A clash over unpaid rent between a landlord and tenant has left the Belizean-American landlord in trouble with the law. Sixty-two year old Rachel Middleton appeared before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton on Tuesday and was read two charges for Aggravated Assault with a Machete and Harm to fifty-eight year old Gregory Brackett. According to Middleton, Brackett […]
A man who pleaded guilty to stealing his stepdaughter’s purse got a lucky break today when he was fined and ordered to perform community service rather that jail time. Fifty-one year old Glen Miller was found with the purse in his possession after his step-daughter reported that she had put it down on a table […]
This morning, the Belize Court of Appeal handed down a judgment in favour of media personality, Glenn Tillett. Viewers may recall that in 2011, Tillett had claimed declarations against Lois Young, Net Vasquez and the Belize Social Security Board (S.S.B.) that the decision of the S.S.B. to purchase fifty million dollars of B.T.L. shares from […]
A man accused of removing a forest product without a valid permit, has been acquitted of the charges. In February, Shannon Borland was hauling seventy-two pieces of Botan logs from Lucky Strike Village for Amin Awe. Borland was instructed to get the license from the gate of the premises, but the driver had no clue […]
Three men who were accused of stealing one hundred and twenty-five tons of brown sugar from B.S.I. back in April 2012 were today committed to stand trial at the September session of the Supreme Court. The men had their original bail revoked and were offered a new bail of twenty-thousand dollars each plus one surety […]
In early May, just prior to the village council elections, the historic Mayan monument, Noh Mul was grazed to the ground for road fill. But it was not until today that following up on directives from the Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal that four persons were arraigned in court. Denny Grijalva and his wife, […]
Two Belize City men are behind bars on remand after they were charged for a brazen burglary of a home on Arlington Drive. The men, thirty-one year old Ernest Hinds and twenty-three year old Julian Willoughby were allegedly caught inside the home on June twenty-fifth, in the act of making off with a television set. […]
Today a man convicted of trying to smuggle marijuana inside the Belize Central Prison escaped becoming an inmate there after he was ordered to pay a fine. Twenty-four year old Justin Richards was caught in February 2012 with one hundred and sixty-one grams of cannabis stashed inside two Sunny and Tan buns he was trying […]
A Guatemalan man must either pay one thousand dollars or serve a year as a guest at the Belize Central Prison. And even after doing one or the other, thirty-four year old Danilo Lunes Reyes will still be ordered out of Belize. Reyes, who has been here for three years, arrived in Belize in April […]
Thirty-seven year old Ralph Wellington Middleton, accused of attacking a security guard in mid-May, says his constitutional rights are being violated because he is being victimized behind bars. On Tuesday, May twenty-first, Middleton appeared before Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart, where he was read a single charge of Harm against forty-seven year old Jesus Angel Cruz. […]
While we await the decision of the Belize Supreme Court in the case of Caleb Orozco versus the Attorney General challenging the criminalization of homosexuality, the United States Supreme Court today delivered a landmark decision on gay rights. In the case of United States versus Windsor, the United States Supreme Court in a five to four […]
This morning, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) delivered a bombshell decision against the Government of Belize (G.O.B.). The CCJ discharged the injunction preventing the British Caribbean Bank from pursuing international arbitration against the G.O.B. under the UK-Belize Bilateral Investment Treaty. The Bank has been prevented from continuing its arbitration against G.O.B. since 2010. To […]
Corporal punishment is also not allowed in our justice system, but either a fine or prison time would suffice for minor infractions. A woman in Belize City narrowly escaped getting on the prison bus for a small amount of marijuana she had stashed in her underwear. Police say that on Sunday twenty year old Shanine […]
A Belize City man who terrorized a taxi-man after taking his cab was found guilty of kidnapping in the court of Justice Adolph Lucas. The sensational case stems from an incident which occurred in July, 2011. Thirty-nine year old Rodrick Williams told the court that he was driving his taxi in the area of the […]
In the court today, twenty-five year old Shannon Borland, was intercepted along the Boston Village Road in February, in possession of seventy-two Botan logs without a valid permit. He appeared in magistrate’s court today. Borland told the court that he believes he was deceived by the owner of the premises, Amin Awe, from which he […]
People hide their drugs under the bed, in their closet and in food cans. But a family was charged for drugs in a coconut tree. Six persons were taken before Magistrate Adolph Lucas today to answer to a single charge of possession of controlled drugs found during a GSU raid on a Belize City home. […]
Environmentalists are not only battling developments on land, they are also combating projects on the sea. Oceana and its partners COLA and the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage lost a significant battle today when Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin granted government’s application for a stay of execution on an injunction by Justice Legall. Chief […]
While Matura-Shepherd remains outwardly optimistic, she admits that the judgment of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin is disappointing. And while both sides remained cordial as they filed out of court today, comments Matura-Shepherd and Barrow gave to the media made it clear that it is going to be an all out war. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Vice […]
Just hours after thirty-seven year old Jerome Lamb was released from the Belize Central Prison where he had served three months following a domestic dispute, he was back in Police custody and facing charges for willful trespassing. The new charge arose from an incident where Lamb allegedly trespassed in the home of his common-law wife […]
A mother and daughter who got into an altercation with another woman might think twice before getting in another fight. Twenty-year old Tiffara Meggs appeared before Magistrate Adolph Lucas where she was charged with one count of common assault allegedly committed on Doris Guzman. She pleaded not guilty and was given bail in the sum […]
It’s difficult for NGO’s to stand up to large scale developers, so imagine what it’s like for one businessman to face the Gang Suppression Unit in Court, for attempted murder. It was daunting but Mike Menjivar was involved with a shootout in May 2011 at his home with members of the GSU. Menjivar spent some […]
The problem of illegal immigration does not only refer to human trafficking to the United States, it also includes migrant workers who are looking for a decent life in Belize. Two Guatemalans who were found without legal documents at a construction site off the Phillip Goldson Highway were today deemed prohibited immigrants, fined one thousand […]
A Belize City man is behind bars at the Belize Central Prison after he was caught with an illegal firearm and ammunition in the city over the weekend. On Sunday, twenty-one year old Stephon Anderson was searched by the Police who found a nine millimeter Smith and Wesson pistol loaded with eight live rounds of […]
A Belize City barber has been sentenced to eleven years behind bars for wounding a Police officer and for having an unlicensed firearm and ammunition in his possession. The conviction is in relation to a robbery which occurred at Senor Coconuts Restaurant in Belize City in July, 2011. Police caught up to one of the […]
A man who killed his mother-in-law was today sentenced to eighteen years by Justice Adolph Lucas. Peter King Contreras was not charged for murder after he strangled Argentina Garcia in December, 2010, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. On December fourteenth Police intercepted Contreras at the junction of the Philip Goldson […]
