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Nov 9, 2010

Is Gov’t displaying transparency and accountability in ongoing immigration scandal?

Tonight we ask: Is government displaying any transparency and accountability to get to the bottom of the ongoing immigration scandal? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.


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12 Responses for “Is Gov’t displaying transparency and accountability in ongoing immigration scandal?”

  1. GUINEA GRASS Observer says:

    certainly not.

    The Prime Minister and the politicians are only protecting their backs.

    Even though they will NEVER be found guilty by a court of law…but they are guilty by the public court….Our opinions and perspective is that they are 100% guilty.

  2. Robert says:

    No, just another cover-up in Paradise. How can the suspect investigate himself? Why does the Honorable PM condone corruption? He, above all Belizeans, should want an intensive investigation to prove his skirts are clean!

  3. Cutty Ligiyaba says:

    NO-NO -NO, they are still erect in their belief that similarly to the other issues of corruption–these

    complaints against them will soon be a street side rumor and an old wives tale–BELIZEANS AND

    THE UNTOUCHABLES.

  4. BZNinCALI says:

    The fact that they have allowed this much information to come out even though it only muddies up the water does suggest that they are trying to be transparent.

    Someone (Manford, I believe) mentioned last week that this may go beyond our Government, We may have to play nice because there is something we are not being told & the Minister’s short explanation suggests he does not have the ability to finesse or BS this story. Traveling from Sri Lanka or China to Ecuador to Cuba to Haiti to cross the border into the Dominican Republic to get on a plane to Belize suggest that people are hiding their trail.

    How many of them left our country with Belizean passports to mask their identities further?

  5. ivan cal says:

    ‘belize cannot put its own minister a national security to investigate its own self\crime- thats a joke .we need more transparency -so imajine if all this is going on how many more corrupt dealings has been covered? corruption is RAMPANT just that more corrupt dealings are about to come to light sooner or later,just watch and see…LiKE ALWAYS ONLY THE SMALL FISH GETS caught. GOB will cover all scandals.

  6. xXxRGxXx says:

    This is a cover up. Listening to what the prime minister has to say about the situation, it is clear that they are trying to just sweep the whole thing under the rug. It is not an open-shut case. A further investigation by a third party must be done! How long has it been since this “scandal” has came out, and up to now we do not know if the ppl that got the visas are in Belize, or have already left Belize.

  7. rootsman says:

    Definitely not.

    Not in any way, form, or means and not only in this particular case but in no case at all.

    It’s politricks all politricks but they are only fooling themselves.

  8. Dissapointed UDP says:

    lets give Jose Sanchez an award. keep digging channel 5 for only the truth shall set us free.

  9. Earl Grey says:

    WE CAN SEE CLEARLY……….with all the SMOKE and MIRRORS.

  10. carlos says:

    very good ch. 5 keep up your good work. I found it very strange that the p m. does not see the need to form an inquiry commission, is it possible that he knew of this , is he covering up the minister of immigration? See what happened with the Belize ambassador to the U K , the CEO covering for the minister’s daughter. The prime minister should fire the CEO or at least order him to investigate the financial mis deal of mrs. Hulse.

  11. RadicalBelizean says:

    BzIn Cali: Yes, I agree. We have had so many years of being in the dark but these people would prefer to say no than to acknowledge the changes however minute. The problem with us Belizeans is that we can only think in Blue or Red. We will never have the ability to weigh up the pros and cons because that involves critical thinking.

    Mr Barrow has been called a dictator and what I say to that is that if they have ever lived under dictatorship they would know they’d never get to finish their statement. I wonder if the bigotry we see with Jessel is the same thing at play here? Also this passport business started in the late 1990’s under the PUP administration and this is no secret because the US had expressed these concerns to then PM Mr Musa.

  12. BZNinCALI says:

    Radical Belizean, thanks & I believe bigotry is a factor. I don’t know if you remember the expression “he/she woulda be ugly if ih neva ha hair an cala”. Some of us still have that mentality.

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