A reported burglary in Ladyville during which almost four hundred thousand dollars in jewelry is said to have been stolen has resulted in another case of police brutality. According to attorney Oscar Selgado, his client Lionel Bregal had been taken into custody at the Queen Street Precinct on Wednesday afternoon. He was subsequently handed over […]
The case against attorney Arthur Saldivar, who represented the Coye family in a money laundering case against the Financial Intelligence Unit, continued today in the Supreme Court. Saldivar is the respondent in a suit brought against him by former client Melonie Coye who alleges that he walked away with a significant sum of money following […]
Belizean-American Bernadette Pickwood claims that the Ministry of Natural Resources improperly took away her land in Belama Phase One for alleged lack of development and soon thereafter relatives of the former C.E.O. got title to it. The trial continued before Justice Kenneth Benjamin today with testimony from Commissioner of Lands and Surveys Wilbert Vallejos. Pickwood’s […]
Two P.G. cops are tonight free of the July 2012 murder of Michael “Street” Valerio. Valerio was beaten to death allegedly by Police Constables Frederico Tush and Modesto Cucul in a drunken brawl and today, when they appeared in the Dangriga Supreme Court for a trial with jury, the cops were acquitted of the charge. […]
The murder of Panamanian diplomat Jose Rodrigo de la Rosa Stanford on Sunday is a sensational case. The allegations of attempted rape brought against him by Wilser Echevarria and his family have made the case doubly so. And now another large can of exceptionally distasteful worms has been opened, even as the Belmopan Police have […]
There is a most disgusting report tonight of the gang rape of an eleven year old girl. The incident allegedly occurred on Iguana Street last Thursday at the house of one of the four accused persons. Twenty-two year old Wilfred Ramirez was the first to be arraigned on Tuesday. This morning, three others appeared in […]
A convicted thief, who is already serving time behind bars, picked up his second conviction for crimes of dishonesty after pleading guilty to theft for snatching a chain from an eighteen year old student. The incident happened back in October 2013, while the victim was walking on Sixth Street in the King’s Park area of […]
Well-known criminal figure, Kareem Lopez, aka “Robbery” was back before the court today to answer to a single charge of Possession of a Controlled Drug, being ten grams of marijuana. He was caught by a team of police officers on mobile patrol at the corner of Prince and West Streets in Belize City attempting to […]
There are arrests in the attempted murder of a George Street boss who was shot in rival territory last Thursday. Twenty-two year old Ellis Meighan, another street figure and a seventeen year old minor were arraigned for the broad daylight attempt on the life of George Street associate, Carlos Abraham, aka Zimbab. The shooting occurred […]
A fifty-six year old man was before the court today to answer to two criminal offenses after he was accused of committing an aggravated assault with a machete upon his own sister during a family dispute. He is Joel Gordon, who appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith in Court and was arraigned for two […]
An employee of A and R Shopping Center was robbed as he was heading to the bank to make a deposit. The employee was intercepted and robbed by two suspects who police escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to answer to a single charge of Robbery. The suspects have been identified as Damian […]
A B.D.F. soldier was this afternoon convicted of harming his common-law-wife after a misunderstanding ensued at their home this past Tuesday. Thirty-two year old Rodney Menzies is accused of causing an injury to her left leg. This afternoon, the B.D.F. soldier charged with Harm upon his common law wife, Michelle Benguche who claims that he […]
A Mexican national, who says he is from Playa Del Carmen, Quintano Roo, was caught at the Belize side of the border just minutes after he reportedly paid one hundred and fifty dollars for a canoe to bring him across. The case made against the Mexican national is that he entered Belize illegally, but thirty-three […]
Thirty-four year old Roger Bradley picked up his third conviction for crimes of dishonesty when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith today. He was sentenced to eight years since he has two previous convictions, for burglary and theft. Bradley was found guilty of burglarizing the home of Luana Sosa, on Freetown Road, Belize […]
In April of this year, nineteen-year-old Silvia Waight, a resident of Sandhill, was stabbed once to the stomach during an altercation outside of a bar which resulted in another person getting shot. Earlier today, on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, police picked up twenty-six-year-old Lorna Jones and charged her with a single […]
The case of Edmond Castro versus the visa scandal whistleblower got underway in February of 2014. In 2013, Castro was accused of facilitating visas for Chinese nationals by Alvarine Burgess. She claimed that she delivered money to Castro, who then sent the paperwork to the Immigration Department to be fast-tracked. Castro sued, and since then […]
Pending the passage of amendments in the House, the Firearms Act continues to create controversy among attorneys and those they represent who have fall afoul of the very wide shadow cast by that law. Tonight’s story was created as a consequence of that law, but goes much deeper than that to highlight the deplorable, inhumane […]
A police officer from the village of in Seine Bight in Southern Belize is in trouble with the law tonight. A minor is accusing him of having sexual intercourse with her at about two A.M. on Sunday. The underage girl claims that the officer had sex with her at his house in the village. A […]
After five days under police guard at the K.H.M.H, twenty-two year old Carl Lino of Belize City, was taken to court in handcuffs this morning for arraignment on five criminal offenses. But when his case was called, before Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith, he was a no show because it turned out that he had […]
Forty-four year old Corporal, Darius Martinez has so far spent six weeks of an eighteen month conviction in jail for Attempting to Corrupt a Public Officer, but today he got a break. His attorney, Anthony Sylvester is appealing the conviction and this morning took the matter to the Supreme Court seeking a stay of execution […]
Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega stands accused of orchestrating a hit on Ramon Cervantes Junior. That very serious allegation was contained in a purported recording of wanted fugitive Manuel ‘El Pelon’ Castillo, who is also believed to have been involved in the murder of Cervantes’ father back in July. The unproved assertion went viral last […]
Attorneys for telecom providers Speednet and B.T.L. were in court this morning. Speednet Communications Limited filed an application for an injunction against Belize Telemedia Limited on Wednesday to prevent the termination of services by B.T.L. which would affect almost seven thousand Smart users in Toledo District. On July twenty-seventh an agreement was signed between the […]
A scout leader, who is also a teacher of Forest Home, Toledo, is in big trouble tonight. He is Martin Palma, who went on a rampage sexually assaulting three teenagers and offering them a thousand dollars each for their silence. Palma is also accused of being intoxicated. In the first allegation, a seventeen year old […]
A police officer was served with a notice of intended prosecution after he knocked down a man while driving a Government vehicle within city limits. Thirty-four year old police constable Wilbert Chan from Cristo Rey Village, Corozal District, hit Daniel Grey, on October, twenty-fourth, 2014, while driving a Toyota Hilux at the intersection of Cleghorn […]
This afternoon, bail was denied to a thirty-three year old woman of Belize City who is being accused of stealing from an elderly woman she befriended. Tiffany Lamb appeared in court accused of stealing over five thousand dollars from the senior citizen by swiping Joyce Goff’s ATM card. Lamb had confessed to the crime but […]
