March 2, 2022

22-year-old man accused of being a con artist remanded to prison for missing court dates

Twenty-two-year-old Taydron Castillo appeared before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson, today and could not provide a valid reason why he failed to show up to court since [...]
March 2, 2022

18-year-old man caught with stolen window pleads with Magistrate to not send him to jail

Eighteen-year-old Ezekiel Elijah Barrow appeared unrepresented in court on Tuesday, answering to a single charge of handling stolen goods, to which he pleaded guilty.
March 2, 2022

Man fined in court for attacking his run man and damaging his belongings

Kendon Lennon appeared in the Belize City Magistrate's Court on Tuesday to answer to one count of common assault upon 54-year-old, Julian Wallace Castillo, and one [...]
March 2, 2022

Decision expected on Thursday re government’s application to strike out Stake Bank’s case re cruise ports fiasco

Today, arguments were heard on the Government’s position that the Stake Bank claim was not filed within the 14-day limit in the Civil Procedure Rules of [...]
March 2, 2022

Man charged with brutal 2016 murder of Jennifer Coleman walks free

Fifty-seven-year-old Donald Heredia, appeared in the Supreme Court on Tuesday along with his attorney Darrell Bradley, before newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Ricardo O'Neal Sandcroft.
March 1, 2022

Christian Workers’ Union president says banks refusing to do business with them

The Union and the Government opened a particular account at the National Bank of Belize to handle disbursements, but some stevedores had not been able to [...]
March 1, 2022

Lawyers for Christian Workers’ Union (CWU) assert they did nothing wrong in paying stevedores

Attorney Darrell Bradley, who along with Magalie Perdomo represents the Union, argued that nothing was in place preventing the CWU from distributing the funds, not even [...]
March 1, 2022

Jealous man charged with stealing ex-girlfriend’s phone; claims he was emotional after seeing her with another man

Allegations are that on February 25, Clifford Lopez approached the complainant on Hicatee Street and took away her cell phone, then made off with it.