On February twenty-fourth News Five broke the story of the reported beating of a high school student by his girlfriend’s father, a prominent Belize City cardiologist, and his neighbor. Carlos and Sarli Zelaya, the parents of sixteen year old Carlos Jr., reported to police that their son was at the residence of Dr. John Gough […]
The Coye family: Melanie Coye, her husband James Gerou; parents Michael and Marlene; brother, Jude and two employees have been accused by the Financial Intelligence Unit of laundering one point five million dollars. Since their business, Money Exchange International Limited was closed down, the family says it has been surviving over a year without any […]
The trial in the 2008 murder of Mirna Sanabria concluded today and one of the co-defendants left the courtroom a free man while the other was hauled back to prison. Earlier in the week, a no case submission was made on behalf of the co-defendant, twenty-six year old Sherman Anderson. Justice Troadio Gonzalez upheld that […]
In September, 2008, Leroy Gomez was accused in six rapes and attempted rapes which were carried out with similar patterns and the victims gave comparable descriptions of the suspect. Gomez is currently on trial for one of those sexual crimes; on August twenty-third 2008, a woman was raped at knifepoint, while her friend was forced […]
Also in court, twenty-eight year old Moises Conorquie was today acquitted of a robbery charge which was brought against him in October 2009. Conorquie, who was on parole for another robbery he allegedly committed earlier that year, was also accused of robbing Symbiline Reyes of a purse containing her personal documents. According to a statement […]
They say desperate times call for desperate measures; that must have been the case when four women decided to steal food from the Ladyville Community Store at mile nine on the Northern Highway. Fermina Jimenez, Jade Lopez, Marina Pott and Augustina Diaz were all caught on surveillance camera on July twenty-ninth, but today in court, […]
Also in court, twenty-seven year old Kenroy Jex, a mechanic of Biscayne Village, was charged following the death of a teenager on Thursday of last week. Dale Sibley was knocked off his bicycle near mile thirteen while traveling along the Northern Highway in the direction of Belize City. The sixteen year old sustained severe head […]
The Mayan land rights issues have gone from the courtroom to the political arena. The U.D.P., at its convention, announced that it supports the government’s decision to appeal a recent decision handed down by the Supreme Court in favor of the Maya Leaders Alliance. The landmark ruling by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh on June twenty-eighth […]
You would have seen Earl Clare Junior on News Five at the September 2008 expo fair, speaking as the technical director of MyBelize.net. Well, tonight Clare is in the news because cops found a whopping fifty-one and a half pounds of marijuana inside his bedroom. Police conducted an anti-drug raid at Clare’s home on University […]
Jermaine Belgrave was back in court today on another charge of attempted murder. His latest brush with the law has to do with a shooting that occurred back in February when Cleo Robinson was shot three times. Robinson claims that on the night of February twenty-third at about eleven o’clock he was riding a beach […]
A robbery last Thursday at Olympic Restaurant, ended with a Security Guard being shot. At least three persons were believed to be involved, and today one of them, twenty-one year old Kareem Grant, was charged. Grant, who was unrepresented, was charged with Robbery for allegedly stealing eighty dollars in cash and seventy dollars in prepaid […]
August twenty-fourth will mark one year since the government compulsorily acquired Belize Telemedia Limited. That prompted a slew of lawsuits but the company remains in the control of the government. In the Supreme Court today Justice Oswell Legall handed down a decision on a challenge of the constitutionality of the takeover by former B.T.L. Executive […]
In October of 2003 thirty-seven year old Erlin White was convicted in the Supreme Court for the murder of popular businessman Dwayne Arnold. Arnold, who was the proprietor of Electrical Zone Rebuilders on Cemetery Road, was shot and killed inside his store on February eleventh, 2002. A jury found White, who was represented by attorney […]
In the local courts, Glenford Diego was found guilty this past Tuesday for the attempted murder of taxi-driver Mark Sacasa of Kraal Road. Before sentencing was handed down this morning, a mitigation plea was heard from his mother, Rita Lopez. She asked the court for leniency saying that Diego is the father of a child […]
Aaron Wilson was busted two weeks ago, as a fake cop and promptly taken to court. It’s an incredible tale because Wilson was caught with the trappings of a cop and had been operating like one for some six months. That’s what is claimed against him but Wilson is now saying otherwise. On Wednesday we […]
What was once called the case of the rogue cop is now the case of the two Jermaines. Detective Corporal Jermaine Mangar was initially charged along with Jermaine Palacio and Ernie Miranda for attempting to rob Chon Saan Palace. This was in April when the allegations were made about a ring of rogue cops operating […]
Ernest Raymond Junior was initially charged along with the Coye family in January of 2009 for money laundering. His name came back in the news on a firearm offense. Because of a mix up for transfer documents, the weapon he legally owned did not immediately show up on records. Those charges against Raymond were eventually […]
Friday will mark two years since the death of Leslie Gentle Junior, who was fatally stabbed on July thirtieth, 2008. On the eve of that anniversary, the man responsible for his death was today sentenced to fifteen years behind bars. Taylor was found guilty of Manslaughter last Thursday and before today’s sentencing, Justice Adolph Lucas […]
With at least eighteen offences to his name, forty-seven year old Sydney Collins may be described as a criminal by profession. His past charges range from burglary, theft and other crimes of dishonesty to traffic violations and misdemeanors. But for the next two years, Collins will be off the job. He appeared before Chief Magistrate […]
It’s the story of the hair braider versus the cop. She faces three criminal charges brought on by a police officer. In court Sharmaine Copious was charged with Aggravated Assault upon Constable Halett King, Insulting Words and Resisting Lawful Arrest. Copious told Magistrate Albert Hoare that she did not understand the charge of Aggravated Assault […]
There are two sides to every story and in the case of a recent domestic dispute, both sides are pointing the finger of blame. Twenty-five year old Marvin Foreman is accused of beating his seventeen year old ex-girlfriend, but claims he did it in self defense because she stabbed him. But Kimberly Betran is alleging […]
As we said, sixteen year old Alexander Murray, a mechanic, was killed on Saturday morning. He and his older brother Alton, along with two friends, Glenford Martinez and Michael Stevens, were traveling in a black Pontiac Grand Prix car on Freetown Road, when they were cornered by two vehicles near Korea Electronics, a Ford F150 […]
The infamous fake cop, Aaron Wilson, who ran a scam on the Police Department for six months, was back in court today. On Wilson’s first appearance, he was charged with Forgery, Possession of a False Document, Unlawful Possession of Belize Police Department Uniforms and Accessories, Theft and Threatening Words. This morning the cop impersonator was […]
Nineteen year old Glenford Diego, who has been on remand for attempted murder since November of 2007, is tonight facing a maximum of eighteen years to life in prison when he was found guilty of trying to kill a taxi driver of Belize City. Today Diego appeared in Supreme Court before Justice Adolph Lucas where […]
On Friday, thirty two year old Silverio Hernandez, a supervisor of Brodies Agrochemical was inside his office when a man, alleged to be Edward Usher, entered the office and ordered the employees to remain still. Another person, a seventeen year old minor followed Usher into the building holding the two security guards at gunpoint. The […]
