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Santa Cruz Thirteen Back In Court… Uxbenka Denuding Continues
Pablo Mis The Santa Cruz Thirteen, including outspoken Maya activist Cristina Coc, were back in court today where they appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner. The group has been back and forth...
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Shannon Smith Charged for Dangerous Harm in Stabbing of Earlin Butler
Shannon Smith Twenty-five year old Shannon Smith, a resident of Mahogany Heights, Belize District, who is accused in an alleged home invasion, was back in court today. In March 2015, a man allegedly...
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Case for 13th Senator Postponed Until After General Elections
In the other case, the Leader of the Opposition, Francis Fonseca, was taking on Prime Minister Dean Barrow over the thirteenth member of the Senate. Today, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin postponed that...
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Landy Habet Versus Chief Elections Officer to be Discontinued in Supreme Court
Orlando Habet The Supreme Court has postponed one case and discontinued another as a result of the announcement of general elections on November fourth. The case of P.U.P. Cayo Northeast standard...
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CBL Ceviche Proprietor and Fishermen Charged for Fisheries Offenses
Darry Flores Turning to the courts…four persons, a pair of fishermen, a businessman and his wife of Chetumal Street, were dragged to court on separate fisheries offenses on the eve of the opening of...
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8 Fishermen Busted With Conch Before Season Opened
A group of fishermen harvested a lot of conch earlier in the week, but the conch season had not yet opened and so they were nabbed by the Fisheries Department. Of the eight fishermen, four are members...
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Keyren Tzib Bail Hearing Adjourned Yet Again
Keyren Tzib Today, Keyren Tzib appeared in the Supreme Court for the third time since her arrest on July twentieth on a single count of manslaughter. The Coast Guard officer is seeking bail, but...
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La Cabana Proprietor Back In Court 4 Years After GSU Raided His Home
In May 2011, the home of Belmopan businessman Mike Menjivar was literally riddled with bullets during a surprise raid. Although the raid unearthed nothing illegal by way of drugs or weapons, Menjivar...
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Another Youth Walks on Murder Charge
Tonight, another Belize City youth is free of murder. At the conclusion of a trial by judge without jury before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, twenty-two year old Ronald Bradley, a resident of Mahogany...
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Court Upholds Appeal by UB Board of Trustees
Denys Barrow Today, the Court of Appeal wasted no time in upholding an appeal by the University of Belize’s Board of Trustees. The matter before the panel was the Supreme Court’s decision on the...
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Errol Haynes Sues for Unlawful Imprisonment
Errol Haynes Thirty-one year old Errol Haynes appeared briefly in court today before the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. He is suing the Commissioner of Police, Superintendent of Prison and the...
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Denys Barrow Calls Bar Resolution “Outrageous” and “Political”
Denys Barrow The Bar has determined that the decision, whatever it is, speaks to the legality of the much debated Eighth Amendment, and they say it is a matter of public interest so it should be...
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Bar Association applies to C.C.J. to release its decisions on the...
In an unprecedented move last week, the Bar Association has applied to the Caribbean Court of Justice to release its decisions on the nationalizations of B.E.L. and B.T.L. Both matters were hastily...
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Denys Barrow Says GOB MUST Pay Arbitration Award…Regardless of Amount
In 2009, the Government of Belize seized control of B.T.L. and when a court ruling found the nationalization to be null and void, Government renationalized the company in 2011. Now…weeks before the...
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Hattieville Resident Arraigned for Unlawful Sexual Intercourse
Akeem Alexander Allen Reports on the number of persons involved in unlawful sex continue to balloon, while the victims are getting younger. Today, twenty-nine year old Hattieville resident, Akeem...
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Driver Charged in Road Traffic Fatality
John Carlos Rodriguez Tonight, forty-four year old Honduran driver, a naturalized Belizean, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and was slapped with three traffic offenses in relation...
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Belize City Cops Nab Southern Choice Butane Jackers
Turning to crime…Tonight, two of three suspects in a brazen daylight robbery at the premises of Southern Choice Butane Ltd., located at mile four on the Phillip Goldson Highway, are behind bars. This...
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Chief Justice Dismisses Haynes Application
Errol Haynes Criminal figure, Errol Haynes aka “Butchy”, who was handed down a sentence of three years plus fined ten thousand dollars when he did not show up for his drug related trial two years ago,...
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Belize City Man Beats Third Murder Charge
Gabriel Salazar Gabriel Salazar has beaten a third murder charge, the latest one from the Court of Appeal this week. On July fifteenth, 2013, more than two years ago, Salazar was acquitted of the...
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Basil Willis on Remand for Sodomy
Basil Willis Meanwhile, Basil Willis, who is currently out on bail for a number of matters before the courts, was remanded to prison today until December twelfth, 2015 for a most despicable act. The...
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