The case brought against City Hall by the former City Administrator Candice Miller, came to end this afternoon around three-thirty after days of gruelling arguments and counter arguments from both sides. Closing submissions were held on Thursday and by this afternoon; Justice Courtenay Abel was ready with a decision. The justice ruled in favour of […]
Today, members from both political parties were back before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser on a series of challenges of voters registered in a division where they do not reside. In the morning session, which concluded just after midday, the case brought against Deputy ComPol Edward Broaster was heard. Broaster, according to the voter’s list has […]
A ninety-year-old man was the victim of a broad daylight robbery earlier this week. Just seconds after Llewellyn Tillett had withdrawn money from the Saint John’s Credit Union on Basra Street, he was jacked of two thousand dollars. The robbery was captured on surveillance camera and today, twenty-two-year-old Aaron Munnings was arraigned in the Belize […]
Tonight, two Belize City men, well-known to the courts, pleaded guilty to being a member of a gang to avoid jail time. Police say Edward Saldano and Tareek Malique Goff are gang members. In the case of Goff, who was the first to be arraigned before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson, he is accused of being […]
There is a development in the case of a U.S. national captured at a Ladyville apartment on September nineteenth. The police apprehended sixty-year-old Ladd Duane Ottofy who was residing at the apartment complex owned by former U.D.P. senator Juliet Thimbriel. The Kentucky man was indicted in March on four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, one […]
The case against William “Danny” Mason and four accused men continues to languish in the Belmopan Supreme Court. A statement from a witness, a U.S. Embassy employee, for Mason has not yet been secured because Tim Reid is no longer in Belize and arranging his testimony has met hurdles. Mason and accomplices are accused with […]
A decision will be handed down this Friday afternoon in a claim brought by former city administrator Candace Miller against the Belize City Council for unlawful termination. Attorneys Magali Perdomo for Miller and Anthony Sylvester for the Council made their final submissions before Justice Courtney Abel. The council terminated Miller’s contract back in 2018 on […]
Norris Meighan Senior, four of his sons and another man were found on the vessel ‘Carlita M’ in possession of three hundred and ninety-nine conchs during the closed season. They were busted by Fisheries Officer Nikkeon Gomez on September thirtieth, a day shy from the opening of the conch season. Appearing in court along […]
A pair of siblings from Ladyville and Belize City was before the court today on a single charge of possession of a homemade firearm. Erwin Anthony Lanza and his older brother, Canrun Lanza, appeared before Senior Magistrate, Aretha Ford. Police claim that on Wednesday morning, they executed a search at a house in Lords Bank […]
Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Service Reynaldo Verde legal woes continues in the U.S.A. Today, he was denied bail. Verde was nabbed by the F.B.I. on charges of interference with commerce by means of extortion and attempted extortion. The criminal complaint was made by the principal of Orchid Bay Development, Chris Williams, who reported […]
The case against the Belize City Council brought by former City Administrator Candice Miller adjourned around four-thirty this afternoon in the courtroom of Justice Courtney Abel. Mayor Bernard Wagner was on the stand throughout the day being cross-examined by Miller’s attorney, Magali Perdomo. Miller was let go from City Hall back in 2018 when the […]
The fate of Albert Moreira, accused of the murder of his estranged common-law wife, has been decided and he will have to stand trial at the Supreme Court. According to Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson, the defense did not challenge any of the documents and while there is no direct evidence that Moreira committed the crime, […]
Four years ago, a bus driver from Saint Paul’s Bank, Belize District attempted to overtake two vehicles as he headed from Belize City to the village. He never made it pass a passenger bus and collided with another vehicle. Two Belize City men travelling in the pan of a pick-up truck driven by a Chinese […]
The fate of Reynaldo Verde will be determined on Wednesday. The Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Service remains behind bars in the U.S. on charges of interference with commerce by means of extortion and attempted extortion. There is now a possibility that he might not face jail time. Court documents show that Attorney Karen Rochlin, […]
The murder trial of William “Danny” Mason and four other accused men continued to face a hitch today in the Belmopan Supreme Court. That is because the court has been unable to get a statement from one of the last witnesses for the defense. The witness, Tim Reid, was employed by the U.S. Embassy at […]
After serving seven years on remand, twenty-eight-year-old Kenyon Dominguez walked free from the Supreme Court on Monday for gunning down Keith Lewis on July eleventh on Miller Street, behind the Complex Building. Justice Colin Williams, in a trial by judge without jury, ruled that Dominguez had no case to answer. The justice upheld a no […]
Two men from Honduras are behind bars tonight charged in connection and a Venezuelan plane laden with sixty million dollars of cocaine that landed off the Coastal Road on the night of September ninth. The duo, Allan Yovani Mejia Chirinos and Nolan Jose Carrasco Lopez were each charged with one count of possession of controlled […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Jahnon Trapp, a resident of Esperanza Village, has been arraigned for the murder of Mirna Young, a mother of six who was gunned down inside her home in Santa Elena last Wednesday. Trapp stands accused of letting loose a barrage of gunshots at a pair of men, including Young’s son who was standing inside […]
A second person has been charged for the murder of Mexican national Ofelia Cruz. The sixty-nine-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death inside her house in the Salt Creek area of Sand Hill Village. In late August, eighteen-year-old Camalote resident Derry Bennett was charged and remanded to central prison for the murder. Late this evening, in […]
On Thursday afternoon, twenty-two-year-old Harmonyville resident, Nelson Espinosa was arraigned for the heinous murder of nineteen-year-old Adamir Choc. It is believed that Choc was sexually assaulted and murdered in a bushy area off Never Delay Road the morning she went missing from a nightclub in Belmopan. Police have impounded a car in relation to the […]
Two men busted in Corozal with a large quantity of marijuana were granted Supreme Court bail on Thursday in the sum of ten thousand dollars each. They are taxi-driver, Nestor Alejandro Cowo and Sergio Ramon Hall. The duo was arrested on September sixteenth, and charged jointly. Cowo was charged with possession of thirteen point […]
The mother of Adamir Choc arrived in front of the courtroom in Belmopan today minutes after the murder suspect was taken away in the pan of a police pickup truck. He is a twenty-two-year-old resident of Harmonyville, on the George Price Highway. Nelson Espinosa was taken to court under police escort and was arraigned for […]
Tonight, fifty-six-year old Bert Keith Sylvester, a fisherman, has been fined for theft. Sylvester is the man captured on footage soon after he committed a broad daylight theft at Benny’s Home Center. He was seen on video as he fled on bicycle and was pursued by a vehicle and eventually captured. He pleaded guilty to the […]
This morning in the courtroom of Justice Courtney Abel, the long-drawn-out case against Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington, a shareholder with a twenty percent stake in the embattled Progresso Heights Limited, resumed after a six-week adjournment. Elrington is being sued by the principal director Lawrence Schneider of the real estate development company after cautions were placed […]
According to Elrington, the submissions were all based on technical arguments in law. Elrington says that while Schneider attempted to speak on behalf of Progresso Heights by way of the provisions in the article of association, he contends that those articles do not empower Schneider to speak for the company. Wilfred ’Sedi’ Elrington, Shareholder, […]
