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Court Frowns on Dock Statements in Defense
Cheryl-Lynn Vidal According to the D.P.P., other matters related to the case were also debated before the appellate court. Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, Director of Public Prosecutions “One of the issues that...
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C.C.J. Fixes Murder Term for Gregory August
Gregory August The Caribbean Court of Justice, in a decision handed down this afternoon, upheld the conviction of Gregory August for which he is incarcerated for the murder of Alvin Robinson in 2009....
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Threat to Accuser Sends Man Behind Bars
Franz Hamilton It is a rare charge in cases of sexual offenses, but a Belize City man has been charged with attempting to suppress evidence in a court case – specifically, by allegedly threatening the...
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San Pedranos Outraged After Ex Escapes with Fine for Wounding Beaten Partner
Russell Casimiro Forty-year-old Russell Casimiro, a dive master from Boca del Rio, San Pedro Town, has pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding. But residents of the island are upset that he only...
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Police Nab Accused Killer of Emmerson Anderson
Anthony Lloyd Reyes Police have also made an arrest in the murder of forty-four-year-old Emmerson Anderson who was killed six days ago at the long barracks at the corner of Sibun and Ebony Streets in...
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Man Wants to Plead Guilty but Says Drugs Aren’t His
Fifty-four-year-old Herman Reyes of LaCroix Boulevard is out on bail for a drug trafficking charge. Police on Thursday found two separate parcels of cannabis together weighing just over half a pound....
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Dangriga Man Bailed for Unlawful Sex Act
Dangriga resident Hezron Ellis is out on bail of five thousand dollars, three months after being charged with having unlawful sexual intercourse with a female minor. The twenty-one-year-old was told by...
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C.C.J. Will Be Allowed to Make U.H.S. Decision, Says A.G.
The highly anticipated decision on the Belize Bank Limited versus Government of Belize in the matter of the thirty-six million Belize dollar debt, plus interest, originally granted to Universal Health...
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Mom Held Without Bail after Cell Phone Theft
Tina Herbert A Belize City mom is behind bars tonight over a stolen cell phone. According to Robert Powell Junior, he visited Alicia’s Shop on Pitter Street to buy on Friday and placed his Samsung...
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Anke Doehm Headed to Supreme Court
Anke Doehm Anke Doehm was committed last month to stand trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of child neglect in the death of her thirteen-year-old adopted daughter Faye Lin Cannon. The teenager died...
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Despite Charge, Victim Appears to Forgive Ladyville Attacker
Stabbing victim Douglas Bowen of Ladyville has insisted he does not wish to press charges for an attack against him last Thursday. But police have nonetheless brought the accused, twenty-year-old...
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Court Spares Ibrahim Smith Additional Time for Accidental Gunfire Death
While he remains behind bars for other offenses, twenty-six-year-old Ibrahim Smith has been determined to have already served his time of thirty months or two and a half years’ imprisonment on a charge...
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Last Chance for Japheth Bennett, Convicted of Ellis Meighan’s Murder
Japheth Bennett Twenty-four year old Japheth Bennett has been behind bars since 2009. In 2013, as a minor, he was convicted of the murder of Ellis “Pepper Gacho” Meighan, who was ambushed on Banak...
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7 “Bar Workers” Face Immigration Offenses
The Immigration Department has recently been conducting raids on establishments believed to employ persons who are suspected victims of trafficking in persons. Over the weekend, seven women employed...
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“Hard Rock’s” Accused Killer to be Tried for Murder
David Richard Arnold Andrew Ian Bennett, also known as “DJ Hard Rock”, was gunned down on Commonwealth Day, May twenty-fourth, 2017 near his home on Central American Boulevard. A few weeks later,...
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Accused in Canadian Rape Case Out on Bail
Derrick Gabb A Fabers’ Road resident has been arraigned on a charge of rape in relation to a report by a visiting Canadian national. Forty-six year old Derrick Gabb was read the charge before Senior...
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Banana Titans Unable to Prove Case in Court
The fallout over the designation by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control of banana businessman John Zabaneh as an alleged drug trafficking kingpin continues. While he is no...
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19-Year-Old Charged for Murder of Marcia Downs
Antwon Alburn Rivero Police say they have caught up to the man they believed killed one of Channel Five’s own. Thirty-seven-year-old Marcia Downs was shot twice at her front gate on April eleventh by...
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Teen Owns Up to Stolen Fishing Rods
Ariel Hernandez A Honduran teenager from the Belama area admitted to handling two stolen fishing rods belonging to a Customs officer. According to Rudolph Williams, someone broke into his parked red...
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Accused Killer of Panamanian Diplomat in 2014 Awaits Fate
Wilser Echevarria Now twenty-three years of age, he was only a teenager when he was accused of killing a Panamanian diplomat in what he called self-defense. The murder trial of Wilser Echevarria has...
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