Today, the family of Myron Smith was dragged to court on firearm charges. Myron was killed on the basketball court behind the Complex building on June thirtieth, just a stone’s throw from his house. The family had just buried Myron when police raided their house on Monday. The search allegedly yielded a firearm and today, […]
For seven years, Honduran national, Alexis Servia has been living in Belize illegally; his home is a boat moored at mile four and a half on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Police stumbled upon him during an investigation on Monday and today he was taken before Magistrate Herbert Panton and read a single charge for being […]
A pair of siblings, busted over the weekend in Hattieville with a little over seventy pounds of marijuana, is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being unable to meet bail, following their arraignment before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser earlier today. Shortly after two p.m. on Friday, police, while conducting a checkpoint between […]
A young, Kenyan student who was busted at the Phillip Goldson International Airport was today arraigned on an immigration offense after he was found in possession of a fake, as well as an authentic passport he was using en route to the United States of America. Twenty-three-year-old Adannur Adan Abdullah, a student and resident of […]
Several bail applications were heard today in the Supreme Court. There were no objections from prosecutors in the Supreme Court all morning until the application of Shaquille Meighan came before Justice Herbert Lord. Shaquille, who is the younger brother of notorious siblings Ellis and Tyrone, has been tied to the spate of shootings that started […]
As we told you earlier in the newscast, several bail applications came before Justice Herbert Lord today. Four residents from Orange Walk and Benque were granted individual bail in their respective municipalities. Orange Walk men, Kevin Albert Flowers and Martin Rigoberto Rosado, were both granted bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars each. Both […]
Twenty-six-year-old Jason Sutherland was busted on Thursday attempting to dispose of a bag of weed. Police on mobile patrol along West Collet Canal spotted a black Geo Prism going contrary to the flow of traffic. When the vehicle was stopped the driver identified himself and was informed that a search of the vehicle, as […]
Tropic Air and the Construction Depot, one of the Benny’s Group of Companies, will seek a settlement after a multi-million dollar land dispute. That dispute arises from a human error in the Ministry of Natural Resources. In a nutshell, a lease to a parcel of land was granted to Tropic Air, which started construction of […]
Gary Sewell has been fighting extradition to the US since 2010, and after a decision handed down by Justice Michelle Arana today, he will need to take that fight to the Court of Appeal. In 2013, Sewell’s extradition was given the green light in the Magistrate’s Court, and attorney Arthur Saldivar then submitted a habeas […]
Dennis Rajiv Gonguez Junior, the son of the Chief Meteorologist met his untimely death on April twenty-ninth 2013 when he was executed in front of Brown Sugar Marketplace on North Front Street. Gonguez Jr. and a friend, Jayme Marin, were exiting the compound, when a slim dark complexion man, who reportedly lay-waited them, approached and […]
While Navarro has been committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court, Derrick Munnings has been acquitted of an attempted murder charge. The twenty-one year old was accused of the April 2011 attempted murder of Donovan Pratt during a basketball game in Ladyville. After day one of trial today and more than three years on […]
After two nights in lock down at the Belize Central Prison, transgender woman, Vanessa Champagne Paris is finally out on bail. Today, Vanessa, who’s birth name is Perfilio Rodriquez, was out after her father met the seven hundred and fifty dollar bail granted by Magistrate Herbert Panton. While she appeared as a female on Tuesday […]
Late this evening, arguments concluded before Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel in the case of the Belize Tourism Industry Association (B.T.I.A.) and the Department of the Environment and National Environmental Appraisal Committee (NEAC). The B.T.I.A. is challenging separate decisions of NEAC and D.O.E. in relation to the environmental impact assessment for Harvest Caye, a project […]
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith has sentenced convicted police officer Ronald Sutherland to four years two months in prison after finding him guilty of wounding, aggravated assault with a machete and threatening words upon his estrange common-law wife Tanisha Ortiz. Ortiz testified that on the night of September 26th, 2013, an irate Sutherland came home and stoned […]
Vanessa Paris Champagne is causing another quandary, but this time, she is behind bars. And it is because it is not clear if the transgender woman should be placed in the female or the male block of the Belize Central Prison. Champagne, who has been attacked more than once, was today before the court to […]
This morning it was the B.T.I.A. versus G.O.B., and this afternoon it was G.O.B. versus BGYEA. An action has been taken against the grassroots organization for trespassing in the buffer zone at Harmonyville where the organization was attempting the planting of corn. Justice Courtney Abel heard the matter in chambers, since it was more about […]
In May, the Belize Tourism Industry Association filed a claim seeking judicial review of the decision to green-light Norwegian Cruise Line’s massive tourism project on Harvest Caye. This morning, the case began before Justice Courtenay Abel with submissions from Attorney Godfrey Smith for the B.T.I.A. and Deputy Solicitor-General Nigel Hawke for National Environmental Appraisal Committee […]
Forty-nine year old bus driver of Corozal Town has been charged with manslaughter by negligence four months after a traffic mishap claimed the life of sixty-two year old Jose Elmer Villanueva. On February twenty-fifth, the elderly man fell out of a Bluebird J and J commuter bus heading towards Orange Walk Town. The driver of […]
Four years after being behind bars for dousing and setting her husband on fire, Lavern “Anti-Christ” Longsworth heard her fate. This afternoon, she smiled on the docks as President of the Court of Appeal Justice Manuel Sosa read the decision of the court to her. Longsworth was convicted of the murder of her common-law husband, […]
One year and a half after the charge of facilitating the landing of a drug plane was struck out against six men by Justice Denis Hanomansingh, the Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial. The men – Police Officers Lawrence Humes, Renell Grant, Nelson Middleton, Jacinto Roches, Customs Boatman Harold Usher and civilian Victor Logan […]
The extradition appeal of Deon Bruce was also before the Court of Appeal. Back in January of this year, Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith granted an extradition request on twenty-eight Bruce who is wanted in Chicago, USA on a long list of charges including murder, attempted murder and possession of a firearm. The U.S. authorities […]
An ex-police officer, who is prosecuting cases for the municipal court, finds himself in big trouble with the law after being busted with a firearm loaded with live rounds. While the firearm is licensed, it does not belong to prosecutor Joseph Nunez, but to a friend who is a security guard. Nunez was busted with […]
Businessman Darrell Carter was back in court today. This time he was there to answer to a single charge of failure to make Social Security contributions payments in respect of persons employed by him. Allegations are that he has not paid contributions for a four month period, from the months of February to May […]
Since last September, it came to light that there was gross corruption in the issuance of Belizean passports to person who clearly did not qualify. In the case of South Korean national, Won Hong Kim, there is evidence that he did not meet even the basic requirements, but obtained nationality and citizenship. The former minister […]
Twenty-two year old Egbert Ferguson was charged today with handling stolen goods. The charge came following allegations that Ferguson was in possession of a Dell Laptop stolen, along with other items, from the house of Jeremy Pipersburgh. The Lord’s Bank resident was detained by Belize City police on Tuesday and today, he was arraigned for […]
