Andre Hutchinson, 23, the son of Minister Michael Hutchinson, pleaded guilty to harm when he was arraigned today in the #4 Magistrate’s Court. Magistrate Aretha Ford fined him $200 and gave him until September 27 to pay. If he defaults on payment he will serve 2 months. Hutchinson was kept in custody ...

Dennis Flowers, 27, a farmer of Esperanza Village who allegedly attempted to smuggle 50 grams of cannabis into Belize Central Prison, was charged with drug trafficking when he appeared in the #5 Magistrate’s Court on Monday, August 23. Flowers wanted to plead guilty to the lesser charge of possession simplicitor but ...

Twenty-three year old Edwin "Drive" Flowers and 23 year old Brandon Smith, were today freed after Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie struck out the charge against them. The Charges were dropped after the Chief Magistrate agreed with their attorney Dicky Bradly was entered a submission that there was not enough evidence ...

Today 18 year old Jermaine Matura who is accused of the robbery and the murder of 14 year old Helen Yue as well as the shooting her father was brought before the courts on the charges of murder, conspiracy to ...

Today four new magistrates took the oath of office from Acting Chief Justice Samuel Awich, they are: Patricia Arana,  a civilian prosecutor who previously worked at the police's prosecution branch, former Superintendent of Police, Linden Flowers, Keila Teck, a former ...

For almost two decades the Belize Waste Control Co. Ltd. has been collecting and trucking away, free of cost, the garbage that schools in Belize City produce.  But as they say, all good things must come to an end and last week, the schools received their notification from the company that effective August ...

Belize City police are expected to bring a charge of Arson against the man they have in custody for a fire that completely destroyed two houses and scorched four others in a breezy Monday morning inferno in Petticoat Alley. The blaze was reported sometime ...

He's only 18 but already Jermaine Matura has racked up quite a rap sheet and is a notorious figure in the crime world.  Aside form being the victim of gun violence, he now is the latest to be charged in ...

The long list of police unsolved murders just got longer this week when Harrison Staine, a mentally challenged man was gunned down as he rode by on Berkeley Street, just two nights after Jason Tillet, 35, and Erwin Gladden, ...

The criminal mind has apparently elevated to another level as women have now become targets of gun violence, the latest of whom is a 33 year-old single mother.  Shelmadine Sanchez of # 5 Oleander Street in the Saint Martin ...