Last week a cop was charged for harming his wife after he punched her in the face. Today, the tables turned as his pregnant wife was before the court charged for wounding him. Ramona Lewis, an Income Tax Officer from the Ladyville area, was arraigned on wounding of her husband, Police officer, Carl Lewis. But […]
The courtroom of Justice Shona Griffith was packed to capacity this morning. Officers of all ranks were present for the commencement of a legal claim involving Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, who is being sued by the President of the Belize Police Association. Corporal Eldon Arzu has been absent from duty since being transferred to […]
Also in the Supreme Court, a pair of cops, Corporals Leonard Nunez and Hallet King, will be facing trial for the manslaughter death of Hilberto Sotz. The young man was badly beaten while he was on remand at the Caye Caulker police station and died later at the clinic. He was detained for handling stolen […]
In the Court of Appeal today, government’s attorney, Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman and the Opposition’s lead lawyer, Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay were back before the justices. They appeared for a case management session relating to the government’s appeal to the granting of the I.C.J. injunction by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The Opposition has launched a […]
William “Danny” Mason returns to court on May fourteenth before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Belmopan Supreme Court. When he goes back, he will be represented by Guyanese attorney Dexter Todd for the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas on July sixteenth, 2016. His co-accused for the gruesome murder are Terence Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas, Keiron Fernandez, […]
Seven years after the shooting murder of Myrick Gladden, Tevin Andrewin was found guilty of the crime. Andrewin’s trial started on February twenty-fifth, 2019 and concluded on March twentieth, 2019; it was a trial by judge without jury held before Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams. On June twenty-fourth, 2012, Myrick, along with his common-law wife […]
The killing of Tyler Savery and his cousin Porshan Pipersburgh numbed the nation. The young primary school child was being taken for a smoothie when he was executed on Daly Street, Belize City on November eleventh 2016. The individual who was charged for the double murder walked on Monday for lack of evidence in trial. […]
Embattled attorney Andrew Bennett, who is fighting tooth and nail to remain in Belize, following an extradition request by the United States government, was back in court today. He is wanted by U.S. authorities for his alleged role in a money laundering operation in Puerto Rico. This morning, Bennett appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer […]
Allegations made against Bennett include his purported role in establishing a money laundering operation with the aid of high-level bankers and politicians in Belize, on behalf of drug trafficking organizations. The ring, we understand, was set up in November 2013. Sometime thereafter, DEA special agent Joseph Pelz reportedly met with Bennett in person, he also […]
The government is moving full steam ahead with the May eighth I.C.J. referendum despite related legal challenges before the courts. The People’s United Party is essentially challenging the constitutionality of the 2008 Special Agreement. The Opposition is of the view that Wilfred Elrington had no constitutional power to sign the Special Agreement which the party […]
The last time we reported on accused murderer, Danny Mason, was on the adjournment of his case back on March twenty-second. The case was deferred to give him time to secure new legal representation since attorneys Herbert Panton and Rachael Montejo were no longer representing him. Mason, along with Ashton Vanegas, Keiron Fernandez, Terrence Fernandez, […]
In court this morning, twenty-five-year-old Leon Bradley, a police officer of Gardenia Village, Phillip Goldson Highway, was arraigned before Magistrate Emmerson Banner. At his arraignment, he pleaded not guilty to the charge of harm and informed the court that his girlfriend was to withdraw the charges. But Ashley Pate did not have any form of […]
Three cases relating to the referendum have been unsuccessful for the government, but tonight, the referendum proceeds. The legalities started on April first when the Chief Justice ordered an interim injunction on the then April tenth referendum. That decision was taken to the Court of Appeal by the government, but the court said it did […]
Both parties are expected back before the Chief Justice until the end of June on the substantive matter which is on the legality of the Compromis. As you know, the claimants, the People’s United Party, have maintained that the 2008 Special Agreement is unconstitutional and have filed a cross-appeal in the Court of Appeal which […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has made it quite clear that the I.C.J. referendum will be held on May eighth. Now, on April twenty-sixth, the Elections and Boundaries Department notified the public that the cut-off date for registration as electors for persons wishing to vote was moved to April tenth, 2019. So if you did not […]
Two murder trials fell apart in the Supreme Court today. In the shocking double murders of Porshan Pipersburgh and seven-year-old school boy, Tyler Savery, the accused murderer, twenty-one-year-old Jayear Flores walked free. The minor and his cousin were gunned down, execution style, as Pipersburgh traveled on bike to take Tyler for a smoothie at Moon […]
A man went to a party on May nineteenth, 2013 at Miguel’s Shop in San Pedro where he got into an altercation and never made it back home. In court today, the suspect in the mysterious death of Jeremy Baptist was freed. Lucio Salazar, a resident originally from Punta Gorda, who relocated to San Pedro, […]
A Crooked Tree resident accused of administering a beating on a Belize City man was denied bail for the offense of attempted murder. Nineteen-year-old Ravin Gillett was unsuccessful in his bail application at the Supreme Court today. Gillett has been on remand prison since his arraignment on April seventeenth, 2019. He is charged with the […]
In mid-March, four residents of Sunset Park were charged and arraigned for attempted burglary and aggravated assault at the home of a police officer as well as another resident of the Mile Eight Community. Shemar Castillo is the last of the four accused men to be granted bail. The crown withdrew its objection this morning […]
A well-known boat owner is the latest victim of the theft of an expensive boat engine that was luckily recovered by police. One of six persons believed to be involved in the theft has been charged. Twenty-eight-year-old Michael Andrews was arraigned on a single charge of theft before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. Allegations are that […]
From an engine thief to a cell phone robber. Pink’s Alley resident, twenty-eight-year-old Michael Usher was before the court today for the theft of a seven hundred-dollar cell phone stolen from Michelle Brooks. On April thirteenth, Brooks’ phone was stolen while she was at a birthday party at Saint Mary’s Parish Hall. Brooks told the […]
A final report is still not ready in the inquiry by the Senate Special Select Committee which held hearings between 2016 and 2017 on the findings of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report of the Immigration and Nationality Department 2011-2013. But there is a recent news report circulating that between 2013 and 2015, Belize was […]
A seventy-two-year-old retired Belizean was freed today of a charge involving an unmuzzled ferocious dog that attacked a young school girl. Mario Sandoval was charged in April 2018 after his dog attacked and bit the eleven year-old Hummingbird Primary School student, gripping her hand and then dragging her. Today in the courtroom of Magistrate Emmerson […]
There was a decision handed down today in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court of Deborah Rogers where Christian Espat, Nigel Williams and a minor, were acquitted of murder charges in the shooting death of retired American national Cliff Kirk. Kirk was attacked and shot to the head at his house on the north side of […]
Today, thirty-one-year-old Justin Stuart appeared in court before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson where he pleaded guilty to possession of point one gram of cocaine. Last Thursday, Stuart walked in front of a moving police truck on New Town Barracks. His action led the cops to stop and search him and that is when they found […]
