In more fisheries news…five fishers caught big fines in the Magistrate’s Court for possession of undersized conch and fishing without a license, but it could have easily been worse. The quintet – Enrique Perez; Victor Martinez; brothers Tony and Jeronimo Matura and repeat offender Idelfonso Sho – appeared before Magistrates Carlon Mendoza and Norman Rodriguez […]
We can confirm tonight that Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited, formerly BCB Holdings, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The companies were seeking motions for a restraining order against the Government of Belize; a permanent anti-suit injunction; and permission to enable attachment of assets of the […]
Moneylenders Laura and Julio Blanco of Pay Day and EZY Loans Pawning, located in Orange Walk Town, have been ordered by Supreme Court Justice Sonya Young to surrender a thirty-acre property they transferred into their name after a customer, Janine Vega, was not able to repay in full two separate loans totalling three thousand, five […]
One hundred and fifty cases of ham imported into Belize since December 2016 remain in a container at the Port of the Belize. The importer is Mexican business, Manuel Pastor Gomez Diaz, who brought in the three thousand four hundred pounds of ham on December twelfth, 2016 without the required permit. Diaz is the Director […]
Police in Rural Eastern Division have one person detained for the murder of John Ortiz, and in Belize City, police also believe they have arrested and charged the men behind the murder of twenty-nine year old Mark Jones last Thursday. Two face charges – nineteen-year-old Deandre Adolphus for the murder itself, and thirty-three-year-old Bruce Reneau. […]
Today was set for trial in the case of Geovannie Brackett, President of Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA); Perry “Sticks” Smith, the founder of the Days of Healing organization; as well as thirty-year-old Clayburn Pascascio, twenty-three year old Adrian Avaloy and two minors, ages seventeen and sixteen. But it did not happen due […]
A twenty-five-year-old woman of the Ladyville area was raped and police have arrested and charged a Jamaican national for the alleged crime. Today, twenty-year-old Andre Knight was taken before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith on single charge of rape. At the arraignment, Prosecutor, Inspector Egbert Castillo, who is aware of the mental state of the […]
Developments have been happening fast and furious in terms of another arbitral award being contested between the Government of Belize and the former B.C.B. Holdings and the Belize Bank Limited. On Thursday, the Caribbean Court of Justice declined via order to hear an inter-party application for an anti-enforcement injunction. It was brought by Attorney General […]
Twenty-year-old Zachary Knox, a Belizean/American, is serving the first night of a six months sentence handed down this morning by Magistrate Carlin Mendoza for shooting at Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. Knox is convicted for committing an aggravated assault upon ACP Williams as a result of a shooting which occurred on May twelfth, 2016 […]
A seventy-one-year-old resident of Santa Elena, Toledo is out on bail tonight after more than six months on remand at the Belize Central Prison accused of sexually abusing a child, on more than one occasion. The abuse started when the child was eight years old and continued until she was eleven. Pedro Pop Ico appeared […]
A Belize City mother is alleging that her son, Dean Nembhard Junior, is yet another victim of police brutality and that she has videos showing police taking advantage of him. Police, however, claim they saw Nembhard Junior disposing of a bag of weed in a bushy area of Krooman Road, Belize City on January thirtieth. […]
A Crooked Tree resident will have to pay up to ten thousand dollars to the court after being found guilty of drug trafficking two hundred and thirteen grams of marijuana. Twenty-six-year-old Leon Aldana initially pleaded not guilty, but was found guilty when he appeared this morning before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. Police found the drugs at […]
Two cops were charged with grievous harm when they appeared in court today. Brothers twenty-eight-year-old Kenrick Gamboa and twenty-four-year-old Akeem Gamboa were jointly for grievous harm upon nineteen year old Michael Crawford. Kenrick was also slapped with an additional charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. On Saturday evening, the Gamboa brothers and another […]
A B.D.F. soldier is in trouble with the law for unruly and unbecoming behaviour. Twenty-two-year-old Kevin Chun is accused of touching a female police officer on her private parts on Friday night. Chun is said to have been at a bar in Ladyville where he committed a sexual assault upon the forty-two-year-old officer. The officer […]
On Saturday, Coast Guard officials busted twenty-two-year-old Justin Flowers, eighteen-year-old Elijah Usher, Stanley O’Neil and a minor all of Belize City with eight hundred and sixty two gram of weed in possession of two plastic bags with eight hundred and sixty two grams of weed on Turneffe Island. The men, who appeared unrepresented in court […]
Thirty-nine-year-old David Enriquez, a former clerk at the Treasury Department, will stand trial for three counts of theft after being charged in connection with the embezzlement of over four hundred thousand dollars from the Government of Belize. The matter dates back to 2014, when it was alleged that on three occasions Enriquez stole sums of […]
Jin Chen An. He or she, depending on who you ask, was a Chinese investor consultant working with one Roger Tien, seeking a visa to come to Belize. He was invited by Minister of Trade Erwin Contreras in 2012, despite apparently living in Belize from 2007 and even opening a place of business, National Bar […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Elsworth Morter is spending a second night at the Belize Central Prison after being sentenced to three years for drug trafficking. A GSU raid on his Oleander Street residence on Monday night yielded over thirteen pounds of cannabis. At the time of the sweep, seven others, including six adults and a minor, were inside […]
A gang of six would-be thieves, busted during a foiled robbery attempt at the Northern Fishermen’s Cooperatives on January tenth, appeared before the lower court on Wednesday. Taxi driver Gilroy Thompson, Dorian Blair, Aaron Flowers, Kenroy Vanzie and Collet Montero were previously arraigned for possession of a firearm with intent to commit a crime. They […]
It made the news back in June 2011 when businessman Patrick Menzies was charged with the attempted murder of a GSU officer and a woman who were socializing at a City establishment when a fight broke out. The original claims were that GSU personnel intervened to break up the fight and in the process officers […]
Former Director of Immigration and Nationality Ruth Meighan returned to an already hot seat at the National Assembly as the latest to testify in the Senate Special Select Committee’s hearings on the Special Audit of the Immigration Department. As the top boss, she presided over most of the time covered in the Audit, but questioning […]
Ministers of the Government of Belize tend to enjoy their power, especially when it comes to influencing their constituents. Of course, constituents tend to take advantage of that power and influence when they so wish. In the case of Immigration and Nationality, all members of the National Assembly are among the recognized recommenders for passports, […]
So, is there anything Director Meighan would have done differently? She acknowledged the changes made to the Department’s system since her time there and said that in hindsight, she might have taken more advantage of the resources available to her to properly vet documents. In addition, she agreed that a full audit was necessary and […]
There was a community outreach earlier today in the Conch Shell Bay neighborhood, led by the Belize Police Department and Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton. The initiative followed the arraignment of twenty-seven-year-old Enfield Fitzgibbon who has been charged with the attempted murder of Keimar Nicholas. The near-fatal shooting incident occurred on Monday night in Lindo’s […]
Eighteen-year-old Erwin Lanza, a laborer of Lord’s Bank, was arrested and charged today after being accused of engaging in a sexual act with a minor. According to the nine-year-old girl, Lanza had intercourse with her on two separate occasions; first in September of 2016 and then last Tuesday. Lanza appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza […]
