A trio of brothers, who had been behind bars for the 2011 murder of taxi man Errol Ferguson, was released today on bail. Though they have not been found guilty, they have served eight years behind bars. Justice has been delayed for Michael, Ryan and Adrian Pook who were tried in 2015 and remained in […]
The Government of Belize, via the Minister of Finance, is being sued by Choice Bank Limited after operations were shuttered in June 2018 when its international banking license was revoked. That decision was taken by Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who is also the Minister of Finance, on the advice of the Central Bank. Choice Bank […]
As many as four legal claims have been brought against the Commissioner of General Sales Tax in the wake of a 2018 decision handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice in a case against tour operator David Gegg. This morning, attorneys representing individual claimants, including Jaguar Ventures of Belize, Hugh Parkey’s Belize Dive Connection, […]
A resident from rural Belize District was arraigned and remanded for allegedly raping a male child on Monday. Today, a man accused in 2017 of raping a female child was committed to stand trial in the April session of the Supreme Court. He is forty-one-year-old Charles Brown of a Madam Liz Avenue, Belize City who […]
Also in court, twenty-five-year-old well-known repeat offender, Ignatius “Bantan” Williams of Flamboyant Street, Belize City was sent behind bars for possession of a firearm loaded with seven live rounds of ammunitions. Williams was arraigned in the court of Magistrate Emmerson Banner after allegedly being found in possession of a pistol loaded with seven rounds of […]
A fifty-year-old electrician is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison accused with the rape of a three-year-ten-month old child. Alfonso Perez, aka “Rebel,” appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner for arraignment today. Due to the tender age of the boy, Perez was not granted bail and is to return to court on April fourth. […]
An unusual hearing took place today in the Supreme Court in which an accused murderer, waiting for a decision for two years, got bail. Curtis Lamb will be out on the streets of Belize City as early as Monday, after being granted bail in the sum of forty thousand dollars by Justice Herbert Lord this […]
At the Court of Appeal, thirty-three-year-old Gareth Hemmans Junior walked out a free man after the bench quashed his conviction this murder. He had been sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of the attempted murder of Miguel Zaiden. The incident took place on May first, 2016 when Hemmans viciously chopped Zaiden […]
Up north in the Corozal Magistrate Court, three Mexicans were freed of theft charges by Magistrate Lionel Olivera. The case against Belen Hernandez, Joscan Jafet Hernandez and Lionel Isaac Rodriguez concluded on Wednesday. The trio was represented by Attorney Leslie Hamilton, who argued that there was no evidence to connect the Mexican nationals with the […]
Police have been able to crack the murder of Elmer Salazar. On Wednesday, fifty-four-year-old Efrain Beltran Martinez surrendered himself to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, after being wanted for the chopping death of the Guatemalan national. The horrific incident in which the construction worker was viciously hacked, took place on the compound of Belize Marine […]
Twenty-four-year-old Juan Roberto Choc will stand trial in the April 2019 session of the Supreme Court. Choc, however, will be tried for manslaughter and not murder involving Bangladeshi national, Abdush Salam. The Toledo District resident was arraigned back in 2017 for murder, but in 2018, it was downgraded to manslaughter. Tonight he is out on […]
A twenty-one-year-old man was arraigned in court today for allegedly raping a fifteen-year-old school girl. Lawrence Jamie McNab, an unemployed man of Hattieville Village, appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Emmerson Banner on a single charge of rape. No plea was taken because rape is an indictable offense. Although rape is bailable, Magistrate Banner took the victim’s […]
Businessman Dion Zabaneh and his mother Primrose Gabourel were arraigned this morning for four charges for non-compliance with the Environmental Protection Act. For the past three weeks, a Buttonwood Bay property, parcel number forty-six-seventy at the far end of Seashore Drive, has been the centre of a controversy between the titleholder and the Department of […]
In the Court of Appeal today, convicted sex offender Bert Vasquez appeared to appeal his November 2018 attempted rape conviction. Vasquez sought and was granted permission for his case to be heard before the appellate court in March. Back in November in the Supreme Court, Justice Colin Williams imposed a four-year-sentence for the crime which […]
Fifty-eight-year-old Franz Hamilton can breathe a sigh of relief tonight. He has been before the court for charges ranging from sexual assault to attempted suppression of evidence. Hamilton was first accused of committing a sexual assault upon an eight-year-old, but that charge was dismissed. But months after he was out on bail, Hamilton was brought […]
In court today, an interesting case came up where the government controlled Belize Water Services Limited sued the regulator, the Public Utilities Commission. The matter was before the courts last year when BWSL sought and got an injunction against the P.U.C. after it approved a reduction in water rates of six percent. According the water […]
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin was scheduled to deliver his decision today in the matter of the Belize Bank Limited versus the Government of Belize. The Bank has been fighting tooth and nail, trying to collect the multi-million-dollar UHS debt from the government. A two-day trial was held in December and after the first adjournment on […]
Twenty-two days after San Pedro resident Jamil Leal was brutality beaten, a police officer, twenty-one-year-old Tyrell Rowley, was today taken to court. Rowley was charged for wounding and following his arraignment late this afternoon, he was released on bail. The rogue cop appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner and pleaded not guilty; he was released on […]
Three suspect ATM scammers, all South American nationals, were arraigned in the Belize Magistrate’s Court this afternoon. Chilean Juan Espinosa Saaveria, Colombian Edgar Vargas Vaca and Peruvian Luis Robles Marroquin were in police custody since Thursday. Today, they were charged for preparation of a crime and appeared before Senior Magistrate Patricia Arana. While all three […]
Police say that they are in possession of sufficient evidence to have brought charges against the South American trio. According to police, at least one of the men has visited Belize several times prior to them being arrested and they have been following the activities of the men since last year before making arrests last […]
In the Supreme Court in Belmopan, after a third attempt, the notorious Felix brothers were finally granted bail for murder and attempted murder. Emory and Maurice were given bail of twenty thousand dollars each in the Supreme Court by Justice Antoinette Moore in the Belmopan jurisdiction. The duo was represented by attorney Oscar Selgado, who […]
Alleged arsonist Tyrone Fitzgibbon has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned on two counts for deliberately setting a house in Ladyville on fire a week ago. According to witnesses, the twenty-year-old visited his ex-girlfriend’s residence on Dove Street on January eleventh. When he realized that she was not at home, he […]
Fifty-four-year-old Dennis Bowden has been committed to stand trial at the Supreme Court for the attempted murder of Michael Tesecum, whom he reportedly chopped multiple times on December eighteenth, 2017. Following the incident, Bowden, a sanitation worker with the Belize City Council, was charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous […]
Two persons, including a teenaged woman, have been criminally charged in connection to the aggravated burglary which occurred at the house of Elodio Aragon Senior on Thursday, January tenth. They are twenty-six-year-old Renold Hernandez of San José Palmar Village and nineteen-year-old Rachel Lawrence of Palmar Road. The duo, however, was only charged with ‘handling stolen […]
Community Activist Moses Sulph was slapped with a forty thousand-dollar judgment in favour of former U.D.P. Minister Mark King. King launched a civil suit against Sulph in 2018. The former Lake Independence Area Representative sued Sulph for posting several defamatory statements on his Facebook profile against him. Sulph attacked King’s reputation and company, Brints Security […]
