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Uncle and Nephew Freed Over Caught Hicatees
An uncle and nephew charged with illegal possession of female hicatee turtles and hicatee nets were freed of four charges today before a planned trial. Magistrate Carlon Mendoza agreed with defense...
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Enfield Fitzgibbon Read Murder Charge for Death of Keimar Nicholas
Enfield Fitzgibbon Police believe that twenty-seven-year old Enfield Fitzgibbon is the gunman who pulled the trigger in the murder of nineteen-year-old Keimar Nicholas. Nicholas was shot on the night...
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No Evidence Against Urbie Alamilla in Bar Shooting
Urbie Alamilla Interdicted police officer, Urbie Alamilla, who back in June 2016 was charged with discharging a firearm in the Jade Restaurant located between miles eight and nine on the Phillip...
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Substance of Judgment Safe in Event of Appeal, Says Attorney
Kevin Arthurs Today’s interview with Perera and Arthurs widely covered the issue of pawnshops’ and moneylenders’ activities in Belize. While so-called “loan sharks” operating without a license are...
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Pawnshops on Notice After Major Supreme Court Judgment
Estevan Perera A precedent-setting judgment in the Supreme Court, issued on Monday, has put key restrictions on moneylenders inclined to exact excess monies from their desperate and overburdened...
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Melissa Ferguson Free; P.I. for Husband Danny Mason et al is February 21st
The time is drawing nearer for William Alexander “Danny” Mason and his accused cohorts to learn their fate. A preliminary inquiry into the indictable charges of murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit...
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Daniel Ku Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Decade-Old Murder Case
Daniel Ku A decade-old murder case has ended in a plea of manslaughter in the court of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin in the Supreme Court. Danny Elvis Ku was alleged to have butchered his wife, Nurse...
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Fighting Back Against Unscrupulous Moneylenders: Attorneys Have Tips
News Five has been reporting on the case of Orange Walk resident Janine Vega and Laura and Julio Blanco of Pay Day and EZY Loans Pawning. Vega attempted to satisfy repayments in full for two separate...
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Remanded for Nasty Sexual Assault on Child
Franz Hamilton A fifty-six-year-old man was slapped with a single charge of sexual assault upon a seven-year-old child. Franz Hamilton was remanded to prison today when he appeared in court to answer...
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La Inmaculada Credit Union Challenges Former General Manager in Court
Former General Manager of the La Inmaculada Credit Union in Orange Walk has filed a lawsuit against the Governor of the Central Bank of Belize for her wrongful termination after twenty-seven years of...
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Missing Shooting Victim Leads to Freedom for Accused Shooters
Two others also walked free today of a charge of attempted murder when the office of the D.P.P. entered a case of nolle prosequi. They are notorious figures, Tyrone Meighan and Osman Mitchell, both of...
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Trio Accused of Shooting Policeman See Charges Dropped
The case against three men, who shot a police officer, fell apart today two weeks after it begun before Justice Adolph Lucas. The shooting of Police Constable Nigel White occurred on March twenty-six...
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Senate Committee Chair Says Don’t Complain If You Didn’t Testify
Aldo Salazar Is this the end of the line as far as the matter is concerned? Chairman Salazar said the Committee is considering its options and has not ruled out litigation, although the details are to...
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Eric Chang, Patrick Tillett No-Shows at Senate Inquiry
Patrick Tillett & Eric Chang As we reported earlier, the Senate Special Select Committee has called multiple witnesses on several occasions for public hearings in the past few weeks. While there...
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Bar Association’s Attorney Says Ruling is a Victory for Belizean Justice
Andrew Marshalleck The Prime Minister currently has power to recommend the appointment of judges to the Court of Appeal, after consulting with the Leader of the Opposition, while the Judicial and Legal...
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C.C.J. Has Recommendations for Government on Tenure of Judges
From the senate to the courts…Belize’s highest court, the Caribbean Court of Justice, has ordered changes to the appointment of judges to the Court of Appeal. Today, the CCJ dismissed a claim by the...
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Did Ministers’ Recommendations Really Matter?
Eamon Courtenay As a senior man in the Immigration Department, George Reynolds saw his share of important people coming in and out – even a Minister or two. But he told the Senate Special Select...
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George Reynolds Says He Was Asked to “Fix” Chinese Passports With Missing...
The second witness to appear at the Senate Special Select Committee this afternoon was George Reynolds. He is entering his twenty-seventh year with the Immigration Department and in 2013 was the Port...
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Justice Denied in Sprawling Cases of Corruption at Immigration
While the cases of Won Hong Kim and the eight visa foils are dominating recent headlines, there was no shortage of scandal at the Immigration Department that necessitated immigration officers being...
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Finance Officer Teresita Castellanos Turns Fire on Former Co-Workers
Teresita Castellanos Castellanos went on to accuse immigration officers of treating ‘civilian’ officers like herself as ‘intruders’ at the Department and even cannibalizing their own who were doing the...
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