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G.O.B. to Appeal Supreme Court’s Jalacte Road Decision
Cordel Hyde The Government of Belize is appealing a recent decision by the Supreme Court in which the Maya community of Jalacte, including two villagers, was awarded six point three million dollars in...
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Bevans Attorney Gives More Details of the Case
Dean Barrow According to Barrow, PM Briceño’s defense also argued that as the Prime Minister of the country he is entitled to offer his position on affairs. Barrow says RSV Limited found itself in hot...
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Former B.T.B. Director Wins Defamation Suit
Karen Bevans This morning Supreme Court Justice Westmin James awarded former B.T.B. director, Karen Bevans, the largest defamation award granted in recent history. Justice James awarded Bevans sixty...
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Marshalleck Says the Government Who Pays is Neither P.U.P. nor U.D.P.
Kareem Musa In an interesting twist, Espat is now part of the Government that lost the lawsuit. But Marshalleck says that the government is the government, no matter which party is in power. And...
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Minister Julius Espat Wins Court Case against Government
There is a meeting of the House of Representatives this Friday, but this week, we were reminded of the day Julius Espat was kicked out of the House of Representatives. That happened back on August...
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Wife of Man Charged with Double Murder Granted Bail
Jovannie McKoy Last Thursday, police arrested and charged twenty-nine year-old Jovannie O’Brien of Unitedville, Cayo for the double murder of eighteen-year-old Lloyd Myvett and his neighbour,...
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Will Surveillance Video Be Used as Evidence in Court?
Oscar Selgado The killing of Jessie Escobar on Sunday night was captured by surveillance cameras as it unfolded in front of Branch Mouth Stop and Shop Store in Santa Familia Village. As he approached...
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3 Lawmen Arraigned in Connection with the Murder of Jessie Escobar
B.D.F. soldiers, Privates Raheem Valencio and Ramon Alcoser and Police Constable Juan Morales were arraigned today in Belmopan for the shooting death of twenty-nine-year-old Jessie Escobar. News...
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Property Owner Says His Papers are Legit
News Five also spoke with the property owner, Hailu Hurrissa, who says that after being successful in a legal battle with another real estate developer over the tract of land, he has been planting...
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A Land Dispute is Brewing in Santa Cruz
There is a brewing land dispute over acreage near the outskirts of Santa Cruz Village, where residents are concerned that a private land owner is developing real estate they say was set aside for the...
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Jasmine Hartin Given Partial Disclosure in Manslaughter by Negligence Case
There was no drama today at the San Pedro Magistrate Court when Jasmine Hartin’s legal case continued. News Five was there early this morning as Hartin waited in the lobby on the second floor of the...
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Two Sentenced in Child Prostitution Case
Today two people convicted in the Dangriga Supreme Court in September were sentenced for their role in a case of child prostitution. Justice Antoinette Moore gave Jeffery Perez the maximum sentence of...
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Belize Takes Trinidad to CCJ Over Sugar Tariffs
According to the Jamaica Observer, the Caribbean Court of Justice will begin hearing evidence on Tuesday in a matter in which Belize is alleging that Trinidad and Tobago failed to comply with its...
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Tourism Outlook Improving: Additional Flights Arriving in November
Belize has a robust tourism high season approaching, despite the fact that the Delta variant swept through Belize in July, forcing another cutback on tourism arrivals and mass gatherings and other...
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ASR Vice President is witness in CCJ Case
Vice President of International Relations at ASR Mac McLachlan was the second witness to testify in today’s hearing. He argued that non CARICOM countries would not be able to compete in the CARICOM...
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Belize at Caribbean Court of Justice in Sugar Case Against T & T
Day one of the hearing of Belize’s case in the Caribbean Court of Justice against the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago commenced today. Earlier this year Belize, sued St. Kitts-Nevis and Trinidad and...
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Who Will Prosecute DPP’s Former Bodyguard?
One of the officers implicated in Thursday’s drug plane landing is the assigned bodyguard for the Director of Public Prosecutions. The question of whether the matter will be prosecuted by her office...
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Will Additional Charges be Brought Against the Narco Eleven?
In providing details of what transpired along the Southern Highway on Thursday night, ComPol Williams described a firefight in which the responding officers were out manned and outgunned by their own...
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C.C.J. Rules on G.A. Roe & Sons Stamp Duty Case
This morning in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the C.C.J. bench ruled in favor of G.A. Roe and Sons Limited in an appeals case involving the Commissioner of Stamps. The matter stems from the purchase of a...
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A Hefty Bail is Granted to Four Drug Plane Cops
Police officers Nelson Middleton, Elmer Nah, Delwin Casimiro and George Ferguson have been granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of forty thousand dollars each. The four were arraigned on November...
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