The court also handed down a twenty-two year sentence today in a case of Robbery brought against a Belize City man. They say lightening never strikes the same place twice… but twenty-three year old Delroy Chaplin did and he’s going to jail for it. On July twenty-eighth, 2008 Chaplin entered Jenny’s Shop on Meighan Street […]
And in an early morning bust in Belize City, police seized a point thirty-eight Smith and Wesson pistol loaded with four live rounds of ammunition along with fifteen live rounds of point twenty-five ammunition. Thirty year old Librarian, Bernard Timmons and his common-law-wife, twenty seven year old Keisha Reneau were jointly charged with unlicensed firearm […]
Also in court, three persons were charged following a drug bust in the City that led police to the discovery of a bag containing sixty transparent plastic bags of marijuana which police claimed was in a sofa on which the trio sat. Two men and a woman identified as Albert Pollard and Kenroy Smith of […]
Belize will be replacing the highest court of appeal, that’s the Privy Council, with the Caribbean Court of Justice. But before that happens, the Privy Council in London, is still hearing appeals from Belize. Remember Ernest Savery, Lenton Polonio and Francis Eiley? All three were convicted on August thirteenth 2004 in the Belize City Supreme […]
In the Supreme Courts, the trial of the parents of the body of an infant found in 2008 concluded today. Thirty-two year old Michael Tesecum and forty-one year old Therese Watlow were charged with the lesser offence of the concealment of the body of a child. In 2008, the police received information that a heinous […]
Sometime between September and October of 2008, the kitchen of the University of Belize on Freetown Road was cleaned out—the culprits took almost everything including a freezer. The items were later found inside the home of two brothers: forty-two year old Herman Miranda Sr. and thirty-six year old Ronald Miranda, who were subsequently charged with […]
There was a development today in the million dollar money laundering case against the Coye family, their business Money Exchange International and employees. The Financial Intelligence Unit, which brought the charges against the Coyes made a request to the court to amend the charge sheet to now reflect changes in line with the revised Money […]
Bradley says that not even the statement of the main witness, Sean Oliver, has enough evidence to send the case to the Supreme Court. Later on in the day defense attorney Arthur Saldivar made submissions on behalf of Melonie Coye, Marlene Coye and Money Exchange International Limited. He believes that the evidence presented by the […]
A woman who claims to be an employee of the Ministry of Education said she called police to hand over a bullet she reportedly found inside her house. But today she was charged along with her common-law-husband for another offence. Twenty-three year olds Sandra Thompson and Patrick Flowers were charged with Drug Trafficking for three […]
He was convicted in 2005 for the theft of a laptop and is presently awaiting trial for a second charge of a similar offence. But on Monday, fifty year old deejay and computer technician, Frank Conorquie, was convicted for the theft of yet another laptop. His victims in the past four years are all women […]
A hearing started today behind closed doors on a one-month suspension by the Transport Board against Flores Bus Line which covers the runs between Lord’s Bank and Belize City. The bus company, one of three operating that route, filed an injunction last week through its attorney, Hubert Elrington, since that suspension would have run right […]
Also in the court blotter, an employee of the Belize City Council was busted with a quantity of weed and after a weekend in the police lock down, twenty-five year old Steven Bain was escorted to the Belize City Magistrates’ Court on a drug trafficking charge. On Friday evening, police on mobile patrol on Faber’s […]
It was a major public spectacle when the then youthful area representative, Patrick Faber, was arrested on April twenty-eighth 2005 as he tried to enter a forum at the University of Belize in Belmopan. That forum was organized for the students to address former Prime Minister, Said Musa, about societal issues at a time when […]
Minister Faber was also peeved at how long he had to wait for a ruling. He said today that he fully supports the recent concerns raised by some members of the Bar Association and the Attorney General, Wilfred Elrington, about the problem of delayed rulings. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “This judgment comes almost three […]
While Patrick Faber’s case was the result of perhaps immature behavior four years ago, Zenaida Moya Flowers is turning to the courts to save her seat in the UDP. On October third, she was removed from her party’s national executive, merely two days after she was criminally charged with twenty-two counts of Uttering a False […]
On December twenty-fifth 2006, Carol Gabourel told her husband Cecil not to cut the Christmas ham. But he did and the fight that ensued ended fatally for Carol. After three trips to the court and two guilty pleas, Cecil, was sentenced today to fifteen years in jail for his wife’s death. The story was initially […]
Also this morning in Court, three persons were charged for Attempted Murder. First to be arraigned before Chief Magistrate, Margaret Gabb McKenzie was eighteen year old Lloyd Lawrence Elijio. The student of Tubal Training Institute in Ladyville was charged jointly along with a fifteen-year-old minor with Conspiracy to Commit Murder for the shooting of Mark […]
Turning to the perennial problem on the highways, road rage escalated to confrontation between two competing commercial bus companies in September. The Flores Bus Line was removed from the highways for one month and as a precautionary measure it has filed an injunction against the Transport Department to prevent any future penalties since it claims […]
The court also heard today the plea of a traffic victim in a horrific collision involving a delivery truck and a National Transport Bus which left six people dead and several injured in September of 2007. And while it can be said that twenty-eight year old Yolani Herrera was fortunate to survive, her life has […]
A primary school teacher of Belize City was today spared from going to jail and instead was slapped with a fine of thirteen thousand dollars. Twenty-nine year old Andre Torres has to pay two persons for the death of his friend, seventeen year old Emelio Armando Santiago, a student who lost his life in a […]
The court also remanded a man to the Hattieville Prison after he pleaded not guilty to Robbery. Twenty year old Denfield Tasher Jr. of Tibruce Street was charged with four counts of Robbery for an incident which occurred shortly after midday last Friday at Tienda Melchor, located at the corner of Mosul Street and Cemetery […]
And a former basketball player is settling in at the Hattieville prison because that’s where he will spend the next twenty-five years of his life over a horse saddle. Thirty-three year old Stewart Sutherland was found guilty of the Manslaughter of Gary Gabourel on October fifth and today Justice Michelle Arana handed down the hefty […]
It is the second time that Cecil Gabourel is appearing before Justice Adolph Lucas for the stabbing death of his wife on December twenty-fifth, 2006. In the first case, he was charged with murder and pleaded guilty to manslaughter but did not agree to the facts as presented in court and a retrial was ordered. […]
After an early morning bust, police carted off a husband and wife, along with their son-in-law and his friend to the Queen Street police station. At around eight this morning, the cops searched the home of Albert Davis, but when they did not find anything incriminating, they took their hunt for illegal drugs and firearm […]
This afternoon Justices; Elliott Mottley, Dennis Morrison and Boyd Carey of the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by the Government of Belize against businessman Barry Bowen and the Landowners Association. G.O.B. had appealed a landmark ruling by the Chief Justice, Dr Abdulai Conteh given earlier this year in which the C.J. ruled that the […]
