There was another case before the Supreme Court today. Hubert Martinez, Belize Defence Force civilian driver, avoided jail time after pleading guilty, but was assessed a total of ten thousand dollars in fines. Last week he pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter by negligence and negligent wounding in the death of three-year-old Jahston Terry. In […]
A teenager has been sent to central prison after failing to evade police while carrying an unlicensed weapon. Nineteen-year-old Tyree Gentle of Racoon Street Extension was charged with possession of a nine-millimeter pistol for which he does not have a gun license. The pistol carried ten live rounds of ammunition for which he was also […]
An early morning robbery in Belize City has led to two arrests. Thirty-year-old Nigel Castillo and twenty-year-old Joseph Babb appeared in court on robbery and wounding charges. They are accused of attacking twenty-one-year-old Kadeem Vaughan around three in the morning as he was riding his motorcycle. The men beat and kicked Vaughan around, causing injuries […]
Mahogany Heights resident Floyd Escarpeta has been charged with burglary and theft in connection with breaking and entering into the home of a senior citizen farmer and stealing his valuables and pick-up truck. The twenty-three-year-old is alleged to have entered the residence of ninety-two-year-old Modesto Bardalez on the Coastal Road with one other person and […]
But as it turns out, Belisle says that the alleged culprit is well-known to the family. While she is not sure what could have triggered the torching of her home, she believes he was paid to burn the house down. But when her common-law-husband confronted his uncle about the fire, Usher Senior was instead detained […]
Civilian driver for the Belize Defence Force, forty-year-old Hubert Martinez, awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to a charge of manslaughter by negligence. He admits causing the death of three-year-old Jahston Terry on December fourth, 2013. The toddler was walking on the side walk with his older brother Jaheem on Cemetery Road near the Pound Yard […]
A banker made a decision while intoxicated to put a licensed firearm in a friend’s mouth, which cost that friend his life. Forty-five-year-old Edwardo Torres has avoided jail time after pleading guilty in court. But he must pay a significant fine. Torres appeared before Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Williams on a lesser charge of unlawful […]
A drug bust in the village of Teakettle in the west, yielded police eight thousand five hundred and three grams of cannabis, the equivalent of eight pounds of the drug. The cannabis was found inside a Toyota car parked on the road side on Thursday afternoon. Police detected a mechanic, twenty-nine-year-old Ernesto Almendarez standing outside […]
The case of Sunshine Holdings and the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust was finally before a judge in the Supreme Court, albeit briefly on Thursday. The crux of the case is whether Sunshine is entitled to all of the compensation awarded last November to the Trust as part of the settlement for the acquisition of Belize Telemedia […]
These the two men were arraigned this afternoon in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for the murder of Immigration clerk, Israel Perez. Cotton Tree residents, Cruz Castillo and Stanley Herrera Junior, were known to the murder victim and Police proceeded to levy charges after they found Perez’s vehicle as well as other items on Castillo. He […]
A thirty-three-year-old resident of Saint Matthew’s Village, Cayo District, is in custody tonight as investigations continue into the murder of Israel Perez. Earlier today, Cruz Castillo was arraigned for handling stolen goods including a power wash machine and a vehicle belonging to Perez. But was he involved in the murder? That’s what police are trying […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Jason Noralez admits to swinging a machete at Llewelyn Courtenay’s bicycle tire and tube valued at thirty-seven dollars. But he says he was acting in self-defence during an altercation. Noralez appeared before Magistrate Michelle Trapp and pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and damage to property. For the latter he was fined a hundred dollars […]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a Belize City couple may be back together. But it may be difficult to celebrate for Allison Cuthkelvin, who is accused of breaking into his partner’s residence on January thirty-first and taking a microwave. Worse, he is alleged to have violated a restraining order put on him by the […]
A domestic of Belize City no longer faces attempted murder charges after the prosecution decided not to continue the case against her in the Supreme Court. Forty-two year old Hilda Locario was accused of attempting to kill Shirley Leslie on February fifteenth, 2012 on St. Thomas Street during a night out. Locario appeared before Supreme […]
This morning in the Chief Magistrate’s Court, a U.S. request for the extradition of attorney Andrew Bennett got underway. The extradition request contains seven counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Each count carries a prison term of between two and three years in the U.S. At today’s hearing, Jenina Urbina took […]
Could the Government of Belize end up going 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 momentous decision outlawing sexual acts other than consensual heterosexual intercourse, between man and woman, various church groups loudly […]
Forty-nine-year-old construction worker John Brackett of Prince Street, Belize City, is behind bars tonight. Brackett is accused of the attempted murder by stabbing of thirty-four-year-old security guard Kenrick Valencio, of the Princess Ramada Hotel and Casino. The attack took place on Thursday in front of the Novelos’ Bus Terminal on West Collet Canal. Valencio told […]
Another case of attempted murder was heard in the Magistrate’s Court. Eighteen-year-old Elroy Williams from Lords’ Bank is accused of attacking Michael Jones with a two-by-four board on January thirty-first. It’s a case of a love triangle in which Jones’ current partner was Williams’ girlfriend. Jones said he was at home with the woman when […]
A total of four persons have now been arraigned for a reported home invasion in the village of Burrell Boom, involving a woman whose house was invaded and two men who claim they were held against their will when a group of persons stormed onto their premises. Already charged is Shereffa Jex, a Burrell Boom […]
Our top story tonight is a major update on the Universal Health Services matter. Both the government and the Belize Bank Limited are headed back to court in dueling applications before the Caribbean Court of Justice in March. According to the Government of Belize, there may be further delays not only in payment of the […]
On Monday, February fifth, the Supreme Court is expected to hear the case of Sunshine Holdings against the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust in a partial continuation of the original Telemedia saga which had been brought in the main to its conclusion last November. Of the over half a billion dollars repaid in compensation for the taking […]
On Tuesday, we reported that a group of former holders of premium annuities with the defunct Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) took an appeal of previous judicial decisions to the Caribbean Court of Justice. When the company folded in 2009, the fifty-four holders of what are known as Executive Flexible Premium Annuity policies were not […]
Meanwhile, twenty-nine-year-old John Martinez was acquitted of murder before Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas today. He was charged with the February 2013 murder of thirty-seven-year-old Ernest Savery in Ladyville. Savery had been shot once in the abdomen while crossing the street from his home to his girlfriend’s residence in the village. Crown witness, Martin Teul […]
For a few days last August, the beating of university student Kevin Brown on Ambergris Caye on the night of August sixth was all anyone would talk about. Brown was hit with a fire extinguisher, causing him to go unconscious, and kicked about, all because of a piece of jewelry. Police stumbles and fumbles led […]
In August of 2009, the local portfolio of the former Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) was handed over to RF&G Insurance, completing the demise of the company which had sustained extensive losses in the international financial crisis of that time period. According to Supervisor of Insurance Alma Gomez, Executive Flexible Premium Annuity (E.F.P.A) policies would […]
