On Tuesday, we showed you the video footage of a home invasion – shocking footage of three women storming into the home of Brimimie Martinez, tearing off her blouse and beating her savagely in front of her two small children. It was recorded on a phone by the fourteen year old son of the woman […]
Social Security took a woman to court this evening for making false claims to collect benefits during a period of eight months last year. Mildred Vassel, an employee of Ready Call located at the Burrell Boom junction, was taken to court this afternoon on the strength of a bench warrant issued by Social Security Board […]
Four persons were in Court today for the very vicious beating of a young woman in Dangriga on Sunday afternoon. According to reports, and evidence, three women pushed their way into the home of Brimmime Martinez, one of them with a large knife in hand, and proceeded to pound on her in front of her […]
Twenty-three year old Luis Carter is now facing a murder charge for the killing of Dwayne Hyde, who succumbed to his injuries weeks after being shot on San Pedro. Carter, who is also known as “Wizz”, was originally charged and arraigned on Friday, July fifteenth, 2016 before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser for attempted murder, use […]
A thirty-two year old resident from the San Juan area of San Pedro is on remand tonight. Edair Dominguez is accused of the sexual assault of a fourteen year old minor. At his court appearance before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser, Dominguez was read a single charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor who at […]
Two Belize City men are also on remand tonight at the Belize Central Prison for attempted murder. Thirty-two year old John Burke, a fisherman of Lavender Street, and thirty-four year old Kareem Eagan, a construction worker of Hulse Street, are charged with the offenses of attempted murder and dangerous harm upon Mario Zelaya. The […]
The courts closed today in the city as Hurricane Earl approached Belize. Late on Tuesday, twenty-three year old Lord’s Bank resident, Japheth Steadman Gordon, was placed on remand after his arraignment in the Magistrate’s Court for the offenses of aggravated burglary and indecent assault upon a twenty-five year old woman. Allegations are that on June […]
A Salvadoran national and two Hondurans were also taken to court on Tuesday for failure to present their documents to Immigration. The trio was detained in the Belama area of Belize City and handed over to the Belize City Immigration Department. But the charges were withdrawn after the Immigration Prosecutor Luis Romero conceded that he […]
Following weeks of investigation, Firearms Ballistic examiner Orlando Vera was arraigned on a single charge of abetment for the crime of perverting the course of justice in the case of Michael Modiri. Allegations against Vera are that between July first and July thirty-first, 2015 in Belmopan, Cayo District, he offered to tamper with evidence in […]
Superintendent Mark Flowers, former commander of the Gang Suppression Unit, is out on bail tonight after posting a bond of seven thousand, five hundred dollars, plus one surety of the same amount. The embattled senior police officer was remanded to the Belize Central Prison on Tuesday, after being arraigned on two counts of unlawful sexual […]
There is a report tonight about a blackmail attempt in the Cayo District. Police received a report on Monday, that a Benque resident who works as a manager of three farms received a blackmail letter. Such letter was delivered to him by an employee who received the letter from a man who arrived in a […]
Attorneys for the Government of Belize and Dean Boyce, B.T.L. Employees Trust and Dunkeld International appeared before the Caribbean Court of Justice via teleconference this morning, for a case management hearing. Both parties are once again tangled in litigation, this time over the recently published compensation award handed down by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, […]
According to Senior Counsel Denys Barrow, the objective of the settlement agreement was to bring finality to the question of recompense. He says that while the Ashcroft Group may have anticipated a seventy-thirty split in its favor, which would have allowed them to collect fifty percent upfront that was not the outcome. Denys Barrow, […]
Government has indicated to the CCJ that irrespective of the outcome, it is unable to make the payment in U.S. dollars. The Central Bank of Belize, in a four-page letter written to Financial Secretary Joseph Waight, has informed government that it cannot meet its request to make available an additional seventy million U.S. dollars. Being […]
Government has put forward that it cannot meet a seventy million U.S. dollar payment should the CCJ rule in favor of the previous owners of B.T.L. While Central Bank has provided an initial twenty-nine million dollars, the Barrow Administration is basically on its own in finding the balance of the payment. Denys Barrow, Attorney […]
William Danny Mason has been behind bars since July nineteenth, in a special facility at the Belize Central Prison reserved for high-risk prisoners. He is alone – or as alone as somebody in prison can be – having been separated from the four men arraigned along with him for the kidnapping and murder of Pastor […]
Superintendent Mark Flowers, former commander of the Gang Suppression Unit, spent his first night on remand at the Belize Central Prison on Tuesday. The pretrial detention succeeds an arraignment at the magistrate’s court during which he was indicted on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse involving a minor. The teenager is believed to be several […]
Flowers maintains that the charges brought against him are all part of a plot to make him the fall guy, to shift attention away from the ongoing investigation involving alleged murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason. He asserts that the Minister of National Security is meddling in the affairs of the police department where it concerns their […]
A teenager of Salvadoran nationality was this morning arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s court for Monday’s murder of Bella Regina Williams. The mother of three was found dead by her eldest daughter at the doorsteps of their Las Flores house. Police confirm Williams was partying with the murder suspect just prior to her death. Her […]
Tonight alleged repeat offender, Chester Noralez, is on remand for snatching a chain from a friend in Belize City. Noralez is the Belize City resident who is accused of beating ninety-four year old Patrick Grant to a bloody pulp in a home invasion in December of last year. But this morning, Noralez appeared before Magistrate […]
Oh how the mighty have fallen. At five-thirty this evening, former Gang Suppression Unit Commander Mark Flowers was formally arraigned for two counts of Unlawful Sexual Intercourse and has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison. Up until five minutes before he entered the Courtroom, CIB had asserted that on two occasions – once in […]
Flowers was brought to court just before four this afternoon, and there was the usual Police confusion which seems to surround all major cases. After about forty-five minutes of waiting for Flowers to be logged in and assigned a Court, CIB officers jumped back in their vehicle and sped off, presumably when the instruction was […]
American businessman Bradley Paumen, owner of Dark Knight Cave Tours, was back in court today. Paumen is another person with high connections in government circles; so much so that he was able to obtain land belonging to another businessman with government’s blessing. He, along with several others, including Lisburn Anderson and Ian Skeen, appeared in […]
The well-known and loved artist John Rodriquez aka “John Jay” was killed in Dangriga in June of this year. His murder stunned the community; it occurred at the Harlem Square Game Shop which he was known to patronize. A number of patrons were at the club on the night of the murder and witnessed as […]
After more than a month in the hospital, police have charged twenty-three year old Richard Smith with four criminal offenses. Smith was chopped by his fourteen year old stepson for allegedly abusing his common-law wife, Ursula Ferguson, who is the mother of the minor as well as a five year old child with Smith. Ferguson has […]
