Tonight, fifty-two year old Judith Rocke, a nurse from the K.H.M.H. and her three sons are free from two criminal offenses of Kept Firearm and Ammunition without being Granted a Gun License. They were acquitted of the charge late on Tuesday by Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser after the case of the prosecution crumpled. At start […]
A Belize City man who was locked down for thirty-eight days on firearms offences was in the Supreme Court today after he sued the government for wrongful imprisonment. The case dates back to April eighteenth, 2012, when Police raided a home on Peter Seco Street and found two shotguns and ammunition. Allyson Major was not […]
Sylvestre says that they are basing the case on two arguments. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Allyson Major “One, that his constitutional right not to be arrested, not to be detained, not to lose his freedom unless there is reasonable suspicion…that right was violated. There was no reasonable suspicion for this man to be arrested […]
Raccoon Street resident, nineteen year old Fredrick Smith was today arraigned for the May twenty-second armed robbery at M and M’s Engineering on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Last Friday around three-thirty in the afternoon, over twenty thousand dollars in cash and cheques were robbed from the company; the employees were also relieved of their personal […]
T he GST continues to penalize businesses that have not been paying their taxes. Well known talk show host and businessman Darrell Carter was spared jail time after he picked up his seventh conviction for Non-Filing this afternoon. Initially, he pleaded not guilty to two counts of non-filing for the months of July and August […]
Burglars cleaned out a woman’s apartment taking all her household items while she was away. But quick response by the police, led to the recovery of two od the stolen items and her next door neighbour, who is a Bowen an Bowen Delivery Supervisor, has been arrested. Thirty two year old Zacceheus Martinez, however, claims […]
When we closed our newscast on Friday, a jury was still deliberating in the murder trial of Lusby Martinez who was facing charges for the grenade attack in which fourteen year old Rudolph Flowers was killed. Just before eight, the jury concluded its deliberations finding Martinez not guilty of murder after spending years behind bars […]
A young boy under the age of sixteen years claims that he was sexually molested back in December 2014 by a man well known to him and his family. Today, thirty-three year old Patrick Swasey was arraigned and charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon the minor who, it is alleged, he kissed […]
Today Minister Edmond Castro, who had occupied the hot-seat in Court all of Thursday smiled when whistle-blower Alvarene Burgess took the witness stand at ten to be cross-examined by attorney Rodwell Williams in Castro’s case against Burgess and this station. But he wasn’t smiling for long. Despite being grilled for three hours, and despite many […]
Today other witnesses included Edmond Castro’s driver Norman Middleton, Burgess’ husband Curt Burgess and CEO of Great Belize Productions Amalia Mai. Just as the defence hinged on the testimony of Minister Castro the claimant’s case hinges on the cross-examination of Alvarene Burgess. Castro is claiming that he was defamed by the revelations of Burgess, which […]
At one point late in the cross-examination, Williams went on a new path. Since Burgess maintained that she paid Minister Castro for visa recommendations, Williams insinuated repeatedly that by coming out like this, and admitting to giving a Minister money for signatures, she was opening herself up to prosecution. Rodwell Williams, Attorney for Edmond […]
One man whose name was mentioned repeatedly today is Vernon Cutkelvin. According to testimony from the stand, he is a friend and advisor of Minister Edmond Castro and was allegedly present when Castro met with Burgess in his office. He was listed as a witness for the claimant, but that will not happen. One reason […]
A father accompanied by his fourteen year old daughter and a social worker reported that on October twenty-eight, 2014 around one-thirty PM and on May third, 2015 while at her residence “Nuru” Ellis had sexual intercourse with her. A medical examination was conducted on the child certifying that she is carnally known. Police have since […]
An ex-police officer and his girlfriend were dragged to court today to answer to a single charge of drug trafficking after the GSU conducted a search at their home. In a Range Rover parked in front of their house, police found several bags of weed containing seven hundred and twelve grams. This morning, the cop, […]
In 2013, Minister of State Edmond Castro was accused of large scale and lucrative facilitation of visas for Chinese nationals. The person making those accusations was Alvarene Burgess, who alleged that she delivered money to Castro on many occasions in return for his signing recommendations stating he knew the persons he was supporting for visas. […]
Today’s courtroom session will no doubt go down as one of Edmond Castro’s most uncomfortable and uneasy appearances. He was forced into excruciating detail on the circumstances which led to his being fired from Cabinet in 2010, the Belize Airports Authority check scandal and the visa scandal, agreeing that it could be perceived that his […]
Three Honduran fishermen caught fishing illegally within a protected area in the south were convicted today in the Independence Magistrate Court. They are Ismael Dubon Banagas, Salvador Caballero Reyes and Luis Alfonso Dubon Banagas. The trio did not possess a valid fisherman license or boat license and were found to be illegal in Belize. On […]
But a Belizean family caught with undersized conch was heavily fined. This afternoon, four members of the Rangel family, all fishermen living in Chunox Corozal Village, were arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for possession of undersized conch. At the end of their arraignment, the three brothers and their brother-in law were ordered to […]
A Belize City woman who was employed as a loan processor for a Canadian businessman who owns Global Communications Limited is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison. She appeared this morning in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to be read twelve indictable offenses for eleven counts of Forgery and one count of Theft […]
At three this afternoon, former Belize City Magistrate, Dale Cayetano, who is now the Director at Family court, freed prison inmate, Godwin Santos, of a charge of drug trafficking. Cayetano gave Santos the benefit of the doubt that he had no knowledge that one hundred and seventy seven grams of weed were inside a pair […]
Also in the south….today Placencia Police’s Quick Response Team conducted a search at the residence of twenty-two year old Akeem Tejeda in Placencia Village where they discovered one hundred and eleven grams of suspected cannabis. Eighteen year old Stephon Andrews, who was in the company of Tejeda during the search, was jointly charged for the […]
Almost four years ago, then forty-eight year old Lucilla Bartley, a single mother of two, was charged for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Osborne Gordon, and remanded to the Belize Central Prison. The stabbing took place at the corner of Cemetery Road and Curassow Street just after midnight on Easter Sunday, 2011. The bicycle repair […]
Twenty-year-old Kashief Bevans was arraigned in the Orange Walk Magistrates Court this morning on a single count of murder. His indictment follows the shooting death of eighteen-year-old Derrick Romero who was killed while socializing inside his yard on Wednesday morning. Bevans, a resident of number twelve Waight Street, Belize City, appeared before Magistrate Merlene Moody […]
There is another arrest regarding a murder last weekend. A sixteen year old minor from Roaring Creek is tonight spending his first night behind bars following his arraignment for the fatal stabbing of Dernell Brown at the Agricultural Show Grounds. The minor is accused of stabbing Brown to the right side of the head following […]
David Enriquez, Francis Palacio, Hassan Palacio and Octaviana Lopez…Police believe all four are involved in the bold theft of half a million dollars from the government treasury. Enriquez, charged with theft, received bail a week ago. Hassan Palacio and Francis Palacio, charged with handling stolen goods, also received bail a week ago. And this morning […]
