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Swift Hall in Belize City was overflowing on Monday night in the mad rush by immigrants to acquire Belizean nationality. The Minister of State for Immigration Beverly Williams was not present, but high ranking members of the Immigration Department turned up to meet the hundreds of immigrants. It all started last week when crowds converged […]
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Immigration C.E.O. Edmond Zuniga was also quizzed about the vast amount of documents that were collected at Finnegan’s political office over the course of last week. He did not confirm their status. Edmond Zuniga, C.E.O., Ministry of Immigration “I don’t know; I haven’t seen those documents so I don’t know. I can’t speak to […]
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A storm is brewing in the ruling United Democratic Party ahead of its national convention in February. This on the heels of the release of U.S. court documents of a massive tax fraud case. One of the documents is a deposition, eighteen pages long, against Lev Aslan Dermen by his business partner. Dermen is originally […]
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A disturbing report of rape is emerging from southern Belize. The Belize Police Department confirmed today that police in Dangriga are investigating a case of rape. Information to News Five is that a resort owner is being investigated for the sexual assault upon an eighteen-year-old housekeeper. According to the victim, the rape occurred at the […]
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The victim in a shooting incident in Hattieville is in detention. On January tenth, gunmen turned up at the home of Tyrone Belisle when he was with his family, Belisle fled, but was hit on the leg. Since then he has been picked up by the police, released and then detained again. Belisle’s family says […]
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A series of countrywide public consultations commenced over the weekend; on Monday it was held in Belmopan where proponents of the Equal Opportunities Bill presented, to an audience of interested persons, the need for the proposed legislation. Led by Chief Executive Officer Judith Alpuche of the Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation and Executive […]
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On Friday night, a young mother came home to find her three-year-old son dead inside their house on Lovely Lane, the heart of Jungle, which is the Pickstock hutment in Belize City. His two siblings, were badly injured, they had been brutally beaten and sexually abused. Zema Castillo rushed the child to the K.H.M.H., but […]
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Both sides of the families agree that signs of domestic abuse were detected in the relationship between Zema Castillo and Kenrick Longworth was releases from prison last year for a charge of attempted murder. The violence would lead to the unfortunate death of three-year old Mark Tuyul Junior. Isani Cayetano spoke to the mothers of […]
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This morning, the Belize Police Department, led by Commissioner Chester Williams, held a press conference to discuss the weekend tragedy. ComPol Williams began by giving an official police account of what transpired at the family’s Lovely Lane residence. Notwithstanding the tragedy and the sensitive nature of what took place, he believes that there is a […]
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The arrest of Kenrick Longsworth on Sunday afternoon brought to an end an intense manhunt that had been undertaken by police officers in Belize City since Friday evening. While his capture in Isabella Bank was successful, it wasn’t without controversy. That’s because a swarm of officers descended on Pickstock Hutment earlier in the morning in […]
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In the pursuit of Kenrick Longsworth, Belize City police descended on Pickstock Hutment, popularly known as Jungle. In a social media post, Commissioner Williams suggested that the fugitive stepfather was being harboured by residents of that community. The comment has incensed many who live in Jungle, despite the hotspot it is known to be. Upon […]
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A throve of documents has been obtained on a complex case in the U.S. Courts involving an alleged scheme to illegally obtain more than five hundred million U.S. dollars in renewable fuel tax credits. It includes court documents and press reports of the alleged bribes paid to senior U.S. officials as well as from Belize. […]
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The traditional opening of the Supreme Court took place as scheduled this morning. Members of the Judiciary were in full force as they made their way to the courtroom following a ceremony at Saint John’s Cathedral; but the Executive of the Bar Association and its President, Cheryl-Lyn Vidal, did not attend boycotting the event due […]
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For three days this week, hundreds of immigrants from Central America, and elsewhere, turned up at the political office of U.D.P. standard bearer Dianne Finnegan with immigration documents in hand. They were there to get assistance to get their nationality moved quickly through the process. It is an election year so there is a wild […]
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This morning, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin handed down a summary decision in a matter involving the ever-increasing U.H.S. debt that has been before different courts for long years from the local courts to the Caribbean Court of Justice and the London Court of International Arbitration. The Belize Bank Limited has been engaged in a protracted […]
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While the matter has been voted down in the National Assembly, during a move in which the opposition walked out of the House of Representatives and abstained from the process, interest on the monies continues to grow exponentially. According to AG Peyrefitte, theoretically, if the Belize Bank continues to withhold its business tax payments the […]
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The Supreme Court opens this coming Monday. The ceremony has traditionally been one of pomp featuring a full turnout of the Judiciary as well as the Bar. But that will change this coming Monday, and it is a first. All this in light of a challenge presently before the Supreme Court involving Chief Justice Kenneth […]
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An audit on whether B.T.L. owes twenty-five million dollars in taxes to the government has been raised time and again. Last year, it came to light that the General Sales Tax Department was auditing B.T.L. along with the B.E.S.L. and B.T.L. Digicel Limited, two of B.T.L.’s subsidiaries. Today Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte confirmed that he […]
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The National AIDS Commission is championing the drafting of a new piece of legislation which seeks to address the issue of discrimination in and around the workplace. Discussion around the Equal Opportunities Bill is ongoing, particularly since the commission and its legal consultants have been making their rounds in the media. But what’s the role […]
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Executive Director Caleb Orozco of United Belize Advocacy Movement, UNIBAM, also chimed in on the Equal Opportunity Bill. He admits that while the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community will be covered under the legislation, the compass of the bill should create a level playing field for everyone in the workplace. Caleb Orozco, Executive […]
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Long lines of persons queued up at the office of the U.D.P. Lake Independence Standard Bearer, Dianne Finnegan since early this morning and on Wednesday though the main office of the Immigration Department is a stone’s throw away. Admittedly, the persons say they are getting assistance to get their immigration papers in order to acquire […]
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But are the events in the past two days an indictment of the Immigration Department, where the processing is to take place? Minister of State for Immigration, Beverly Williams says that the meeting on Monday was a forward thinking initiative to address the congestion at the department in regularizing migrants. Beverly Williams, Minister of […]
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The Nurses Task Force today fired off a one-page press statement calling out the ministries of Health and Public Services for acting in bad faith. The release says that the Nursing Task Force met to follow up on recommendations made to the ministries to address issues affecting the nursing profession. According to the President of […]
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The Nurses Association of Belize wants five issues addressed with urgency and effectiveness. These issues, according to Spencer, include the urgent filling of the Post for Deputy Director Health Services /Chief Nursing Officer, Assistant Deputy Director of Health Services/ Chief Nursing Officer, and the Post of the Registrar. Spencer says that a nurse should be […]
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The Task Force is also asking the ministries to address the critical issue of a shortage of nurses that is negatively affecting the delivery of quality health care services to the people. Spencer says that these issues need to be addressed to enhance the nursing profession in Belize. Darrell Spencer, President, Nurses Association of […]
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