A Belize City man was busted by police on Monday while attempting to dispose of a loaded firearm in a property on Curassow Street. Twenty-one-year-old Kadeem Anderson is on remand at the Belize Central Prison tonight after being caught in the act of tossing a point thirty-eight Smith and Wesson revolver. The handgun, loaded with […]
Forty-year-old Kirk Pitts was remanded to prison for possession of ammunition and a small quantity of weed. Over the weekend, police busted Pitts with several nine millimeter ammunition and less than half gram of cannabis. Police were on mobile patrol when they spotted Pitts looking suspicious on a veranda on Faber’s Road Extension in Belize […]
The accused gunman in the murder of Jaheem Mahler was escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for arraignment this morning. Twenty-eight year old Carl Reneau appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser wearing a grey shirt which had the words, “These guns are loaded,” displayed on it with the picture of well-known cartoon character, Popeye. […]
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the Government’s appeals against arbitration awards upheld in lower courts in Washington, D.C. earlier this week. Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited and Belize Social Development Limited are claiming between them one hundred million dollars in judgments handed down by the London Court of International Arbitration – judgments in which […]
On the heels of three arbitration awards upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last week and a fourth involving the Belize Bank still making its way through the U.S. court system, the last thing the Government wants to hear about is further litigation. But that is exactly what it faces from Glenn D. Godfrey’s G.D.G. […]
A Gales Point Manatee resident was handed down a three-year sentence after he was found guilty of aggravated assault with a firearm. Anthony Liston Myers, originally from Dangriga, was sentenced in absentia this morning before Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. Myers committed an aggravate assault upon businessman, Nelson Gallardo on December twenty-sixth, 2016, in the […]
Senator Godwin Hulse took former P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca to court on a defamation charge years ago. Today, that matter went on trial before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin in the Supreme Court and at the end Fonseca agreed to issue a public retraction and apology. Back in October 2013, Fonseca, as P.U.P. leader, made certain […]
In his interview with the media, Attorney Kareem Musa told reporters that the matter of Immigration scandal is one that is still very much relevant. He said that while his client Francis Fonseca was sued for defamation – he never directly named Hulse to be responsible for what happened in the Ministry – but that […]
On Wednesday, twenty-two-year-old Jordon Murray was arraigned for another charge of obtaining property by deception; this time in relation to an allegation by Ashton Jones who says that in November of last year, he was conned by Murray who introduced himself to him as “Jay Jay” Saldivar. Jones claims that Murray swindled two thousand seven […]
Garcia says that she suspects that the alleged conman was not acting on his own, but in collusion with others. Garcia says she reported the matter to the Ladyville police, providing all receipts as well as email correspondence, but interestingly when she followed up with the matter all that file was missing or so she […]
Wednesday is the thirty-fifth birthday of the Government of Belize’s chief press officer, Dorian Pakeman. But today, the man accused of causing the traffic fatality that took the life of a Biscayne mechanic, Dean Dawson, back in March of 2016, finally appeared in court for it. Pakeman was read only one charge: causing death by […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice today heard arguments in the Bar Association’s final stand against the Government. It regards a case concerning the overturning of constitutional amendments, limiting time of judges on the Court to sit where their instruments of appointment are open-ended. The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 2008, sought to close […]
Replying for the Attorney General and Government of Belize, Senior Counsel Denys Barrow noted that at least part of the amendment is no longer of value, and that the Government believes that by establishing a specific term for the judges in question, it would be to their benefit rather than to their detriment. He also […]
On Monday, police managed to stop a robbery taking place at the North Front Street offices of Northern Fishermen Cooperative Society Limited in Belize City. Tonight, several well-known criminal figures are remanded to the Central Prison on firearm-related offenses in connection with the incident. Five adult men – taxi driver Gilroy Thompson; Dorian Blair, Aaron […]
On Monday night, we showed you the remnants of tragic accident that resulted in the death of twenty one year old Jamalski Young. Tonight, one man has been charged with Young’s death. Thirty-five-year-old Guatemalan Eric Rene Salazar Guzman, a driver of Boom Road, was arrested and charged for Causing Death by Careless Conduct; Manslaughter by […]
After spending two nights on remand at the Belize Central Prison, Japanese national, Asako Solis, who has been living in Belize for over ten years is home tonight. The thirty-eight-year old mother of two children is facing two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm upon her Belizean husband, Elvis Solis. Her husband alleges that […]
Police have re-captured thirty-nine-year old Eugene Bailey, who fled the long arms of law at the Queen Street police station at around noon today. Bailey had been taken to the station after he was sentenced to two-five year prison terms for firearm and ammunition offenses earlier in the morning. It is reported that he disappeared […]
Police have cracked the second of six murders that occurred over a four-day period. It’s been two days since the murder of Police Street resident nineteen-year-old Randolph Johnson and tonight, another Belize City youth, nineteen-year-old Elden Edward Flowers, a resident of Croton Lane has been charged for his execution. Late this evening, Flowers appear before […]
Twenty-year-old Frederick Sutherland, a former deliveryman for James Brodie and Company, was dragged to court today on a single charge of theft. It is alleged that the fisherman of East Collet Canal made off with an assortment of food items from the Northern Highway store. Those items include cases of Nestum Wheat and Honey, Cerelac, […]
Since December thirty- first, the six murders have the police working around the clock, but except for one, police are yet to crack the cases. Dillon Grinage did not live to see the New Year; he was killed in Sandhill at the close of 2016. Patrick Harris, a resident of the same village, was arraigned […]
They hung out together, but police believe that twenty-year-old Frank Alexander Young decided to kill nineteen year old David Andrews on December twenty-third on Racoon Street, for unknown reasons. As we reported on Friday, he was arrested and charged, but in court Young told Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer that he had no reason to kill […]
Fifty-five-year-old Moises Roberto Soriano of Pescador Drive, San Pedro Town, is out on bail after being caught in possession of cocaine on the island. Soriano pleaded not guilty before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer and was released on bail of three thousand dollars by lunchtime. On Thursday, he was found by police to be going against […]
An ex-pat in San Pedro Town has been robbed by a pair of men whom he thought were his friends. Sixty-five-year-old Gary Hamilton, a retiree of Sea Grape Drive, told police that on Wednesday night he was socializing with Omar Delgado, a construction worker of the San Mateo community. The men were leaving from River […]
Forty-eight-year-old Jorge Montero, a former employee of Priority Security, appeared unrepresented this morning in the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer to answer to a single charge of burglary. It is alleged that on December twenty-sixth, the Lord’s Bank resident entered into the home of Stephanie Lupp on Princess Margaret Drive and stole a pink […]
A rookie cop and his friend were accused of the attempted murder of Nigel Castillo in July of this year after a shooting incident at a basketball court behind the Charles Bartlett Hyde building. According to Castillo, he was shot in the lower abdomen while on the court along with Gilbert Arana. However, nineteen-year-old Constable […]
