Sixty-two year old Estella Gonzalez, a Honduran national with Belizean naturalization, was before the court last Friday on ten counts of Employing a Person Not in Possession of a Valid Temporary Permit after a shake down at the Temptation Bar located at Mile ten on the George Price Highway. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to the ten […]
A woman who is pregnant and a Belize City man who is suffering from tuberculosis were taken before the court separately for criminal charges. The first to be arraigned was Kimberly Alvarez of Zacaranda Street in Belize City. Alvarez is being accused of causing damages to the six hundred dollar windshield of a vehicle belonging […]
Sixty-two-year-old Honduran national Estela Gonzales has been charged for employing persons not in possession of a work permit, following a shakedown of Temptation Hill by immigration officials on Thursday night. This is the second raid carried out at the establishment, located at mile ten on the George Price Highway. Under Gonzales’ employ were ten women, […]
The lifeless body of thirteen-year-old Jasmine Lowe was discovered in an overgrown area off the Cristo Rey Road after she was reported missing in early June 2012. In the wake of the gruesome encounter residents of Cayo strongly believe that the teenager was abducted shortly after leaving her father’s home in Santa Elena and […]
A Honduran woman is the latest international fugitive to be caught in Belize. Forty year old Blanca Garay Rodriguez was on the run since early January; she was picked up at around eleven thirty in the morning at house at the Mile eight community on the George Price Highway. Rodriguez’s detention is considered major bust […]
On January nineteenth, a month long police manhunt for Kevin ‘Midget’ Manzanero ended when the wanted man was chopped as he allegedly attempted to enter a home in the Chapel Hill area of San Ignacio. He was seriously injured and went to the San Ignacio Hospital for treatment. Since then he has been recovering at […]
A Belize City man pleaded guilty to Wounding before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith after he allegedly beat up his ex-common-law wife. Sixty year-old Wilbert Humes admitted to causing injuries to Karen August and this morning, while he pleaded guilty to wounding, he displayed remorse for his action. Humes was very emotional when he pleaded […]
Two Guatemalans nationals, thirty seven year old Cristobal Jesus Marroquin and twenty-nine year old Mauricio Garcia Bolo were detained over the past weekend for illegal entry. They were caught after they exited a bus at the Novelo’s terminal in Belize City. This morning, the duo appeared before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton and was told that because […]
Corporal Gino Peck will serve no jail time after he was convicted of possessing prohibited and unlicensed ammunition. Instead, the veteran officer, with twenty-three years of service under his belt, was sentenced to pay fines totally six hundred and fifty dollars for the offences. The sentencing was scheduled for nine this morning, but the decision […]
On May twelfth 2010 popular basket-baller Aubrey Lopez was abducted and then brutally murdered, shot in the head and then pushed from his own car in Belize City. Five days after Police charged the man who they say killed Lopez. Then twenty-two, Belize City resident Paul Jex was fingered by a minor who was allegedly […]
The mandatory jail term for drug trafficking conviction is usually a fine along with confinement. But today, forty-eight year old James Gibson escaped the full weight of the law because he had no previous conviction and he begged for the court’s leniency given the circumstances of his life. Last May in the village of Boston, […]
Since December, a prime parcel of land located on Chetumal Street has been the center of intense legal dispute. In a nutshell, the piece of land in Belama Phase One was leased to Bernadette Pickwoad, a Belizean who resides in the US. She has commenced construction because she plans to return. But in early December […]
Tonight, two men who were on trial for the gruesome murder of Rudolfo Villatoro were freed of the charge. After deliberating for hours, a jury of twelve on Monday afternoon determined that Guillermo Martinez and Nicodemus Rodriguez were not guilty of the murder. A third person charged with the same murder, Gilbert Lamb, was similarly […]
There was a sensational conviction in court today. A police corporal was convicted this afternoon inside the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith in a trial that began six months ago. The forty year old officer Gino Peck is looking at a minimum sentence of five years on each count for ammunition charges. The […]
But in the regional Caribbean Court of Justice, a judgment was handed down last Friday concerning a challenge to an amendment to the Supreme Court of Judicature Act. The parties to the CCJ appeal were the Attorney General of Belize as well as Philip Zuniga and others as respondents and the BCB Holdings and others […]
Also in the courts, a well-known George Street associate is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was accused of attempted murder. He is Brandon Tillett, aka “BT”, who is being accused of the attempted murder of nineteen year old Kevin Alvarez. This morning, Tillett appeared before the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie […]
In the magistrate’s court three grown men were arraigned for the stabbing of a minor. The trio appeared before Magistrate Hettie-Mae Stewart. They are fifty-four year old Joseph Vacarro, a fire fighter and driver of a Jane Usher Boulevard address, thirty-four year old Rupert Garnette, a resident of Oleander Street in Belize City and thirty-three year […]
Thirty six year-old Godsman Flores, a food vendor of Church Street in Belize City, appeared in court this morning for Failure to Produce a License to Possess or have in Custody or Control any Ancient Monument. Allegations are that on Tuesday, Flores had in his possession two Mayan artifacts, namely, a small Jade figurine, […]
Also before Magistrate Dale Cayetano, thirty-seven year old Roberto Gilharry walked from a charge of handling stolen goods. The matter was initially before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, but today, the prosecutor dealt with it before Cayetano who struck out the matter for want of prosecution when the alleged victim, Kwame Scott failed […]
A conviction has been secured for the attempted murder of Jesus Bol. The decision was handed down in the Supreme Court of Justice Denis Hanomansingh in the Southern Session of the Supreme Court on Monday of this week. Judge Hanomansingh said that after looking carefully at the facts of the case revealed during trial between […]
After being unable for the third time to produce any proper identification to prove her true identity, Camille Ferguson was spared jail time today. When Ferguson appeared before Magistrate Stephanie Gillett, this morning, she again failed to provide either a social security card or a passport. Magistrate Gillett told her that the court simply could […]
Beverly Castillo – she’s the former deputy in the Ministry of Natural Resources turned political aspirant in Belize Rural Central. She’s been making headlines right from the get-go, but it’s probably not the kind of headlines she prefers at the launch of her political career. The issue is a prime piece of land in Belama […]
Two young Belize City men were in court this morning for a preliminary inquiry into a murder they are accused of. The homicide took place on November 2012, at Three Stars Quality Chicken on Vernon Street. An employee Dennys Anthony Williams was shot and killed on the spot. Two caution statements from the accused men, […]
Late last week, the top brass of the Belize Defense Force and the Coast Guard concluded a visit to United Kingdom. Brigadier General David Jones and Rear Admiral John Borland were in London on an official visit. Top on their agenda was a meeting with the Ministry of Defense Minister, Doctor Andrew Murrison, as well […]
An eighteen year old youth, Alrick Lamb, is serving his first night of a fifteen-year jail term after he pleaded guilty to possession of prohibited firearm, ammunition and an extended magazine. The items were found in a car in which as many as six occupants were travelling in. The men were busted by the GSU […]
