A report on today’s senate meeting is coming up shortly, but we go to the courts. Well-known poet and entertainer, Leroy “The Grand Master” Young, a resident of Pinks Alley in Belize City was arraigned this morning in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith on forgery charges. According to police, Carlos Walker, […]
A woman was stabbed outside a club on Monday night and police believe they have been able to crack the case. Today, twenty-nine year old Denay Gillett, a resident and cashier of Fern Lane in Belize City, was arraigned for wounding twenty-seven year old Michelle Gordon. Gillett, who was unrepresented, appeared before Magistrate Clive Lino […]
A police officer is before the courts for criminal charges against a female cop. Thirty year old Police officer Randolph Scott is accused of aggravated assault of an indecent nature and harm upon a female woman police officer. The interdicted cop appeared before Magistrate, Dale Cayetano in Court on Monday and pleaded not guilty and […]
A jury of nine persons, six females and three males has decided the fate of a Belize City man, twenty- one year old Diondray Mckoy accused of the June twenty-third 2009 attempted murder of Everal Gray. Gray was shot on Queen Charlotte Street in Belize City .The jurors stepped into the deliberating room this afternoon […]
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin this morning began hearing arguments on the case of Social Security Board (S.S.B.) versus Sunshine Holdings Limited, one of the many former shareholders of Belize Telemedia Limited (B.T.L.) – in its case, twenty-two point three-nine percent of all shares in trust for B.T.L. employees. Those shares were acquired by the Barrow […]
The trial of San Pedro fisherman Harrison Jacobs, charged with the murder of twenty year old Francis Figueroa, ended in a nolle prosequi before Justice Adolph Lucas today in the Supreme Court. Ten witnesses had testified in the trial which was heard by Justice Lucas alone without a jury, but Crown Counsel Shanice Lovell had […]
Twenty-two year old Lloyd Elijio has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for the October 2009 attempted murder of Mark Lord. Lord was shot on Hyde’s Lane but survived the incident and testified at trial. Elijio was found guilty last week, and this morning, Justice Troadio Gonzalez was prepared to listen to […]
The Court of Appeal handed down a number of decisions today. This afternoon, it ruled in favour of Dunkeld International Investments Limited, one of the beneficiaries of the Telemedia shares that were acquired by the Government in 2009. The Government had sued Dunkeld and obtained an injunction from the Supreme Court preventing Dunkeld from proceeding […]
Tonight, we can report that a female inmate at the Belize Central Prison is home on bail. Thirty-six year old Jaziba Nasser is an eight months pregnant woman who was incarcerated last Thursday along with her husband, Nazim and their two teenage sons, Jamil and Hilal. Their arrests and subsequent remand came following the discovery […]
It was with the assistance from friends of the Nasser family and members of the Lebanese Community who posted bail and assisted with the process that this afternoon, Jaziba Nasser, was released from the confines of the Belize Central Prison. While not revealing too much information on the case, Ahmir Zriba told News Five that […]
Businessman Michael Coye is home tonight. The Court of Appeal granted Michael, the sixty-seven year old former proprietor of Money Exchange International Limited, bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars pending appeal of his conviction for money laundering offenses two years ago. Michael, his daughter Melonie and two employees along with the company were […]
In June of this year, media personality Glenn Tillett’s case against Lois Young, Nestor Vasquez and the Social Security Board was freed to continue at the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the then-Acting Chief Justice Samuel Awich made at an initial hearing. Today, the substantive matter was heard before […]
In the afternoon session, Dr. Lloyd Barnett, who appeared for Vasquez and Young, seemed to suggest that the transaction did not involve B.T.L. directly and that S.S.B. needed to diversify its investments. Neither Vasquez nor Young, he said, gained anything personally from the sale. But according to Tillett, that doesn’t matter. He tells us why. […]
Finally, we asked Tillett whether, if the court rules his way and finds the conflict of interest he proposes, there would be “a chaotic situation” as described by Doctor Barnett in court. He charges that it would be difficult to reverse the transaction which would cause financial loss to the Board and its contributors, the […]
Late this evening, CIB personnel rushed over four Belize City men to court to charge them in connection with a murder and robbery that occurred on midday last Friday. This evening, twenty-one year old Alton Bailey, along with Mile eight resident and contractor, Roger Hernandez, and twenty-five year old Roger Concepcion Middleton, were jointly charged […]
A Belize City bus conductor will have to put up a defense in the Supreme Court for a charge of carnal knowledge of a thirteen-year old school girl for which he was charged with back in July 2012 of last year. The preliminary inquiry into the case concluded before the Senior Magistrate, Sharon Frazer where […]
On Monday in the Supreme Court, Justice Adolph Lucas wrapped up a trial on a charge of murder for forty-nine year old taxi driver Vincent Tillett. On November twelfth, Justice Lucas will give his ruling in the case, which is being heard without a jury. Tillett is accused of stabbing to death twenty-three year old […]
Also in the courts, Special Constable Barrington Brown, who works as a cabinet maker changed his not guilty plea to guilty of beating of his wife during a domestic dispute on May fourteenth, 2013. The interdicted officer pleaded guilty to wounding his wife, Sharon Brown because his wife provoked him. The Chief Magistrate, Anne […]
Twenty-three year old Jane Usher Boulevard resident, Albert Moody, today appeared in the Magistrate’s Court related to a shooting incident in Belize City on October twentieth. Moody has been charged with two counts each of Attempted Murder and use of deadly means of harm, and one count each of dangerous harm and wounding on twenty-seven […]
A jury of five men and four women today convicted twenty-two year old Lloyd Elijio of Belize City for the attempted murder of Mark Lord in October of 2009 in the Supreme Court of Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Elijio was accused of shooting Lord in the chest around twelve-thirty in the afternoon of October twenty-fifth, 2009 […]
The Court of Appeal today ordered a new trial for forty-three year old Kimberly Brannon, also known as Kimberly McLaughlin, and set aside her conviction and sentence of life imprisonment on a charge of murder. Brannon was convicted in November of 2011 for the murder of her common-law husband, Anthony “Antics” Herrera, a race jockey […]
It has been a month since a near fatal traffic accident occurred on the Burrell Boom/Hattieville Road. As many as four vehicles were involved and five persons were injured. The driver of the vehicle was served with a notice of intended prosecution in September. But on Wednesday, that driver, Godfrey Garcia, was escorted to the […]
The trial of twenty-five year-old Belizean, Michael Alexander Dawson for kept firearm and ammunition began two months ago; it concluded today in the Courtroom of Magistrate Dale Cayetano. Dawson was found guilty of two firearm related offenses and sentenced to two, five years jail term. His sentence is to run concurrently so he will only […]
On Wednesday SATIIM, Mayan communities, US Capital Energy and the Government met in court to argue for a ruling on rights – Mayan rights to communal lands versus the government’s rights to allow drilling on that land. The first day was spent with attorney Eamon Courtenay making his submission on behalf of SATIIM and the […]
In late July of 2012, two members of the Coye Family along with two of their employees were convicted of money laundering under the Money Laundering and Terrorism Act. Melanie Coye and her father, sixty-six year old Michael Coye were sentenced to three years behind bars. They are appealing the conviction, and today appeared in […]
