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Bail Denied for Man Accused in Crooked Tree Beat Down
Ravin Gillett A Crooked Tree resident accused of administering a beating on a Belize City man was denied bail for the offense of attempted murder. Nineteen-year-old Ravin Gillett was unsuccessful in...
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Lucio Salazar is Freed of 2013 Murder
Lucio Salazar A man went to a party on May nineteenth, 2013 at Miguel’s Shop in San Pedro where he got into an altercation and never made it back home. In court today, the suspect in the mysterious...
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Jayear Flores is Freed of Double Murder of Tyler Savery and Porshan Pipersburgh
Jayear Flores Two murder trials fell apart in the Supreme Court today. In the shocking double murders of Porshan Pipersburgh and seven-year-old school boy, Tyler Savery, the accused murderer,...
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Cordel Hyde Tells G.O.B. to Take a Chill Pill
Cordel Hyde Prime Minister Dean Barrow has made it quite clear that the I.C.J. referendum will be held on May eighth. Now, on April twenty-sixth, the Elections and Boundaries Department notified the...
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Special Agreement Issue is ‘Very Much Alive’
Eamon Courtenay Both parties are expected back before the Chief Justice until the end of June on the substantive matter which is on the legality of the Compromis. As you know, the claimants, the...
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G.O.B. Withdraws Application to Lift I.C.J. Injunction
Lisa Shoman Three cases relating to the referendum have been unsuccessful for the government, but tonight, the referendum proceeds. The legalities started on April first when the Chief Justice ordered...
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Police Officer Charged for Harm
Leon Bradley In court this morning, twenty-five-year-old Leon Bradley, a police officer of Gardenia Village, Phillip Goldson Highway, was arraigned before Magistrate Emmerson Banner. At his...
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Danny Mason Back in Court; Seeking Attorney
The last time we reported on accused murderer, Danny Mason, was on the adjournment of his case back on March twenty-second. The case was deferred to give him time to secure new legal representation...
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G.O.B. Moves Full Steam Ahead with May 8th I.C.J. Referendum
Eamon Courtenay The government is moving full steam ahead with the May eighth I.C.J. referendum despite related legal challenges before the courts. The People’s United Party is essentially challenging...
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Will Extradition Case Against Andy Bennett Fall Apart in Court?
Anthony Sylvestre Allegations made against Bennett include his purported role in establishing a money laundering operation with the aid of high-level bankers and politicians in Belize, on behalf of...
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Attorney Andrew Bennett Continues His Fight to Remain in Belize
Andrew Bennett Embattled attorney Andrew Bennett, who is fighting tooth and nail to remain in Belize, following an extradition request by the United States government, was back in court today. He is...
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Shakira Young Speaks Out on the Heartbreaking Outcome of Her Son’s Murder Case
Tyler Savery The killing of Tyler Savery and his cousin Porshan Pipersburgh numbed the nation. The young primary school child was being taken for a smoothie when he was executed on Daly Street, Belize...
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Tevin Andrewin, Guilty of the Murder of Myrick Gladden
Tevin Andrewin Seven years after the shooting murder of Myrick Gladden, Tevin Andrewin was found guilty of the crime. Andrewin’s trial started on February twenty-fifth, 2019 and concluded on March...
View ArticleDanny Mason to be Represented by Guyanese Attorney in Murder Trial
William “Danny” Mason returns to court on May fourteenth before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Belmopan Supreme Court. When he goes back, he will be represented by Guyanese attorney Dexter Todd for...
View ArticleCase Management for G.O.B.’s I.C.J. Injunction Appeal
In the Court of Appeal today, government’s attorney, Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman and the Opposition’s lead lawyer, Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay were back before the justices. They appeared for a case...
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Corporals Leonard Nunez & Hallet King to Stand Trial for Manslaughter of...
Leonard Nunez & Hallet King Also in the Supreme Court, a pair of cops, Corporals Leonard Nunez and Hallet King, will be facing trial for the manslaughter death of Hilberto Sotz. The young man was...
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Judicial Review Granted But Cpl. Eldon Arzu Must Report to Work in Belmopan
Eldon Arzu The courtroom of Justice Shona Griffith was packed to capacity this morning. Officers of all ranks were present for the commencement of a legal claim involving Commissioner of Police...
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Wife and Husband Withdraw Charges Against Each Other
Last week a cop was charged for harming his wife after he punched her in the face. Today, the tables turned as his pregnant wife was before the court charged for wounding him. Ramona Lewis, an Income...
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Brian Brown found guilty of threatening to set his mama on fire
Forty-two year old Brian Brown, who was once a leading member of the George Street gang, has been convicted of threatening to set on fire his mother, sixty-one year old retired teacher, Rose Jacobs....
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Patrick Castillo Not Guilty of Murder; Acted in Self-Defence
Patrick Castillo A father accused of killing his twenty-one-year-old stepson was acquitted today after a judge found him not guilty. Patrick Castillo chopped Jose Yontan Maderos as many as four times...
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