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A former inmate of the Belize Central Prison successfully sued the prison for negligence after he was violently raped twice while behind bars. Forty-three-year-old Kenroy Cooke was arraigned and charged with two counts of unnatural act and one count of harm. The incident occurred on the twenty-fifth and the twenty-ninth of November 2017. The victim […]
Written on January 8, 2020 | Posted in
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According to Sylvester, there is still the matter of compensation. He must now, within weeks, make submissions detailing personal injuries on behalf of his client after which the justice will make a ruling on how much damages the victim will be awarded. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Claimant “The relevant or significance of this is […]
Written on January 8, 2020 | Posted in
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The former head of the Orange Walk Police Formation, Superintendent David Chi, a police constable and two Mexican nationals arrived at the Orange Walk Magistrate Court today for trial. There was heavy police presence as the sensational trial got underway. The men are accused of landing a drug plane carrying twenty-six bales of cocaine in […]
Written on January 6, 2020 | Posted in
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Today, four persons were arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate Court for the New Year’s Day attack on Police Constable Edgar Teul. The foursome includes Guatemalan national Migdael Gonzalez, as well as Belizeans Irvin Cal, Magdaleno Cal and Abelino Cal. Magdaleno and Abelino were charged with Attempted Murder, while Migdael and Irvin are facing charges of […]
Written on January 3, 2020 | Posted in
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On December thirty-first, Hildebrandt Codd was charged and arraigned for the murder of Densmore Bowman. Bowman’s decomposing body was discovered on December sixteenth, about two and half weeks after he was reported missing. He was last seen alive on November twenty-ninth, socializing at an establishment in Roaring Creek Village; Bowman later got into a car […]
Written on January 2, 2020 | Posted in
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A Belize City resident was arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court today for the murder of Densmore Bowman. Bowman, a thirty-four-year-old Belmopan resident had been reported missing back in November. His decomposing body was later discovered on the George Price Highway almost three weeks later on December sixteenth; he had been hacked to death and […]
Written on December 31, 2019 | Posted in
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The Court of Appeal today handed down a ruling, upholding the Chief Justice’s 2016 ruling on Section Fifty-Three. Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin ruled that Section Fifty-Three of the Belize Criminal Code, which criminalized ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature,’ contravened the constitutional rights to dignity, equality before the law, privacy, freedom of expression and […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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According to Orozco, Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code is a law which discriminates on the basis of sex and is void to that extent. He says that the ruling shows the strength of strategic approaches to communication and community mobilization used across the Caribbean. Caleb Orozco, Executive Director, UNIBAM “In the decision in […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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With Section Fifty-Three being struck down by the Supreme Court and with the Court of Appeals reaffirming the Chief Justice’s ruling, what other LGBT issues are there? Well, there is gender identity and marriage equality. Around the world, members of the LGBT have been challenging the status quo and according to attorney Lisa Shoman, Belize […]
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Trial finally began today for the group of men accused of participating in the September ninth, 2018 landing of a drug plane in Tres Leguas, near Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District. That group includes former Commander of the Orange Walk Police Formation Superintendent David Chi and Police Constable Norman Anthony, along with two […]
Written on December 30, 2019 | Posted in
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Thirty-seven-year-old Leon Soberanis is no stranger to the law. This morning, the Belize City resident he found himself yet again before the lower court. While he was granted bail for a drug possession charge, he needs to cover a minimum of five hundred dollars in previous fines which amount to over one thousand dollars, before […]
Written on December 27, 2019 | Posted in
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A second person has been arraigned for the July sixteenth, 2019 murder of clothing vendor, Jose Diaz. Leroy Haulze, who was initially charged for abetment to murder in this homicide, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning where he was read a single charge of murder. No plea was taken and Haulze was remanded […]
Written on December 24, 2019 | Posted in
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Sean Arnold, who recently became a father, will have to find money for more than just pampers after pleading guilty to possession of a controlled drug. Today, before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser, he pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled drug. The Chief Magistrate ordered him to pay two hundred and fifty dollars, plus five […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Also in court was Steven Mejia. He recently pleaded guilty to being a member of a gang, but today he was hauled before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser for a charge of burglary, for which he pleaded not guilty. Mejia was offered bail in the sum of three thousand dollars, plus one surety. The incident occurred […]
Written on December 23, 2019 | Posted in
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The Belize Peace Movement and Vision Inspired by the People, V.I.P., have brought a constitutional challenge against the Government of Belize in relation to the electoral division claiming that the thirty-one constituencies are disproportionate. During this morning’s case management, the court issued deadlines for additional affidavits to be filed. In this case, there are a […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Deputy Solicitor General Samantha Matute-Tucker is representing the Attorney General and attorney Arthur Saldivar is representing the Belize Peace Movement and V.I.P. The case was adjourned to February sixth, 2020. Here’s more from attorney Arthur Saldivar. Arthur Saldivar, Attorney for Belize Peace Movement “We want just what the court can do which is to […]
Written on December 20, 2019 | Posted in
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Thirty-two-year-old Mario Huezo has been charged with two counts of murder. Huezo stands accused of callously killing his parents, Rafael and Nanny Huezo, whose bodies were discovered on Monday morning. They lay dead inside their Orange Walk Town house on Stadium Street. The thirty-year-old appeared before Magistrate Patricia Arana today where he was arraigned for […]
Written on December 19, 2019 | Posted in
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Twenty-two-year old Cameron Harris will be home for the holidays. This morning his murder trial ended in his acquittal when Justice Colin Williams upheld a “no-case submission. Harris and his brother twenty-two -year-old Lenford Harris Junior were charged with the murder of Nelson Zelaya in 2016. Earlier this month, Lenford walked from the charge and […]
Written on December 19, 2019 | Posted in
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After spending half his life behind bars, Andrew Kelly will now only have to serve two years and ten months more before he is released. Kelly was behind bars on death row but won an appeal and was given a life sentence. With a change in law, all inmates serving life sentences must now be […]
Written on December 19, 2019 | Posted in
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In the Belmopan Magistrate Court, Kenzle Hulse, the son of Minister Godwin Hulse, made an appearance and was charged with harm. It follows a report of domestic violence made by Kenzle’s ex, the mother of his one-year-old daughter. The couple is estranged and Nicole Usher is providing graphic details alleging that Kenzle choked her in […]
Written on December 18, 2019 | Posted in
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This morning twenty-one-year-old Mark Waight was found not guilty for the second time and the judgment came six months apart from each other. Waight was on trial for the attempted murder of Jamelia Neal. In arriving at his decision, Justice Colin Williams said that he did not find the testimony of the accused sister, Desiree […]
Written on December 18, 2019 | Posted in
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A two-year-old child was at the centre of a domestic dispute between the parents. This morning Mara Perez, a resident of Ladyville village, appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson where she was arraigned on a charge of aggravated assault. At the arraignment, Perez pleaded not guilty to the charge. Since there was no objection, she […]
Written on December 18, 2019 | Posted in
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The court handed down a guilty verdict today against Valentine Baptist; the decision was delivered by Justice Colin Williams who found Baptist guilty of the murder of nineteen-year-old Devin Parham. Baptist will be spending Christmas behind bars and will be sentenced in February, 2020. In his lengthy decision, Justice Williams said that he was not […]
Written on December 11, 2019 | Posted in
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Twenty-four year old Gilberto Chanek also appeared in the Supreme Court this morning. He was originally charged with the murder of fifty-year-old Carlitos Valdez; but today he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter before Justice Colin Williams. The court accepted Chanek’s guilty plea. His attorney, Senior Crown Simeon Sampson, asked the court that […]
Written on December 11, 2019 | Posted in
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On December seventh, police formally arrested and charged Shane Jones for the murder of Edwin Usher. On December first, Usher was gravely beaten outside of a bar at the corner of Vernon and Johnson Streets in Belize City. He was taken to the K.H.M.H. but slipped into a coma. Usher died several days later at […]
Written on December 10, 2019 | Posted in
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