According to Ch’oc, the injunction has been a secondary issue because SATIIM believes that it will gain more grounds on the primary matter which is its challenge against government to affirm the customary land rights held by the indigenous community. He also took the liberty to respond to U.S. Capital’s claim that it is all […]
A trio of Cuban nationals, who entered the country unlawfully and believed to have been en route to the United States, was busted by immigration officials inside a hotel room in Belize City at midday. Thirty-one-year-old Roberto Hernandez, a college professor, twenty-three-year-old engineering student Ernesto Tanquero and twenty-four-year-old Dayani Hernandez, an economist, were found inside […]
Two San Pedro men are in trouble with the law tonight. Twenty-eight year old Arglye Jex, a tour guide of Coral Street in San Pedro and thirty-three year old Lewis Caal, of Pescador Drive, appeared before the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith and were jointly charged with attempting to corrupt Senior Superintendent, Edward Broaster. The incident […]
A group of six, comprising five adults and a sixteen year old minor, was back in court today before Magistrate Dale Cayetano for drug trafficking after police found about four ounces of weed at a yard in Ladyville where the six were hanging out. The group spent two nights in the Queen Street lock-up because […]
Three police officers escorted a university student to the San Ignacio court this morning. Vince Garbutt was handcuffed, as he made his way to the courtroom of Magistrate Nardia Morgan. He was detained and remained in police custody over the weekend for the murder of his ex girlfriend, Kayla Pandy. Pandy left her home in […]
A Salvadoran national who has been living in Belize illegally had to spend the weekend in lockdown after he was busted while hanging out with a group of men on Friday. This morning, Christian Leonardo Alvarenga, was before the court for being deemed a prohibited immigrant. The twenty-two year old was detained in Hattieville and […]
Corozal Beauty Queen Aracely Cahueque was set free…acquitted of three counts of abetment to murder this morning. We’ll have her first words as a free woman since October, 2010. But first we go to the trial, which ended just before ten this morning. Cahueque had been accused of masterminding the brutal murder of eighteen year […]
After the verdict, hell broke loose as Cahueque was being processed out of custody at the Belmopan Police Station. At ten-thirty this morning, Cahueque stood in front of the Police Station with her mother and attorney Dickie Bradley, who was giving the media an interview. That’s when the emotion of the moment got away from […]
Cahueque’s first minutes as a free woman this morning were not happy ones, as she was attacked outside the Belmopan Police Station and her mother punched in the face and hit in the head. After things quieted down she was sneaked out of the station and taken to a secure location where News Five was […]
At the northern border on Thursday evening, custom officers busted a group of men returning from Chetumal. Belize City resident thirty-two year old Derrick Thompson was behind the steering wheel of a van with Belize City license plates. Thompson was travelling along with thirty-six year old Keisha Garnett, twenty-five year old James Welch and thirty-six […]
He was accused of shooting at an Orange Walk man back in January 2013 and even though he had fled the jurisdiction, Noel Zetina was granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. Bail was vehemently objected to by the office of the Director of […]
The trial of twenty-two year old Aracely Cahueque continues to grip the nation’s attention. Cahueque, a beauty queen, is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of eighteen year old Raylene Dyer back in October 2010. The jury was empanelled on March eleventh and after a voir dire, her trial for three counts of […]
While Dyer remained missing, Cahueque presented the infant to her ex-boyfriend. But according to defense attorney, Dickie Bradley, that is because Cahueque told him that she was allowed to (Quote) “borrow baby Ravonn.” (Unquote) That statement has gone viral on social media, but Bradley says it was known by Dyer’s family. Bradley maintains, however, that […]
Just before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin ordered the Commissioner of Police to carry out a criminal investigation on the former minister of state, Elvin Penner, for his involvement in the illegal issuance of a passport to Won Hong Kim, there was another move for an investigation. It was started by the feisty and vocal Citizens […]
A pregnant Honduran woman, who back in December 2013 was charged with using a falsified document, was today before the court for trial after a bench warrant was issued for her arrest. Eighteen year old Rebecca Huete was charged for Using a Falsified Document; she pleaded guilty and ordered to pay a one thousand dollar […]
Today the trial of Aracely Cahueque continued in the court of Justice Denis Hanomansingh. It is a sensational case, perhaps the most disturbing in quite a few years, and there has been much attention on the Belmopan Supreme Court since last week. The matter is becoming quite complicated as attorneys for the prosecution and defense […]
The Immigration Department made a bust this morning at a construction site which is managed by a Belizean-Honduran national, fifty-one year old Jesus Contreras. He was found to be employing four illegal immigrants from Honduras, namely Roger Antonio Barahona Moncada, Orlin Medardo Garcia Balico, along with Ivor Luis Arriola Ortiz and Gervin Arnoldo Espinoza Hernandez. […]
Today, the full trial of twenty-one year old Aracely Caheque continued in the court of Justice Denis Hanomansingh, following a ruling on legal arguments presented. The media is not allowed to speak on those matters, which were dealt with in a voir dire without the presence of the nine member jury. Caheque is charged with […]
A former cashier with Traveller’s Liquors Limited was arraigned today for a staggering one hundred and seventeen counts of theft. Twenty-four year old Los Lagos Resident, Rashida Kira Sedacy, who is now employed as a Secretary at Rangers Security, spent three nights in lock down at the Queen Street Police Station since her detention on […]
Accused drug trafficker, Gary Gordon Seawell, finally had his day in court today after his case saw a number of adjournments. He is accused of masterminding a large-scale cocaine moving operation between Belize and the U.S. state of Ohio from 1994 to 1997. But American authorities waited more than nine years to begin the process […]
Darrington Lauriano Junior was busted at the parking lot of the Karl Huesner Memorial Hospital on Monday morning by alert police who found marijuana and a firearm in a suitcase and knapsack he was carrying. Tonight, he is on remand at the Belize Central Prison for Possession of a Firearm, Ammunition and Marijuana. He had […]
Former President of Guatemala Alfonso Portillo has agreed to plead guilty to money laundering charges in a New York court. Portillo, president from 2000 to 2004, transferred two point five million dollars which he received from the Taiwanese government to bank accounts in Miami and Washington. Portillo read a statement in court in which he […]
A cashier previously employed at Travellers Limited will be arraigned in the Magistrate Court on Tuesday for a whopping one hundred and sixteen charges of Theft. Twenty-four year old Rashida Kira Sedacy, a resident of the Los Lagos Community, on the Phillip Goldson Highway, is tonight on remand because of the voluminous amount of paper […]
Aracely Cahueque is currently charged with three counts of abetment to murder in the grisly 2010 killing of young Raylene Dyer. Authorities believe that Cahueque enlisted the aid of three Roaring Creek men to do away with Dyer because she wanted Dyer’s newborn daughter for her own. Those three men walked free on Wednesday after […]
In May 2011 Belmopan businessman Mike Menjivar and his family were the subjects of a search which went terribly wrong. Officers of the Gang Suppression Unit pumped dozens of bullets into Menjivar’s home before arresting the businessman and his wife. He was later exonerated of any wrongdoing, but now he wants justice for what he […]
