Forty-one year old Mark Conorquie, a resident of Carmelita Village who was found guilty of causing death by careless conduct after knocking down Maurice Sedacey in 2009 was today fined for the fatality. On July twenty-seventh, 2009, fifty-nine year old Sedacey was riding his bicycle along the Northern Highway in the area of Sand Hill […]
There have been constant reports of harassment of witnesses to crimes. As recent as a week ago, the police asked the media not to report that a murder witness had been threatened. But friends of a man accused of robbery have allegedly been persistent in their attempts to unlawfully end the case. It started as […]
Guatemalan National, twenty-three year old Manuel De Jesus Lopez Gomez, was charged with four offences following the stabbing of Clive Hyde on September nineteenth 2009. In January, the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew the charges of Attempted Murder and Dangerous Harm and Lopez was later granted bail. His trial concluded late Monday evening, when Lopez […]
A fifty-four year old taxi driver was taken for a ride to Hattieville today, but he ended up at the Belize Central Prison. And Donovan Reid will remain behind bars until April twenty-seventh when he returns to court on a charge of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. The alleged victim is a thirteen year […]
The prosecution in the murder re-trial of Francis Robateau and Leslie Pipersburgh closed its case today after calling twenty-one witnesses. The jurors, judge, the accused as well as their attorneys and court orderlies were present at the locus this morning at the Bowen and Bowen compound on Slaughterhouse Road for clarification of evidence given during […]
A few days ago, U.S. authorities reported that they had smashed an international pedophile ring and rescued two hundred and thirty-four children. This Tuesday, an elderly U.S. citizen was indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin for “traveling in foreign commerce and engaging in and attempting to engage in illicit sexual […]
In other news, there’s a developing story in the tourism industry tonight. A major tour operating company has had its license revoked, at least temporarily. It follows the death of fifty-nine year old Diana Mechling on February second of this year. Mechling was killed when the propeller on the boat she had traveled on to […]
Will Sergeant Paulino Reyes the officer who shot and killed Corporal Gavin Sanchez be found responsible for the death of the young officer? That is what a coroner’s inquest that got underway today before five jurors will determine. Six persons were called to give testimony, including police officers and B.D.F. privates who were stationed on […]
Nineteen year old Raylene Dyer went missing last October and while her body was never found, it is believed that she was beheaded and thrown into a river near Roaring Creek. Four residents from the Roaring Creek and Belmopan areas were charged for Dyer’s murder and today they appeared in court in the Capital City. […]
At age forty-eight, Joseph Bevans Junior has as many as nine convictions on his rap sheet; most of them for crimes of dishonesty. On March eighteenth, he added another crime to his list when he allegedly broke into a house, owned by Kevin Graham, in the Western Paradise area. Bevans was caught as he left […]
While police are yet to make arrests in the weekend’s homicides, a fisherman was brought to the Belize City Magistrates Court for a crime he allegedly committed in San Pedro Town. Twenty-one year old Jamie Young is accused of raping a thirty-eight year European woman on March seventeenth and he was arraigned “en camera” today […]
The Maya land rights case was initially won in June 2010 by thirty-eight southern villages. The Supreme Court legally allowed communal land rights which has been the traditional way of life practiced by the Mayas. But the government resisted and took the case to the Appeals Court. The Mayas are united in their right to […]
A fifty-four year old man, who was out on parole is back behind bars. Winston Dennison was arraigned today for Unlawful Carnal Knowledge of a fourteen year old high school girl. According to court records, Dennison was charged for murder, but was convicted for manslaughter and granted parole in August of 2009. It is now […]
It also did not go down well for an American National, who is facing stiff penalties for stealing three beers and a coke from Red Hunt Inn in the Bella Vista Area. The price of the goods is just under ten dollars but Gregory Keith Walp, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to burglary and […]
Representatives from Maya communities converged at the Battlefield Park in downtown Belize today for day one of an appeal by the Government on a Supreme Court ruling handed down last year. That ruling affirmed ancestral Maya land rights for thirty-eight villages in southern Belize. The case was a major win for the Maya Leaders’ Alliance […]
The men implicated in one of the biggest drug seizures ever in the country were taken to court this morning. Four police officers and a Customs boatman were hauled to the Chambers of Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie under the protection of heavily armed escorts. Sergeants Jacinto Roches and Lawrence Humes along with Corporals Renel […]
Also in court news, two interdicted officers attached to the Ladyville Police Formation will stand trial at the Supreme Court for a shooting death in Lord’s Bank Village last year. Thirty-three year old Corporal Jorge Lemus was charged with Manslaughter while twenty-eight year old PC Lazaro Catch was charged with Abetment for the killing Jamaican […]
The trial of Assistant Superintendent of Police Jeffery Martinez, who was accused of causing the death of a fifteen year old Camalote resident concluded in the Belmopan Supreme Court today. Martinez hit Felicito Chun and twenty-one year old Vitalino Chun as they crossed the Western Highway between miles forty nine and fifty on May nineteenth, […]
Mexican National, Jose Luis Robles Beltran was busted at the Free Zone on February twenty-fourth with a loaded point twenty-five Beretta Pistol and over twenty-thousand US dollars, eighteen hundred of which were counterfeit. His case started a firestorm because the Mexican national was ordered to be released even when he had pleaded guilty to one […]
Over the weekend there was a major heist at the Maya Island Air office at the Philip Goldson International Airport. The brazen thieves easily penetrated the building and walked away with items, including tools, electronics and appliances as well as aircraft equipment. Over one hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. Two men, thirty-one year old Lindon […]
Also in court, a twenty year old man who was caught nude inside the bedroom of an eleven year old girl in Belize City was remanded to the Central Prison today. Elgin Graham was charged with Burglary with Intent to Rape and the prosecutor strongly objected to bail at his arraignment this afternoon. The accused […]
Forty-one year old Mark Conorquie appeared in court today and was to hear his sentence for a charge of Causing Death by Careless Conduct. Conorquie pleaded guilty last Thursday, admitting that he knocked down and killed fifty-six year old Maurice Daniel Sedacey on July twenty-seventh, 2009. But today Conorquie asked to have the details of […]
A Belize City businessman, who has been in prison since February fourteenth, was released on bail despite objections from the D.P.P.’s office, which was represented by Crown Counsel Triennia Young. Young submitted that twenty-seven year old Bert Vasquez is a flight risk and more importantly, that he might interfere with the victim. But Attorney Ellis […]
An appeal by the D.P.P.’s office had an unusual end in the court today. Thirty-nine year old Albert Garbutt Jr. was initially charged with Attempted Murder, but was convicted of Dangerous Harm on August thirty-first, 2009. He was fined seven thousand dollars or in default three years in prison. This morning the Appeals Court judges […]
The housekeeper, who orchestrated a robbery at her employer’s house in Belama Phase two, was arraigned along with her co-conspirator today. Forty-six year old Donatila Najera and thirty-eight year old businesswoman, Sixta Medina, were jointly charged with Theft and Conspiracy to Commit Theft. There are two additional counts of Handling Stolen Goods against Medina, who […]
