A Justice of the Peace who is a former Commissioner of the Supreme Court along with his common-law have landed themselves in jail for the possession of ammunition, controlled drugs and a smoking pipe. Police are claiming that a search of the JP’s home on New Road yielded a point thirty-eight special round of S&B […]
Forty-three year old Richard and Maria Stuart were brutally stabbed countless times inside their home almost one week ago. An employee of the Stuarts, Milton Darinel Maza was charged with the double murder on Tuesday. He was found with the Stuarts Toyota Scion SUV in St. Matthew’s Village where he lives. There were scratches that […]
Last week Friday, the government launched its prospectus for the sale of Telemedia shares but less than a week later, a dark cloud hovers over the public offering of shares in the company. On Thursday, Justice of Appeal Dennis Morrison heard extensive arguments about whether an injunction should be granted to halt the sale of […]
Also in court, a hefty reward of four hundred and twenty thousand dollars awarded to six employees in a union busting case was drastically reduced in the Court of Appeals. Emelina Bautista Rivera, Oscar Maradiaga, Rigoberto Maldonado, Jose Reyes, Julio Caceres Hernandez and Cornelio Gutierrez were fired in June 2001from Maya King Banana Farm in […]
An unemployed Belize City woman allegedly tried to fill her pockets by scamming a businesswoman and she now has to answer to the courts. Thirty-two year old Sherlette Bailey was read four charges in magistrates’ court today. Those charges are: Handling Stolen Goods for allegedly obtaining a signed but incomplete Scotiabank cheque belonging to Stephanie […]
Corporal Gavin Sanchez was killed back in March, nine bullets found their mark on him. It initially appeared like an open and shut case but not so. The office of the Director Public Prosecutions has determined that there is not sufficient evidence to press murder charges; we’ll have more on that later. But TaraLee, the […]
Today marks one week since two men came under ambush by a lone gunman at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Faber’s Road. Twenty-one year old Matthew Moore has been identified as the man who shot at twenty-four year old Keith Middleton and twenty-seven year old Oscar Vidas. Moore, a resident of Kraal Road […]
There is a major break in the double murder of attorney Richard Stuart and his wife, Maria Stuart, a chartered accountant. They were viciously stabbed to death at around midnight on Saturday as they arrived home from a dinner. According to our sources, a former employee made a jailhouse confession. As we reported Tuesday night, […]
In the controversial case against Sergeant Paulino Reyes, it is now known that no one will be charged for the shooting death of Police Corporal Gavin Sanchez, who went down in a hail of gunfire earlier this year. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has decided that there is no cause for action […]
A fifteen year sentence is never good news, except of course, if you were facing life in prison. That was the case for Kirk Gordon, who was convicted of murder in 2006 and would have spent the rest of his days behind bars. But in the past seven years, the case went to the Magistrates, […]
Ted Armstrong’s second trial for the murder of Jerome Longsworth did not produce a conviction for murder but for manslaughter. On July fourteenth, 2006, Longsworth was stabbed with a scissors after he was attacked by Armstrong in Hattieville Village. The attack was as a result of the deceased intervening in a fight between Armstrong and […]
The trial started on Monday and could fall apart because of a missing file. Justice Adolph Lucas has ordered a full investigation into the missing case file for two murder suspects. The questions now being posed by Justice Lucas are who received the file when the case was first committed to the Supreme Court and […]
And while one murder trial is up in the air, one suspect was freed in another case today. The directive came from the Director of Public Prosecutions to withdraw the charge against Kareem Stevens, one of three suspects in the stabbing death of Security Guard, Kaluru Oloungududu on February twenty-fifth. Kaluru was viciously attacked by […]
There’s another murder to report. Police have now confirmed that eighteen year old Raylene Dyer was murdered in the Cayo District. Dyer was killed on October eighth when she went missing and her body has still not been located. Four persons have been detained and arraigned including nineteen year old Aracely Cahueque of Corozal Town, […]
Three persons were arraigned today in Magistrates’ Court in connection with a fight in Hattieville last Thursday. According to twenty-nine year old Dana Gabourel, as she exited a bus, she was met by thirty-one year old Melanie Pageant who accused her of spreading rumors about her family. Gabourel claims Pageant hurled obscenities at her and […]
Two brothers, both farmers from the Ladyville area, were busted on Thursday with a load of uncustomed vegetables and thirty-five cases of energy drinks. Twenty-one year old Raul Riviera, twenty-seven year-old Angel Pachan were jointly charge with Recklessly Acquiring Control of Uncustomed Goods and Recklessly Acquiring Possession of Uncustomed Goods. They pleaded guilty and were […]
Not Guilty on two counts. That’s the verdict in the money laundering trial that has kept the Coye family out of work for over a year. On December thirty-first of 2008, one point five million dollars were found inside the Coye family home and the Financial Intelligence Unit alleged that the funds were the proceeds […]
A police officer attached to the Special Branch is being detained tonight as part of the probe into the lucrative and illegal smuggling of Chinese nationals through Belize. The officer was reportedly on duty and has already been questioned by authorities about the three flights that landed at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on September […]
He killed a man for stealing Lobster on Turneffe Island back in 2008. When he was arrested in Sarteneja Village, he confessed to the murder and took police to recover the murder weapon, an AK47 Assault weapon which he hid on the island. Today, two years after the incident, Marcus Moh who was initially charged […]
Two more immigration officers were arraigned today in a human smuggling ring that was busted last week. Mark Tench and senior immigration officer, Matthew Guy, both thirty-seven years of age were escorted by police before the Chief Magistrate, Margaret Gabb McKenzie. Flanked by their attorneys, Tench and Guy were charged separately, each with two counts […]
Back on July twenty-first, on the day of his fifty-second birthday, Romero Jimenez was convicted of one count of carnal knowledge for having sex with a fourteen year old girl. For the crime he was sentenced to seventeen years but today that sentence was set aside and a retrial was ordered by the Judges of […]
As we said earlier, four immigration officers were charged late this evening in connection with the immigration scam. They are twenty-nine year old Candra Wade, thirty three year old Jason Daly, thirty year old Lindsay Wade and forty two year old Angelica Lima. Candra is charged with a total of twelve counts. Eight are for […]
According to Attorney Simeon Sampson, who is representing Jason Daly, Lindsay Wade and Angelica Lima, because of the unusually late session, only one of his clients was able to meet bail. Simeon Sampson, Attorney “I have three clients that were arrested and charged by C.I.B. this morning for various charges for forgery of official immigration […]
A police officer, who was interdicted for extortion of a hundred dollars US, walked free today. Twenty-five year old Andre Almendarez was charged on January twelfth, 2009 for allegedly extorting the money from a Salvadoran Consultant, but it was dismissed when he appeared before Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas Sr., this morning. No reason was […]
Dennis Quilter is known more for escaping from jail, than for the crimes that got him incarcerated. Today he was convicted for his eighth prison break and was sentenced to an extra five years behind bars. Quilter pleaded guilty and in mitigation he told the court that he was sorry but he had to escape […]
