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Jose Rodriguez, Guilty of Causing Death by Careless Conduct
Jose Rodriguez In the Supreme Court, Jose Rodriguez pleaded guilty to “Causing Death by Careless Conduct” in the fatal traffic accident which claimed the life of eleven-year-old Tezzrah Thompson, four...
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PAC Chairman Weighs in on Fin Sec’s Testimony
Julius Espat In court, the issue of accountability for a hundred million dollars, spent during the fiscal year 2012 and 2013, was raised before the Financial Secretary. According to PAC Chairman,...
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FinSec Says Government Regularly Exceeds Approved Limit of Public Monies
Joseph Waight While PM Barrow and AG Peyrefitte’s names appear as defendants on the claim, neither government officials appeared in court today. Instead, the financial secretary appeared alone and was...
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P.U.P. Legally Challenges Government Expenditure from Public Purse
John Briceño Opposition Leader John Briceño and Julius Espat, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, are claimants in a suit brought against the Minister of Finance, Prime Minister Dean Barrow,...
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Vasquez Family Wants Answers
Nestor Vasquez Jr. According to Jules Vasquez, the family hasn’t heard of further development in the case. He says that he has reached out the Director of Public Prosecution. Today, he told reporters...
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The Vasquez family Sounds Off on Bail Offered to Nestor’s Killer
Collin Francis This morning twenty-eight-year-old Collin Francis was offered bail for the attempted murder of Nurse Augustina Elijio. Bail was set at eight thousand dollars plus two sureties of the...
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Johnny Says It’s About Transparency and Accountability
John Briceño The outcome of the challenge, according to Opposition Leader John Briceño, should set precedence for other jurisdictions within the region insofar as the expenditure of public funds. He...
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P.U.P. Case Against G.O.B. Wraps Up, Judgment Pending
Julius Espat The case suit against the Minister of Finance, the Financial Secretary and the Attorney General hinges on four main points and at the conclusion of the hearing, Espat told the media that...
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How Government Spends the People’s Money
Arguments wrapped up before the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin on a case brought against the Government by John Briceño and Julius Espat of the People’s United Party. In the two-day proceedings the...
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Anthony Crawford is Guilty of Shooting Shanaya Whylie
Anthony Crawford Back in November of 2016, a young girl shot on Racoon Street Extension, Belize City. Police soon picked up Anthony Crawford and charged him with “use of deadly means of harm with...
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Who Presides Over the Case Against the CJ?
Andrew Marshalleck Recent appointments, according to Marshalleck, have seen an obvious increase in the number of judicial officers from the Caribbean taking up posts in Belize. This, he says, is...
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Bar President Files Claim Against Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin
In an unprecedented move, Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lyn Vidal, in her capacity as president of the Bar Association, has lodged a claim against Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin, following her...
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Relief for Cowo Family after Accident Claims the Lives of 2 Sisters
Carlos Martinez There is relief for the family of two sisters who perished in an accident. The court has ordered fifty-four-old Carlos Martinez to pay in excess of thirty-one thousand dollars to the...
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Jose Rodriguez is Spared Jail Time
Jose Rodriguez Jose Rodriguez luckily spared jail time when he appeared before Justice Colin Williams this morning for sentencing. Last Wednesday, Rodriguez pleaded guilty to “Causing Death by...
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Frank Young is Acquitted of Murder
Frank Young There is another murder acquittal in the courts. Twenty-three-year-old Frank Alexander Young of Lords Bank village, who was charged with the murder of nineteen-year-old David Andrews, is...
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Collin Francis Arraigned for the Murder of Nestor Vasquez Jr.
Collin Francis Collin Francis, believed to be suffering from mental illness, has been charged with the murder of Nestor Vasquez Junior in June of this year. Francis spent the weekend in the same cell...
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1 Man is Charge for Murder of Zheng Liu
Joseph Vaccaro The execution style murder of prominent businessman Zheng Liu continues to rock the Chinese community and the thousands who knew and liked one of the owners of the Eighty Eight Group of...
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Glenford Diego is Remanded for Robbery
Glenford Diego Glenford Diego is spending his first night on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for a robbery charge. He is accused of robbing...
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Efrain Martinez is Committed to Stand Trial for Murder
Efrain Martinez Turning to the courts…Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser committed Salvadoran national Efrain Martinez to stand trial for the January 2019 murder of Guatemalan national Elmer Salazar. The...
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3 Men are Arraigned for Water Taxi Explosion
Water taxis usually run to and from the mainland to the cayes without any incident. However, on May fifth, 2019, there was an explosion on board a water taxi, which was preparing to leave from Ocean...
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