But the concern over the cash crunch is real for Financial Secretary Joseph Waight, who confirmed that Government must borrow further to complete the second payment for the B.T.L. Arbitration Award – one hundred and fifty million dollars more. Joseph Waight, Financial Secretary “The unfortunate thing is that we have to borrow the money […]
The August tenth decision of the Supreme Court on Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code has led to some gay couples becoming more open about their domestic disputes and going to court. Thirty-four year old Jason Belisle Garcia was read two counts of common assault on Maurice Middleton and a count of damage to property […]
Turning to the courts…forty-seven year old Romie Anthony and her two children – twenty-eight year old Amir and eighteen year old Brea – are finally free from jail after charges of possession of unlicensed ammunition for two bullets found in their home in July of 2012 were dismissed. Anthony was formally acquitted today by Senior […]
Anthony went to trial and told the court that she was on her way home when police arrived at her house and the bullets were found under her house after police searched it. But Anthony said she had no knowledge of the bullets being there. She details the agony of the family’s ordeal. Romie […]
The government has agreed to appeal a section of the ruling on Section Fifty-three of the Criminal Code on the issue of sexual orientation. That has opened a window for churches to appeal the ruling in its entirety. This afternoon, the Roman Catholic Church and the National Evangelical Association of Belize, splintered from the Belize […]
This morning, the man who befriended a long list of ministers and highly connected personalities, forty-six year old murder suspect William “Danny” Mason, of Intelco Hill, Belmopan made another appearance in the Belize City Magistrate Court. Mason, who uses numerous aliases, appeared along with Ashton Vanegas of Camalote Village as well as with Keiron Kenneth […]
Two Belize City men claimed they were set up by police, but that allegation did not hold water and they were convicted in the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser for firearm offenses. Diondray McKoy and his roommate Lyson James Cacho, were told by the Senior Magistrate that after careful consideration of the evidence before […]
Today, four men were freed from two of three serious offenses related to a stolen firearm. The group was busted near the East Canal area of Belize City back in 2014, but their case has just come up in court. This morning, Parris Williams, Kashief Gallego, Ijaman Young and Akeem Garcia saw their case struck […]
Four days after a stabbing death on the island of San Pedro, a fisherman has been charged with murder. Thirty-two year old Linden Kelly, originally from Dangriga, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this afternoon before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith for the fatal stabbing of thirty-two year old Elton Polonio which took […]
Back in April of this year, two former Hofius employees were charged with forty-nine counts of theft for allegedly stealing about two hundred and eight-seven thousand dollars from the downtown store in Belize City. Tonight, they are free of the charge because of the lack of evidence. The decision from the Director of Public Prosecution […]
A Mexican/Belizean now living in Mexico was busted in Corozal back in July of this year, allegedly in possession of eight hundred and seventy-six grams cannabis. This morning Jose Carlos Rosado Gomez was granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars which unfortunately for him, he has been unable to meet. Rosado […]
A Belize City youth was gunned down in the city on Monday night minutes before the live news broadcast. Today, three days after his execution style murder, Belize City police have levied a single charge of murder against twenty-year old Keon Usher, a resident of a Chancellor Street, Belize City. Usher was duly arraigned before […]
In the court today, Jamaal Michael Warrior, a tour guide and resident of Orange Walk, was arraigned on a charge of robbery. There was heavy objection because of the use of a knife and bail was not entertained so Warrior was remanded to prison until this coming Friday when bail will be considered. Warrior was […]
Back in December 2012, David Taylor, a naturalized Belizean was accused of molesting four young boys in Placencia. Tonight, he is behind bars serving a two-year prison term imposed upon him by Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith in the Independence Magistrate Court. The trial against Taylor began four to five months ago, but on […]
Also behind bars tonight is nineteen year old Stephen Mejia, an unemployed resident of Antelope Street Extension, after being busted on Thursday with a nine millimetre pistol loaded with nine live rounds of ammunitions. The bust was carried out by officers of the Strike Team, who were on mobile patrol on Dunn Street, Belize City. […]
Back in June, a minor, Kian Chuc was severely wounded in a chopping incident in Yo Creek, Orange Walk District. Within four days of the incident, on July twenty-eighth, he succumbed to the injuries. Chuc was a member of a family who was chopped at their house. Leroy Banner, another resident of the village, was […]
In February of this year, the Supreme Court heard the case of Melissa Belezaire Tucker, a former Ministry of Education employee who served in the Public Service for seventeen years, from 1995 to 2013, when she was terminated. Tucker was first appointed as a teacher and then, in 1999, as the School Feeding and Health […]
A Belize City man is in debt of ten thousand dollars to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the trafficking of four hundred and twenty-eighth grams of marijuana on June twenty-eighth, 2016. Callum Sutherland initially pleaded not guilty to the charge but today, he today he owned up to the weed. Sutherland was busted […]
Five days ago, Caye Caulker resident, Jennifer Coleman was murdered at her apartment on the island when her throat was cut. Today, a mentally challenged man was charged for her murder. Fifty-two-year-old Donald Heredia appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith for arraignment. But his attorney, Mayor Darrell Bradley told the court that the accused […]
A resident from the north was freed of a murder which occurred in Orange Walk in March of 2012 but he will remain behind bars for another conviction. Trinidad Pineda was acquitted in the court room of Judge Herbert Lord in the Orange Walk Supreme Court, in a trial by judge without jury. The acquittal […]
The home of the Deputy Governor of Central Bank, Christine Maud Vellos, was burglarized in mid-August and the culprit is believed to be her own yard man who was entrusted with the keys of house which he was to deliver to the housekeeper. Instead he used the key to access the house and stole three […]
Seven months after the incident, William Henry, the driver of Minister “Boots’’ Martinez appeared in court today. Just before two in the morning on January ninth, 2016 police saw him speeding and set chase behind him. When they caught up with him, they suspected he was drunk, but he refused to give the officers a […]
A nineteen-year-old Belize City resident who picked up his first conviction for burglary of a storage room belonging to the Atlantic Bank is behind bars tonight having been sentenced to two years in prison. Mikel Longsworth appeared today before the Chief Magistrate for the offense which was committed this past Saturday at the bank’s storage […]
Another Belize City man is on remand at the Belize Central Prison, accused of forcing himself into the home of a fifty-year old man while armed with a firearm. Linsford Acosta also pulled the trigger of a gun which snapped endangering the life of Adolfo McKoy of Antelope Street. Acosta, a fisherman of Waha Street […]
Another of William Mason’s alleged henchmen has been brought before the court where he was indicted on charges of kidnapping. After previous issues stymied attempts to charge ranch manager Ryan Rhaburn with the abduction of Canadian-Belizeans Lloyd Friesen and his wife, police succeeded in laying charges against him earlier this week. As we’ve reported, the […]
