The men who brutally stabbed attorney Richard Stuart and his wife, Maria to death in 2010 today learned how many more years they will be spending behind bars for the vicious crime. Milton Maza and Eli Lopez Avila were sentenced to thirty-five years in jail by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams. On October nineteenth, the […]
The infamous John McAfee is back in the news tonight. He has been found legally “liable” for the death of his neighbor, Gregory Faull. A Florida court on Thursday handed down a default judgment against McAfee as part of a five-year legal battle by Faull’s family against McAfee. Faull was found dead with gunshot wound […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Warren Lewis became a free man on Wednesday night after he was found not guilty of murder. Lewis stood trial for the 2009 killing of twenty-two-year-old Albert Allen. After a three-hour deliberation, a jury of four men and eight women told Supreme Court Justice, Marilyn Williams, that they found Lewis not guilty of the […]
Atlantic International Bank Limited denies any wrongdoing. The bank was named in a civil complained lodge in the U.S. courts after the Federal Trade Commission shut down the multimillion-dollar ‘Sanctuary Belize’ real-estate scam. Atlantic International Bank Limited, which has a similar name to the local Atlantic Bank, but has no connection with that bank, posted […]
He was charged with murder in 2009, but tonight, twenty-seven-year-old Emerson Eaghan is a free man. He walked free on Monday following a decision by Supreme Court Justice, Colin Williams. Crown Counsel Kileru Awich entered a nolle prosequi, signifying that the prosecution did not wish to continue with the murder trial against Eaghan who was […]
Today, the Caribbean Court of Justice handed down a landmark decision that may have effects in countries who have subscribed to the C.C.J. The C.C.J. ruled that the law in Guyana, which makes it a criminal offence for a man or a woman to appear in a public place while dressed in clothing of the […]
On November eighth, the Federal Trade Commission revealed that a multimillion-dollar real estate scam had been operating in Belize for fifteen years. The scam was swiftly shutdown by the F.T.C., but not before the scammers made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars from multiple victims of the U.S. The scam was operated by twice […]
The case brought against Sittee River Wildlife Reserve by Colleen Strom over the Sanctuary Bay scam was not the first and might certainly not be the last. Previous to Strom’s case, Attorney Estevan Perera represented another victim of the scam. That individual is U.S. citizen Steven Liss, who like Strom, paid thousands of dollars to […]
The U.S. indictment named several persons and companies as it relates to a civil complaint lodged against Sanctuary Belize, Andris Pukke and other associates including Atlantic International Bank Limited. It’s a very serious matter for the bank which is not only one of the largest banks in Belize, but one of the few that still […]
Earlier this year, Choice Bank Limited launched a lawsuit against the Minister of Finance as the first defendant, Central Bank, and the Attorney General as the second and third defendant. The suit was filed after Prime Minister Dean Barrow, on the recommendation of the Central Bank, revoked Choice Bank’s international banking license. In April, it […]
The last time he was seen publicly was a week ago on Friday when Samuel August Senior escaped from a police guard at the hospital, stole a vehicle and then crashed it into a backhoe on the Philip Goldson Highway. While inside the vehicle, he inflicted cuts on himself. Today, police presence was felt around […]
Accused murderer, thirty-seven-year-old Jorge Vidal, was granted bail today by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams. Justice Williams offered bail to the tune of twenty-five thousand dollars. He was represented by Attorney Oscar Selgado who submitted to the court that Vidal was acquitted of the crime at the Belmopan Supreme Court, but was rearrested in 2015 […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice today delivered a ruling that affects law students across the region. It ruled against aspiring attorney, Jason Jones and in favour of the Council for Trade and Economic Development, the Council for Human and Social Development and the Council for Legal Education. Jones filed an application for special leave against […]
Two of five Guatemalan nationals re-appeared before the Magistrate Court today in respect of a slew of prohibited and illegal firearm and ammo charges. The duo: forty-six-year-old Bernardo De los Angeles Franco Carias and thirty-eight-year-old Mario Rudolfo Lopez Moreira were apprehended a week ago as part of an multi-million dollar drug operation which yielded more […]
Following the huge drug bust in the north in early September and the subsequent arrest of Superintendent David Chi and PC Norman Anthony, it was revealed that Orange Walk’s new top cop ASP Juanito Cocom decided to purge the police formation there. We were told that at least twenty-two police officers were recommended to be […]
According to Sylvestre, the first transfer letter the officers received lacked reasons. It was not until the case was brought before the courts that the true reasons why the officers had been recommended for transfers were revealed. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney “Prior to seeking legal advice they had individually wrote to the Commissioner of Police […]
Guilty of attempted rape – that was the unanimous verdict returned by a jury of nine this evening in a case against Bert Vasquez. The thirty-four-year-old appeared unrepresented before the Supreme Court today where he was also found not guilty of forcible abduction. The case against Vasquez goes back to January 2011, when he was […]
A Belize City welder, who uses as many as eight names, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for a charge of robbery with a firearm. Twenty-one-year-old Edward Henry Alexander Wilfred Garcia Ernest Smith Conorquie is accused of the armed robbery of Bernard Timmons on May thirty-first on Mahogany Street. He allegedly stole a chain […]
A Seine Bight businessman, Daniel Vera, was granted bail after he was busted on board a Richie’s bus with a knapsack containing over four pounds of marijuana wrapped in three parcels. Vera was before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford to answer to a single charge of drug trafficking. He was arrested on Tuesday in the Bainsville […]
As the family of Police Constable Osborne Martinez prepares to lay him to rest this Saturday, a third member of the PIV gang was arraigned for his murder. Tarique Myles is the last of a trio to face murder charges. Martinez was killed in the line of duty when he was shot to the chest […]
A San Pedro woman is also spending her first night behind bars at the Central Prison in Hattieville. She was arraigned on Monday afternoon for the charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the May thirteenth, 2018 killing of American restaurateur, Lamont “Monty” Lipka. The businessman from Texas, U.S.A. was inside […]
After spending one year and three months in Belize, Honduran national Jose Samuel Serrano Sanchez was ordered to be deported from Belize. But before he is deported, Sanchez must serve a five-month sentence if he cannot come up with the seven hundred dollar fine that was imposed on him. According to the Immigration Department, Sanchez […]
A mega drug cocaine drug bust last week involving a boat moored at the Princess Hotel, a single engine plane and two S.U.V.s won’t result in any drug charges. The operation started on Sunday and involved the B.D.F., the Police Department and the Coastguard, but something went awfully wrong. First, a group of twelve Guatemalan […]
Around ten a.m., five of the seven Guatemalans appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner for the cache of ammo found on them at a checkpoint in Hattieville and at a hotel in Belize City. They are: forty-one-year-olds Marco Palencia and Mario Moreira Lopez, forty-year-old Gilberto Jimenez, forty-six-year-old Bernardo Carillas de la Franco and fifty-four-year-old Sergio Morales […]
This afternoon, the two remaining Guatemalan nationals were also hauled before the courts and charged along with the first group for having entered the country illegally. Jorge Martinez Pinto and Luis Martinez Diaz were joined by Sergio Morales and arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for having entered the country through the western border in […]
