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Three immigration officers were today escorted to the Orange Walk Magistrate court for drug related charges. They are thirty-six-year-old Steven Williams, forty-one-year-old Albert Munnings, and twenty-six-year-old Wilmer Cocom. The trio was jointly charged and arraigned for Possession of Controlled drug with intent to supply to another. The men pleaded not guilty and were offered bail […]
Written on August 11, 2020 | Posted in
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Police have arrested and charged two brothers in connection with the double murder that happened on Sunday, July nineteenth in San Ignacio. Thirty-one-year-old Minor Galindo and thirty-four-year-old David Galindo of Santa Elena were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Police say the brothers were connected to the fatal shooting that claimed the lives of footballer […]
Written on August 6, 2020 | Posted in
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The family of murder victim Keona Ara is crying out for justice tonight. The eighteen-year-old was killed in a most savage way and her body set on fire and later found at a dumpsite by a caretaker in March 2017. Two suspects have been charged and one is now on bail. The horrific murder has […]
Written on August 4, 2020 | Posted in
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He was detained by police minutes after he inflicted a fatal stab wound to William Rubio near the Pound Yard Bridge on the night of July twenty-ninth. Over the weekend, Shedrack White was charged for the murder of the Saint Matthew’s villager. Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this afternoon remanded White to the Belize Central Prison. […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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Magistrate Emerson Banner today sentenced Samuel August Senior to seven years imprisonment after he found him guilty on Friday of the November second, 2018 robbery of a woman’s vehicle, which he later crashed into a parked backhoe on the Philip Goldson Highway. The father of three was receiving medical attention at the K.H.M.H. for an […]
Written on August 3, 2020 | Posted in
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A lawsuit in which government is being sued by several parties, including the Belize Peace Movement, the People’s United Party and Lord Michael Ashcroft, is presently before the Supreme Court where an international expert will be called in to provide input in the matter. The claim, in respect of an urgent need for a redistricting […]
Written on July 31, 2020 | Posted in
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You will remember Samuel August, the former Belize City Council employee who armed himself with a backhoe in the wee hours of October twenty-ninth, 2018 and rammed it into the Faber’s Road home of his three children and their grandmother, killing one of the children, five-year-old Samir August and the grandmother, fifty-three year-old Louise Young […]
Written on July 31, 2020 | Posted in
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Twenty-five-year-old Jamie Patnett, who was on remand for the March 2017 murder of eighteen-year-old Kerona Ara, was granted Supreme Court bail of thirty thousand dollars on Thursday after his attorney argued that the Prosecution seems not to be able to produce any forensic evidence against Patnett. Attorney Dickie Bradley argued before Justice Colin Williams that […]
Written on July 31, 2020 | Posted in
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Reginald Pott, another man who is on remand for the murder of another young woman was also granted bail of thirty thousand dollars when he appeared before Justice Colin Williams. Pott was originally charged along with two other men for the June 2017 murder of sixteen year-old Emy Guerra in Familia Village, Cayo and with the […]
Written on July 31, 2020 | Posted in
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Also in the court this week, Jervis Valencia was freed for a second time of a murder charge. Valencia was charged with the murder of Moses Gonguez in 2015 on mayflower Street, Belize City. Gonguez was with a group men when he came under attack; another person, Triston Gordon was also injured in the shooting. […]
Written on July 31, 2020 | Posted in
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Justice was served today in, without question, a most heinous and reprehensible crime and the family of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas can now find closure. Having been convicted in December 2019 of the pastor’s beheading, William “Danny” Mason and four others are looking at another thirty-five years behind bars. In the case of the youngest convict, […]
Written on July 30, 2020 | Posted in
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The heinous murder in July 2016 and the subsequent trial of the five men grabbed national attention. William “Danny” Mason was a highly connected man in Belmopan, who socialized with politicians and the law. Justice Moore found the crime reprehensible and wants to send a message to society. The pastor was killed, beheaded and his […]
Written on July 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Turning to the Caribbean Court of Justice where SpeedNet is appealing a decision from the Belize Court of Appeal on the matter of provisional licenses. Now, the matter has been languishing before the courts for years and has gone through the local courts all the way to the C.C.J. The Public Utilities Commission is claiming […]
Written on July 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay pressed the court that it would be unfair for him to proceed with the presentation of his argument. The judges offered that the P.U.C., represented by attorney Fred Lumor, assume the cost of court for attempting to introduce a late submission and with that as a remedy, asked to proceed with […]
Written on July 30, 2020 | Posted in
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The courtroom of Justice Antoinette Moore was crowded today for the mitigation plea of William “Danny” Mason. The families of the convicted men were in court for the second day of mitigation in the trial that has captivated the nation. Pastor Llewellyn Lucas’ sister sat stoically as Mason spoke. He, along with four other men, […]
Written on July 29, 2020 | Posted in
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Back in December 2019, when the five men were found guilty of the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, it was indicated that an appeal would be filed. Norman Rodriguez, attorney for Ashton Vanegas, told the media today that he awaits instructions from his client on how to proceed. Norman Rodriguez, Attorney for Ashton Vanegas […]
Written on July 29, 2020 | Posted in
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William “Danny’’ Mason and four others, convicted for the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, were escorted to the Supreme Court this morning well before nine o’clock. The men have been awaiting sentencing, but their day of reckoning has been met with hurdles. Today, it was no exception as difficulties in court technology gave way to […]
Written on July 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Attorney Norman Rodriguez, who represents Ashton Vanegas, told the media late this evening, following the mitigation pleas, that the least he expects for his client is a sentence of twenty-five years. That is based on precedence having been set for punishment of a crime of this nature. He was the second lawyer to have spoken […]
Written on July 28, 2020 | Posted in
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According to Rodriguez, the number of years to be handed down by Justice Moore will succeed careful deliberation having heard the pleas of the convicted killers, as well as family members and attorneys. It is not to say, however, that they will all received the same sentence despite being criminally charged and tried in joint […]
Written on July 28, 2020 | Posted in
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The Supreme Court has handed down a major decision in respect of the situation at the Port of Belize. It has denied the injunction brought by the Attorney General’s Office to stay the termination of the thirty-six employees of P.B.L. That’s the decision that Justice Sonya Young handed down this morning. Justice Young also rejected […]
Written on July 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Following the court’s proceedings, attorney Anthony Sylvester spoke on behalf of the Christian Workers Union. Now, the matter that was before the court today wasn’t taken by the C.W.U. and its members – that was strictly the AG on behalf of the Labour Commissioner. In this matter, the C.W.U. was solely an interested party. Sylvester […]
Written on July 24, 2020 | Posted in
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This morning in the Supreme Court ruled against the injunction filed by the Attorney General on behalf of the Ministry of Labour for the Port of Belize stevedores, and this afternoon the Chief Justice, Michelle Arana ruled in favour of the Interested Party in the Redistricting case, Lord Michael Ashcroft, to provide expert input in […]
Written on July 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The defendants, represented in court by Attorney Samantha Matute of the Attorney General’s Ministry, argued against the appointment of the expert witnesses since it has not been determined whether the mal-apportionment of the number of voters from one constituency to another undermines the Constitution of Belize. But Arthur Saldivar, attorney for the claimants, explained in more […]
Written on July 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Today, Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams granted bail to Ronlee Petillo, who is accused of the murder of Roger Banner. Petillo’s attorney, Anthony Sylvestre argued that the petitioner has been remanded for longer than four years, a fact to which the prosecution, represented by Crown Counsel Riis Cattouse admitted. Justice Williams granted Petillo bail of thirty […]
Written on July 24, 2020 | Posted in
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A man from Belize City who has been on remand on a charge of rape was today granted bail in the Supreme Court. Curl Lino was given bail of eight thousand dollars, but he must stay away from the prosecution’s witnesses, not be charged with an indictable offense while this matter is still before the […]
Written on July 24, 2020 | Posted in
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