A Vernon Street man who was accused of performing oral sex on a thirteen year old primary school girl was convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment which is the maximum jail time for the sexual offense. Fifty-two year old Charles Bucknor was found guilty of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon a school […]
The Santa Cruz Thirteen reappeared in the Punta Gorda Magistrate Court this morning on their scheduled date. To their surprise, additional charges were placed upon them, including on MLA spokesperson Cristina Coc, for assaulting Rupert Myles who is at the centre of this controversial case involving the Maya communities in southern Belize. Myles has denuded […]
A Benque Viejo resident appealed his conviction for drug trafficking back in June of this year. Alfredo Marin was fined ten thousand dollars and sentenced to three years in prison. Today, Judge Adolph Lucas ruled that Marin did not get a fair trial and ordered a retrial squashing his conviction. At the Supreme Court this […]
Petrocaribe – it is the political buzzword of 2015, and depending on who you ask, it is either the best thing to ever happen to Belize or perhaps the worst. One man who thinks the latter, at least of the way the Government has handled the program since its inception, is P.U.P. Deputy Leader, Julius […]
For the other side, Senior Counsel Magali Marin-Young held brief for Espat and fellow Senior Counsels Eamon Courtenay, who was busy, and Andrew Marshalleck, who is on holiday. Marin-Young says that the advancing of the legislative process is as much to blame. Magali Marin-Young, Attorney for Julius Espat “Following the legislative process, government has […]
Tonight, forty-seven year old Roy Jones Junior also known as “Patties” is on remand at the Belize Central Prison following an allegation of rape made by a seventeen year old minor. The alleged incident occurred back on November ninth, 2014 in Belize City. Jones Junior, police say, had been on the run since the incident, […]
Today, all parties in a libel and slander suit brought by Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega were back in Court. Vega is suing Ramon Cervantes Jr. and Fiesta FM because he says that in November 2014 they both caused to be aired a recording of a phone conversation. In that conversation, suspected murderer and fugitive […]
The badly decomposed remains of sixty-one-year-old Osmar Ramos was discovered inside a shallow grave on July fifteenth in a remote area in the Cayo District known as Paraiso. The elderly farmer, a naturalized Belizean from El Salvador, was butchered and buried in dense vegetation several miles outside the Mennonite community of Springfield. Ramos, it is […]
A minor who was charged for taking his grandmother’s jewellery walked out of Court free today when she declined to press charges. The burglary occurred on Monday, when the woman discovered that over ten thousand dollars in jewellery was missing from her home. A Police investigation led to JL’s where the jewellery had been pawned, […]
An Orange Walk man isn’t going to be clowning around with the Police again after a mischievous act almost landed him in jail. On Tuesday, Timothy Aaron Morey was on Oleander Street in Belize City when he was approached and searched. Nothing was found on him, but when he was asked for his name he […]
The Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega took the stand in court today. A substantive libel case is being brought against two parties by Vega before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Vega is suing Ramon Cervantes Junior, his political opponent in Orange Walk North, for slandering him and causing damage to his reputation by airing a defamatory […]
Vega will return to court for the final day of the trial at ten in the morning, when witnesses on his behalf and on the behalf of the first and second defendants will be cross-examined. On day one, no evidence was presented in court that it was indeed Fiesta FM’s equipment that was used to […]
Police Constable Dean Perez Junior was found guilty of theft and is on remand at the Belize Central Prison until next week Monday when the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith will sentence him for crime. Perez has been on interdiction since last year had has nine years of service under his belt. His attorney Leroy […]
Back on Sunday, March first, 2015, gunmen ambushed two men on Periwinkle Street in the Saint Martin de Porres area of Belize City. A day after the shooting, one man was charged and police today took a second suspect to court for the murder of Michael Welch. Late this evening, twenty-one year old Belize City resident, […]
An eighteen year old female, Victoria Garnett and two minors were today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the offense of Burglary. One of the minors is a thirteen year old student from Saint Luke’s Primary School and the other is a sixteen year student from Gwen Lizarraga High School. When the issue […]
The case against Harvest Caye, a tourism development project created by Norwegian Cruise Lines, concluded in the courtroom of Justice Courtney Abel today with closing arguments. The Belize Tourism Industry Association is disputing the decisions of the Department of the Environment and the National Environmental Appraisal Committee. Both agencies sanctioned an Environmental Impact Assessment for […]
On the other side of that argument is Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith. He is representing the Belize Tourism Industry Association, arguing that indeed the developers of Harvest Caye proceeded with public consultation despite being told by NEAC that additional information was required to complete the environmental impact assessment. According to Smith, they are in breach […]
A teenager walked free from a murder charge today after Judge Adolph Lucas upheld a no case submission. Kadeem Anderson is now nineteen, but he was seventeen years old when he was accused of the May tenth, 2012 murder of Leopold Palacio Junior. Palacio Junior was shot and killed violently at the corner of Pelican […]
It is known that there is a backlog of cases and decisions yet to be dealt with at the Supreme and Magistrate Courts level. According to the Foreign Minister Sedi Elrington, who is also the Attorney General, the way forward requires improved efficiency to boost the performance and capability of the judiciary. Wilfred Elrington, […]
Twenty-two year old Devon Sankey walked free on Wednesday for the murder of Renan Reneau which happened back in April 2010. A no case submission was put forth to the court by Sankey’s attorney, Oscar Selgado, which Judge Troadio Gonzalez upheld. The crown’s main witness and girlfriend of Reneau, Arilee Sommerville, told the court that […]
Gregory August, who is now twenty-seven, was convicted on November twenty-eighth 2013 by Judge Adolph Lucas and sentenced to life imprisonment. But August is appealing his conviction and sentence before the Court of Appeal. August was nineteen when he was accused with the May 2009 murder of Alvin Robinson, who was found stabbed to death […]
The island of Caye Caulker has resumed a sense of normalcy in the wake of last month’s public uproar caused by the murder of eighteen-year-old Hilberto Sotz while in police custody on June eight, 2015. Today, his parents are proceeding with legal action against the Belize Police Department. Police constables Leonard Nunez and Hallet King, […]
A man from Gardenia is spending the first night of twelve years behind bars after he took the rap for a prohibited weapon, ammunition and drugs found in his home. The items were discovered during an early morning raid and search by the Rural Rapid Response Team operating out of the Rural Eastern Division. When […]
Tonight, a member of the Apprenticeship Program who is scheduled to graduate on July twenty-second has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison. Allan Allen Phillips was arraigned on Monday in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court before the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. He is suspected of robbing businessman Fokrul Alam, owner of Take and […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Jaimie Smith walked free from the double murder that claimed the lives of Eric Arana and Dwayne Tillett on Antelope Street Extension four years ago The acquittal took place just before ten thirty this morning, before Justice Adolph Lucas in a trial by judge without jury in which the judge was the judge of […]
