With so many lawsuits swirling around Belize Telecommunications Limited it’s hard to keep track. The latest decision by the Belize Supreme Court, issued yesterday, is the granting of a request from disgruntled shareholders to have a special investigation into the affairs of the company, specifically the time it was under the control of Jeffrey Prosser. […]
The sad saga of BTL continues to unfold as ownership of this once proud company is being contested simultaneously on two continents. When we last heard from lawyers in London, the government of Belize had been restrained from disposing of the majority shares it had repossessed from Jeffrey Prosser when he failed to come up […]
In related news, we feel obligated to report that this television station and one of its reporters has been served with a writ of libel and slander allegedly committed against former Intelco chief Glenn Godfrey. Godfrey, who is seeking an injunction along with monetary damages, claims that he was wronged by a question asked by […]
It carries an extensive and diverse jurisdiction; and now the Belize Family Court is taking a proactive approach to settling family disputes. It’s called mediation and according to head of the Family Court, Margaret Nicholas, the idea is to prevent disputes from having to reach the formal court setting. A group of mediators along with […]
The Virgin Islands Daily News is reporting today that Innovative Communications Corporation, ICC is taking the Belizean Government to court. A U.S. District Court in Miami has granted ICC’s subsidiary Belize Telecom Limited a hearing on the Belize government’s seizure of the telephone company last week following ICC’s refusal to pay the government fifty-seven million […]
It may not be dead but a case that appeared to be on life support made a major reappearance today, over two and a half years after the crimes took place. Walking in to Magistrate’s Court were Gabby Affif and Hassan El Sayed, two men accused of being at the centre of an illegal scheme […]
It happens every year at this time but in 2005 the ceremonial opening of the Supreme Court carries special weight: first because it must deal with a rising tide of violent crime and second, because the civil side of court has become an important arbiter of Belize’s social and political conflicts. News 5’s Patrick Jones […]
It might have gotten lost in all the talk about the budget but on Wednesday, a law suit was filed in the Supreme Court against Belize Telecommunications Limited by a group of small shareholders. Attorney Lois Young Barrow filed the suit on behalf of the Belize National Teachers Union, the Public Service Union and several […]
It took a while but after several delays the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Belize Tourism Industry Association to proceed with its application for judicial review of the Carnival Cruise Port contract. B.T.I.A. president Lucy Flemming explained the implications of the decision. Lucy Flemming, President, B.T.I.A. ?We were heard by the Supreme […]
Thirty-four year old Kenrick Domingo, also known as “Buck Dougal”, a resident of Courtenay’s Crescent who had fifty-nine previous convictions on various offences, received his sixtieth yesterday when a jury of nine found him guilty of rape. Domingo was sentenced to ten years in prison by Justice Troadio Gonzalez, who stipulated that the sentence should […]
The Supreme Court hearing of a constitutional challenge to the Carnival cruise port contract initiated by the Belize Tourism Industry Association will have to wait for another week. Justice Samuel Awich this morning granted an adjournment on an application by attorney for the Belize Tourism Board, Melissa Balderamos Mahler. Mahler surprised the bench when she […]
The Belize Printers Association has won the latest round in its suit against government, as Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh has found that there was no compelling reason why the contract between GOB and Print Belize Ltd should not be made public. The group of private sector printing companies is now studying the contract in the […]
The Belize Court of appeal today gave reason for optimism to the Belize Printers Association in their long campaign against the way Government turned its Printing Department into a private company, Print Belize Limited. According to a BPA release, the court upheld the Supreme Court’s ruling that Government must produce the original five-year contract with […]
The case of Maria Roches, the teacher who took the Roman Catholic Church to court after being dismissed for getting pregnant out of wedlock has moved one step closer to conclusion. The three member Court of Appeal, sitting in Belize City, this afternoon dismissed an appeal brought forward by the Catholic Management. After Roches was […]
It has taken almost a year to the day for the case to reach the lofty confines of the Supreme Court. But as we are all aware, the wheels of justice turn slowly in Belize…and today they ground to a halt. Accused passport forger Therese Cabral will now have to wait until October fifth before […]
It was an incident that outraged family and friends in June of 2002, when sixty-four year old Cleophas Burgess was attacked in his home at number 164 Neal Penn Road and left for dead on his back steps. Three men: Keon Joseph, Lionel Sampson, and Kenroy Clark Smith were accused of murdering the elderly man. […]
It was a dispute over six lots in the town of Benque Viejo del Carmen that the mayor said were earmarked for a park and his political opponent claimed were private property. Today the Supreme Court spoke, saying the construction of the park could proceed. But as News 5’s Patrick Jones discovered, the quarrel had […]
Two more convicted murders will not be heading to the gallows. Late this afternoon the Belize Court of Appeal, while upholding the conviction of Jeremy Harris and Deon Slusher, ruled that Justice Troadio Gonzales did not allow the defendants and a social officer a proper hearing with regard to the sentencing phase of the trial. […]
A land dispute in Benque Viejo del Carmen is now in the hands of the Supreme Court, complicated by politics and missing documents. According to the Mayor of that municipality, Said Badi Guerra, the property in question had been designated as a park years ago, and even though it was later subdivided into lots and […]
He was convicted of forcible abduction, threat of death, and harm, and in October was sentenced to eight years in jail. But today thirty-eight year old Albert Guy walked out of the Court of Appeal a free man. His attorney, Hubert Elrington, successfully argued that because the I.D. parade included no other people of East […]
Accused drug runner Robert Hertular came one-step closer to Riker’s Island today as Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord ruled that he be extradited to face charges in New York. In making his ruling Lord pointed out that extradition is a matter of honour between two nations and it is not for him to try the case […]
The accident took place almost a year and a half ago, but on Thursday, seven passengers on a Tropic Air flight that crashed in the sea near San Pedro filed a lawsuit against the airline and the travel company that sold them the tickets. The suit, lodged in Houston, alleges that pilot Roy Bradley was […]
While violent crime seemed to have taken the day off, there was no shortage of drama in the civil section of the Supreme Court. The case of Mike Williams versus Doctor Atanascio Cob and Universal Health Services alleging gross professional negligence came to a dramatic conclusion this afternoon, when Justice Samuel Awich ruled in favour […]
The Printers Association was caught off-guard today in the Supreme Court in their fight to have the Government fully disclose all documents relating to the privatization of the Printing Department and a subsequent contract it entered into with the new company, Print Belize. Appearing before Justice Denys Barrow, Solicitor General Elson Kaseke informed the court […]
It was a controversial case: a Punta Gorda teacher filing suit against the management of Catholic Schools because she was dismissed from her job in June of last year when her boss discovered she was pregnant and not planning to get married. Although her case was not unique, it was the first time anyone had […]
