Since the arrest of Police Corporal Elmer Nah in connection with the double murder of brothers Jon and David Ramnarace, there have been calls for the Belize Police Department to reopen the Fareed Ahmad murder case. Viewers will recall that late in trial, Police Constable Michelle Brown made a statement from the dock accusing Nah […]
What is a just punishment for the perpetrator of the Ramnarace brothers’ murders? Numerous Belizeans are calling on authorities to invoke the death penalty in this instance. The deadly attack was caught on Jon Ramnarace’s home surveillance camera. That video has since been leaked to the public and has gone viral on social media, garnering […]
The murder case involving former police officer Michelle Brown, who was accused of killing businessman and well-known Belize City barber Fareed Ahmad, ended in December 2020 with an acquittal. During the trial, Brown testified under oath that Corporal Elmer Nah was in fact the triggerman who executed Ahmad inside his vehicle. Notwithstanding the explosive revelation […]
Swift police action led to the arrest of two fishermen of the San Mateo area of San Pedro, in the wake of the killing. They are twenty-four-year-old Delson Paguada, and thirty-three-year-old Lucio Salazar. The duo was brought off the island in the absence of a magistrate in that jurisdiction and they were escorted to the […]
This morning, a couple appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer where they were arraigned for three counts of kept firearm and ammunitions with a gun license and two counts of drug-related offenses. Traffic warden Anthony Wagner and his common-law wife, Vanessa Moreira, were at their Hondo Street home when police conducted a search on December […]
The Meighan brothers were summoned to court today after it was reported that their passports were not handed over to the court before they posted bail on Wednesday. Siblings Tyrone and Ellis Meighan were offered bail of thirty thousand dollars each for being a member of a gang. They were ordered to surrender their passports, […]
Earlier today, thirty-year-old Perry Stratford, a British national who was arraigned on Tuesday for alleged kidnapping, theft, harm and damage to property against his fiancée, was granted bail at the Supreme Court. The emergency bail application before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft commenced at 10:30, following a delay in transporting Stratford, a British army soldier, from […]
The Belize City Magistrate’s Court is relocating to Coney Drive, several weeks after the building it occupies was hard hit by Hurricane Lisa on November second. As it stands, the lower court is only operational on one side of the Public Building, a situation which was made worse following the collapse of the ceiling on […]
A trio of men, including Honduran national Marcial Toledo, convicted in separate homicide cases, was sentenced in the Supreme Court today by Justice Susan Lamb. Thirty-year-old Kashief Gallego, fifty-two-year-old Marcial Toledo and twenty-seven-year-old Evyn Ardon all pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter for their individual roles in three different incidents. This evening, Gallego, […]
Mexican national Juan Esparga Sanchez, one of four foreigners detained in connection with the landing of a drug plane near Bladen on the Southern Highway in November of last year, appeared before the lower court today. He is represented by attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley. During the case management committee held earlier, an application was made […]
Brandon Hughes and Jose Gomez have been convicted of the murder of businessman Oscar Rosado Senior. The pair appeared before Justice Susan Lamb today in the Supreme Court where she handed down her very first verdict for murder. The incident happened at Rosado’s place of business in April 2023 when he was shot and killed […]
Forty-one-year-old Devon Jones, who pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of use of deadly means of harm after he used his vehicle and ran it into Francis Gill and crushing him, has been imposed a three-year suspended sentence for the crime he committed. Gill, who later lost his leg as a result of the incident, […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Malcolm Morris Baptist, a warehouse keeper, and twenty-three-year-old Zachary Tun, a maintenance worker of Santa Clara Village, Corozal District, appeared unrepresented in the magistrate’s court earlier today where they pleaded guilty to charges of theft and handling stolen goods. Baptist was first to be arraigned on one count of handling stolen goods for a […]
A man and his common-law-wife were today remanded to the Belize Central Prison on gun-related charges. Twenty-four-year-old Charles August and thirty-year-old Eloise Baldarez of Antelope Street, Belize City, pleaded not guilty to possession of a firearm and six live rounds of ammunitions. In court, they were each read one count of kept firearm without a […]
A Belize City family is lucky to be at home tonight after being found guilty of three counts of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply. Eighty-year-old Brenda Vasquez, a retired teacher, her forty-two-year-old son, Giovanni Vasquez and her twenty-nine-year-old grandson Kristian Young, appeared before the magistrate’s court this afternoon where they were […]
Forty-one-year-old Devon Jones has been charged with attempted murder, almost eight years following an incident in Belize City during which a man was crushed by a vehicle on Freetown Road. Jones, a resident of Rhaburn Ridge, got into a heated argument with another customer outside of Li Chee Restaurant back in 2014 which ended with […]
This afternoon, nineteen-year-old William Faux was arraigned on charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and drove motor vehicle without due care and attention after fatally running over his best friend in Ladyville on the night of October fourteenth. The tragic accident happened between miles eleven and twelve on the Philip Goldson […]
A group of eleven persons, many of whom are family and friends, walked free from charges that were brought against them in August 2021. They were arrested following an alleged party that was held on a boat during the State of Emergency which was associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, they appeared before Chief Magistrate […]
A little over four years ago, a Belize City family was beset by tragedy when a distraught former in-law rammed a piece of heavy equipment into a home, killing a five-year-old boy, his fifty-three-year-old grandmother and a teenage minor. The frightening ordeal made headlines as the single-flat residence occupied by Louise Young and her grandchildren […]
Twenty-eighth-year-old Travis Navarro was acquitted of the murder when he appeared before the Supreme Court Justice Sandcroft earlier today. In 2013, he was charged for the execution-style slaying of twenty-one-year-old Rajiv Gonquez, the son of former Chief Meteorologist Dennis Gonguez. Navarro was represented by attorney Oscar Selgado, who delivered the news that the D.P.P.’s office […]
A policeman was arraigned today in the Belize City Magistrates’ Court on a charge of Perverting the Course of Justice. It follows an alleged incident outside of an establishment on Newtown Barracks two weeks ago when the policeman reportedly took away a man’s gun and kept it in his possession. Police Constable Herman Ramos is […]
Earlier today, twenty-two-year-old Curtis August pleaded guilty to Handling Stolen Goods in reference to several guns that were stolen from the residence of former Commissioner of Police, Allen Whylie. He was fined fifteen hundred, dollars plus five dollars cost of court, to be paid by March thirty-first, 2023, in default, six months imprisonment. Whylie’s home […]
A mother took to the media today to vent her frustration after she says her efforts to explain to investigating officers that her son, Ashton Moody, who they detained, pending an investigation, has acute health issues and needed to undergo lab tests today. Danna Bull visited News Five’s office on Coney Drive to tell us […]
The concerned mother told us that in addition to all the inconveniences and health risks that she feels her son is currently enduring being in custody, she knows he will prove himself innocent of the allegation because he was at home with her when the hurricane struck Belize. She said that when the twenty-seven-year-old left […]
Accused of killing a reputed gang member in January 2015, Troy Hyde has walked free from a murder charge that was brought against him in the wake of a deadly shooting on Central American Boulevard. This morning, Hyde, who has been out on bail since July 2018, appeared before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft in the […]
