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Inspector Gian Young, a member of the Belize Police Department’s Anti Trafficking in Persons Unit was the first witness to take the stand. According to Young’s testimony, on October sixth, [...]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Senior Counsel Barrow raised a preliminary objection to the application brought forth by the F.I.U. He contended that the F.I.U. is not entitled to make an application under the Money [...]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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A donation of over four hundred thousand dollars in digital equipment was handed over to the courts this morning by the U.S. Embassy. As part of an initiative known as [...]
Written on October 12, 2022 | Posted in
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For the first time in recent memory, a person who is accused of murder will be brought before the Supreme Court to be tried a second time, after having gone [...]
Written on October 7, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-four-year-old Alexander Harris, a Belizean fisherman of San Ignacio, has been fined seventeen thousand dollars for possession of undersized conch. Harris and two other fishermen from Dangriga were busted by [...]
Written on October 5, 2022 | Posted in
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Former Belize Defense Force soldier Albert Moreira was the last person to see his ex-wife alive before she went missing in October 2018. Several days later, the badly decomposed body [...]
Written on October 4, 2022 | Posted in
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The Government of Belize has retained the services of Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck in a civil case being brought against the Commissioner of Police, the Attorney General, and the Belize [...]
Written on September 29, 2022 | Posted in
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Thirty-nine-year-old Leon Perez will stand trial for the murder of Elton Morter who was fatally stabbed during an altercation in Hattieville on Independence Day 2021. In court on Monday, Perez [...]
Written on September 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Case management in the kidnapping trial involving William “Danny” Mason, Ashton Vanegas, Kieron Fernandez, Ernest Castillo, and Ryan Rhaburn is set to begin with a voir dire. The alleged victims [...]
Written on September 15, 2022 | Posted in
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Forty-five-year-old Ervin Middleton, a windshield repairman of a Santa Barbara Street address, appeared unrepresented before the magistrate’s court earlier today where he was read a single, indictable charge of rape [...]
Written on September 15, 2022 | Posted in
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On May twentieth, the Caribbean Court of Justice declared that the re-incarceration of Hillaire Sears in April 2014 had breached his constitutional right to personal liberty and that the revocation [...]
Written on August 5, 2022 | Posted in
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This afternoon around two-thirty p.m., four suspects were paraded to the magistrate’s court in Dangriga by armed police and B.D.F. officers. Prior to their arraignment, they were being held in [...]
Written on August 3, 2022 | Posted in
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Belize City police are continuing their investigation into the murder of former P.I.V. boss, Darien Banks. The Oleander Street resident was slain last Monday when someone took aim at him [...]
Written on August 2, 2022 | Posted in
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In the wee hours of March fourteenth, 2016, Edwin Ixpatac was beaten to death while in police custody in San Pedro Town. In the wake of the incident, three police [...]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Canadian national Jasmine Hartin has lost the custody battle for the five-year-old twins she shares with Andrew Ashcroft. News Five has confirmed that on Wednesday, Director of the Belize Family [...]
Written on May 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Brads Gaming Company Limited is challenging the Government of Belize over a recent amendment to the Lotteries Control Regulations which legislates a twelve point five percent tax on boledo, lottery, [...]
Written on May 27, 2022 | Posted in
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In December 2002, Hillaire Sears was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after being convicted of the murder. That conviction was later reduced to manslaughter before Sears was [...]
Written on May 23, 2022 | Posted in
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According to Mendez, the case involving Hillaire Sears highlights a number of issues within the criminal justice system. Leslie Mendez, Attorney-at-law “I think it’s important for us to also [...]
Written on May 23, 2022 | Posted in
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A man who was found guilty of murder has been sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment in the southern session of the Supreme Court. Andre Valle Diaz was convicted of the [...]
Written on May 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A man who was found guilty of the manslaughter of his common-law-wife was sentenced to three years in prison today. Andrew Caliz will only spend another eighteen months since he [...]
Written on May 17, 2022 | Posted in
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A man, who was convicted in March of the double murder of two sisters, has been condemned to two life sentences at the Belize Central Prison. This morning, Justice Antoinette [...]
Written on May 11, 2022 | Posted in
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Fausto Teck was arraigned on a single charge of murder this morning, in the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court for the stabbing death of Chris Rodriguez. Today, family and friends of [...]
Written on May 6, 2022 | Posted in
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The case of the Cuban immigrants who are on remand awaiting a court proceeding has been adjourned. Today, the proceedings took place virtually but in closed session among the parties [...]
Written on April 26, 2022 | Posted in
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The case of seven Cubans who are charged with immigration offences has been adjourned until next Tuesday. This is to give the Human Rights attorneys who have filed a case [...]
Written on April 22, 2022 | Posted in
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Eddie Sierra believes that the conditions of imprisonment are just too harsh for the infraction the Cubans have committed, and he is here to follow their plight. Eddie Sierra, [...]
Written on April 22, 2022 | Posted in
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