Shamir Gonzalez was killed at the compound of the Louisana Government School in Orange Walk on Wednesday afternoon. Tonight, a seventeen year old is charged with his murder while a thirteen year old and twenty-year old Adoni Jah were also arraigned earlier today for abetment to commit murder. According to family members, Shamir went to […]
Errol Ferguson, the taxi driver known as “Lighta”, was violently stabbed to death at around seven a.m. on Thursday and it was suspected that the culprits were brothers. Today three siblings, twenty-two year old Michael and twenty year old Ryan Pook along with their seventeen year old brother were arraigned before Chief Margaret Gabb McKenzie. […]
In the wee hours of this morning tour guide, Dean Smith went head to head with Fort Point Security Guard Harvey Sambula at the Princess Hotel and Casino. That clash ended with Smith losing five teeth and Sambula losing his freedom. It all started at around one-fifteen a.m. when Smith pulled up to the entrance […]
Mexican national Jose Luis Robles Beltran was nabbed inside the Corozal Free Zone in late February with more than the prescribed amount of money allowed by law. Robles was also found in possession of a loaded Beretta pistol with nine live rounds of ammunition. He made the news then because his release was ordered even […]
Two cases of sexual offences ended in court today; one with a conviction and the other with an acquittal. This afternoon, the trial began against thirty-five year old Michael “Crazy” Arnold on a charge of rape. But before the Prosecutor, Kay Grant, could call her first witness, Arnold pleaded guilty to raping a fifteen year […]
And in the courtroom of Justice Adolph Lucas, a man charged with Carnal Knowledge and the woman accused of abetment to the crime walked free. The case dates back to December, 2008 when a twelve year old girl told police that she had sexual intercourse with nineteen year old Calvin Palma. According to the child, […]
Corporal Gavin Sanchez was shot several times and died at the San Pedro Police Barracks on March eighteenth, 2010. More than a year later, it is still not known whether the officer that pulled the trigger, Sergeant Paulino Reyes, will be held responsible for Sanchez’ death. The controversy surrounding the killing was compounded last October […]
In the Belmopan Supreme Court, arguments concluded today in the case of against interdicted police constable, thirty-six year old Manuel Hill for Abetment to Murder. Hill, who was stationed at the police formation in the Capital, was charged in 2009 and is accused of being involved in the murder of Taiwanese National, Hui Lin Chen […]
In Magistrates Court today, a K.H.M.H. employee was slapped with five charges after he had a few too many drinks on Sunday and assaulted his wife and two police officers. Twenty-eight year old Dwight Herrera pleaded guilty to one count each of Harm and Common Assault upon his wife, two counts of Aggravated Assault upon […]
An elderly man was lucky to secure bail in Magistrates Court today after he was charged for exposing himself in public. Sixty-nine year old Senior Citizen, Albert Garbutt aka “Reds” was arraigned today in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a single charge following allegations that on Thursday, April twenty-ninth, he exposed his private part […]
On April sixth of this month, five persons were charged in connection with a bank robbery at Heritage Bank in Orange Walk. The heist was suspected to be an inside job, and that was confirmed when police moved in on Samantha Carlos, the bank manager. She was arrested along with Ricky Valencio, Noel Usher, B.D.F. […]
Meanwhile, in the Orange Walk Court, thirty-eight year old Rangel Canul and thirty year old Felipe Correa had to answer to charges for Uncustommed Goods. They were busted in July 2010 and initially pleaded guilty to the charge. But after a testimony from Customs Officer, Jose Garcia earlier today, Canul took responsibility for the crime. […]
An ex-B.D.F. soldier, Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez” was convicted of the murder of his wife on Wednesday and today his brother was in court for threatening jurors. Thirty-seven year old Glenston Bermudez, a current B.D.F. soldier, pleaded guilty to two counts of Threat of Death and one count of Common Assault against two of the jurors […]
In court today, it was a bittersweet case ending for twenty-six year old Bryant Gentle Junior, who was facing five charges that are linked to two separate incidents. Charges of Wounding, Robbery, Kept Unlicensed Firearm and Kept Unlicensed Ammunition were levied after Gentle was accused of robbing a security guard at knifepoint and injuring him […]
Former police officer, Michael Diaz, appears to have taken up a new career as a chain snatcher. He was dismissed from the Police Department in December, 2010 following a Theft conviction for stealing a gold chain from Eberto Castellanos. As a first time offender, Diaz’ was spared prison time and his penalty was a fine […]
Just before five o’clock today a jury decided on the fate of a B.D.F. soldier who was accused with the murder of his wife. Raquel Requeña had separated from her husband, Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez in November, 2007, and when he found out that she had a new boyfriend, he flew into a jealous rage and […]
Forty-four year old Kirk Belisle was shot and killed in Belize City while repairing a rented black Chevy Nova near Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church on La Croix Street off Central America Boulevard on April tenth. Today a fisherman was charged with his murder. Belisle had retired for the night but left home when his […]
Also appearing in court today was thirty-one year old Michael Palacio who was charged with of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon a minor and Grievous Harm upon a female relative of the minor. Palacio was remanded to the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail. The first charge is in connection with […]
James “Raindrops” Swan Senior, the highly connected man whose house was raided on Monday morning, has been granted bail due to a health condition. Members of the Belize Police Department including the Gang Suppression Unit swarmed Swan’s family home at Mile one on the Northern Highway beginning at four o’clock in the morning. The search […]
This morning in the Supreme Court, Attorney Fred Lumor appeared on behalf of the Development Finance Cooperation (D.F.C.) before Justice Michelle Arana seeking an injunction against Northern Fishermen Cooperative. On April thirteenth, the coop was paid seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars by OCEANA Belize for the sale of two fishing trawlers in the heels […]
Early this afternoon, a fifty-five year old Belize City man was acquitted of the carnal knowledge of a young girl. Anthony “Chuwaah” Myvette was unrepresented in the two-day trial in the Court of Justice Adolph Lucas. Myvette was accused of the sexual abuse of the eight year old girl in early 2008 at the home […]
The case of two of four men accused of burglarizing the customs excise building on Ceasar Ridge in September 2009 came up in court today. But before the trial could start, Magistrate Emmerson Banner had to deal with two sureties for one of the accused who cannot be located to stand trial. Brian Young got […]
Last November, talk show host and news paper columnist, Glenn Tillett, sued Lois Young, Net Vasquez and the Social Security Board. Tillett is saying that both Vasquez and Young were in a conflict of interest situation when they each voted for S.S.B. to invest fifty million dollars of contributors’ money in B.T.L., a company for […]
In the Magistrates Court, the man who allegedly posed as a police officer for six months, twenty-one year old Aaron Wilson, has been just as convincing representing himself in court for the past two weeks. The alleged fake cop has managed to beat two out of four charges that are being heard at the Magistrates […]
Also in court, Magistrate Kayla Teck had to determine whether thirty-nine year old Mukesh Makhwani was illegally employing his nephew, twenty-three year old Indra Kumar Vaswani. Both men were charged back in February when Immigration personnel asked Vaswani to present his documents and he retrieved them from Makhwani’s warehouse on Amara Avenue. It was believed […]
