Also in the Supreme Court, Crown Council Ramirez told Justice Michelle Arana that he will not be pursuing the case against Ernest Pete Sacasa. And while it was not said in court, it is reported that the main witness did not wish to testify in fear for his life. The prosecution then entered a nolle […]
And turning to the courts, Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh, has reserved judgment in the preliminary hearing of the Attorney General versus former government Ministers, Florencio Marin and Jose Coye. The preliminary hearing is to determine whether the Attorney General’s claim against Marin as the first defendant and Coye as the second, should go to trial. […]
Magistrate Dorothy Flowers also dealt with the case of a security guard accused of beating his common-law-wife. Forty-one year old Michael Dyer faces charges of Harm for the assault and Damage to Property for breaking his common-law-wife’s cellular phone. The woman reported to police that she arrived home in a taxi at about three-thirty on […]
A man who has been convicted of sexually abusing a teen was fined rather than given a prison sentence. Twenty-six year old David “Bunja” Lambey has to pay three thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars after he was found guilty of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature and Burglary upon a nineteen year old Belize […]
In the case of the former minister, Jose Coye, attorney for the government, Lois Young, today continued her submissions in the preliminary hearing preceding the civil suit. Coye is being sued before Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh over land transactions the company, CHEOP Enterprises, conducted while Coye was Minister of Health and Area Representative for the […]
In the Supreme Court meanwhile, one man found out that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. The accused, twenty -four year old Brian Herrera, also known as Bedo was found guilty of taking the life of forty-nine Eugene Encalada. The trial has been on hold for over a month because Herrera […]
Also in court, twenty-two year old Allen Martinez was today freed of a charge of Attempted Arson after Justice Adolph Lucas directed the jury to acquit him because there was not sufficient evidence to prove the charge. The incident goes back to 2007, when the then twenty-year old was accused of attempting to set a […]
A man who was accused of three counts of Attempted Murder walked off a free man today after the victim and two main eyewitnesses could not identify him as the shooter. A relieved thirty-three year old Shane Budran exited the Supreme Court after the charges were dropped against him by Justice Adolph Lucas. The incident […]
The financial woes of the Belize City Council continue to mount. There is the complaint from the Financial Controller, Patrick Tillett, that close to twenty five thousand dollars are missing from the CITCO’s coffers for which arrests are said to be expected. The debt to Sanitation Enterprises Limited is still not resolved and last week […]
In early January, police nabbed Ernest Raymond Jr., as he headed home in a vehicle believed to be owned by a member of the Coye Family, the former operators of MoneyGram, who that at the time had been arrested for money laundering. Police found a nine millimeter Luger brand pistol in the car’s glove compartment. […]
In day four of the trial of Christine Perriott vs. Belize Telemedia Limited, the final witnesses were called to testify today. After another round of cross examination of defense witness, Winston Aspinal, Ramon Carcamo was called to the stand on behalf of Perriott. Under cross examination, Carcamo conceded that under the Trade Unions Act, no […]
He is accused of attacking a Maxboro resident with a machete and today, twenty year old Marlon Alfred Taylor was found guilty of Attempted Murder. It was a unanimous decision from the jury because Taylor did not deny chopping twenty-six year old Leon Leslie, but claimed it was an accident. But Taylor will have to […]
It was a busy day for the courts and in the Supreme Court, twenty-six year old Harrison Smith won the distinction of twice beating the murder rap. The latest case was today when at twelve noon, Justice Adolph Lucas was forced to discharge a jury of twelve persons. In 2007, Smith was charged for the […]
Three witnesses took the stand today to testify in the case of Christine Perriott versus Belize Telemedia Limited. First up was Dale Trujeque, who was called by Perriott’s attorney, Antoinette Moore. Trujeque, a former HR Manager at Telemedia, was examined about the company’s appraisal system and under cross examination by Telemedia attorney, Andrew Marshalleck, he […]
And in the Magistrate Court, nineteen year old Adrian Gordon was slapped with six counts for the stabbing of two persons who live on Dolphin Street. Just before six, this past Monday morning, twenty-three year old Miriam Jean Terry and twenty-two year old Jermaine Chen were stabbed when they opened their apartment door after hearing […]
And while Cenaida prepares to sue, the preliminary hearing in the civil suit against former Minister of Health and Caribbean Shores Area Representative, Jose Coye, began today before Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh. The matter has to do with land transactions which involved Coye as former area representative in the Caribbean Shores Division. A company named […]
Christine Perriott was in court today for arguments in her case against Belize Telemedia Limited for her termination. Perriott took the stand this morning in the court of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh and was examined by her attorney, Antoinette Moore. Her contention was that she was terminated in 2007 because of her involvement in union […]
A security guard has been charged for the burglary of the offices of Ministry of Education that occurred sometime between July seventh and eighth. Over fourteen thousand dollars worth of items were stolen. Last Friday, police had a break when they searched an abandoned house located at the lower flat of a building on Mahogany […]
The accused man in a case of a sexual offence that goes back to 2007 appeared in court today. The case has twists and turns because the forty-five year old victim took twelve days to report the matter. A doctor was unable to determine whether she was raped and because of that, his charge was […]
In Friday’s newscast we reported on the burglary at a home on Police Street Extension in which sixteen year old Frank Trapp was shot on his right calf. Today police arrested and charged nineteen year old Ryan Alvarez of Supal Street and twenty-five year old Michael Young of West Canal with Aggravated Burglary, Use of […]
But while Young appeared in court this morning for Thursday night’s shooting, there are additional charges that he had to answer to—and this time, for the robbery of thirty-nine year old Egbert Tun. Young pleaded not guilty to the charge but due to the nature of the allegations committed with a firearm he was remanded […]
Also in court, a former prison officer, Youmol Mcnabb, is to pay a fine of ten thousand dollars for attempting to smuggle four point five ounces of cannabis into the prison. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers ordered Mcnab to pay the fine by December thirty-first or in default he will serve three years in prison. On February […]
It is one of the biggest cases of money laundering in Belize, a whopping six point five million dollars that apparently involves an intricate web of companies and identity theft involving the City Council’s data base. The man charged today with two counts of Money Laundering is the manager/owner of Omni Networks and Fultec Systems. […]
The other money laundering case, that of the Coye family, is taking a back seat to the Fuller case, but is still in the headlines. The one point five million dollars the Coyes are charged with laundering seems miniscule compared to the Fuller case. And in court today charges against one of the defendants were […]
It has consumed countless hours in court and perhaps that is the reason why Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh decided to use this Saturday to continue with the case. It is the issue of the Maya Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcaldes Association against the Attorney General and the Ministry of Natural Resources. The Mayas are […]
