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Supreme Court turns down appeal in evidence tampering case
Orlando Vera For more than six months, the former Ballistic Examiner, Orlando Vera has been behind bars following a conviction for perverting the course of justice in the Michael Moderi gun related...
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Directive by Immigration Minister ‘abnormal’
Accompanied by attorney Darrell Bradley, Marin then answered questions from the reduced panel of senators led by Pro-tem chair Mark Lizarraga. She confirmed that the process for visa applications with...
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Ministry Wanted Control of Visa Vetting to Satisfy Ministers
Maria Marin Marin noted that despite the original desires expressed by Minister Godwin Hulse and then-C.E.O. Candelaria Saldivar-Morter to support a clean-up in the department, they clashed immediately...
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Ex-Immigration Director Returns; Says Bosses Failed to Fully Support Reform
The Prime Ministerial press conference delayed today’s Senate Special Select Committee hearing in Belmopan. The sole witness was former Acting Director of the Immigration Department, Maria Marin, who...
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Belizean in Florida Obtains Mistrial in Triple Murder Case
Brian Hyde A Belizean accused of a horrific triple murder in Lee County, Florida in 2015 could face trial again after a relative’s inadvertent testimony caused a mistrial. Twenty-two-year-old Brian...
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Taximan convicted of molesting minor in vehicle
Nestor Gallindo After almost a week in trial, Belize City taxi-man, Nestor Gallindo, a Salvadoran national, was found guilty today of committing an aggravated assault upon a fifteen year-old minor on...
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Two charged in beheading murder of Hilton Wade
Raphael Mencias A duo suspected of having participated in the gruesome decapitation of fifty-six-year-old Hilton Wade, in Cotton Tree Village on Wednesday, has been charged with murder. Wade’s alleged...
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2 Years for Taxi Driver Who Molested Teenager
Taxi-driver, forty-four-year-old Nestor Gallindo was today sentenced to two years behind bars even as he maintained his innocence after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old...
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Employee Admits Theft from Augusto Quan and Company
Antonio Novelo A sales clerk employed at Augusto Quan and Company appeared in court this morning after being caught red-handed shoplifting from his place of work on Monday. Thirty-eight-year-old...
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City Resident to be Tried for Unlawful Intercourse with Minor
Gasman Jones Tonight, twenty-two-year-old Gasman Jones, a Belize City resident is out on bail of two thousand dollars granted to him for the offense of unlawful sexual intercourse after his case ended...
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Police and D.P.P. ‘Obligated’ to Investigate Charges in Report
The Auditor General also addressed the question of whether Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions were informed of the Immigration Audit Report and the obligation to inform of any issues...
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Auditor General Says Submitted Report is Final; Some Editing Done
Dorothy Bradley Auditor General Dorothy Bradley, though it was her second appearance, was the final witness to appear before the Senate Special Select Committee today. As some witnesses have done in...
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Anke Doehm Preliminary Inquiry Put Off to February
In the courts, there is further delay for Anke Doehm, charged with cruelty to a child – her late adopted daughter, thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon. She was scheduled to face preliminary inquiry but...
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Court Found Compelling Reasons to Make Rare Grant
Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley According to Bradley, had Grinage not been lucky enough to have had proof to support the claim that he was not involved in the homicide, he would have languished on remand...
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Beheading Murder Co-Accused Makes Bail; Elroy Grinage Swears He Didn’t Do It
Thirty-six-year-old Elroy Grinage, a driver with the Forest Department in Belmopan, is accused of ordering and orchestrating the stabbing death and decapitation of Hilton Wade. On December first, the...
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Prison Lifer Back to Jail for Alleged Rape
Kenroy Cooke Forty-three-year-old Kenroy Cooke was arraigned today in court on two counts of unnatural act and one count of harm which occurred on the twenty-fifth and twenty-ninth of November of this...
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Bail denied for one of two accused in home burglary
Leon Weir Blease Despite no objection from prosecutors, Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas denied bail to one of two men accused of a home invasion in Belize City, who were previously denied in the...
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Accused shooter of Russell Hyde Jr. and alleged accomplice out on bail
Rasheed Hyde Santa Elena Town resident and taxi driver Rasheed Hyde, accused of attempting to murder his relative Russell Hyde Junior on December third, is out on bail of ten thousand dollars from the...
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Witness turns murder case on its head; Keyron Johnson free after six years
Keyron Johnson In the courts, Keyron Johnson was freed of the murder of eighteen-year-old Christopher Jorgensen that happened back in April 2012. Johnson was the main suspect and was first charged...
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Attorney says accused murderer may be moving closer to freedom
Dion Bruce After the extradition was ordered and the direct appeal to the Supreme Court by means of habeas corpus was denied as well as an application for judicial review of the lower court decision,...
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