The government today announced the appointment of a new Director of Public Prosecutions. He is attorney Lutchman Sooknandan. The only problem with the announcement is that it may be premature, as according to Sooknandan, he and the Judicial Services Commission have yet to sign his contract. Speaking to News Five this afternoon Sooknandan said that […]
And while we should have a new top prosecutor by mid-week, the dust has yet to settle on the unusual exit of the old one. Today Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax Marilyn Ordonnez emphasised that the stopping of former D.P.P. Kirk Anderson at the airport for non-payment of income tax was done at the behest […]
Like champagne at midnight, it’s a New Year’s tradition. What I’m talking about is the first baby born for 2007. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Kendra Griffith, Reporting He was scheduled to arrive on January twentieth, but shortly after four thirty a.m. on New Year
The time of death is not certain, but for administrative purposes we’ll call it the first murder of 2007. Early Monday morning police discovered the body of a Salvadoran national lying on the side of the Western Highway and strongly suspect foul play. Around seven-thirty a.m., the body of fifty-one year old Jose Luis Torres […]
In Orange Walk the only shot fired in anger over the weekend was loosed by a police officer after his partner was assaulted trying to quell a domestic dispute. Twenty-eight year old Eduardo Moralez of Guinea Grass Village was shot by an unnamed cop in the leg after Moralez hit the policeman’s partner, Constable Kenny […]
Four youths have been arrested in connection with a Christmas Day tragedy in San Ignacio that left one dead and two injured. Police have arrested and charged sixteen year old Kevin Santos for the murder of eighteen year old Chris Rosalez and twenty-one year old Kevin Diaz for the attempted murder of Kennylee Gonzalez who […]
In other court news, a Belize City youth has been remanded to prison for rape. This morning twenty-one year old Deon Neal was formally arraigned for the indictable offence before Magistrate Sharon Fraser. But when he appeared in court, Prosecutor Jackie Willoughby recognised the man as someone she has dealt with before for an alleged […]
While there was no shortage of murders over the New Year’s weekend on a whole the holiday season seemed largely free of traditional crimes against property … and the law enforcement community says it’s no accident. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It was a combination of heightened police security and an alert neighbourhood watch that caught two […]
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