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Director Of Public Prosecutions (Belize)
The Director of Public Prosecutions is the head prosecutor of Belize, whose role is to prosecute criminal offences.. Legal basis The office of DPP is established in Article 108 of the Constitution of Belize; candidates for the position must have the same qualifications as Justices of the Supreme Court. The DPP is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Services Section of the Public Services Commission, with the concurrence of the Prime Minister after consultation with the Leader of the Opposition. Though the DPP is formally part of the PSC, under Article 106(6) the PSC does not have the power to remove the DPP. Instead, under 108(6) through (8), the PM must refer the question of removal to the Governor-General, who requests the Belize Advisory Council to investigate whether the DPP is unable to discharge his duties of office or whether his misbehaviour rises to the level of requiring his removal from office. List of Directors of Public Prosecutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prosecutor
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the common law adversarial system or the Civil law (legal system), civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a Criminal law, criminal jury trial, trial against an individual accused of breaking the law. Typically, the prosecutor represents the state or the government in the case brought against the accused person. Prosecutor as a legal professional Prosecutors are typically lawyers who possess a law degree, and are recognised as suitable legal professionals by the court in which they are acting. This may mean they have been Admission to the bar, admitted to the bar, or obtained a comparable qualification where available - such as Solicitor advocate, solicitor advocates in English law, England and Wales. They become involved in a criminal case once a suspect has been identified and Indictment, charges need to be filed. They are employe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Long (judge)
Michael Long (21 October 1928 – 18 August 1985) was a British judge of the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, having previously worked as a lawyer and judge in various African countries and as Director of Public Prosecutions in Belize. Life Michael Long was born on 21 October 1928. He was the younger brother of Audrey Margaret Freeman (née Long, d.o.b. 20 August 1920, died 27 March 2011, aged 90). After being educated in the Channel Islands and at Jesus College, Oxford, Long served in the Royal Air Force from 1950 to 1956 before being called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1956. He was then a member of the Army Legal Staff, in various locations including Cyprus, until 1960, when he became Crown Counsel and Resident Magistrate in Uganda. He moved to Kenya in 1965, initially as Principal of the Kenya School of Law before becoming Senior State Counsel and Deputy Registrar General. A move to Gambia followed in 1970, holding similar positions, then a posting as Crown Counsel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Anderson (lawyer)
Kirk Brian Anderson (born 20 April 1967) is a Caribbean jurist. A dual national of Jamaica and Belize, he has experience both before the bench and behind it, in Belize as Director of Public Prosecutions and in Jamaica as a justice of the Supreme Court, and in both countries as a lawyer in private practice. Career Anderson came to Belize in the early 1990s, where he started out as a Crown Counsel. He later spent some years in private practice at the law firm of Barrow and Williams. As a high-profile criminal attorney, Anderson often butted heads with the police, but nevertheless he was named Belize's Director of Public Prosecutions in March 2002, succeeding Rory Field. However, as his term went on, he began to clash increasingly with the United Democratic Party. In September 2004, he wrote to Financial Intelligence Unit Director Keith Arnold to recommend that money laundering charges be filed against UDP head Dean Barrow, his old boss at Barrow and Williams. In October 2006, ange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Field
Rory is a given name of Gaelic origin. It is an anglicisation of the ga, Ruairí/''Ruaidhrí'' and gd, Ruairidh and is common to the Irish, Highland Scots and their diasporas. for the given name "Rory". The meaning of the name is "red king", composed of ''ruadh'' ("red") and ''rígh'' ("king"). In Ireland and Scotland, it is generally seen as a masculine name and therefore rarely given to females. History An early use of the name in antiquity is in reference to Rudraige mac Sithrigi, a High King of Ireland who eventually spawned the Ulaid (indeed, this tribe are sometimes known as ''Clanna Rudhraighe''). Throughout the Middle Ages, the name was in use by various kings, such as Ruaidrí mac Fáeláin, Ruaidrí na Saide Buide and Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland. As well as this, Ruairí Óg Ó Mórdha, the famous King of Laois, and his nephew Ruairí Ó Mórdha, who was a leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, held the name. Rory has seen increasing u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutchman Sooknandan
Lutchman Sooknandan (born 21 March 1948) is a Guyanese-Belizean lawyer. He previously served as Belize's Director of Public Prosecutions, practices law privately at Sooknandan's Law Firm, and serves as Guyana's honorary consul in Belize. Career Sooknandan came to Belize immediately after his law school graduation to work in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and remained in the country thereafter. He first became DPP in 1992, serving until 1994. He was appointed DPP again on 9 January 2007. One high-profile case which Sooknandan had to take on early in his was the prosecution of politically connected suspect Chayben Abou-Nehra for the murder of Shawn Copius in 2005, which was marred by police refusal to arrest him along with the disappearance of key evidence from his file before Sooknandan took office, and ended with a declaration of ''nolle prosequi''; Sooknandan himself described the police's conduct as creating "the most shameful miscarriage of justice" he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troadio Gonzalez
Troadio John Gonzalez (born 28 December 1941) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Belize. Career Born in Belize, Gonzalez received his Bachelor of Law from the University of the West Indies Law Faculty in Barbados and Jamaica, and went on to the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica. He served as Crown Counsel at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions from 1981 to 1988, Chief Magistrate from 1988 to 1991, and Director of Public Prosecutions from 1991 to 1993. He was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Belize in 1993. He served as acting Chief Justice of Belize from 1999 until Abdulai Conteh of Sierra Leone was formally appointed to that position the following year. Gonzalez is believed to hold Belize's record for the longest delay in rendering a judgment in a case: ''DFC v Classic Woods Limited'', which was heard in 1994 but on which he had not yet delivered a judgment by nearly fifteen years later in September 2009. One case over which Gonzalez presided in 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Singh
George Bawa Singh (May 1937 – 9 March 1999) was a Belizean judge who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1998 and as a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court from 1991 to 1998. He previously served as Solicitor General and Director of Public Prosecutions. Early life Singh was born in May 1937. His father Bawa Singh Mann was a Sikh who had immigrated from India in the 1930s. Singh himself converted to Christianity. He graduated from Wesley College in 1954. That same year, he wrote three poems: "Dawn", "Dusk", and "Soliloquy of a Murderer". He received the Gold Medal for the last one in a national poetry competition. Career After his graduation, Singh briefly worked as a primary school teacher before joining the public service in 1955. Starting as a clerk, he eventually became a customs inspector. Looking for a change in career, Singh entered the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica, where he graduated in 1978. Singh held the posts of Solicitor Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Staine
Sir Albert Llewellyn Staine (4 July 1928 – 1987) was a Belizean judge. He was Director of Public Prosecutions in 1969. He was one of the founding members of the Belize Audubon Society that year. He was named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1978. He was named Chief Justice of Belize in 1977. He was the first native of Belize to become CJ. At the time of his appointment, Belize was still a British colony; it would become independent while he was still on the bench. He served in that position until 1981, and was succeeded by George Moe of Barbados the following year. He was knighted in 1984. The Sir Albert Staine Building of the Supreme Court of Belize Supreme may refer to: Entertainment * Supreme (character), a comic book superhero * ''Supreme'' (film), a 2016 Telugu film * Supreme (producer), hip-hop record producer * "Supreme" (song), a 2000 song by Robbie Williams * The Supremes, Motown-e ..., which houses its law library, was named for him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belize
Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a water boundary with Honduras to the southeast. It has an area of and a population of 441,471 (2022). Its mainland is about long and wide. It is the least populated and least densely populated country in Central America. Its population growth rate of 1.87% per year (2018 estimate) is the second-highest in the region and one of the highest in the Western Hemisphere. Its capital is Belmopan, and its largest city is the namesake city of Belize City. Belize is often thought of as a Caribbean country in Central America because it has a history similar to that of English-speaking Caribbean nations. Indeed, Belize’s institutions and official language reflect its history as a British colony. The Maya civilization spread into the area of Beli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belize Advisory Council
Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a water boundary with Honduras to the southeast. It has an area of and a population of 441,471 (2022). Its mainland is about long and wide. It is the least populated and population density, least densely populated country in Central America. Its population growth rate of 1.87% per year (2018 estimate) is the second-highest in the region and one of the List of countries by population growth rate, highest in the Western Hemisphere. Its Capital city, capital is Belmopan, and its largest city is the namesake city of Belize City. Belize is often thought of as a Caribbean country in Central America because it has a history similar to that of English-speaking Caribbean nations. Indeed, Belize’s institutions and official language reflect its histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Belize
The following article contains a list of Prime Ministers of Belize and Deputy Prime Ministers, from the establishment of the position of First Minister of British Honduras in 1961 to the present day. Office of the Prime Minister of Belize The office of prime minister is established by section 37 of the Constitution of Belize, which provides that the Governor-General of Belize "shall appoint a member of the House of Representatives who is the leader of the political party which commands the support of the majority of the members of that House; and if no political party has an overall majority, he shall appoint a member of that House who appears to him likely to command the support of the majority of the members of that House" The Prime Minister's principal office is the Sir Edney Cain Building, Belmopan. First Minister of British Honduras (1961–1964) Premier of British Honduras (1964–1973) Premier of Belize (1973–1981) Prime ministers of Belize (1981–present) O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
