Keyren Tzib is to return to Court on Wednesday, April fifteenth at two-thirty in the afternoon. At that time, a determination on her bail will be granted, based at least in part on the results of a psychiatric evaluation which must be conducted on her. Much has been said in the media about Tzib’s state […]
Three Belizeans and a Guatemalan were among a group of thirteen persons whose bail application was heard today by Justice Herbert Lord. The four were successful in obtaining bail. Well-known criminal figures Alrick Smith and Ronald Michael, were first to get bail. They were arraigned on March fifteenth, 2015, for the attempt on the life […]
It was an emotional time in court for five Honduran nationals who were caught illegally in the country; they are facing jail time since they are unable to pay their fines. They group left Honduras on March twenty third en route to Belize to seek employment. They spent six days searching for jobs in the […]
This morning, twenty-nine year old Special Constable Juan Moralez was all smiles when a charge of Wounding was withdrawn from him since his wife, the alleged victim, requested no further court action. Moralez’s wife, Betzabe, took the stand before Magistrate Ladonna John saying that on the day she made the report she was angry because […]
A Ghanian citizen who is a pastor was busted at the P.G.I.A. for attempting to enter the country with another person’s passport. Forty year old Wilberforce Sintim Kwako was found in possession of an altered passport which contained a five-year U.S. visa. Kwako was detained on Tuesday morning after he arrived on an Avianca flight […]
Magistrate Hettie Mae Stuart is to decide next Wednesday, April fifteenth, on a charge of loitering in a public place filed against radio personality and activist for the People’s United Party, Albert Vaughan. The charges were brought following protests by workers for Belize Maintenance Limited in August of 2014. While covering the arrest of forty-one […]
On Wednesday, April Fools’ Day, forty-two year old security guard, Patrick Castillo Senior, viciously chopped his stepson, Guatemalan Jose Maderos, to death. It was a bloody scene which left a family traumatized. Castillo claimed self-defence, allegedly stating that Maderos came home intoxicated and tried to force open the front door, after which they got into […]
Three persons were arraigned today for a fire at the Belize Youth Hostel compound at Mile twenty-one on the George Price Highway. The fire on Tuesday gutted a section of the hostel and following the determination that it was arson, sparked an intensive investigation. Two minors, one twelve and one thirteen, along with eighteen-year-old Erlene […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Sheffield Brown is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being unable to meet bail for allegedly groping a Chinese businesswoman. Brown, a resident of Welch Street, was arraigned earlier today in the courtroom of Magistrate Ladonna John where he appeared unrepresented. He was read a single charge of sexual assault following […]
The GSU raided a home located in the Set Site area of Lake Independence on Tuesday afternoon; the bust yielded over six kilograms or more than thirteen pounds of cannabis. Three of five persons were arrested including a man and two women and police are looking for two other women. The trio was arraigned today; […]
A Honduran national living in Belize pleaded guilty to robbery with a firearm and while he was spared from being imposed the minimum mandatory sentence of seven years, he could not escape jail time. Darwin Martinez and two other persons held up a woman and her son in the Jane Usher Boulevard. Martinez could not […]
On March seventeenth, eleven year old Stella Maris student, Austin Olivera Junior, was hit by a vehicle; he succumbed to his injuries the following week after receiving treatment at the K.H.M.H. Earlier today, fourteen days after the incident, the man who was driving the vehicle was escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and slapped […]
This morning, the trial of Belize City resident Herman Miranda Junior ended in an acquittal after six years on remand. Miranda was accused of the September twenty-ninth, 2009 murder of Norman Gillett, a resident of Vernon Street who was gunned down on the compound of House of Commons, at the corner of Partridge and Vernon […]
The Court of Appeal delivered a significant judgment ruling in favour of Great Belize Productions/Channel Five, Channel Overseas Investments Limited, Katalyst Developments Limited and Thames Ventures Limited along with several former directors of Belize Telemedia Limited. The appeal by the directors and the companies was over the acquisition and financing of Great Belize Productions, the […]
Twenty three year old Akeem Thurton had expected to go home today after Court of Appeal Justices Samuel Awich, Dennis Morrison and Christopher Blackman ruled on his case. Despite being convicted in March of 2012 in the first murder trial heard by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin without a jury, he has told all who will […]
A Belize City man who was recently released from prison is back behind bars tonight to serve two additional years after he violated a protection order and went to the home of his wife. It was a visit that ended violently because fifty-six year old Nathan Pratt beat her so badly that the injuries were […]
Michael Feinstein, developer of the Stake Bank/Drowned Cayes cruise port project, is suing the Government of Belize and owners of the Fort Street Tourism Village over agreements signed in the nascent stages of FSTV in 2004. Feinstein claims that the “head tax” presently collected by government is not suitably accounted for in the Consolidated Revenue […]
According to Williams, there was opportunity for settlement but the legal issues surrounding the claim are complicated enough, involving issues of both public and private law that need to be resolved in court. Rodwell Williams, Attorney for FSTV “The case has been brought by Mister Feinstein to the court so you simply have to […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Phillip Mass Samuels was slapped with firearm offences when he appeared in court today. The Belize City man was charged with kept firearm, and kept ammunition in connection with an incident on March twelfth. It is alleged that Samuels was found in possession of a chrome and black handle nine millimeter pistol loaded with […]
Tonight, one Belize City man who the police claim is a member of the gang, Peace in the Village, is free from the charge of Professed to Belong to a Criminal Gang. He is twenty-six year old Leon Gray of Belize City. The charge was dismissed this morning before the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. […]
Justices Samuel Awich, Dennis Morrison and Christopher Blackman have reserved judgment until next Friday, March 27, on the case of 23 year old Akeem Thurton, convicted in March of 2012 in the first ever trial of a murder charge heard by a judge alone – in this case Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin – without a […]
A retired teacher, Herman Lambey, who was once a Principal at the Queen Street Baptist School headed to court today to answer to three criminal offenses including Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature, known now as sexual assault, Threatening Words and Harm upon an eighteen year old high school student. It is alleged that Lambey […]
Also in court, forty year old Amir Reid, of a Faber’s Road address, along with twenty-eight year old construction worker of Race Course Street, Alexander Lopez, were jointly charged for Kidnapping, Conspiracy to Commit Kidnap and Harm upon Belize City resident, Abel Lara Junior which allegedly occurred on March sixteenth. According to Lara, he was […]
Tonight, Jermaine Belgrave, a resident of Belize City who has been on remand for the murder of Cleo Robinson, is home free after being acquitted by Justice Adolph Lucas. The decision was the result of several determining factors, including the true identity of Robinson’s attacker, and the cause of his death. On February twenty-third, 2010, […]
Two Early Childhood teachers employed as social workers with the Human Services Department and the boyfriend of one of the teachers, were before the court today to answer to a single count of drug trafficking. This follows a police raid at their home on Louise Bevans Street, Belize City, in which they found a bag […]
