I n July of this year, the Customs Department caught an Orange Walk businessman with an assortment of uncustomed vegetables and flour. Sergio Chi pleaded guilty and was fined three times the value which means he was to pay more than thirteen thousand dollars. Chi agreed to settle out of court but did not and […]
In the Supreme Court, the trial of three Belize City brothers, Michael, Ryan and Adrian Pook is coming to an end. This morning, the trio was called to answer to the charge of murder in the chopping and stabbing death of Errol Ferguson, aka “Lighter,” which occurred on Administrative Drive and Mahogany Street Extension on […]
Tonight, two teenagers age eighteen and nineteen years old, are behind bars for the murder of businessman, Rueben Perez that occurred on November twenty-sixth at his business on Vernon Street in Belize City. The two suspects were detained since Friday and their arraignment took place this morning. They are Tyrone Reid, of Cohune Street, Belmopan […]
Twenty-six-year-old Troy Treston Cole, a resident ofCurassow Streetis tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being accused of assaulting Gilroy Arnold with a firearm. The incident reportedly took place on Wednesday onBocotora Streetwhen Cole allegedly opened fire on Arnold who fortunately escaped serious injury. Cole, who was unrepresented, appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon […]
Three men who have been on remand for murder just over a year were today told that they could leave the courtroom free men. Daniel Caine, Bart Lucas and Oscar Flores were accused of the October 2014 murder of Harrison Smith, but one year after, Police were unable to present the court with any evidence […]
A trio of men is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being busted with an unlicensed firearm, as well as a stash of marijuana. Twenty-year-old Shakedi Baizar, proprietor of a bike shop in the West Lake area of the Mile Eight Community, along with two relatives were nabbed on Wednesday when personnel […]
In February of 2013, six Belize Water Services employees were terminated for redundancy, or at least that was the official company story. Those employees claimed that it was victimization, though, and took the company to Court for wrongful termination. It took more than two and a half years, but today Mark Menzies, Don Gillett, Michael […]
It was a triumphant moment for the six employees who have faced real hardship following and based on their termination from the utility company. Today, they told us that against all odds they stayed the course and can now serve as an example to other employees facing victimization at BWS. Michael Novelo, Former BWS […]
While Senior Superintendent Chester Williams was being called to the bar this morning, twenty-three-year-old Ibrahim Smith was being put away behind bars after being sentenced to seven years in prison. In November 2010, a student of Sadie Vernon High School was accidentally shot and killed at home after a man she knew accidentally discharged a […]
A Belize City man was caught in the act on Monday as he exited an opening at a building of a collection agency in the south side of the City. The suspect, thirty two year old Malique Martinez was quickly nabbed and handed over to police. He was charged with burglary with intent to steal […]
The city saw a decrease in violent crime in September and October and according to Senior Superintendent Chester Williams, the Regional Commander, Eastern Division South, murders are down. But on Sunday, gunmen targeted three men walking on Antelope Street extension. One of the men was hit, but according to police, the intended target was missed. […]
A pair of Camalote men have been arrested and charged for the execution-style murder of sixteen-year-old Ivan Choc who was mercilessly shot and killed inside his home on November thirteenth in the village. Earlier today, twenty-year-old Damien Bowden of Young Bank area and eighteen-year-old Justin Banner were arraigned for the crime of murder in the […]
The court set free today Belize City resident Clive Jones; Judge Adolph Lucas made that ruling in an inferior case in the Supreme Court. Jones was convicted of burglary and sentenced to seven years and had already served one year and nine months of his prison term. But today Justice Lucas quashed his conviction and […]
Charges have been brought against the driver of a vehicle who hit and killed a mother of three children on November first, 2015 between Miles twenty-four and twenty-five on the George Price Highway. Sharmaine Humes was laid to rest after funeral services at Wesley Methodist Church on Albert Street last Friday, twelve days after the […]
Forty-seven year old Mexican- American national David Miguel Nanes Schnitzer is out on bail tonight. Nanes is wanted in Mexico in connection with what is known as a Ponzi scheme in which investors lost forty-two million U.S. dollars. But Nanes has been living in Belize for over two years and was able to acquire a […]
Two women one who resides on Palmar Road, Orange Walk, the other from Ranchito Village, Corozal Town, are on remand tonight for stealing over two hundred pieces of underwear from a store on Orange Street in Belize City on Tuesday of this week. The duo was allegedly caught on surveillance footage and was escorted to […]
Tonight, two Belize City fathers who are sole providers of their children are behind bars after both were convicted of drug trafficking. Two years ago in May 2013, Walter Beaten and Kirk Dougal were found with twenty-five point one kilograms or about fifty-five point three pounds of cannabis stashed inside a van at the George […]
At the end of October, in a landmark ruling, the Caribbean Court of Justice ordered Government to make reparation to the Mayan community for damages suffered. The court ordered the setting up of a fund of three hundred thousand dollars to facilitate the consultation process and dialogue between G.O.B. and the Mayan community. The victory […]
The lack of clarity on the issue, at least where G.O.B. is concerned, has led to some very volatile situations – Rupert Myles and the Santa Cruz Mayans being one of the most distasteful. While Mayans are before the Court after they arrested Myles for damaging a sacred site on their communal land, Myles has […]
A group of eight men appeared in court this morning following a recent brawl at La Catracha Bar on Coney Drive in Belize City. They are facing charges of disorderly conduct and damaged to property. This morning before Magistrate Carlos Mendoza: Angel Arias, Carlos Gutierrez, Olvin Reyes, Ronald Gutierrez, Victor Martinez, Luis Carballo and William […]
In July of this year, the last remaining death row inmate, Glenford Baptist, learnt that his sentence had been squashed, but the court is yet to determine how much time he has left behind bars for a murder charge. After spending thirteen years on death row, today, his case came up again and his fate […]
Two men who were before the court recently accused of different criminal offenses were granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of five thousand dollars each today. The first is interdicted cop, thirty-one-year old year old Hector Esquivel who is charged with Unlawful Sexual Intercourse with a fourteen year old on November first, 2015. Esquivel […]
Tonight, a single father of two children is beginning a two-year jail term imposed upon him by Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser for the offense of sexual assault for touching a nine year old little girl inappropriately. The child testified in court that on November eight, 2014, Lionel Quiroz walked up to her as she was […]
This morning, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin heard closing arguments in the libel and slander suits brought by Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega against Ramon Cervantes Junior. The claim, in a nutshell, is that Cervantes arranged the broadcast of a recording, on Orange Walk based Fiesta FM, in which Vega is named as involved in the […]
Rodwell Williams says the suit for slander is an appropriate charge, and he disagrees that the offence would have to be committed verbally. He told News Five that by his actions, if not his words, Cervantes Junior certainly slandered Vega. Rodwell Williams, Attorney for Gaspar Vega “We are not saying he said. If you […]
