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Was Case Against Pitts Motivated by Malice?
The case, according to Elrington, was clear-cut and straightforward. He says that after poring over the facts presented, it would appear that in the absence of evidence of wrongdoing, the claim...
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Sharon Pitts Emerges Victorious in Land Compensation Suit
Sharon Pitts It was all the uproar back in 2016 when it was discovered that attorney Sharon Pitts and Andre Vega, son of former Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, benefited from an outrageous land deal...
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ComPol Williams Speaks on Ahmad Case Being Revisited
According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, the witnesses who cooperated with the investigation into the accident that killed Fareed Ahmad, testified in court that there wasn’t a third person...
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Samuel August Gets Twenty-five Years in Prison
Samuel August Thirty-nine-year-old Samuel August Senior, the father accused of killing his five-year-old son and the little boy’s grandmother, has been sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. The...
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Two Men Sentenced for Murder of Belize City Businessman, Oscar Rosado
Two men convicted of the April 2018 murder of Belize City businessman, Oscar Rosado, Senior, were sentenced today in the Belize City Supreme Court. Brandon Hughes received a life sentence for the...
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Did Police Charge the Wrong Man for Motty’s Murder?
Adrian Hernandez Last Thursday, we reported that Berkeley Street resident Adrian Hernandez was arraigned for the murder of Emert “Motty” Flowers, a sixty-two-year-old tour guide who was shot dead on...
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Police Officer on Interdiction and Ex Policeman are Charged for Murder
A police officer who was on interdiction and a former policeman have been charged jointly for the murder of forty-three-year-old Elvis Polanco. The San Pedro businessman was robbed, before being shot...
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Police Department Commits to Successfully Prosecuting Nah Case
Elmer Nah With the passing of Vivian Ramnarace, a third victim in the fatal December thirty-first attack, many are questioning the strength of the witness statement that was given to investigators...
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Youth for Change Symposium Discusses Laddie’s Law
On Saturday at the Radisson, a Youth for Change Symposium was successfully organized by the Justice for Laddie Foundation. Family and friends, as well as persons concerned about killings at the hands...
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Colombian Student Charged with Immigration Offense and Charge is Dismissed
A Colombian student on vacation in Belize found himself in trouble with the law after he was charged with failure to produce himself to an immigration officer upon entering the country. But the charge...
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Police and Ex-police Charged for Murder of San Pedro Businessman
Forty-three-year-old Elvis Polanco, a businessman from San Pedro, was shot and killed in November 2022 by a pair of men, including a former police officer, as well as a police constable who was on...
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Andel Alvarez Charged Criminally Despite Being Paralyzed
Andel Jamaal Alvarez Twenty-seven-year-old Andel Jamaal Alvarez was discharged from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital earlier today, eleven days after he was shot by police in Punta Gorda. Alvarez...
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Rival Gang Members Make Peace in Court
Members of rival Belize City gangs called a truce in court earlier today after they chose not to proceed with criminal charges against each other. Esmir Garrido, a convicted member of the Rocky Road...
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Female Police Recruit Charged for Cyber Offense
Shania Dominguez Twenty-three-year-old Shania Dominguez, a recruit with the Belize Police Department, has been charged under the Cyber Crime Act. It is alleged that the resident of Biscayne Village,...
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The Eve of the Manslaughter Trial for Laddie Gillett’s Shooting Death
It’s the eve of the commencement of the manslaughter trial for former Police Corporal Kareem Martinez in Dangriga. It’s the jurisdiction where eighteen months ago, on July fourteenth, 2021,...
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Man Acquitted of Unlawful Sexual Assault upon Child
Charles Brown A man who was accused of the unlawful sexual assault of a twelve-year-old girl is spending his second night as a free man after he was found not guilty of the charge. Belize City...
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Manslaughter Trial Commences Against Former Police Corporal Accused of...
Laddie Gillett The trial of Kareem Martinez, charged with the manslaughter of fourteen-year-old Laddie Gillett, began today before Justice Antoinette Moore in the Dangriga Supreme Court. Gillett was...
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Son Faces Prison Time for Stealing $38K from His Mother
Jose Raul Pineda Twenty-five-year-old Jose Raul Pineda, a construction worker of Belize City, appeared unrepresented in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court earlier today where he confessed to stealing...
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Youth Denied Bail on Robbery Charges
Aaron Chavez A youth who is known to the law has been accused of robbing two gas attendants at gunpoint. Eighteen-year-old Aaron Chavez, who got into trouble while he was out on bail for another...
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Manslaughter Proceedings Going to the Beach Where Deadly Shooting Occurred
Dickie Bradley At the end of today’s proceedings, Justice Moore informed the defense and attorneys for the crown that she would like to take Wednesday’s session to the location where the incident...
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