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Giovanni Ramirez, In Jail for Robbery, Charged for Stabbing Inmate
Giovanni Ramirez Last week Wednesday, a prison inmate was stabbed in the prison grounds but it was not fatal. After concluding the investigation, another inmate, twenty year old Giovanni Ramirez was...
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Sherwin Leslie Gets 6 Years for Stealing Armor-All
Sherwin Leslie Fifty-five-year-old Sherwin Leslie, a car washer, who was accused of stealing an eleven-dollar Armor-All, has been sentenced to six years in prison. Allegations are that on Sunday,...
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Corozaleno Armando Vasquez Charged With Drug Trafficking
Armando Vasquez A Belizean electrician from Corozal has been charged with drug trafficking after a search of his car yielded a significant stash of cannabis. The Border Patrol Team was on operations at...
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GSU Raids Supal Street Residence Elderly Woman Arrested for Drug Possession
Marina Plunkett The Gang Suppression Unit conducted an operation today in the south side Belize City. The target was a property on Supal Street belonging to an elderly resident, seventy-two year old...
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Verden Blease, Former Gwen Liz Lecturer, Charged for Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Verden Blease Today, a former Gwen Liz teacher was slapped with additional charges of three counts of carnal knowledge for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a minor who was seven years when...
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B.T.L. and B.E.L. Nationalizations Heard at CCJ
Eamon Courtenay The seemingly unending litigation involving the government’s acquisition of the country’s telecommunications and electric utilities became complicated long ago. But it may all be...
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San Pedro Family Acquitted of Ammunition Charge
Magistrate Sherigne Rodriguez this morning found a San Pedro family of four not guilty of the charge of possession of six rounds of unlicensed ammunition. This matter came to public prominence because...
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Belize City Restaurateur Fined For Undersized Lobsters
Heidi Andrades Belize City businesswoman Heidi Andrades appeared unrepresented in magistrates’ court today where she pleaded guilty to a fisheries offense after being busted with thirty-nine undersized...
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Maurice Tomlinson To Be Represented At CCJ By Former Court of Appeal Judge
Maurice Tomlinson A case management conference was held at the Caribbean Court of Justice this morning in a suit brought against the governments of Belize and Trinidad & Tobago by Jamaican gay...
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Former Minister of State Elvin Penner Freed of Charges, COLA Will Appeal...
Elvin Penner Elvin Penner walks….A decision was handed down today in the case of Elvin Penner, who facilitated the issuance of a passport to South Korean fugitive, Won Hong Kim. The former government...
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Man and female minor charged for blackmail
Edwin Omar Flores Coming up, we’ll have a report on the fatal traffic accident… But in the court, a twenty-three-year-old man along with his sixteen year old girlfriend, who is originally from...
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Anabell Kumul spends her first night in prison for the murder of her common-law
Anabell Kumul There was a murder on San Pedro on Wednesday morning, which is believed to have been the cause of a domestic dispute; a twenty-eight year old tour guide on the island was stabbed...
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Discussions Between BGYEA and G.O.B. Will Be Private…
Audrey Matura-Shepherd While BGYEA and government have been given a forty-five day window during which the matter should be discussed and resolved, the proceedings will be kept off the record....
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Mediation Ordered in BGYEA Land Dispute…
The ongoing dispute between the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association, BGYEA, and the Government of Belize, over the use of the road reserve adjacent to Harmonyville, will see both parties...
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Parties in San Pedro Land Dispute Reach Private Settlement…
Another land dispute which was put to rest today involves a parcel near the municipal airstrip in San Pedro which is under construction by Tropic Air. The airline company was in the process of...
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Mother and Daughter Freed of Firearm Charges…
Margaret Vasquez Margaret Vasquez, her daughter, Kimberly Betran and son-in-law, Martin Matura were before the court late this afternoon to answer to the charges of Kept Unlicensed Firearm and...
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Belize City Man Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter…
Jamie Dawson was twenty-three years when he was first accused of a murder but was instead convicted of manslaughter. Now at the age of thirty five, and after waiting eight years for a retrial, Dawson...
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Ladyville Woman Charged in Carnal Knowledge Case…
Stacey Leslie An unemployed domestic of the Ladyville area, who in September 2013 was charged jointly with her boyfriend for allegedly luring a fourteen year-old minor into their car, was back in court...
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Dangriga Man Awaits Verdict in Attempted Murder Trial…
Devon Logan A trial by judge without jury concluded before Justice Denis S. Hanomansigh in the Dangriga Supreme Court session. But the accused, identified as Devon Logan, who is out on bail, will have...
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Belize City Man Acquitted of Stepfather’s Murder…
Justin Orillana A manslaughter trial concluded today in which a step-son was tried for butchering his step-father at their Vernon Street house in March, 2007. Twenty-five year old Justin Emmanuel...
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