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He was supposed to appear in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court today in one of several adjournments his case is expected to see, but Elmer Nah’s case was further adjourned until May seventeenth. The new adjournment came about because of a request that Nah’s attorney, Leeroy Banner made of the court since he couldn’t make it […]
Written on March 17, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin tonight with an update on a tragic accident that occurred on Saturday night in Orange Walk that killed multiple members of one family. Two vehicles collided on the Yo Creek/San Antonio Road and four occupants in one of the vehicles perished at the scene. While the family of Aldair Tillett, his common-law-wife, Felicia […]
Written on March 15, 2023 | Posted in
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It was widely circulated over the weekend that the verdict in the manslaughter trial against Kareem Martinez would have been handed down today by Justice Antoinette Moore in the Supreme Court here in Belize City. But that did not happen; in fact, it was oral closing submissions that were to be heard before the judge […]
Written on March 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier this year, the Justice for Laddie Foundation organized a Youth for Change Symposium in Belize City. During that event, they launched Laddie’s Law – a document suggesting amendments to the law in terms of processes to ensure accountability of law enforcement officers during shooting incidents that involve them. Laddie’s grandmother Lucy Fleming and his […]
Written on March 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Just before the manslaughter proceedings commenced this afternoon, Justice Antoinette Moore handed down her ruling for other matters. In her verdict in the case of rape of a child against Cyril Casimiro, Justice Moore found him guilty. The case was heard in the Corozal jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The incident occurred back on April […]
Written on March 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Elmer Nah, the former police corporal who is charged with the double murder of the Ramnarace brothers from Belmopan appeared in court again today. But Nah spent fewer than five minutes in court before he was given a new adjournment date. He was returned on remand to the custody of the Belize Central Prison until […]
Written on March 3, 2023 | Posted in
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A heated exchange of words between a pair of security guards employed at the same workplace has resulted in twenty-eight-year-old Julian Logan being charged with issuing a death threat. Logan appeared unrepresented before the magistrate court where he was read a single charge. It is alleged that on February twenty-fifth, Logan verbally endangered the life […]
Written on February 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Former Police Constable Dion Bellini has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of drug trafficking. The conviction comes a little over two years following a bust near the outskirts of Orange Walk Town. Sometime around midday on December twenty-fourth, 2020, Bellini, a resident of a San Martin address in Belmopan, […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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A male minor, age seventeen, is the second suspect to have been charged with the murder of Emert Flowers who was gunned down at his residence on Racecourse Street on January twelfth. The teenager appeared before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman earlier today where he was arraigned on a single count in the presence of a […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Former Coast Guard officer Keyren Tzib is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after failing to appear in court. Tzib was detained by police on February twenty-third when she skipped a court date for a case of attempted murder. The warrant for Tzib’s arrest was issued by Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. In court today, […]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Back in December, thirty-two-year-old Corporal Arturo Leal was charged for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Today when he appeared in the lower court, the officer was read another charge stemming from the incident in 2022. This is after his urine sample was returned from the lab and tested positive for […]
Written on February 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Thirty-one-year-old Cobrado Lewis Cole, a construction worker, and twenty-nine-year-old Alicia Courtenay Tec, a babysitter, both of a Tibruce Street address, appeared unrepresented in the magistrate’s court today where they were each read a single charge of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply to another person. That is after they were found with […]
Written on February 23, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-seven-year-old Barkley Allen Junior, a resident of Orange Walk Town who is believed to be mentally challenged, appeared in the magistrate’s court in Belize City today where he was arraigned for arson, harm, and breach of a protection order. Allen is accused of burning down his grandmother’s residence in Orange Walk on February sixteenth. The […]
Written on February 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Corporal Elmer Nah was back in court along with his wife and brother-in-law, and they all will have a case to answer to for two counts of kept unlicensed ammunition for one hundred and thirty-nine live rounds of ammunition. Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman today read Nah four more new charges, one for the murder of […]
Written on February 10, 2023 | Posted in
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Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman will hand down a decision on a no case submission that was made by accused murderer Elmer Nah earlier today, in respect of ammunition charges brought against him, following an incident on the Southern Highway in November 2021. Nah, who was charged jointly along with his common-law wife Epiphania Caliz and […]
Written on February 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, the final witnesses in the manslaughter trial against former Corporal of Police Kareem Martinez appeared in the Supreme Court before Justice Antoinette Moore and the defence closed its case after six days of court proceedings and seventeen witnesses presented by the crown. Written and closing submissions from Oscar Selgado will be submitted on February […]
Written on February 2, 2023 | Posted in
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At the end of the cross-examination of recalled witness, Police Constable Claude Augustine, a visibly annoyed Justice Antoinette Moore instructed him to leave her court. But not before informing him of how displeased she was about his testimony, which she categorized as perjury. In fact, Justice Moore told Prosecutor Javier Chan to have the Office […]
Written on February 2, 2023 | Posted in
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As has been reported, former Police Corporal Kareem Martinez has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett. And as the trial winds down and a decision will soon be made, what are the possible outcomes and the penalties associated with the charge? Attorney Dickie Bradley breaks this down. Dickie […]
Written on February 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Under heavy police guard earlier today, Elmer Nah, the man accused of the heinous triple murder in Belmopan on New’s Year’s Eve, appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Baja Shoman in Belize City. Along with his common-law wife Epiphania Caliz and his brother-in-law Police Constable Manuel Caliz, Nah is on trial for two counts of kept […]
Written on February 1, 2023 | Posted in
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Forty-year-old Arthur Higgs, his common-law wife Tamara Cooper and forty-five-year-old Michelle Higgs, all residents of seventh Street in Kings Park, were arraigned before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson earlier today on charges of drug trafficking. The trio was arrested after being found in possession of a little over two hundred grams of cannabis. While Cooper pleaded […]
Written on February 1, 2023 | Posted in
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Closing arguments in the manslaughter trial of Kareem Martinez, a former Corporal of Police charged for the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett, will be heard on Thursday before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Dangriga Supreme Court. This follows today’s session that occurred inside, as well as outside of the courtroom when the judge, along […]
Written on February 1, 2023 | Posted in
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The manslaughter trial of former police Corporal Kareem Martinez continues before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Dangriga Supreme Court. The final three witnesses took the stand today, officially entering into evidence key elements in the case. Among the evidence submitted was the transcription of an interview with the accused the day after the deadly shooting […]
Written on January 31, 2023 | Posted in
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There have been questions about the standard procedures that are to be exercised by officers when responding to reports, as well as the policy for officers to discharge their weapons. Today, during the testimony of Sergeant Holly Vasquez, the matter came up and he disclosed that there is a police manual that guides officers on […]
Written on January 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Laddie’s father, Emil Bradley, is a former police officer and believes that the fourteen-year-old and his friend, Thomas Palacio, were being profiled in this incident. This opinion aside, on Wednesday, following an early morning session inside the Dangriga Supreme Court, a locus will be conducted at the scene of the shooting. It will allow Justice […]
Written on January 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Twenty-two-year-old Robert Lamb was arraigned and remanded to the Belize Central Prison earlier today after being charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, dangerous harm and robbery. The slew of charges follow an incident over the weekend during which an Indian businessman was attacked and stabbed multiple times on Cemetery Road. On […]
Written on January 31, 2023 | Posted in
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