On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal pronounced a verdict in a criminal matter involving thirty-three-year-old Linsbert Bahadur Junior. He was convicted of the murder of his brother-in-law Albert Wade which occurred in April 2006. While affirming his conviction, the appellate court quashed Bahadur’s life sentence. In July 2016, he was found guilty after four previous […]
The Supreme Court has set a March trial date for two men accused of uttering on a forged document and preparation to commit a crime. Forty-three-year-old Marcos Basto of Corozal Town and thirty-one-year-old Mark Antonio Rosalez of San Pedro Town are accused of uttering on an official certificate of registration as a citizen of Belize […]
Police have quickly nabbed a man who they say stole a bicycle belonging to a woman police officer. But he says it was an accident caused by being under the influence of alcohol. Thirty-five-year-old Eugene Lanza pleaded not guilty to the theft of a two hundred and ninety-nine-dollar bicycle belonging to community policing officer WPC […]
Windell Neal, was read a charge of obtaining property by deception in the Magistrate’s Court today. Jennifer Arana, secretary for the Oswald Twist law firm, says she was at home on Lacroix Boulevard on December seventh when a young man arrived claiming he was delivering a glass door from Leslie’s Imports on the George Price […]
Twenty-three-year-old Tevin Aranda has been charged with manslaughter, following the shooting death of Mario Vernon Jr. in Punta Gorda Town on Saturday night. The arraignment of the police constable in the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court earlier today, is perhaps little or no comfort to Vernon’s grieving family. They strongly believe that despite his many run-ins with […]
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars – that is what twenty-two-year-old Jenny Bonilla received from a medical negligence case that left her without a womb and left ovary. Bonilla was twenty-years-old when she started with an abdominal pain and she went to the southern regional hospital from where she was transferred to the Western Regional […]
News Five has confirmed that attorney Andrew Bennett is likely headed to the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning – but not to try a case. He will be on the defendant’s side of the courtroom facing Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer, as his legal team will listen to the evidence presented by the office of the […]
Police have laid additional charges on twenty-four-year-old Jesus Enrique Muñoz of Orange Walk Town. Today, he was charged with manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct in connection with the accident that claimed the life of twenty-seven-year-old police constable Enid Tillett. Munoz was arraigned before the court and granted bail of five thousand […]
This morning, the Caribbean Court of Justice heard arguments in the matter of Sunshine Holdings—the company which acquired shares in Belize Telemedia Limited using a Social Security loan in 2005. Back in October, the highest court refused an application from the company, acquired by the Government of Belize from the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust headed by […]
Police this morning announced an arrest in the murder of Leon Garcia, which occurred fourteen days ago. Around three-thirty on New Year’s morning, Garcia was fatally stabbed to the chest and abdomen while with a group of men on Barrack Road, where they were set upon by a large group. The accused is twenty-four-year-old Stephen […]
A disturbing case of sexual assault was brought to the Magistrate’s Court this morning. The alleged victim is a two-year-old female child; the accused is a fifty-seven-year old man who insists he is innocent. Plumber Bernadott Reyes was read one count of sexual assault upon a child under the age of twelve by Chief Magistrate […]
Nineteen-year-old Ladyville resident Delroy Staine Junior is accused of stabbing twenty-three-year-old Javan Young of Ladyville on January second. Today, he appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford, charged with attempted murder, grievous harm and use of deadly means of harm. Around seven-twenty-five in the evening, Young was walking from a shop in the village through a […]
The notorious “B-E-T” – thirty-one year old Brandon Tillett – today made bail of ten thousand dollars granted in the Supreme Court, but on a different charge. On January third, Tillett was arraigned for aggravated assault against his former common-law partner in Burrell Boom village. Today, that charge was withdrawn before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford […]
One of two men accused in the shooting of Tyrone Barcelona and Steve Finley last Saturday is out on bail, but the other remains on remand at the Central Prison. Twenty-one-year-old Jason Anderson is out on bail of ten thousand dollars after being arraigned on Tuesday on charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means […]
An argument in downtown Belize City ending in an apparent stabbing on Sunday morning landed sixty-four-year-old businesswoman Jennifer Garcia in court. Garcia is accused of stabbing Ingrid McKay with a twelve-inch knitting needle after a quarrel over McKay’s partner Conrad Jackson while at the Battlefield Park. Garcia allegedly told McKay that Jackson wanted a relationship […]
Fifty-two-year-old Roger Kenrick Jones, a refrigerator technician of Belize City, must pay three hundred dollars in fines after being busted with cocaine in December. Jones was caught when a police officer on mobile patrol on East Collet Canal saw him drop an object on the ground, which turned out to be the cocaine wrapped in […]
The fate of twenty-eight-year-old Krismar Espinosa of Orange Walk was today in the hands of a twelve-member jury. Espinosa was tried for the second time for the murder of fellow Central Prison inmate Keon Swasey on Christmas Eve, 2009. Swasey was stabbed in the chest twice with a homemade kitchen knife and the murder was […]
A fifteen-year-old girl accuses a man more than three times her age of sexually abusing her for almost a year. Fifty-two-year-old Jose Ardon was initially charged with two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with the minor, but today he was read an additional nine counts before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. According to the minor, the […]
A Belize City man was remanded on Tuesday for an assault that left one man injured. On December twenty-ninth, 2017, Edgar Richards was talking to a friend on Emma Street when forty-five-year-old Paul Jex Senior, armed with a machete, rode up to him and chopped one of his hands. Jex Senior appeared before Senior Magistrate […]
Two cops are home free tonight after charges against them were dropped in the San Pedro Magistrate Court. The duo was charged last April for firing indiscriminately at a crowd of spectators on the island after hitting a woman. Five persons were injured in the mayhem and the officers were subsequently placed on interdiction. According […]
On Monday night, police announced charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, dangerous harm, wounding and abetment to commit murder filed against twenty-year-old Jason Anderson and twenty-four-year-old Reese Fitzgibbon. This morning, the pair appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. Anderson and Fitzgibbon along with another person still being sought by police are […]
While the Chief Justice lauded the improvements within the judiciary during his annual address, President of the Bar Association of Belize, Priscilla Banner, took a more sober approach to the dispensation of justice. She says that with the many developments, if justice isn’t meted out in a timely and fair manner, then it is still […]
Since last Thursday, there were reports circulating that vocal Belize City taxi man, Roy Craig, better known as ‘Bullet’ and ‘Street Vibes’ was in trouble with the law. Tonight Bullet is on bail after arraignment this afternoon for the crime of sexual assault of a minor. The seventy-six-year-old outspoken cabbie was unrepresented in court and […]
In this our first newscast for 2018, we start with a story which was the headline at the close of 2017; the murder of popular barber Fareed Ahmad. This morning, a heavily armed detail of police officers cordoned off the perimeter of the magistrates’ court in Belize City from as early as eight o’clock, well […]
A first class clerk employed with the Belize City Magistrate’s Court is out on bail tonight after being arraigned before Magistrate Hurl Hamilton on a single charge of theft. Twenty-nine-year-old Sean Lord was visited by CIB personnel this morning when he arrived at work. He was then escorted from his desk to San Ignacio where […]
