Last Friday, a seven year old student of Ladyville Adventist Primary School was killed in a gruesome traffic accident… and tonight the man behind the wheel has been charged. Elias Suarez was riding his bicycle on Perez Road when he was knocked down and his skull was crushed by the right rear wheel of a […]
A contractor and a construction worker from Ladyville appeared in Magistrates’ Court today accused of attacking thirty-five year old Ignacio Villanueva. The contractor, thirty-six year old Eric Lewis, who also uses the last name Savery, was charged with Aggravated Assault with a Firearm and Wounding for allegedly pistol whipping Villanueva. Lewis pleaded not guilty, but […]
A Belize City man was sentenced to six years of imprisonment after he tried to pull a fast one on the courts by using a fake name. Today fifty-two year old Charles Felix posed as one Ralph Yorke when he appeared in Magistrate’s Court and pled guilty to the charge of Possession Simplicitor. The plea […]
Everyday illegal immigrants from neighbouring Central American countries come to Belize to seek job opportunities and a better way of life. That dream, however, was cut short for nine individuals after a spate of police raids. On Friday, four Guatemalans, three Hondurans, and two Nicaraguans, who could not produce travelling documents, spent three days in […]
This afternoon businessman Rhett Fuller was escorted by his wife and authorities from the Appeals Court to a waiting police vehicle… to once again be remanded to custody, as a result of his extradition appeal being dismissed. And while Fuller had no comment, his attorney Eamon Courtenay, who has been through the highs and lows […]
Fuller wasn’t the only one to get bad news from the Appeals Court. Today the Government of Belize’s constitutional amendments received the second blow when Justices Sosa, Mottley and Carey, dismissed an appeal of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh’s ruling. On July twenty-eighth the C.J. granted Alberto Vellos, Dorla Dawson, Yasmin Shoman, and Darrel Carter judicial […]
And while Alberto Vellos et al were celebrating their victory, Louis Gentle aka “Louie Ganzie” was being remanded to prison to serve out his life sentence. This morning, Ganzie’s appeal was dismissed by Justices Sosa, Mottle, and Carey. He was convicted of the murder of his ex-common law wife Takeisha Sutherland, which occurred on January […]
For years Chinese nationals have been coming to Belize from the island of Cuba and then making their way to greener pastures in the north. And it seems that business is brisk in the multi-country ring. The last chartered flight arrived in Belize on Wednesday with a group of seven men and one woman. They […]
A case in the Orange Walk Supreme Court ended today with a father of seven being sentenced to jail for Incest and Aggravated Assault. To protect the identity of the minor, we cannot reveal his name, but Justice Herbert Lord stipulated a sentence of four years for incest and three for the aggravated assault of […]
In another disturbing case from the north, twenty year old Eder Pott of Corozal, appeared in the Orange Walk Supreme Court today to face charges of an Unnatural Crime against an eight year old boy. But Pott instead pleaded guilty to the alternative charge of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature and after mitigation pleas […]
Rhett Fuller’s Appeal on whether or not he will be extradited to the United States for a crime committed nineteen years ago, continued today before Justices Elliott Mottley, Dennis Morrison and Boyd Carey. After two days of submissions by Eamon Courtenay, who is representing Fuller, Attorneys for the Attorney General’s Ministry, Priscilla Banner and Magali […]
Charges of Attempted Murder against twenty-four year old Knox Cumberbatch have landed him in remand pending trial. Cumberbatch also faces charges of Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. And when he appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers, he was remanded until April twenty-seventh because of the type of offense. Cumberbatch is charged in […]
Also in the Magistrates’ Court, twenty-four year old Leroy Rhaburn, known as “Red Ants” was today charged with the Robbery of a San Pedro businessman. Rhaburn pleaded not guilty but the prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that robbery is a serious crime that is becoming too prevalent and if released, Rhaburn might rob […]
Two men charged with Murder were set free on Monday by Supreme Court Justice, Adolph Lucas when the Prosecutor, Crown Counsel Trenia Young entered a case of nolle prosequi. Twenty-one year old Rushane Andrewin and twenty-four year old Troy Dawson were charged with the murder of twenty year old Meldrick Flowers and the attempted murder […]
And in the Magistrates’ Court, twenty-two year old Andre Hutchinson, the son of Minister Michael Hutchinson, was fined two hundred dollars today after he pleaded guilty to the charge of Exposing His Person in Public. Hutchinson was given until April thirtieth to pay the fine. If he defaults on payments he will serve two months […]
The visiting Court of Appeal is in session for the third week and Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay and his client, Rhett Fuller, are before the court fighting extradition to the United States in a case that goes back for almost two decades. Fuller has been on the U.S. wanted listed since the 90’s for the […]
But in the Supreme Court, a jury of seven women and two men deliberated for about two and a half hours and was unable to reach a verdict in the carnal knowledge trial of forty-nine year old Joel Hernandez. Hernandez, a watchman from Calla Creek Village is accused of the carnal knowledge of a thirteen […]
And in the lower court, a Belize City man has been sentenced to six months in prison for theft. When he appeared in court today, forty-four year old Louis Romero changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. Romero, an employee of Youth for the Future is accused to stealing a cell phone from Karina […]
In another case, a restaurant owner at the Belize City Municipal Airstrip was sent behind bars after he was denied bail on allegations that he assaulted three people with a gun. Forty-four year old Rick Munnings Senior pleaded guilty at first to three counts of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm before Magistrate Tracy Sosa and […]
An appeal by the Belize Bank winded down late this evening in the Court of Appeals. Arguments began Thursday evening on the constitutionality of the Appeals Board of the Central Bank . This appeal goes back to a directive by the Central Bank to the Belize Bank to transfer to Government U.S. ten million dollars […]
But in Belize City, two men had a shot at freedom this morning when their case was struck out… but it was short lived as they were rearrested almost as soon as they left the courtroom. This morning Chief Magistrate, Margaret McKenzie struck out the charges against thirty-five year old Charles Moss and twenty-nine year […]
It was his fifteenth trip to the court and he has only one conviction under his belt, but today he landed his second when twenty-one year old Gion Bernard was found guilty of Theft. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers sentenced him to six months for theft and six months for an additional charge of Damage to Property; […]
Two prison inmates got themselves in more hot water and appeared today in Magistrates’ Court on charges of Drug Trafficking. While they both pleaded not guilty and their case was adjourned until April twenty-third, thirty-one year old David White and twenty-six year old Noel Herrera were carted back to prison because they are currently serving […]
Yet another duo was freed after the victim requested no further action in Court. Twenty year old Jason Gillett and a fifteen year old minor were charged with the Attempted Murder of seventeen year old Adolphus Gomez. The incident occurred on August twelfth 2008. Gomez reported to police that he was walking on Fairweather Street […]
Remember the Accommodation Agreement? It was signed back in September 2005 between the Government and Telemedia and had been fully implemented by both parties for nearly two and half years. Then soon after assuming office in February 2008, the Barrow administration declared that the agreement was no longer valid. In the months ensuing, it became […]
