The Gang Suppression Unit along with the San Pedro Police made a significant bust in anti drug operations at La Isla Bonita which yielded both cannabis and cocaine. On Wednesday they raided two small houses in the San Mateo area of San Pedro. In one of the houses they found four parcels of cocaine, containing […]
The driver of vehicle involved in a traffic accident that occurred last year was taken to court on Tuesday. Raul Magana Junior was behind the wheel of his SUV that overturned on the George Price Highway. His common-law wife and son both died, but tonight there is more to the story. In a most unusual […]
Attorneys concluded arguments today at the Caribbean Court of Justice on behalf of the governments of Belize and Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaican gay rights activist, Maurice Tomlinson, is challenging the immigration laws of both countries on the grounds that the laws prohibit the entry of homosexuals. Tomlinson is claiming that by denying him entry, his […]
In the local courts, an alleged domestic dispute between a woman and her ex-boyfriend has resulted in charges against the woman. It comes on the heels of the arraignment of Shannon Smith for stabbing her alleged lover at Mahogany Heights. Today, twenty year old Shanice Waller, a resident of Custard Apple Street, Belize City, was […]
Two decisions were recently delivered by the Supreme Court. In the first case, the Supreme Court once again ruled in favor of Belize International Services Limited which was appropriated by government in June 2013. BISL is the parent company of the International Business Companies Registry and International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize, IBC and IMMARBE, […]
In another matter recently before the Supreme Court, Justice Courtney Abel also ruled in favor of the Belize Bank. He struck out a section of the Income Tax and Business Tax Act which required all businesses to pay their taxes in full before challenging the assessment. The decision followed an evaluation in which the bank […]
Thirty year old businessman, Raul Magana Junior on April twentieth, 2014, allegedly experienced a tire blow out that caused his vehicle to overturn on the Phillip Goldson Highway between Miles twenty sixth and twenty seventh. Magana’s twenty seven year old common/law wife, Lissi Li and son were killed in the mishap. The traffic fatality occurred […]
Gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson, who is challenging the existing immigration laws of Belize and Trinidad & Tobago, was back before the Caribbean Court of Justice today. Tomlinson is suing the governments of both countries on the basis that their laws are discriminatory towards prohibited classes, including the LGBT community. On May ninth, 2014 the […]
According to Hattieville Police, under whose jurisdiction the Mahogany Heights Community falls, they were called out sometime around two-thirty on Friday afternoon. By that time, Butler had already been rushed to the K.H.M.H., while his attacker, twenty-four year old Hattieville resident, Shannon Smith, was at a house in the community. Police would not speculate as […]
There has not been a guilty conviction for murder since the beginning of the year and in fact, as recent as last Thursday, three men walked free of the charge. Well, just after midday, a jury of eight men and four women stepped into the deliberating room to decide the fate of thirty-one year old […]
A bloodbath on Mayflower Street on the night of March fourth ended in the death of a Belize City resident, left another man injured and the alleged assailant under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. That is after thirty-three-year-old Jervis Valencia was shot by police responding to the scene of the deadly incident. […]
Former Minister of State Elvin Penner arrived in court with heavy police protection after being egged on his previous appearance in court. Back in 2013, Penner was found to have facilitated the illegal issuance of a Belize passport to a Korean fugitive. When criminal proceedings did not go anywhere, a private prosecution was mounted by […]
There was another big case before the courts today. On Wednesday, Magistrate Hurl Hamilton transferred the case of the destruction of the Noh Mul Archeological Site to Belize City due to logistical purposes. The trial was to commence after almost two years after the Maya monument was grazed to the ground purportedly by employees of […]
But is justice delayed justice denied? Representatives from the Institute of Archeology and CTV-Three from Orange Walk were all present at court today to testify in the case. Prosecutor Leeroy Banner appeared on their behalf. The destruction of the monument took place way back in May 2013 and today, there was yet another adjournment in […]
Kevin Crawford was found guilty of Aggravated Burglary when he appeared in court today to answer to charges in connection with a burglary at the home of Glen Ysaguirre on October ninth, 2012. In the trial which started in December of last year, the key witness, housekeeper Maria Ramirez, positively identified Crawford as the man […]
Two years after it was grazed to the ground, the case of the destruction of the Noh Mul archaeological site came up this morning before Magistrate Hurl Hamilton. U.D.P. Standard bearer, Denny Grijlva and employees of DeMar’s Stone Company are answering charges for destroying the ancient monument located in Orange Walk District. When the case […]
Deportee from the United States, twenty-six year old Luis Campos, was stabbed to death in a shack on the grounds of Cuello’s Stables in Orange Walk on Sunday morning. Police responded to a 911 call and found Campos’ body with wounds to the abdomen and face wrapped in a sheet. Since investigations started on Sunday, […]
A trio of men, on remand at the Belize Central Prison since August 2012, has been acquitted of the joint charge of murder in the Orange Walk Supreme Court. This morning, Manuel Toloza, Feliciano Briceño and Julio Castillo appeared before Justice Herbert Lord during a bench trial where they were found not guilty of the […]
There is a significant development in the upcoming trial in respect of the murder of former educator and political scientist, Carlos Espat, who was found dead inside his home back in September of 2010. Four months after his body was found at his apartment at the corner of King and Albert Streets, police arrested and […]
Elsewhere during the recent police offensive, a raid on the residence of another notorious San Pedrano family yielded an unlicensed firearm and eight rounds of matching ammunition. Fifty-one-year-old Peter Moses Hernandez, also known as Campos, and nine others, all of a San Juan Area address, have been arrested and charged jointly for the offenses of […]
In news from the courts…The Caribbean Court of Justice, headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago, has dismissed an appeal filed by Belize Natural Energy Limited against a decision handed down by the Belize Court of Appeal. The application succeeded a contract dispute between B.N.E. and Maranco Limited. The company had been employed in the initial phases […]
It made headlines when a Belize City fourth form student who was aspiring to attend the University College of Belize, was found stabbed to death inside the Lord Ridge Cemetery last year. On Saturday, August sixth, 2014, sometime around six in the morning, Chryslin Gladden’s body was found lying between a grave at the Lord […]
The first session for this year for the Court of Appeal began today with the justices slated to hear four criminal matters for murder, attempted murder and two cases of carnal knowledge. The first case to be heard this morning was that of twenty-one year old Abimael Pott, an Orange Walk construction worker who was […]
A cannabis tree cost a man ten thousand dollars. Thirty-four year old Shawn Vargas was found with a single weed tree growing on his verandah and he was charged with the cultivation of cannabis. When he appeared in court today, Vargas pleaded guilty to the offense and was fined ten thousand dollars and ordered to […]
A teenager is on remand tonight at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the murder of twenty-one-year-old Ian “Uno” Adolphus last Wednesday. This morning, eighteen-year-old Akeem Kirklin Trapp appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where he was indicted on a count of murder. His mother, who declined an on-camera interview, maintains that […]
