A Belize Waste Control employee picked up his first conviction for drug trafficking today in the court room of Magistrate Deborah Rogers. Deon Jex was slapped with the mandatory non-custodial sentence and fined ten thousand dollars which he has to pay within a year. Jex was busted on Friday, March twenty-fifth, 2016 on Sittee Street, […]
Six days after the robbery of Valley Supplies Gas Station, in Scotland Half Moon in the Belize District, an adult and a minor are facing charges. The armed robbery occurred on the afternoon of March twenty-third 2016. The business owner and two patrons were robbed of cash and valuables. This morning before Magistrate Deborah Rogers, […]
An allegation of sexual assault has been lodged against a Fisheries Officer by a woman who claims he sexually assaulted her at the corner of Regent Street West and the Swing Bridge in Belize City. The thirty-one year old female, a food vendor, claims that after exposing his private to her, he asked for sexual […]
The Manager of Everyday Supermarket in Hattieville and three employees were arraigned on Wednesday for wounding entertainer Harrison Bruce fourteen days ago. Wei Lin Huang, Manager of the supermarket, and Da Hong Jiang, Xing Hua Zhang as well as Wei Feng Xu, all residing at of Mile Sixteen, George Price Highway were charged for the […]
Well-known street figure Roger Anthony is back in the news tonight, following a scuffle with security personnel at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on Tuesday. Anthony accompanied his wife to Panama over the weekend, but was denied entry and could not disembark the aircraft upon arriving at his destination. So, he was shipped back to […]
A decision by Justice Herbert Lord is expected in mid-April following the submission of final arguments today in the trial of Osmar Sabido. The twenty-six year old Orange Walk resident claims he acted in self-defense when he took the life of his common-law-wife Christie Carrasco five years ago. The Carrasco family, however, disputes his version […]
Closing arguments from the prosecution and the defense commenced today in the murder trial of Osmar Sabido, who is accused of taking the life of his common-law-wife Christie Carrasco. A group of residents called for justice outside the Orange Walk Supreme Court as the proceedings took place inside. Emotions were running high as Sabido was […]
At the opening session of the Supreme Court this year, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin set ground rules in respect of the time frame for an accused person to be provided with disclosure and for them to be tried within a reasonable time. This morning, ten months after nineteen-year-old Ronalph Ramsey Junior was charged for the […]
A pair of minors, ages fourteen and fifteen, was arraigned earlier today for the murder of thirty-one-year-old Godfrey Hemsley. The deadly shooting took place on Wednesday night at the Yarborough Green, where Hemsley had just finished a friendly game of basketball with a group of men. He was seated on the bleachers at the basketball […]
While police have two minors, ages fifteen and sixteen, in custody for the murder of Hemsley, a fourteen-year-old boy has been charged for Tuesday’s murder of Mario Trotman. This morning, the minor was arraigned in the Belize City Family Court and read a single charge of murder. Police believe that he was the one who […]
Today, the murder trial of Osmar Sabido, accused of stabbing his common-law-wife Christie Carrasco to death, continued in the Supreme Court in Orange Walk before Justice Herbert Lord. Sabido has been on remand since February, 2011, when he was detained outside the home the couple shared. This afternoon Sabido took the stand for the first […]
A fisherman, who claims he was provided with four hundred and forty-four undersized conchs for free, will end up paying thousands of dollars. Thirty-two year old, Raymond Myers was busted by the Gang Suppression Unit this morning on behalf of the Fisheries Department. Myers was taken to court by the Fisheries Department for the offense […]
Twenty-nine-year-old Jaime Vivas, a fisherman of Sarteneja Village, pleaded guilty to possession of undersized conch in the courtroom of Magistrate Carlon Mendoza earlier today. In mid-January Vivas was caught with a total of two hundred and forty-three, partially cleaned and market clean meat when fisheries officers boarded and searched the Zimira. He has been fined […]
A trio of men charged individually for crimes committed, appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas this morning in the Supreme Court. Twenty-one-year-old Adolphus Palacio Junior, Eustace Lewis and thirty-year-old Shawn Hemmans applied for and successfully secured bail for a string of offences, including robbery. Palacio, a resident of Mahogany Heights, was charged with two counts of […]
A self-proclaimed pastor who was convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a young girl saw his appeal dismissed and his conviction and sentence affirmed by the Justices of the Court of Appeal. Julio Cesar Garcia, of Franks Eddy, Cayo District, is tonight back behind bars. Garcia was convicted of two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse […]
A sixty-one year old retiree, James Parks is looking to spend a number of years behind bars for breaching a protection order to stay away from his ex-common-law wife, burglary, and two counts of damage to property. First, Parks had to face the music inside the courtroom of Magistrate Deborah Rogers for the burglary and […]
In the court, Miguel Vanson, a first time offender, was imposed a mandatory non-custodial fine for drug trafficking of one hundred and sixty-two grams of cannabis which were found hidden inside his pants. The Mayflower resident was busted by GSU officers with the cannabis and when he appeared before Magistrate Deborah Rogers, he immediately pleaded […]
A resident of Jane Usher Boulevard, Belize City, was also before the court today for two criminal offenses. Thirty-seven year old Eldon Bevans was charged for burglary and wounding after he found out that his ex-common-law-wife was in a relationship with another man. Bevans is accused of illegally entering the house of Calbert Ferguson with […]
On Thursday, we reported on a group of fishermen that was busted with over one thousand undersized conchs. The men were onboard a vessel which was located south of Belize City when a fisheries patrol boat approached. A search of the Zamira yielded a large quantity of illegally harvested seafood and today those men were […]
Three men arrested and charged by Orange Walk Police on Wednesday afternoon were today arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on charges of drug trafficking. They were found with a high grade of weed from Mexico which been frequently turning up in Belize. On an intelligence-led operation, police had been on the lookout for a gold-colored Cadillac […]
In June 2008, then Mayor of Orange Walk Town Ravell Gonzalez knocked down and killed two persons near Rhaburn Ridge on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Manuel Coto was pushing a bike with two year old Markita Lopez on it, when a minivan being driven by Gonzalez struck them. He was charged for causing death by […]
A long and traumatic journey which began on New Year’s Eve 2008 and included a conviction for money laundering, jail time, countless trips to Court and even a death is finally over. In 2014 the Coye family was vindicated after the Court of Appeal found that they were not money launderers. But since then the […]
As we told you, the journey has been a painful one. In 2013 then accused money launderer Michael Coye passed away from a heart attack. He suffered from a diabetic condition in prison and five days after receiving bail he was dead. So while the victory for the family is complete, it is also bittersweet. […]
Thirty-one-year old Jamal Jackson, one of two suspects in an attempted robbery of a Nova Scotia Bank night deposit, made two trips to the court today. This morning he was in the court room of the Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith for charges of Kept Firearm and Ammunition without a License. When Jackson, a resident […]
Jackson is only one of many persons who have been charged for murder and then acquitted. While the conviction rate in Belize is not a matter of public record, the reality is that it is far more common to see somebody walk free from murder than it is to see a conviction. Assistant Commissioner of […]
