One week ago three persons were detained by Police on suspicion of being involved in a fake cop racket. Perpetrators actually managed to get guns off two security guards in Belize City approaching them under disguise. It’s a situation the Police took seriously since in both instances the attackers were armed and there was the […]
There were three cases of sexual abuse, one ended in a conviction. A resident of Biscayne, Belize District, is serving his first night of a three-year sentence imposed upon him today for two counts of sexual assault against an eight-year-old girl. Twenty-five-year old Randy Dominguez was surprised by the girl’s mother; she found him and […]
A resident of Silk Grass Village has been indicted for murder after initially being arraigned last week on charges stemming from a brutal attack on fifty-two-year-old Harrison Bowers. According to Dangriga police, Bowers was stabbed multiple times to the hands, chest and abdomen. The incident took place sometime around nine-thirty P.M. on February twenty-first. While […]
Police Constable Alpheus Parham has been on remand since May 2010 when he allegedly shot a man detained at the Caye Caulker Police Station. Alex Goff was in lockdown for disorderly conduct and assaulting a Police Officer when he allegedly got in an altercation with Parham and was shot in the head. In 2015 Parham […]
The vocal tour operator, Yhony Rosado, is having his own share of woes. He was on television recently making a public complain that he was being harassed over a new business venture. Well today, he was taken to court by the Social Security Department for his business, Econo Tire. The police picked him up on […]
Two fishermen from Chunox, Corozal District, appeared for the second time in court for illegally fishing inside a natural monument. Marvin Patt, and his cousin Edison Patt were charged with illegal entry into the Blue Hole Natural Monument. They wasted no time and pleaded guilty before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza who imposed a fine of one […]
But thirty-eight-year old Eugene Bailey is on remand at the Belize Central Prison following arraignment in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on two gun related offenses on Wednesday. Police found the Belize City resident with a point thirty-eight firearm and several rounds of ammunition. The stevedore was arraigned before Magistrate, Carlon Mendoza for Kept Firearm and Ammunition […]
Female coastguard officer, Keyren Tzib, went back to court this morning. She is accused of manslaughter in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Thythis Blancaneaux on July eighteenth, 2015 in Lords Bank, Ladyville. The preliminary inquiry began around nine-fifty this morning to determine whether Tzib, who suffers from depression, will stand trial at Supreme Court. […]
Another preliminary inquiry took place today. Thirty-five year old Jorge Velasquez who in September 2014 was accused of raping a twelve-year-old girl is back behind bars at the Belize Central Prison. At the end of the P.I., Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith ruled that a prima facie case has been established against Velasquez and he […]
There have been at least three recent cases of fake cops on the loose. Today, a case came up in court which seems to involve the fake cops. Security officer, Elmoore Spencer, claims that three men, claiming to be police officers, drove up while he was on duty on Wednesday night at Moon Superstore on […]
Telecommunications giant B.T.L. colluded with registered game show company Mek Mi Rich to steal entrepreneur Curtis Swasey’s concept and use it as their own. That’s the bombshell handed down by Justice Courtney Abel in a decision which took more than an hour to read. In a nutshell – in 2012 Swasey signed an agreement with […]
So why did the Justice refer to the victory as Pyrrhic? Well…probably because even though Swasey won a total vindication on all his claims, he was only awarded twenty-five thousand dollars in damages. The Judge almost seemed apologetic in stating that he could find no evidence in what was provided by the claimant to base […]
That’s the financial bottom line – not exactly a hard hit for B.T.L. or M.M.R. But what about the moral low ground where Justice Abel claims both B.T.L. and M.M.R. tread? Will it affect the businesses in the short or long term where public sentiment is concerned? Naima Barrow, Attorney for M.M.R. “I think […]
On February tenth, sixty-four year old Estela Gonzalez of Temptation Bar, was convicted of Trafficking in Humans by a jury. The jury believed the sworn testimony of a fifteen year old who claimed that Gonzalez brought her into the country under false pretences and forced her to have sex for money. It only took an […]
This morning at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser, a newlywed couple was read a single charge of possession of controlled drugs, being forty grams of cannabis which is equivalent to one and a half ounce of the drug. Acting on a tip, police searched the home of B.D.F. Corporal William Swan […]
But another Belize City resident was imposed a stiffer fine of ten thousand dollars in the court room of Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith for drug trafficking. Ryan Cole was ordered to pay three thousand dollars upfront and the balance by June 2016. Ryan took the wrap for the possession of one hundred and fifty […]
Margarita Pech/Noralez, the thirty-five year old mother of a one month old baby, who was remanded to prison a week ago was back in court today. Pech has a long rap sheet with as many as twenty convictions and this morning, two more were added to the growing list. Pech pleaded guilty to burglary and […]
Tonight, twenty-seven year old Daniel Rios, who is being accused of raping a nine year old child remains in custody at the Belize Central Prison. A preliminary inquiry has determined that his case will be tried at the Supreme Court. Rios is accused of committing the heinous on April twenty-eighth 2015. The P.I. took place […]
While on patrol on Crayfish Caye, Turneffe atoll, the Belize Coastguard made a bust this morning for the Fisheries Department. Three men from Belama Phase Two, Belize City were found in possession of two hundred and forty-three lobster tails which is a violation since the lobster season is closed. By this afternoon at two, Fisheries […]
A mitigation plea was heard today for a sixty-four year old Honduran grandmother living in Belize for over twenty years. On February tenth, 2016, the grandmother was found guilty of human trafficking of a fifteen year old Honduran girl after the girl gave compelling testimony of how she was brought to Belize under false pretences and […]
The popular disc jockey, Disc Jockey James Busch of More FM, is in trouble with the law tonight. After two weeks of hospitalization, thirty-four year old Marlon Geovanni Chavez has made an official report to the Belize Police Department requesting court action against Busch, for what he says was a near death ordeal. This morning, […]
Turning to crime…There were two shootings on the south side of Belize City over the weekend, but details have just become available from the police. The first was the shooting of nineteen year old Raheem Bailey who was injured at his home on Allan Pitts Crescent. A lone gunman reportedly rode up on bicycle and […]
The second shooting on south side Belize City occurred an hour later on Boots Crescent near the Saint John Vianney Primary School. As we reported on Monday, a seventeen year old was shot from behind by a lone gunman on bicycle as he headed towards Rivero Street Extension. Police said today that within hours, they […]
In the Supreme Court today, the rape trial of B.D.F. Lieutenant Ruhesi Elijio was abruptly stopped and the jury discharged. Elijio will remain on interdiction from the force since his case has been traversed to the next sitting of Supreme Court in April of this year. His trial began since Monday of this week, but this […]
On Friday, media crews camped outside the Belize Family Court until dark, waiting for a determination on the fate of Nina Barrera Perez. The custody and jurisdiction woes of baby Nina have played out in the legal arena since November when she was removed from her mother’s care by the Department of Human Services. Finally, […]
