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The U.D.P.’s leadership race is getting tense and the party appears to be hopelessly fractured. Scheduled for February ninth, John Saldivar and Patrick Faber will go head-to-head to become the next U.D.P. leader and hold over the reins of government if the Prime Minister of Belize steps down before the term of the government expires. […]
Written on January 29, 2020 | Posted in
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Jumoke Castro, son of U.D.P. Minister Edmond Castro, failed to explain his December 2019 Facebook vile comments that attracted widespread condemnation and disgust. Castro attacked Plus TV’s Sashta Wade with the threat of gang rape. Castro, who is a public officer attached to the Belize Tax Service, was placed on administrative leave after a complaint […]
Written on January 29, 2020 | Posted in
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The trial of Lev Dermen in Utah is attracting attention in many countries, including Belize, because one witness has named a local government official and says he has text messages to corroborate what he will tell the court to prove that Dermen was involved in money laundering on an international scale. As arguments begin, critical […]
Written on January 29, 2020 | Posted in
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As the trial of American Armenian national Lev Dermen enters its second day in the U.S. courts, in Belize, the matter is getting plenty attention because of its implications to a sitting government minister. The question in everyone’s mind is about the contents of the messages shared between Dermen’s former business partner, Jacob Kingston and […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Musa says that if the messages or any other documents prove some level of criminality, public pressure will be applied on Commissioner of Police Chester Williams to launch a criminal investigation and seek prosecution of those involved. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores “If the evidence comes which I suspect it will in the […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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By this afternoon, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte responded to Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa, despite not being in receipt of the letter in reference to Minister of National Security John Saldivar. The AG minced no words, calling the notion of invoking the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, under these circumstances, absolutely impractical. According to Peyrefitte, […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Attorney General Peyrefitte says that even if he were to proceed with such a request to obtain the names of the government ministers from U.S. Attorney General William Barr, the bureaucracy of that process would take significantly longer than waiting for the trial to commence and simply paying close attention to Jacob Kingston‘s testimony. […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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The man in the eye of the storm here in Belize is John Birchman Saldivar. The Minister of National Security took to social media today saying that he stands proud. He said that, “Imagine the amount of people who are conspiring from outside my Party and from inside my Party to see me fail. Naw […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on John Saldivar: “Not a corrupt bone in my body!!! Me dah God Pickney!!!”
Jury selection continued today in the District Court in Utah, where Lev Dermen is facing up to ten charges relating to money laundering in a case brought against him by the U.S. for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service of five hundred and eleven million dollars. The prosecution has worked out a plea deal with one […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Lev Dermen, Washakie and the Belize Connection
The B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education are at odds again. In the latest round, the B.N.T.U. says they have no favourable responses from the ministry to the list of pending issues. According to the B.N.T.U., there has been no consultation and the ministry has simply informed them that they intended to make changes to […]
Written on January 28, 2020 | Posted in
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It’s a big night of news from murders in the city and the south to a courtroom in Utah, U.S.A. for a high profile case of fraud which extends to Belize. We begin with the bloodiest weekend since the start of the year. A total of four persons were murdered in the past seventy-two hours, […]
Written on January 27, 2020 | Posted in
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The second murder victim in the city is well-known businessman, Ernesto Williams. Williams was executed early on Friday night as he headed to his vehicle which was parked on Orange Street. But was the owner of Sky Deck a marked man? He had been advised to take security measures because of a double murder that […]
Written on January 27, 2020 | Posted in
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There is another shooting under investigation by the police. The victim of that incident was Brian Harris who was shot multiple times in mid-December in the Farmers Site area of Hattieville. He was found haemorrhaging by a resident in the village and taken to the hospital. For weeks, he was in and out of the […]
Written on January 27, 2020 | Posted in
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The airspaces above parts of southern Belize, Guatemala and Mexico were busy with illegal flight activity over the weekend where suspected drug planes are said to have landed. In the area of Payne’s Creek, a remote location in the Toledo District, the burnt vestiges of a twin-engine aircraft were discovered near a crude runway that […]
Written on January 27, 2020 | Posted in
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There are other reports of drug plane landings close to the northern and western borders. A soldier was killed and three persons injured in a shoot-out involving Mexican law enforcement and the drug traffickers when a suspected drug landed on the stretch of highway on Los Divorciados Chunhubub near Bacalar early this morning. After the […]
Written on January 27, 2020 | Posted in
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Accused fraudster Lev Dermen who owned a chain of gas stations under the name Noil Energy in Los Angeles, is headed to trial. “Noil” is “lion” spelled backward and it is one of several examples of Dermen’s affinity for the big cat. Other businesses of his have had the word “lion” in them as well. […]
Written on January 27, 2020 | Posted in
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There were two murders in southern Belize. A Punta Gorda resident was to appear in court in Dangriga today, but his life was cut short on Sunday night. Twenty-three year old Denroy Nicholas exited his mother’s house to go to his room in the same yard, when he was shot to the chest and died […]
Written on January 27, 2020 | Posted in
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There is breaking news tonight. News Five has confirmed that a murder occurred a short while ago in Dangriga. We are told that the victim was shot in the head while inside a store. More details on this latest murder in Monday’s newscast.
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Former U.D.P. Albert area representative Herman Longsworth is the subject of a criminal investigation. Longsworth was fired by Prime Minister Dean Barrow after his name surfaced in the Auditor General’s Report on the National Sports Council. Longsworth, who was the then Minister of State responsible for Sports reportedly created Go Enterprises Limited which received contracts […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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But here is a kick; Longworth’s release was accompanied by a set of photographs showing clean and completed facilities at the Marion Jones Sports Complex. But just before news time, News Five received information that those photos were taken as recent as Thursday and do not reflect the state of work when Longsworth was in […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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As you heard, the former minister says the establishment of the company, Go Enterprises, was undertaken to facilitate the completion of work at the Marion Jones. Longsworth states that work ceased when the National Sports Council could no longer pay. But the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, who was Longsworth’s boss until this week, […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Sedi Says Longsworth Should Not Have Deposited Money into Private Account
As to the firing of Longsworth for the allegations made in the Auditor General Report, the Foreign Minister offered a lawyerly explanation, saying that it is for the court to determine guilt, tantamount to the PM’s well-known statement on factual guilt and legal guilt. Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs “The practice […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party, in the final year of its three-term administration, is plagued with scandal after scandal. The most recent involves both leadership candidates and the prime minister has been busy trying to douse the flames caused by public outrage. In sitting down with Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington today, we asked the Pickstock Area […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Amid the Lev Dermen/John Saldivar fiasco is a claim that ambassadorship for Turkey was being sought on behalf of Dermen through various U.D.P. ministers. Those appointments, as stated at his press conference last Wednesday, are handled solely by the prime minister. We asked Foreign Minister Elrington whether he knew of such a request. He also […]
Written on January 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on No Turkey or Nevada Appointment for Lev Dermen Says Sedi
There is new information tonight in the case of Lev Dermen, an Armenian national with U.S. and Belize citizenship that is causing tremors inside the U.D.P. as it heads to a leadership convention on February ninth. Dermen is the accused mastermind in a scheme that defrauded the Internal Revenue Service of the United States of […]
Written on January 23, 2020 | Posted in
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Comments Off on An Official Exhibit List in the Case of Lev Dermen; John Saldivar is Named
