Two of three men accused of an ATM scam in Dangriga, today saw the charges withdrawn from them, but they remain in police custody to face immigration charges. As we told you on Wednesday, Peruvian national twenty-four-year-old Luis Miguel Marroquin was granted bail prior to the withdrawal of charges. He and Colombian national thirty-six-year-old Edgar […]
Also in court…a thirty-nine-year-old Belize City resident is spending his first night behind bars at the Central Prison after he was charged for having unlawful sex three times with a minor. Albert Elroy Waller, a painter from Rocky Road, was arraigned this morning before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson. No plea was taken and he is […]
The infamous John McAfee is back in the news tonight and it’s in relation to the murder of Gregory Faull who was subdued, tortured and murdered at his San Pedro residence on November eleventh, 2012. A U.S. federal district judge in Florida handed down a decision against McAfee and in favour of the estate of […]
Four Belize City men who are accused of attempting to break into the home of a police officer and another residence are on remand at the Belize City Central Prison. They are Stanley Flowers, Deon Baltazar, Whitfield Fisher and Shemar Castillo. The foursome tried to enter the home of P.C. Jacinto Roaches located in Sunset […]
The courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin was overflowing this morning with attorneys and claimants. Five parliamentarians and a deputy party leader of the P.U.P. are asking the court to determine the legality of the special agreement signed in 2008. That agreement ended negotiations and opened the way to take the territorial dispute between Belize […]
Before parliamentarians appeared in the Supreme Court, over at the Court of Appeal, a major decision was handed down. The court ruled in favour of Bahamian nationals Ron Knowles and Kelvin Leach. Since 2014, the two have been fighting a request by the United States Government to have them extradited to face trial for securities […]
It’s been three years since the Caribbean Court of Justice handed down a decision against the government in favour of communal land rights of the Maya people in thirty-eight indigenous communities in southern Belize. The C.C.J. ordered a number of measures to be taken in the administration of land use and tenure. Today, the Maya […]
A charge of murder was withdrawn today against twenty-four-year-old Verris Ventura of Belize City at the instructions of the Office of the D.P.P. He was accused of the May third, 2018 shooting murder of twenty-nine-year-old Jason Travis Sutherland, who was gunned down in front of his house on Central American Boulevard. Ventura had been on […]
The trial of William ‘Danny’ Mason and four other men who have been indicted along with him for the murder Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, continued today before Justice Antoinette Moore. Taking the stand this morning was vehicle mechanic Eliasar Pineda. The automotive technician testified to receiving a call from an officer on the scene where Mason’s […]
Twenty-nine-year-old Kashawn Gentle also known as Cassian Gentle-Bennett is presently on Supreme Court bail for murder. But the murder suspect managed to slip through the cracks and was granted another bail for the criminal offense of possession of a controlled drug. Police searched his Caesar Ridge home two days ago and found him in possession […]
New details were revealed today in day two of the Danny Mason trial. Mason and four others are facing murder charges for the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and the kidnapping David Dodd and Alvis Wright in 2016 in Belmopan. Today, four witnesses were called and except for Pastor Richard Smith, all others gave Skype […]
In Belize City, Andrew Willoughby was sentenced to life in prison by Justice Marilyn Williams for the May 2012 murder of Muslim Primary School student, eleven-year-old Daniel Matura, who was shot and killed during a shooting on Central American Boulevard. Justice Williams ruled that Willoughby will be eligible for parole only after serving twenty-four […]
The Public Utilities Commission and Speednet Communications, the parent company of SMART, were back in court today. The case revolves spectrum fees which the P.U.C. is charging Speednet. In 2016, the C.C.J. ruled in favor of Speednet, stating that the P.U.C. could not charge seven hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars in spectrum fee from Speednet. […]
P.U.C.’s Attorney Senior Counsel Fred Lumor says that since Speednet was reportedly issued a license in 2013, it has been benefiting and should pay what it owes. Lumor says that Speednet is relying on ‘excuses’ not to pay its bill. Fred Lumor, Attorney for Public Utilities Commission “Since the license has been issued July […]
The trial against William “Danny” Mason and four other men began today in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Mason, who is known to have ministerial friends, is considered the mastermind in one of the most heinous crimes. He, along with Ashton Vanegas, Terrence and Keiron Fernandez and Ernest Henry Castillo, is charged with kidnapping as well […]
Tonight, a trio of men caught in connection with a house burglary at the home of a supervisor is on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Kevin Alvarez, James Fitzgibbon, and Clinton Geban, appeared in the Magistrate Court for stealing an assortment of items from the house of Jevon Hernandez. Alvarez was charged for burglary […]
Another accused murderer walked free of the charge today. Tonight, Daniel Myvett is at home with his family after attorney Leeroy Banner was successful in getting his case thrown out. Myvett was accused of killing Nigerian national Kabiru Olongundudu. The security guard was stabbed to death while on duty at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza […]
Less than a year after the murder of Ghost Town boss, Kendis Flowers, the accused gunman walked free this afternoon from the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Tricia-Pitts Anderson. The notorious Kevin Bodden was charged months after the murder that caused tensions to rise in the Mayflower area. Five charges were withdrawn at the instructions of […]
Tonight forty-year-old Elario Frank Elijio was also freed after an appeal filed against him in February of this year challenging his acquittal was discontinued. Elijio had been acquitted of the murder of his buddy, John Myers, which occurred in late February 2012 on Mahogany Street. On February twenty-eighth, 2019, the Crown submitted a notice of […]
The People’s United Party filed two weighty claims this week. First, the Special Agreement. This morning papers were delivered at the Supreme Court in which the P.U.P. is seeking a hearing to determine certitude and clearness on whether Foreign Minister Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington had legal authority to bind Belize to the 2008 Compromis. Now, over […]
While some argue that the Special Agreement is legit because it went to the Senate, Bradley and the legal team are of the view that Foreign Minister Elrington did not have the power to sign such a treaty without prior legislative approval. Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney-at-law “I learned that the Special Agreement signed in […]
The claimants in this case are parliamentarians: Rodwell Ferguson, Mike Espat, Oscar Requeña, Julius Espat and Cordel Hyde, as well as Anthony Mahler. The filing of the claim and its possible hearing comes at the eleventh hour, since the referendum is four weeks away. An application for an injunction has also been lodged before the […]
In 2015, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was forced to pass the Petrocaribe Loans Act retroactively. This was after it was pointed out that the hundreds of millions of dollars that the government received as a loan from the Venezuelan Government through the Petrocaribe initiative needed parliamentary approval. The law stipulates that the government must get […]
Espat explains says that the claim is seeking a permanent injunction restraining PM Barrow as Minister of Finance and second defendant Financial Secretary Joseph Waight from authorizing the allocation and expenditure of public monies without prior approval of the National Assembly of Belize. Julius Espat, Chairman, Public Accounts Committee “We are asking that the […]
After languishing behind bars awaiting a verdict for more than three years, a trio of siblings got their freedom today. The Pook brothers: Michael, Ryan and Adrian, walked out of the Supreme as free men from a charge of murder. The siblings were tried in 2015 before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, but the justice retired leaving […]
