Thirty-four-year-old James Escarpeta was this afternoon marched into the Belmopan Magistrate Court where he answered to two charges relating to Sunday’s brazen armed robbery of the PUMA gas station in Belmopan. Escarpeta was charged with robbery and possession of a firearm without a gun license. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded […]
A sixty-four-year-old San Pedro man is on remand for committing a sexual assault upon a nine-year-old boy. He is Ernesto Caliz, a self-employed resident of the island. Late on Monday, Caliz, who was unrepresented, appeared before Magistrate Michelle Trapp. The prosecutor, Corporal Roman Andrews of San Pedro, objected to bail being granted to Caliz on […]
A twenty-year-old man has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison until September twelfth after he was arraigned this morning for last Thursday’s attempted murder of Ozen Rhaburn. Rhaburn, a twenty-three-year-old resident of Hattieville, was targeted by a gunman at his home in the Farmer’s Site area of the village. He was reportedly confronted by […]
Forty-five-year-old Leslie Pipersburgh and forty-two-year-old Patrick Robateau, the two men convicted of the murders of security guards Kevin Alvarez and Fidel Mai during a robbery at the Bowen and Bowen compound on Slaughterhouse Road back in 2002, appeared before the Supreme Court for mitigation plea to be heard on Friday. The convicts told Justice Colin […]
Forty-four-year-old Noewellin Williams has been ordered to stand trial for the stabbing death of his former common-law wife in August 2018. Roxanna Pop, the mother of Williams’ three children, was fatally injured at the Boulevard Plaza in Belize City last year when she was viciously attacked and stabbed as many as three times to the […]
Thirty-two-year-old Troy Hyde, a suspect in the murder of Kareem “Robbery” Lopez, is presently out on bail. Tonight, he is in the news after being busted, along with twenty-five-year-old Raheem Arnold, for possession of cannabis. Both men appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner earlier today to answer to two drug-related offenses. A raid of their home […]
In the courts, the murder trial of twenty-year-old Eldon Flowers is coming to an end. Today, the crown represented by Senior Crown Counsel for the D.P.P.’s office, Shanice Lovelle, closed her case after calling more than eight witnesses to the stand. The biggest hurdle has been over the crown’s main witness, who turned hostile and told […]
An attempted murder case stemming back from August of 2014 which was committed to stand trial in 2016 against a Belize City man ended in a nolle prosequi today. Ron Myvette was charged and granted bail months later in December 12, 2014 for the attempted murder of a well-known street figure, Calbert Budd Junior. Myvette […]
A police officer and his common-law-wife are free tonight after they were acquitted of three counts of wounding upon their six-year-old child, who they were accused of beating. Police claimed that the child was injured in October, November and December 2017, when she was hit by her parents with a broom, a spoon and a […]
A man who authorities thought was a worker with B.T.L. turned out to be copper thief. Gilbert Craig of Faber’s Road Extension was arraigned before Magistrate Emmerson Banner on Monday for theft. Allegations are that on June twenty-seventh, 2019, between miles thirteen and fifteen on the George Price Highway, Craig was caught stealing one hundred […]
In the Magistrate Court this morning, tourism attendant Evan Gillett was arraigned for causing the death of his cousin in a traffic accident after colliding into a metal lamppost situated in the median of the Phillip Goldson Highway last month. Gillett was released after posting bail of ten thousand dollars following his arraignment for manslaughter […]
B.D.F. soldier, Albert Moreira was charged for the October 2018 murder of Felina James, his girlfriend and mother of their son. This week, he went to trial and saw the charge of murder dismissed by Magistrate Michelle Trapp when the court prosecutor informed that there was no case file available. Moreira’s attorney, Oscar Selgado, made […]
Four years ago, in June 2015, thirty-nine-year-old Patrick Dean Spencer, a.k.a. “Nally,” was gunned down on Cairo Street with its intersection with Glen Street, Belize City. He was shot multiple times by two gunmen and died instantly. Spencer was standing behind Extra House when he was approached by the two gun men. Charles Middleton and […]
Back in April, the Government was unsuccessful in trying to persuade the Court of Appeal to hear an application in an expedited manner. This was in the relation to the April third injunction which was granted by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin against holding the I.C.J. referendum on April tenth. The Court of Appeal ruled that […]
Alleged murderers William “Danny” Mason, Ashton Vanegas, Terrence Fernandez, Keiron Fernandez, and Ernest Castillo were back in court this afternoon. The men appeared before Belmopan’s Supreme Court Justice Antoinette Moore as it was expected that the trial relating to the coldhearted beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas would get underway. Initially, the trial was expected to […]
One of those counsels is Attorney Bryan Neal, who is representing Keiron Fernandez. According to Neal, after meeting with his colleagues, it has been decided that the defense will make preliminary submissions relating to issues that could have a significant impact on the trial. Bryan Neal, Attorney for Keiron Fernandez “I was hoping that […]
Fifty-year-old Thelma Warrior has been arrested and charged for the murder of Yolanda Elvira Requeña who was stabbed to death in Bullet Tree Falls Village on Sunday evening. As we reported on Monday, Requeña, a mother of four, was romantically involved with Kalim Warrior, the husband of the accused murderer. Requeña was said to have […]
Twenty-five-year-old police constable Michelle Brown, accused of the December 2017 murder of businessman Fareed Ahmad, appeared before Justice Colin Williams this morning. A plea of not guilty was taken from her, despite the absence of her attorney, Senior Counsel Simeon Sampson. The matter has been adjourned to September nineteenth when case management is set to […]
The Public Utilities Commission won its legal battle against Speednet Telecommunication Limited, the parent company of SMART. This morning, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment effectively overturning the ruling of Supreme Court Justice Michelle Arana. In its claim, the P.U.C. asked the courts to order Speednet to pay one point four million dollars […]
According to Pitts, the Court of Appeal’s ruling is significant as it reminds public utilities providers to adhere to the legislation. Sheena Pitts, Attorney for P.U.C. “Quite frankly this decision is well received because what it does for the Public Utilities Commission which is a statutory body it tells the public, it tells public […]
Twenty-nine year old Juan Carlos “Canikas” Quintero is tonight behind bars at the Belize Central Prison. Quintero who was on the run for months and believe to have been residing somewhere in the Yucatan State of Mexico was captured yesterday while in Orange Walk Town. A warrant for his arrest was issued in 2018 as […]
Tonight, twenty-four-year-old Marlon Casey, a resident of Ladyville, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the attempted murder of Abraham Leslie. The incident occurred on Monday when Leslie was stabbed during an altercation involving the sale of marijuana. Casey, a construction worker of Kwale Street, reportedly purchased a quantity of […]
William Danny Mason’s murder trial has been adjourned until Monday. Today, Mason’s lawyer was a no-show for what should have been the restart of the trial in the Belmopan Supreme Court. The trial was set to open at nine this morning but it was pushed back to one in the afternoon, but it still didn’t […]
We have been following closely the latest political developments in Guyana since the passage of a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly last year. This morning, the Caribbean Court of Justice handed down a decision affirming the right of members of parliament to vote against their own government. On December twenty-first, 2018, Guyana’s Opposition Leader […]
The issue of Persaud’s eligibility to vote as a dual citizen was also challenged before the C.C.J. In Guyana, dual citizens are not allowed to run for office in elections to the National Assembly. The C.C.J., however, determined that Guyana’s Validity of Elections Act requires that a petition alleging that Persaud was disqualified from the […]
