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January 18, 2023

Dejaun Nunez is convicted of firearms offenses; Sentencing deferred to later date

Twenty-one-year-old Dejaun Nunez was found guilty of one count of kept unlicensed firearm and one count of kept unlicensed ammunition with respect to a .9mm pistol [...]
January 18, 2023

Man accused of breaking into his ex-lover’s home and attacking her with knife out on bail

Thirty-five-year-old Jose Portillo appeared in the Belize City Magistrate's Court, charged with a single count of burglary.
January 16, 2023

Trial for accused triple murderer Jared Ranguy to commence tomorrow

Ranguy, who is currently out on bail, stands accused of the November 2012 murders of his mother Karen Skeen Vellos, sister Teena and stepfather Richard Vellos. [...]
January 15, 2023

Chunox fishermen charged with having undersized conch out on bail

The trio, 24-year-old Isair Mendez and 22-year-old Arody Mendez, who are brothers, along with 21-year-old Edrey Patt, were jointly charged in connection with 31 market clean [...]
January 15, 2023

Belize City fisherman fined over $14,000 for out-of-season conch

Fifty-year-old Jose Peraza appeared unrepresented in the Belize City Magistrate's court, charged with a single count of possession of conch during the close season in relation [...]
January 15, 2023

Sixty-nine-year-old man sentenced to four years in jail for sexually assaulting his granddaughter at age 4

On Friday, the man, whose identity is being withheld to protect the identity of the child, was sentenced in the High Court of Belize by Justice [...]
January 15, 2023

Justice delayed: Khaleel Ponce walks free from a double murder charge over constitutional rights violation

Ponce's attorney, Ronell Gonzalez, submitted to the court that eight years on remand at the Belize Central Prison without facing a trial was a violation of [...]
January 15, 2023

Samuel August gets 35 years in jail for killing ex-mother in law and his own son with a backhoe

Justice Susan Lamb sentenced August on Friday, following his guilty plea for murder back in November 2022.