But the highest court, the Caribbean Court of Justice headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago announced the imminent retiring of Sir Dennis Bryon, having reached his seventh non-renewable year at the helm of the CCJ. According to a release, the process to appoint his successor is already in train and regional and international stakeholders have so […]
Lyndon Dean Flowers is accused of the rape of a fourteen-year-old girl on Ambergris Caye in July. Today, he was read charges alongside his attorney Oscar Selgado in the court of Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. According to the teenager, Flowers raped her on the third of July, but she was afraid to report the matter because […]
The Government of Belize remains at an impasse with several companies seeking enforcement of various arbitral awards due them after judgments made in U.S. courts. It maintains the position that Belize’s highest court, the Supreme Court, and to a lesser extent the Caribbean Court of Justice, have maintained that the awards cannot be enforced, but […]
After twenty-four hours on the run, accused murderer Jevon Belizaire has been recaptured by Belize City police. The twenty-four-year-old suspect fled from custody on Wednesday morning while being allowed to use the restroom at the Raccoon Street Police Station. Belizaire is alleged to have shot and killed Ryan ‘Fish’ Thompson on Sunday night on Neal’s […]
Today, former residents of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, David and Anke Doehm, are charged with child cruelty in the death of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon almost two months ago. The teenager’s body was found in a condo at a north end hotel on the island, showing signs of physical and sexual abuse, including a large swelling […]
A Belizean-American couple and their visiting friend were read drug charges after a police search of their Caye Caulker cabana on Tuesday afternoon. Twenty-four-year-old Sloane Breaux; his wife, twenty-three-year-old Catherine Martinez; and thirty-five-year-old Christopher Shroyer, were jointly arraigned before Acting Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer for possession of utensil used for smoking controlled drugs, specifically a […]
Businessman John Zabaneh is a well-known entrepreneur in South Stann Creek whose ventures, including Mayan King Limited, Mid-south Investments Limited, Belize Chemicals Limited and Crown Paradise Enterprises were all flagged by the U.S. Treasury back in 2012. Those companies were designated as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers and were sanctioned based on U.S. foreign policy and […]
Traffic Officer Mario Vernon is tonight spending his first night on remanded at the Central Prison in Hattieville after his twenty-one-year-old neighbor accused him of pulling a gun at him and pointing it in his face, following a misunderstanding over missing money. The incident reportedly occurred on Tapir Street in Belize City, last Friday. This […]
Even as the Misuse of Drugs Act is in the process of being amended to decriminalize possession of less than ten grams of marijuana, today businessman Zane Galvez was hauled before the court for a charge of possession of six point two grams of cannabis. The twenty-eight-year-old Vernon Street resident appeared unrepresented this morning before […]
Twenty-one-year-old Dwight Orosco appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer on charges of keeping a prohibited firearm and unlicensed ammunition for a point-twenty-two pen gun and three rounds found next to him by police. Pleading not guilty to the charges, the father of a newborn girl who works as a DJ and tour guide said he […]
Twenty-one year old Christian Espat of San Pedro Town will remain behind bars for another week since his bail application was not heard today. The Director of Public Prosecutions’ office has raised strong objections to Espat being granted bail. Espat is accused of attempted murder of two minors and twenty-seven year old Lloyd Tindall after […]
There was high drama in the Magistrate Court today when twenty-one-year-old Jafari Castro of Maskall , the son of Minister Edmond “Clear the Land” Castro, eighteen-year-old construction worker Gilbert Franklin Junior of Burrell Boom, and twenty-one-year-old James Young Junior, a boat captain of Belize City, were each read a single charge of harm this afternoon […]
Minister Elrington was also asked about an embarrassing case that has gone as far as the Caribbean Court of Justice, brought against him by Progresso Heights Limited. The court had given Elrington thirty days to hand over land documents to the company and that deadline is soon approaching, on the twenty-first of August. Elrington was […]
In an update to a burglary at Caribbean Tires in Spanish Lookout, Cayo, over the weekend, police have arrested a company employee. He is twenty-two-year-old Omar Gomez, a truck driver of Billy White village. Today, he was taken to San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court and charged with Burglary, Handling Stolen Goods and Damage to Property. Gomez […]
As police were announcing the arrest of twenty-one-year-old Christian Espat on Monday evening for charges of attempted murder, deadly means of harm and dangerous harm for a shooting incident on Ambergris Caye over the weekend, he was being brought to Belize City and arraigned even before getting to speak with attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley. Espat […]
A motorcycle stolen from the Ministry of Education has been recovered by police from the possession of a fisherman. Today in court, Lerone Williams, a resident of Faber’s Road in Belize City, was arraigned for handling stolen goods. He appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser and pleaded not guilty to the charge. Williams […]
This morning, Police Constable Ismael Monima was taken before the Corozal Magistrate’s Court for tampering with evidence. The junior officer is being accused of perverting the course of justice after he removed a urine specimen from the Traffic Office at the Corozal Police Station. According to a Corporal of Police, last Thursday morning around four-thirty, […]
On Friday, Monima was charged with Perverting the Course of Justice and was held in lockdown until today when he was arraigned. Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that corruption within the department will not be tolerated. ACP Chester Williams, Commander, Professional Standards Branch “I will tell you from a police standpoint and […]
It has been a less than stellar week for the Belize Police Department, as the men and women of law enforcement have been finding themselves on the wrong side of the legal system. Earlier today, a pair of officers was arraigned in the Punta Gorda Magistrate’s Court on a joint charge of extortion, after they […]
Police Constable Franklin Ramirez as well as Trevor Brown and Elorey Graham were all granted bail of six thousand dollars, plus two sureties of three thousand dollars when they appeared in the Belize City Supreme Court today to firearm charges. The men were busted on Monday when the Mobile Interdiction Team stopped a vehicle travelling […]
Magistrate Norman Rodriguez was back in court earlier this week. The interdicted magistrate appeared in the Dangriga Magistrate Court on Thursday for disclosure of the evidence the Crown has against him in the alleged rape of a woman. But that didn’t happen and the disclosure was moved to August twenty-fourth. That day is when the […]
A couple living in the Belama area went to court this afternoon for two counts of possession of controlled drugs and one count of drug trafficking with intent to supply for a much larger amount. Ryan Smith and Lydia Young appeared before magistrate Carlon Mendoza. Smith pleaded guilty to the possession charges for two small […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice has issued written reasons for its decision in the case of Progresso Heights Limited versus Wilfred Elrington and Pitts and Elrington. On July twenty-first, the court ordered Elrington and his firm to return all the conveyancing documents that Progresso Heights Limited sent from Florida to Elrington’s wife between September 2009 […]
A duo believed to have been involved in an armed robbery in the Lord’s Bank area, Ladyville were arraigned this afternoon in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. A third man remains at large. Steve Ferrel, a Belize City construction worker and Veris Ventura, who is originally from Hopkins Village, appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford and […]
Brandon Taylor was cleared of murder for the second time earlier this year in the death of Kaylon Matura. Since then the thirty-one-year-old has been trying to lead a clean life according to his family, even briefly moving out of the city. But on Monday, police say he was caught with a nine-millimeter firearm and […]
