On Monday, Justice Sonya Young handed down a decision in favor of five-year-old Brenae Timmons. As a toddler, she suffered severe brain injury when an iron gate fell on her while visiting with her father at the Lake Independence Library in January 2016. In the wake of that most unfortunate incident, Brenae’s parents filed a […]
Eighteen-year-old Rudolph Welcome has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the near-fatal shooting of Eugene Henderson Junior over the weekend. On Saturday night, the twenty-three-year-old Burrell Boom resident was shot to the right side of the face whilst sleeping on a sofa at a relative’s house in Roaring Creek. It […]
She was not in court today, but twenty-three-year-old Aracely Cahueque could find herself back in front of a Belizean court, if the Court of Appeal finds that she must face another trial for abetment to murder. Cahueque was the alleged mastermind behind the evil plot to behead the nineteen-year-old Raylene Dyer and abduct her newborn […]
A pair of Belize City teenagers has been remanded to the Central Prison in connection with the armed robbery of Moon Grocery Store on Coney Drive, located up the street from Channel Five. Eighteen-year-old Rikish Rhaburn of Amara Avenue and nineteen-year-old Kentroy McKoy, of Cleghorn Street, were read three counts of robbery before Magistrate Khadeen […]
A homeless man caught stealing inside a clothing store on Albert Street avoided jail today. But forty-four-year-old Denroy Ingram is not out of danger yet as he must find two hundred dollars to pay the Magistrate’s Court by the end of August. On Monday, owner of Juanita’s Outlet, Joseph Hoy, was alerted by his wife […]
Brenae Timmons, now five years old, was crushed by a heavy iron gate on the compound of the Pickstock Development Association, steps away from the Lake Independence Public Library where her father Bernard Timmons works as a librarian. On January twenty-ninth, 2016, she had been playing outside with another child when the gate fell. She […]
But it will not be as easy to collect the funds, as according to Musa, the Association, led by executive director Barbara Elrington, and Espat have made no overtures of assistance to the family before being taken to court. Brenae Timmons’ family has had to pay for all her medical and rehabilitation costs at the […]
The Court of Appeal kicked off its June session this morning with the long-awaited appeal of Belize Telemedia Limited against Curtis Swasey. It concerns Swasey’s charge, made in 2015, that his original idea of using texting to conduct the established lottery draw was co-opted by B.T.L. and his information used to propel the “Mek Mi […]
B.T.L.’s attorney Magalie Perdomo tried to persuade the Court of Appeal panel, as they had failed to do in the lower court, that Swasey’s idea was never truly his own. It had been in the public domain, she argued, since 2004, and that B.T.L. had entertained proposals from at least two other entities. Officially, the […]
In April, a jury found him guilty of killing the family that took him in from Belize. Today, twenty-two-year-old Brian Omar Hyde learned that he will spend the rest of his life in prison, four times over, for doing so. However, the sentences will be served concurrently. In August 2015, Hyde used a machete to […]
Fourteen months ago, Mark Seawell was released from a decade of incarceration, six and a half years of which was under notice of extradition to the United States. Along with brothers Gary and Duane, he had been accused of running a drug-smuggling business through Mexico to the state of Ohio. But his attorneys convinced Chief […]
Supervisor for security firm Brints Security, Jody Rhamdas, was ambushed and robbed of two black nine-millimeter pistols by three masked and armed men on Wednesday afternoon, June sixth. A first arrest has been made, that of thirty-five year old Erwin Castillo, a taxi driver of Belize City. Castillo, accused of robbery with a firearm, conspiracy […]
Thirty-one-year-old Maria Estrella Jimenez Ortega, a resident of Caye Caulker, was arraigned on May thirty-first in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court for attempted trafficking in persons in relation to a then-seventeen-year-old minor. She was denied bail despite being eight months’ pregnant, but she was successful today in the Supreme Court. According to the minor, the […]
A Belmopan resident has been convicted of the sensational death of sixty-four-year-old Panamanian diplomat Jose Rodrigo de la Rosa Stanford. But the verdict issued this afternoon by Supreme Court Justice Antoinette Moore stipulated that twenty-three-year-old Wilser Echevarria is guilty of manslaughter and not murder. In November of 2013, De La Rosa and Echevarria met in […]
San Pedro resident Jermaine Moody awaits his fate after Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas reserved his judgment in a judge-only trial on a murder charge. The twenty-nine-year-old from San Pedrito area is accused of killing thirty-one-year-old Moses Coc on September thirteenth, 2014. Coc was beaten to death, hit several times in the head with a […]
As we told you on Monday, police constable Braiden Robateau and three siblings were arrested and charged by Orange Walk Police after they were nabbed in a marijuana smuggling operation in the north. On Saturday, the group of four men, including brothers: Harvey, Windell and David Trapp were busted red-handed in Santa Cruz Village, Corozal […]
It has become almost a fixture recently in the newscast: persons charged with murder years ago, languishing at the Belize Central Prison, attaching legal representation to seek bail. The law makes no distinction in offenses regarding the right to bail. Nevertheless, it has been the practice by the Crown to oppose bail on very serious […]
Could yet another accused murderer be out on bail by the end of this week? In the last fifteen months, no less than ten men accused of murder that have been on remand for extended periods of time have used that fact to seek bail before the court. It appears to be a new trend […]
A city resident is accused of harm and damage to property following an altercation with his neighbor. It is not clear what led to the dispute between thirty-seven-year-old Jose Guzman and Horace Lord on Sunday, but Guzman allegedly punched Lord and caused one hundred dollars’ worth of damage to Lord’s door. Appearing before Senior Magistrate […]
He is accused of attempting to set the home of his former partner on fire. Now twenty-two-year-old Shaquille Martinez of Neal Pen Road has been jailed on a charge of arson. Martinez is alleged to have visited his ex’s residence on Monday. She refused to let him in and told police that after her refusal […]
Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams today offered bail to a Bulgarian national accused of theft of funds through an automated teller machine. Vasil Kadalov made bail of seven thousand five hundred dollars this afternoon after he was wired the funds by Western Union. Caye Caulker resident Donald Stuart, the complainant, told police in April that […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Bennett is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for murder earlier today. The Mahogany Street resident is accused of fatally shooting Erbin Garrido inside his home in the Gungulung area of Belize City on Tuesday night. Quick police work led to the apprehension of their suspect on Wednesday. While […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Albert Reid appeared before Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams today. He was accused of the May seventeenth, 2014 murder by stabbing of fifty-seven year old Maurice Young, also known as Tuko, of Santana Village, Belize District. Young was slashed with a knife to the neck and top of the head. His body was found […]
At the direction of Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams, a jury of nine today entered a verdict of not guilty in favour of forty-two-year-old Jordy Rhaburn and twenty-nine-year-old Kevon Bardalez. In 2011, Bardalez had been accused of raping a fourteen-year-old school girl inside a car on University Drive, while Rhaburn was charged with abetment to […]
The two municipal election slates from San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, continued their fight in the Supreme Court this morning. The People’s United Party’s Andre Perez and the United Democratic Party’s Daniel Guerrero engaged in a spirited battle on March seventh in which Guerrero’s team emerged narrowly victorious. According to Perez and his colleagues, they […]
