Taxi driver Roy “Bullet” Craig is out on bail for the sexual assault of a sixteen-year-old minor in whose company he was surprised with when he was busted by the police on Thursday night at a hotel that is located not too far from where he resides. The police on Monday provided a full account […]
Prominent LGBT activist Caleb Orozco has, for better or worse, become the face of the fight against discrimination based on sexual orientation in Belize. In 2016, he won a monumental decision in the Supreme Court which decriminalizes consensual sexual acts in private between adults who are capable of consenting. But Orozco has now been dragged unwillingly […]
Before the Section fifty-three decision, in 2013 the National Assembly passed a raft of amendments to the Criminal Code to reform the law in relation to sexual offenses against children. Under that amendment, sexual crimes against male minors were criminalized – like crimes against female minors. Orozco, along with UNIBAM fought for the amendments. He […]
A nineteen-year-old truck driver was knocked down and killed this morning in Burrell Boom Village. Police say Kendell Goff was heading to work when a pickup truck hit him as he crossed the street. His family, however, claims that eyewitnesses told them that Goff had already crossed the street when he was struck by the […]
Police have arrested and charged Jerry O’hara David with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention for the fatal traffic accident that claimed the life of fifty-two-year-old Andres Philip Diego. Diego was riding his bike between miles ten and eleven on the Stann Creek Valley Road when […]
Two cops are home free tonight after charges against them were dropped in the San Pedro Magistrate Court. The duo was charged last April for firing indiscriminately at a crowd of spectators on the island after hitting a woman. Five persons were injured in the mayhem and the officers were subsequently placed on interdiction. According […]
On Monday night, police announced charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, dangerous harm, wounding and abetment to commit murder filed against twenty-year-old Jason Anderson and twenty-four-year-old Reese Fitzgibbon. This morning, the pair appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. Anderson and Fitzgibbon along with another person still being sought by police are […]
Time does fly, but it was twelve years ago, on the occasion of the Supreme Court opening in 2006 that Supreme Court Justice Michelle Arana was sworn in by then-Chief Justice Doctor Abdulai Conteh as Belize’s first female Supreme Court judge. Now for the first time, with the swearing-in of Marilyn Williams on Friday and […]
In regional news…we have been reporting on Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago Ivor Archie, who has come under fire from the Trinidad and Tobago Law Association. Today, he instructed his legal team to demand a retraction and apology from the Trinidad Express newspaper for a series of articles which he says defamed him. Chief […]
Government’s allotment of financial resources to the judiciary has always been an area of concern for Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. As presiding judge of the Supreme Court for the past seven years, he has made a point of highlighting the budget set aside for the justice system to function effectively. Last year, those resources were […]
While the Chief Justice lauded the improvements within the judiciary during his annual address, President of the Bar Association of Belize, Priscilla Banner, took a more sober approach to the dispensation of justice. She says that with the many developments, if justice isn’t meted out in a timely and fair manner, then it is still […]
The ferry in the village of San Estevan, Orange Walk, which links it with Progresso in Corozal and points north, has been closed from December twenty-ninth. At the time, the Ministry of Works indicated that urgent maintenance needed to be done on the ferry. The closure was slated to last through to this Wednesday. But […]
Men and women are exposed to a number of sexually transmitted diseases. This is why the checkups are recommended as often as possible. It is not costly and readily available at the Belize Family Live Association, where the range of medical services is expanding. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Over the […]
