Well-known Belize City money lender Pamela Bennett and Burrell Boom resident Alfredo Navarette perished in a horrible traffic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway on January second. Bennett and her husband Calvin Cumberbath were heading out of the city, while Navarette was heading into the city when the fatal collision occurred. Today, Cumberbath who is […]
A pair of young men is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for separate murders in Punta Gorda Town. Twenty-one-year-old Albert Valentine Junior, along with a fifteen-year-old minor, was indicted on two counts of murder when he appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner on Monday. Both PG residents are accused of […]
A trio has been charged in connection with a robbery on board a vessel anchored near Middle Caye last Thursday. On board was US retiree, John Picard who was awoken by two men who demanded money, ransacked his vessel and stole an assortment of items. Three persons have been arrested for handling stolen goods and […]
A pair settled out of court this morning and saved themselves jail time. He was facing the possibility of ten years for burglary while she was facing imprisonment for dangerous harm. This morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser, Shanice Smith paid Erlin Butler six hundred dollars in cash and withdrew charges against him for burglary […]
Bradley Paumen, the American resort and tour company owner who allegedly hired a hit man to kill four persons, one of them a local attorney, is currently free, out on bail. But two men who did work for him, accountant Ian Skeen and mechanic Linzburn Anderson, are behind bars. Over the weekend Skeen and Anderson […]
On January second, a family was traumatized when they were jacked at gunpoint in Armenia Village. According to Melanie Popper Coc, she was heading to Pomona with her mother and four children when she received a phone call and pulled off the road to answer it. According to Coc, that’s when a man came out […]
But a U.S. businessman is facing some serious charges in Belize for allegedly ordering a hit on four persons. Last week, Bradley Paumen, the owner of Dark Night tours, was detained and tonight he is a free man, at least for the moment. He was granted bail when an application was made before Justice Antoinette […]
Bradley Paumen’s legal troubles are bad enough, but he may soon be facing additional charges. Remember Michael Modiri, the man police believe was the target of a hit man hired by Paumen? Well he was arrested on May fifth, 2015 after a search of a checkpoint turned up an unlicensed vehicle and ammunition in his […]
The Government of Belize was dealt a massive blow in the Supreme Court this morning, where Justice Courtney Abel ruled that the raid on the offices of Titan International Securities in September 2014 was unlawful. Acting on behalf of U.S. authorities, local law enforcement officers ascended to the sixth floor of the Matalon Building where […]
Is government mandated to return the files taken from Titan International Securities? That’s what we asked Courtenay today. He says that government is yet to return a number of documents seized during the raid but that an inventory has not been taken to determine the volume of files that are outstanding. Isani Cayetano “Are […]
Did American Bradley Paumen, owner of tour company Dark Knight put a hit on four persons? Apparently the Police believe that he did. On January sixth, Special Branch officers detained and arrested Paumen. That Friday, the eight, Paumen was transported by Special Branch officers to San Ignacio where he was quietly arraigned on four counts […]
Coastguard Keyren Tzib was granted bail in the lower court two days before last Christmas and today she walked into courtroom on her own free will. She is accused with the manslaughter of her common-law husband, Thytis Blancaneaux in 2015. Tzib was never charged for murder because she claimed she stabbed Thytis after he repeatedly […]
The courtroom of the Chief Magistrate was packed to capacity today. As many as eighteen defendants charged in connection with the home invasion at the house of businessman Sarkis Abou Nehra were scheduled to appear. However, eighteen year Crystal Augustine who was granted Supreme Court bail in December after four nights on remand at the […]
In June 2014, the first arguments in the Belize Tourism Industry Association versus the Government of Belize/Norwegian Cruise Lines were heard in the Supreme Court. It is a little over a year and a half since the case began and this morning, Justice Courtney Abel read his two-hour decision in the matter. B.T.I.A. had sought […]
As Salas pointed out, the B.T.I.A. at no point sought to stop the project, which is nearing completion. But it is a significant slap-down of government by the Supreme Court, and paves the way for affirmative action if government does not choose to adhere to the procedures in the future. To add insult to injury, […]
The anticipated traditional and ceremonial opening of the Supreme Court took place this morning in a packed courtroom of the judiciary and other guests. Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin presided over the proceedings and provided a report on the 2015 legal calendar year. The report card was gloomy: there is an increase in the remand population […]
The judiciary was busy today with the opening of the Supreme Court throughout the morning. When the Magistrate’s Court resumed session this afternoon, a businessman alleged he was robbed by a group of four men inside his business on Barrack Road. One of the men was caught on surveillance camera stealing beer and a bottle […]
On Wednesday, two teenagers from Santa Elena, Cayo were detained for the vicious and sensational murder of Canadian filmmaker Matthiew Klinck. Klinck’s body was found at the house he lived in at Selena near Spanish Lookout. He had been stabbed fourteen times in his face and upper body. Early this morning, based on confession statements, […]
Today, two cops at the center of allegations sexual abuse were granted Supreme Court bail by Madam Justice Antoinette Moore of the Supreme Court. San Pedro Cop, twenty-six year Kyle Hubert Serrano, is also on interdiction until the outcome of his case. On December thirty-first, 2015, Serrano was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court […]
Also from the courts today, five of six men, all tour guides, accused with the beating of Vitalino Reyes Junior in May 2014 are free of the charge of harm. Jimmy Cortez, John Frazer, Christopher Williams, his older brother, Evan Williams and Keith Vairez walked after the charge was withdrawn against them. But a sixth […]
Late this evening, twenty-three year old street figure, Michael Arnold, aka “Teetie,” a Pickstock resident, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser. He is accused of robbery by use of force and wounding upon fifty-six year old Maria Pou, the owner of the popular Pou Meat Pie located on […]
On Tuesday afternoon, businessman Jack Charles hastily applied for and was granted an injunction by the Supreme Court, restraining the Customs and Excise Department from taking possession of his shipment of rice. While the application did not include the necessary paperwork, earlier today that document was officially filed. The grounds for the application includes the […]
According to Courtenay, the proprietor of Xtra House had been given the option previously to seek damages once the cargo is turned over to customs. Why that alternative has not been pursued is anyone’s guess. Here’s what the attorney had to say. Isani Cayetano “Does it appear to be in any way maybe a […]
On Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonya Young rejected an application filed on behalf of businessman Jack Charles who was seeking judicial review of BAHA’s decision to confiscate his cargo of Guyanese rice. As we have reported, a shipment of three containers of prepackaged rice is sitting in Big Creek since arriving in Belize on December […]
A Belize City Mechanic of Evergreen Street, Lake Independence, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison in the wake of an allegation against him by a fifteen year old that he had been having unlawful sex with her since mid-2015 and as recent as Boxing Day 2015. This morning, thirty-seven year old Denfield Davis […]
