The Committee’s first witness today was former Ambassador of Belize to the Republic of China (Taiwan), Cherie Nisbet. She was at post when South Korean businessman turned fugitive Won Hong Kim was granted citizenship despite never setting foot in Belize. Her office was contacted by then-Deputy Mayor Eric Chang after he heard of Kim’s issues […]
There is an important event that takes place this Thursday. It is the elevation of Senior Counsel Denys Barrow as a judge to the Caribbean Court of Justice. Barrow is the first Belizean to be appointed to Belize’s highest court of appeal, which is headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago; other members are Guyana, Barbados and […]
Well-known Belizean artist, Tanya Carter, was robbed by a group of four men, one who also threatened her life. The artist declined on-camera interviews since she was shaken up by the ordeal, but posted on social media that she is well. On Monday, robbers took her bag and then fled, but did not get far because […]
Deshawn Ramirez – she is the woman who was charged with her husband’s murder on Monday and remanded to prison. But tonight she is free, after the murder charge was withdrawn and Deshawn was released from custody. On Friday night in Seine Bight, Deshawn and her husband Glenn Ramirez Junior were engaged in a confrontation […]
Thirty-three-year-old fudge vendor Glenford Tillett has been charged with littering after a run-in with police on Saturday. However, he was discharged of the offense by Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. Tillett was sitting in front of Chinese grocer Lina’s Store on Mahogany Street when a police mobile arrived. He was sitting on a cardboard box and police […]
Sixty-five-year-old grandmother Martha Parchue returned to court today on a charge of theft for shoplifting in a popular supermarket. Parchue is accused of stealing Celebrity brand boneless chopped ham valued at seven dollars and fifty cents from off the shelf at Lucky Star Supermarket on Central American Boulevard. The store owner told police that Parchue […]
The Director of the Government’s Press Office, Dorian Pakeman, walked out of the Magistrate Court this morning, a free man. In March 2016, Pakeman was accused of causing the death, by careless conduct, of a Gardenia resident on the Phillip Goldson Highway. It took almost ten months to bring a single charge against the highly-connected […]
Remember the Belize City Police Department Ballistic Examiner, Orlando Vera? In January 2016, he was charged with the offense of abetment to pervert the course of justice. Allegations are that Vera offered to assist Michael Modiri by tampering with evidence so that the businessman would be freed of firearm charges. The trial started in the Belmopan […]
A well-known George Street figure and his girlfriend will be spending their second night on remand at the Belize Central Prison for allegedly committing an aggravated burglary at the home of businessman, Mario Galvez of Red House. Nicoli Rhys and Ester Garcia appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser late on Wednesday evening and arraigned for aggravated […]
One of three men accused of robbing an Immigration Officer and a businessman at gun point of their personal items and a significant amount of cash was convicted in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for robbery. The three men are Ryan Alvarez, who is presently on remand for a 2016 city murder, Russell Bernardez as […]
A recent murder suspect saw a charge of burglary against him struck out this morning when he appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. He is Kareem Smith, a well-known criminal figure of the P.I.V. area, in Belize City. On October nineteenth, 2015, it is alleged that Smith entered the home of Albert Humes on […]
A Belize City engineer is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was accused by a fourteen-year minor of sexual abuse on April sixteenth of this year. This morning, Dennis Haylock was arraigned for a single count of unlawful sexual intercourse. The minor was fourteen years at the time of the […]
The Senate Inquiry into the corruption at the Immigration Department resumes this Wednesday. At least two persons are scheduled to testify before the Senate Special Select Committee. Now, the Belize Passport Information System (BPIS) has been a center of inquiry throughout the public hearings of the Senate Special Select Committee. It is the system used […]
It’s been a bad week for the media. It started at Wednesday’s senate meeting when political operatives attacked members of the media. And this morning, in San Ignacio, the outspoken and firebrand Plus TV editor, Louis Wade, was charged with criminal offences, in relation to an incident that is almost six months old. Wade says […]
Just now you heard Journalist Louis Wade speak on what has transpired with an incident that led to him being slapped with two charges; one for common assault and the other for use of insulting words. At the centre of the story is the San Ignacio Police Formation. On Thursday the media had inquired with […]
Earlier this week, you saw what transpired during the hearing of the Senate Select Committee – journalists were threatened by political operatives carrying out the dirty work of their party which caused a disruption in the session. Today, Wade pointed out that journalists were assaulted on Wednesday, similar to the manner in which he was, […]
Two of four men linked to an armed robbery and kidnapping in Ranchito, Corozal on May third, 2017 were today granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars each. The duo was arraigned on Thursday, May eighteen, 2017, in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Patricia Arana for the offenses of robbery […]
Has the usefulness of the Senate Special Select Committee come to an end? Since November more than fifteen persons have been called to testify, some more than once, but only Elvin Penner was of Cabinet rank at the time and other Ministers of Government whose names have been called in the report have yet to […]
A charge of common assault was struck out against Kareem Adley Senior today by Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. It goes back to November fifth 2016, when the P.U.P. held an election for a new Belize Youth Movement president. Adley Junior vied for the post and lost. But things went wrong and the senior Kareem Adley was […]
A Security Guard of the Belize International Airport was arraigned today in connection with a shooting incident that occurred through Munoz Alley, Belize City, on Tuesday of this week. Tyrone Young, aka “Bang”, was charged for discharging a firearm in public. It is alleged that he wantonly and without reasonable excuse, discharged a firearm in […]
For the second week running, former Minister of State for Immigration and Nationality Elvin Penner was the headline witness at the Senate Special Select Committee. After last week’s appearance, any thought that he would be more cooperative was dashed within seconds of his taking the oath this morning. He got into a quarrel with the […]
The Committee’s public hearings were briefly interrupted by an outburst from the public gallery. Its source has been identified as opponents of Senator Eamon Courtenay and supporters of the United Democratic Party, there for the specific purpose of continuing to call him out about his relationship with Lord Michael Ashcroft. The hecklers also turned on […]
The saying goes that a man who represents himself in a court of law has a fool for a client. In the case of former minister Elvin Penner, he claims to have gotten legal advice. But his legal adviser was not present at either of his appearances before the Senate Committee. Two members of the […]
More than two thousand names collected by the Immigration Department are suspected of having obtained Belizean nationality in less than optimal circumstances during the rush to the 2012 general elections. Immigration officials testifying at the Senate Special Select Committee, right up to Director Ruth Meighan, have admitted that the persons registered to vote based on […]
Current systems administrator at the Immigration Department, Georgia Bowen, worked at the Information Technology section of the Department during the time of the Won Hong Kim case. It has been established through prior testimony at the Senate Committee that a ‘picture of a picture’ can be taken and introduced into the system. But how can […]
