A traffic accident which occurred thirteen days ago at the junction of the Burrell Boom/Hattieville Road has claimed the life of a Ladyville resident. As a result, thirty-nine year old Edison Dawson was charged this morning for traffic offences: Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct and Driving Motor Vehicle without due care and […]
A Guatemalan woman who has been living in Belize for over six years and is the common-law-wife of a Cayo resident has been given her ticket to leave the country. The deportation order means that she will be leaving behind her two children who were born in the jewel. Twenty year old Laudi Ortega was […]
Gary Seawell was in Magistrate’s Court today to hear a decision on a request for extradition to the U.S. Gary is the brother of Mark Seawell, and both men have been fighting extradition in the courts. Uncle Sam says that the brothers masterminded a drug trafficking ring between Belize and the U.S. between 1994 and […]
SATIIM, the Mayan communities in the Sarstoon-Temash buffer zone, U.S. Capital Energy and the Government of Belize had their day in court today – or at least the first day, since arguments are complicated and protracted. The claimants in the case are SATIIM and four Mayan Communities – Crique Sarco, Conejo, Graham Creek and Midway. […]
A fifty-three year old man is in trouble after a fifteen year old minor claimed that he rubbed his right hand down her breast last week Friday. When Medardo Cocom appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, he was slapped with one count of Indecent Assault and forced to leave the confines of his neighbor […]
An Indian businessman of Miami Fashion Store in downtown Albert Street also appeared in court. Bhishan Kumar Issrani is accused of hugging a female student inappropriately when she went to his store to purchase a shoe. According to the eighteen year old, she asked for the cost of a shoe, but instead of getting a […]
A Belize City youth, who has been on remand since August for burglary, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment today. Carlos Beltran appeared in court this morning and changed his not guilty plea to guilty before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton. Beltran was charged with burglary and handling stolen goods after the home of Eric Pott was […]
A female bar owner who allegedly attacked a businesswoman was today before the court to answer to two criminal charges. Twenty-four year old Delgy Vasquez from Ladyville was read charges of common assault upon Veronica Pacheco and damage to property in respect of Pacheco’s dress. Allegations are that on October eighteenth, 2013, whilst at Roses […]
Police Constable Ronald Sutherland ran afoul of the law on September twenty-eight when he allegedly assaulted his common law wife with a machete during a domestic dispute at a home on Police Street. The twenty-eight year old officer was arraigned in Magistrates’ Court this morning on three charges, including one count each of aggravated assault, […]
Another police officer who found himself on the wrong end of the law in 2004 has been spared from additional jail time when he appeared in the Supreme Court. Thirty-year old Burton Caliz, who has been on interdiction since the shooting death of a San Pedro resident Leroy Pilgrim nine years ago, appeared before Justice […]
After two weeks on remand, freelance reporter, Roy Davis, left the courtroom today a freeman. Two weeks ago, Davis was convicted of wounding Joyceln Davis when he punched her on the face. Davis pleaded for leniency but the Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith ordered him to pay McClari two hundred dollars by next week Friday […]
Two men from the Corozal district have been hit with a slew of charges after an attempted rape on a minor. The sixteen year old girl from Xaibe Village told Police that on October tenth she was walking home on the San Roque Road at around three in the afternoon. She observed when three men […]
Today one man lies critically injured in the K.H.M.H. and five others are recovering from wounds they received at the hands of a machete-wielding family in Cristo Rey, Corozal. According to reports, six youths were on the bleachers in a park in Cristo Rey making noise. Villager Guadencio Che approached them and asked them to […]
The Fisheries Department is reporting a major bust of undersized lobsters. A total of four hundred and thirty-one undersized lobsters were confiscated and four persons were detained. They have been identified Luigi Marin, Gerald Foreman, Hubert Palacio and Mark Sewell. The four are well known fishermen from the area south of Caye Chapel. This afternoon, […]
At a sitting in Trinidad, the Caribbean Court of Justice this morning heard an application by the Government of Belize in respect of a 2012 order on Telemedia dividends. At the time, the CCJ declared that dividends were not to be paid out to the government of Belize, the Central Bank and the Belize Social […]
In other news….the oldest inmate to be on jail on remand is an eighty-three year old P.G. man charged for killing his wife back in May 2012. But tonight, Manuel Cucul is home after he was granted bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars by Justice Troadio John Gonzalez for the murder of his […]
A Belize City mechanic who reportedly swindled money from two customers, who were also his friends, was before the court today to answer to two counts of obtaining property by deception. Twenty-eight year old Lizardo Ochoa, of a North Front Street address was arraigned before Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith to answer to the charges. […]
In Orange Walk today, a resident went on trial for the unlawful possession of a passport. After multiple adjournments, Matthew Williams, accused of multiple counts of Unlawful Possession of a Passport appeared in the Orange Walk Town Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Merlene Moody. According to police a sting operation at Williams’ home in July […]
Three Belize City men who were accused of the 2012 murder of ex-BDF Soldier, James Noralez appeared in court this morning for a preliminary investigation. Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith found that a prima facie case has been established and that Orel Leslie, Brandon Baptist, and Tyrone Meighan are to stand trial in the Supreme […]
A Belize City janitor, police say stole over fifty-five thousand dollars worth of jewelry, is tonight out on a bail of thirty thousand dollars. Reports are that between July eleventh of 2012 and October first 2013, forty-nine year old Dawn Baizar, a domestic of Balan Street, allegedly managed to steal from J.E.C. twenty-six pairs of […]
Justice was swift this morning for freelance writer, Roy Davis, who is spending the night behind bars. Davis was found guilty this afternoon for the offense of wounding and he was sentenced and remanded to prison. The aggrieved party is Joyclyn McClari, who testified in court today that Davis punched her in her left eye, […]
After deliberating since midday today, a jury of seven women and two men delivered a verdict to determine the fate of interdicted cop, Burton Caliz. Caliz was accused of manslaughter but the jury decided this evening that Caliz was in fact guilty of Manslaughter by Negligence. Caliz was initially charged with manslaughter back in March […]
A laborer of Boston Village was today charged for burglarizing the warehouse of Minister Godwin Hulse. Police believe twenty-three year old Marcus Mejia is the man who entered the Minister’s warehouse sometime between the twelfth and thirteenth of September. He allegedly made off with various pieces of equipment valued at ten thousand dollars. Mejia appeared […]
Fifty-two-year-old Michael Davis, a deacon of Crooked Tree Village, is back in prison after being accused of committing a sexual offense against a minor. According to the teenager, in July 2012, whilst in the village, Davis had intercourse with her. The pair was engaged in at least three subsequent sexual encounters, the most recent being […]
Chinese national, twenty-three year-old Jing Mao Tan, proprietor of Lucky King Noodles Factory, was arraigned in the magistrates’ court this morning after being busted for employing a pair of immigrants without valid work permits. On Wednesday, the businessman was arrested by a team of immigration officers when it was discovered that he unlawfully hired Honduran […]
