Louis Gentle, better known as Louie Ganzie, was this evening found guilty of murder. A jury of nine men and three women deliberated for around four hours before delivering their verdict. The thirty year old musician killed his ex-common law wife, twenty-eight year old Takeshia Sutherland, on January third of this year, stabbing her twenty-one […]
In another high profile conviction, nineteen year old Ryan Welcome, one of the two men charged with a robbery in which over sixty-five thousand dollars in cash and valuables were stolen, was found guilty today in the court of Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. He was sentenced to five years in prison. The charge against the […]
Twenty-four year old Andrew Carrillo, an alleged member of the violent Central American gang MS-13, one of two men charged with Murder and Arson, was freed of the charges today in the court of Justice Troadio Gonzalez when Crown Counsel Nigel Ebanks entered a motion of nolle prosequi. The charges still stand, however, against the […]
The trial of thirty-one year Ryan Horne, an alleged mentally challenged person who is charged with double Murder, was to start this morning in the court of Justice Adolph Lucas, but his attorney, Alifa Elrington, argued that he should get a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is competent to stand trial. Justice Lucas agreed […]
Harvesting of the new sugar crop is underway and while B.S.I. is looking forward to branching into the electricity business via its BELCOGEN project, the outlook is not so bright for cane farmers. Confronted with the loss of price subsidies from the European Union and higher costs of production, a dissident group of farmers, primarily […]
Louis Gentle, better known as “Louie Ganzie”, charged with the murder of his ex-common-law wife Takeisha Sutherland, took the witness stand today in his own defense. Ganzie testified that he could not have committed the murder because at the time of the incident, about four a.m. on January, third 2007, he was at the house […]
Twenty-two year old Jermaine Pascascio, charged with the murder of sixty-four year old businessman Inez “Blankie” Leal, walked out of the court of Justice Adolph Lucas a free man today after Crown Counsel Tracy Sosa entered a motion of nolle prosequi, indicating that the prosecution does not wish to proceed. The reason was that the […]
In court news, the prosecution has closed its case against accused murderer Louis “Louie Ganzie” Gentle. As part of her submissions, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl Lynn Branker-Tait called seven witnesses including the victim’s grandmother, Gilda Johnson. Johnson testified that around four a.m. on January third, she heard her granddaughter Takeisha Sutherland cry out […]
Meanwhile, it appears an accused drug dealer escaped going to jail because of his weight. This morning when police raided the Castle Street home of twenty-nine year old Llewellyn “Bigga” Meighan, they found three grams of crack cocaine and two bags of weed. Because of the find, police slapped Meighan with a drug trafficking charge […]
A man found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend has been fined a thousand dollars. Justice Adolph Lucas today ordered twenty-six year old George Matthews to pay after a jury of five men and four women found him guilty on Tuesday by an eight to one majority. Matthews had originally been charged with Kidnapping but that […]
There may have been some initial confusion over the legal technicalities surrounding the unauthorised release of three inmates from Hattieville prison on Saturday night … but today the wheels of justice were turning, with some serious charges being levelled at a controversial law enforcement figure. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the story from the courthouse. […]
A Gales Point villager convicted of his cousin’s murder will spend the rest of his life behind bars. This afternoon, twenty-six year old Elvis Myers appeared before Justice John Gonzalez and begged for leniency. His attorney Anthony Sylvestre Jr. also spoke on his client’s behalf, asking the judge not to impose the death sentence. After […]
Two weeks ago, a quarrel over a political sign caused quite a scene on Freetown Road and left three people charged with a crime. Tonight one of those accused is breathing a little easier as his attorney successfully argued to have the charge dropped. City Councillor Mark King was initially arrested for using indecent words […]
It was a major and highly distressing news story a year and a half ago and today the Belize City man found guilty of sexually assaulting a child was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Thirty-five year old David Pavon was convicted of carnal knowledge on the testimony of a ten year old girl who […]
In court news, eighteen year old Malcolm Wagner, believed by the police to be one of two men who stole a thousand dollars from a driver and delivery man for Sunny Side Bakery, was charged with Robbery and Wounding when he appeared today in Magistrate’s Court number one. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to Wagner […]
Twenty-five year old Kenneth Daniels, an unemployed of West Street, was fined twenty-one thousand one hundred dollars today in Magistrate’s Court after he pled guilty to charges of Keeping a Firearm Without a License, Wounding, Damage to Property, and Discharging a Firearm in Public. Magistrate Roberto Ordonez fined Daniels ten thousand dollars each for the […]
A jury of twelve yesterday found Elvis Myers guilty of Murder and Wounding. Myers was on trial for the Boxing Day 2005 shooting death of thirty-six year old Winfield Slusher Jr. in Gales Point Village. The killing occurred during a village bram and was the climax of an earlier argument. P.C. Keith Cruz, who was […]
A man on trial for murder was this afternoon remanded to prison after he was acquitted of that charge and the twelve member jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on the alternative charge of manslaughter. Julio Che of Ladyville was on trial for the stabbing death of Alberto Jaime Serano, who was killed on […]
In other judicial news, this time in the Supreme Court, twelve jurors were empanelled before Justice Troadio Gonzalez this morning in the murder trial of Elvis Myers. The accused is charged with the Boxing Day, 2005 shooting death of Winfield Slusher Junior in Gales Point. The incident occurred at a bram on the night of […]
Meanwhile, separate murder cases in the Belize City Supreme Court have ended with very different verdicts. More than a year after he was accused of killing Mango Creek villager Reynato Logan, this afternoon twenty-two year old Harrison Smith was acquitted of the crime. According to court sources, the case against Smith fell apart because the […]
Meanwhile, two brothers who were found guilty of Murder earlier this month have been given life sentences. According to court reports, this morning Justice Adolph Lucas ordered that twenty-three year old Maurice Felix and twenty-one year old Emory Felix be jailed for life for the murder of Belize City mechanic Mitchum Heredia. In April 2006, […]
While the collapse of the Ben Bou-Nahra case has taken the headlines this week, today News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has the details of another legal matter that police investigators appear to have bungled. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today one of the three men arrested and charged in connection with the hold up and armed robbery at […]
The long running Manslaughter case against Ben Bou-nahra ended in shambles today when the four police officers who originally visited the scene said they could not identify the accused. Without that basic evidence the prosecution could not even begin to make its case and an acquittal verdict was directed by Justice Adolph Lucas. The testimony […]
Almost two years ago he shot a cop and then turned the gun on himself, but tonight former tourism police officer Charles Grant is behind bars. Today in the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Troadio Gonzalez sentenced the thirty-six year old to a year in jail in connection with a series of incidents that occurred in […]
It’s a case that in one form or another has been pursued for over a decade. On one side Mayan activists, based in Toledo, have energetically sought to advance their claim to traditional communal land rights, both legally and in the court of public opinion. On the other side the government of Belize, relying largely […]
