On Friday morning, the fatal shooting of Police Constable Osbourne Martinez and a robbery at the Belcove Hotel in the downtown area as well as the arrest of three perpetrators were all caught on camera. Three PIV youths were charged for the chilling murder of PC Martinez and this morning, Rayford Mejia and Glen Lopez, […]
It was a busy day in court…Brothers, forty-one-year-old Orlando and thirty-seven-year-old Kareem Staine were found not guilty of the murder of twenty-three-year-old B.D.F. volunteer soldier Denver Villafranco. The ruling was delivered by Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas in a trial without a jury. A third brother, forty-six-year-old Phil Staine, did not share the same luck; […]
After sitting in a Mexican jail for seventeen months, tonight Yo Creek resident Romario Pech is a free man. News Five has confirmed that Pech is on his way to Belize from Mexico after being released from prison. He was accused of fatally stabbing his cousin, nineteen-year-old Saul Pech in May 2017 at their apartment […]
Belize City investigators believe that twenty-seven-year-old Albert Moriera brutally murdered thirty-seven-year-old Felina James. The B.D.F. soldier was arraigned this morning for the crime of murder and was remanded until November thirtieth. James and Moriera were intimately involved and shared a son. The couple, according to the James’ family, was in a toxic relationship with Moriera […]
In December 2017, he was criminally charged for allegedly trafficking eleven pounds of cocaine and in August of this year, he was freed of the charge after the case against him fell apart. Tonight, we report that thirty-four-year-old Carlos Lopez got off another drug trafficking charge. Lopez, along with twenty-seven-year-old Kenrick Gentle, was busted at […]
On Monday Justices of the Court of Appeal heard submissions regarding Government’s appeal to the 2016 Chief Justice ruling to read down section fifty-three from the Criminal Code of Belize. Before August tenth, 2016, section fifty-three criminalized consensual intercourse between two adults of the same sex. In his ruling, the CJ Kenneth Benjamin declared section […]
The Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in the matter of Attorney General versus Caleb Orozco. Up until six o’clock, the court heard arguments in government’s appeal to part of the 2016 Section Fifty-Three ruling by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Two years ago, the Chief Justice handed down a historic ruling in the matter […]
After the hearing concluded late this evening, Solicitor General Nigel Hawke spoke to the media, explaining that there are fundamental and public issues present in the case that should be left for parliamentarians to decide. Hawke was specifically speaking on the definition of sex and the Chief Justice decision to expand the meaning to include […]
Two men charged with murder were freed by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams today. They are twenty-five-year-old Christopher Sosa and thirty-five-year-old Ashton Anderson. Both men had been charged for the 2011 murder of fifty-three-year-old taxi driver, Romel Palacio Senior. The crown’s two main witnesses refused to testify before the courts which led Crown Counsel Kileru […]
After spending more than six years in jail, today three Belize City men learned that they will spend many more years behind bars. Andy Forbes, William Vasquez, and Clinton Harris were found guilty of the murder of Joseph Myers. The incident happened on June fifteenth, 2012. The trio pounced on a group of men who […]
A woman has been ordered to pay the family of two-year-old Vernice Rodriguez Gonzalez four thousand dollars for causing her death. Thirty-one-year-old Danna Banner appeared before Justice Colin Williams who spared her a custodial sentence but rather, ordered her to pay the monetary compensation plus a two thousand-dollar fine after she pleaded guilty to causing […]
A third case before Supreme Court Justice Collin Williams was that of twenty-one-year-old Kevaughan Staine, who was sentenced to ten years behind bars for the attempted murder of his nineteen-year-old cousin, Taisha Staine. She was walking in the Lake Independence area of Belize City on December thirtieth, 2013 when she came under gunfire. Taisha says […]
Convicted inmate Bert Vasquez has been extended a final lifeline in an attempt to appeal a guilty verdict handed down by the Supreme Court in July 2017. This morning, he appeared before the Court of Appeal without an attorney. The absence of legal representation promptly raised questions from the bench since it is the second […]
In March 2017, Calaney Flowers was acquitted of the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Lyndon Morrison, who was riding his motorcycle with his new girlfriend in the area of Freetown Road when he was knocked down and killed. But her case continues to meander in the courts even though she was freed. In the Court of […]
The families of Richard and Maria Stuart exited the court today in an emotional state. Ten years ago to date, the young couple was brutally murdered at their house in the West Landivar area of Belize City after returning home from a social event. In the days following, two men were charged for the couple’s […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice handed down two significant rulings today. As a result of the first, twenty-four-year-old Japhet Bennett is a free man tonight after spending close to a decade in prison. He was released from the Belize Central prison late this evening at the hands of his family and his attorney. His release […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice today also delivered a judgment partly against Titan International Securities which launched a lawsuit against the Government of Belize after its offices on Coney Drive were raided on September ninth, 2014. The C.C.J. affirmed the Court of Appeal’s decision to set aside a four-point four-six million U.S. dollars award in […]
In the local courts, Honduran National, Elrin Archiaga has been found not guilty of murder by Belmopan’s Supreme Court Justice Antoinette Moore. Archiaga, who stood trial for the murder of Nigel Neal Tillett, was represented by Attorney Leroy Bradley Junior. The trial commenced on September twenty-first and ended on October fifth. During the trial three […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice has ordered the Government of Belize to repay businessman David Gegg more than four hundred thousand dollars plus six percent simple interest per annum which amounts to more than half a million Belize dollars. The ruling was handed down in favour of Cruise Solutions Limited and Discovery Expeditions Limited, companies […]
The C.C.J.’s ruling sets a precedent which other tour operators may want to rely on. Of note is that operators such as Yhony Rosado, who operates Cavetubing.com, also had troubles with the GST department after he was assessed for more than half a million dollars in taxes. In today’s judgment, the C.C.J. concluded that while […]
British national, Roger Wallis, appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas this afternoon on a bail application. The sixty-three-year-old businessman is accused of the attempted kidnapping of an eight-year old Belmopan boy who he allegedly attempted to force into his white van. The prosecution had initially not opposed bail last week, but today Justice Lucas reviewed the […]
Also appearing before Justice Lucas was thirty-year-old Magdiel Ceas, charged for the unlawful sexual assault of a missing girl half his age. Ceas is originally from San Jose Village, Orange Walk, but has been living in Placencia for some time now as a construction worker. On October eighth, he was charged for the crime in […]
Two minors are behind bars tonight for the murder of San Ignacio teenager Bobby Garcia. Charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder were levied on the under-aged high school duo from the west on Wednesday. Garcia was stabbed multiple times inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological Site where a visitor found his […]
Two minors were arraigned today for the murder of Bobby Garcia, a nineteen- year-old San Ignacio resident. Garcia’s body was found inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological site with multiple stab wounds. Indications are that the bizarre murder was a ritual killing carried out by Emo followers. The minors reportedly have provided police […]
Charged for the murder of thirty-nine-year-old Fareed Ahmad, police constable twenty-four-year-old Michelle Brown was committed to stand trial by Chief Magistrate, Sharon Fraser. Brown’s trial has been scheduled to take place in the January session of the Supreme Court in 2019. The Chief Magistrate committed Brown after the prosecution submitted several statements and reports that […]
