Glenford Adolphus, better known as Easy Glenn, is an outspoken former employee of the Belize City Council and a well known face around the city. You’ll probably remember the U.D.P. activist from many television appearances, but tonight he is in the news for an old debt he hasn’t paid. Easy Glenn was picked up this […]
A high powered FIFA delegation is heading to Belize next week in light of the bad blood between the National Sports Council and the Football Federation of Belize. The NCS has decertified the F.F.B. and declared that it can’t represent Belize, but a national selection is in Honduras to play game two of a World […]
This week and for years previous to that, Winston Smiling has been fighting to get Steve Nembhard to pay him back six thousand dollars which he says he loaned to Nembhard as far back as 2008. This type of case would not normally make it to the news, but Smiling and Nembhard have high credentials […]
There are many cases of witnesses who refuse to testify, but the emerging trend is that victims show up in court only to say they don’t want further action. That has been the end of several attempted murder cases in recent weeks and it happened again today. Twenty-one year old Vince Mitchell was stabbed under […]
There was commotion in Lucky Strike Village on Tuesday morning as villagers took matters in their hands and detained three men who were caught stealing flood lights at the football field. Fifty year old Brian Davis, twenty-four year old Charles Bowen and eighteen year old Minor Anastacio Soler were tied to a post in the […]
Smiling versus Nembhard, their case was back before a magistrate today as tension went up notches between the two ranking members of the PUP. This morning, businessman Winston Smiling headed to court again in another attempt to recover money he claims he loaned to fellow party loyalist Steve Nembhard at the time of the last […]
According to Smiling’s Attorney Michael Peyrefitte, they are requesting that the money be paid in full because Nembhard has shirked the court order repeatedly and is now considered a flight risk. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney for Winston Smiling “When the matter was finished on the twenty-sixth of May the court ordered that Mr. Nembhard pay three […]
Not far away, in the Supreme Court, three of five men who were accused of the 2009 murder of John Paul Saldivar are suing the Attorney General’s office for wrongful imprisonment. Saldivar was shot several times in the Rocky Point area of San Pedro and his body was found in a shallow grave. Micah Thompson, […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions is appealing the sentences handed down to three Colombian nationals who pleaded guilty to a slew of charges on June twenty-eighth. Twenty-seven year old Alberto Bedoya, thirty-seven year old Hernan Dario O’Quendo and forty-two year old Yeney De Jesus Echavaria Manco were caught in Independence Village with fifty-three parcels of […]
Attorney Godfrey Smith’s Marine Parade Office was targeted by thieves on September ninth, 2010, but the six culprits were caught on surveillance cameras and the arrests were swift. Fredrick Waight, Jose Caliz, Charles Neal, Michael Fairweather, Kareem Gladden and Mark Alamilla were charged and pleaded not guilty to Burglary. But when the matter came up […]
Former village council chairman Walter Gillett, who was accused of embezzling money from Gracie Rock Village Council’s Atlantic Bank account, was today acquitted of four counts of obtaining property by deception. The forty-one year old appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to answer charges that he withdrew a total of nine thousand, eight hundred dollars from […]
They belong to the same party, that’s the People’s United Party and both can possibly be described as high profile soldiers. But there’s bad blood between Winston Smiling and Steve Nembhard over thousands of dollars that Nembhard reportedly owes Smiling. Despite promises to pay, Nembhard had not and so Smiling went to court. But Nembhard […]
Late last year, a chartered plane, coming from Haiti, landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport in what turned out to be a major immigration scandal. The passengers were originally passed off as Japanese, but it was later discovered that they were in fact Chinese nationals believed to be using Belize as a staging point […]
In May we reported on a Buttonwood Bay resident who was busted after he swindled over two thousand dollars from three persons by claiming he was selling land for Minister Anthony “Boots” Martinez. Well, two more victims have surfaced and forty-four year old William Lopez was back in court today on two counts of Obtaining […]
Two couples were charged today in connection with a burglary at Saint Agnes Primary School in La Democracia, which occurred on June thirtieth. Twenty-three year old Rafael Burns, his girlfriend, twenty-three year old Miriam Bladden, twenty year old Lydia Martinez and her boyfriend, twenty-four year old Andrew Clarke were arraigned on a single count Handing […]
A sensational murder trial ended today in the Supreme Court. A woman was tried for setting her common law husband on fire. She is fifty-four year old Veola Pook and she was found guilty of his murder. At midday a jury of eight men and four women retired to the deliberation room and emerged almost […]
A woman who was working for a few days in the home of Wendy Castillo, the wife of well known P.U.P. supporter, Linsford Castillo, was tried in court today after her employer became a victim of a crime that left her one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars short of jewelry and a cell phone. […]
Remember Jose Luis Robles Beltran? He is the Mexican National who claimed to be a soldier when he was busted at the Commercial Free Zone with a firearm, ammunition and US cash. Robles was taken to court, but his sentencing caused a controversy because he was sentenced to only two years in prison after he […]
Also in court, two persons were charged in connection with two recent murders. Twenty-nine year old tour guide, Guillian Hernandez was arraigned late Wednesday evening for the murder of Orlando Rodriguez, who met a horrific death on Sunday in Franks Eddy Village. Hernandez, who is from St. Matthews Village, appeared before Belmopan Magistrate, Adolph Lucas. […]
In court news, there is a conviction and an acquittal to report tonight. Enrique Pandy, also known as “Red Rat” was convicted of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature for molesting a young girl, who was only five years old. Pandy was unrepresented during the trial, which concluded on Tuesday evening and Magistrate Albert Hoare […]
Over at the Supreme Court, two men walked from charges of Attempted Murder. The victim, Elton Bradley, was shot four times on May twenty-ninth, 2009 and because one of the bullets was lodged near his spinal cord, he was almost paralyzed. But today Bradley walked into court and chose not to testify, saying that he […]
A family of nine, including three minors, spent three days in lockdown and appeared in court on charges for rounds of unlicensed ammunition that were found in their yard on Neal’s Pen Road. Eighteen year old John Fuller was not among the group of accused persons, but he appeared in court on Monday, claiming that […]
In Magistrate Court today, three charges were read to nineteen year old Brian Vasquez who is accused of breaking into a house in Southside Belize City and trying to rape an eight year old. The teen appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer and pleaded not guilty to Attempted Rape, Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature […]
A family of nine, including three minors, was trooped to the Magistrate’s Court today where they appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford to face ammunition related charges following the discovery of four rounds of live ammunition. A search of a residence on Neal’s Pen Road on Friday yielded the bullets which were hidden near a septic […]
A man accused of rape and robbery was found not guilty this evening by a jury of five women and four men. Deliberation lasted four hours and the decision was unanimous in the case against twenty-seven year old Kareem Williams. The jury had doubts about Williams’ identity because he pointed out to the court that […]
