He is no stranger to the law. In fact, in July of this year he and three others were arrested and charged for the mid-afternoon armed hold-up at the Belama branch of Scotia Bank on the Philip Goldson Highway on July second. The robbery ended in a crossfire with cops who were on mobile patrol […]
Justice Lord did not exercise any leniency for Delson Paguada, who is accused of the January twenty-third, 2018 shooting murder of Paul Jex – a reputed gang associate who himself had had a colourful history with the law. Jex’s murder occurred at dusk that day on Crocodile Street in the San Mateo area of San […]
Today, the body of popular artist Gilbert Alamilla, known as Mister Program, was interned at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in Belize City. As the funeral was making it way to the cemetery, a second suspect, who was wanted by police for almost a week, was arraigned at the Magistrate Court for his murder. Raheem Marsden […]
Condemned murderer Hernan Manzanero appealed his conviction before the Caribbean Court of Justice through a special leave granted by the appellate jurisdiction. Manzanero was sentenced in the Supreme Court to twenty-five years in prison after being found guilty of the murder of cab driver Domiciano Quixchan in 2011. The incident happened near a feeder road […]
Forty-five-year-old Domiciano Quixchan was fatally stabbed in the face and throat while transporting Manzanero and his common-law wife, along with their three-week-old baby, on a chartered trip. Manzanero had previously testified that a pair of men had entered the taxi, demanded money and then proceeded to kill the cab driver. Madame Justice Rajnauth-Lee, Caribbean […]
He has been in prison for six years, but tonight Deon Bruce is a free man. His extradition request had been meandering through the courts for as long as he had been behind walls. But the Court of Appeal this afternoon ordered his immediate release from the Belize Central Prison where he has been locked […]
Bruce promptly left the central prison and was picked up by family members. The Bruce family in Belize City is elated that he has finally been released after fighting extradition for more than half a decade. His sister, Jerrylyn says that Deon is excited to be free and safe at home. On the Phone: […]
Fourteen year old Tomari Jackson of Georgia, U.S.A drowned in February 2016 in the Sibun River. Jackson was in Belize with more than thirty other students on a school trip at Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The group went swimming in the Sibun River, which runs behind the sanctuary, and that is when he drowned. Jackson’s mother, […]
The wheels of justice are turning slow for a former cop. Back in 2008, Anthony Polonia was found guilty of perjury by a Police Tribunal in a sensational case of murder turned manslaughter involving the now deceased Ben Bou-Nahra and he was removed from the department. Polonio was one of the cops who reportedly developed […]
In the Supreme Court, a man who is accused of holding up a farmer at gunpoint and robbing him of his vehicle, farm equipment and produce worth over twenty-eight thousand dollars was today granted bail. Luis Tun’s attorney, Hurl Hamilton convinced Justice Antoinette Moore that he has no reason to flee the jurisdiction. He was […]
While Luis Tun was lucky to get bail, one man who does not share in that luck is Francisco Rodriguez. He is accused of a slew of charges that the Judge thought are too serious to allow him freedom while he awaits trial. Rodriguez’s attorney, Anthony Sylvestre, could not convince Justice Moore to grant him […]
Though there were no drugs to be found where the drug plane landed, a number of items were confiscated by police from the area. Codd was rearrested after he was charged. Shipyard resident, Isaac Petka, was also detained for alleged facilitation of the landing of a plane in an unregistered aerodrome. But charges are also […]
Corporal Eldon Arzu’s challenge to the Police Association election process continued on Tuesday. It was expected that the first hearing was to be held then but the matter was adjourned to a later date. Arzu is claiming that Commissioner of Police Chester Williams failed to obey the rules of the Police Association election process. According […]
Six persons, including a minor, were detained for the clandestine landing of a drug plane in Santa Martha Village in Orange Walk. Today, Noel Codd, the owner of a farm where the plane was found, was arraigned on a single charge of possession of prohibited ammo; in this case, a bullet allegedly found at the […]
During the interview this afternoon, attorney Dickie Bradley alleged that the police department planted evidence against his client. He contends that the ammunition offense is being used as a holding charge for Noel Codd. Here’s how he explains it. Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney “To charge Mister Codd with one round of ammunition for which—I […]
In the south, Senior Customs Officer Richard Garbutt and Junior Customs Officer Jareth Tillett are among a group of seven persons who were arraigned today in respect of charges brought against them for handling contraband goods in Punta Gorda over the weekend. On Saturday night, the men were caught red-handed as they were loading up […]
Police have cracked the murder of Dangriga resident, Andrew Flores who was killed on the night of September tenth. Flores’ brother-in-law, Whitfield Fisher Junior was captured over the weekend and this afternoon, he was arraigned in the Magistrate Court for the charge of murder. Fisher Junior lived in the same apartment on Kelly Street as […]
The Maya Leaders Alliance appeared before the Caribbean Court of Justice today in a protracted legal matter involving the Office of the Attorney General. This most recent hearing was for both parties to provide an update on the implementation of the Consent Order which was entered into on April twenty-second, 2015. As part of the […]
Prior to today’s hearing, both parties appeared before the C.C.J. on June third for a similar session. They succeed mediation proceedings last year during which a draft land tenure policy was being undertaken. Despite affirming a landmark ruling handed down by the Supreme Court in June 2010, the issue of communal land rights remains before […]
And this information from the courts: Claim Number fifty-eight of 2020, brought by Belize Brewing Company, Limited against Erick Ernesto Villalta DBA Mountain Cool, was settled in the Supreme Court of Belize. The claim was brought against Villalta due to his marketing and distribution of water in bottles branded with the Crystal Water logo and […]
The Sanctuary Bay saga was back before the U.S. courts late last week. A default judgment was entered on August twenty-eight in the U.S. District Court of Maryland by Justice Peter Messitte. The Justice granted the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for a default judgment against Andris Pukke, Peter Baker, Luke Chadwick, and Belizean John Usher […]
A cop has been placed on interdiction pending the outcome of a kidnapping case in the south. Police Constable Dwayne Sutherland Junior, not to be confused with the Commander of the Professional Standards Branch who carries the same namesake, has been charged for forcibly abducting a woman he is in a relationship with. The incident […]
Also in the local courts, a man charged with Unlawful Sexual Intercourse with a minor received bail on Friday. He is Edras Ville Bran. His bail was also for ten thousand dollars. The incident in question allegedly occurred with a fifteen year-old girl on July eighth in the Cayo District. At the time, the girl […]
This afternoon in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court, a senior employee of the Big Creek Group was arraigned in connection with the illegal voyage of the tugboat, AJ Ellis. Gustavo Carillo, the company’s shipping manager, has been charged and taken before the lower court on a single count of abetment to exiting Belize illegally. The arraignment […]
The number of COVID-19 cases sets a new record; we will have that coming up including the death of the first female due to the virus; we’ll talk to her grieving family. First we go to a late evening story. An immigration officer and a customs officer were today arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate Court […]
