Almost never has the Court of Appeal been put in such a dicey position as they were this week in respect of a case concerning the overturning of constitutional amendments limiting time of judges on the Court to sit where their instruments of appointment are open-ended. On Monday, the Court reserved its decision on an […]
President Mottley resigned in 2010 while Morrison stayed on until April of this year. Their colleagues on the court at the time, now-President Manuel Sosa and Denys Barrow, were given longer terms of appointment although Barrow also resigned. Senior Counsels Eamon Courtenay and Godfrey Smith represent the Association. Smith argues that for courts to retain […]
Diondray McKoy was convicted in November 2014 for the attempted murder of Everald Gray. He was sentenced to twelve years in prison after being found guilty of shooting Gray multiple times in the chest. That incident occurred on the night of June twenty-third, 2009 while Gray was inside his home. Today, before the Court of […]
A trio of Belize City men has been committed to stand trial for murder and attempted murder in the Supreme Court, following a preliminary inquiry earlier today. The first to be heard was the case of Devon Bailey, who is being accused of trying to kill thirty-one-year-old Charles Hines and Eldon Solomon in August 2014. […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow had been trying to fight it off, meeting with multiple parties in Miami and Belize over the past few weeks. But the case of developer of the Stake Bank cruise port project Michael Feinstein, former business partners Fort Street Tourism Village, and the Government of Belize was back before Justice Courtney […]
For developer Michael Feinstein, it has been nothing but a series of headaches since the project began. The enabling legislation to start the project is delayed due to the lawsuit and now it appears that the Government is catering to its opponents. It is reported that on June twenty-sixth, a bill in the House of […]
A Honduran man enjoyed a short stint of free passage in Belize before he was nabbed by immigration officials at the Novelo’s Terminal in Belize City this morning. Thirty-six-year-old Yony Noe Nunez came into Belize through the Mopan River in Benque Viejo del Carmen on Wednesday. He allegedly came into the city seeking employment Thursday […]
Two teenage friends have been given the choice of attending and completing the apprenticeship program or spending time behind bars after one of them pleaded guilty to theft today. Eighteen-year-old Ezmir Garrido and a fifteen-year-old minor appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith this morning, charged for theft. According to reports, Garrido and his friend […]
Just minutes before seven tonight, the ministry of national security just finally sent out a release on the death of Hilberto Sotz. It states that “the Hon. John Saldivar, Minister of National Security, condemns the alleged use of unwarranted personal violence by PC Leonard Nunez and PC Hallet King and the apparent neglect of duty […]
Forty-seven year old Newell Lyn Nicholas was convicted back in 2012 in the Southern criminal session of the Supreme Court and sentenced to thirty-eight years imprisonment for three counts of Carnal Knowledge and one count of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon an eleven year old girl. Today, he was before the Court of […]
It has been twenty days since notorious criminal figure, thirty-eight year old Kenneth Flowers, aka “Big Tom”, was convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment for Driving a Motor Vehicle Without a Valid Driver’s License. His conviction came after he pleaded guilty. This morning, in the court room of the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, […]
One of two brothers who police believe shot and killed Mark Gentle on May twenty-fifth, 2015, was arrested and arraigned this afternoon in court. He is twenty-nine year old Emory Felix, the brother of Maurice Felix who is sought by police for the shooting which occurred in front of Gentle’s house on Caesar Ridge Road. […]
Just over a week ago, it was announced that Barrow and Company, the attorneys acting on behalf of the Government of Belize, had withdrawn an appeal against the April 2011 decision of then-Supreme Court Justice Oswell Legall in favour of OCEANA Belize and its activist partners, COLA and the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage. […]
Sixty-one year old Lester Yorke’s badly decomposing body was found in a vat in February 2014 at his family’s premises on Guerrero Street in Belize City. This morning, his brother, forty-two year old Michael Anthony Rowland, was arraigned for manslaughter before the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. This afternoon, Rowland sought and was granted bail […]
An Orange Walk resident has beat a murder charge for the second time. He is Krismar Espinosa, whose trial concluded on Thursday before Justice Herbert Lord in the Orange Walk Supreme Court. Espinosa was accused of bashing the head of a female friend in Orange Walk more than seven years ago. A jury of twelve […]
Well known street figure, thirty year old Maurice Felix was in the Supreme Court today to file bail application. The Belize City resident was before Justice Troadio John Gonzalez for his bail application hearing. With no objection to bail from the D.P.P.’s Senior Crown Counsel, Cecil Ramirez, Felix obtained bail of fifteen thousand dollars plus […]
Tonight, twenty-five year old manager, Shadir Marin, who manages the San Pedro Water Express is out on bail of seven thousand dollars granted this afternoon by Supreme Court Judge, Justice Troadio “John” Gonzalez in the Supreme Court. A local disc jockey is accusing Marin of assaulting him with a firearm for which he is charged […]
Tonight, thirty-three year old Margarita Noralez who also uses Pech as her surname was taken to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to answer to two criminal offenses for Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. She was caught in the act on surveillance camera burglarizing the home of Kelsey Musa in Belize City from where police say […]
A Belize City man, who is not sure of his age, but claims he is twenty-three years old and is confined to a wheel chair was dragged to court today to answer to a single charge of Possession of a Control Drug. When he was arrested, Berris Rowland, was on West Collet Canal in possession […]
Manager of San Pedro Belize Express Water Taxi, Shadir Marin, is tonight spending his first night behind bars after he was remanded on a single charge of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm upon forty-one year old Eddison Usher. The twenty-five year old is accused of pulling his licensed firearm at the disc jockey on April […]
This morning, thirty five year old Kenrick August, a construction worker and disc jockey was arraigned in the courtroom of Magistrate Ladonna John on a single charge of Indecent Assault. Allegations are that on March tenth, 2015, he entered the home of ex-wife while she was asleep. He jumped on top of her and began […]
Four years ago, three Belize City men were intercepted with seventeen kilograms or some thirty-eight pounds of weed near the western border. The bust happened on March sixteenth, 2011 and their case which started in San Ignacio came to close today in the court room of the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Richard Smith, Jason […]
On February first, 2010, a barrage of bullets was sprayed at one man, but many others were hit in the shooting. The violent shooting took the life of Darrell Williams Junior, a former student of Gwen Lizarraga High School, but a bystander was left crippled, several others were injured and the intended target escaped unharmed. […]
Shortly before noon today, thirty four year old Jose Gomez, who is a Honduran national was taken to court in handcuffs and arraigned for Burglary for entering the home of a woman of the Burrell Boom area with the intent to rape her eleven year old girl. Gomez is also facing a charge of Sexual […]
In a most unusual case involving an attorney, Audrey Matura-Shepherd is being cited for contempt of court which is considered a serious offense that can result in imprisonment for any anyone found guilty of the charge. The matter came up this morning and was adjourned for early July. Matura-Shepherd did not offer comments after the […]
