A man who claims he suffers from herniated discs and is claustrophobic was fined five thousand dollars when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser today and pleaded guilty to Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Supply Another. Sherman Mendoza was nabbed with just over two pounds of marijuana on a Morales Bus by Police […]
The six Central American men who were freed of drug-related charges on Wednesday and who were scheduled to leave Belize today are still in the country after one of their test results for COVID-19 turned out positive. Five of the men were taken before the Magistrate’s Court again today to face immigration offences, and Magistrate […]
Six Central American men who were, up until early this morning, on remand facing drug trafficking-related offenses are now free men. They were accused for the landing of a plane loaded with almost three thousand pounds of cocaine off the Coastal Road last September. This morning, after the prosecution withdrew the charges for lack of […]
Twelve teachers from Sacred Heart Primary School in Dangriga who were charged by police for attending a restricted social event were let off with a warning. The teachers appeared before the Dangriga Magistrate Court where the charges were dismissed, but not before they were given a warning. As we reported earlier this week, the teachers […]
The Magistrate’s Court remains closed today after COVID-19 was detected among staff. But at the Supreme Court, a man who is on remand for rape was today granted bail. Justice Antoinette Moore granted twenty-five-year-old Matthew Fuentes bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars in the form of two sureties. The bail conditions are that […]
He was rounded up in early September and remanded to the Belize Central Prison for allegedly coercing a grotesque sexual act between two persons who were being videoed. On Friday, thirty-five-year-old Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers was granted bail by the Supreme Court. Flowers’ attorney, Anthony Sylvestre was able to convince Justice Herbert Lord that Flowers poses […]
Eight-year-old Gabriella Corales lost her life on the afternoon of June eighteenth, 2019 when she was ran over while attempting to ride across a pedestrian ramp on her way to school in Belmopan. The tragic accident happened on the East Ring Road where the Standard Two student was making her way back to Our Lady […]
After hearing arguments virtually since nine o’clock this morning, at around three this afternoon, acting Chief Justice Michelle Arana delivered a ruling against the Belize Peace Movement. The House of Representatives had already been dissolved and a date of elections announced when the B.P.M. applied to the Supreme Court to issue an injunction to stay […]
According to Robert Lopez of the Belize Peace Movement, the request for an interim injunction was for the government to conform with section ninety of the Belize Constitution. Also joining the hearing virtually this morning as Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck who represented Lord Michael Ashcroft. Marshalleck argued that his client did not want the elections […]
According to Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay the B.P.M.’s application was entirely misconceived and extremely late in the process. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney for P.U.P. “What they tried to do at the last minute having in my view realized that the applications as filed was entirely misconceived. They said well in our claim form we asked […]
While the P.U.P. will not participate in the B.C.C.I. debate, it will be heading to court on Wednesday to fight an effort to stop the November eleventh General Elections. This is in respect of an application for an injunction to delay the elections until redistricting of thirty-one constituencies can be carried out. The P.U.P. says […]
An Asian man who has given his address as Prince Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo and Calcutta Village, Corozal was granted bail today, one week after he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison on six counts of Trafficking in Persons. Justice Herbert Lord granted forty-one-year-old Jin Zhou Wu bail in the sum of fifteen thousand […]
A man whose profession is to sell and advise patients on the safe use of legal drugs and medicines is out on bail for a charge of possession of almost three pounds of cocaine. Thirty-two-year-old Albert Requeña, a pharmacist of New Road in Belize City, was today granted bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars plus […]
In February 2017, Vildo Westby, now thirty-two-years-old, absconded to Mexico following a murder in San Pedro where well-known activist Felix Ayuso lost his life. Ayuso, who was a member of the San Pedro AIDS Commission, was viciously stabbed with a screwdriver and his body was discovered inside his home three days later, on February fourth. […]
Two more escapees were recaptured over the weekend, leaving twelve others still on the run since last week’s jailbreak from the Hattieville prison. This morning, Guatemalan national Oswaldo Perez and Luis Paiz were arraigned and sentenced for escaping from prison. Perez’s brother, who was outside the courtroom, says that Oswaldo was forced to flee prison […]
Fifteen escaped prisoners have been recaptured alive, arraigned and sentenced. Four of them have pleaded guilty and the others have been sentenced to one-year in prison. Some of those sentences are to run concurrently with whatever time they are spending behind prison walls. But that matter is not sitting well with the Commissioner of Police. […]
Turning to the prison break; a total of fourteen escapees have been recaptured; one was killed and thirteen others, between Thursday and today, were arraigned for escape charges. While nine have pleaded guilty to the charge and sentenced to one year in prison, four others are saying that they are innocent and were simply acting […]
Police this afternoon escorted stevedore, Rodman Welch of Faber’s Road in Belize City to the Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with the murder of Shakeem Dennison. Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford explained to Welch that because the matter is an indictable one, she could not take a plea from him and so she remanded him to […]
Belize City pharmacist Albert Requeña was remanded to the Belize Central Prison today after he was allegedly nabbed with almost three pounds of cocaine. Police allege that on October tenth, Requeña was apprehended with one point two six kilos of the substance in Caye Caulker. Residents in the area notified police of three individuals acting suspiciously […]
Corozal Chinese businessman, Jin Zhou Wu was today arraigned in the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court on three counts of Trafficking in Persons after police gathered statements from three women who claimed that from the month of June he was working them and withholding their travel documents against their will. Based on the reports of the three […]
Tonight, the police and B.D.F. have recaptured five more escaped prisoners; fourteen remain on the lam following Monday’s epic jailbreak from the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville. A total of twenty-eight inmates made a daring break that started at one o’clock and lasted until six when they made their way out of the AdSeg area […]
The San Pedro man who is accused of murdering his wife was brought to Belize City this morning for arraignment at the Magistrate’s Court. David Gonzales is facing a charge of the killing of Marisela Gonzales. The twenty-eight-year-old mother of one was shot to the head and her body disposed of at a dumpsite on […]
The Belize Peace Movement has filed an application for an interim injunction to stay the election date. The B.P.M. is asking that the Elections and Boundaries Commission be prevented from holding the general elections, until its case is ventilated in the courts. The B.P.M. is asking that the government carries out a redistricting exercise to […]
Executive members of the Belize Peace Movement today filed papers at the Belize Court General Registry seeking a Court injunction to stop the General Elections set for November eleventh. The Peace Movement, which has a pending court matter with the Belize Elections Department before the Supreme Court, is asking the court to stop the government […]
Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning remanded eighteen-year-old Barry Tillett to the Belize Central Prison on two counts of armed robbery after he pleaded not guilty to the charges. The incidents occurred on September twenty-third in the Mahogany Heights community off the George Price Highway. Police allege that Tillett and two others used a handgun […]
