Father found guilty of 2 counts of incest
In the Belize City Supreme Court, the conviction of a forty-eight year old father was secured on Thursday evening before Justice Troadio Gonzalez for sexually abusing his young daughter. A jury of...
View Article18 year old pleads guilty to lying about being raped
Myesha Williams An eighteen year old girl who fabricated a story that she was sexually assaulted inside her home is looking at time behind bars. When the report was made, the police headed to the...
View ArticleBig Tom in court for indecent words against officers
Kenneth "Big Tom" Flowers Some years ago, Belize City resident, Kenneth Flowers, aka “Big Tom” was said to have been shot and killed in the United States but that turned out to be inaccurate and Big...
View ArticleMexican National, Zurisday Villasenor Mendez, a no show in court today
Zurisaday Villasenor Mendez There is an update to report tonight about Mexican national, Zurisaday Villasenor Mendez, who was granted a seventy-five thousand dollar bail by the Supreme Court less than...
View Article6 illegal immigrants caught in sting operation by Immigration Department
Cristian Donaire A total of six illegal immigrants, who were rounded up as a part of a sting operation by the Immigration Department, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to answer to...
View ArticlePatrick Bevans arraigned for attempted theft
Patrick Bevans A Belize City man, who claims he was badly beaten by the police and B.D.F. after he was accused of trying to steal a rifle assigned to a B.D.F. officer in January of this year, was...
View ArticleSitting Magistrate Seeking judicial review against Director of Immigration
Nadia Morgan As you heard, the P.U.P. is asking the court to direct the Commissioner of Police to carry out a criminal investigation into the illegal issuance of a passport to a South Korean fugitive...
View ArticleP.U.P. files writ of mandamus against ComPol Whylie
The People’s United Party believes that by his own admission in an email to the media, Elvin Penner committed an illegal and criminal act in the passport issued to South Korean fugitive, Won Hong Kim...
View ArticleRepeat firearm offender sentenced to 20 years in prison
Jevon Levi Slusher Thirty-two-year-old Jevon Levi Slusher, a repeat offender of firearm and ammunition violations, has been sentenced to twenty years after being found guilty of the offenses of kept...
View ArticleGeorge Dakers sentenced to 3 years for the indecent assault of a minor
George Dakers A man who made the mistake of patting a child on her buttocks back in February of last year was sentence to three years in prison after being found guilty of the charge of aggravated...
View ArticleSupal Street Boss, Soup Williams, arraigned for shooting
Jason ‘Soup’ Williams Thirty-five-year-old Jason ‘Soup’ Williams, the reputed leader of the Supal Street gang, believed to be involved in a near-fatal shooting incident on Tuesday, during which a pair...
View ArticleImmigration bust at Blue House Bar in Ladyville
Aristides Lopez The Immigration Department continues to target ‘happy bars’ in Belize, racking up an impressive record of cases for immigration offences. Last week it was Temptation Hill, and today...
View ArticleMan found guilty of maim
Lenny Benguche A jury of five women and four men entered the deliberating room at eleven-thirty this morning, to decide the fate of Lenny Bennett Benguche, whose trial for maim commenced in the Supreme...
View Article15 years behind bars for Lindbergh Alexander Clarke
Lindbergh Clarke Twenty-one year old Lindbergh Alexander Clarke is tonight serving the first night of a fifteen-year stretch at the Belize Central Prison, after being found guilty of three...
View ArticleGeorgina Maribel Mendez Aldana still in court for slew of charges
It has been a very rocky road for a Guatemalan woman who has been back and forth in court since last week Monday for a slew of charges. Forty-nine year old Guatemalan national, Georgina Maribel Mendez...
View ArticleSan Ignacio cop arraigned for extortion
A San Ignacio cop is in the hot seat after being accused of extorting money from a Santa Elena couple. Police constable Henry Nunez was arraigned at the San Ignacio Magistrate Court last Friday for...
View ArticleTrial of whistleblower in alleged visa hustle begins
Minister of State Edmond Castro was recently under much scrutiny for his part in a Belize Airports Authority check fiasco which resulted in the entire BAA Board being forced to resign. And before that,...
View ArticleSherman Rodney arraigned for escape
Sherman Rodney Sherman Rodney is claiming he was beaten badly by the police and had to be hospitalized. And while the cops say he escaped from the K.H.M.H., Rodney says he walked out because he was not...
View ArticleMan gets 10 years for robbery
Ashton Grant Tanya McNab, a Belize City resident, was robbed at knife point in December 2012 by a man who stole her handbag valued at two thousand dollars. Her bag contained her equally expensive two...
View ArticleStephon Anderson remanded for the attempted murder of Andrew Augustine
Stephon Anderson In Monday’s newscast, we reported on the shooting of twenty-one year old Computer Technician, Andrew Augustine. While Augustine remains hospitalized, police believe the alleged gunman...
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