Analiz Gutierrez was in court and clearly distraught that the matter could not have been resolved in today’s hearing. She told News Five that she is disappointed that her daughter will not be home for Christmas, but has faith that the court will allow baby Nina to remain with her in Belize. Analiz Gutierrez, […]
If the court rules that baby Nina was indeed removed from the country illegally, then the child will be ordered to be returned to Guatemala. Gutierrez would then need to return to that country to deal with the custody matter there. It’s a scenario that is not improbable, but one that Gutierrez dreads. Analiz […]
The Santa Cruz Thirteen appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner on Wednesday to an unexpected retraction of the charge of unlawful imprisonment. That is after the group of villagers was trooped to the magistrate’s court in Punta Gorda on June twenty-fourth, following their arrest of Rupert Myles in Santa Cruz Village. Led by MLA spokesperson Cristina […]
A B.S.I. employee was terminated after thirty-one years on the job as an Electrical and Instrumental Technician. He took his case to court in hope of being re-instated or in the alternative, seeking damages for unlawful dismissal or wrongful dismissal. Julio Roman Gongora Junior also claimed that B.S.I. promoted him to permanent staff, then terminated him […]
Belize City Construction Worker, thirty year old Sherlock Herrera, who was busted at his home allegedly in possession of one hundred and eight grams of cannabis, is out on bail of three thousand five hundred dollars granted to him this morning by Magistrate, Deborah Rogers. The bust of Herrera occurred on Wednesday, by GSU police at […]
An ex-police officer, who was out on parole, is back behind bars tonight. Ronald Ragan Sutherland was convicted of wounding his ex-girlfriend back in 2014 and sentenced to two years, but while out on parole, he committed another offense which has landed him in jail again. This time, Sutherland is accused of trafficking weed after […]
But John Burke, a Belize City resident, will not be spending Christmas behind bars. He was accused of burglary and handling stolen goods after the home of a Belizean/American couple was burglarized in their presence and the culprits cleaned out the house. Burke was accused of burglarizing the home of Reginald Welch in 2013 and […]
Tonight, twenty-eight-year-old Jeffery McDougal is behind bars after being accused of a shooting incident which occurred on Sunday, December thirteenth, 2015 in which Brandon Allen was shot and injured in his buttocks and had to be hospitalized. The shooting incident is said to have occurred at the corner of East Canal Street and Water Lane, […]
There were two arrests in the armed robbery of Santiago Castillo Limited which took place last Friday in Belmopan. Twenty-one year Edvik Guerra of Santa Elena, Cayo, and twenty-three year old Leroy Myvette, also of the Cayo District, were charged with the armed robbery of a San Cas employee, Lester Wagner, who was counting money […]
Tonight, an ITVET student is on remand at the Belize Central Prison accused of sexual abuse of a fourteen year old girl. He is twenty-year old Kristoff Myvett. It is alleged that Myvett abused the minor on September twenty-eighth, 2015 in Belize City. Myvett appeared before the Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser today and was represented […]
Two sisters who claim they found a cop’s ATM card on the street are home free from a charge of theft. Twenty-two year old Chelsea and twenty-one year old Monique Martinez along with a third person, Ervin Zelaya, settled out of court with Corporal Bonifacio Rash. Zelaya was charged with eighteen counts of theft and […]
A Belizean woman who was convicted in the U.S.A. for human trafficking and later deported to Belize appeared in court on Friday to answer to a charge of Failure to Report to the Police and was slapped with a fine of five hundred dollars. Yanira Mojica was fined after pleading guilty in the courtroom of […]
Jeffery Buller was arraigned this afternoon for abetment to commit aggravated burglary and was denied bail. Mark Pitts and Paul Jex were arraigned for handling stolen good and both pleaded not guilty. The duo claimed that the police placed and a bag over their heads to coerce them to talk. They were all remanded until […]
Since taking over Belize International Services Limited, the parent company of IMMARBE and the IBC Registry, in June 2013, the Government of Belize has been embroiled in litigation with its previous owners. That protracted legal battle involving a battery of high profile attorneys from home and abroad concluded before Justice Michelle Arana this afternoon. During […]
Shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, a jury of six men and six women stepped into the deliberating room to determine the fate of Rafael Mencias accused of the July twenty-sixth, 2010 for the murder of Philip Moses Hall. Four hours later, Mencias was found guilty of manslaughter in a unanimous decision by the jury. […]
A Belize City taxi driver, accused of theft of two vehicles and over five thousand dollars in cash from an international company, was freed of the charge by Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith after the prosecution provided no evidence against him. Robert Henry Young Junior, of a Vernon Street, Belize City, got the good news […]
In court today, BT, the infamous Brandon Mason Tillett, associate of the George Street Gang, was before the lower court for an attempted murder case for which he is awaiting a preliminary inquiry. Tillett is accused in the Lord’s Bank shooting of Jorge Carlos Lozano, who tricked the gunmen pretending to be dead. But before […]
A trio of Belize City men, including twenty-two-year-old Orel Leslie, thirty-year-old Brandon Baptist and Tyrone Meighan was recently acquitted of the November 2012 murder of B.D.F. soldier James Noralez. While Leslie continues to enjoy freedom, his alleged accomplices are once again on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arrested and charged for an […]
Leslie, Baptist and Meighan have since been served with a notice of appeal. According to Senior Counsel Dickie Bradley, the possibility of a successful appeal seems unlikely since there is insufficient evidence to begin with. Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney “In this case, the judge is the jury so he hears that excuse me where […]
Two men, who were charged in connection with separate traffic accidents, were today committed to stand trial at the Supreme Court for Manslaughter by Negligence. Sixty-one-year-old Errol Belisle and twenty-four-year-old Boyd Lopez, following a preliminary inquiry, will have to appear in the higher court for separate traffic accident fatalities. The first case dealt with was […]
The group was expected in court this morning so family and friends were awaiting their arrival. They did not appear until the afternoon and it was under heavy police guard. In the drama that ensued, Meighan who was handcuffed, hit reporter Roy Davis off the veranda and down the stairs of the Supreme Court Building. […]
Two women who were captured on surveillance camera footage stealing more than two hundred pieces of underwear are out on bail. Donela Smith and Johny Netty Lopez were seen stealing the underwear from Siloe store in Belize City on November seventeenth. They were quickly apprehended at a bus terminal and charged with theft on November […]
Arguments were heard today in the case of Entrepreneur Curtis Swasey from Corozal versus Belize Telemedia and MMR Belize Limited. Swasey says executives of Belize Telemedia Limited used his unique idea for a lottery texting program via short message service (SMS) to underline the Mek Mi Rich television program, which has been airing for the […]
Mek Mi Rich is owned by businessman Sanjay Hotchandani and Andre Vega, the son of the Deputy Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega. MMR Belize Limited attorney, Naima Barrow, expressed confidence in the outcome of the case for her client. She denies that Swasey’s ideas were used by MMR and that the game is different from what […]
Meanwhile, Swasey’s attorney, Kareem Musa, contends that his client’s case is sufficiently established and that in fact there is enough information by email where Swasey was communicating with B.T.L. about how to operate the game. Kareem Musa, Attorney for Curtis Swasey “No doubt we are pleased with what was presented to the court today, […]
