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There is one more case to add to the mounting litigation against the government and it is coming from the environmentalists. This afternoon the Chief Justice, Dr. Abdulai Conteh, granted Ya’axchѐ Conservation Trust permission to bring judicial review proceedings against the Government of Belize. Ya’axchѐ believes that the Hydroelectric Development Company was given a license […]
Written on February 18, 2010 | Posted in
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In the other case of judicial review, Speednet, the owner of Smart, went head to head in court with the Public Utilities Commission this past Wednesday. It started when Telemedia, as the dominant provider in the industry, set out to increase the fees it charges Smart, which would seriously jeopardize its share in the telecom […]
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While the jury is still out on where the dispute in the citrus belt will end up, an attempted murder case ended today in the Supreme Court. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ turned to the public to locate two witnesses with the hopes of salvaging the case against twenty-two year old Brandon […]
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A Pickstock Street resident also found himself in court today facing five traffic offenses after he took a joyride on his motorcycle while he had been drinking and did not have a driver’s license. The fun didn’t last very long because, in his alleged intoxication, forty-one year old Charles Roger hit Dennis Wagner. This morning […]
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A Belize City couple is out of a laptop computer after being scammed by a technician. Glenn Gordon and his common-law-wife Monica Usher of M&J’s Pawn Shop reported to police on February seventeenth that they requested the assistance of Erneldo Cruz, known to them as “Virgil”, to install a program on a Compaq brand laptop. […]
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A jury of nine was selected and an Attempted Murder case against Brandon Taylor is set to begin in the Supreme Court. But today the two main witnesses were nowhere to be found and the prosecution is hoping that the public can help to avoid yet another nolle prosequi. Senior Crown Counsel Cecil Ramirez, who […]
Written on February 17, 2010 | Posted in
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The incident happened way back in 2007, but the trial against Francis Ogaldez started today in the Supreme Court. Ogaldez, a former corporal of police, is accused in a web of deceit and was charged for extorting money from a Ladyville resident. Windell White and Sonia Guerra reported to police that on August twenty-fifth 2007, […]
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“Haad pay” City Council was taken back to court today by the Belize Maintenance Limited. This all goes back to November of 2009 when BML secured a clean legal victory against CitCo over monies owed to the sanitation company for street cleaning. The amount owed at the time stood at about one point nine million […]
Written on February 16, 2010 | Posted in
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Whether or not Kareem Lopez pulled the trigger in the broad daylight murder of Mark Gardiner in 2006 will not be confirmed because his case was thrown out today and Lopez was acquitted of the charge of Murder because the victim’s brother refused to testify. Richard Gardiner, was the witness that the case depended on, […]
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Two of three Ladyville residents who were accused of terrorizing the home of five different Vista del Mar residents are spending their first night at the Hattieville Ramada after they were sentenced to a year imprisonment. Twenty four year old Jewel Palma and Oscar Maldonado pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of handling stolen goods […]
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The University of Belize handed Stephen Okeke his marching orders on August thirteenth, 2004. But the engineering lecturer wasn’t ready to go and felt that he was wrongfully terminated. So Okeke took the university to court seeking to have his dismissal deemed as unlawful and as such, to be paid damages by UB. Okeke, who […]
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And this news just in from the north. Three Corozal residents were today acquitted of murder charges following the bludgeoning of an elderly Belizean American in San Andres Village in June of 2007. Brothers Noel and Rosendo Guy along with their cousin Federico Caballero reappeared before Justice Herbert Lord following an adjournment last Friday. In […]
Written on February 15, 2010 | Posted in
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And forty-two year old, Basil Willis also known as ‘ET’ is tonight once again an inmate at the Hattieville Prison after being charged with robbery. Willis was out on bail for a robbery at Western Union when he ran into trouble again with the law. In latest incident, on February tenth, Willis allegedly robbed Gregory […]
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An ex-Belize Defense Force soldier who was busted with an unlicensed nine millimeter gun and a magazine loaded with thirteen live rounds is tonight behind bars on remand. Police say that twenty-nine year-old Alton Roches of Jane Usher Boulevard was acting suspiciously around nine last Friday night, when he was spotted in a fully tinted […]
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While there is continuing dispute within the citrus industry over control and finances between Citrus Products of Belize Limited and the Citrus Growers Association, another legal battle is being waged in the chambers of Supreme Court Justice Minnet Hafiz. In one corner is the Government of Belize. In the other are seven private interests including […]
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The existing system requires that licenses must be obtained prior to supplying the processor. In this case CPBL is the only processor that purchases citrus in large quantities. Marshalleck, in his arguments, said that if and when licenses are refused growers are essentially denied of gaining a living from the industry. William Bowman of Belize […]
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Eight years in jail; that’s what it came down to for twenty-three year old Shian White when she appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas in the Supreme Court today. White is the mother who was found guilty two weeks ago of Manslaughter in the death of her baby who she hit on the head and then […]
Written on February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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Either greed or the rising cost of fuel has resulted in the theft of gasoline from the Belize National Coast Guard. It wasn’t a burglar prowling inside the compound outside, but members of the Coast Guard have been implicated in both incidents. Sources allege that twenty-seven year old Kareem Smith, a cadet, was seen stealing […]
Written on February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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Another nolle pros in court and two brothers charged with murder were freed for lack of evidence. Just after one o’clock today, the trial came to a sudden halt and Gilbert and Nelson Martinez were released when the prosecution indicated it could not continue with the case. The reason? Both police and the prosecutor were […]
Written on February 11, 2010 | Posted in
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Twenty-nine year old Tin Yu Tan of Mango Creek lost his life in a traffic accident between miles twenty on the Western Highway in August of 2009. Tan was the passenger in a Toyota Tacoma driven by his friend Wei Chao Huang when the accident occurred. On the way to Belize City, Huang lost control […]
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Two city residents, who allegedly attempted to rob a house in the St. Martin’s area, are behind bars tonight. Shane Edwards and Leon Yorke were taken before the courts today and charged with attempted burglary and damage to the property of Michael Belisle. They both pleaded not guilty but the court prosecutor Sergeant Egbert Castillo […]
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The facilitators of the Conscious Youth Development Program are tasked with keeping at risk youths on the straight and narrow. But it has turned out the other way in the case of thirty-two year old Anthony Morris Junior, who holds a supervisory position at CYDP. Morris has reportedly been found in possession of stolen items […]
Written on February 9, 2010 | Posted in
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The saying goes: three strikes and you’re out. Well, for Joel McGregor after his third offence he’s in… in jail that is. At age twenty, McGregor has a conviction for burglary and one for theft on his rap sheet. His most recent charge came on Monday when he was arraigned for Burglary and was denied […]
Written on February 9, 2010 | Posted in
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They say that if you commit the crime, you should do the time. And it seems that’s a lesson construction worker, Marlon Curtis Usher, knew well because when he was busted with an unlicensed point twenty-five caliber Beretta Pistol and five live rounds of ammo, he quickly took responsibility for the illegal weapon. Usher was […]
Written on February 8, 2010 | Posted in
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The war among women is not letting up on the streets and tonight there is one more Belize City female behind bars for allegedly threatening her neighbor with a firearm. That’s the claim being made by forty-six year old Bernadette Euwatu, who called the police in fear for her life at about four-thirty last Thursday […]
Written on February 8, 2010 | Posted in
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