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Examining Why Accused Murderers Are Applying for Bail
It has become almost a fixture recently in the newscast: persons charged with murder years ago, languishing at the Belize Central Prison, attaching legal representation to seek bail. The law makes no...
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Cop Caught in Drug Bust Faces Internal Charges
Braiden Robateau As we told you on Monday, police constable Braiden Robateau and three siblings were arrested and charged by Orange Walk Police after they were nabbed in a marijuana smuggling operation...
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Judgment Reserved in San Pedro Beating Murder Trial
Jermaine Moody San Pedro resident Jermaine Moody awaits his fate after Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas reserved his judgment in a judge-only trial on a murder charge. The twenty-nine-year-old from...
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Wilser Echevarria Guilty of Manslaughter in Death of Diplomat
Wilser Echevarria A Belmopan resident has been convicted of the sensational death of sixty-four-year-old Panamanian diplomat Jose Rodrigo de la Rosa Stanford. But the verdict issued this afternoon by...
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Caye Caulker Woman Out on Bail after Making Indecent Proposal to Minor
Maria Estrella Jimenez Ortega Thirty-one-year-old Maria Estrella Jimenez Ortega, a resident of Caye Caulker, was arraigned on May thirty-first in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court for attempted...
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1 Charged for Brints Security Gun Heist
Erwin Castillo Supervisor for security firm Brints Security, Jody Rhamdas, was ambushed and robbed of two black nine-millimeter pistols by three masked and armed men on Wednesday afternoon, June sixth....
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Mark Seawell Challenges Government over Extradition Detention
Mark Seawell Fourteen months ago, Mark Seawell was released from a decade of incarceration, six and a half years of which was under notice of extradition to the United States. Along with brothers Gary...
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Life Sentences Times 4 for Brian Hyde
Brian Hyde In April, a jury found him guilty of killing the family that took him in from Belize. Today, twenty-two-year-old Brian Omar Hyde learned that he will spend the rest of his life in prison,...
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Did B.T.L. Illegally Share Confidential Information?
B.T.L.’s attorney Magalie Perdomo tried to persuade the Court of Appeal panel, as they had failed to do in the lower court, that Swasey’s idea was never truly his own. It had been in the public domain,...
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Mek Mi Rich Litigants Back in Court
The Court of Appeal kicked off its June session this morning with the long-awaited appeal of Belize Telemedia Limited against Curtis Swasey. It concerns Swasey’s charge, made in 2015, that his original...
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Pickstock Development Assn. and Contractor to Blame, But Will They Pay?
Kareem Musa But it will not be as easy to collect the funds, as according to Musa, the Association, led by executive director Barbara Elrington, and Espat have made no overtures of assistance to the...
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¼ Million Dollars for Brenae Timmons, Victim of Iron Gate
Brenae Timmons, now five years old, was crushed by a heavy iron gate on the compound of the Pickstock Development Association, steps away from the Lake Independence Public Library where her father...
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Homeless Man Needs two hundred dollars to Pay Theft Fine
Denroy Ingram A homeless man caught stealing inside a clothing store on Albert Street avoided jail today. But forty-four-year-old Denroy Ingram is not out of danger yet as he must find two hundred...
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2 Charged for Moon Grocery Robbery
Rikish Rhaburn A pair of Belize City teenagers has been remanded to the Central Prison in connection with the armed robbery of Moon Grocery Store on Coney Drive, located up the street from Channel...
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Court of Appeal Considers Abetment Re-Trial for Aracely Cahueque
Aracely Cahueque She was not in court today, but twenty-three-year-old Aracely Cahueque could find herself back in front of a Belizean court, if the Court of Appeal finds that she must face another...
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Rudolph Welcome Charged with Attempted Murder of Eugene Henderson Jr.
Rudolph Welcome Eighteen-year-old Rudolph Welcome has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the near-fatal shooting of Eugene Henderson Junior over the weekend. On...
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Brenae’s Injury Compensation, Can the Quarter Million Dollar Award be Paid?
On Monday, Justice Sonya Young handed down a decision in favor of five-year-old Brenae Timmons. As a toddler, she suffered severe brain injury when an iron gate fell on her while visiting with her...
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Sentence Deferred for Dwayne Davis, Guilty of Manslaughter
Dwayne Davis Thirty-seven-year-old Dwayne Davis remains behind bars tonight pending sentencing. Davis was charged with the 2012 murder of Doctor Ivan Garcia but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He was...
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Court of Appeal Reserves Decision in the Case of Gareth Hemmans Junior
Gareth Hemmans Jr. The Court of Appeal today heard the case of thirty-two-year-old Gareth Hemmans Junior, who is convicted of attempted murder and is serving an eight-year sentence handed down in...
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Accused Murderer Mathew Moore is Granted Bail after Years of Pretrial Detention
Mathew Moore Twenty-seven-year-old Mathew Moore, accused of murder, was today granted bail. Moore, who has been behind bars waiting for trial since March 2011, was given bail in the sum of twenty-five...
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