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Young family surprised that Williams also has title to their property
According to Matura-Shepherd, it came as a complete surprise to her clients that Williams also had title to the property. Furthermore, it wasn’t until 2007 that he had applied for ownership of the...
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Dispute over land on Cemetery Lane lands in court
A heated land dispute between the Young family and the Prime Minister’s law partner, Attorney Rodwell Williams, over a small plot on Cemetery Lane, has landed in the courts. In late October, the two...
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Alwin Gabb convicted of murder
Alwyn Gabb Dolphin Street resident, Alwin Gabb, who has been on remand for the past six years, was on trial for more than a week for murder. Today, he learned his fate in the Belize City Supreme Court...
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“Chucky” charged with wounding of a sixteen year old student
Shandi Tillett Today, the woman who reportedly went to a high school and attacked a student over her younger sister was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. She is twenty-five year old...
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Luis Romero pleads guilty to burglary
Luis Romero He initially pleaded not guilty to burglarizing the home of Traffic Officer, Kevaughn Jenkins, in January of this year, but on Tuesday of this week, forty-eight year-old Luis Romero thought...
View ArticleMan convicted for Attempted Murder
A Punta Gorda man was convicted today in the Dangriga Supreme Court for the attempted murder of Moses Williams. Thirty-five year old Lawrence Cholom was tried in late November in a trial by judge...
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Man receives five years for chopping ex’s boyfriend
Lelsie Farzer A man who was found guilty eleven days ago of attempted murder of the boyfriend of his ex, was sentenced today. Leslie Frazer was given an eight year prison term. But Justice Adolph Lucas...
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Honduran National charged for failure to comply with his visitor’s permit.
Edwin Montoya A Honduran national who was granted sixteen days stay in Belize headed to court today on immigration offences. Thirty-eight year old Edwin Delgado Montoya caught the attention of the...
View ArticlePolice arrest and charge one of its own for the aggravated assault of a minor
A police officer attached to the San Ignacio Police is tonight in big trouble following a report by a minor that he assaulted her. A fourteen year old student in the company of her aunt went to the San...
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Attorney says clients want an apology
Kareem Musa Each of the eighteen claimants is to be paid a portion of the total judgment, to be divided according to the evidence each presented. Those who accused the officers of abuse and brutality...
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Over $200,000 to be paid by government to settle GSU abuse
Kareem Musa In August of 2011, there was a violent confrontation on the streets of Belize City between armed police officers of the Gang Suppression Unit and residents of George Street who were...
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4, including a minor, charged for ammunition offenses
Kenroy Willoughby A group of four, including a minor, two brothers and a friend were today before the court to answer to ammunition offenses after they were busted in the city allegedly in possession...
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Charges against House Sergeant, Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett, are dropped
Brian "Yellow Man" Audinett House Sergeant-at-Arms, thirty-one year old Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett, and Housing Inspector, thirty year old Allan Dale Kelly, appeared this morning in Magistrate’s Court...
View ArticleIndia court rules on constitutional challenge to Sodomy/Unnatural Acts law
A decision by the Supreme Court on a constitutional challenge to repeal Section Fifty-Three of Belize’s Criminal Code remains pending, despite closing arguments in early May by high-powered attorneys...
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Special constable charged for the theft of Tyrell Hyde
And in the Belize City Courts, thirty year old Special Constable Joslyn Gill, has been granted bail of four thousand dollars after being charged with theft of two hundred and sixty dollars from Tyrell...
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While Fabian Bain is sentenced to 20 years for 2009 shooting of KBH Security...
Fabian Bain Fabian Bain has twice been charged for manslaughter but today he was convicted in the Supreme Court for the 2006 shooting of Fortunato Chun. Chun was a KBH security guard who was at the...
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Marsha Reid found not guilty of killing her common-law-husband
Marsha Reid Marsha Reid is the woman from Dangriga who was accused of murdering her common-law-husband, B.D.F. corporal Donovan Castillo. In the Dangriga Supreme Court this morning Reid was found not...
View Article22 year old remanded for multiple counts of carnal knowledge with 14 year old...
A twenty-two year old man from Caye Caulker is tonight on lock down at the Belize Central Prison after he was arraigned on ten counts of carnal knowledge of a fourteen year old girl. Jose Angel Novelo...
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PC Dayton Sacasa arraigned for allegedly extorting monies from prisoners
Miguel Segura Shortly before five o’clock on Wednesday evening, Dayton Sacasa, a police constable who is originally from the Benguche Area of Dangriga, but assigned to Belize City, was escorted to the...
View ArticleCWU Office Assistant fined $25,000 for 10 counts of forgery
An office assistant with the Christian Workers Union has been ordered to pay the court twenty-five thousand dollars after he took a guilty plea for ten counts of forgery which left a credit union...
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