As police look for the Bowen and Bowen robbers, interdicted police officer, Alpheus Parham, was today arraigned with the shooting murder of thirty one-year-old Alex Goff. Goff was a handicap originally of Mopan Street in Belize City who relocated to the island earlier this year to brace the economic decline. But something went awry shortly […]
They say money is the root of all evil, but in Belize land is just as problematic as the greenbacks. That is perhaps why there were two cases in court today that had to do with government taking away land from private owners and in both instances GOB lost. The first was a ruling in […]
The second case against GOB was Aquaworld versus the government over an erroneous land acquisition. That hearing started on Monday morning, continued this afternoon in the Chambers of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh and ended with the government having to find a hundred thousand dollars to pay up. It’s all over a ten acre plot in […]
Two law enforcement officers attached to the Ladyville Police Station were this afternoon arraigned in Magistrates Court on abetment and manslaughter charges. Corporal Jorge Lemos and Police Constable Lazaro Catch were both escorted to courtroom number five where they were charged with the shooting death of O’Neil Jones on February thirteenth. In court Lemus, a […]
Twenty two year old Jose Melgar, who escaped two weeks ago along with four others from the Hattieville Prison, was apprehended at the home of a Hattieville resident in the company of friends. But it is the persons whose house he visited who are facing the charge of harbouring a criminal. Thirty year-old Robert Mejia, […]
On Monday she made the news when police charged her with Burglary for allegedly breaking into the home of her ex boyfriend. But today it is Nicole Lovell who is laying allegations at the feet of Alvaro Avilez. She visited News Five today to say that she has an alibi for the time of the […]
Government backpedalled in court today in a land case involving Former Minister of Health, Jose Coye. Coye is suing the government for a piece of land that was wrongfully acquired from him. Coye’s family-run company, Aquaworld, purchased and was developing ten acres of land in the inner Placencia lagoon for commercial purposes. But in July […]
A Pakistani national who has residency in Belize, is in trouble with the law for weed allegedly found under a mattress in his apartment. Muhammad Faisal, a resident of Chancellor Avenue appeared in Court today and was read a single charge of drug trafficking. Faisal pleaded not guilty to the charge and said he was […]
It may have been an act of jealousy that led Nicole Lovell to break in the house of her ex on Ordonez Avenue. Lovell is also accused of stealing a Canon camera and causing damages to clothes belonging to Alvaro Avilez. Avilez reported to the police that when he got home last Sunday, he found […]
Last week Tuesday we told you about a Guatemalan woman who claimed she has been living in Belize for over ten years and who police say tried to scam the Social Security Board through claims for a child she has in Belize. Well, that woman changed her plea from guilty to not guilty on three […]
One of two accused men was arraigned in Magistrates’ Court this morning for the robbery of a delivery truck on Mahogany Street. The alleged partners in crime who perpetrated the armed holdup are twenty-six year old Brian Yorke and twenty year old Charles Young Junior. But Young was first to appear in court because Yorke […]
In the courts, a waitress who was facing eighteen years to life imprisonment for stabbing another woman had a charge of Attempted Murder withdrawn today. But before you assume it was another nolle pros, the reason the case was thrown out was because the victim softened up. Twenty-five year old Kadisja Castillo was stabbed on […]
Twenty-five year old Cecil Castillo is once again facing charges for firearm offences following a raid near his residence on Iguana Street Extension which yielded a black homemade shotgun on Tuesday. This afternoon Castillo appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and was slapped with a single count of possession of a prohibited firearm and one count […]
Ongoing litigation between Speednet and B.T.L. over the use of infrastructure and interconnection between both telecom companies has been adjourned until late June following a request made by Speednet to seek testimony from a new expert witness. Last December Smart’s services, including access to the E1 fiber optic network, were interrupted by B.T.L. Smart accused […]
A fisherman of Ladyville is facing charges of grievous harm after being accused of stabbing another man multiple times during a fight outside a local bar on April thirtieth. Nineteen year old Nelson Peters, a resident of Mitchell Estate, reportedly stabbed Elvis Brackett in the chest, abdomen, throat, left leg and both arms over a […]
A unanimous decision by a jury of twelve this evening has allowed two Belize City men to walk free of murder charges after four years of remand at the Hattieville Prison. Aaron King and Llewelyn Williams were both found not guilty of the murder of Russian national Alexei Golouber whose badly decomposed body was found […]
A forty-two year old City resident is tonight behind bars for allegedly committing an indecent assault on a seven year child. This afternoon, Dalesmon Lewis, appeared before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Frazer and was arraigned for aggravated assault. The abuse happened as the child slept at her home. She screamed for help when she felt she […]
A messenger who pleaded guilty today to stealing money from his nephew, has until the end of the month to pay six hundred dollars, or in default he will spend five behind bars. Forty eight year old Charles Skeet, admitted to swindling his nephew, Melvin Hewlett, of seven hundred dollars. The complainant, a teacher by […]
A landscaper has pleaded not guilty to Drug Trafficking after police allege they busted him with about eighty five grams of marijuana. Police say they detained twenty year old Peter Lauriano at around six forty last Friday evening during a mobile patrol on the Southside of Belize City. The cops say Lauriano was acting suspicious […]
Leon Blease pleaded guilty this past Monday for Use of Deadly Means of Harm. This morning after a mitigation plea by attorney Arthur Saldivar, Blease was sentenced to seven years. Blease changed his plea to guilty after thirty-five year old Conch Shell Bay resident, Freddy Grant, gave testimony of his near death ordeal. Grant, a […]
Earlier this week, we reported that two men, ages twenty and thirty-three years, had been charged for having sex with minors under the age of sixteen years. Today another case was added to the growing list of sexual abuse against underage girls. Forty-one year old Cotton Tree Farmer, Alexander Hercules, was arraigned on a charge […]
In the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a major ruling was made over a piece of prime land in the Caribbean Shores Division which is owned by businessman, David Gegg. Gegg took the Attorney General and the Minister of Natural Resources, Gaspar Vega, to court after the Minister declared the land a public reserve, stopping him […]
In Wednesday night’s newscast, we reported that a Guatemalan woman, Mirna Leticia Oliva Ramirez tried to scam Social Security by using two different names for her baby in order to double dip on benefits. As it turns out, she only has one baby and his name is Joseph Alexander Murrillo, who was born on December […]
Back in 2008, Osman Mitchell was shot as he was on his way visit his child. The trial into the shooting was finally set to begin today in the Supreme Court, but there was an unexpected twist when Mitchell informed the court that he wanted to withdraw charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means […]
A police raid at a residence on West Canal on Tuesday yielded a makeshift firearm and two rounds of live ammunition. The bust led to the arrest of five persons who were at the house. At about a quarter after six Belize City police, conducted a search of the property which netted a homemade shotgun, […]
