A well known teacher, Ivor Nicholas of Our Lady of Guadalupe High School, was today arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate Court on a single count of carnal knowledge of a fifteen year old student. The incident took place way back on February fifteenth of this year. The student alleges she had sexual intercourse with Nicholas […]
But in the Belize City Magistrate Court, forty-one year old Elroy Saldano, a resident of Plues Street, was discovered on the property of Sergio Eck on the night of June twenty-third. Eck alleges that Saldano was attempting to burglarize his home located on Bishop Street. Today Saldano appeared before Magistrate Kathleen Lewis and was read […]
In news from the courts, three Colombian nationals appeared in the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court after being busted on Saturday with fifty-three parcels of cocaine, five nine millimeter pistols and two hundred and four live rounds of assorted ammunition. The men are twenty-seven year old Alberto Bedoya, thirty-seven year old Hernan Dario O’Quendo and forty-two year […]
On Sunday night a student was brutally murdered and today another student was charged with his killing. Around eight-thirty that night eighteen year old Steven Perez was on Dolphin Street when he was shot on the chest, abdomen and wrist. The St. John’s Junior College student succumbed to his injuries at the KHMH shortly after. […]
A resident of Rancho Dolores Village was set on fire and left to die on December thirty-first, 2008 and his common-law-wife is now on trial for Murder. Veola Elvira Pook has been behind bars since January, 2009 and her trial finally started on Monday before Justice Herbert Lord. The evidence began to unfold today when […]
Northern bus operator, Froylan Gilharry, filed for a judicial review of the revised bus schedules, claiming that he lost all his profitable runs. That matter comes up on July twenty-first, but in the meantime, Gilharry also requested a stay of execution of the new runs which were implemented last Sunday. Supreme Court Judge Oswell Legall […]
When we left you last Friday, three judges of the Court of Appeal; Brian Alleyne, Dennis Morrison and Boyd Carey had unanimously handed down a ruling which declared that the government’s acquisition of Belize Telemedia was unconstitutional. The full text of the one hundred and forty-nine page ruling was not read in court; but Justice […]
The Telemedia ruling by the Court of Appeal is not the decision from the court. The Caribbean Court of Justice, the final appellate court, has handed down a decision in favor of the Government of Belize in a case involving former P.U.P. ministers Florencio Marin and Jose Coye. In January 2009 both men were sued […]
But in the lower courts, Danalyn Murillo first made the news as the grieving mother of Teddy Murrillo, who was killed in February 2010. Since then she has become a member of the Belizeans for Justice Organization. But tonight, the forty-eight year old Belize City resident is in the news as a defendant. She was […]
Last week, Belize joined countries such as Iraq and Ethiopia to be banned by FIFA. And that is where the Football Federation of Belize led by its president Dr. Bertie Chimilio remains tonight after it filed for an injunction in the Supreme Court against the Government of Belize. The move came after a letter was […]
So what’s next? Well, the Prime Minister has already said that he will appeal that decision. But immediately after the court ruling, Dean Boyce and attorney Godfrey Smith headed to Telemedia’s main office on Saint Thomas Street. The first board meeting was convened with members of the previous board including attorney Phillip Zuniga, Edilberto Tesecum […]
In the Belmopan Supreme Court today, a twenty year old resident relived a horrific kidnapping and robbery, for which twenty-three year old Oliver Rodriguez and twenty-seven year old Solomon Marin Jr. are on trial. The victim, Leon Castillo, testified that at around three p.m. on August twenty-sixth, 2006, he made a withdrawal at a FirstCaribbean […]
Four persons who were nabbed on August twenty-fourth, 2010 with a stolen nine millimeter Sig Sauer brand gun, believed to have been used in the murder of fourteen year old Hellen Yu, which occurred two weeks earlier. Carmen Jones, Elbert Miller, Emmanuel Lemoth and Wilworth Anderson were also busted with sixteen live rounds of ammunition […]
Turning to the courts, allowing a ferocious dog to be at large; it’s not a common charge, but it’s the reason why a Belize City doctor appeared in Magistrates Court this morning. Dr. Raymond Silva is representing himself in the trial, which stems from a report by his neighbor, Renisha Diego that he allowed his […]
A coroner’s inquest into the shooting death of Corporal Gavin Sanchez concluded today and the final decision is just the opposite of what his family was hoping for. After deliberating for half an hour, the jury of three women and two men concluded that Sergeant Paulino Reyes acted in self defense when he shot Sanchez […]
There was good news in court today for La Cabana Bar owner, Mike Menjivar, who was in prison since a Gang Suppression Unit raid on May twentieth. Menjivar is facing nine counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault in connection with a shootout with the G.S.U. officers at his property. This afternoon, Justice Troadio Gonzalez, […]
Twenty-nine year old prisoner, Crispin Moreno, had a charge of Murder read to him inside a BERT Ambulance this morning. Moreno, who is believed to have been among a group that robbed and brutally beat Dr. Enrique Guerra, was charged with Attempted Murder. Guerra passed away on June eighth and the charges against four other […]
The Coye family spent almost two years fighting a Money Laundering charge that was brought by the Financial Intelligence Unit after one point five million dollars in cash were found at their home in 2008. Charges were levied against the family’s business Money Exchange International Limited, Michael and Marlene Coye, their son Jude, daughter Melonie, […]
A fifty-three year old ex-B.D.F. soldier is on life support after being shot on the head and shoulder on Sunday. Two high school students; a seventeen year old minor and eighteen year old Christopher Sosa were charged today along with twenty-eight year old Ashton Anderson for the attack on Romel Palacio Senior. All three appeared […]
A little over three weeks ago, bus operators effected a countrywide shutdown of the transportation industry when negotiations with government failed over bus routes issued to West Line, owned by a high ranking U.D.P. supporter. In the days that followed, temperatures simmered when a number of operators including members of the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative […]
When asked if he has sought the support of the Belizean Bus Association in his fight against the Ministry of Transport, Gilharry flatly stated that the association has been conquered and a culture of fear has disadvantaged some members from getting their fair share of the runs. Froylan Gilharry, Owner, Gilharry Bus “They are not […]
After the press conference, F.F.B. President Bertie Chimilio headed to Supreme Court with attorney Elson Kaseke to file an injunction, seeking to have the game proceed on Sunday. The case came up at two in the afternoon in the courtroom of Justice Minnet Hafiz. Chimilio sat ready to take the witness stand to enter into […]
In court, six persons were remanded to prison on Monday after being charged with Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods in connection with a string of break-ins in the Lake Independence and Belama areas. Today, a seventh accused, twenty-one year old Cassandra Humes of Berries Street, was charged with Handling Stolen Goods. Humes is accused of […]
Tonight a businessman is behind bars after he was picked out by a robbery victim in an identification parade. Twenty-four year old city resident, Richard Burgos, claims he was robbed on May twenty-first of this year by twenty six year-old businessman, Jaime Jeffery Villanueva. Today Villanueva appeared in Court before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez where he […]
In the Dangriga court, five police officers and a Customs boatman who were charged in connection with an alleged drug plane that landed on the Southern Highway since last November have been committed to stand trial at the Supreme Court. Sergeants Jacinto Roches and Lawrence Humes, Corporals Nelson Middleton and Renel Grant as well as […]
