A father along with his teenage son and two other Belize City men will stand trial at the January 2015 session of the Supreme Court for Attempted Murder and Dangerous Harm. The group is accused of attempting to take the life of Christian Martinez on January sixteenth, 2014. Ten months ago in Belize City, police […]
A repeat theft and burglary offender was today sentenced to two and a half years in prison for a similar crime. Forty-two year old Jason Wade, who also goes by the name Jason Adolphus, was caught and detained by a homeowner from whom he stolen several items valued at one thousand two hundred and sixty-five […]
The trial of twenty-six year old Perfilio Rodriguez, aka “Vanessa Paris Champagne,” was set to commence on Monday for the offense of Aggravated Assault with a knife upon Golda Orozco, the sister of the Executive Director of UNIBAM, Caleb Orozco. But when both sides did not show up, the matter was further adjourned for this […]
The Supreme Court handed down a major decision today on a story that has been in the local and international headlines for months. On September twenty-fourth, the Financial Intelligence Unit froze assets held in Belize by of a group of five companies operating under Titans International Securities LLC. Their offices had been raided and documents […]
A fifty-three year old deacon from Crooked Tree has been committed to stand trial in the January session of the Supreme Court for four counts of carnal knowledge of a minor. The abuse allegedly happened between the period of July second 2012 and December fourth, 2014. A preliminary inquiry ended with a paper committal today […]
In 2007, Christine Perriott, former general secretary of the Belize Communications Workers Union, who was employed as a technician at Belize Telemedia Limited, was released from her job over allegations of abandoning her work to focus primarily on duties with the union. She sued and won a judgment in the Supreme Court for over three hundred […]
A police corporal and his brother, who is employed at the post office, were both convicted on Thursday morning in the courtroom of Magistrate Dale Cayetano. While the men escaped jail time, their driver’s licenses were revoked for a three-month period and they were fined. On Boxing Day, December twenty-sixth, 2012, ASP Antonio Rosado, who […]
In Wednesday’s newscast, we reported that a land dispute between Bernadette Pickwoad and Maud Williams, over a piece of property located in Belama Phase One, had been adjourned pending the outcome of court-ordered mediation. While both parties had been looking forward to a satisfactory conclusion, things have seemingly taken a different turn overnight. This morning, […]
A fifty-three-year-old American national, Joseph Michael Schmeltzer, who is originally from Los Angeles, California, was found living in Belize illegally and by virtue of the Immigration Act, he is deemed a prohibited immigrant. His detention was made on Wednesday, when he was handed over by police to the Immigration Department. Today, Schmeltzer was brought […]
The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the case against Great Belize Productions, formerly a subsidiary of Belize Telemedia Limited. On August twenty-third, 2009, the day before B.T.L. was nationalized, the board of directors of the company divested Great Belize Productions from its assets. According to attorney Michael Young, the divestiture followed an investment […]
The case against the Ministry of Natural Resources, filed by Bernadette Pickwoad, resumed this morning in the chamber of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The suit follows a claim of wrongful issuance of a prime parcel of land located at the corners of Albert Hoy Avenue and Chetumal Boulevard. The property in question was initially allotted […]
A Salvadoran national and a Guatemalan teenager, who were both accused of the murder of U.S. national, Mary Jane Blondell in Indian Creek, Cayo in July 2005, are home free tonight. Twenty-eight year old Carlos Rene Granillo and eighteen year old Rene Lopez Morentes were acquitted of murder on Tuesday in the Belmopan Supreme Court. […]
Great Belize Productions Limited was once a subsidiary of Belize Telemedia Limited through a trio of overseas companies. By the time the Government took over B.T.L., the companies had been removed as subsidiaries, but after the acquisition, B.T.L.’s new board sued and won a judgment in the Supreme Court which is now being appealed. According […]
Two Bahamian nationals living and working in Belize as stockers were today back in court for the offense of Failure to Declare ten thousand dollars in cash without first reporting it to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Both Kevin Leach and Rohn Knowles were accused on September twelfth 2014 of attempting to leave from the […]
One year after it was revealed that he facilitated the issuance of an illegal Belizean passport to a jailed South Korean fugitive, disgraced Elvin Penner remains area representative of Cayo Northeast, but shunned in the halls of the House of Representatives and by the people. Save for an attempt at recall, he will remain as […]
The case of the Government of Belize and Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association (BGYEA) returned to court. When last we left it, Justice Courtney Abel had scheduled mediation between the two parties as a way to solve the dispute. BGYEA wants to go through with a project to plant corn in what Government claims is […]
BGYEA has halted activity in the area as an act of good faith, but the two parties are yet to sit around the mediating table. According to Matura-Shepherd the grassroots organization had paid for surveys when the Lands Department put a halt to the initiative. Reporter “What is BGYEA’s position to what they Lands […]
Nine persons, including a sixty-six year old resident, along with his fifteen year old grandson, were hanging out at the home of the elderly man on Gentle Avenue, Belize City, when they were detained by the police. This morning, all members of the group were charged with Drug Trafficking. Arthur Smith, his underage grandson, […]
Forty-five year old Brian Charlesworth has been convicted twice before for sexually abusing minors. Today, the pedophile secured jail time for another conviction of a sexual nature, which makes it the third conviction in thirteen years. On Wednesday, he was found guilty of carnal knowledge of a juvenile who was six years at the […]
There is a disturbing report of the sexual assault of a female prisoner at the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville. The woman, who is serving a five-year jail term for a burglary offense, is alleging that she was sexually assaulted by twenty-one year old Kevin Bodden and twenty-nine year old Jareth Crawford. Both men, […]
This morning, in the courtroom of Justice Michelle Arana, attorney Arthur Saldivar and his client Allison Major filed a claim in which they are challenging the Firearms Act. The suit succeeds the arrest and imprisonment of Major, as well as a family of seven, in April 2012 during which a pair of shotguns were discovered […]
A Double Head Cabbage taxi driver is in trouble with the law after he made the mistake of approaching a twelve-year-old student, told her he liked her then took out his cell phone and took a picture of the minor. According to the law, it adds up to a mischievous act, and tonight for that offense, the […]
A Copper Bank fisherman was slapped with more than two thousand dollars in fines after he was found in possession of ninety-three unprocessed conchs. The fisheries bust was made earlier in October, but the fisherman, who was at sea for a long period, was summoned to be in court until today. This morning, fifty year […]
A police officer attached to the San Pedro Police Formation will be tried for the crime of Theft. Twenty-six year old Police Constable Dean Perez, originally from Belize City, has been accused of stealing six hundred dollars in cash and a cell phone from a San Pedro Town resident while carrying out an investigation. The […]
Twenty-three-year-old Jamie Gill was accused of fatally shooting sixteen-year-old Raheem Vasquez in 2011 during an incident in Roaring Creek. Vasquez was shot three times to the body, twice in the abdomen and once in the left part of the chest. Tonight, he is home free after being on remand for more than three years. Last […]
