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He is accused of entering the home of food vendor, Elvia Cal at her Rio Grande Crescent home off Faber’s Road Extension in Belize City and stabbing Cal and her helper, Maria Pinto, on their arms and shoulders. They knocked a gun out of his hand and fought back on the afternoon of November fifteenth, […]
Written on January 31, 2020 | Posted in
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Sherman Rodney was not lucky in his attempt to get Supreme Court bail today while he awaits his murder trial for an incident that occurred in 2013. Rodney, who is twenty-nine years old, will stand trial for the April sixteenth, 2013 murder of Lloyd Augustus. Police allege that Rodney put a brutal beat down on Augustus, […]
Written on January 31, 2020 | Posted in
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An article today in the Salt Lake Tribute directly links Minister John Saldivar to bribes from Lev Dermen and former business partner Jacob Kingston. The allegation is made by Kingston, who is expected to present text messages as exhibits between him and Saldivar, in the course of the trial in Utah. But the minister, who […]
Written on January 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Late this evening, Minister John Saldivar issued a press statement denying the article in the Salt Lake Tribune. He says that the article suggests that Jacob Kingston will testify that Lev Dermen bribed him, but does not say in exchange for what. He also says that no one knows what Kingston will say and to […]
Written on January 30, 2020 | Posted in
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This morning, a pair of high-profile inmates on remand at the Belize Central Prison were transported to Belize City where they were set to appear before the courts. Twenty-seven-year-old Kenrick Longsworth, on remand for the murder of three-year-old Mark Tuyul Jr. was brought down under heavy police guard to attend a hearing in respect of […]
Written on January 30, 2020 | Posted in
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Also in the Supreme Court, the prosecution entered a nolle prosequi for lack of evidence in the murder case against Anthony Reyes rendering him a free man on Wednesday. He was charged with the murder of Emerson Anderson in March 2018. Anderson was playing a game of dice with two other persons at the corner […]
Written on January 30, 2020 | Posted in
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The trial of Lev Dermen in Utah is attracting attention in many countries, including Belize, because one witness has named a local government official and says he has text messages to corroborate what he will tell the court to prove that Dermen was involved in money laundering on an international scale. As arguments begin, critical […]
Written on January 29, 2020 | Posted in
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After being in prison since 2013, Paul Smith walked today from the charge of murder. Smith was accused of the April 2013 murder of Frank Neal, but in the court today, the prosecution entered a nolle prosequi due to lack of evidence. Justice Marilyn Williams then ordered the release of Smith. Neal was executed on […]
Written on January 29, 2020 | Posted in
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Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin is yet to render a decision where a claim against the Government of Belize, in respect of the Petrocaribe fund, is concerned. That judgment was to have been handed down on January twentieth, but the CJ took ill last week and the matter was postponed. Chief Justice Benjamin attended the celebration […]
Written on January 29, 2020 | Posted in
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Jury selection continued today in the District Court in Utah, where Lev Dermen is facing up to ten charges relating to money laundering in a case brought against him by the U.S. for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service of five hundred and eleven million dollars. The prosecution has worked out a plea deal with one […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Sentencing for former police constable Dаrrеn Маrtіnеz took place today. Martinez was found guilty last week of the sexual assault of a minor in an incident that goes back to February 2016. Martinez was the boyfriend of the minor’s sister when the sexual assault occurred at their family home. In December 2019, he was found […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Justice Colin Williams also imposed a sentence of fifteen years on forty-two year-old Anаbеll Кumul, who was initially charged with murder, but instead pleaded guilty to manslaughter of her common-law-husband, Felix Alamilla. Kumul admitted to stabbing Alamilla to death, in July 2014 when he was asleep at the home of a friend in San Pedro. […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Accused fraudster Lev Dermen who owned a chain of gas stations under the name Noil Energy in Los Angeles, is headed to trial. “Noil” is “lion” spelled backward and it is one of several examples of Dermen’s affinity for the big cat. Other businesses of his have had the word “lion” in them as well. […]
Written on January 27, 2020 | Posted in
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This morning in the Court of Appeal, Speednet Telecommunications Limited, the parent company for SMART, filed a leave to appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice. The matter is to settle, once and for all, a legal dispute that has gone in favour of SMART at the Supreme Court level and against the company when […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Dangriga businessman, Wilfred Pascacio, through his attorney, Richard “Dickie” Bradley, today acquired bail from Justice Marilyn Williams in Belize City Supreme Court. Pascascio, who is the proprietor for an island resort in southern Belize, is accused of the rape of one of his employees, an eighteen-year-old. She alleges that Pascascio forcibly had sexual intercourse with her at […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Magistrate Aretha Ford today committed Akeem Baptist to stand trial in the Supreme Court’s February session. Baptist is charged with Using Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding upon Amira Fernandez on September thirteenth, 2019 at Western Paradise off the George Price Highway. The prosecution alleges that Baptist aggressed and wounded Fernandez with a knife on […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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There is new information tonight in the case of Lev Dermen, an Armenian national with U.S. and Belize citizenship that is causing tremors inside the U.D.P. as it heads to a leadership convention on February ninth. Dermen is the accused mastermind in a scheme that defrauded the Internal Revenue Service of the United States of […]
Written on January 23, 2020 | Posted in
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Convicted murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason and four other men who carried out the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, as well as the alleged abduction of David Dodd, await sentencing for that capital offense at the Belize Central Prison. Their sentencing is expected to take place sometime in March. This morning, the men appeared before Justice […]
Written on January 22, 2020 | Posted in
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Troy “DJ Dalla” Flowers versus Shyne Barrow….it’s a pending legal drama involving two well-known entertainers and stalwarts of the United Democratic Party. One committed to taking out a twenty-six thousand dollar consignment for drinks to be sold at last year’s Music Week event in May, on the strength of their friendship. The other agreed to […]
Written on January 16, 2020 | Posted in
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Aside from the hefty thirty thousand dollar judgment which DJ Dalla is trying to recoup from Shyne, he is also charging ten thousand dollars for his services. Those services include logistical support, as well as a talent fee for hosting the Music Week event. Musa breaks down that arrangement. Isani Cayetano “So the large […]
Written on January 16, 2020 | Posted in
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In the court room of Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser, Shadron Gillett was committed to stand trial during the April Session of the Supreme Court for the murder of Kevin Thomas. At the preliminary inquiry, Gillett told the court he has no witnesses to call, but the prosecution is relying on nineteen witnesses. Thomas was killed […]
Written on January 16, 2020 | Posted in
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A group of foreign nationals charged in connection with the landing of a plane carrying sixty million dollars worth of cocaine in September of last year were back in court today. The six persons charged have been in prison for five months and today they were to appear before the Magistrate Court but the matter […]
Written on January 15, 2020 | Posted in
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For two days, police looked for the man who is accused in the brutal killing of a three-year-old child. On Sunday, Kenrick Longsworth was captured in Isabella Bank in an extensive manhunt mounted by the police. He was taken to court under heavy police escort this morning for arraignment for murder. Three-year-old Mark Tuyul Junior […]
Written on January 14, 2020 | Posted in
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This morning, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin handed down a summary decision in a matter involving the ever-increasing U.H.S. debt that has been before different courts for long years from the local courts to the Caribbean Court of Justice and the London Court of International Arbitration. The Belize Bank Limited has been engaged in a protracted […]
Written on January 10, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Supreme Court Upholds G.O.B.’s Position on U.H.S. Debt
While the matter has been voted down in the National Assembly, during a move in which the opposition walked out of the House of Representatives and abstained from the process, interest on the monies continues to grow exponentially. According to AG Peyrefitte, theoretically, if the Belize Bank continues to withhold its business tax payments the […]
Written on January 10, 2020 | Posted in
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