Twenty-five-year-old Stanley Moore is back on remand at the Belize Central Prison tonight after being read two charges in connection with the attempted robbery of an elderly businessman on Wednesday night. Seventy-three-year-old Henry Bulwer and fifty-four-year-old Richard Thurton were both at a fruit and vegetable shop when they were accosted by a pair of armed […]
Elward McKay joins Alexander Bainton who was charged this past Friday for the robbery of a seventeen-year-old back in September of this year. Bainton was arraigned and remanded into custody at the Belize Central Prison; and today, his accomplice, McKay was brought before the Magistrate’s Court and arraigned for attempted murder, robbery, used of deadly […]
He walked free from court on Monday afternoon for the brutal attack on an elderly man, but tonight police are looking for thirty-six-year-old Chester Noralez. He is to be re-arrested and charged for the aggravated burglary and near-fatal assault of ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant. Grant was the victim of a home invasion at his residence on […]
Businessman fifty-four-year-old Doug Singh appeared in court today in connection with two port authority offences that he was charged with earlier this year. Back in July, Singh who is the owner of International Cooperate Service was charged with permitting a man to operate a vessel without having a valid certificate of competence and permitting to […]
After as many as forty years, a double murder case has been cracked. An American from California has been charged with two counts of maritime murder for the deaths of a British couple in their mid-twenties who had travelled to Belize. Seventy-five year old Silas Duane Boston is accused of luring Christopher Farmer and Peta […]
A recent ruling by the Court of Appeal will have significant bearing on the lives of inmates convicted for murder. The decision primarily hinges on parole rules mandating that those serving life sentences for homicides are not to be considered, much less granted parole. The court in October determined that the Criminal Code is unconstitutional […]
Thirty-six-year-old Chester Noralez, a repeat offender, accused of brutally attacking an elderly neighbor last year, is home free tonight after the court struck out the matter against him because his case file could not be found. Ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant was beaten to a bloody pulp and left for dead during an aggravated burglary on December […]
Two Belize City men will have to stand trial for murder at the April 2017 session of the Supreme Court as well as a slew of other offenses including attempted murder dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm and aggravated burglary. Initially, Windell Thurton, Byron Flowers, and the alleged mastermind Max Orosco were charged […]
A B.E.L. Security Guard was robbed at gun point of his firearm and even though he put up a fight he was over powered by a pair of gun men. One of the two alleged robbers has been identified as a minor who was arraigned in the Belize City Family Court this afternoon on a […]
Two city men were quickly apprehended in a drug bust over the weekend after one got nervous and told the cops where the drug was hidden. The duo of Dean Cain and Alston Adolphus was arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court on a charge of drug trafficking of nine pounds of cannabis earlier today. Both Cain […]
Interdicted police officer, Darren Evan Martinez who was accused of committing a heinous act on an eight year old child in February of this year, will have to stand trial at the Supreme Court for the offense of sexual assault on the minor. In the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, his case was committed to stand […]
Police have arrested and charged nineteen year old Denzel Flowers with the attempted murder by chopping of his fifty-two year old step-mother, Eulalia Pop, also known as Consuelo Lopez. Flowers is also charged with dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm. On Thursday at their residence on Louise Bevans Street, Flowers is accused […]
A decision was handed down today by the Caribbean Court of Justice that has a significant impact on the telecommunications landscape. The Public Utilities Commission suffered a major blow when it was ordered to refund Speednet Communications, the parent company of Smart, almost three million dollars after levying excessive spectrum fees on the telecoms provider […]
According to Chief Executive Officer Ernesto Torres, the company stood to lose as much as five million dollars had the CCJ upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal. As a former employee of Belize Telemedia Limited, Torres says he always understood that the fee was set at a hundred dollars per radio frequency channel. […]
While the decision has cleared Speednet from having to pay such exorbitant fees, attorney Fred Lumor, who represents the PUC, says that other telecoms providers, including B.T.L., will benefit from the ruling. The fee, based on the outcome of today’s decision, reverts the sum to fourteen hundred dollars. Fred Lumor, Attorney for Public Utilities Commission […]
While police are yet to conclude that a two-year old girl from Saint Matthews was murdered, in the courtroom today, two murder suspects of another child walked free. The case fell apart when the prosecution could not produce the evidence to convict Randy Green and Michael Young for the murder of the then seven-old Joshua […]
A teenager, who was busted in front of a Belize City Magistrate’s Court room this morning, is claiming the police planted a gun on him. Authorities suspect they may have stopped a crime from occurring since they strongly believe the gunman, John Orozco, was there to execute a hit on someone. A police officer who […]
There could be a showdown almost equal to the titanic battle that proceeded on the afternoon of August twenty-sixth coming on Friday, December ninth. Cayo South area representative Julius Espat will return to the House, but he hasn’t been invited. It’s difficult to forget, especially for those involved, but here’s a recap: While addressing the […]
Following the decision of the Supreme Court, News Five caught up with Leader of the Opposition John Briceño to get a reaction on the ruling. While admittedly disappointed, he says that they are prepared to respect the position of the high court. Briceño maintains however, that Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat does in fact […]
It made headlines in 2012 when alleged George Street gang figure, Brian Brown, was the target of a raid by the Gang Suppression Unit at a residence identified as his on Jimmy Dyer Avenue in the Fabers Road section of Port Loyola. But in court today, forty year old Brown was cleared of a total […]
Also in court, a pregnant woman, who is due to give birth soon, was charged for drug trafficking. She is twenty-one year old Carolee Orosco, who appeared before Magistrate, Carlon Mendoza. Orosco was read a single charge of possession of more than five hundred grams of weed found inside a bathroom of a house on […]
Raheem Marsden, who has been serving time for an attempted murder charge since July of this year, just saw his charge upgraded to murder. Today, twenty four year old Marsden appeared unrepresented in court to before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Marsden’s PI was set for January 2017. He was first arraigned on three indictable […]
Tonight, nineteen year old Lenford Harris Junior of Gardenia, Belize District and his sixteen year old brother from Biscayne are behind bars, charged with the murder of twenty-seven year old neighbor Nelson Zelaya, shot to death on November twenty-fourth in his yard. While police believe they have their men in relation to this incident, their […]
On Monday night, we told you that four persons of interest in Nelson Zelaya’s murder were in police custody. Today, two of those men were charged for the Gardenia resident’s killing. Brothers Lenford Samuel Harris Junior and Camron Douglas Harris were each charged with a single count of murder. On Thursday, twenty-seven-year-old Zelaya was in […]
Well-known criminal figure, Basil Willis recently beat the offense of committing an unnatural crime when the case was thrown out but today he was back in court accused of burglarizing a school. Sometime between November twenty-third and twenty-fourth, the Grace Primary School kitchen located on Amara Avenue in Belize City was burglarized. Stolen […]
