There is another case involving an intoxicated driver. Customer Service Representative, John Downs admitted to driving under the influence of alcohol as he drove a car at the corner of Vernon Street and Mopan Street in the City. At the time he was also without a valid Belizean driver’s license. Downs appeared this morning before Magistrate Emmerita […]
Twenty-two year old Keshane McDougal, the brother of a cop, is facing slew of additional charges for unlawful sexual intercourse. When he appeared in court this morning, his attorney, Herbert Panton asked the court to discharge McDougal of the first charge since he had not received disclosure and ninety days has elapsed since he was […]
In another case of sexual abuse, Chief Magistrate Ann-Marie Smith has committed Belize Defence Force soldier, Kenneth Swazo, to stand trial at the October session of the Supreme Court. A fourteen-year-old minor claims she was sexually abused by Swazo at a Belize City hotel. The alleged incident happened in August of last year. At the […]
A security guard will stand trial for the murder of forty-one year old Wilmer Cisneros which occurred at Blue House Bar on April twenty-fifth, 2015 in Ladyville. Cisneros lost his life in what relatives say was a senseless killing. He was stabbed to the abdomen and chest while his friend thirty-year old Roger Jimenez received a cut […]
Bank teller Calaney Flowers is on trial for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, twenty-nine-year-old Lyndon Morrison, who met his untimely death on August twenty-eighth, 2012. Flowers is accused of killing him after she ran into the back of his motorcycle causing him to collide into a parked pick-up truck. Flowers is also on trial for […]
It was big news in August, 2012 when Calaney Flowers allegedly rammed a motorcycle ridden by her ex-boyfriend Lyndon Morrison and his new girlfriend Sochyl Sosa. Morrison died from injuries sustained in the collision while Sosa was badly injured. Flowers was subsequently charged for murder and attempted murder and remanded. It’s now before the Court, […]
The case has been adjourned till Tuesday, when the defense will present its evidence. The family of Lyndon Morrison was at Court today and told News Five that while they were happy with the Judge’s decision and they understand that Saldivar has a job to defend Flowers, they don’t see how his argument will fly. […]
The trial by judge without jury case in the murder of eighty-four year old Samuel Price is coming to an end in the courtroom of Justice Adolph Lucas. Price was the brother of George Price, the father of the nation. He was killed at his home in the outskirts of the city on April eleventh, […]
The case of Robert’s Grove Limited versus Jean Marc Tasse concluded quietly on the Supreme Court of Justice Sonya Young two years after the suit was filed. Hearings and submissions were held in March and April and a decision was handed down on May ninetieth. Roberts Grove Limited, the well-known resort in Placencia, took Tasse […]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that US businessman, Robert Bandfield, has pleaded guilty to helping stock manipulators launder two hundred and fifty million dollars through Belize. The seventy-one year old pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn Federal Court to one count of money laundering and is facing as many as twenty years in prison. Bandfield […]
After being released from the K.H.M.H., nineteen year Zachary Knox is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison. “Yankee,” as he is popularly known, claims he was badly beaten following a shooting involving Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. Late this evening, he was arraigned for aggravated assault with a firearm upon Williams along […]
A businesswoman from the downtown plaza in Belize City was taken to court today by the GST Department on two charges for failing to issue receipts and failing to utilize a programmable cash register at her business place, Sun Digital Photo. She is thirty-eight-year-old Sandra Sol, a resident of Vista Del Mar area, Ladyville. Sol […]
While Ladyville police connect the string of violent crimes in the jurisdiction, the suspect in the shooting of thirty-old year Alrick Smith was granted bail by the Supreme Court today. Shane Bahadur, a resident of Dove Street, Ladyville was arraigned last Thursday for the attempted murder of Smith, who was shot in the upper leg […]
The court also granted bail to Darwin Prado, another Ladyville resident, but he remains in police custody since he was unable to post the required fifteen thousand dollars to be released. Last week, the teenager was one of two accused shooters arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for attempts on the lives of Casey […]
Thirty-year-old Calaney Flowers, a former employee of Atlantic Bank who is accused of the vehicular homicide of her ex-boyfriend, appeared before Justice Troadio Gonzalez today. Flowers has also been charged for the attempted murder of Sochil Sosa, the girlfriend of Lyndon Morrison who was killed during the incident. The murder trial is winding down and […]
Two Belize City youths were today fined five hundred dollars each after they both pled guilty for badly beating a sixty-four-year-old fisherman over the weekend. Today, twenty-year-old Justin Marin and nineteen-year-old Felipe Rodriguez appeared before Magistrate Deborah Rogers to answer to one count each of wounding. According to Lester Hernandez, on Sunday night, he was […]
Another Ladyville resident is tonight on remand, following a shootout last Saturday on Marage Road during which twenty-one-year-old mechanic Lionel Rhamdas was killed. Thirty-one-year-old Alrick Smith has been charged for a plot to assassinate an entire Ladyville family in the wake of his brother-in-law’s killing. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting He […]
On May tenth, two Bulgarian nationals were charged for an unusual theft – using fake credit cards to withdraw cash from Belize Bank ATMs. Jeorgi Petrov and Halid Aptula would have gotten away with it too, but on May seventh when they visited the Belize Bank ATM on Albert Street to make an illegal withdrawal, […]
An expecting mother, five months into her pregnancy, was fined ten thousand dollars today after pleading guilty to drug trafficking. Twenty-three-year-old Nicole Flowers appeared before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza this morning, after being busted with sixteen pounds of marijuana in May of last year. The discovery was made by members of the Gang Suppression Unit during […]
The People’s United Party was in court today challenging the Statutory Instrument informally dubbed the Sarstoon Law. It prohibits civilians from going into the river under the Public Safety Act, and was a last ditch legal maneuver by government when all dire warnings and pleas failed. It’s the law, but is it lawful? The P.U.P. […]
At the age of seventeen, Devaughan Goodger was charged for the stabbing murder of Jason Pott which occurred on Cleghorn Street, Belize City on March fifth, 2011. After being on remand for five years, Goodger took a guilty plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter at the start of his trial last week. At his […]
One of four men busted inside a car on February fifteenth, 2016 for firearm offenses will serve only two years and a half behind bars instead of a minimum of a five-sentence. Twenty-nine year old Anthony Robinson was sentenced today after he pleaded guilty to kept unlicensed firearm and ammunition which the GSU found inside […]
Ladyville resident, Shane Bahadur, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison for the May sixth attempted murder and wounding of Alrick Smith. This evening Bahadur, in the presence of his attorney Leeroy Banner, appeared before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza and was remanded to the Belize Central Prison until July eighteenth, 2016. Smith claims he was […]
Two men were accused last December with the possession of twelve kilos of heroin, but even though tests from the National Forensic Laboratory showed that the substance was not the drug, charges were not dropped. Today, Herbert Panton, Attorney for Richard McDonald made a submission before the court asking Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser to dismiss […]
While a duo has been freed, two teenagers who surrendered to police on Tuesday are on remand at the Belize Central Prison for a shooting spree on Marage Road, Ladyville which ended in the death of Lionel Rhamdas. Police slapped a total of nine charges on Egbert Baldwin and Darwin Prado, both eighteen years old. They were […]
