Twenty-nine year old Gilbert Craig and thirty-one year old Theodore Andrews were tried for murder by Justice Troadio Gonzalez this morning in the Supreme Court. But the two men accused of the murder of twenty-three year old Troy Bowen on August thirty-first, 2011, were quickly released after prosecutor Kileru Awich decided to throw in the […]
Thirty-nine-year-old John Francisco Leslie has been convicted of sexually assaulting a minor earlier this year. The incident involving a five-year-old girl reportedly occurred in April when Leslie took the child to his house and assaulted her. In court today, Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith called the little girl to the stand; however, her identity was […]
Chinese businessman Jing Xiao Tan, proprietor of T Supermarket in Lord’s Bank Village, was robbed at gunpoint on Monday night and was relieved of three thousand, two hundred dollars in cash, as well as his licensed nine millimeter pistol. Late this afternoon, twenty-one-year-old Dorian Blair, the suspect whom police believe committed the crime, appeared before […]
While NEMO Minister Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro may not be fully abreast on the details of the arson in Trio, in his capacity as Minister of Transport he is quite versed on the public transportation landscape. He spoke with the media at length this morning, explaining the rate adjustments in bus fares across the […]
Thirty-one-year-old Lorenzo Smith Junior, an inmate at the Belize Central Prison, is accused of strangling his cellmate inside their lockup in October 2009. The incident at the Tango Ten facility involving Alonzo Ek, initially appeared to be a case of suicide. While there were no eyewitnesses, circumstantial evidence suggests that Smith may have been involved […]
Twenty-four-year-old Joseph O’Brien will serve an additional ten years in prison after being found guilty of a firearm offense. In April 2013, O’Brien was busted at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in possession of an empty firearm concealed inside a knee brace. According to Police Constable Derrick Reid, a team of officers was on mobile patrol […]
Attorneys for Cayo Representative Julius Espat and House Speaker Michael Peyrefitte today argued the merits of Espat’s purported suspension at the last sitting of the House back in August. Espat was to debate the Special Immigration Audit, but before that could happen, hell broke loose and he was removed from the chamber by the security […]
Mile Eight, George Price Highway businessman, forty-seven year old Zihuie He, has been accused of three violations of the General Sales Tax Act. The businessman was caught up in a sting operation set up by the office of the General Sales Tax on October twenty-ninth, 2016. He, the owner of Jacky’s Supermarket, appeared before Magistrate […]
A major decision was handed down this afternoon by the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. The Belize National Teachers Union, led by President Luke Palacio and Adelaida Guerra, took the government to court seeking to stop a decision by the Ministry of Education to dock the salaries of teachers who went on strike for eleven days […]
B.N.T.U. returns to court on December sixteenth, when it is expected that the substantive matter, a claim that the decision to deduct teachers’ salaries is unconstitutional, will be argued before the Chief Justice. The teachers union is challenging the validity of that decision made by the Ministry of Education. It is also prepared to argue […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Jeffrey McDougal was freed of an attempted murder charge today. When he appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser, Taylor’s Alley resident Brandon Allen told the court that he has had a change of heart and didn’t want further court action into the December 2015 shooting. Allen also told the court and McDougal that he […]
The monthly salaries of almost two thousand primary and secondary school teachers hang in the balance tonight, as they anxiously await a decision to be handed down by the Supreme Court on Monday. Earlier this week, an application for an injunction was filed on behalf of the Belize National Teachers Union. The formal request for […]
According to Palacio, government insists on punishing teachers who took part in industrial action last month. While there is currently no figure to determine the overall deduction, government has began the process of docking the salaries of over one thousand, five hundred teachers ahead of the Christmas Season. Luke Palacio, National President, B.N.T.U. “We […]
For the second time this week, a man accused of murder has been set free. Again, it is due to police coercing a confession out of a suspect without supporting evidence. Jordan Cayetano joins Charles “Bundy” Herrera, who was set free on Monday of the murder – by stabbing – of Ezekiel Nicholas Medina in […]
An Orange Walk cop is tonight out on bail after he was charged and arraigned for the wounding of a Guinea Grass resident. In a most recent allegation of police brutality, twenty-one year old construction worker Hugo Noh accused the police officer of the village of beating him to a pulp in front of a […]
Businessman Albert Jerry Guy appeared in court on two separate this week where he pleaded guilty to possession of drugs and undersized conch. GSU were on patrol on Water Lane on Wednesday morning when then they saw two men loading a black bag into a vehicle. They proceeded to search the vehicle where they found […]
A Belize City stevedore has been placed on remand again; this time accused of another attempted murder on the life of a minor. Anthony Crawford was arraigned this morning before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. He was read three indictable offenses of attempted murder, wounding and use of deadly means of harm upon thirteen-year-old Shanaya Whylie. The […]
There is an arrest in the double murder of seven-year-old Tyler Savery and twenty-one-year old Porshan Pipersburgh. Police have charged a Curassow street resident for the double murder. When Jayear Flores was arraigned today, Tyler’s mother was in court. Shakera Young looked at the alleged shooter and showed no anger or bitterness with the person […]
Two notorious figures of the Ghost Town area also known as “Mayflower Street” walked from the charge of attempted murder after the woman they allegedly attempted to murder in a shooting in 2014, discontinued the case against them. In October of 2014, Roger Anthony, along with Kendis Flowers, was charged for the attempted murder of Shelly […]
Supreme Court Justice Troadio Gonzalez today ruled that Charles Herrera, also known as Bundy, was not guilty of the murder – by stabbing – of Ezekiel Nicholas Medina in May of 2014. In a trial without jury, Justice Gonzalez found that the evidence presented to the court was not of the kind ordinarily able to […]
Well-known political and social activist Nedal McLaren was hauled before the court this afternoon for allegedly stashing eight point six grams of marijuana inside his underwear. “Murphy”, as the fifty-six-year-old is otherwise known, vehemently denies that the quantity of weed is his and instead is claiming that it was planted on him by the police. […]
Fifty-year-old Karen Almendarez, her six children and daughter-in-law were all arraigned today for drug trafficking after being busted with a half pound of cannabis at their residence on Electric Avenue. On Wednesday morning, Belize City police conducted a search of the premises and discovered a quantity of weed in the yard which resulted in multiple […]
The family of two-year-old Kaylee Alvarez is still grieving the tragic loss of the toddler who perished during a deadly house fire in Conch Shell Bay in October. Her grief-stricken relatives are also facing criminal charges, following a vicious on twenty-year-old Richie Rich Jones. The Conch Shell Bay resident was attacked and badly beaten by […]
The third meeting of the Senate Special Select Committee on a three volume Immigration Report, and the first to be held in public, proceeded for an abbreviated one-hour session this morning at the National Assembly in Belmopan. It featured the appearance of Auditor General Dorothy Bradley, whose office has been under siege from the Government […]
Two weeks ago, Speaker of the House of Representatives Michael Peyrefitte brought suit against Auditor General Dorothy Bradley and Attorney General Vanessa Retreage. He complained that his name was wrongly published in the Auditor General’s Special Audit on Passports at the Immigration and Nationality Department. Peyrefitte maintains that he did nothing wrong when as a […]
