Ignatius Williams today obtained bail on a charge of possession of a prohibited firearm in the Supreme Court. The twenty-four-year-old, a repeat alleged offender originally from Dangriga, was seen by police riding against the flow of traffic on Cemetery Road on March twenty-second, coming from the Pound Yard Bridge. Upon seeing police, he turned around, […]
Police have made arrests in two separate cases of rape and unlawful sexual intercourse. Twenty-four-year-old William Daniel Carabantes faces charges of rape after a report by an eighteen-year-old female to Belmopan police that she was raped on April twelfth. Meanwhile, Ryan Neal, a twenty-seven-year-old security guard at a high school in Belize City, is charged […]
Now twenty-three years of age, he was only a teenager when he was accused of killing a Panamanian diplomat in what he called self-defense. The murder trial of Wilser Echevarria has now concluded in the Belmopan Supreme Court. From the start, and again speaking from the dock in his defense at trial, Echevarria maintained that […]
A Honduran teenager from the Belama area admitted to handling two stolen fishing rods belonging to a Customs officer. According to Rudolph Williams, someone broke into his parked red Jeep Cherokee vehicle early on Monday morning April sixteenth and stole two thousand dollars worth of goods including several fishing rods. Police tracked down eighteen year […]
Police say they have caught up to the man they believed killed one of Channel Five’s own. Thirty-seven-year-old Marcia Downs was shot twice at her front gate on April eleventh by someone she knew, and died during treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. A teenager, nineteen-year-old Antwon Alburn Rivero believed to be a Handyside […]
The fallout over the designation by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control of banana businessman John Zabaneh as an alleged drug trafficking kingpin continues. While he is no longer under that designation, he had to publicly withdraw from the industry, sending the Mayan King and other banana farms into freefall. Farm managers Meridian […]
A Fabers’ Road resident has been arraigned on a charge of rape in relation to a report by a visiting Canadian national. Forty-six year old Derrick Gabb was read the charge before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford today. She reported that she was sleeping with her boyfriend and was awoken around three-forty-five a.m. Thursday to find […]
Andrew Ian Bennett, also known as “DJ Hard Rock”, was gunned down on Commonwealth Day, May twenty-fourth, 2017 near his home on Central American Boulevard. A few weeks later, police caught up to the man they say killed him, David Richard Arnold, who has now been told he will be tried on murder charges. During […]
The Immigration Department has recently been conducting raids on establishments believed to employ persons who are suspected victims of trafficking in persons. Over the weekend, seven women employed in four such different bars in Belize City and Ladyville were detained and on Tuesday, taken to court. While there was no proof the women were actually […]
Twenty-four year old Japheth Bennett has been behind bars since 2009. In 2013, as a minor, he was convicted of the murder of Ellis “Pepper Gacho” Meighan, who was ambushed on Banak Street and Central American Boulevard while riding on a bicycle. The thirty-seven year old was shot once to the back of the head, […]
While he remains behind bars for other offenses, twenty-six-year-old Ibrahim Smith has been determined to have already served his time of thirty months or two and a half years’ imprisonment on a charge of manslaughter by negligence. Smith pleaded guilty in March, admitting responsibility for the death of his friend, seventeen year old Shenaine Reyes, […]
Stabbing victim Douglas Bowen of Ladyville has insisted he does not wish to press charges for an attack against him last Thursday. But police have nonetheless brought the accused, twenty-year-old Dowellson Blair, to court on a charge of dangerous harm. Bowen was stabbed in the leg during an altercation with Blair on a basketball court […]
Anke Doehm was committed last month to stand trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of child neglect in the death of her thirteen-year-old adopted daughter Faye Lin Cannon. The teenager died in questionable circumstances last July, her body a mass of scars and injuries that authorities believe were deliberately inflicted. Anke and her […]
A Belize City mom is behind bars tonight over a stolen cell phone. According to Robert Powell Junior, he visited Alicia’s Shop on Pitter Street to buy on Friday and placed his Samsung Galaxy cell phone valued at six hundred dollars on the counter. He paid for his purchases and left the store but forgot […]
The highly anticipated decision on the Belize Bank Limited versus Government of Belize in the matter of the thirty-six million Belize dollar debt, plus interest, originally granted to Universal Health Services and guaranteed by Government remains outstanding. Before the Easter break, the Caribbean Court of Justice set the post-judgment interest rate at six percent rather […]
Dangriga resident Hezron Ellis is out on bail of five thousand dollars, three months after being charged with having unlawful sexual intercourse with a female minor. The twenty-one-year-old was told by Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Williams to report to the Dangriga Police Station every Friday, effective next week Friday, until his case concludes. He was […]
Fifty-four-year-old Herman Reyes of LaCroix Boulevard is out on bail for a drug trafficking charge. Police on Thursday found two separate parcels of cannabis together weighing just over half a pound. But according to Reyes, the marijuana is not his; he does not smoke it, nor does he sell it, as is alleged by police. […]
Police have also made an arrest in the murder of forty-four-year-old Emmerson Anderson who was killed six days ago at the long barracks at the corner of Sibun and Ebony Streets in Belize City. While he was not the intended target, it is believed that two persons he was playing dice with managed to escape […]
Forty-year-old Russell Casimiro, a dive master from Boca del Rio, San Pedro Town, has pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding. But residents of the island are upset that he only apparently got off with a fine. According to American bar manager Carrie Tripodi, she was preparing for bed on Monday night around twelve-fifteen a.m. […]
It is a rare charge in cases of sexual offenses, but a Belize City man has been charged with attempting to suppress evidence in a court case – specifically, by allegedly threatening the accuser’s life. Fifty-eight-year-old Franz Hamilton was read the charge before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer. He is accused of attempting to pervert the […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice, in a decision handed down this afternoon, upheld the conviction of Gregory August for which he is incarcerated for the murder of Alvin Robinson in 2009. While the CCJ affirms the ruling of the Court of Appeal, August’s sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole has been […]
According to the D.P.P., other matters related to the case were also debated before the appellate court. Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, Director of Public Prosecutions “One of the issues that was argued was in relation to an accused person who remains in the safety of the dock and makes a statement rather than an accused who […]
Delford Slusher was today found not guilty of murder by Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas after three weeks in trial. He was accused of the shooting death of Corporal of Police Victor Lima on July twenty-fourth, 2012 in Hattieville. Slusher is alleged to have broken into a house in the village where two women were. […]
He is behind bars after being caught out after a court-ordered curfew, having made bail in a case dating back to 2012. But Orel Leslie Junior will not be headed home for the Easter holidays after Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today denied his request to go back on bail. Representing Leslie, Bryan Neal argued that […]
On Friday, C.I.B. detectives picked up and arrested nineteen-year-old Alejandro Lauriano in the village of Rockstone Pond on the Old Northern Highway. He and another man known by the nickname “Peanuts” were sought for the double murder of sixty-four-year-old Theresita Flowers and seventeen-year-old Delcia Blanco, who were fatally shot inside a home on Tibruce Street […]
