The Perdomo loan write-off is not going to go away in time soon. Today, U.D.P. Senator for Government Business Godwin Hulse says that the forty thousand dollar loan does not mean it is uncollectible. Perdomo is employed at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science, which is located in Dallas, Texas. He was to return to […]
Hulse reiterated the government’s position that the loan is six-year statute barred. According to him, cabinet sticks to the recommendation from the Attorney General. But Hulse did let out that the Perdomo family is making arrangement to settle the unpopular debt. Godwin Hulse, Senator for Government Business “I don’t get into the argument whether […]
It has been almost two years since a series of public hearings were conducted by the Senate Special Select Committee into the findings of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report of the Immigration and Nationality Department. That document chronicled the goings-on, including various procedural irregularities, within the department during the period 2011 to 2013 and […]
In the absence of what many expected to be a timely report, there has been talk that completion and presentation of that document is deliberately being stalled for political reasons. While those sentiments have been voiced elsewhere in the media, Senator Salazar says the most salacious pieces of evidence have been ventilated during the hearings, […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Jose Hilberto Gallegos is behind bars for counterfeit U.S. dollars. The Mexican national was busted at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on October tenth with forty thousand, eight hundred dollars in counterfeit U.S. currency and appeared this week in court for arraignment before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford and was read three counts of possession […]
Deborah Baptist Estrada is moving up to replace Diana Locke as the Director of Immigration. Estrada is being promoted from her post of Deputy Director of Nationality and Passport Department. Locke is now retiring after long years as a pubic officer with spectacular service in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Public Service and Immigration. Estrada […]
Tonight, the Prime Minister Dean Barrow is blasting the letter by Opposition Leader John Briceño, a day after Briceño wrote to him. That letter by Briceño, dated October fifteenth, was on the Joshua Perdomo forty thousand dollars loan write off and it got the better out of the PM. Barrow tells Briceño that his letter […]
There is a looming death knell over the citrus industry in southern Belize, signaling that the livelihoods of hundreds may be hanging in the balance. Millions of dollars and years of investment are on the line. As we reported on Wednesday, the problem has been exacerbated by the Citrus Growers Association’s inability to discharge its […]
The Public Service Union is pressing ahead with a legal challenge to regain its former Hilltop headquarters in Belmopan. The P.S.U. has been issued a notice to vacate by Estevan Perera, attorney for Simplex Designs- the legal owner of the property after it was sold by the Belmopan City Council. The P.S.U. has been given […]
Perera says that if the deadline passes and the P.S.U. has not vacated the property, a court order will be pursued to have the union move out. According to Perera, the process can take anywhere between a couple of months to a year. Estevan Perera, Attorney for Simplex Designs “The way it works is […]
According to a news report in The New York Post, U.S. national Christopher Prestipino found refuge in Belize after he murdered a model in Las Vegas. His stay in Belize lasted a week after which the murder suspect headed back to Vegas where he was picked up by the police. The victim is Esmeralda Gonzalez, […]
Police say they haven’t yet identified the men who robbed the Zitro Western Union outlet in Orange Walk Town on the Belize-Corozal Road on Wednesday. While cops say that they are following several leads, they are still looking for the get-away vehicle and the two criminals. Sometime close to two in the afternoon, two robbers […]
A group of police officers and soldiers this morning escaped injury after the police vehicle they were travelling in plunged into a ditch filled with water this morning. It happened at around eleven o’clock near Hattieville Village in the Belize District. No official report on the matter has been provided but we understand that the […]
We start the newscast tonight with developments in the citrus industry which continues to find itself on the brink of collapse. For some time, the once thriving industry has been on the decline and tonight some two hundred and sixty-nine citrus growers are in limbo and their employees face unemployment. At the core of the […]
The Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño is ramping up pressure in respect of a write-off of a loan of forty-thousand plus dollars to the son of the Cabinet Secretary. The write-off was passed in the House and rejected by the Senate last week, but it is not going away. Briceño has fired off a […]
After the House of Representatives approved the write-off without debate, it went to the Senate and seven out of the thirteen senators voted it down including Church Senator Ashley Rocke who called on the Prime Minister to personally ensure that the forty thousand dollars are recovered. But Attorney General and U.D.P. Senator Michael Peyrefitte says […]
Musa reiterated what Briceño has said to the PM, and that is that, if the loan is written off without the Senate’s approval, the Opposition will launch a legal challenge in the form of judicial review. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores Division “I want to say this Hipolito that in my opinion this […]
The Belize Youth Movement is calling on all the Belizean youths to rise and demand that their student loans also be written off. The B.Y.M., an arm of the People’s United Party says it is outraged at the actions taken by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to vote in favour of writing off Joshua Perdomo’s forty […]
The P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer for Belize Rural North Marconi Leal is challenging six re-registration applications, believing that those persons gave inaccurate information regarding their place of residence. Originally, Leal was challenging fifty-nine applications but later abandoned fifty-three; the U.D.P.’s Edmond Castro to defend the remaining six. In court today, Leal along with Nathaniel Alvaro testified […]
The Leader of the Opposition John Briceño says that on October fourth he was denied the opportunity to debate the Joshua Perdomo forty thousand dollars write-off motion. Speaker of the House Laura Tucker-Longsworth told Briceño that no one rose to debate the motion when it was first introduced by the Prime Minister at the previous […]
Three persons were brutally murdered over the extended weekend. We start with the deadly and brazen shooting of Troy Polonio Junior on Monday night. Polonio Junior was on Raccoon Street where he had just picked up his girlfriend and young son. He was holding the toddler when a gunman trailing him opened fire hitting him […]
In San Lazaro, Orange Walk, a search party followed a blood trail and made a gruesome discovery in a shallow grave off a sugar road on Sunday morning. They found the body of Basis Haziel Samir Diaz, four hours after they set out looking for him. Haziel, as he is popularly known, was murdered sometime […]
This afternoon, Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero spoke briefly on the discovery as well as the ongoing criminal investigation into Hazid Diaz’s murder. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “On Sunday, October 13th, 2019, police responded to a report that a shallow grave had been found in San Lazaro Village. Upon […]
A retired public officer was brutally killed inside his house sometime over the weekend. The neighbours suspect that he was murdered sometime between the hours of Friday night and early Saturday morning. The last time anyone reported seeing him was on Friday night and when the neighbours didn’t see any movements at his house the […]
Three persons lost their lives in two traffic accidents over the weekend. The first fatality occurred just after midnight on Friday as Billy Lerma rode a Senke motorcycle on the George Price Highway, in Santa Elena. When he reached the junction with Carillo Puerto Avenue, he was struck by a pickup truck crossing the highway […]
