We’ve reported on the lawsuit filed by several former employees of S.O.S. Security Firm against the company for non-payment of salaries. Today, the court ruled that the company should deposit the monies owed to its former employees before July third or else. The security guards went on a go-slow or did not show up to […]
Two men who police have blamed for last week’s shooting of well-known street figure, Jervis Valencia appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today. They are Logwood Street resident, twenty-five-year-old Lyndon Alexander Saint Claire of Pickwoad Street and twenty-three-year-old Kareem Kelly, a construction worker of Mayflower Street. Police maintain that at around eleven-thirty on April […]
Guilty – that is the verdict handed down today by Justice Antoinette Moore in the trial by judge alone for the manslaughter of Laddie Gillett. Former Corporal of Police Kareem Martinez stood trial earlier this year and today, almost two years after the fatal shooting of fourteen-year-old Laddie in Placencia, his fate was decided. Martinez […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams reacted to the guilty verdict handed down earlier today against former Corporal of Police Kareem Martinez. Recently, police officers have been at the center of convictions, accused of disproportionate, unnecessary and unreasonable conduct that have ended in irreparable harm. ComPol Williams says that he was expecting the ruling from the […]
Following the verdict, defense attorney Oscar Selgado, who represented Kareem Martinez in the trial, maintained that there is no evidence and no scientific proof that his client fired the shot that killed Laddie Gillett. Selgado told the media that he intends to appeal the decision of the court. But according to attorney-at-law Dickie Bradley, the […]
Prior to issuing the guilty verdict, Justice Antoinette Moore referred to the Convention on the Rights of a Child and spoke of the need for more training of police officers as it relates to the Firearms Act and the Police Act, as well as the constitution. Back in January, the Justice for Laddie Foundation, during […]
We begin our newscast tonight with a decision that was handed down in the High Court earlier today by Justice Ricardo O‘Neil Sandcroft. Three former law enforcement officers have been sentenced to fifteen years in prison after they were convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of a bartender in San Pedro in March 2016. […]
Twenty-three-year-old Elden Flowers, a well-known street figure, walked free from the murder of Richard O’Neil earlier today after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions entered a nolle prosequi in the courtroom of Justice Nigel Pilgrim. In November 2019, O’Neil was abducted and taken to an area along the Boom/Hattieville Road where he was […]
Many would remember fifty-four-year-old John Brackett, an amputee who protested the Social Security Board last year regarding his disability benefits. Today, he appeared before Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft who imposed a suspended sentence for the lesser charge of attempted murder and deadly means of harm. In February 2018, Brackett reportedly stabbed Kenrick Valencio, a security […]
A homeless man was acquitted of two counts of burglary when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman today. Forty-nine-year-old Denroy Wagner was accused of burglarizing It Store’s warehouse twice in June 2022. Wagner who has been on remand since June twenty-first of last year, was taken to court this morning where the operations manager […]
Two adults and two minors have been arraigned for a burglary in Los Lagos where thirty-eight thousand dollars, a high powered rifle and several other items were stolen. On Tuesday night, we told you that thieves broke into a home over the Easter holiday and escaped with these items. Well, tonight two of the four […]
Lev Dermen, the Los Angeles-based businessman who made the news during his tax fraud trial in February 2020, when former Minister of National Security John Saldivar was named as receiving money in tranches from him, has been handed down a forty-year prison sentence. Dermen was one of five persons who were sentenced for the roles […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Police Constable Daniel Requeña has been acquitted of a charge of extortion, five years after he was accused of obtaining money by force or coercion from a woman in Belize City. The incident took place in 2017, when Estephania Gomez reportedly handed over eight hundred dollars for the release of her friends who were […]
The case of thirty-six-year-old Jared Ranguy, accused of killing his mother, sister, and stepfather, took an interesting turn today when the trial judge announced that he has decided to recuse himself from the case. The announcement by Justice Ricardo O’Neill Sandcroft followed a sequence of uncertainties when attorneys who were assigned to the case also […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with the arraignment of two police officers for the shooting death of a young man in Orange Walk Town over the weekend. Two of four policemen assigned to the Quick Response Team in that northern municipality were paraded to the Magistrate’s Court and charged for the murder of nineteen-year-old Dyandre Chee. […]
He has spent the last ten years on remand, as he awaits trial for the triple murder of his mother, sister and stepfather back in November 2012. Now, thirty-six-year-old Jared Ranguy could be facing charges if he decides to plead guilty, or if he chooses to take a gamble for a “not guilty” verdict. Ranguy […]
Hillmar Alamilla is tonight a free man after a no case submission was upheld by Justice Herbert Lord earlier today. Alamilla, who drove for former Orange Walk North Area Representative Gaspar Vega, was accused of the murder of twenty-four-year-old Daniel Sosa in Orange Walk Town in July 2017. Sosa had been shot once in the […]
Three Belmopan residents, including interdicted Police Corporal, thirty-nine-year-old Elmer Nah, appeared in court today and presented their defense as to why they were in possession of several rounds of ammunition. The case is in relation to the landing of a drug plane in southern Belize a few years ago. Nah, his common-law wife, Epiphania Caliz […]
The Crown today closed its case against twenty-six-year-old Everal Martinez, accused of the murder of seventeen-month-old baby Allyssa Nunez. Martinez gave a dock statement, saying he caused no harm to his stepdaughter, and that he loved her like a father loves his daughter. The toddler was allegedly physically and sexually abused in February 2018 and […]
Tonight, over a dozen former Security Oriented Services employees saw their first day in court. The former S.O.S employees filed separate civil suit claims against their former boss, Paul Garcia who owns the security company, located on Freetown Road in Belize City. S.O.S was the security company that was contracted by the government to provide […]
A Belize City man is facing an attempted murder charge after he allegedly stabbed his own brother. Forty-one-year-old Charles Herbert is accused of stabbing Ruben Herbert on August twentieth, 2022, in Belize City. Following the incident, a wanted poster was issued for Charles Herbert’s arrest. Today, some seven months later, he appeared unrepresented before Acting […]
On Monday, we told you about the road traffic accident in Ladyville that claimed the life of twenty-two-year-old Joshua Martinez. As we reported, fifty-two-year-old Manuel Ramos was slapped with a slew of charges in connection with the incident, including one count of manslaughter by negligence; one count of causing death by careless conduct; one count […]
A Ladyville man is behind bars for burglary after allegedly breaking into a home and stealing a cell phone. Freddy Vasquez is accused of entering the home of Ladyville resident Marvin Contreras where he reportedly stole a Samsung J10 cell phone valued at three hundred dollars. When Vasquez appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford today, […]
Eighteen-year-old Bevan Curtis Alford was arraigned earlier today for the murder of Freddy Chicas whose decomposing body was retrieved a week ago from an area near the Eight Mile community. Chicas, who was reported missing by his family a few days earlier, had been dispatched with a single round fired into his head. Alfred appeared […]
A life sentence was handed down in the courtroom of Justice Herbert Lord earlier today, several months after twenty-seven-year-old Jason Sanchez, also known as Jungle Rat, was convicted of murder. A fixed term of thirty years in prison has been imposed on Sanchez, who will not be eligible for parole until that term has been […]
