December 2, 2024

Belmopan businesswoman joins husband in jail over firearm and drug charges

Lopez, represented by attorney Dale Cayetano, appeared before a Senior Magistrate in Court #6 on Thursday evening. She pleaded not guilty to all charges, which include [...]
December 2, 2024

Bus conductor sent to jail after assaulting traffic officer in viral incident

The incident, captured in an amateur video that quickly went viral, occurred last Tuesday when Deshield, 46, was inspecting a crowded Bluebird bus near Miles 2/3 [...]
December 2, 2024

High Court dismisses appeal – Inspector of Police Christopher Martinez will have to spend his remaining 3 months behind bars for wounding conviction

On Friday, he sought a stay of the ruling pending further appeal from the Magistrate’s to the High Court, but Justice Candace Nanton treated the hearing [...]
November 28, 2024

Landlord accused of burglary and theft of money, remanded to prison

This follows an investigation into a report by a Belize City resident. Tillett, a retiree from the Ministry of Works, was taken into custody for allegedly [...]
November 28, 2024

Troubled Joel Hamilton must get psychiatric evaluation, court orders after harm charge

Hamilton is accused of harm to a friend of his, one Darrell Grant, after they got into a fight.
November 28, 2024

Brothers Saldano remanded for threatening policeman

Edward Saldano on Monday was charged with two counts of aggravated assault on Constable Briceno Shal and escape from lawful custody, to which he pleaded not [...]
November 28, 2024

Son makes bail; mother and sister remanded on cannabis charge

Jointly charged with Lodge are 51-year-old Juliet Richards; 31-year-old Shanice Brown, who is deaf-mute; and Eldy Jane Taylor of Krooman Road who was visiting at the [...]
November 28, 2024

Ledwin Dixon Jr. is convicted of smoking cannabis in public

30-year-old, Ledwin Dixon Jr admitted smoking half a ‘bamboo’ on Monday, November 25 – in fact, he was actually blowing the smoke from his mouth while [...]