The girlfriend of a prison inmate is in trouble with the law tonight. That’s because she tried to smuggle weed for him to take back to prison. Meagan Leslie was nabbed when she went to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court requesting permission to give Ryan Alvarez a medication. While the request was refused, authorities saw […]
In the Supreme Court earlier today, businessman Jack Charles lost his only option to legally examine the rationale behind a decision taken by the Government of Belize to confiscate a shipment of Guyanese rice. The consignment of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds of prepackaged grain arrived via freight at the port in Big Creek […]
While Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, who represents the Mennonite community, maintains that Jack Charles acted in open disobedience of the law. As a result, the Customs and Excise Department, according to Courtenay, has indicated that the illegal cargo must leave the country sooner than later. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney, Belize Agro-productive Sector Group “The rice […]
The importation of Guyanese rice was an issue that was in the headlines for the most part of December. The premise on which the shipment of rice was being imported to Belize and introduced to the local market is affordability. Previously, Jack Charles proposed that he could retail a pound of Guyanese rice for as […]
Tonight, forty-four year old Goldburn Adolphus, aka “Easy Glen” is in trouble with the law again for allegedly beating up and then threatening to kill his baby’s mother and then escaping from police custody by claiming he needed his seizure medication. This morning, Adolphus who appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser was read four criminal […]
Two men were arraigned this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer after they were busted with over eleven kilos of alleged heroin on December twenty-ninth. According to reports, tour guide Richard McDonald and fisherman Giovanni Requeña were in a taxi on the BelChina Bridge when elements of the Anti-Drug Unit swooped down on them. The […]
Another police officer is tonight accused of sexually assaulting a minor. Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Hubert Serrano, an officer attached to San Pedro Police, appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser earlier today. PC Serrano was arraigned on three counts of sexual assault upon a thirteen-year-old girl on the island. The charges stem from at least three […]
Twenty-three-year-old Michelle Reynard narrowly escaped jail today after appearing before Magistrate Deborah Rogers on a fourth conviction for drug-related offenses. The fish cleaner who works out of the Conch Shell Bay Fish Market pleaded guilty to possession of thirty-nine grams of cannabis. The young woman threw herself at the mercy of the court, seeking leniency […]
Twenty-one year old Police Constable Luke Moreira was charged late Monday evening with two counts of rape, and formally arraigned this afternoon at the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court. Moreira is accused of raping twenty-five year old Bullet Tree resident Vanessa Evans while she was detained at the San Ignacio Police Station on December nineteenth. Because […]
While there was no question that Moreira would be charged today, there was some question as to whether he would be granted bail. This afternoon, the young police constable appeared before the Magistrate, in the company of his attorney Leroy Banner. We spoke to Banner via phone following the arraignment. Leroy Banner, Attorney for […]
Ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant is recovering tonight, following a brutal attack over the weekend in which he was badly beaten by his neighbor during a home invasion. The elderly man regained consciousness earlier today and is undergoing a battery of tests, including a CT scan, to determine the extent of his injuries. On Sunday morning, around […]
In San Estevan Village, Orange Walk, one year old Genesis Teresa Medina was killed in a fatal hit and run on Sunday afternoon. The alleged driver who knocked down the toddler was soon nabbed by police and today, he was arraigned in the Orange Walk Magistrate Court. Police believe that twenty-eight year old Eliseo Israel […]
Also on Monday, we reported that a five year old boy from Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk Town had been sexually abused over the weekend at his home. While we won’t mention his name to protect his identity, we can report that one person has been arrested for molesting the child and that is the […]
On December tenth, 2015, a jury of twelve deliberated for over five hours, found Rafael Mencias not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Phillip Hall which occurred on July twenty-sixth, 2010. In mitigation, Judge Herbert Lord heard from five character witnesses who spoke well of Mencias asking the court for leniency on […]
Today in court, a B.T.L. employee, who pleaded guilty to crashing his SUV, had his license revoked for one year. The traffic accident happened within city limits on Sunday, December twenty-seventh, 2015 and fortunately, there were no fatalities. Twenty-three year old Rasheed Pollard was arraigned this morning before Magistrate Deborah Rogers and slapped with two […]
On Christmas Eve, businessman Jack Charles was before the Supreme Court in a case he is bringing against the Government of Belize. The importer is seeking permission for a judicial review to legally examine the basis of a decision by the Belize Agricultural Health Authority to detain a cargo of bulk rice from Guyana. According […]
While the shipment of seventy-five tons of prepackaged grain remains grounded in Big Creek, as of Christmas Day the importer will have to start covering the cost of storage. That quantum, if and until released, will be paid forward; however, Jack Charles is positive that it will be recovered in damages. Jack Charles, Proprietor, […]
Former Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Sergio Garcia is presently a technical advisor to Jack Charles. As a regional trade specialist, Garcia is familiar with the provisions of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy Treaty. But he has come under fire from current C.E.O. Jose Alpuche for failure to implement measures that […]
Keyren Tzib will be home for the holidays. After walking up and down the steps of the Supreme Court many times, the court today granted the coastguard officer bail. She is accused of the manslaughter of her common law husband who she stabbed to death at their Lord’s Bank home during a domestic dispute. At […]
Sentencing for Glenford Baptist took place this morning in the courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Baptist is the inmate who languished in prison for thirteen years on death row without being sentenced. Last week in a hearing attorneys and the crown agreed that his constitutional rights were breached and violated. Today, the Chief Justice imposed a […]
A Belize City man who is almost three times the age of his alleged victim was arraigned today on a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse. The accused is thirty-two year old Dalton Longsworth of a Victoria Street address. Allegations against Longsworth are that on November eleventh, 2015, he sexually abused a twelve year old girl. […]
He is Belize’s longest-serving inmate on death row at the Belize Central Prison. And after thirteen years behind bars, Glenford Baptist, appeared in court this morning, but still does not know how many more years he will have to remain in prison. Baptist was convicted of the murder of Azrin White in 2000, but last […]
Three men were acquitted by Justice Adolph Lucas of three counts of firearm offenses in relation to an alleged would be kidnapping back in 2010. But two of them will have to face a jury of nine for other offenses. Earlier today, Judge Lucas directed the jury to acquit Tevin Abraham, Jamaal Tablada and Jarreth […]
Also in the courts, three more men charged in connection with the home invasion of the Lebanese Honrary Consul in Burrell Boom Village were granted Supreme Court bail but with stringent conditions. Tyrone Meighan was the first to be granted bail by Judge Herbert Lord in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars and two […]
Baby Nina Charlotte Barrera Perez will remain in a foster home through the Christmas holidays, as the matter was adjourned in Family Court today. The two year old was removed from her mother’s custody in November. Her father claims that the child was taken out of Guatemala illegally by the mother, Analiz Gutierrez, while the […]
