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Andrew Kelly is Resentenced; Less than 3 Years Left for Him to Serve for...
Andrew Kelly After spending half his life behind bars, Andrew Kelly will now only have to serve two years and ten months more before he is released. Kelly was behind bars on death row but won an appeal...
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Cameron Harris is Acquitted of 2016 Murder
Cameron Harris Twenty-two-year old Cameron Harris will be home for the holidays. This morning his murder trial ended in his acquittal when Justice Colin Williams upheld a “no-case submission. Harris...
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Police Charge Son for Allegedly Butchering His Parents
Mario Huezo Thirty-two-year-old Mario Huezo has been charged with two counts of murder. Huezo stands accused of callously killing his parents, Rafael and Nanny Huezo, whose bodies were discovered on...
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Constituencies Remain Inordinately Small
Arthur Saldivar Deputy Solicitor General Samantha Matute-Tucker is representing the Attorney General and attorney Arthur Saldivar is representing the Belize Peace Movement and V.I.P. The case was...
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Supreme Court Proceeds With BPM’s Constitutional Challenge
Arthur Saldivar The Belize Peace Movement and Vision Inspired by the People, V.I.P., have brought a constitutional challenge against the Government of Belize in relation to the electoral division...
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Steven Mejia on Bail for Burglary
Steven Mejia Also in court was Steven Mejia. He recently pleaded guilty to being a member of a gang, but today he was hauled before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser for a charge of burglary, for which he...
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Sean Arnold Pleads Guilty to Possession of a Controlled Drug
Sean Arnold Sean Arnold, who recently became a father, will have to find money for more than just pampers after pleading guilty to possession of a controlled drug. Today, before Chief Magistrate Sharon...
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Leroy Haulze is Arraigned for Murder of Clothing Vendor
Leroy Haulze A second person has been arraigned for the July sixteenth, 2019 murder of clothing vendor, Jose Diaz. Leroy Haulze, who was initially charged for abetment to murder in this homicide,...
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A Repeat Offender is Arraigned for Drug Possession
Thirty-seven-year-old Leon Soberanis is no stranger to the law. This morning, the Belize City resident he found himself yet again before the lower court. While he was granted bail for a drug...
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Trial Begins for Sensational Drug Bust Back in September 2018 involving a Top...
Trial finally began today for the group of men accused of participating in the September ninth, 2018 landing of a drug plane in Tres Leguas, near Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District. That group...
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What’s Next? Marriage Equality? Gender Identity?
With Section Fifty-Three being struck down by the Supreme Court and with the Court of Appeals reaffirming the Chief Justice’s ruling, what other LGBT issues are there? Well, there is gender identity...
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UNIBAM Exec. Dir. Says ‘Sex’ Does Include ‘Sexual Orientation’
Caleb Orozco According to Orozco, Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code is a law which discriminates on the basis of sex and is void to that extent. He says that the ruling shows the strength of...
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Court of Appeal Upholds Chief Justice’s Decision on Section 53
The Court of Appeal today handed down a ruling, upholding the Chief Justice’s 2016 ruling on Section Fifty-Three. Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin ruled that Section Fifty-Three of the Belize Criminal...
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Hildebrandt Codd is Arraigned for Densmore Bowman’s Murder
Hildebrandt Codd A Belize City resident was arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court today for the murder of Densmore Bowman. Bowman, a thirty-four-year-old Belmopan resident had been reported...
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Will Others Be Charged for Densmore Bowman’s Murder?
On December thirty-first, Hildebrandt Codd was charged and arraigned for the murder of Densmore Bowman. Bowman’s decomposing body was discovered on December sixteenth, about two and half weeks after he...
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Cop Attackers Go before the Court
Today, four persons were arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate Court for the New Year’s Day attack on Police Constable Edgar Teul. The foursome includes Guatemalan national Migdael Gonzalez, as well as...
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Drug Case Against Former OW Police Commander, Police Officer and Mexicans...
The former head of the Orange Walk Police Formation, Superintendent David Chi, a police constable and two Mexican nationals arrived at the Orange Walk Magistrate Court today for trial. There was heavy...
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Rape Victim to be Financially Compensated for Damages
Anthony Sylvestre According to Sylvester, there is still the matter of compensation. He must now, within weeks, make submissions detailing personal injuries on behalf of his client after which the...
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Former Inmate Wins Case Against Belize Central Prison
A former inmate of the Belize Central Prison successfully sued the prison for negligence after he was violently raped twice while behind bars. Forty-three-year-old Kenroy Cooke was arraigned and...
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Will Government Ever Vote to Pay U.H.S. Debt?
Michael Peyrefitte While the matter has been voted down in the National Assembly, during a move in which the opposition walked out of the House of Representatives and abstained from the process,...
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