A Guatemalan woman who has lived in Belize for over ten years has been caught in a scam against the Social Security Board. Twenty-two year old Mirna Ramirez has been making claims from SSB for her son, but she tried to collect twice by using two different names. On August fourteenth 2009, Ramirez submitted a […]
On Monday, News Five aired the story of Kainie Manuel, the former reporter of the San Pedro Sun who is in trouble with the law for theft of forty-five thousand dollars from her former employer, the San Pedro Sun and its owners, Ron and Tamara Sniffin. Manuel admitted to making the mistake and she also […]
A businessman who was partying with two men he met at a local bar on April twenty-second was robbed of his car, a 2000 gold Jeep Cherokee, and a thousand dollars in cash. The two men are nineteen year old Omar Espat and twenty-seven year old Pedro Pena, a supervisor at Ready Call Centre. They […]
A thirty-three year old bus conductor from Benque Viejo Town appeared before Magistrate Kathleen Lewis in Belize City today to face charges of Carnal Knowledge, an offence he allegedly committed against a fifteen year old girl. The charges, which will now go before the Supreme Court for a preliminary inquiry, stem from reports that Felipe […]
Two Belize City men were caught red handed while they allegedly bought marijuana on Lavender Street on Monday morning. That purchase cost twenty-two year old Steven Flowers and thirty-three year old Kenneth Neal much more today when they were arraigned in Magistrates’ Court. The two pleaded not guilty and their bail was set at three […]
A ruling in the case of the Westerhaven was delivered today by the Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh. It is a landmark ruling, indeed the largest amount ever awarded for damages caused to the Barrier Reef. The cargo ship ran aground on the reef about fifteen miles north east of Dangriga back in 2009. Owners of […]
A Belize City fisherman, thirty-five year old Freddy Grant, was shot seven times and lived to tell the tale. And it seems Grant told it so well in court today that the accused gunman retracted his not guilty plea and pleaded guilty. The case against twenty-five year old Leon Blease started out with charges of […]
A fifteen year old student claims she was sexually assaulted over the weekend by a man who offered to lend her a bicycle in the Ladyville area. The student and her father proceeded to the police station and reported the matter to the cops at about three o’clock Saturday morning. According to the girl, she […]
More than three weeks after security guard, twenty-five year old Leon Howard, was robbed of his service weapon on March thirty-first, the man police believed to be the culprit has been apprehended. Mark Gentle was arrested over the weekend for allegedly sneaking up on Howard and placing a gun to his back. According to Howard, […]
Two men have been remanded to the Hattieville Prison for aggravated assault in separate altercations in Belize City. The first report was made against twenty three year old Noel Alamilla, a security guard at Saint Joseph Parish. Alamilla is being accused of committing two counts of aggravated assault upon a mother and her young daughter […]
Notorious burglars Marlon Budran and Denfield Tasher Sr. have been remanded to the Hattieville Prison following the break-in of a residence in Belize City. The men are accused of stealing a number of items valued at a total of one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents. Police say that on Tuesday, April twentieth, shortly […]
For months a dispute raged in the citrus valley between the Citrus Growers Association and the Citrus Growers of Belize Limited. The back and forth among its executives was heated and persistent and climaxed with a protest. There were many challenges made in court, and this past Wednesday, a ruling was handed down on one […]
On the morning of April eighth, in broad daylight, two men, identified as Lyndon Jefferies and Ernesto Perez were sitting in an Altima car on King Street when a gunman opened fire in their direction, missing both men. Two arrests have been made so far. The most recent occurred late Wednesday evening when police escorted, […]
A student from the Linda Vista area in Belize City was the victim of a home invasion but his attackers did not get off scot free since he claims he stabbed one of them behind the neck before they fled the scene. Last week Thursday the alleged robbery took place at the home of twenty-one […]
A man who was found with a point twenty-two pistol has been found guilty of firearm and ammunition charges. Nineteen year old Lawrence Lino was caught around two forty-five on May seventh, 2009 by police on mobile patrol on the Southside of Belize City. Police say that when Lino saw them, he began to sprint […]
Forty-six year old Gwendolyn Young, a resident of Conch Shell Bay in Belize City, has been sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of Burglary. Young was accused of entering the home of eighty-three year old Edel Maheia and stealing a purse containing five hundred dollars, a bunch of keys and a toaster […]
The preliminary inquiry for charges against Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers, the City Administrator Kiran Vanjani and Administrative Assistant Kiran Bhudrani was set to begin today. The Mayor was present in court, but her attorney, Michael Peyrefitte, was before Justice Troadio Gonzalez dealing with a murder trial and the PI proceedings had to be […]
Shootings, burglaries, robberies and even murder; those are some of the offences on Kent Skeet’s rap sheet. And now Drug Trafficking has been added to that list after Skeet and his common-law wife Rosita Yama were detained in major drug bust. On Sunday cops found the couple in the possession of more than eighty-four pounds […]
The preliminary inquiry in the case of money laundering against Dean Fuller came up today but it did not get underway instead the businessman got an adjournment for May seventeenth. Fuller is accused of the money laundering of six million dollars. His arrest came after the Coye family, an agent for MoneyGram, was accused of […]
One the night of April eighth, two men were gunned down in the dangerous Belize City streets and today a minor was charged in connection with one of those murders. Renan Reneau was shot several times to the chest by a lone gunman while he was talking to his girlfriend in a yard at the […]
Thirty-two year old Darwin Rhaburn, an employee of Belize National Transport, has been charged with aggravated assault of an indecent nature after being accused of fondling a minor on his worksite. The incident occurred on January fifteenth when the minor alleged that at about one o’clock that afternoon while at a bus terminal Rhaburn called […]
Prison is not a safe place for Constable Jermaine Mangar, argued his attorney, Richard “Dickie” Bradley, during his bail application which was heard before Justice Herbert Lord in the Supreme Court today. Bradley submitted that since Mangar was attached to the CIB, a number of he arrested are behind bars and they pose a threat […]
Twenty-eight year old Jervis Valencia was today freed of charges stemming from the attempted murder of Frederick Lynch. Lynch, also known as Diggy Dap, was shot four times on October third 2008. He told police that at about eight p.m. that night he was standing near Millard Shop, a Chinese store located on Tibruce Street, […]
This afternoon, charges against three well-known men were withdrawn at the request of the complainant, a high school student. Jiovanni Louriano, aka Nose, of Belize City, Marlon Harris, a resident of Mahogany Street Extension were both charged with carnal knowledge and Alex Devon Lyon, was charged aggravated assault upon a student. The DPP’s office withdrew […]
It was no laughing matter at the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer, this morning when another woman appeared for smuggling weed into the Hattieville Prison. After spending the night at the lock-up nineteen year old Julianne Angela Vacarro was arraigned for Drug Trafficking. It is claimed that shortly after one o’clock Wednesday afternoon, Vacarro […]
