The case of Sunshine Holdings Limited, Dean Boyce and the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust, and the Attorney General continued in the Supreme Court today. After testimony on Wednesday from Financial Secretary Joseph Waight and B.T.L. director Rafael Marin, Senior Counsel Rodwell Williams, appearing for Sunshine, made submissions as to the merits of Sunshine’s case before the […]
After being halted at the Caribbean Court of Justice, Sunshine Holdings Limited, which owned over eleven million shares in Belize Telemedia Limited, is taking its case for compensation for the value of the shares to the Supreme Court. But it will have to overcome a number of hurdles, including that it was offered compensation originally […]
It is considered a lesser offense, but a domestic dispute escalated to the courts after Moises Flores of Holy Emmanuel Street admitted to threatening his former partner with her life. The forty-year-old Flores told his ex on Monday that he would kill her and followed up by stabbing at her – but he missed. The […]
A Saint Matthew’s villager was escorted by police to a courtroom in Belmopan this morning and arraigned for murder. Twenty-one-year-old Dean Galvez was well-known to murder victim, Roni Casasola who is also from Saint Matthew’s Village. Casasola met his untimely death on Sunday morning following an altercation at a local bar. He had been picked […]
An air-conditioning technician is accused of the attempted murder of a Belize City man on Sunday. Thirty-eight-year-old Tyrone Stevens remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but he has identified his attacker as twenty-year-old Eric Mendez from the Jane Usher Boulevard area. Mendez was read charges of attempted murder, grievous harm and use of deadly […]
A forty-two-year-old fisherman is accused of incest with his daughter, thirteen years old. He was read the indictable charge before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford and no plea was taken. The incident allegedly took place in December of 2017, when the child was thirteen years and four months of age. However, it was only just reported […]
Thirty-six-year-old Luis Velasquez faces judgment in the Supreme Court for a debt owed to a company even as he faces potential charges for alleged fraudulent activity. On the strength of an all points bulletin, police picked up the bartender in Maskall Village on Friday and immediately brought him before Supreme Court Justice Sonya Young. She […]
Twenty-one-year-old Kevaughan “Bigga” Staine remains on remand after he was convicted on a charge of attempted murder for trying to kill his own cousin, nineteen-year-old Taisha Staine. The near fatal-incident happened back in 2013 in Saint Martin De Porres area on December thirteenth, 2013. Taisha was walking to a nearby shop when she reportedly saw […]
He was just eighteen when he was incarcerated for the murder of businessman Jerminie McNab at his store, Mobile Hardware, in Belize City. But today, Anthony Carballo Junior was adjudged not guilty due to lack of evidence after errors in interrogating the suspect were revealed. McNab was shot three times and died on the spot […]
Twenty-four-year-old Nisani Garcia was found with a loaded point three-eighty pistol in the area of Saint Jude’s Street on Wednesday night by police responding to a shooting incident. Today, he appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer, charged with keeping an unlicensed firearm and unlicensed ammunition. Police received information about shots being fired in the Back-A-Town […]
Nineteen-year-old Renesha Alvarez is behind bars tonight, charged with dangerous harm against her domestic partner, who is in a critical but stable condition at the hospital. Alvarez is accused of stabbing nineteen-year-old Herman Solis during an argument. She was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer without legal representative and no plea was taken. On the […]
He is accused of a sensitive crime, but tonight, twenty-seven-year-old Ryan Neal is out on bail on a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse and grievous harm. Neal is accused of raping a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl on the third floor of a school building in Belize City earlier this month. Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams set bail […]
In January a trio of Mexican nationals, including a husband and wife, were arraigned in the courts for theft of tens of thousands of dollars from two of several Atlantic Bank ATM’s in four districts. But this week, twenty-six year old Belen Hernandez and thirty-one year old Lionel Rodriguez saw charges briefly dismissed by Corozal […]
Two Belize City men, accused of robbery and wounding, were set free of the charges today after the complainant did not show up to the Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-six-year-old Matthew Smith, charged with robbery and wounding, and eighteen-year-old Dowellson Blair, charged with wounding, saw their charges dropped when Joshua Jones missed the court appearance. In November […]
When we report on court cases involving fisheries violations, it usually ends with a guilty plea and heavy fines. But two fishermen today chose to challenge the department on their alleged violations. Thirty-six-year-old Robert de la Cruz of Copper Bank, Corozal and twenty-nine-year-old Gilbert Perez of Belize City pleaded not guilty to breach of fishing […]
Belizean fisherman Iginio Canto Bacab remains behind bars in a detention facility in Livingston, Guatemala, awaiting monies to pay his fines for illegal possessions of lobster and conch out of season. The Caledonia, Corozal native was picked up by Guatemalan authorities a week ago, along with two Guatemalan nationals with product that Guatemalan authorities say […]
Four men were charged but one, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Estell of Sittee Street, pleaded guilty to possession of half a pound of marijuana. A police search of Estell’s residence on Wednesday night uncovered a black plastic bag on top of an old washing machine which contained four plastic bags with the suspected drugs. Also charged with […]
Police have quickly cracked the mysterious murder of twenty-seven-year-old Albert Johnson, originally from Punta Gorda Town. Today, West Canal resident Marlon Everett, a twenty-eight-year-old construction worker, was read a murder charge before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. According to police, a trio ambushed Johnson on Rectory Lane as he was walking from Southern Foreshore to Regent […]
The alleged shooter of Jason James Belencio was this evening charged with murder. The sixteen-year-old was arraigned at the Belize Family Court late in the evening under tight security. He is reported to be an associate of the George Street Gang and several members of that group appeared at the Magistrate’s Court and then at […]
Bulgarian national forty-one-year-old Vasil Stoyanov Kadalov was charged with two counts of theft in connection with the reported stealing of two thousand dollars from a Caye Caulker resident’s bank account. Kadalov appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford and pleaded not guilty through a translator. He was denied bail because he is considered a flight risk, […]
Already facing charges of murder in the Supreme Court, the notorious William “Danny” Mason and five co-accused could face a separate trial for kidnapping in two weeks. Mason; Ashton Vanegas of Camalote Village; brothers: Keiron Fernandez and Terrence Fernandez, as well as Ernest Henry Castillo, all of Roaring Creek Village, this morning appeared in the […]
On Friday a Belizean in the United States was found guilty of a most heinous crime after a re-trial. Six jurors in Lee County, Florida, needed three hours to find twenty-two year old Brian Hyde guilty of killing his cousin Michael Kelly, Kelly’s girlfriend Starlette Pitts, seventeen; his aunt Dorla, thirty-seven, and the unborn child […]
This morning Belizean fisherman Iginio Canto Bacab of Caledonia, Corozal District, was scheduled to appear in a court in Livingston, Guatemala, charged with illegal capture of lobster. However up to news time, Ambassador Said Badi Guerra indicated that the hearing had not taken place according to Canto’s lawyer based in Puerto Barrios. Canto along with […]
Police have charged twenty-seven-year-old security guard Ryan Neal, accused of having sexual intercourse with a fourteen-year-old female student at her high school in Belize City. The student told police that on the ninth of April, at around three-thirty in the afternoon, Neal called her to the third floor of the school building where he had unlawful […]
Two men including a former employee were charged with the theft of twenty thousand dollars from a customer’s account at Heritage Bank in the Cayo District, though they are accused of stealing much more. Twenty-seven year old Damion Dawson of Belize City and twenty-one year old Jonathan Almendarez of Teakettle, Cayo District, were read charges […]
