Minister of State Edmond Castro was recently under much scrutiny for his part in a Belize Airports Authority check fiasco which resulted in the entire BAA Board being forced to resign. And before that, the controversial politician was in hot water after a whistle-blower accused him of taking money to facilitate Belizean visas for two […]
A San Ignacio cop is in the hot seat after being accused of extorting money from a Santa Elena couple. Police constable Henry Nunez was arraigned at the San Ignacio Magistrate Court last Friday for extortion; after pleading not guilty, he obtained bail of two thousand dollars and was released. The report against Nunez was […]
It has been a very rocky road for a Guatemalan woman who has been back and forth in court since last week Monday for a slew of charges. Forty-nine year old Guatemalan national, Georgina Maribel Mendez Aldana, was fined two thousand dollars last Monday for employing two Guatemalan nationals, Cesar Gerardo Hichos Ramirez, and Hugo […]
Twenty-one year old Lindbergh Alexander Clarke is tonight serving the first night of a fifteen-year stretch at the Belize Central Prison, after being found guilty of three firearm-related offences. This evening, he appeared before Magistrate Hettie Mae-Stewart in the presence of attorney Ellis Arnold. Clarke was busted on July fourteenth, 2012 at around one a.m., […]
A jury of five women and four men entered the deliberating room at eleven-thirty this morning, to decide the fate of Lenny Bennett Benguche, whose trial for maim commenced in the Supreme Court of Justice Troadio John Gonzalez on Monday. This is the second time that Bennett/Benguche is on trial. Back in 2010, he was […]
The Immigration Department continues to target ‘happy bars’ in Belize, racking up an impressive record of cases for immigration offences. Last week it was Temptation Hill, and today officers were back in court after a raid on the Blue House Bar in Ladyville early this morning. Inside the bar they found manager Dora Prado, a […]
Thirty-five-year-old Jason ‘Soup’ Williams, the reputed leader of the Supal Street gang, believed to be involved in a near-fatal shooting incident on Tuesday, during which a pair of Belize City men were injured, was arraigned in court this morning. The charges however, do not include the attempted murder of twenty-five-year-old Kariq Tzul or twenty-seven-year-old […]
A man who made the mistake of patting a child on her buttocks back in February of last year was sentence to three years in prison after being found guilty of the charge of aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon a minor. This morning, forty-nine-year-old George Dakers, who is a first time offender, […]
Thirty-two-year-old Jevon Levi Slusher, a repeat offender of firearm and ammunition violations, has been sentenced to twenty years after being found guilty of the offenses of kept firearm and ammunition. Allegations are that on the night of February twenty-second, 2013, he was seen by police on Jane Usher Boulevard throwing an object into a […]
The People’s United Party believes that by his own admission in an email to the media, Elvin Penner committed an illegal and criminal act in the passport issued to South Korean fugitive, Won Hong Kim back in September 2013. But Penner has not been investigated, so late this afternoon; the P.U.P. filed a writ of […]
As you heard, the P.U.P. is asking the court to direct the Commissioner of Police to carry out a criminal investigation into the illegal issuance of a passport to a South Korean fugitive who never set foot in Belize. But tonight, we can report that there is another such writ of mandamus already before the […]
A Belize City man, who claims he was badly beaten by the police and B.D.F. after he was accused of trying to steal a rifle assigned to a B.D.F. officer in January of this year, was before the court this afternoon to answer to a charge of attempted theft. He is twenty-two year old Patrick […]
A total of six illegal immigrants, who were rounded up as a part of a sting operation by the Immigration Department, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to answer to different charges. They are forty-five year old Jose Orlando Florez, a Honduran mason who has been living in Santa Cruz Village in Mango […]
There is an update to report tonight about Mexican national, Zurisaday Villasenor Mendez, who was granted a seventy-five thousand dollar bail by the Supreme Court less than two weeks ago. The Mexican national was to report to court today, but this may come as no surprise….Villasenor Mendez did not show up in Belize City Magistrate […]
Some years ago, Belize City resident, Kenneth Flowers, aka “Big Tom” was said to have been shot and killed in the United States but that turned out to be inaccurate and Big Tom returned to Belize. Now, the thirty-six year old claims he is tired of police harassment. He alleges that the GSU harasses him […]
An eighteen year old girl who fabricated a story that she was sexually assaulted inside her home is looking at time behind bars. When the report was made, the police headed to the alleged crime scene at her home, but when she was taken to the local hospital to be examined by a doctor, there […]
In the Belize City Supreme Court, the conviction of a forty-eight year old father was secured on Thursday evening before Justice Troadio Gonzalez for sexually abusing his young daughter. A jury of nine deliberated a little over three hours and found the father guilty of two counts of incest. While his name is being withheld to […]
In court today, a Belize City man reappeared before Justice Troadio Gonzalez to learn his fate following his conviction last Thursday. Twenty-eight year old Glenford Ferguson Jr. was sentenced to twenty-two years imprisonment for a crime that goes back to seven years ago, when he was accused of the murder of Koffi Beeks, a Ladyville […]
An amputee of La Democracia Village will be spending the first of a one year jail term tonight behind bars for a drug possession conviction. Sixty-six year old John Ramos is certainly no stranger to the court; he has eight previous convictions for possession of controlled drugs and today in the Courtroom of Senior Magistrate […]
Abbas Khan, a Pakistani national with Belizean citizenship appeared in the Belmopan Magistrate Court this past Wednesday. Khan was on trial for a charge of Escape from the Orange Walk police station. Police claimed that Khan escaped from the station last year on March third. Six witnesses, all police officers, were called to the stand. […]
Up to news time, a jury is deliberating the fate of Paul Jex, accused of the murder of Aubrey Lopez, the son of Belmopan’s Mayor Simeon Lopez. Lopez was violently murdered in May 2010 in Belize City. The sensational trial of the accused Belize City suspect, Jex, got underway two weeks ago in the Supreme […]
Gary Seawell, wanted by U.S. authorities, along with his sibling, for allegedly organizing a drug trafficking ring between 1994 and 1997, continues to fight for his freedom, despite a ruling by Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith in October 2013 to have him extradited. The matter has been elevated to the Supreme Court and a hearing […]
There is another case in a growing list of human trafficking offences to report tonight for which a twenty-nine year-old man remains in custody at the Queen Street Police. The Immigration Department strongly believes that the suspect has been smuggling Salvadorans into Belize and across the northern border. But that is just what they suspect, […]
Back in December of 2013, three cops were arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for the shakedown of Tyrell Hyde on September eighth of last year. But their case has been transferred to Belize City and today only two of the three officers—forty-two year old Corporal Reymundo Requeña and thirty year old Special Constable Joslyn […]
Mexican national, Zurisaday Mendez, who was busted back in October 2012 allegedly with firearms, ammunitions and drugs, was granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. His bail hearing took place before Justice Troadio John Gonzalez last Friday. The office of the Director of Public Prosecution objected to bail arguing that Mendez […]
