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Arguments Begin to Discharge Belize Bank Injunction on Arbitral Award
Attorneys for the Belize Bank, as well as the Government of Belize, filed into the courtroom of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin shortly before eleven o’clock this morning. The litigants were there in...
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Man Convicted of Aggravated Assault
Austin DeCosta Austin DeCosta was found guilty of aggravated assault upon a woman. The forty-three-year-old resident of Caye Caulker appeared in court today to answer to the charge for an incident that...
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Cop Charged Over Weed Interdicted
Darrel Usher Interdicted police officer, Corporal Darrel Usher, who over the weekend was allegedly busted with a huge amount of cannabis, was today arraigned after a number of issues delayed his...
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Will Judgment be Binding in the End?
Eamon Courtenay Courtenay maintains that government took the decision of the CCJ to the U.S. jurisdiction and requested that the enforcement not be granted. Barrow, on the other hand, says that the...
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“Forum Shopping” Behind Trial of Belize Bank Case?
Denys Barrow The question of whether or not the case is deliberately being retried is also central to the argument. According to Barrow, government decided at the eleventh hour to challenge the...
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Belize Bank Limited Hoping to Lift Injunction on Arbitral Award
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin has reserved judgment in the case of the Belize Bank Limited and the Government of Belize after hearing submissions from both parties. A second day of litigation resumed...
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Gonzalez Says Time to Fix Passport Machine
Francisco Gonzalez Gonzalez spent most of the session leading Senators through an explanation of how technological failures with the machine readable passport system were an underlying cause of the...
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CITO’s Francisco Gonzalez Explains Why He Was Pulled from Audit Team
Back to the senate hearings…The second witness at today’s public hearing, Francisco Gonzalez, was a busy man for most of 2013 and early in 2014. He was point man for the Audit team investigating the...
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Who Controls Passport Machine?
Bol disputed the Auditor General’s assertion that inactive users were not removed from the system under his tenure. He pointed out that he and his successor as Systems Administrator, Georgia Bowen,...
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Diego Bol Addresses I.T. Management for Kim Passport
Rodolfo Bol Two of the scheduled three witnesses for today’s public hearings of the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration testified. They are current information technology manager Rodolfo Bol...
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Court of Appeal Dismisses Carnal Knowledge Conviction for Santiago Cholom
Santiago Cholom After nine months behind bars, forty-six-year-old Santiago Cholom is home free, following a decision by the Court of Appeal to have him released due to a number of errors during his...
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Man Dodges Heavy Sentence for Throw-Away Gun
Stephen Mejia Twenty-year-old Stephen Mejia of Antelope Street in Belize City is behind bars after he was sentenced to one year in prison for keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. In September...
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How BPIS Failed in Won Hong Kim Case
Rodolfo Bol Bol was also questioned on the most infamous example of how the Belize Passport and Information System was breached during the tenure covered by the Auditor General’s Report from 2011 to...
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At Senate, Rodolfo Bol Questioned over Alleged System Tampering by Audit
Rodolfo Bol is the Immigration Department’s former System Manager, and current I.T. Manager. He has been with the Department since 2004. He manages the passport machine system and border management...
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Keonia Ara murder accused appear in court
The two men accused of the gruesome murder of eighteen-year-old Keonia Ara were formally arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court this morning. Teakettle residents, twenty-two year old Jaime...
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Brandon Taylor dodges murder charge in death of Kaylon Matura
Brandon Taylor After more than two weeks in trial, the case of thirty-year-old, Brandon Taylor, charged with the May 2012 shooting murder of Kaylon Matura, came to a close. And it is the second time...
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Shopkeeper pleads not guilty to attacking boy in Ladyville
Zhuo Feng Luo A nine-year-old boy who was harmed late last week was back in school today despite injuries he sustained allegedly inflicted by a Chinese businessman. The child’s mother, Darlene Morris...
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Shop lifter promises not to steal again, spared jail
Carlos Vasquez A shop lifter who was caught in Public’s Supermarket on Saturday stealing a ball of Dutch cheese was charged with theft and was luckily sentenced to a three-month suspended sentence....
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G.O.B. argues to strip Titan Securities of multi-million dollar judgment
“We will appeal…we don’t think that judgment can stand.” So said Prime Minister Dean Barrow on January twenty-first, 2016, upon hearing that the Supreme Court had awarded Titan International...
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Court of Appeal Orders Retrial for 3 Accused of Murder
In October 2015, Judge Troadio “John” Gonzalez ruled that three Belize City men accused of the 2012 shooting murder of B.D.F. Soldier James Noralez had no case to answer. The trio Tyrone Meighan,...
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