
While Tomlinson’s case has been discharged and the government of Belize is absolved, the legal challenge is now compelling lawmakers to make the necessary revisions. Attorney Nigel Hawke explains. Nigel Hawke, Attorney General’s Office “The application is dismissed based on state practice, right, and the fact that Mr. Tomlinson did not ever come to […]
Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman, who has an interest in the outcome of the matter, sat in on the decision this morning. She represents Caleb Orozco of UNIBAM who is also filing a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court in respect of section fifty-three of the criminal code. Following the judgment, which was delivered via teleconference, […]
While the CCJ handed down an unduly delayed judgment today, a little over a year after submissions had been filed, the Supreme Court of Belize is yet to come to a decision on a constitutional challenge to Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code. That particular aspect of the Laws of Belize speaks to the penalization […]
Two Bulgarian nationals, who were caught stealing from the Belize Bank ATM in early May of this year, begin a prison term behind bars tonight. Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser imposed a custodial sentence upon both after they pleaded guilty to eighteen counts of theft each. Jeorji Petrov and Halid Yuksel Aptula will have to serve […]
In the most recent chain of losses for the Government of Belize, a federal judge in the District of Columbia confirmed on Wednesday the enforcement of the arbitration award against G.O.B. in the bank’s UHS related claim. The award is the equivalent of thirty-six point nine million Belize dollars plus interest accruing from December 2012 […]
A deportee, who was sent back to Belize from the U.S., will have to pay a fine for not reporting to the GSU as required. Twenty-five year old Keith Flowers pleaded guilty in the court room of Magistrate Emmerita Anderson and was fined four hundred dollars. He was deported for a carjacking in Los Angeles […]
Today, a preliminary inquiry determined that a Belize City security guard will have to stand trial at the Supreme Court for the offense of unlawful sexual intercourse of a girl who was fifteen years old at the time of the incident. Twenty-seven year old Nikolai James is accused of carnal knowledge and is to be […]
The Fisheries Department was in heavy operations country wide and while in the city on Tuesday, they came across a camp where they found three men in possession of one hundred and forty-two lobsters in the closed season. Now the lobster season is closed from February fifteenth to June fourteenth and despite the opening of […]
On Tuesday, we reported on a major bust in rural Belize District by the Fisheries Department. Two Biscayne men, Goldburn Seguro and his nephew Hilberto Seguro were intercepted near the Lord’s Bank cutoff with three of the turtles, two of which did not meet the standards imposed by law. Further investigation led fisheries officers to […]
A Chinese businessman, Jian Huan Jiang, who bought a stolen vehicle in 2011 faced the music in court today. Jiang was found guilty of one of two offenses brought by the Customs Department for acquiring possession of an uncustomed vehicle, which was stolen from Guatemala and brought into Belize without paying duties. He was additionally […]
There were significant cases today before the courts. We start with the case against the C.E.O. of the Ready Call Center which is located at the junction of the Burrell Boom Road and the Phillip Goldson Highway. Nubia Ramirez Moreno was charged for failure to make social security contributions for fifty employees. Ramirez took a […]
Justice Adolph Lucas will give his ruling in the murder trial of thirty-year old Burrell Boom resident, Shane Gillett, next week. Gillett is the suspect in the murder of Samuel Price at this home in April 2011. Today, in the trial by judge without jury, Justice Lucas reserved his ruling for June fifteenth. The trial […]
A decision was handed down in the case of forty-five year old Ervin Reneau, accused of the double murder of Edgar Ayala and David Longsworth, the son of well-known businessman, Pastor Howell Longsworth. Both were murdered on November thirtieth, 2010. The case was tried by Justice Adolph Lucas. This morning, Reneau was found guilty of […]
Earlier we told you about the sentencing of Ervin Reneau for the double murder of David Longworth and Edgar Ayala. But in the lower court, a forty-year-old Salvadoran national, who has been living in Belize for over twenty-two years, was placed on remand for a single count of sexual assault of a seven year old […]
The Chief Magistrate also heard the case against two cops: Phillip Swift and John Galvez were charged for theft of a wallet with five hundred dollars and personal items belonging to Carolee Samuels. After more than four years before the court, the Chief Magistrate concluded the case freeing the cops of the charge. The trial […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice is set to hand down a decision in a highly publicized case involving outspoken Jamaican gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson and the State of Trinidad and Tobago. Belize is also a party to the claim brought by Tomlinson who asserts that his right to move freely within the CARICOM member […]
Nineteen year old Zachary Knox was released on bail today after spending seven nights on remand at the Belize Central Prison for allegedly committing an aggravated assault with a firearm upon Assistant Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams. Knox posted bail of ten thousand dollars at around five this evening. There have been claims that he […]
There was a traffic accident in the city in which a boy, Eric Sanchez, was knocked off his bicycle, allegedly by a Tropic Air employee who police believe was intoxicated. Alexander Tesecum, a Belize City resident, has been charged with four traffic offenses. He appeared before Magistrate, Deborah Rogers and was arraigned for driving without […]
