Not only is Tucker seeking judicial review of the termination; she has filed separately a challenge to the Open Vote Workers Regulations of 1992. Tucker and attorney Senior Counsel Magali Marin-Young believe it violates the Constitution, as then Governor General Dame Minita Gordon was not empowered to enact a law that creates a wholly separate […]
The case has also caught the attention of the Public Service Union, whose president, Eldred Neal, attended this morning’s arguments. He told us that the case points to the need to regularize workers’ status, and that in his ongoing tour of the country as P.S.U. President, workers have been asking their Union to help Government […]
Lisburn Anderson is the mechanic who Police believe delivered payment to a hit-man on behalf of American Bradley Paumen. Anderson has been charged for that crime, and was released on Supreme Court bail. But tonight he is behind bars, and has been since last Wednesday. That’s when Anderson was picked up and charged, again along […]
The strange legal tangles of US national Bradley Paumen, the owner of Dark Knight et al remain very fluid tonight. In a nutshell, three persons were formally arraigned on Thursday – Bradley Paumen, Jahangir Abadi and Haung Chong Park. Magistrate Albert Hoare refused to arraign Lisburn Anderson because Magistrate Ladonna John had already accepted a […]
But back to Bradley Paumen….He’s a millionaire investor, owner of Dark Night Tours and a resort in Hopkins, but is tonight behind bars at the Belize Central Prison. On Thursday evening, he was unceremoniously placed in the back of a police pickup just outside Court in Belmopan. Paumen was arrested on January sixth and arraigned […]
It was not until after two p.m. today that eighteen-year-old Windell Thurton, twenty-one-year-old Max Orosco and nineteen-year-old Byron Flowers, all of Belize City, were arraigned before Magistrate Deborah Rogers for the murder of thirty-seven year old Ian Blair. The trio arrived handcuffed to each other along with two others detainees. Thurton, Orosco and Flowers were […]
As we said…Today, in an amazingly protracted and confounding Courtroom drama, it took two Magistrates, the D.P.P., a Police prosecutor and five defense attorneys eight hours and two separate courtrooms to formally arraign three men and one woman. In February 2015, a vehicle driven by businessman Michael Modiri was searched at a checkpoint, and officers […]
Businessman Jahan Abadi and Haung Chong Park were arraigned for conspiracy to the crime of perverting the course of justice. They allegedly solicited the services of Solomon Moss to plant the rifle in the vehicle of Michael Modiri. Both were remanded to prison until a bail hearing before the Magistrate on Friday morning. Paumen and […]
After more than a week, the murder case of Belize City Daniel Anderson, accused with the 2011 murder of Joyce Mitchell came to an end. Mitchell was gunned down in a hail of bullets sprayed in her direction but she was not the intended target. The ruling has been deferred in the trial by judge […]
Tonight, the man accused of burglarizing the Cafeteria at Edward P. Yorke High School has been identified as Julian Edward Cowling. Cowling, a resident of Belize City was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Deborah Rogers for burglary and handling stolen goods. He is accused of stealing chocolate, chips, an assortment soft drinks, juices, snacks, water, […]
In March of 2015, the Belize Traffic Department was burglarized and twenty decal license stickers were stolen. A surveillance camera picked up a security guard entering the building on Youth for the Future Drive in Belize City. He was later charged with burglary and handling stolen goods for seven of the twenty stolen stickers. Today, […]
In a similar case, a pair of cousins, who were accused of burglarizing Quality Used Tires which is owned by businessman Rene Gordon, walked free. Thirty-five year old Kenrick Pitts, aka “Snake,” along with his cousin, thirty-five year old Roderick Pitts, both residents of Louise Bevans Street, Belize City, were freed when the prosecution could […]
The Government of Belize has been dealt another blow, on the heels of a recent loss in the Supreme Court where Justice Courtenay Abel ruled in favor of Titan International Securities awarding the company eight point nine million dollars. This time however, it is a lawsuit filed by Melonie Coye and Money Exchange International Limited […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow was visibly angry when we asked him about another judgment against G.O.B. recently. That one concerns Titan Securities. Government has been ordered to pay almost nine million dollars in damages. Added to the Melonie Coye judgment, G.O.B. is looking at payment of more than twelve million dollars for two cases in […]
Two teenagers were in court today for allegedly stealing a pair of Nike slippers from a fourteen year old boy; an allegation for which they are now behind bars. Ulide Allen of an Antelope Street Extension and Norton Tun, both eighteen years old, were jointly charged with one count each of robbery upon Damion Saladin. […]
Magistrate Mendoza also dealt with the case of two inmates who were caught attempting to smuggle weed inside the Tango Eleven area of the Hattieville prison. Twenty-five year old Sergio Martinez and twenty-eight year old Jarold Lamb Arthurs were busted on Sunday as they attempted to throw a bag of weed over a prison fence. […]
Victims of domestic abuse don’t normally go public about the violence. But tonight, Shawna Gillett, a single mother of four children, has come to the media to expose what she claims has been almost a decade of abuse against her by her ex. Even though she’s been to court three times in thirty days, ex-B.D.F. […]
Four persons, two Americans and two Mennonites, of the Spanish Lookout area were busted on Sunday, inside a Toyota Four-Runner. They were found to be in possession of twelve point four grams of weed when they pulled up at a police checkpoint at the Burrell Boom cut off on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Appearing before […]
As the Paumen story continues to unravel, two of his employees were granted bail after appearing before Justice Antoinette Moore this morning in the Supreme Court. Ian Skeen and Linzburn Anderson were arrested and charged earlier this week for their individual roles in an alleged plot to commit murder. Skeen was additionally charged with abetment […]
In a judgment which must have given Prime Minister Dean Barrow a world-class migraine, the Government of Belize has been ordered to pay Titan Securities eight point nine million dollars. In 2014, the Financial Intelligence Unit descended on Titan’s offices at the Matalon Building and seized all documents, computers and equipment, closing down operations. Titan […]
After three nights on remand for a stolen firearm from the police, two students were granted Supreme Court bail. Stradni Cassasola, a resident of Faber’s Road Extension, along with his classmate, Demrey Emaury Lewis was granted Supreme Court bail today by Justice Antoinette Moore for the offense of kept unlicensed firearm and ammunition. Lewis and […]
Forty-five year old Alexander Garcia, a father and resident of Belize City, appeared in court today on a charge of harm upon his sixteen-year-old daughter. According to the minor, her father was violent towards her on Thursday evening. She claims he woke her up asking about her mother’s whereabouts and when she told Garcia she […]
The Government of Belize has been ordered to shell out a total of four and a half million U.S. dollars to Titan International Securities after losing a major case in court last Friday. As we’ve reported, a massive raid on the offshore company’s Coney Drive office in September 2014 was ruled unconstitutional by Justice Courtney […]
A U.S. businessman who is the owner of The Split, a restaurant located on Caye Caulker, could not make it to court but sent an employee to enter a guilty plea on his behalf for three fisheries offenses including possession of sixty-five undersized conch, possession of two undersized lobsters, and possession of one soft shell […]
A cop from San Pedro AC walked free today from a single charge of extortion. That’s because a seventeen year old girl who made the allegation against thirty-eight year old police officer Oscar Ramirez, decided not to proceed with the matter in court. In light of that, Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser told Ramirez that he […]
