The Fate of Harvest Caye Development to be Decide on Later Date
Godfrey Smith On the other side of that argument is Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith. He is representing the Belize Tourism Industry Association, arguing that indeed the developers of Harvest Caye...
View ArticleArguments in B.T.I.A./NCL Suit Concludes in Supreme Court
Eamon Courtenay The case against Harvest Caye, a tourism development project created by Norwegian Cruise Lines, concluded in the courtroom of Justice Courtney Abel today with closing arguments. The...
View ArticleTrio Charged with Burglary, Accused Thief Accuses Arresting Officer of Sexual...
An eighteen year old female, Victoria Garnett and two minors were today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the offense of Burglary. One of the minors is a thirteen year old student...
View ArticleLyson Cacho Arraigned for Murder of Belize City DJ
Lyson Cacho Back on Sunday, March first, 2015, gunmen ambushed two men on Periwinkle Street in the Saint Martin de Porres area of Belize City. A day after the shooting, one man was charged and police...
View ArticleCop Arrested and Charged for Theft
Dean Perez Jr. Police Constable Dean Perez Junior was found guilty of theft and is on remand at the Belize Central Prison until next week Monday when the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith will...
View ArticleAttorney Said Musa Says Gapi’s Credibility and Reputation Are Damaged
Gaspar Vega Vega will return to court for the final day of the trial at ten in the morning, when witnesses on his behalf and on the behalf of the first and second defendants will be cross-examined. On...
View ArticleGapi and Monchi Back In Court Over Libel Claim
The Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega took the stand in court today. A substantive libel case is being brought against two parties by Vega before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Vega is suing Ramon...
View ArticleTimothy Morey Charged for Lying to Police About His Identity
Timothy Aaron Morey An Orange Walk man isn’t going to be clowning around with the Police again after a mischievous act almost landed him in jail. On Tuesday, Timothy Aaron Morey was on Oleander Street...
View ArticleTrio Acquitted of Theft and Handling Stolen Goods, Grandma Refuses to Press...
David Jacobs A minor who was charged for taking his grandmother’s jewellery walked out of Court free today when she declined to press charges. The burglary occurred on Monday, when the woman discovered...
View ArticleResident of Armenia Charged for the Murder of Elderly Farmer in Paraiso
Osmar Ramos The badly decomposed remains of sixty-one-year-old Osmar Ramos was discovered inside a shallow grave on July fifteenth in a remote area in the Cayo District known as Paraiso. The elderly...
View ArticleGapi Versus Monchi and the Infamous Recording, Day 2
Today, all parties in a libel and slander suit brought by Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega were back in Court. Vega is suing Ramon Cervantes Jr. and Fiesta FM because he says that in November 2014...
View ArticleRoy Jones on Remand for Rape
Roy Jones Jr. Tonight, forty-seven year old Roy Jones Junior also known as “Patties” is on remand at the Belize Central Prison following an allegation of rape made by a seventeen year old minor. The...
View ArticlePetrocaribe Case Adjourned to December
Magali Marin-Young For the other side, Senior Counsel Magali Marin-Young held brief for Espat and fellow Senior Counsels Eamon Courtenay, who was busy, and Andrew Marshalleck, who is on holiday....
View ArticlePetrocaribe Case Back in Court; Neither Side Ready
Jarrard Ysaguirre Petrocaribe – it is the political buzzword of 2015, and depending on who you ask, it is either the best thing to ever happen to Belize or perhaps the worst. One man who thinks the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Orders Retrial for Alfredo Marin
Alfredo Marin A Benque Viejo resident appealed his conviction for drug trafficking back in June of this year. Alfredo Marin was fined ten thousand dollars and sentenced to three years in prison. Today,...
View ArticleSanta Cruz 13 Arraigned on Additional Charges
The Santa Cruz Thirteen reappeared in the Punta Gorda Magistrate Court this morning on their scheduled date. To their surprise, additional charges were placed upon them, including on MLA spokesperson...
View Article3 Years for Sexually Assaulting Minor
Charles Bucknor A Vernon Street man who was accused of performing oral sex on a thirteen year old primary school girl was convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment which is the maximum jail...
View ArticleInmate Busted With Weed Inside Courtroom
Kevin Bodden An inmate was busted with cannabis while he was inside a courtroom. Twenty-two old Kevin Bodden managed to beat a murder rap a year ago, but was recently convicted of Grievous Harm and...
View ArticleCorozal Man Remanded For Aggravated Assault
Oren Vaughan Twenty-six year old Oren Vaughan is tonight on remand for committing an aggravated assault with a firearm upon his ex-girlfriend, Sharon Wade. Wade, a Corozal resident, reported to police...
View ArticleEasy Glen in Court on Assault Charge
Goldburn Adolphus Well-known political mouthpiece Easy Glen, formally known as Goldburn Adolphus, was arraigned today before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith for attempting to assault a police officer...
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