Court of Appeal Given Option to Hear Applications before 21 Days Requirement
Michael Peyrefitte Back in April, the Government was unsuccessful in trying to persuade the Court of Appeal to hear an application in an expedited manner. This was in the relation to the April third...
View ArticleAccused Murderers Are Freed
Charles Middleton Four years ago, in June 2015, thirty-nine-year-old Patrick Dean Spencer, a.k.a. “Nally,” was gunned down on Cairo Street with its intersection with Glen Street, Belize City. He was...
View ArticleAlbert Moreira is Freed & Rearrested for Murder of Felina James
Albert Moreira B.D.F. soldier, Albert Moreira was charged for the October 2018 murder of Felina James, his girlfriend and mother of their son. This week, he went to trial and saw the charge of murder...
View ArticleEvan Gillett is Arraigned for Charges Related to the Death of His Cousin
Evan Gillett In the Magistrate Court this morning, tourism attendant Evan Gillett was arraigned for causing the death of his cousin in a traffic accident after colliding into a metal lamppost situated...
View ArticleCopper Thief Appears before the Court
A man who authorities thought was a worker with B.T.L. turned out to be copper thief. Gilbert Craig of Faber’s Road Extension was arraigned before Magistrate Emmerson Banner on Monday for theft....
View ArticleCouple Acquitted of Wounding their 6-Year-Old Child
A police officer and his common-law-wife are free tonight after they were acquitted of three counts of wounding upon their six-year-old child, who they were accused of beating. Police claimed that the...
View ArticleA Belize City man walks free when the crown enters a nolle pros
Ron Myvette An attempted murder case stemming back from August of 2014 which was committed to stand trial in 2016 against a Belize City man ended in a nolle prosequi today. Ron Myvette was charged and...
View ArticleA murder trial comes to end as main witness turns hostile
Eldon Flowers In the courts, the murder trial of twenty-year-old Eldon Flowers is coming to an end. Today, the crown represented by Senior Crown Counsel for the D.P.P.’s office, Shanice Lovelle, closed...
View ArticleMurder Suspect Faces Bail Revocation
Troy Hyde Thirty-two-year-old Troy Hyde, a suspect in the murder of Kareem “Robbery” Lopez, is presently out on bail. Tonight, he is in the news after being busted, along with twenty-five-year-old...
View ArticleEstranged Husband to Stand Trial for Murder of Ex Common-law Wife
Noewellin Williams Forty-four-year-old Noewellin Williams has been ordered to stand trial for the stabbing death of his former common-law wife in August 2018. Roxanna Pop, the mother of Williams’...
View ArticleSentencing Set Aside for Convicted Murderers Leslie Pipersburgh & Patrick...
Leslie Pipersburgh & Patrick Robateau Forty-five-year-old Leslie Pipersburgh and forty-two-year-old Patrick Robateau, the two men convicted of the murders of security guards Kevin Alvarez and Fidel...
View ArticleTre Stevens Charged for Attempted Murder of Ozen Rhaburn
Tre Stevens A twenty-year-old man has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison until September twelfth after he was arraigned this morning for last Thursday’s attempted murder of Ozen Rhaburn....
View ArticleCaliz remanded for Committing Sexual Assault
A sixty-four-year-old San Pedro man is on remand for committing a sexual assault upon a nine-year-old boy. He is Ernesto Caliz, a self-employed resident of the island. Late on Monday, Caliz, who was...
View ArticleEscarpeta charged for Armed Robbery at Puma gas Station
Thirty-four-year-old James Escarpeta was this afternoon marched into the Belmopan Magistrate Court where he answered to two charges relating to Sunday’s brazen armed robbery of the PUMA gas station in...
View ArticleMurder Trial Again William “Danny” Mason Et. Al. Resumes
The criminal trial against accused murderer William “Danny” Mason and his associates, Terrence Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas, Keiron Fernandez, and Ernest Castillo, finally resumed today in the Belmopan...
View ArticleEldon Flowers freed of Murder Charge
Eldon Flowers After two years on remand for a 2017 murder, tonight, twenty-year-old Eldon Flowers is a free man. His murder trial by judge without jury ended today before Justice Colin Williams of the...
View ArticleFrom Death Row to 25 Years Behind Bars for Convicted Murderer, Erlin White
Erlin White From death row to life sentence to possibility of parole, after he completes twenty-five years behind bars. That’s how the murder case concluded today for convicted prisoner, Erlin White,...
View ArticleAlleged Human Smugglers Pleaded Not Guilty; Released on Bail
Hurl Hamilton As you heard just now, the two men charged in connection with an alleged smuggling operation, are social worker Sergio Adrian Guerra and Edwin Naj. Both men were in vehicles transporting...
View ArticleMan Charged for Theft of $42,000 from Buca Shell in Ladyville
Victor Ayuso Tonight a former Buca Shell employee is in trouble with the law. He is twenty-five-year-old Victor Ayuso, a resident of Orange Walk, who appeared this morning before Senior Magistrate...
View ArticleMason Murder Trial Resumes with Voir Dire
Following a lengthy adjournment, the murder trial of William ‘Danny’ Mason and his accomplices resumed before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Belmopan Supreme Court on Wednesday. Onboard are attorneys...
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