Daniel Silva, one of the Deputy Leaders of the P.U.P. and the owner of Cahal Pech Resort in San Ignacio, was reportedly robbed by his own watchman. Silva reported to the police that on Thursday night, he secured his licensed nine millimeter pistol and a magazine with six live rounds of ammunition inside a wooden […]
In the Magistrate’s Court, a resident of Wagner’s Lane in Belize City was remanded after he allegedly tried to kill his neighbor. Thirty-two year old Jermaine Arnold, also known as “Yankee” is accused of shooting forty-one year old Denfield Carr twice in the back on February second. When he appeared before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Frazer, […]
Three men walked from a murder charge today, even before the case could proceed to trial. The D.P.P. ordered the Magistrates Court to dismiss thirteen charges, including murder, against Brandon Taylor, Shamir Medina, and Lincoln Hemsley due to insufficient evidence. The trio was on remand for almost two years for the murder of Anchor Security […]
On Tuesday of this week, Basil Willis pleaded guilty to possession of a pipe after he was nabbed with a three and a half inch pipe for smoking cannabis. He was handed a sentence of two years. And this morning he was brought from the Hattieville Prison to face another charge for the weekend burglary […]
A two year old trial in the murder of twenty-seven year old Robert Brown ended this afternoon in the Supreme Court before Justice Adolph Lucas. Brown bled to death after being stabbed once to chest by his girlfriend’s brother, Wyatt Anderson. That was on November twenty-second 2008 and today a jury of seven women and […]
Also in court, thirty-six year old B.D.F. Sergeant Enrique Montejo was today convicted of three traffic offences relating to an accident in 2006, in which a police corporal was killed. Montejo was found guilty of Manslaughter by Negligence, Negligent Grievous Harm and Negligent Harm upon thirty-eight year old Corporal Raul Magana in the Corozal Supreme […]
Just over a year ago, Special Constable John Myvett, was on duty at the Belize City Magistrates Court when Keon Williams, also known as Gambis, was denied bail on a charge of Committing an Unnatural Crime against a fourteen year old boy. But Williams never made the trip to Hattieville and later alleged that he […]
We reported on Monday on the lover’s quarrel that ended up in a suspected arson. Well, today a twenty-two year old Belize City woman stands charged for the arson. But at court, Deshon Rowland, who lost everything in the blaze, decided to withdraw the charge against his girlfriend, Keisha Banner. Rowland says it’s because Banner […]
Late last week, local musician Kevon Bardalez was charged for the rape of a fourteen year old girl. He is being joined at the Hattieville prison by a second accused. The suspect is accused of holding down the girl while the other raped her. The incident allegedly occurred last week and today the second accused, […]
An eighteen year old has been arrested and charged for shooting another teenager over the past weekend. The victim, nineteen year old Clement Bol Junior initially told police that it was Akeem Humes who pulled the trigger on him on Saturday night. But it turns out that Akeem has been in prison on a Murder […]
In the courts, Acting Chief Justice Samuel Awich today dismissed an application for judicial review filed by brothers David and Tony Novelo in November, 2008. In his decision Awich cited that the Transport Board was not given sufficient notice of intended action by National Transport. The proprietors of National Transport were seeking a revision of […]
Turning to the Magistrates Court, a local musician has been charged for allegedly raping a fourteen year old girl. The minor alleges that she was playing video games at the home of twenty-two year old Kevon Bardalez when he offered her a ride at around three p.m. last Friday. She says she went with Bardalez […]
If the rape case did not already raise your brows as to the level of depravity in society, the following story from the court may be too much for you to bear. It is a case of rape, but in this case, the victim, though female, is an animal. In Orange Walk District, two neighbors […]
Eighty-one year old US National, Gordon Stout, got a mixture of good and bad news in court today. Stout, who has been living in Corozal, appeared in the Belize City Court before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer on three charges relating to a fatal traffic accident in November 2009. The preliminary inquiry was to start this […]
A university student is facing criminal charges after she was caught not with books; but one pound of suspected cannabis in her sling bag. The eighteen year old, Idolly Neal, was detained on a bus heading from Orange Walk to Belize City on Wednesday. The bus was stopped at the Crooked Tree checkpoint at around […]
Arguments in two appeal cases on the nationalization of Telemedia continued today. British Caribbean Bank and former BTL Chairman Dean Boyce filed suit against the Attorney General and the Minister of Public Utilities. The BC Bank and Boyce are challenging a July 2010 ruling by Justice Oswell Legall that government’s compulsory acquisition of BTL was […]
Orlando Wade, a thirty-two year old Sandhill resident, was convicted of murder last Monday and reappeared in court today for sentencing. And it wasn’t good news for Wade because Justice Adolph Lucas decided on a sentence of life imprisonment. Attorney Kevin Arthurs had asked for mercy on Wade’s behalf, requesting a sentence less than twenty […]
A Honduran babysitter has been fined ten thousand dollars for three marijuana plants. On September third last year, the eighteen year old baby sitter, Absternia Alvarez, was accused of cultivating marijuana after police found three weed plants at her Antelope Street home. Police say that when they went to her house to execute a search […]
A twelve year old and four other occupants of a house on Castle Street were arraigned in court today. The minor, a standard six student was emotional throughout the proceedings. Early this morning, police searched the home of Belize City nurse Judith Rocke. The search yielded a nine millimeter pistol and thirteen live rounds of […]
There were two cases in court today that were brought by the Customs Department. In the first, two men from Bladen Village in the Toledo District were astounded when they were each fined twenty-four thousand, three hundred and thirty dollars for contraband vegetables and energy drinks. Raul Riviera and Angel Pachan were intercepted as they […]
In the other case, two businessmen faced similar charges for the sale of a vehicle without the proper procedures. Muhammad Hamze, a car dealer of Blue Marlin Boulevard, had to answer to two offences: Recklessly Dealing with Uncustommed Goods and Reckless Possession of a Vehicle for which the identification number was tampered With. That’s because […]
A man walked free this morning for a murder which occurred back in 2008. In the first nolle pros for this year, thirty six year old Roger Anthony, a known figure of Ghost Town gang walked from the murder of Dillon Bennett who was gunned down in October 2008 at the corner of Central American […]
While Anthony is out of prison, Arthur Young was back in court today. Two weeks ago, Young beat charges for keeping prohibited material, drug trafficking and possession. He was charged along with Errol Haynes, who is still facing trial, after police found a silencer at a house in Vista del Mar. But Young was in […]
It’s an offence that is all too common, but often goes unreported and unpunished. Today a Belize City woman was charged with Child Neglect for allegedly leaving her three children alone inside a wooden house, with a candle burning and the door padlocked from outside. Twenty-eight year old Mary Tatum was read the single charge […]
Police hauled in six persons on Thursday morning to face charges for firearm and ammunition offences. They are naturalized Belizeans, Alba, Marvin and Esdras Lopez, Mexican national Mario Augustine, Honduran national Jessika Lopez, and a seventeen year old minor. The group was arrested at Marvin’s house on the Western Highway following a police search at […]
