Seventeen-month-old Allyssa Nunez passed on Sunday morning, but from Friday, twenty-one-year-old Everal Martinez of Maskall was in police custody on a charge of dangerous harm. That charge has been lifted and he is now facing four counts of sexually-related offenses. This morning, as Martinez was read his charges, the police barricaded the Magistrate’s Court for […]
Prior to being arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford, Everal Martinez was charged with deadly use of harm on Friday evening. The single count was presumably a holding charge, a temporary indictment to keep Martinez in custody until this morning when the more substantive charges were preferred. While there were many at the protest earlier […]
It’s now official: the Government of Belize is going at it alone in the upcoming appeal of the August tenth, 2016 judgment of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin regarding the amendment of Section fifty-three of the Criminal Code. Following the withdrawals of the Belize Council of Churches, Association of Evangelical Churches and Anglican Diocese from the […]
A routine patrol by rangers of the Southern Environmental Association, better known as SEA, and Belize Coast Guard officers resulted in the arrest of three Honduran fishermen. The patrol near the spawning and aggregation site in the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve on Sunday night led to the capture of Henry Castro, Joel […]
In 2016, the Caribbean Court of Justice ended months of impasse when it ruled that the Public Utilities Commission could not charge excessive spectrum fees to Speednet Communications, parent company of Smart, totaling three million dollars in as many years. Speednet had previously lost in the lower courts. Now, the P.U.C. wants to collect some […]
From the courts, two brothers are behind bars accused of the attempted murder of Francis Parham on Sunday evening on the George Price Highway. Twenty-two year old Shakeedi Baizar of Western Paradise and Akeem Humes, twenty-eight, of Belize City are also charged with use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm on Parham. Senior […]
He was already out on bail for a serious offence of aggravated burglary and unlawful imprisonment. But today Nelson Henry was back in court charged with aggravated assault, this time of a police officer. Twenty-eight year old Henry was acquitted a month ago of a murder charge in the death of Edward Lord. Days later, […]
He was just granted bail on Thursday on a charge of murder for which he faces re-trial. But twenty-nine-year-old Orel Leslie is behind bars at the Central Prison at this hour, because Supreme Court Justice Denis Hanomansingh found that he had violated a condition of his bail grant. Leslie, among other things, was ordered to […]
There has been a recent trend of men accused of murder seeking bail. It was previously thought that murder, except in rare circumstances, was the one charge immune to bail, but there have been two recent successes, one of which later led to an acquittal. Twenty-five year old Tyrone Meighan of Banak Street and twenty-nine […]
Former soldier of the Belize Defence Force Kareem Beeks is accused of the attempted murder of Akeem Requeña on Monday night, February twenty-sixth, near Gibnut Street. Beeks was previously in court three weeks ago in connection with a reported aggravated assault and was charged with resisting arrest and using indecent words to the police. Beeks, […]
In the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court, Corozal Town resident Mark Antonio Rosales was on Monday ordered to serve nineteen years’ imprisonment. He was unable to pay fines of forty-six thousand dollars in relation to convictions on multiple counts of obtaining property by deception. Magistrate Ladonna John found thirty-one-year-old Rosales guilty of nineteen counts of the charge, […]
There was an armed robbery last Thursday in Corozal Town on the Seventh Avenue, which was caught on surveillance camera. The masked armed men are seen attacking the owner of Ban’s Store sometime after six p.m. Quick response from the police led to the arrest of the trio, identified as Kevin lanza, Alvin Sanker and […]
Tonight, eight lawmen are behind bars on charges of murder and attempted murder. Seven are members of the Belize Special Assignment Group and the other is a cop, assigned to the elite unit. The men were jointly charged over the weekend and arraigned this morning before Magistrate Albert Hoare for the deadly attack that happened […]
He was previously accused, but later acquitted, of a murder. But twenty-three-year-old Akeem Augustine is back behind bars tonight, charged with the attempted murder of Emmerson Garnett and aggravated assault with a firearm upon Houston Apolonio with a deadly weapon, to wit, a firearm. Augustine is also further accused of dangerous harm and use of […]
Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Williams says she cannot offer bail to accused murderer Daniel Myvett, who is awaiting re-trial on the charge of murder. Myvett is accused of killing Nigerian national, Kabiru Olongundudu, a security guard working and posting at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza, who was stabbed to death on the jobsite during […]
Turning to the courts…Caye Caulker resident Jermaine Grant is accused of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm against Jamal Bennett following a stabbing incident on the island on Monday. After receiving medical treatment for an unrelated stomach ailment, he appeared in court to be read his charges, for which no […]
Attorney Andrew Bennett, accused by U.S. authorities of money laundering in Puerto Rico, was due back in court for the continuation of his extradition hearing. A D.E.A. agent alleges that he had face to face and telephone conversations with Bennett which forms the basis for the extradition request based on prior information that high level […]
There is a significant development tonight after months of silence concerning the infamous Haulover Bridge land compensation case which exploded in 2016, costing former Minister of Natural Resources Gaspar Vega his job. Sharon Pitts’ case with the government over improper compensation for a land purchase is headed to mediation. Solicitor General Nigel Hawke says Government […]
Also before the Caribbean Court of Justice is Titan International Securities, which is suing the Government in respect of a raid of their Matalon Business Center offices on Coney Drive in 2014. Business owners, Bahamian nationals Kelvin Leach and Rohn Knowles, won judgment in the Supreme Court for nearly nine million dollars but at the […]
Two young men from the villages of Roaring Creek and Camalote were told on Monday in Supreme Court that they no longer had a case to answer on charges of murder. Twenty-one-year-old Damion Donovan Velasquez and twenty-year-old Justin Giovanni Banner were accused of killing teenager, sixteen-year-old Ivan Choc during a home invasion in Camalote Village […]
The Mayas of southern Belize continue their fight with the Government of Belize, represented by the Toledo Maya Land Rights Commission to enforce the historic consent order made on April twenty-second, 2015, to develop a mechanism to recognize the already agreed communal land rights of the indigenous Maya people. But they continue to quarrel over […]
Daniel Myvett was tried nearly four years ago for the February 2010 murder of Nigerian security guard Kabiru Oloungududu with two others, Jamaal Jackson and Talbert Mena. They walked free, but the jury was hung in regard to Myvett and a re-trial was ordered. Since then, Myvett has been behind bars and now attorney Alifa […]
Forty-two-year-old Hilmar Alamilla returned to the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for a preliminary inquiry to determine if he would stand trial for murder at the Supreme Court. Alamilla is the right-hand man of Orange Walk’s Gaspar Vega, but he is accused of the sensational July 2017 murder of twenty-four year old Daniel Sosa, […]
A forty-seven-year-old man has been accused of violating his nearly thirteen-year-old daughter not once, not twice, but five separate times between February and August of 2016. The man is accused of incest and was remanded on his appearance before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer on Wednesday evening. No plea was taken and due to the nature […]
In the Supreme Court today, there was a murder acquittal. Twenty-eight-year-old Norman Slusher was freed of the murder of Jason Canto. Canto, who was getting a trim at Dale’s Barber Shop on East Collet Canal, was the innocent target of two armed attackers in May of 2012, one of whom was never found. Businessman and […]
