A butane maintenance worker and cabinet maker is spending his first night behind bars. Thirty-nine year old Philip Neal, was sentenced after he slipped into the home of his ex-wife, Dawn Lambey early this morning armed with a machete and threatened to chop her. Neal was on parole for the last seven months but after […]
Siblings Rachel, Ryan and Ronald Sutherland, all law enforcement officers attached to the Belize Police Department, were today acquitted of assault charges against a fellow officer. On August third 2009 at about nine forty p.m. police corporal Ian Geban and other officers responded to a domestic dispute at the corner of Water Lane and East […]
In January of this year, thirty two year old Eric Alexander Loriano, a Honduran national was slapped with three criminal charges after breaking into the home of his ex-common-law-wife’s home on Dean Street and beating her up. Today the charges were dismissed by the Chief Magistrate when Lorena Mendoza requested no further court action. While […]
Also appearing in Court today was forty-one year old Orion Neil Vernon, a deportee from the United States who was charged with three counts of possession of false documents. Today’s arraignment was Vernon’s third for similar offences since being repatriated to Belize. He was first arrested and charged in Belize City in October of last […]
The Prime Minister introduced the Sixth Amendment Bill to the constitution on April twenty-fifth of 2008. In that bill fundamental rights and freedoms that are shared by Belizeans would have been altered. The bill in its original form would have also characterized serious crimes as terrorism and additionally would have seriously eroded the rights of […]
His name was at the center of controversy when a questionable incident occurred while he was with the Police Department. In fact, Aldo Ayuso stood trial and was later cleared of a Manslaughter charge following the shooting death in February of 2005 of twenty-one year old Leslie Rogers Jr. He never denied shooting Rogers, but […]
But while Ayuso has won this round, it is not the end of his problems. As he told us outside the courtroom, he still wants to return to work as a police officer, but knows that is a far way ahead. Aldo Ayuso, wins decision against Police Department “In all honesty I wanted reinstatement, not […]
Parents Lovina and Mario Canto and their twenty-six year old son Jason walked out of Magistrate Edd Usher’s courtroom today free of criminal charges. A search conducted at their Warrie Street address in Belize City on April 1st last year led to the discovery of a point thirty-eight pistol, a nine millimeter pistol, a twelve […]
A jury of nine convicted a bad cop for extortion today. According to Hytklin Kelat, on November thirtieth, 2008, Police Constable Marlon Harris, stopped him at the checkpoint located four miles outside of Belize City on the Western Highway. Kelat was found to be driving without insurance. But the following day, officer Harris visited him […]
A man faced an embarrassing period before the court because his ex-common law wife has accused him of touching her inappropriately. Thirty-two year old Preston Reynolds is charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature and Common Assault upon the twenty seven year old woman. The allegation was made since January twelfth but Reynolds was […]
A man who already has a series of criminal offenses to answer to had another charge added to his list today. David White is being accused of breaking into the business place of Raymond Matus, who owns a store on New Road. Allegations are that between seven thirty last Friday night and seven forty five […]
Police had a huge bust on Friday when in response to a tip, they caught a taxi driver with a substantive quantity of what appears to be heroin. Thirty-nine year old Moises Williams of the Lake Independence area, was pulled aside on Mahogany Street and police say they found more than a pound and quarter […]
A trio of teenagers from Belize City has been accused of entering the home of Hattieville resident Dyann Garnett and cleaning out eleven thousand, one hundred and twenty dollars in household items. The burglary which occurred on March seventeenth included the theft of Garnett’s clothing, groceries, electrical appliances, cell phones, digital cameras and an assortment […]
The Court of appeal concluded its sitting today, but before it did the justices delivered a landmark decision just before noon. The Court handed down a ruling that involved one of its own justices, newly appointed Denys Barrow. The appeal was brought by the Belize Electricity Limited against the Public Utilities Commission. The utility company […]
Sir Barry Bowen died tragically in a plane crash on February, twenty-six in the San Pablo area of La Isla Bonita. But this morning the written decision on a landmark case that he had taken before the courts was handed down by the Court of Appeal. It had to do with the Sixth Amendment Bill […]
When we caught up today with Attorney Eamon Courtenay, who is attorney for the Citrus Growers Association, we also asked him about a decision handed down on Thursday in the Supreme Court by Justice Minnet Hafiz. The judge ruled in favour of the C.G.A. that the Citrus Processing and Production Act as it stood contravened […]
A murder suspect was freed in the Supreme Court today when the judge upheld a no case submission made by his attorney. On Easter Monday of March twenty-third, 2008, thirty-two year old Alvin Guzman was accused of setting on fire, his twenty-three year old common-law-wife, Avette Augustine. It was alleged that he doused her with […]
Two men who were surprised inside the home of Elma Augustine in the Lake Garden area were found guilty of Burglary on Thursday. Nineteen year old Moses Pacheco and eighteen year old Pedro Gonzalez were caught in Augustine’s bathroom on August tenth 2009 when the cops were informed about a burglary in progress. Police found […]
Twenty-two year old Telswin Lara, once beat a murder charge but today he was back in court for robbing two minors at gunpoint. But while in the Magistrate’s holding cell, he picked up another charge, this one for robbery. Shortly before eleven o’clock, while Telswin was in the lockdown, Alex Rojas, a detainee in the […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on a number of rulings handed down by the Court of Appeal. The justices also dealt with the appeal of a man found guilty of raping a mother of four and who was sentenced to twelve years behind bars. Forty year old Levi Jackson appealed the Supreme Court’s decision […]
A ruling was handed down today in a case that will have a bearing on the future of the embattled citrus industry that has been pitting the Citrus Growers Association against the Citrus Products of Belize Limited. A group of six growers who sell and deliver citrus to the Citrus Products of Belize, took the […]
He pulled off a brazen act when he ordered a fry chicken, grabbed it and ran away without paying. When the proprietor set chase after him and caught up with him, he pulled a weapon that turned out to be a “Toy gun” but the Chinese businessman ran in fear for his life. Today, twenty […]
He was accused of molesting an eight-year-old child for five years but time caught up with forty-eight year old Corozal laborer, Mario Olivera who is now convicted of five counts of carnal knowledge. Late Tuesday evening, before Justice Herbert Lord, a jury of eight men and one woman, deliberated for an hour and thirty five […]
Two persons have been charged in connection with the cold blooded murder of twenty-nine year old Glenford Matura. Matura was murdered at about seven o’clock on the morning of March tenth at the corner of Dean Street and Euphrates Avenue where we was working cleaning the streets. He was shot four times, once to the […]
On February twenty-third of this year, police officer Derrick Gideon and two others were charged with the kidnapping of San Pedro resident, Juan Perez. Gideon, a police officer, was charged along with Juan Cus and BDF Private, Justin Casimiro. This morning Gideon appeared before Justice Michelle Arana to apply for bail on the grounds that […]
