The Sarstoon Temash Institute of Indigenous Management (SATIIM) will be hosting a press conference on Tuesday, to discuss a claim filed in the Supreme Court of Belize by SATIIM and the buffer communities of the Sarstoon Temash National Park. Executive Director Gregory Ch’oc is currently visiting the buffer communities of Barranco, Midway, Sunday Wood, Conejo […]
The habeas corpus application hearing of drug suspect Mark Seawell was adjourned for the umpteenth time this morning in the courtroom of the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. In his previous appearance on July twelfth, the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin noted that Seawell’s attorney Arthur Saldivar was not acting with the urgency the hearing merits and […]
The last murder in the city occurred eleven days ago when twenty-one year old Jamal Anthony Neal was gunned down on July eighth. Today, a University of Belize student, Jedd Burgess of Tibruce Street located in the Saint Martin’s de Porres area, Belize City, was taken to court for the homicide. Burgess, who was unrepresented […]
Another man is on remand for an alleged indecent assault upon a minor. Edilmiro Oliver appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to answer to a single charge of aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon an eight year-old girl. The incident allegedly occurred on July first, 2013 and Oliver is said to have touched […]
Fifty-year-old Charles Bucknor, a carpenter of a Belize City address, remains tonight on lockdown at the Belize Central Prison after being denied bail for committing the crime of aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon a twelve-year-old girl. It is reported that on Tuesday, Bucknor performed oral sex on the minor. In court today, Bucknor, […]
Twenty-year-old Trevor Jones, an inmate at the Belize Central Prison, will have to spend a longer prison term and pay a hefty fine. Jones has been sentenced to an additional six years in detention and ordered to pay a whopping twenty thousand dollars, following the discovery of two small quantities of marijuana concealed in the […]
Earlier this year, Belize City Mayor, Darrell Bradley appeared in court—not as a legal practitioner, but for contempt in respect of a garbage debt owed to Belize Waste Control to the tune of two point three million dollars. After several trips before Justice Michelle Arana, on June tenth, the Council was given approximately a month […]
A San Pedro resident has been acquitted of a murder charge by Justice Denis S. Hanomansingh in the Dangriga Supreme Court. The murder occurred on September 12, 2009 at Johnson’s Store in Big Falls, Toledo District. Twenty three year old Gabriel Salazar was accused of the murder of Francis Johnson, the store owner, during a […]
Three alleged gang members who were deported from the US have been arrested and charged. Roger Anthony, who has said that he is the leader of the Ghost Town Crips, was arrested last Thursday when he was seen associating with reputed affiliates of the Ghost Town Crips Gang. He has been charged for Associating with […]
A jury of six men and three women deliberated for hours to decide the fate of a fifty-five year old man accused of attacking another man. Romonio Garica was initially charged with Maim upon Alfredo Herrera but later indicted only for the Use of Deadly Means of Harm with Intent to Cause Grievous Harm. The […]
A pair of well-known U.D.P. members, thirty-one year old Brian Edward Audinett, better known as “Yellow man”, along with thirty year old Zone Inspector for the Ministry of Housing, Allan Dale Kelly, was jointly charged with six criminal offenses in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court earlier today. In a report to police, forty-four year old Phillip […]
On Thursday afternoon, sometime around three o’clock, twenty-eight-year-old Deon Bruce was arrested by personnel from the Anti-Drug Unit before being escorted to the Queen Street Police Station, where he was held pending extradition to the United States. Bruce is wanted in Chicago on a slew of charges, including murder, attempted murder and possession of a […]
In another extradition attempt, the case against Mark Seawell, wanted in the United States on drug-related charges, has been adjourned yet again, following a medical emergency which impeded attorney Arthur Saldivar from appearing on his behalf. Seawell has been languishing in prison since being detained a few years ago and today Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin […]
Thirty-nine year old Chrysanthus Cal, a handyman employed by the Simon Quan family was today convicted of two counts of handling stolen goods. The goods in question are a diamond ring and a pair of gold earrings which are the property of Edith Quan stolen between June twenty-eighth and June twenty-ninth. Cal was arrested after […]
On Tuesday night, eighteen-year-old Everal Cardinez was shot while riding a bicycle along Jones Street. The Hattieville resident was in the company of a friend when they were accosted by a trio of men, one of whom produced a handgun and opened fire. Cardinez was injured on the left arm and left side of his […]
The Belize Fisheries Department was on routine checks at restaurants in the Ladyville area when they busted a restaurant owner in possession of conch. Shubin Yu, the owner of Benny’s Restaurant, was caught with the out of season seafood. This afternoon, Yu who was unrepresented, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to answer to a […]
In broad daylight on Monday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints located on Cemetery Road was burglarized. The culprits have been identified as two minors and twenty-two year old Jahleel Morera, a resident of Lakeview Street who lives in the vicinity of the church. This morning, the trio appeared in the Belize […]
A Guatemalan national is in big trouble with local authorities after he was busted in the west on Tuesday with over seventeen pounds of weed. Just after ten a.m., San Ignacio Police intercepted a B.B.O.C. bus at the corner of Fifth Street and Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio Town. During a search, eighteen year […]
While the church is looking to its next day in court, a man accused of a heinous crime may see himself standing before a judge and jury once again. In October 2009, the house of an elderly couple in the Freetown Sibun area was invaded and burglarized. The woman was also raped in the presence […]
Time is also the mind of one of three foreign nationals. This morning, the three illegal immigrants were charged for separate offenses. They have been identified as Honduran nationals twenty six year old Esvely Ramos Castro, whose permit expired in April and twenty four year old Jairo Anibal Sanchez Banegas along with fifty- one year […]
He once stole her heart…but his second attempt was not to steal her love, but items from her home. Twenty-seven year old Darrington Lauriano, a carpenter of Castle Street, was taken to court today for a burglary at Renesha Wills’ house. On May twenty-seventh, Lauriano allegedly went to the Booths Crescent house and stole Wills’ […]
The Gang Suppression Unit continues to reduce the supply of marijuana on the streets. On Thursday evening, the GSU went on an Anti-Drug Operation on Neal’s Pen Road at the home of Cecil Flowers and his wife, Cherrymae. Police say Cecil handed over three point three grams of cannabis which he had in his possession. […]
A Haitian national accused of having sex with an under-aged girl on three separate occasions is tonight a free man. Thirty-two year old Patrick Laurent’s trial began on Monday and concluded with his freedom Wednesday evening before the Supreme Court of Justice Adolph Lucas. He was charged with two counts of Carnal Knowledge of a Child […]
On the morning of July sixth, 2008, the bodies of Michael and Donna Hill were found in bushes close to their home in Cristo Rey Village, Cayo District. They were both shot at close range; one of their vehicles, laptops and personal items and money had been stolen. Police detained Jodean Vidal and Michael Lamb. […]
Tonight, a Senior Immigration Officer, who was accused of abusing his authority by raping and threatening a Guatemalan waitress with deportation, is a free man. Thirty-nine year old Winston Arzu was stationed in San Pedro when he was accused of raping the woman on five separate occasions between January and March, 2010. The woman, who […]
