Inside the Courtroom of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Lungole Awich, family members, including Ann Marie, the wife of Rhett Fuller, waited tensely for what appeared to be the last chance for freedom for the wanted man. There have been hearings as far as the Privy Council and more recently before the Foreign Minister, to stop […]
Twenty year old Guatemalan illegal logger, Evelio Adelso Romero will be spending more time on this side of the border. Romero was detained over the past weekend by Friends of Conservation rangers, B.D.F. and Police who found him armed and logging illegally in the Chiquibul National Park. Earlier today he was taken to the San […]
The debate is heating up on a legal challenge on homosexuality. In two weeks litigation in a novel case brought against the Attorney General’s Office by Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement, UNIBAM, to decriminalize homosexuality is set to begin in the Supreme Court. Represented by a team of prominent lawyers, including senior […]
Police Constable Delia Hyde was released today from the Southern Regional Hospital after she was stabbed twice in the back by her ex-common-law husband. Hyde was on duty at the Dangriga Police Station when forty-four year old Kent McKenzie, her baby’s father, walked in and inflicted the stab wounds. A warrant for child support was […]
A police sergeant narrowly escaped going to prison today and was granted bail on a charge of wounding. Forty-six year old Jose Ortega was arraigned this morning for an incident that occurred in September, when he and Police Constable Leonardo Yama were accused of beating up a Magistrates’ Court bailiff. Yama was charged days after […]
Businesswoman, Loretta Palacio is in the news tonight for back-payments in GST. Palacio appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer where GST personnel requested a payment of eighty-nine thousand, six hundred and ninety nine dollars in unpaid sales taxes for the periods 2009 and 2010. The initial amount was sixty-eight thousand dollars, but that has increased […]
In broad daylight on Saturday on Curl Thompson Street, a mother claims she was attacked by in the presence of her children. Sherlene Garnette says her attacker is the daughter of her common-law-husband. This morning, Alva Moody, a cashier was charged with aggravated assault and wounding Garnette with an ice pick. When twenty two year […]
It’s common to hear of office workers moonlighting as musicians. But have you ever heard of the radio DJ who was a burglar in his spare time? Well, twenty-seven year old More FM Disc Jockey “DJ Motion” whose real name is Kevin Lara, along with a seventeen-year-old Disc Jockey, thirty-year old Ronald Michael and twenty […]
Two feuding women, eighteen year old Shanice Castillo and Shelmadine Jones, appeared in court today after a verbal outburst left Jones with a couple stitches above her eye after she was hit with a piece of stick. On Tuesday, November fifteenth, Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer remanded Castillo to the Belize Central Prison for three nights […]
There has been a spate of sexual abuses on minors and in court today a convicted sex offender was committed today to stand trial. Forty-three year old, Lee Henkis will face trial for committing an unnatural crime at the January sitting of the Supreme Court. He is charged for committing an unnatural crime and grievous […]
Two of three men charged with the murder of a Nigerian taxi man will not proceed to trial. Egbert Daley and Jermaine Zuniga were charged with the murder of Francis Chukwu which occured in December 2010 on Pitter Street in Belize City. Daley and Zuniga had been on remand for eleven months but this morning […]
But a trio that was charged with the crime of preparing to commit a murder will stand trial in the January session of the Supreme Court. They are twenty years old Tevin Abraham and Jareth Usher, as well as twenty seven year-old Jamal Tablada. In May 2010, police busted the men in a Crown Victoria […]
The case of UNIBAM for the decriminalization of homosexuality in Belize is catching fire on the international scene. It is seen as a first test case to essentially kick off a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality in numerous countries around the world. The legal battle will start in the Supreme Court on December fifth by […]
There is a clarification to make in respect of a story we carried in our newscast on Monday on the trial of Hilberto Hernandez who was accused of the murder of Javier Castillo in Corozal Town. Our court reporter stated that the judge admitted two caution statements, according to the attorney for the case, the […]
A sensational trial ended today in the Supreme Court, three men known as George Street bosses sued the Attorney General for false imprisonment following the murder of John Paul Saldivar that is believed to have been drug related. The court today awarded a handsome sum to the three men who had spent eleven months in […]
In the Supreme Court today, forty-one year old Kim Brannon was today found guilty of killing her common-law husband Anthony ’Antics’ Herrera in December 2008. Brannon confessed to chopping Herrera once to the right side of his neck while he was asleep in their home. During her confession she told police that she was quote, […]
On Friday just before midday, Belize’s most wanted Taiwanese/Belizean, Kun Lin Lee who is locally called “Kevin Lee”, known for his “ no pain no gain” slogan, was deported to Belize escorted by US marshals. Lee covered his face from the cameras that awaited him at the Philip Goldson International Airport. After spending the weekend […]
The saga of forty-two year old Rhett Fuller may finally be coming to a conclusion. After numerous court appearances and even an appeal to the Privy Council, Fuller continues to fight an extradition request by the United States Government. Fuller is wanted in Dade County, Florida as one of two alleged conspirators in an incident […]
Ernie Hyatt Miranda can barely walk, he is still recovering from a traffic accident but tonight he is having a brush with the law. Miranda and Edwardo Burns were arraigned in court this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Miranda had to hop his way into court as he is recovering from a broken left […]
Businessman Rhett Fuller was back in court today where Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay made a final submission on his behalf to avoid extradition to the United States. The forty-two year old appears to be at the end of the rope as he has ran through all legal options to maintain his freedom in Belize. Fuller, […]
A ten year sentence was handed down in a case of burglary against forty-two year old Edward Usher. It may seem a hefty penalty for stealing seven hundred and sixteen dollars in liquors, but surprisingly Usher welcomed the prison time. He admitted to being a drug addict and with six similar convictions, Usher told Magistrate […]
A husband and wife from Far West Street are facing charges after they gave their home a full makeover with stolen household fixtures and appliances. At around ten-thirty on October thirty-first, sixty-eight year old retired nurse, Julia Castillo, arrived at her house in the Moho Bay area of Belize City and was shocked to find […]
Another accused thief was in court today for allegedly robbing a Chinese storeowner and his customers at gunpoint this past Saturday night. Police believe that thirty-three year old Sandhill resident, Denver Stuart, was one of two armed men that robbed businessman Jie Liaj Penj of a thousand dollars in cash. The gunmen also stole a […]
In the courts, a group of court onlookers, all relatives of five men who are standing trial for murder, was detained on Tuesday evening near the steps of the Supreme Court building. Karen Smith, along with seven others, reportedly congregated outside the courtroom of Justice Adolph Lucas where the trial of Brandon Smith, Leon Gray, […]
Also in court, twenty-eighty year old Leon Leslie, a lecturer at the University of Belize was today acquitted for the second time of charges in connection with a bullet proof vest that was allegedly found inside his vehicle. The acquittal came after the testimony of arresting officer, Detective Constable, Ivan Galvez. The serial number that […]
