Twenty-six year old Shawn Eusey was today spared from remand at the Central Prison following charges of theft and the aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon a thirty-one year old woman. The victim, a Sand Hill resident, reported that she was sexually assaulted by Eusey at around three-thirty this past Friday morning after he […]
Several persons including Mark Sewell, Rhett Fuller and more recently, Dion Bruce, are currently behind bars at the Central Prison, as they are fighting extradition to the United States. Well, just after ten this morning, Belizean national Khalid Jamil El Turk was saved from being sent to the U.S. Since October eighteenth of 2012, El […]
A forty-seven year old construction worker was spared jail time today for harming his ex common-law-wife. Darrington Williams was arraigned in court this morning for injuring Shawn Armstrong on Saturday at her house in the Saint Martin de Porres area. Armstrong claimed that Williams was embroiled in an argument with her and that he hit […]
The murder case of Jorge Vidal, accused of the December twenty-third, 2005 murder of Hortencio Contreras concluded earlier this week in front of Judge Denis Hanomansingh in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Vidal was acquitted on a technicality even before a jury could be empanelled to hear the matter. The trial judge raised the question of […]
While Jorge Vidal is a freeman, in the Northern Session of the Supreme Court, before Justice Herbert Lord, a teenager who was accused at the age of sixteen of a murder, saw the charge reduced to manslaughter. Tonight, Shawn Locke who is now twenty is serving his first night of an eighteen year old jail […]
In February 2008, two administrators, the Principal and Vice Principal of Escuela Secundaria Technico de Mexico, Juanita Lucas and Celia Carillo, were suspended. The teachers of the school had staged sick outs and threatened not to return to the school if the Minister of Education did not do intervene to remove the educators. The school […]
A handyman from the Ladyville area who claims he relocated from Dangriga to the City in search of a job is in trouble with the law for allegedly stealing from the person who hired him. Dalton Longsworth is accused of stealing a hundred dollar bill from Royann Riverol, who hired him to do some repairs […]
A Belize City man got off with a light fine today for beating another man on Coney Drive on Tuesday. Twenty-three year old Julian Cowling appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano today and pleaded guilty to a single charge of wounding. According to reports, he and another man attacked and beat up Eric Clarke while on […]
The trial of a Belize City cable technician who is accused of sexually abusing a young woman since the age of nine concluded today. At eleven thirty this morning, the nine member jury of five men and four women stepped into the deliberating room to decide whether or not Niccanor Fermin was guilty of six […]
Fifty-three year old Walter Logan, a resident of Santana Village, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being caught with a homemade shotgun on Saturday. Shortly after four o’clock that evening, police visited the village where a search of the area where he was standing yielded a crude firearm made of galvanized piping. […]
But if Buckley isn’t too clear on the result of his meeting at the K.H.M.H. today, Chairlady of the K.H.M.H. Board of Governors, Chandra Nisbet-Cansino, was. She told News Five this afternoon that as far as collecting the bill he owes to the hospital is concerned, Buckley will be given all the time and medical […]
A burglar who was caught in the act of breaking into a home may find his next residence to be the Central Prison if he is found guilty. The owner of the building, Dion Ramclam, was at his Belize City home when he got a call from his neighbors in Maxboro that his home was […]
On Thursday, the Court of Appeal rendered a split decision, described by Greg Ch’oc of the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management as a bittersweet outcome to a challenge brought by the Government of Belize against a ruling handed down by former Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. That judgment concerns the issue of communal land rights […]
After three nights in lock down at the Belize City Queen Street Police station, a family of six including a mother, her common-law husband, and their four sons, were all remanded to prison. The family was arraigned this morning on three criminal offenses: Kept Firearm, Ammunition and Drug Trafficking. On Friday, the Gang Suppression Unit reported […]
A Belize City businessman is serving three years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to a single count of drug trafficking. Police say that on Friday at around ten in the morning they were on patrol on Jasmine Street when they stopped by the home of businessman Andrew Burke. He allegedly ran to the back […]
On Thursday, the Court of Appeal issued a split decision ruling in the case of Mayan land rights in Southern Belize. On one hand, the Court re-affirmed the rights of the Mayas to their ancestral lands in thirty-eight communities in southern Belize. On the other hand, the Court held that government has no obligation to […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice via teleconference ruled this afternoon that a forty million dollar arbitration award won by B.C.B. Holdings in 2009 was not enforceable in Belize. Like most of the ongoing litigation between both parties it’s complicated, and this matter goes way back to a settlement deed which was signed in 2005 by […]
Forty-two year old Rudolph Lizama was charged for having an undetermined amount of crack cocaine in his possession and today, when he appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano, he pleaded guilty to the Possession of a Control Drug. Lizama, however, did not agree with the facts read to him and Magistrate Cayetano entered an equivocal not […]
In the Supreme Court, a jury of five women and four men acquitted twenty-one year old Maxwell Wade of two counts of carnal knowledge. Wade was accused of having sex on two occasions with a twelve year old minor. The Ladyville resident was charged after it was alleged that he had sexual intercourse with the […]
Maya Leaders from the south travelled by bus to Belize City for a ruling on government’s appeal in respect of a historic Supreme Court decision that goes back to 2007 and then 2010. In handing down its decision, the Court of Appeal this afternoon affirmed lands rights and tenure to thirty-eight Maya communities in the […]
Two fishermen from Sarteneja found quick judgment at the hands of Magistrate Leslie Hamilton today, though the first time offender got off easier than the repeat lawbreaker. Twenty-eight year old Oved Rivero and twenty-five year old Byron Cortez were caught red-handed fishing within the Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve. Rivero was slapped with three Fisheries violations […]
Belize City businessman Rhett Fuller has spent fifteen years evading the long arms of Uncle Sam. Fuller is wanted by the U.S. for his involvement in the 1990 murder of Larry Miller during a North Miami Beach drug deal gone sour. Since the US started extradition proceedings in 1998, Fuller has taken every legal option […]
A dispute over land has left one man critically injured in the K.H.M.H. and another behind bars while Police hunt for his brother. Sand Hill residents Eric and Prince Lockwood are accused of injuring a relative, Nelson Lockwood with an iron bar and rocks. Today Eric appeared before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton and was charged for […]
Last week, ten Belizeans were deported from the U.S. after completing their sentences for crimes committed in that country. Another deportee is currently facing time behind bars for crimes in Belize. After being deported to Belize thirty-nine year old Francis Ramos, had lived with the aunt of thirty-three year old Michael Young. That bond between […]
Today, the second policeman alleged to be involved in the shooting death of O’Neil Anthony Jones in February 2010 walked out of the Supreme Court a free man. PC Lazaro Catch was charged with Abetment to Murder after a Jamaican national identified as O’Neil Anthony Jones was shot in the back and killed as he […]
