A construction worker from Bermudian Landing is tonight on remand for allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse three times with a fourteen-year-old minor. Forty-year-old Orlando Dawson Junior appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where he was arraigned for three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse. Due to the nature of the offense, no plea was taken […]
Caleb Orozco had his day in court against his neighbor. Thirty one year old Emmerson Picart, a clerk with the Ministry of National Security, was found guilty of throwing missiles and using indecent words towards Orozco. Picart was ordered to apologize to Orozco in court after he was slapped with two non-custodial sentences and fined […]
A teen believed to have been involved in the brutal murder of two American nationals in Teakettle more than a month ago was apprehended this weekend in Belize City. Due to an alert which was circulated in the past few weeks, nineteen year old Cardinal Lemott was identified during a routine search in the city. […]
A woman who was accused of stabbing a man once in the abdomen is tonight free of charges of Grievous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm upon Kenrick Pennill. This morning the charges were struck out against Sandra Perez when Pennill could not be located. The police officers connected to the case […]
Will G.O.B. be held liable for the alleged wrongful death of Police Corporal Dean Yearwood, who was shot to death by another cop back in 2013 during a robbery in progress? A hearing in the Supreme Court before Justice Sonya Young will make that determination. Yearwood was shot and killed on September eighth, 2013. Representing […]
Five Belize City men charged, in separate incidents, with weed possession were before the courts today. The first to be arraigned was forty-six year old Michael Wade, who was accused of being in possession of one point three grams of cannabis. He appeared unrepresented and told the court that he smoked weed because it gives […]
While the murder rate continues to increase, two men went to court this morning and even before their trial started, they were freed. Twenty-four year old Charles Young Junior along with twenty-seven year old Derrick Kuylen are tonight free from a double murder charge. Trial was to start this morning in the Belize City Supreme […]
Attorney and activist Audrey Matura-Shepherd was called into the chambers of Justice Courtney Abel today. The application for sanction was brought in relation to the G.O.B. versus BGYEA Court ordered mediation, and the claim is that Matura-Shepherd disclosed information to the media during that mediation, when she was specifically prohibited from doing so. The rules […]
As we told you, the contempt application was brought in relation to Court-ordered mediation which has now come to a close. The dispute was over the use of a buffer-zone in the Harmonyville community. BGYEA had been prohibited from planting corn in the buffer zone of the area which covers more than one thousand acres, […]
A domestic dispute has landed forty-six year old taxi man, Mark Anthony Lord Senior at the Belize Central Prison. He is facing two criminal offenses, allegedly committing against his common-law wife, Diane Waight. This morning, Lord Senior appeared before Magistrate, Hettie Mae Stewart and was arraigned for Grievous Harm to Waight as well as for […]
There is monumental news coming out of the Supreme Court – a legal and political bombshell which burst all over Minister of State Edmond Castro. In late 2013, Castro had sued whistleblower Alvarene Burgess for explosive allegations that she paid him to facilitate many visas for Chinese nationals. Castro also sued Great Belize Productions/Channel Five […]
Alvarene Burgess made two appearances on Channel Five – an interview played in the news and an appearance on the Dickie Bradley talk-show. During those appearances she described in explicit detail her visits to Minister Castro’s office on the occasions she would deliver cash to him – two thousand for each visa application he facilitated. […]
This afternoon, six fishermen accused of being in possession of a firearm, ammunitions and Illegal drugs while on Turneffe Atolls were back in court. On Wednesday, July first, 2015, while the group was detained at the Police Precinct, they were found in possession of one hundred and eighty-three undersized lobsters. Today, they were remanded to […]
Four persons, including a Chinese national, who were busted in possession of over seven kilograms of heroin, were offered bail this evening by Supreme Court judge, Justice Denis Hanomansingh. Chinese national, Kua Liao, a naturalized Belizean businessman of Mile Eight located on the George Price Highway, was arrested along with Ebner Rivero of San Joaquin, […]
The trial for murder against thirty year old Dionicio Salazar started on June twenty-second before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. And at noon today, a jury of six men and six women stepped into the deliberating room to decide Salazar’s fate. At six-twenty, the jury indicated that it required more time to deliberate. Salazar is accused […]
In the Supreme Court before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, the office of the D.P.P. entered a nolle prosequi in the case against twenty-eight year old Brian Welch of Belize City. He was accused of the attempted murder of the then nineteen year old Alfredo Rodriguez, another Belize City resident. On September fifteen, 2012, Rodriguez fingered Welch […]
And just before seven o’clock tonight, Dionicio Salazar learnt his fate in his third trial for the murder of Rodney August. As we said earlier in the newscast, a jury had been deliberating all afternoon and has now determined that Salazar is not guilty of murder or manslaughter. This ends Salazar’s third trial for Rodney’s […]
Thursday, July second, makes exactly one year since Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel granted leave for judicial review to the Belize Tourism Industry Association (B.T.I.A.). The B.T.I.A. is challenging the decisions of the Department of the Environment (DOE) and the National Environmental Appraisal Committee (NEAC) to, respectively, approve an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Harvest […]
While the association anticipates a positive outcome, the fact that the case is still proceeding seems to baffle Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay. We also spoke with him at the end of the arguments and it is his view that the B.T.I.A. case is not very strong and may be hopelessly faulty. According to Courtenay, even if […]
The man responsible for the brutal attack against a police officer on Monday is tonight behind bars after he was charged and arraigned for the attempted murder of Police Constable Jason Hall. Belize City resident, twenty-eight year old Darren Levi Gillett appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith this afternoon, two days after the incident. […]
The officer was in his uniform when he was physically attacked and robbed of his vehicle. Hall has been working at precinct three of the Belize City police department for quite some time now. His mother says that while her son is in a stable condition, he is still not out of harm’s way. […]
Today, Shelda Patnett was formally acquitted of the charge of Manslaughter by Negligence by a nine member jury who was instructed by Judge Troadio Gonzalez to return a not guilty verdict against her. Back in May 2010, Patnett and her then common-law husband, Leon Lopez, were jointly charged but on indictment, the D.P.P. proceeded to […]
Tonight, Guatemalan national, Mauricio Perez who has been on remand at the Belize Central Prison serving a six month prison term for an immigration offense for being illegal in Belize, has been freed from the offense of keeping an unlicensed firearm without a gun license. In July 2014, just after leaving his workplace as a Security […]
For the past five years, thirty-one year old year Shelda Patnett has been waiting for her day in court to prove that she was not the owner of two pit bull dogs who attacked and killed sixty year old of Edmund Spain of the Tropical Park Area of Hattieville on May thirty-first, 2010. Well today, […]
Two police officers on motorcycle patrol over the weekend were shot at, but fortunately the gunman missed his targets. But the alleged shooter, Phillip Bowen, ran out of luck when the vehicle he and another person were travelling in, collided into a nearby drain. He appeared in court today to answer to two charges of Aggravated […]
