The murders of Junior Triminio and Christopher Calderon remain unsolved, despite investigators impounding a vehicle believed to have been used in the flight of their killers. The deadly shootings took place in Orange Walk Town on Sunday, August nineteenth as the pair was socializing a short distance away from where a football tournament was being […]
In the magistrate’s court, the notorious twenty-seven-year-old Nicoli Rhys was sentenced to three years in prison today by Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. He was found guilty of kept firearm and ammunition without a gun license. Back in May 2015, while on Dean Street, Belize City, Rhys caught the attention of a group of police officers […]
Two men charged with drug trafficking and possession of firearm and ammunition without a gun license were freed of the charges today. They are thirty-three year old Carlos Lopez and thirty-seven-year-old Peter Schmidt. The duo was arrested and charged in December 2017 after they were reportedly busted in Belize City with five kilos of cocaine. […]
The People’s United Party will not have to deal with Attorney Arthur Saldivar anytime soon and that’s because the second lawsuit he filed against the party was thrown out in its entirety this afternoon. After a four-hour hearing session, Supreme Court Justice Courtenay Abel dismissed Saldivar’s application for an emergency injunction, he was seeking, to […]
The Belmopan convention proceeds this Sunday as planned with Weizman Patt, Michelle Rodriguez and Oscar Mira. So is this the end of the Arthur Saldivar/P.U.P. saga? There is a default judgment pending with respect to his first claim in which Saldivar sued the party for two hundred and ninety thousand dollars in special damages. In […]
For four years, a cloud of uncertainty hung above thirty-three-year-old Marsha Gillett as to whether or not she would be spending time behind bars. But tonight, the Belize City resident is breathing many sighs of relief as she was freed of all charges. In 2014, Gillett was slapped with eighty-five counts of theft after being […]
Accused murderer, thirty-three-year-old Jermaine Garnett is out on bail tonight. He was offered bail by Supreme Court Justice Herbert Lord to the tune of forty thousand dollars. The bail was granted on the condition that Garnett is not to interfere with any of the witnesses related to the case. He was also ordered to present […]
Attorney Arthur Saldviar has launched a second lawsuit against the People’s United Party. Saldivar’s application to contest the P.U.P.’s Belmopan Convention was turned down twice. In the first instance, his application was not accepted by the Vetting Committee because he was on a two-year suspension. Saldivar filed an application for an interim injunction to halt […]
There is an update to the murder of Richard Foster. The seventy-four-year-old British filmmaker, who made Belize his home forty years ago, was taken from his home at the Savannah Guest House off the George Price Highway last Tuesday and twenty-four-hours later, his body was found in the Rivera area of Belmopan. Foster had been […]
Popular Belizean athlete Brandon Cattouse, an elite rider, is free to participate in all sanctioned events hosted by the Belize Cycling Federation after his suspension was lifted on Friday. The decision to clear Cattouse of doping allegations succeeded an investigation conducted by Dr. Alberto Bravo, an arbitrator assigned to the Anti Doping Tribunal of the […]
Attorney Hector Guerra outlines the personal circumstances and experiences that Cattouse faced in light of the suspension. According to Guerra, the steps that were taken by the National Anti Doping Organization’s representative in Belize did not comply with established international standards. Hector Guerra, Attorney for Brandon Cattouse “The background that surrounds the allegations are […]
According to Guerra, NADO, which is represented by former Director of Health Services, Doctor Michael Pitts, is short of basic resources for storing specimen collected from athletes. The operation of the woefully lacking one-man organization has been called to question in light of Bravo’s decision. Hector Guerra, Attorney for Brandon Cattouse “The decision has […]
Not guilty! That was the verdict delivered late this afternoon in the murder case against Tyrone Meighan, Orel Leslie and Brandon Baptist for the 2012 murder of B.D.F. soldier James Norales. The decision was handed down by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams in an intermittent trial for the past three years. It is the second […]
Today, Brian Brown was hauled to the Magistrate’s Court in Belize City and arraigned for five charges including damage to property and wounding following a raid at his house on Thursday morning. The forty-four-year-old pleaded not guilty and was offered a six thousand dollar bail plus one surety of the same amount. He is to […]
Thirty-three-year-old Reainard Randey Ferguson is at the Belize Central Prison tonight. He was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford today for the murder of forty-three-year-old Samuel Cosme. No plea was taken and bail was not offered. Ferguson will remain in a cell block until his next court date on October third, 2018. Cosme was found […]
Businessman Michael Modiri and tour operator Bradley Paumen have been going at it inside and outside the courts. This morning, Modiri won yet another legal round before Supreme Court Justice Shona Griffith. In 2016, the Justice ordered Paumen to pay Modiri a total of three hundred thousand dollars for damages and trespassing. The feud began […]
Businessman Michael Modiri and tour operator Bradley Paumen have been going at it inside and outside the courts. This morning, Modiri won yet another legal round before Supreme Court Justice Shona Griffith. In 2016, the Justice ordered Paumen to pay Modiri a total of three hundred thousand dollars for damages and trespassing. The feud began […]
An application for judicial review filed by Attorney Godwin Haylock for Haylock Bus Service Limited was rejected today by Justice Shona Griffith. Haylock Bus Service claims that the Belize City Council ‘usurped the law’ after it reportedly granted another bus company road service permit to transport people from the Pound Yard Bridge to Belama in […]
Ervin Wade has been found guilty of the murder of twenty-five-year-old Keisha Buller. The verdict was delivered by Supreme Court Justice Antoinette Moore on Monday in Belmopan. Buller, who was Wade’s common-law wife, was viciously stabbed inside her home on Price Street in Benque Viejo del Carmen on July tenth, 2015. She was stabbed to […]
Guilty of causing the death of nineteen-year-old Shamir Gonzalez, this morning twenty-four-year-old Abimael Pott walked out of the courtroom of Justice Colin Williams feeling like a free man. Pott was originally charged for the murder of Gonzalez which occurred seven years ago at Louisiana Government School in Orange Walk Town. He was convicted and sentenced […]
Justin Lemott was found guilty for causing the death of seventeen-year-old Richard Waight Junior. The twenty-nine-year-old was originally charged for the murder of Waight but today he was found guilty for the lesser charge of manslaughter by Justice Adolph Lucas. Justice Lucas has set August seventh as the day when Lemott will hear how much […]
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today dismissed an election petition brought by the People’s United Party against the San Pedro Town Council, affirming the results of the March seventh elections results. The P.U.P. San Pedro Mayoral candidate, Andre Perez and his team, had filed the election petition, asking the Chief Justice to declare the results void […]
Mayor Daniel Guerrero and his team were represented by Attorney Estevan Perrera. Following the C.J.’s ruling, Perrera told the press that the law recognizes that errors and minor miscalculations would be made during an election. He said that the provisions provide that if those errors and miscalculations are substantial and would affect the ultimate outcome […]
A second Special Sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice was held today in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. This was the first time that the C.C.J. sat in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the home country of the recently installed C.C.J. President, Justice Adrian Saunders. The Special Sitting was held to honor Justice Saunders […]
At least twenty-nine persons are on a witness list in the trial against the two accused men in the bloody stabbing of Attorney Richard Stuart and his wife, Maria. This includes the Stuarts housekeeper who was at the house when the murder occurred. Milton Maza and Eli Lopez Avila appeared before Supreme Court Justice Colin […]
