Case Struck Out Against Alleged Partygoers During COVID S.O.E.
Keke Requena A group of eleven persons, many of whom are family and friends, walked free from charges that were brought against them in August 2021. They were arrested following an alleged party that...
View ArticleA Deliveryman is Charged for Fatally Knocking Down His Best Friend
Daniel Thompson This afternoon, nineteen-year-old William Faux was arraigned on charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and drove motor vehicle without due care and...
View ArticleDevon Jones’ Charges Upgraded to Attempted Murder
Orson "OJ" Elrington Forty-one-year-old Devon Jones has been charged with attempted murder, almost eight years following an incident in Belize City during which a man was crushed by a vehicle on...
View ArticleA Grandmother, Her Son and Grandson are Convicted of Drug Trafficking
Kristian Young A Belize City family is lucky to be at home tonight after being found guilty of three counts of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply. Eighty-year-old Brenda Vasquez, a...
View ArticleCouple Busted with Firearm Remanded to Jail
Charles August A man and his common-law-wife were today remanded to the Belize Central Prison on gun-related charges. Twenty-four-year-old Charles August and thirty-year-old Eloise Baldarez of Antelope...
View ArticleDesign Depot Employees Charged for Theft and Handling Stolen Goods
Malcolm Baptist Twenty-seven-year-old Malcolm Morris Baptist, a warehouse keeper, and twenty-three-year-old Zachary Tun, a maintenance worker of Santa Clara Village, Corozal District, appeared...
View ArticleDevon Jones Receives Suspended Sentence for 2014 Incident
Forty-one-year-old Devon Jones, who pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of use of deadly means of harm after he used his vehicle and ran it into Francis Gill and crushing him, has been imposed a...
View ArticleTwo Men Guilty of Killing Businessman Oscar Rosado
Brandon Hughes and Jose Gomez have been convicted of the murder of businessman Oscar Rosado Senior. The pair appeared before Justice Susan Lamb today in the Supreme Court where she handed down her very...
View ArticleA Translator for a Mexican Drug Plane Suspect
Juan Esparga Sanchez Mexican national Juan Esparga Sanchez, one of four foreigners detained in connection with the landing of a drug plane near Bladen on the Southern Highway in November of last year,...
View ArticleThree Men Handed Down Lengthy Sentence for Separate Killings
Kashief Gallego A trio of men, including Honduran national Marcial Toledo, convicted in separate homicide cases, was sentenced in the Supreme Court today by Justice Susan Lamb. Thirty-year-old Kashief...
View ArticleBelize City Magistrate’s Court Relocates to Coney Drive
The Belize City Magistrate’s Court is relocating to Coney Drive, several weeks after the building it occupies was hard hit by Hurricane Lisa on November second. As it stands, the lower court is only...
View ArticleBritish Soldier Perry Stratford is Offered Bail After Domestic Spat
Perry Stratford Earlier today, thirty-year-old Perry Stratford, a British national who was arraigned on Tuesday for alleged kidnapping, theft, harm and damage to property against his fiancée, was...
View ArticleMeighan Brothers Summoned to Court
The Meighan brothers were summoned to court today after it was reported that their passports were not handed over to the court before they posted bail on Wednesday. Siblings Tyrone and Ellis Meighan...
View ArticleCouple Charged for Firearm Offences, Anthony Wagner is Remanded
This morning, a couple appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer where they were arraigned for three counts of kept firearm and ammunitions with a gun license and two counts of drug-related...
View ArticleTwo Men Arraigned for San Pedro Murder; Mother of Delson Paguada Says He’s...
Swift police action led to the arrest of two fishermen of the San Mateo area of San Pedro, in the wake of the killing. They are twenty-four-year-old Delson Paguada, and thirty-three-year-old Lucio...
View ArticleShyne Says Prosecutors Failed Fareed Ahmad’s Family
Fareed Ahmad The murder case involving former police officer Michelle Brown, who was accused of killing businessman and well-known Belize City barber Fareed Ahmad, ended in December 2020 with an...
View ArticleShould Ramnarace Brother’s Murderer Be Sentenced to Death?
Ramnarace Brothers What is a just punishment for the perpetrator of the Ramnarace brothers’ murders? Numerous Belizeans are calling on authorities to invoke the death penalty in this instance. The...
View ArticleAttorney Questions ComPol’s Approach in Revisiting Fareed Ahmad Murder Case
Arthur Saldivar Since the arrest of Police Corporal Elmer Nah in connection with the double murder of brothers Jon and David Ramnarace, there have been calls for the Belize Police Department to reopen...
View ArticleSteven Vernon Charged for Being a Member of San Juan Bloods
Steven Allen Vernon Twenty-three-year-old Steven Allen Vernon, a construction worker of San Mateo area, San Pedro also appeared before Magistrate Mannan this morning where he was read a single charge...
View ArticleGilbert Goodger and Mark Waight Arraigned for Gun Possession
Gilbert Goodger and Mark Waight Thirty-four-year-old Gilbert Goodger has been sentenced to two years in prison, while twenty-four-year-old Mark Waight is on remand at the Belize Central Prison. The...
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