A Honduran national has been charged for the shooting of a Security Guard working at a Chinese restaurant. After two days of investigations, police believe they know who shot Victor Hendy at the Asia Restaurant located on Vernon Street. Twenty year old Dixon Montero was escorted to the court room of Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser […]
This Friday, a convention takes place in the Albert Division for the endorsement of Tourism C.E.O., Tracy Taegar-Panton as standard bearer for the U.D.P. Panton is to replace Minister of State Herman Longsworth who is not seeking re-election and is stepping aside for Taegar-Panton. But things are heating up on the eve of the endorsement […]
In other news on the U.D.P…..today, Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega and Ramon Cervantes Jr., the man who will contest him in Orange Walk North were in court. The DPM had not been showing up in court until today. He is suing Cervantes for libel, for causing the broadcast of a tape recording of a […]
A Burrell Boom resident was to get married this weekend, but instead he will be behind bars for Sexual Assault upon a Child. This morning, twenty-one year old Jamel Seguro appeared in court before Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith seeking bail for the sexual allegation made against him. But this afternoon bail was denied and […]
But a twenty-one year old domestic of Santa Elena, Cayo District secured a five hundred dollar bail after she was allegedly caught by prison officials in possession of seventeen grams of weed. The weed stashed inside a five gallon water bottle, which she was carrying with her for a prison inmate. Twenty-one year old Danna […]
In the U.S., former middle school teacher, forty-nine-year-old David Wendel Thompson has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison after being found guilty of attempting to lure Belizean teens for sex. Thompson, who admitted to leading a double life, spun many fantastic yarns about the immense wealth his country has to offer to adolescent Belizean […]
In August of 2014 then workers of Belize Maintenance Limited (BML) caused great disturbance outside of City Hall on North Front Street. They were protesting against Mayor Darrell Bradley and the Belize City Council for falling behind on their payments to the company, which in turn caused the company to consider firing fifty employees and […]
A B.D.F. soldier, who was living at Price Barracks, Ladyville, the head quarters of the B.D.F. has been charged for a burglary at his work place based on allegations that he stole a nine millimeter pistol valued at two thousand dollars. Twenty-three year old private, Jamel Webster, was today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate […]
A well-known street figure of Mayflower Street, Belize City was taken to court this morning for a shooting that occurred on Banak Street two weeks ago. Art Skeet appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and was read three indictable offenses including Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding eighteen year old […]
Today, police formally arraigned three men in San Pedro Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-three year old Luis Campos, nineteen year old Mark Arzu and eighteen year old Santos Garcia were led from the cell-block this afternoon as family members crowded the waiting area outside the courtroom. The trio was read charges of Murder and Conspiracy to Commit […]
Over the weekend, police cracked an old murder case which occurred at Mahogany Heights, Belize District, back in November 2014. This morning, nineteen year old Ronalph Ramsey Junior, was arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court for the Murder Kenroy Parham. The suspect told the court that the police officer who charged him with the murder of […]
While four men were arraigned today for murder, another learnt his fate for the same charge. Thirty-one-year-old Raymond Myers has been acquitted of the murder of twenty-seven-year-old Francis Figueroa, who was stabbed as many as thirteen times to the body. Figueroa was injured as many as thirteen times to the upper chest area, the back, […]
Enriquez had been on remand for the bold Treasury theft since last week, but this afternoon he was granted bail by Supreme Court Judge Troadio Gonzalez after the prosecution registered no objection but left it to the discretion of the Court. Another man who was charged for handling stolen goods, Francis Palacio, also received bail […]
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has settled a court case with Benque Viejo del Carmen Town-based book publishers, BRC Printing Limited. The dispute goes back to June of 2014 when the Ministry signed a contract to purchase four hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars of educational books from BRC for the 2014-2015 school year. […]
This afternoon in a bail application heard by Justice Troadio Gonzalez of the Supreme Court, two young men were granted bail for the offense of rape. They are James Andrews and Jose David Gomez. Both were ordered to surrender all travelling documents before they could post bail. They were also ordered not to interfere with […]
Mark Edward Massam was hacked to death on December ninth, 2014 on College Road in Corozal Town allegedly by Carlos Cassanova Junior who was in turn shot by police. He was immediately transferred to the K.H.M.H. in Belize City under police escort where he has been hospitalized since the incident. It was not until […]
Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega speedily brought a lawsuit against his political rival of Orange Walk North standard bearer Ramon “Monchie” Cervantes Junior, last November charging libel because of a radio broadcast. In the coverage, allegations were made that Vega along with a senior police officer, conspired to end the life on the younger Cervantes […]
The DPM has steadfastly denied the charges, but his attorney, Senior Counsel Rodwell Williams, today applied to amend the statement of claim form, with a decision by the Chief Justice due by next Thursday, May seventh. According to Ramon Cervantes Junior, the effect of the amendment is to allow Vega not to have to come personally […]
Security Guard Darion Hamilton was slapped with a single charge of murder when he appeared in court today. Hamilton, a guard at the Blue House Bar in Ladyville, was charged for the killing of forty-one year old Wilmer Cisneros. No plea was taken from Hamilton and he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison until […]
Tonight, Ellis Meighan Junior is free of charges of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm with a Deadly Weapon. He was charged along with a seventeen year old minor back in November 2014 for the attempted murder of George Street associate, Carlos Abraham, known as “Zimbab.” Meighan Junior received the […]
The trial of Kendale Green for the December 2010 murder of Nigerian taxi man, Francis Chkwu, concluded today in the Supreme Court. Initially, police had charged Jermaine Zuniga and Egbert Daly along with Green for the murder, but Zuniga and Daly were set free because there was no evidence against them leaving only Green […]
Two persons have been arrested and charged for their roles in a half-a-million dollar Treasury Department scheme. The internal fleecing was brought to light, at least officially, by Prime Minister Dean Barrow last week. And today a very confusing and brief police release announced the arrests of David Enriquez in Belize City, for theft, and […]
Twenty-nine-year-old Kendoll Ottley, a construction worker of Belize City, has been found guilty of burglarizing the home of his ex-girlfriend after their relationship turned sour. He was accused of forcefully entering the residence of Nadine Gordon and in a fit of rage allegedly took a standing fan and threw it at her newborn grandson. That […]
A fisherman of Sarteneja Village is tonight serving a four-year sentence at the Belize Central Prison after old fisheries fines dating back to 2003 caught up with him. Earlier today, forty-eight-year-old Sanasermo Torres pleaded guilty to possession of ninety-five undersized conch but that charge was dismissed by Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Torres appeared before […]
On Wednesday, while all attention was on the outcome of the Maya Land Rights case, the Caribbean Court of Justice also handed down a decision in the case of Juanita Lucas and Celia Carillo versus the Chief Education Officer and the Minister of Education. The judgment of Justices Nelson, Hayton, Anderson, Saunders and Wit was […]
