A jury panel had a split verdict in the case of a Belize City man accused of the sexual abuse against a minor. At least two of nine jurors, who decided the fate of forty-five year-old Brian Charlesworth, found he was not guilty of committing the hideous offense against the six year old minor during […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Roger Anthony and twenty-three-year-old Kendis Flowers were arraigned this morning in the courtroom of Magistrate Herbert Panton on a battery of firearms-related offences. The charges stem from a shooting incident on Sunday night in Belize City. Anthony, the reputed boss of the Ghost Town Crips, was transported from the Queen Street Precinct to magistrates’ […]
Last week Belmopan Police narrowly missed capturing a man who was stealing a Toyola Hilux assigned to the Department of Archaeology. He abandoned the vehicle and escaped in the bushes near Georgeville in the Cayo District, despite searches by the K9 unit. Still, police have pursued the matter relentlessly, and today one man was charged […]
For several months, we have reported on an alleged immigration scam which was suspected to be masterminded by Marleny Castellanos, aided by her husband Alfredo Marcos, both Guatemalan nationals residing in Belize. Over all, about a hundred residents from Caye Caulker and other areas obtained documents for residency and nationality under the scheme. The first […]
On Monday, a team of police officers on mobile patrol in the area of the Novelo’s Bus Terminal in Belize City set chase behind a group of men who had just exited a bus. Three of the men made good their escape, but police caught up with one. He turned out to be a former […]
Steven Buckley was wounded by police back on April twenty-eight 2010. Buckley was hit in the head by multiple pellets fired from a service weapon. The construction worker and two other persons were shot by police while they were in a dodge van on Kraal Road. The shot from a sixteen-gauge shotgun left pellet wounds […]
The case against Titans International Services Limited came up again in the Supreme Court this coming. The Financial Intelligence Unit wants to freeze assets of various persons and companies linked to an alleged billion dollar securities tax fraud case. The case is being heard by the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Six persons from four different […]
A Ladyville resident who went on a spending spree at someone else’s expense, was before the court today. Ron Haylock reportedly found John Hun’s visa credit card sometime between October twelfth and nineteenth and made numerous charges on it before he was caught. Earlier today in the courtroom of Magistrate Dale Cayetano, he was charged […]
As many as fifteen bail applications were lodged before the Supreme Court today and a number of persons were successful in being granted bail by Judge Herbert Lord. Included are two police officers who were accused of an armed robbery in the city in late September, but arraigned and remanded in early October. Both […]
A fifty-five year old man is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison where he will remain for the next seven weeks. Austin Gotoy was before the court today to answer to a charge of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon a minor, a thirteen year-old primary school student who he knows well […]
There is new tonight out of Tampa, Florida where a former school teacher has pleaded guilty in the federal Court to enticing two minors for sex. Forty-nine year old David Wendel Thompson used social media, specifically Facebook, to lure the two underage girls to have sex with him for money. At the time, one was […]
Thirty-four year old mile-eight community resident, Angel Dorado, was slapped with additional jail time today after he was found guilty of wounding his next door neighbor, Paul McCord. Dorado’s trial concluded today before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment to run consecutively with a six month sentence he is […]
Three persons, a Guatemalan and two Cubans, were handed over to the Immigration Department earlier today after the Cubans were found in Belize illegally. The Guatemalan came into Belize legally and aided and abetted the two Cubans to enter Belize illegally through the banks of the Mopan River. The trio comprises of Cuban nationals, twenty-eight year […]
Belize International Services Limited, the parent company of the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize and the International Business Companies Registry, won the first round of a protracted legal battle with the government of Belize in the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. On October first, Justice Shona Griffith ruled that BISL, prior to being […]
Among damages being sought is sixty million U.S. dollars, profits BISL claims it would have earned over the remainder of the seven-year contract. Senior Counsel Denys Barrow says that there is no basis in the arrival of that figure. Courtenay, on the other hand, asserts that experts have been hired to assess the quantum that […]
In April 2012, a Wesley College Junior College student was the victim of an attempted robbery as he and a female friend were heading home from school. Anthony Mark Leslie Pollard was shot once in the back as he tried to fight off his attackers, to prevent being robbed. Today in trial, Pollard gave […]
This morning, a huddle of lawyers representing individual companies associated with the legally besieged Titan International Securities appeared in the courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The attorneys were present for an inter-party hearing with officials from the Financial Intelligence Unit, following the restriction of financial assets stemming from a federal indictment in which six […]
There is an allegation tonight against a thirty-two year-old mother who is accused of disciplining her six year old child by placing his hand on fire after she found out he had been playing with fire. The Social Department intervened and has removed the young child from the care of his mother; placing him […]
On October sixteenth, 2012, two south side youths were the target of street violence when they were shot at on Mopan Street in Belize City. The duo, Ellis Meighan Junior and the then seventeen year old Malik Dixon, whose father was killed days prior to shooting, survived the incident. Police later arrested and charged […]
A man who was badly beaten back in April succumbed to his injuries in early July. Today, charges have been upgraded to murder on the suspect believed to be twenty-two year old Sherman Rodney. Rodney has been on remand since mid-April for attempted murder; today he returned to court but was sent back to prison […]
Forty-four year old William Ayala was pulled over Friday evening by Traffic Personnel after he was suspected of drunken driving. Today, he was before the court to answer to a single charge of Drove motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above the prescribed amount. The Benque Viejo driver was arraigned late this evening in the Belize […]
A Supreme Court ruling against the Belize City Council flew under the radar last Friday amid extended coverage of the Ebola scare. Belize Waste Control Limited which has remained in constant litigation with City Hall over its unpaid garbage debt has been awarded a total of five hundred and twenty-five thousand, twenty-six dollars. While arrears […]
A Ladyville resident who was on trial this morning before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith beat an attempted burglary charge but was found guilty of trespassing his neighbor’s yard and for damaging her door. The incident happened last year in September when Esau Bainton tried to enter Maribel Perez’s house which is located across […]
An elderly Honduran fisherman was shocked when he was fined thirty dollars for each undersized conch he was caught with by Fisheries officials while he was in the area of Northern Fishermen Cooperatives on October seventh. Sixty-nine year old Pablo Castillo appeared in court this morning and pleaded guilty to the offense of the […]
Thirty year old ex-B.D.F. soldier and father of four, Leonard Joel Palacio, spent four nights in lockdown for riding a bicycle contrary to traffic. Palacio, who is an epileptic, is complaining that he was denied access to his medication and any other request he made while in custody. After spending four days at the Queen […]
