Last Wednesday it was headline news when Doony’s Store in downtown Belize City was held up at gunpoint and three thieves took away a gun and a cell phone before escaping. And tonight police have charged two of three youths in connection with the hold-up. Those charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery are twenty two […]
The appeal of Belize City businessman Dean Fuller was dealt with today before a three-member panel of judges at the Court of Appeal. Fuller was represented by Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay and attorney Ashanti Arthurs Martin. In November of last year Supreme Court Justice Oswell Legall ruled against Fuller and his companies Omni Networks and […]
Sentencing was reserved for this morning in the case of twenty-three old Theophelia Brakeman after Magistrate Sharon Frazer found her guilty of grievous harm. The wait was worth her while because the mother was spared from going back to the Hattieville Prison. According to Fraser the few nights Brakeman spent in jail gave her an […]
And the Chief Magistrate heard the preliminary inquiry in the case of twenty six year old Leroy Kerr, a former police officer. Kerr was accused of stealing one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars worth of fuel from the government between the period of November of 2006 and April of 2007. The allegations were that […]
A shooting victim remains under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after Thursday’s botched robbery of an Atlantic Bank security guard. The brazen incident happened shortly before three o’clock at the Atlantic Bank Collet Agency at the corner of Magazine and Cemetery Roads. Another suspect remains at large but the third accomplice, eighteen […]
Tyrone Castillo was gunned down at a wake in September of 2007 and Trenton Smith was accused of the murder. After over two years a decision on Smith’s fate was placed in the hands of a jury of eight women and four men. But today jurors spent almost five hours deliberating and could not come […]
Twenty-one year old Dillon Diamonds, a resident of Taylor’s Alley, who is already serving time at the Hattieville prison for the charge of wounding, returned to court on Thursday for other offences. In mid trial, Diamonds changed his plea to guilty for robbing a cop of two cell phones and resisting arrest. The robbery occurred […]
And in court today, the case against Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers inched one step further when a date was set for a preliminary inquiry. The prosecution presented some of the evidence against the Mayor and two of her senior finance officers but Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie informed that the prosecution needs to present […]
A twenty-three year old woman of the Pink’s Alley has been remanded to the Hattieville Prison after she was found guilty of Grievous Harm for stabbing a woman. On July tenth, 2009, at about twelve noon, forty-four year old Amalia Castillo was walking through Pink’s Alley on North Front Street near when she was attacked […]
Drinking on the job is sufficient grounds for termination. So what does getting intoxicated and attacking a supervisor get you? Twenty-three year old Jose Alfredo Sanchez found out the hard way and had to answer to a charge of Grievous Harm in court today. Sanchez pleaded not guilty and told Magistrate Sharon Frazer that he […]
A Belize City murder case, two and a half years in the making, got underway today. Trenton Smith is accused of gunning down twenty-nine year old Tyrone Castillo on the night of September thirtieth, 2007 while he was on Mayflower Street in the Bailar area also known as “Ghost Town.” Castillo was at the wake […]
Judgment has been reserved in an appeal between the Public Utilities Commission and the Belize Electricity Limited. In October, Court of Appeals’ Justice Denys Barrow was one of three judges who presided over an appeal of a decision by the Supreme Court which went in favour of the Public Utilities Commission. But the opposing party, […]
He tried three times and tonight he is out on bail. That’s thirty two year-old Keon Williams aka Gambis, who made the news last November when he was accused of sodomizing a fourteen year-old primary school student. Twice bail was rejected at the magistrate court and in his third attempt at the Supreme Court; Justice […]
Another man who is out on bail is thirty year old Abisai Canul, the former cashier for the Insurance Corporation of Belize. According to ICB Financial controller, Abel Samos, Canul was fired on Friday, January eleventh and was instructed to hand over the cash he had collected for that day to the accountant. The following […]
A Belize City chef spent five years behind bars for crimes of dishonesty and he was released in February, 2009. But it seems that twenty-six year old Eugene Lanza hasn’t learned his lesson so tonight he is back in Hattieville for Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. The charges were read to him by Magistrate Kathleen […]
Back on February fifteenth, a sixth form student, Carlos Zelaya Junior reported to the police that he had been badly beaten by Dr. John Gough, a prominent cardiologist, and Egbert Nicholson, a sales clerk. We broke that story on February, twenty-fourth and the pictures of Zelaya’s injuries received wide circulation in this newscast and on […]
Twenty-three year old Victor Bah Jr., a resident of San Antonio Village, Toledo District who has been on the run for the past nine months after being accused of raping a nineteen year old resident of the area, is tonight behind bars. Bah was accused of committing the crime on June nineteenth, 2009 and when […]
A fourteen year old minor is out of school on an expulsion, a Belize City accountant is behind bars and it’s all linked to a tape that is now in police possession. What’s the connection? Well, what’s on the tape is not your average home video. In fact it’s a disturbing recording of thirty-three year […]
Four masked men stormed Holiday Grocery Store just after midday on March third. There were armed with point thirty-eight revolvers, which they used to rob storeowner Chun Mei Liu of cash, phone cards, alcoholic beverages and an assortment of DVDs. But as the men headed toward Belize City, police caught up with them in front […]
Today it was a return match of sorts for two heavyweights before the Court of Appeal. The Belize Electricity Limited (B.E.L) and the Public Utilities Commission (P.U.C) were squaring off over a previous ruling made by the same court. B.E.L. is seeking leave for the same court to revisit an oral ruling it gave on […]
The former C.E.O. of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital was dismissed immediately after the Barrow Administration took office in 2008. Doctor Alvaro Rosado then filed a lawsuit against the country’s national hospital. Rosado claimed it was a case of victimization as his contract was suddenly terminated with the change of government. He tried to settle […]
Murder was the case and twenty-four year old Brian Herrera was the person found guilty of the crime in May, 2007. We say “was” because just before three this evening the Court of Appeal threw out the conviction after his attorney Hubert Elrington successfully argued that he should not have been convicted since the prosecutor […]
Dwight Sosa, a former caretaker at Boss Hog Pro Audio, has been charged with the theft of an assortment of musical instruments from that business. In December 2009, fifty year old Ivan Smith, a resident of Urban Avenue in Belize City reportedly gave his friend, Dwight Sosa, permission to stay at his store located at […]
Two men that appeared before the Court of Appeal have had their convictions set aside. Lewis Leiva, also known as “DJ Whiz” was convicted in 2009 for raping a twenty year old American tourist who was vacationing in Belize. But his freedom was short-lived because the judges ordered a re-trial and that he surrender his […]
In the lower court, twenty-five year old Ronald Rivers was charged with Attempted Murder following a shootout which occurred on Antelope Street Extension two weeks ago. On February twelfth, at about ten-thirty p.m., police acting upon information of a shooting incident, visited the K.H.M.H. trauma room where they saw thirty-three year old Michael Usher suffering […]
