Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal delivered its decision today in the case of reggae singer Louis Gentle a.k.a. “Louie Ganzie”. Ganzie was sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of the murder of his ex-common law wife Takeisha Sutherland. The appellate court upheld his conviction and his sentence was affirmed. The murder […]
The much publicized amendments to the constitution will continue to be on hold, at least until next year and that is because judgment in the referendum case number seventeen of 2008 will be delivered until next year. The civil appeal of Alberto Vellos et al versus the Prime Minister and Attorney General got underway in […]
The high profile Brannon brothers murder trial has been adjourned until next Tuesday. The case against Taejdron Bennett and Joseph Kee was set to commence in Belmopan this morning in front of Justice Troadio Gonzalez, but was pushed back due to the addition of a new attorney. This morning attorney Michael Peyrefitte notified Justice Gonzalez […]
Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, attorney for Rhett Fuller who is wanted by the U.S. Government for a murder almost twenty years ago, today presented additional arguments in the Appeals Court on a request for the extradition of Fuller. The appeal took six long years to come to court and yesterday when it got underway the […]
From the look of things, Dennis McKoy needs to change his current profession because he has not been successful at it. McKoy currently has four charges of robbery for which trials are pending in the Magistrates’ Court. And if that list was not long enough for him to consider a career change, he also has […]
They stole a gold ring from a man while they begged him for a dollar and as a result, twenty-three year old Charles West and twenty-four year old Nigel West have been found guilty of Robbery. The victim, Addington Ramos, a security guard for Alliance Bank, reported to police that around three a.m. on March […]
Rhett Fuller spent his birthday in court. The extradition appeal of the thirty-eight year old finally made it to court after six years and today Fuller and his attorney, Eamon Courtenay, appeared before Justices Elliott Mottley, Dennis Morrison and Manuel Sosa in the Appeals Court. But while Courtenay was ready to proceed, Attorney Priscilla Banner, […]
But before the appeal of Rhett Fuller was dealt with, the Appeals Court heard an application for leave to appeal a stay of proceedings in the case of five claimants, among them, Belize Telecom Limited, who are claiming compensation for shares they lost when Belize Telecom became Belize Telemedia Limited. The case had started in […]
We have not heard much from them since the change of government in February, and today in the court of Justice Minnet Hafiz, the case brought by the Association of Concerned Belizeans against the government continued. This morning Attorney Lois Young, representing A.C.B., the Medical and Dental Union, Senator Godwin Hulse and the N.T.U.C.B., argued […]
The Belize Court of Appeal will be hearing a number of cases in its current session which began yesterday. Today the Court dismissed an appeal by thirty-five year old Mark Cardinez, who has been convicted of rape and sentenced to eighteen years behind bars. Cardinez, who appeared unrepresented, appealed his sentencing on several grounds: that […]
In another case before the Appellate Court, the decision in the appeal of convicted murderer Louis Gentle, a.k.a. “Louie Ganzie”, which was heard yesterday, will be delivered in the next session of the court. Ganzie was convicted of the murder of his ex-common law wife Takeisha Sutherland and is serving a sentence of life imprisonment. […]
And the Court of Appeal upheld the appeal of thirty year old Dean Hyde who was convicted of the murder of sixteen year old Dual Wagner Jr. on August seventeenth, 2007 and sentenced to life. A conviction of manslaughter was substituted for murder and Hyde was sentenced to twenty-five years. Hyde’s attorney, Simeon Sampson, appealed […]
There was plenty of drama in court today when Kent Pandy stepped out of the dock after he was told by Justice Herbert Lord that he could go. But Pandy did not have time to savour his freedom as C.I.B. officers immediately nabbed him for an allegation that he threatened one of the witnesses involved […]
San Pedro resident Miguel Angel Orrego celebrated his birthday day the best way any man on remand can as he walked away free of murder and manslaughter charges today. After three and a half hours, a jury of six men and six women found him innocent in the fatal stabbing of Yubert Flashy which occurred […]
Twenty-nine year old Salvadoran national Roberto Carlos Alvarez, who pleaded guilty to burglarizing the house of Minister of State, Michael Hutchinson and was to be sentenced today, will have to wait until October first to know his fate. Alvarez maintained the guilty plea he made on Wednesday, when he appeared in court today. Sentencing was […]
In July businessman Barry Bowen filed a claim against the government of Belize objecting to a proposed amendment to section seventeen of the constitution. In that amendment, G.O.B. sought to vest the ownership of the petroleum and minerals rights in the hands of the government, but also denied access to the courts to persons wishing […]
Back in August when the Belize Bank was forced by the Central Bank Appeals Board to return the ten million U.S. Venezuela grant to the government coffers, the Belize Bank vowed that it would not be the end of the matter. Today the parties were back in the Supreme Court … and this time the […]
A man who was charged with Murder walked free after the only eyewitness against him recanted and withdrew her statement. Thirty year old Roger Anthony left Magistrates’ Court to freedom when, acting on the advice of D.P.P. Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Tait, Magistrate Dorothy Flowers withdrew the charge because the eyewitness gave a new statement, saying she did […]
A seventeen year old boy who was charged on Thursday with Attempted Murder was today sentenced to six months in prison. The teen appeared in the Belize Family Court and was found guilty of keeping a nine millimeter pistol with seven rounds of ammunition in its magazine and was given three months for each offence. […]
He was accused of attempting to sodomize a nineteen year old male last year, but tonight Albert Hendy is a free man. Hendy was charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature, Aggravated Burglary, Wounding, and Damage to Property for the incident which occurred on October fourteenth, 2007. But when the thirty-four year old construction […]
She was remanded to Prison on Thursday for Attempted Murder, but tonight Elisa Chan is out on bail. This morning Justice Adolph Lucas, offered the twenty-two year old bail of seven thousand, five hundred dollars after her attorney, Ellis Arnold, made an application to the Supreme Court, submitting that she is the mother of a […]
It’s a formality to an announcement made at the last meeting of the House of Representatives, and today in Magistrates’ Court the one hundred and thirteen charges of Failure to Report a Suspicious Transaction brought by the Financial Intelligence Unit against FirstCaribbean International Bank, were dismissed. But when the matter came up this morning, it […]
There were other matters in the Magistrates’ Court today and a charge of Murder against twenty-five year old Denvoy Domingo for the fatal shooting of Jermaine “Jerry” Smart, was struck out for want of prosecution when Domingo’s file was not available. The file is reportedly with the Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Tait, because the […]
On Monday evening, police responded to a call from the S.S.B. on Princess Margaret Drive where three Honduran nationals identified themselves as eighteen year old Jose Luis Montero, twenty year old Irbin Zetina, and thirty year old Henry Vasquez, who claimed to be fishermen in Mango Creek, were applying for social security cards. Police found […]
And in other news from across the northern border, on July thirteenth we reported the shootout and car chase that started at the Las Vegas Casino and ended at Subtiniente Lopez. That incident resulted in the incarceration of three Belizeans and their American employer for Illegal Possession of Firearms and Attempted Murder of casino patrons […]
