Retired Teacher Herman Lambey Indicted for Sexual Offences
Herman Lambey A retired teacher, Herman Lambey, who was once a Principal at the Queen Street Baptist School headed to court today to answer to three criminal offenses including Aggravated Assault of an...
View ArticleAkeem Thurton Appeals Conviction for Attempted Murder of Rodwell Williams
Akeem Thurton Justices Samuel Awich, Dennis Morrison and Christopher Blackman have reserved judgment until next Friday, March 27, on the case of 23 year old Akeem Thurton, convicted in March of 2012 in...
View ArticleGang Charge against City Resident Dismissed
Leon Gray Tonight, one Belize City man who the police claim is a member of the gang, Peace in the Village, is free from the charge of Professed to Belong to a Criminal Gang. He is twenty-six year old...
View ArticleAccused Man Says Police Shot Him Without Provocation
Phillip Samuels Twenty-eight-year-old Phillip Mass Samuels was slapped with firearm offences when he appeared in court today. The Belize City man was charged with kept firearm, and kept ammunition in...
View Article…Attorneys Say Legal Issues are Complex
Rodwell Williams According to Williams, there was opportunity for settlement but the legal issues surrounding the claim are complicated enough, involving issues of both public and private law that need...
View ArticleStake Bank/FSTV and G.O.B. in Court
Andrew Marshalleck Michael Feinstein, developer of the Stake Bank/Drowned Cayes cruise port project, is suing the Government of Belize and owners of the Fort Street Tourism Village over agreements...
View ArticleBelize City Man Sentenced to 2 Years for Wounding His Wife
Nathan Pratt A Belize City man who was recently released from prison is back behind bars tonight to serve two additional years after he violated a protection order and went to the home of his wife. It...
View ArticleAppeals Court Upholds Thurton’s Conviction
Bryan Neal Twenty three year old Akeem Thurton had expected to go home today after Court of Appeal Justices Samuel Awich, Dennis Morrison and Christopher Blackman ruled on his case. Despite being...
View ArticleTelemedia’s Claim on Channel 5 Struck Out
The Court of Appeal delivered a significant judgment ruling in favour of Great Belize Productions/Channel Five, Channel Overseas Investments Limited, Katalyst Developments Limited and Thames Ventures...
View ArticleHerman Miranda Walks on Murder Charge
Herman Miranda & Oscar Selgado This morning, the trial of Belize City resident Herman Miranda Junior ended in an acquittal after six years on remand. Miranda was accused of the September...
View ArticleTour Operator Charged for Knocking Down and Killing Stella Maris Student
Austin Olivera On March seventeenth, eleven year old Stella Maris student, Austin Olivera Junior, was hit by a vehicle; he succumbed to his injuries the following week after receiving treatment at the...
View ArticleHonduran Man Gets 3 Years for Armed Robbery
A Honduran national living in Belize pleaded guilty to robbery with a firearm and while he was spared from being imposed the minimum mandatory sentence of seven years, he could not escape jail time....
View ArticleGSU Raid Yields 13 Pounds of Weed, Belize City Trio Arrested and Charged
Eugene Gabourel The GSU raided a home located in the Set Site area of Lake Independence on Tuesday afternoon; the bust yielded over six kilograms or more than thirteen pounds of cannabis. Three of five...
View ArticleSheffield Brown Arraigned for Groping Chinese Businesswoman
Sheffield Brown Thirty-nine-year-old Sheffield Brown is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being unable to meet bail for allegedly groping a Chinese businesswoman. Brown, a resident...
View ArticleTeenage Trio Charged for Burning Down Youth Hostel’s Female Dorm
Erlene Baizar Three persons were arraigned today for a fire at the Belize Youth Hostel compound at Mile twenty-one on the George Price Highway. The fire on Tuesday gutted a section of the hostel and...
View ArticlePatrick Castillo Arraigned for Murder of Stepson
Patrick Castillo Sr. On Wednesday, April Fools’ Day, forty-two year old security guard, Patrick Castillo Senior, viciously chopped his stepson, Guatemalan Jose Maderos, to death. It was a bloody scene...
View ArticleAlbert Vaughan in Court for Loitering
Kareem Musa Magistrate Hettie Mae Stuart is to decide next Wednesday, April fifteenth, on a charge of loitering in a public place filed against radio personality and activist for the People’s United...
View ArticlePastor Charged for Immigration Offence
Wilberforce Sintim Kwako A Ghanian citizen who is a pastor was busted at the P.G.I.A. for attempting to enter the country with another person’s passport. Forty year old Wilberforce Sintim Kwako was...
View ArticleCop Walks on Wounding Charge
Juan Moralez This morning, twenty-nine year old Special Constable Juan Moralez was all smiles when a charge of Wounding was withdrawn from him since his wife, the alleged victim, requested no further...
View ArticleUndocumented Honduran Nationals Charged
Cindy Reyes It was an emotional time in court for five Honduran nationals who were caught illegally in the country; they are facing jail time since they are unable to pay their fines. They group left...
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