Millions of dollars, at the last count, more than thirteen, are owed to the Sales Tax Department and they are cracking down on businesses that are in the red. In July a number of established businesses were issued with committal warrants for failure to pay. Well, today the Sales Tax took well-known attorney Lionel Welch […]
Cleo Robinson was shot on the night of February, twenty-third 2010; It took months to make an initial arrest and in August 2010, the well-known street figure, Jermaine Belgrave, was charged for attempted murder. Robinson died fourteen months later on June thirtieth of this year and today the charge against Belgrave was upgraded to one […]
The Banak Street home of Shana Tillett was burglarized on August twenty-sixth and today her neighbor was charged for the crime. Over two thousand dollars in items were stolen, including an assortment of children’s clothing, a cell phone, jewelry and as well as ladies tennis shoes and jeans. The accused neighbor is thirty-two year old […]
A fifty-six year old Belize City woman was arrested for allegedly stealing from a fast food vendor and she compounded her troubles when she lied to the cops about her name. Today, Sylvia Therese Hernandez, a Pitts Alley resident, was charged with Theft and Committing a Mischievous Act. She pleaded not guilty to Theft, which […]
The two men who were accused in 2010 of shooting the Prime Minister’s legal partner, Attorney, Rodwell Williams, will stand trial in the Supreme Court for attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm. That decision followed a preliminary inquiry held this morning before Magistrate Edd P. Usher in the case against […]
Two prisoners on remand for separate murders were left permanently paralyzed after a prison bus overturned on the Northern Highway back in May. Just over a week ago, both Crispin Moreno and Dean Davis applied for bail due to their condition. Moreno was freed of the Murder charge and Davis was back in court today […]
James ‘Raindrops’ Swan is tonight a free man following a brief stint in prison for a weapons-related charge stemming from a search of his family home a little over four months ago. A pre-dawn raid on the property of the businessman by GSU personnel on April eighteenth netted fifteen thousand dollars in various denominations of […]
Two seasoned street figures, Leon Yorke and Shawn Edwards, were today found guilty of two counts of attempted burglary and one count of damage to property. The men tried to break into the home of Michael Belisle in February of last year. They damaged Belisle’s burglar bar door before they gave up their attempt to […]
Belizean businessman Rhett Fuller, wanted for extradition by U.S. federal agents, appeared before Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington in Belmopan this morning. Fuller, who surrendered to local authorities on August twenty-second, was escorted from the Belize Central Prison to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by armed officers. The latest turn of events in Fuller’s […]
According to Fuller’s wife, Ann Marie, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with whom the power to extradite her husband rests, exercised tremendous objectivity during the hearing. There were several issues of concern for Elrington, including what is being considered an act of bad faith on the part of the U.S. Government. In August 1998, a […]
Samuel Price, the brother of first Prime Minister, George Cadle Price, was bludgeoned to death inside his home sometime between April fifteenth and sixteenth. Police initially detained two minors and an adult for questioning but they were subsequently released. Today, a Burrell Boom resident, Shane Gillett, was charged for Price’s murder. Gillett was escorted to […]
Auto Dealer, Malcolm Lamb was sentenced today after he was found guilty of three firearm related charges. The firearm and ammo were found on him on June twenty-seventh, 2009 as he stood at Dolphin Park located in the Western Landivar area. Police officers testified in court that they found an unlicensed pistol and ammunition in […]
Edward Buller, the alleged killer of Ella May Pinnance Bennette, was in court on Monday for his murder trial. The crown’s allegations are that on the night of June twentieth, 2009, Edward Buller killed Ella Bennette at a house on Central American Boulevard. The two were living together at the time when Bennette’s body was […]
The truce among rival gangs has held since the weekend, but in the aftermath of the confrontation between George Street residents and the Gang Suppression Unit, alleged gang members are still being arrested. Today Leonard “Ghost” Myers appeared in Magistrate’s Court, represented by attorney Anthony Sylvester, to be read two charges; Assaulting a Police Officer […]
Two minors appeared in the Belize City Family Court on Wednesday to face charges for gun possession. The first to be arraigned was a fourteen year old student who police say was busted on Tuesday with a point twenty-five pistol shortly after thirty-four year old Guy Fuller Junior was fatally shot inside his home on […]
Meanwhile, in the Magistrates Court, a construction worker and his common-law-wife were charged with Aggravated Burglary and Threat of Death in connection with a confrontation that occurred on August second. Augustine Montez and Verna Guzman are accused of storming into the home of Frank Trapp, armed with a machete. Police say they threatened to kill […]
Two weeks ago the Gang Suppression Unit uncovered an assortment of contraband liquors and cigarettes when they raided an apartment of the Ketz Apartment Complex on Lizarraga Avenue. Twenty-eight year old Ronell Gonzales was arrested and today he appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and pleaded not guilty to Recklessly Harboring Uncustommed Goods. The GSU recovered […]
Businessman Rhett Fuller went to court again today in his long battle against his extradition. Fuller, who handed himself in to police on the twenty-second of August sought bail but was not successful before Justice Adolph Lucas. He will remain at the prison until Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, makes a determination on whether […]
In the courts, twenty year old Clement Bol and a sixteen year old minor were today convicted of Robbery and Harm for an incident that occurred on September eighth, 2010. The victim, Christopher Pitts, testified during the trial that he was walking home from work when he was ambushed by four men. According to Pitts, […]
Twenty-six year old Lionel Wade started serving an eighteen month prison term today after pleading to Handling Stolen Goods. Wade and an unidentified accomplice are accused of robbing Jose Caballeros of his cell phone and bicycle on August third. Police recovered the phone at Wade’s residence on Central American Boulevard on August twenty-fifth, but the […]
A warden was killed and two inmates were left paralyzed after a prison bus overturned on the northern highway on May twenty-seventh. Twenty-four year old Dean Davis and twenty-nine year old Crispin Moreno, who are both remanded on Murder charges, applied for bail due to their medical conditions and the cases had very different outcomes […]
Belize City contractor, twenty-six year old Patrick Menzies, also filed a bail application in the Supreme Court today. Menzies was charged on August second with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding for allegedly hitting Police Constable Delwin Casimiro with his car. Justice Troadio Gonzalez granted him bail of fifteen […]
Three Belize City men appeared in Magistrate’s Court today on charges related to two burglaries which occurred in the Old Capital over the weekend. The Lawn and Garden Depot on Mercy Lane was broken into between five o’clock on Friday evening and eight-thirty on Saturday morning. Eight trimmer cutters and a chainsaw, a total value […]
A twenty-nine year old Belize City electrician got himself in trouble on Saturday night while visiting San Pedro. Twenty-nine year old Kareem Eagan was in detention at the island’s police station when he got into an altercation with four other men in the holding cell. Today Eagan was read four counts of Wounding for allegedly […]
There was a huge spectacle when Belizeans for Justice member, forty-seven year old Danalyn Murillo, was arrested and charged for Insulting Words and Common Assault against Police Constable, David Griffith. Today those charges were dropped when Murillo appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. Murillo was accused of approaching PC Griffith during a Port Loyola political […]
