He has been in custody since Saturday and today Marlon Forman appeared in Court, charged with the murder of Barney Cunningham Jr. The incident occurred on January second at Curl Thompson Street. Cunningham was one of eight persons who were helping forty-two year old Edmund Castillo move his family from Barracat Street when police say […]
A high school student is in big trouble tonight, accused of trying to jack a fellow teen. Today eighteen year old Aaron Smith appeared in Magistrates’ Court charged with Attempted Robbery. He pleaded not guilty and was offered bail of fifteen hundred dollars. The charges are a result of a report filed by nineteen year […]
In other crime news, police are currently looking for twenty year old Clifford “Bebe” Flores in connection with a shooting incident that occurred around seven-thirty Saturday morning. Twenty-three year old Wayne Rocke said that on January third, he was riding his bicycle on Caesar Ridge Road and was approached by Flores who got off his […]
Today the battle between two well known contenders went back to court and from the looks of it, it might end without a flurry of blows. Late last month tourism developer, David Gegg filed an application seeking the court to order Jaguar Paw Resort to reopen its zip line operations to his tourists. But Jaguar […]
James Gerou, the fourth of five persons named in the laundering of over one point five million dollars cash was finally charged today. The thirty-seven year old American National pleaded not guilty to the charge and despite the objection to bail by the prosecution, Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie released him on a bail of fifty […]
And in other news from the courts, a Haitian security guard is behind bars tonight for carnal knowledge. Twenty-seven year old Patrick Lorent, allegedly had sex with a fourteen year old minor on various occasions. Lorent will reappear in court on February sixth. The minor reported to police this past Monday, that the last time […]
Two men, twenty year old Kenroy Humes and twenty-one year old Kareem “Stamma” Smith, who allegedly shot seventeen year old Justin Roches in the right side of his abdomen, were charged with Attempted Murder when they appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. They were also charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of […]
A businessman busted for a firearm offence is tonight claiming he is being victimized. Around six on Friday police on patrol in Belama Phase two stopped and searched thirty-three year old Ernest Raymond Junior, who was sitting in a parked vehicle. During the search police say they found Raymond with a nine millimetre pistol and […]
Police moved quickly to arrest a man in connection with another burglary report in Belize City. This morning, Christopher McKoy, also known as Mac, appeared in Magistrate’s Court to answer to charges of Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. The thirty-six year old was found in possession of several items stolen from the home of eighty […]
We reported in our newscast last night that Tourism businessman, David Gegg was taking Jaguar Paw Resort to court, seeking to have the resort reopen to his cruise tour business, Zip Line Adventures Company. While Gegg was not at court, his attorney, Michel Chebat declined to comment on the case. But his counterpart, attorney Elson […]
And a sixteen year old boy has been charged for Robbery after he allegedly stole a cell phone from another minor, a thirteen year old primary school girl. Today, the sixteen year old appeared in the Belize Family Court to answer to the charge. He was denied bail and remanded to Wagner’s Facility after Magistrate […]
In other news from the courts, on Monday morning two truck drivers at the Port of Belize got into a fight which turned ugly. Twenty-eight year old Michael Caine claims Alvin Conorquie pulled out a knife and stabbed him in his back and side. Late Monday evening, Conorquie turned himself in to police and today, […]
A minor appeared in Family Court today and was slapped with charges of Murder and Attempted Murder following a shooting in the early hours of Boxing Day at the Princess Hotel and Casino on Newtown Barracks. The fifteen year old is accused of the murder of twenty-nine year old Jermaine Trapp and the attempted murder […]
The long arm of the law has finally caught up with Kareem Barona, wanted in connection with an attempted robbery at the Swing Bridge. Police have been looking for Barona since November twenty-eighth after a report by ex-police constable Javier Castellanos. They picked up Barona on Christmas Day while on patrol on Victoria’s Street and […]
It is Christmas Eve, but that does not mean the work at the courts have ceased. In fact a fisherman of Usher Street was today charged with Burglary. Nineteen year old Ivan Jones pleaded not guilty to the charge and Magistrate Albert Hoare adjourned the case until December thirtieth after he offered Jones bail of […]
He was found guilty of the carnal knowledge fifteen year old girl last week and today Rupert Flowers was sentenced to five years in prison. Before handing down the sentence to the sixty-five year old this morning, Justice Adolph Lucas heard mitigation pleas from a friend of Flowers and his son. Peter Thomas told the […]
In other news from the courts, twenty-two year old Myra Lima is accused of beating a woman and causing her to suffer a miscarriage. Lima, a resident of San Pedro, appeared in court this morning and was charged with Grievous Harm. Lima pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on bail of one […]
And two security officers will be spending some time behind bars for a prohibited firearm, in this case, a point twenty-two calibre pen gun. The two, nineteen year old Carlos Rodriquez and twenty year old Honduran Eduard Varro, were charged this morning for the offense. They pleaded not guilty to the charge but due to […]
There is news of some good sorts today for the Novelo owned National Transport. Justice Samuel Awich today dismissed an application by the Belize Transport Department and the Chief Transport Officer Candaleria Saldivar against the owners of National Transport Services and the Novelo family. Justice Awich upheld an earlier ruling that National Transport can claim […]
A Belize City-based internet company is in big trouble with the Federal Trade Commission and the courts in the United States. On Friday, a Baltimore federal court judge found Innovative Marketing Incorporated in contempt of court for ignoring orders to shut down and hand over its financial records. Earlier this month the F.T.C. sued Innovative […]
Plastic explosives are as dangerous as grenades, and on June twenty third three Belize City residents were found with PE4, British plastic explosives. And today in the court of Magistrate Robert Ordonez, another blow to the justice system and the police department occurred as another police officer failed to show up for trial. The police […]
A second man has been found guilty of the carnal knowledge of a fifteen year old girl. In the Supreme Court today, a jury of six women and three men deliberated for around three hours to reach the verdict against Rupert Flowers aka “Sand and Gravel.” The sixty-five year old former driver and mechanic from […]
And in news from the courts, a housewife who was found guilty of Abetment to Commit Dangerous Harm last Monday was fined five thousand dollars today by Justice Herbert Lord despite a plea by Minister of Housing, Michael Finnegan. The fine against twenty-eight year old Delita Chavez was in connection with an incident around nine […]
Home invasions and robberies are on the increase, in particular at this time of the year in the old capital. And now it appears that women have joined the ranks of the opposite gender in committing these crimes. Sherian Tracy, a twenty year old babysitter of Hibiscus Lane who ripped a chain off a woman’s […]
There is widespread public indignation that two accused murderers are out on the streets tonight following yesterday’s decision in the Belmopan Supreme Court that the prosecution was unable to continue with the murder case. The two accused, Joseph Kee and Taedron Bennett, were charged with the 2006 Mother’s Day murder of Phillip and Kevin Brannon […]
