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In Salt Lake City this week, Jacob Kingston revealed that accused fraudster Lev Dermen became interested in Belize in 2012. Living a high lifestyle, the accused fraudster would wine and dine many personalities, including government officials, agents, mayors, ministers and sheriffs. One such telling image of Dermen posing with his Belizean friends has surfaced; it […]
Written on February 7, 2020 | Posted in
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Now to the photo in circulation which shows Mayor Khalid Belisle and other associates, who are likely to be on the delegates list of this weekend’s convention. They are photographed smiling and posing with Lev Dermen and Kingston in late April or March of 2015 in front of a private jet. This evening, Mayor Khalid […]
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Overnight on Wednesday, a suspected drug plane landed in the Monkey River area. An operation team, headed by the Joint Intelligence Operating Centre, had been alerted of the aircraft en route from South America to this area and officers were deployed to prevent and possibly intercept its landing in Belize. Authorities, however, arrived on the […]
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ComPol Williams says that almost daily, reports are received of suspected drug planes, but the location where the aircraft will land is unknown and so officers are often times deployed across the country to circumvent the illegal landings. But it is no secret that there are also local players who are actively engaged in the […]
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A suspected drug plane landed in the Monkey River area sometime late Wednesday night and early this morning. By the time authorities arrived on the scene, the passengers were gone and they found the torch remnants of the aircraft. A photo sent to News Five, believed to be from the scene of the landing, shows […]
Written on February 6, 2020 | Posted in
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Well-known businessman, Richard Harrison perished in a traffic accident this afternoon. He was travelling in his SUV when pieces of lumber from a flatbed truck landed on his vehicle. The Cayo businessman died on impact. Harrison and his brothers had business interests in Big H Company; he was involved in a number of initiatives to […]
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The executive of the United Democratic Party, following a meeting of its National Party Council last Saturday, has decided to limit access to the local media in covering the upcoming leadership convention. On the contrary, we understand that an observer from the United States Embassy’s political office has been granted full access to the day’s […]
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According to August, at the conclusion of the vote, the media will be invited to witness the counting of ballots, as well as the party leader’s address and the leader-elect’s statement. Those presentations are critical to document, but in these days of instant communication, our viewers and social media followers will be limited to the […]
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Jacob Kingston continued with his testimony in the Salt Lake court at today’s sitting. Kingston’s testimony is highly anticipated and is critical for the prosecution if it is to seal the case against Lev Dermen, his former business partner who is also known as Levon Termendzhyan. Since Wednesday, Kingston has been providing background to his […]
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The death toll due to the novel corona virus continues to climb; it is reported that more than five hundred and fifty persons have died since the outbreak in Wuhan, China. More than thirty thousand others are reportedly infected, most of them from China. Locally, travel to China and from China is not recommended by […]
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As we reported on Wednesday, Lord Michael Ashcroft has formally applied to join a lawsuit against the Government of Belize that was brought by the Belize Peace Movement. Ashcroft’s application is to join the claimants as an interested party in a legal challenge that, once successful, would prompt government to conduct a redistricting exercise prior […]
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The star witness in the case against Lev Dermen arrived today at the court in Utah in handcuffs. Jacob Kingston is expected to testify through next week Monday since he has a throve of information that is critical to prove that Dermen was involved in massive money laundering. All eyes will be on Kingston because […]
Written on February 5, 2020 | Posted in
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In the local courts in Belize City today, an application was filed with the Supreme Court, which would add Lord Michael Ashcroft to the case submitted to require the Belize Elections and Boundaries Commission to undertake Redistricting of Area Representative Districts in the country. The case is focusing on the constitutionality of the current legislative boundaries. According […]
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A coast guard operation, carried out in the vicinity of Drowned Caye on Tuesday, has resulted in the arrests of four men who were found in possession of unlicensed ammunition. According to coast guard personnel, upon approaching the fishing camp, one of the individual attempted to flee the scene and evade the team of officers. […]
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On Monday, we reported about the death of Anthony Parks. He was shot in Independence Village on the morning of January twenty-second. Ever since then, he was hospitalized up until his death on Sunday morning. In our first report of the incident, in an interview with the media, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams said that […]
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On Tuesday night, a pair of robbers targeted La Popular Bakery on Cemetery Road in Belize City. Reports are that around seven-thirty p.m., two men, posing as customers, entered the bakery; they both wore caps possibly to conceal their identities. The men then approached cashier Esmeralda Sanchez and held her at gunpoint. The gunman demanded […]
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Amending the Education Rules to reflect particular changes that are favorable to teachers across the country was a contentious issue for the Belize National Teachers Union. Prior to Tuesday’s marathon session with the Ministry of Education, the B.N.T.U. openly voiced its frustration, saying that it will no longer be disrespected by the ministry where negotiations […]
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Proponents of the Equal Opportunities Bill, including the executive of the National AIDS Commission, the Special Envoy for Women and Children, as well as the Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation, made their rounds in a series of countrywide public consultations last month. During those discussions advocates of the proposed legislation presented the upside […]
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Tonight, there is a sigh of relief among the Ministry of Education and the Belize National Teachers Unions and temperatures are cooling down. Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber took a detour from his campaign trail today to meet with the B.N.T.U. at length in an effort to arrive at a mutual agreement on amendments to […]
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Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber who was flanked by Chief Education Officer, Doctor Carol Babb, at the meeting also felt confident that the meeting had a positive outcome, despite not being able to resolve all of the points raised by the union. He told reporters this afternoon that contrary to what has been reported, his […]
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News Five’s Hipolito Novelo is in Salt Lake City, Utah covering the trial of accused fraudster Lev Dermen. It’s a huge tax fraud case involving over a billion dollars, involving money laundering and extends to Belize. That’s because Dermen is said to have met and associated with several politicians including sitting U.D.P. cabinet ministers. One […]
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As the Lev Dermen trial continues in Utah, on the home front, the effects of the scandal is rippling across all strata of Belizean society, rocking the United Democratic Party and the government, which is under fire for having advocated for a diplomatic post for the incarcerated businessman. Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber has finally […]
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Comments Off on Faber Takes on Lev Dermen Allegations
The scandal-ridden U.D.P. is gearing up for a leadership convention this weekend after which it will also prepare for general elections. Amid the Lev Dermen scandal, as well as the recent auditor general’s audits on the National Sports Council and Julian Cho Technical High School, how will public outrage on these matters impact the party’s […]
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At midnight, there will be some relief for consumers as the prices for regular gasoline and kerosene will go down at the pumps. Regular gasoline will decrease by fifty-five cents to sell at nine dollars and seventy three cents per gallon. Kerosene will also go down by forty-one cents and will retail at seven dollars […]
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The countdown to the February ninth U.D.P. leadership convention is down to the last five days and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber is facing political opponent John Saldivar in a leadership race for the incumbent United Democratic Party. While Saldivar has chosen not to grant an interview in the days leading up to Sunday’s leadership […]
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