And much further north, the remnants of a political storm had expectedly fizzled. There was no need for a forecaster to predict that Minister of State Mark King would be free of charges levied against him earlier this year. In the Corozal Magistrate Court this morning, charges of aggravated assault, threatening words and disorderly conduct […]
A man who has spent the last five years on remand for a 2008 murder will not go back to the Belize Central prison tonight. Twenty-eight year old Lincoln Sabido, a resident of Berry Street was accused of the first murder in 2008 when Norman “Mimi” Reyes, was fatally shot once to the neck. Sabido […]
A Belize City man was convicted in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court after he was found with a nine millimeter pistol loaded with nine rounds of ammunition. This afternoon, in the court room of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, an unrepresented Randy Jones, was found guilty of Kept Firearm and Ammunition without a Gun License. […]
The Orange Walk Town Supreme Court is also in session. Today, Isabel Mendez was convicted by a nine member jury of ten counts of incest. Mendez was tried before Justice Herbert Lord for having sexual intercourse with the victim over a three year period which spanned from May twenty sixth 2006 to April twelfth 2009. The […]
The trial of attempted murder against Mike Menjivar continues in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Menjivar’s house was raided in May 2011 by the Gang Suppression Unit; the raid started before five in the morning and concluded in the evening after five o’clock. Menjivar’s house was riddled by gunfire, and while there was no incriminating evidence […]
Twice convicted multiple murderers Patrick Robateau and Leslie Pipersburgh were in the Court of Appeal, just one of the their many stops during a legal process which has gone from the Supreme Court all the way to the Privy Council and back and has spanned almost thirteen years. The men were convicted in 2004 of […]
Also in court, four persons including two females, one a minor and the mother of a one month old newborn were in court today facing charges for drug trafficking. Earlier today, at five am, Ladyville Police raided the home of Maskall businessman Winston Bevans and found one hundred and one grams of marijuana in twenty-nine […]
The headlines and the country’s immediate future are both mired in court battles. The former managers of the registries and OCEANA Belize are not the only people taking on G.O.B. in legal wrangling. It’s a productive month for attorneys on both sides of the divide. So it was not surprising to find attorney at law […]
Fifty-five year old Viola Pook, sentenced to life in prison for the New Year’s Eve murder of her common law husband in 2008, appeared in the Court of Appeal today represented by Senior Counsel Simeon Sampson. In July 2011, Pook was convicted of killing forty-seven year old Orlando Vasquez after lighting him on fire inside […]
In magistrate court, a repeat offender made another scheduled appearance. Thirty-four year old Denfield Lemmott, was arraigned on a single count of theft when he appeared in the magistrate’s court this morning. Lemmott is accused of stealing a five-gallon Crystal water bottle valued at thirty dollars, the property of Joan Burke. The incident reportedly took […]
The case against Keon ‘Gambis’ Williams, accused of sodomizing a fourteen year old student, ended today with an acquittal of the charges that were initially levied on him in 2009. The incident reportedly occurred on an unknown date in November 2009 at the B.T.L. Park on Albert Street West. While at the park, Gambis, it […]
Finding oil, testing for the grade and quantity are only some of the hurdles that come with the petroleum industry. The ink on the contracts is also soaked in controversy. Today, attorney Godfrey Smith, acting for Oceana Belize and Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, presented his arguments before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Smith intended […]
Forty-four year old Peter King Contreras was escorted to the court of Justice Adolph Lucas this morning for trial for the murder of his mother-in-law. At the start of the trial, however, Contreras pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter of fifty year old Argentina Garcia. Garcia was found strangled to death inside an […]
A feud between two cousins on Sunday has resulted in charges being brought against the pair. This morning, twenty-six year old Vivian Martinez and twenty-four year old Lauren Young were arraigned before Magistrate Adolph Lucas Junior on charges of Damage to Property and Common Assault. Allegations are that Martinez destroyed a number of household and […]
We last heard the words of Mayor Darrell Bradley and Belize Waste Control in the same sentence on April twenty-second, 2013. On that date, attorney for BWC, Fred Lumor, sought to ask Justice Michelle Arana to cite the Mayor for non-payment of a debt which the Belize City Council has been ordered to pay. The […]
Mike Menjivar, the popular owner of La Cabana Bar in Belmopan, appeared in the Belmopan Supreme Court this morning. Two years ago, the full force of the Gang Suppression Unit fell on Menjivar and his family at their Belmopan house. At least forty-one bullets were fired at the house and the police said eleven shots […]
The second session of the Court of Appeal for 2013 commenced today with the panel of judges, including President Manuel Sosa, considering the appeals of two convicted murderers. Forty-one year old Glenford ‘Bucket’ Bermudez, a Hattieville resident, who was found guilty of the murder of his wife Raquel Bermudez, appeared before the panel but was […]
Twenty-four year old Leon Gray, a known affiliate of the PIV gang, was today arraigned on charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and wounding, following a shooting incident during which a Belize City man was grazed on the elbow. On June fourth, Malcolm Wagner reported to police that while standing at […]
Nineteen year old Calbert Roberts Junior appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith today, where he was indicted on a charge of burglary. The young gas attendant is accused of breaking and entering into General Shop in Biscayne Village on May twenty-sixth. Roberts reportedly stole four thousand, one hundred dollars in cash from his former […]
Thirty-one year old Kenroy Vanzie, accused of fondling the breasts and private parts of an eighteen year old woman, pleaded not guilty when he was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this morning. Vanzie, who was unrepresented, appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer, where he was read a single charge of Aggravated Assault of […]
A Belize City man will have to answer to a sexual offense for allegedly having sex with a teenage school girl last year on April twentieth. Twenty year old Ellsworth Hendy, a Belize City laborer, was informed by the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith on Wednesday that a prima facie case has been established against […]
This morning, attorneys for OCEANA and G.O.B. as well as COLA and the Belize Coalition to Preserve Our Natural Heritage squared off in front of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin who was asked to deliver judgment on two applications. The first, filed by OCEANA and COLA asked the Chief Justice to give permission for the appointment […]
Following an adjournment this afternoon, Audrey Matura-Shepherd gave an update to the media. She told News Five that the root of the injunction being challenged by government is the prohibition of oil companies, including Treaty Energy Belize, from carrying out exploratory activities in the wake of Justice Legall’s decision to nullify previously awarded concessions. […]
Five persons have been arrested for illegal entry, including a seventy year old man from Honduras, his two daughters, a cousin and a friend. Immigration officials believe that the group was being aided by Honduran and naturalized Belizean thirty four year old Andy Mejia from Orange Walk who is also the son-in-law of the elderly […]
In the Orange Walk Supreme Court, Jaime Cardenas was today convicted by a nine member jury for the offence of dangerous harm. He was tried before Honourable Justice Herbert Lord for the May 2009 stabbing of Rene Escarraga in his upper abdomen at a bus stop in Orange Walk Town. Without medical intervention Escarraga would […]
