So, is this matter over for Calaney Flowers? Her attorney, Anthony Sylvestre, says that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution has a time frame of forty-two days to appeal today’s decision of it so considers. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Calaney Flowers “All proceedings against here they have come to an end as […]
In the lower courts, Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning dismissed an application brought by the P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer for Belize Rural North, Marconi Leal, against a registered voter in that division. Leal, through attorney Michel Chebat, filed a claim to have six voters removed from the voters’ list on the grounds that they provided […]
Marconi Leal was represented by attorney Michel Chebat, who says that the challenge he faced, was the fact that magistrates do not allow for the registering officers to be cross-examined. He says that in at least three of the cases, no one verified the address of the voters. The registering officer, says Chebat, would have […]
In the Supreme Court, Akeem Trapp walked free of the murder of Ian Adolphus Junior, which occurred February twenty-sixth, 2015 on Gill Street in Belize City. Adolphus Junior was shot as many as three times. Today, the crown entered a nolle prosequi because there was not enough evidence to prove the charge of murder. On […]
After spending almost seven years in jail, today twenty-six-year-old Stephan Jenkins pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter of fifty-four-year old Dennis Williams. On November eighth, 2012, Williams was shot and killed at his workplace, Three Stars Quality Chicken, located on Vernon Street. Justice of the Supreme Court, Marilyn Williams, sentenced Jenkins to seventeen […]
Last Tuesday, following several weeks of cooperating closely with the U.S. State Department in Washington, the Belmopan Supreme Court received a written witness testimony from a U.S. Federal Agent who was involved with the investigation of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas. In the account, the witness testified that on July seventeenth, 2016, Acting Commissioner of Police Russell […]
Earlier in the year, the Belize Police Department began to enforce the department’s Standard Orders regarding hairstyle and consequently banned dreadlocks. Six women police officers were accused of willfully disobeying a lawful command from Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. A memo circulated within the department states that one of the reasons for the ban on dreadlocks is the […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Jose Hilberto Gallegos is behind bars for counterfeit U.S. dollars. The Mexican national was busted at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on October tenth with forty thousand, eight hundred dollars in counterfeit U.S. currency and appeared this week in court for arraignment before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford and was read three counts of possession […]
A retired U.S. national, who did not board a cruise ship in mid-September, is now illegal in Belize. Fifty-year-old Edward Francis Kilgour, the third, appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitt Anderson to answer to a charge of failure to comply with the conditions of his visitor’s permit when he failed to produce his documents to […]
A young domestic from Hattieville, Gertrude Mejia, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison for the offense of maim. Allegations are that on October twelfth, 2019, she intentionally and unlawfully caused a maim to Virginia Logan in Hattieville. Mejia appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson and was represented by attorney Norman Rodriguez. There was […]
Three seasoned Belize City fisherman, who have been in the fishing business for over fifty years, each appeared in court on fisheries offenses they are disputing. This morning, seventy-five-year-old Oscar O’Brien Mena, seventy-three-year-old Conrad William Daniels, and seventy-two-year-old Edward Meighan were arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for partially and fully processed undersized conch […]
The P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer for Belize Rural North Marconi Leal is challenging six re-registration applications, believing that those persons gave inaccurate information regarding their place of residence. Originally, Leal was challenging fifty-nine applications but later abandoned fifty-three; the U.D.P.’s Edmond Castro to defend the remaining six. In court today, Leal along with Nathaniel Alvaro testified […]
Alleged murder suspect Lionel Kelly, walked free on Tuesday after his attorney Simeon Sampson, made a no case submission which was upheld by Justice Colin Williams. The Justice agreed that the crown could not prove the charge of murder against Kelly. The Mayflower resident was charged for the July six, 2016 murder of twenty-year-old Tevin […]
Leslie Pipersburgh and Patrick Robateau are two convicts who have now been given a fixed sentence for a double murder. Both received a sentence of thirty-five years, less ten years already served, leaving the duo to serve twenty-five more years to take effect from April, 2011, the date when they were convicted of the double […]
In 2014, Vitalino Reyes Junior was badly beaten when his father and another well-known operator were having differences in the cave tubing business. The violent incident made the news for days. The heavy competition sparked a huge war between the son and others working for the competing company. Today, the case came crashing down at […]
Immigration Clerk Sheree Flores escaped a charge today. Another clerk, Ann Smith pressed charges of harm against Flores who then entered a counter charge of common assault against Smith. The charges on both women were dropped when the matter went before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Frazer adviced the women to settle the cases out of […]
The court ruled today against Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington in a long standing case involving more than a hundred parcels of land held by Progresso Heights Limited. Elrington owns shares in the company; the other shareholders are U.S. citizens Lawrence Schneider and his son, Adam. While he did not show up in court for the […]
There is another case that has been before the court for some time. It involves the murder charge against William “Danny” Mason and four other accused men. This morning, it was adjourned yet again. Today, defense attorneys received email confirmation that the case has been set to reconvene on October eighteenth, 2019. Mason and four […]
A fuel thief is serving a month-long sentence at the Belize Central Prison after he was busted stealing ten gallons of gasoline in San Pedro. On Monday, twenty-four-year-old Nicholas Reyes was caught red-handed making off with a quantity of fuel belonging to Alfonso Wilshire. Reyes was pursued by a pair of men whom he was […]
Two Belize City men were freed from murder charges after spending almost five years on remand at the Hattieville Prison. Lyson Cacho and Tarique Gillett faced trial for the March 2015 murder of Michael Welch, which occurred on Periwinkle Street in Belize City. Kingsley Morrison was also shot during the gun violence, and was the […]
Tonight, three of four men linked to a gun found in a parked vehicle are home free after twenty-three-year-old Lionel Longsworth took the rap for the firearm and ammo. Harold Usher, Dane Gillett and Jeffery Buller were along with Longsworth when the gun was intercepted on the night of January second, 2019 on Cran Street […]
Two maintenance workers caught on surveillance camera were sent to jail after they pleaded guilty to the burglary of a warehouse on Queen Street, Belize City. Sometime between last Thursday and Friday they trespassed the warehouse of D-Sprout located on Queen Street and stole an assortment of boys’ and girls’ scandals and a bucket of […]
A sixty-one-year-old man, who was caught burglarizing a gift shop, learnt a lesson the hard way when he was convicted of burglary and sentenced to seven years behind bars, even though he did not end up with the items he had taken. The sentence was imposed by Magistrate Emmerson Banner on Elsworth Leslie for […]
This morning, Corporal Kent Martinez, the police officer accused of pulling the trigger and causing the death of teacher Allyson Major, was back before the court. Last week, he made an application seeking permission to travel out of the country, but that was not even an issue today. Instead, the prosecutor, Corporal Noel Muschamp gave […]
He was shot behind the ear and grazed on his neck five years ago, but today after more than five years, twenty-seven-year-old Andrew Augustine wants no court action against the accused shooter. The shooter was identified as Stephon Anderson, who was charge for the attempted murder, is a free man. This morning in the court […]
