Belize City police, despite having arrested and charged Alejandro Lauriano for the murders of Theresita Flowers and Delcia Blanco, are in pursuit of another person believed to have been an accomplice in the deadly shootings. Blanco and Flowers were dispatched in a hail of bullets on March seventeenth inside their mobile home on Tibruce Street. […]
It was a tragedy that provoked much social commentary. Seventeen-year-old Shenaine Reyes, previously known as Shenelle Reyes, was fatally shot in the chest in November of 2010. The third form student of Sadie Vernon Technical High School died on the spot after a friend showing off a sawed-off shotgun to a group discharged it and […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice this morning issued judgment on the first part of a three-part application and counter-application by the Government of Belize and the Belize Bank Limited. The Bank is seeking that the Court enforce its judgment of November, 2017, in its favor for re-payment of a thirty-six million dollar loan initially granted […]
But what happens to the rest of the case? That is still being deliberated by the C.C.J. panel. A large part of it has to do with how Government reacts during Thursday and Friday’s Budget Debate and afterward – but at the moment, according to Bank attorney Eamon Courtenay, no one, including himself, knows what […]
It hasn’t got much notice in Belize, but the U.S. District Court based in Washington, D.C., a week ago on Monday a U.S. district court judge ordered that the Bank can seize property owned by the government of Belize “in the jurisdictions where such attachment or execution is appropriate.” Will it do so, and where? Neither […]
The case of attorney Sharon Pitts with the government over improper compensation for a land purchase is headed to mediation. Pitts and Hilmar Alamilla paid small sums for adjoining properties totaling just over an acre of land near the Haulover Bridge, at mile five between the Caribbean Sea and the Philip Goldson Highway; Alamilla’s portion […]
The first of its kind election petition challenging the results of March seventh’s elections in San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, is on its way to the courts to be filed, once all candidates from the People’s United Party’s slate have signed and the relevant parties served. The petition questions what P.U.P. leader John Briceño on […]
Also in the court, when the Catholic Church exited the Court of Appeal case last month concerning the momentous decision on amending the Criminal Code to decriminalize private relations between persons of the same sex, it was felt the end might be near. According to case claimant Caleb Orozco, Government was getting pressure to drop […]
There were reports that Anke Doehm, accused of child cruelty in the death of thirteen-year-old adopted daughter Faye Lin Cannon, was to return to court this morning for a preliminary inquiry to find out if she would answer to the charge in the Supreme Court. Her name was not on the court calendar and neither […]
Ducking away from television cameras, twenty-seven year old Henry Cornejo this morning left the precincts of the Supreme Court a free man again. After previously being acquitted in 2012 of a murder committed in 2009 when he was a minor, Cornejo was accused six months later of being the triggerman in the shocking death of […]
Her plight touched the heart of many Belizeans. Her unnecessary death enraged them. But life went on in the Old Capital as twenty-one-year-old Everal Martinez was briefly and quietly arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court for murder charges this morning in the death of seventeen-month-old toddler Allyssa Nunez. It had been anticipated ever since her passing […]
Twenty-year-old Esmir Garrido has been charged with grievous harm and use of deadly means of harm on taxi driver Reginald Garoy. Garoy was shot and injured in the right side of the cheek and right ring finger on February eleventh on East Canal, near the Rocky Road Bridge. Garoy was along with another man hanging […]
The Court of Appeal this morning handed down a decision in the case of Belize Pickwick Club Hotel Limited and Belize Pickwick Club Limited, against Princess Entertainment Limited, Golden Princess Entertainment Limited, and their directors Sudi Ozkan and Meh-met Kara-go-zog-lu. It was an appeal from the decision of Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel. Pickwick charged […]
There is some progress to report concerning the implementation of the historic April 2015 Consent Order on communal land rights. The Maya Leaders Alliance and Toledo Alcaldes Association, representing the Maya villages of the Toledo District, and the Government of Belize have set some deadlines concerning the setting up of a dispute resolution framework between […]
His attacker misfired, but thirty-three year old businessman Derrol Vernon did not, and a twenty-one year old Belize City resident is now charged with aggravated assault. Kevaughn Staine was read his charges before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford this morning. According to Vernon, he was driving his black S.U.V. on Lacroix Boulevard on March eleventh. As […]
Officially, thirty-six year old James Crawford of Ladyville is charged with stealing a gold chain during a fight and causing harm to Kenneth Arthurs. But it came out in the Magistrate’s Court that it was a “weed stash” going missing which caused the men to come to blows. According to Arthurs he was raking up […]
A teacher of Independence Village is being accused of sexual assault of a sixteen-year-old girl. Lennox Mejia, known as “Namule,” was read the charge before Magistrate Deborah Rogers in the Independence Magistrate’s Court and remanded until June eighteenth. On March eighth, the minor reported that she caught a vehicle to go to school around seven-fifteen […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice this morning heard dueling applications from the Belize Bank Limited and the Attorney General in Port of Spain concerning the still-outstanding U.H.S. matter. The C.C.J. ordered the forty-million dollar Belize Bank loan to be paid last November. The loan, made to the original owners of U.H.S. and guaranteed by Government, […]
The Belize Bank is tightening the screws. On Monday a U.S. district court judge ordered that the Bank can seize property owned by the government of Belize “in the jurisdictions where such attachment or execution is appropriate.” The ruling was mentioned by Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay during arguments for the Bank’s case at the C.C.J. […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Delford Slusher has been on trial for the past three weeks, accused of the murder of a police officer. Corporal Victor Lima was shot twice in the chest during an incident in Hattieville on July twenty-fourth, 2012, and died three days later. This evening, Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas reserved his ruling for March […]
On March fifth, Justice Lennox Kirkwood Campbell took the oath as a judge on the Belize Court of Appeals. Campbell is from Jamaica and a retired justice of the Supreme Court. He succeeds Franz Parke, who left under a cloud of scandal shortly after his judicial appointment. Campbell and fellow Justice Murrio Ducille, along with […]
In another case of sexual abuse, but in the north, a sixty-six-year-old man has been charged for the sexual assault of a seven year old girl, who she knew as her grandfather. The incident occurred back on February eighteenth, but the man was only just arrested over the weekend. On Tuesday, he appeared in the […]
Crown prosecutors say they have insufficient evidence to try Mason Patnett in the attempted murder of Marvin Bull, who has been missing since 2014. They entered a motion of nolle prosequi today before Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas. Twenty-one year old Bull was the target when Patnett is alleged to have instigated the late Raheem […]
The Court of Appeal has been considering the appeal of the Crown against Aracely Cahueque since 2016. She is the former Corozal resident and former beauty queen accused of abetment of the murder of nineteen year old Raylene Dyer. Cahueque is now twenty-three years old and resides in Costa Rica, where she had been recently […]
The appeal of the Section fifty-three case decided in the Supreme Court in August, 2016 is before the Court of Appeal. On one side is Caleb Orozco, Executive Director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement. On the other is the Government of Belize, represented by the Attorney General. Previously, various church groups were attached to […]
