Antoinette Moore was successful in another landmark case that concluded Thursday. It had to do with six banana workers who were fired from Maya King Banana Farm owned by businessman, John Zabaneh. The firings are said to have occurred soon after the employees had convened a meeting to discuss joining a union. Moore says the […]
A three-time sex offender from Bloomington Illinois was today fined two thousand dollars in Magistrate’s Court after he pleaded guilty to Aggravated Assault upon a Belizean hotel employee. Sixty two year old Gerald Waterman, who has been convicted three times in the US for sex related offences, committed his last act on Wednesday while staying […]
Also in court, a former University of Belize employee was victorious in his second round of trial against the school. Mohammad Kamruzzaman was today awarded over forty thousand dollars in salary and benefits that were withheld when his employment was terminated as a result of theft allegations in 2004. He was accused of embezzling six […]
News Five has reported on the case of Money Laundering charges brought against the five members of the Coye family that operated the MoneyGram Company, a subagent for Money Exchange International. That was at the end of December 2008. More recently, a huge scandal erupted on the drivers’ license database of the Belize City Council […]
Turning to the courts, despite testimony by a paralyzed victim who had to be rolled into court on a portable bed, a jury was today unable to reach a verdict in the case of twenty-three year old Marvin Cruz Reyes. Reyes was charged with Attempted Murder for allegedly shooting twenty-six year old Kareem Wright. The […]
The already cash strapped City Hall will have to cough up close to one hundred grand to one of its former employees in a case that goes back to 2007. This morning Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh ruled that the Belize City Council has to pay former City Administrator, Sharole Saldivar almost ninety-three thousand dollars. This […]
Emotions ran high in court today as twenty-six year old Kareem Wright, who is paralyzed from the neck down, was wheeled in on a bed to testify against the man who allegedly tried to kill him. That man is twenty-three year old Marvin Cruz Reyes and he appeared in the Supreme Court today to be […]
In court news, it’s a disturbing offence that has become all too common and tonight one more person is behind bars for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor. The victim in this case is only two years old while the accused is a twenty-seven year old Honduran national. George Gutierrez appeared before Magistrate Rachel Montejo this […]
And an eighteen year old B.D.F. volunteer from Junesville also appeared in court today. That’s because James Nunez lost his cool when he was allegedly caught stealing sand. Nunez pleaded not guilty to Grievous Harm and Magistrate Dorothy Flowers offered him bail of one thousand five hundred dollars. His case has been adjourned until August […]
Turning to the courts, two persons who pleaded guilty to the charge of Obtaining Property by Deception were today sentenced to eighteen months in prison. Kenton Pandy will be out in a year and a half time but his partner in crime, Robinson Michael, is not so lucky. Michael got an eighteen month sentence which […]
And he is a former Ambassador who had no diplomatic immunities. Today, the Youth for the Future Ambassador was taken to the Magistrate Court where he pleaded guilty to charges of Theft. Twenty year old Kenroy Young was additionally charged with Handling Stolen Goods after an incident which took place at Maya Island Air this […]
Also in the courts, a former employee of Capital Auto Rental was charged with the theft of two vehicles that were subsequently recovered in Mexico where they had been sold. Twenty-eight year old Terrique Glastonbury allegedly stole a Dodge Ram pick-up truck valued at sixty-eight thousand dollars, and a jeep wrangler valued at one hundred […]
A man was sentenced in court today after pleading guilty to stealing from his own brother. Twenty-six year old Ronny Pollard was charged with Burglary and two counts of Handling Stolen Goods in Magistrates’ Court. His brother, Justin Pollard, reported that upon returning to their home from work on Monday, his Gateway laptop, Dell monitor […]
And in news from the courts, the Belize City Council officially opened a restroom in the Battlefield Park last Thursday, but it was a little too late for Duane Staine. On June fourteenth Staine was caught urinating in the park and when a CitCo security guard, twenty-one year old Dekel Bennett, confronted him about it, […]
When the committal of the former Prime Minister Said Musa on the charge of theft was quashed on June eighth by the Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl Lynn Branker Taitt gave immediate notice that she would appeal the CJ’s decision. The twenty one days in which the DPP could appeal […]
The chief witness in a murder trial did not live up to his side of the deal and as a result a nolle prosequi was entered in the case of twenty six year old Edwin “Drive” Flowers and twenty-five year old Daniel Anderson. Justice Adolph Lucas directed today that the men be freed of the […]
Also in the courts, a man charged with manslaughter will be spending fifteen years in prison. Eighteen year old Adrian Morris was charged with the killing of seventy-one year old Juan Tut. Justice Adolph Lucas sentenced Morris after he pleaded guilty to the crime, which took place in 2007 when Morris was only fifteen years […]
While Morris was sentenced today, five men were charged in connection with an armed robbery. Twenty-one year old Horton Jackson, nineteen year old Matthew Moore, twenty-two year old Erwin Wade, nineteen year old Jerome Wade, and their seventeen year old brother, allegedly jacked Hugo Castillo, a city resident. Justice Sharon Fraser charged Moore and the […]
And this news, in a stunning eighty page ruling, the Court of Appeal last Friday, ordered that fifty thousand shares in Krem Radio currently in the name of Evan X Hyde, be registered in the name of Sagis Limited. It started back in 1994 when Sagis invested a total of one hundred thousand dollars in […]
Murder was the charge and a nolle prosequi, a now common word in our vocab, sounded musical to two men who appeared in court this morning. Twenty-seven year old Noel “Biggs” Usher and twenty-eight year old Edward “Chuck” Arthurs were accused in the murder of fifty-eight year old security guard, Oliver Blanco who was fatally […]
Christine Perriott versus Belize Telemedia Limited; it’s a highly publicized case that’s taken many turns in the courts. The most recent round went in favour of Telemedia. The background is that Perriott sued the utility company in 2007 because she felt her employment was wrongfully terminated. But Telemedia subsequently took issue with Perriott’s attorney, Lois […]
The Court of Appeal concluded its sitting today but before it did, it handed down a decision in the long standing appeal of Sagis Investment Limited and Krem Radio Ltd. And the court ruled in favour of Sagis. It all goes back to 1994 when Sagis invested one hundred thousand dollars in Krem in exchange […]
Also in court, an appeal by Elvis Myers for a murder conviction was dismissed today. The appeal had been drawing plenty attention because its outcome could have affected thirty-eight rulings made by Justice Troadio Gonzalez. While the Appellate court did not give a reason for the dismissing the appeal, Myers’ conviction stands and he will […]
A seventh name was added to the list of persons charged with Money Laundering in connection to one point five million dollars found in the home of the Coye family that operated a MoneyGram agency. Twenty-three year old Anthony Matute was a messenger for the money transfer company and he was granted bail of fifty […]
And in the courts, parties embroiled in a legal battle over property rights will have to go back to court in October to conclude their arguments. That is if between now and then they cannot meet an amicable solution. The case started earlier this year when Barry Bowen and the Landowners Association sued the G.O.B. […]
