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The battleground over the continuing scandal in the Ministry of Natural Resources shifts north to Orange Walk Town. On Wednesday, the Opposition People’s United Party, led by its Northern Caucus and Orange Walk North executive committee, is assembling constituents at nine to protest the behaviour of area representative and former Minister of Natural Resources, Gaspar […]
Outrage has been widespread in the twenty-four hours since the Government of Belize’s announcement on Monday that fuel prices are to go up once again for the fourth time in several weeks. It is not yet known by how much prices will go up and when the new prices take effect, but officially, the situation […]
The People’s United Party last Wednesday threw its unquestioned support behind Belmopan resident Amy Forte, who directly wrote Prime Minister Dean Barrow to clear her name concerning the allegation of a deed of conveyance transferred in her name for beachfront land on Caye Caulker to Andre Vega. Vega parlayed the Caye Caulker property into the […]
According to the Opposition Leader, Prime Minister Dean Barrow has not responded to his letter last Friday that outlined his demands with regard to the land issue. But that does not mean that the pressure is off, or that the P.U.P. is willing to give up. John Briceño told News Five this afternoon that there […]
On Monday’s newscast, we questioned why Andre Vega would be compensated with public land on a private caye in the extreme north of Belize for privately-owned land in which a transaction did not go through on Caye Caulker. It has not been established how Vega approached the Ministry of Natural Resources, but Opposition Leader Briceño […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño has taken a firm position in the latest round of the Vega scandal, condemning unreservedly the land grab and compensation scheme involving relatives and friends of the beleaguered politician. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, on the other hand, is tasked with investigating the participation of Darlene Padron in the endorsement of what […]
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About twenty employees of the little known “United Association for Healthy Living” are claiming that they are owed salaries for two pay periods. The call center located on Mercy Lane in Belize City is foreign owned but has a local manager. The local employees say that for several months they have had to go around […]
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Did purported titleholder Amy Forte lie to Prime Minister Barrow and the media about the fraudulent use of her signature in the latest Andre Vega land scandal? And how would she benefit from being untruthful? It’s a fluid situation that has many baffled, including Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte who is in receipt of a letter […]
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The Attorney General’s Office is not in a position to investigate the alleged criminality involving the use of the signature, but can it investigate claims that public funds were used to compensate Vega for a private land transaction? That’s what we asked Peyrefitte earlier and his response is that, on the surface, the business deal […]
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While the Attorney General has very little to work with in order to investigate the nature of the reported transaction, he also says that it does not appear to be a conflict of interest for Padron, who at the time worked in the Lands Department and who Andre Vega has claimed is a family friend, […]
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Since this story broke last Tuesday with Amy Forte’s letter to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, there has been one largely unanswered question: why would the Ministry of Natural Resources, under then Minister Gaspar Vega, facilitate Andre Vega with compensation for land he thought he had acquired privately? And why would he just as easily give […]
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There are more documents from the Ministry of Natural Resources coming out tonight, concerning parcels of land in the village of Carmelita in Orange Walk District. As revealed last November in the House of Representatives, German Vega and Sons Imports Limited acquired up to one thousand seven hundred acres of land along the Philip Goldson […]
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Get ready for higher gas prices once again sometime this week, although this time there is some explanation from the government. The last increase came just last week for premium and diesel fuel, with recent increases also reported for regular fuel and even kerosene. This time the increase, the extent of which is not yet […]
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The Military Tattoo was back this year to display the readiness of the Belize Fence Force and the Police Department. Hundreds headed over to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex on Friday evening to view the exercise. All was going according to precision, when something went awfully wrong. Today, both agencies provided explanations as to why […]
The outcry continues to grow tonight in relation to the Mosquito Caye/Caye Caulker land scandal involving an attempted swap of land in both locations by Andre Vega, son of former Lands Minister Gaspar Vega. This involved the reported forgery of the signature of Belmopan resident Amy Forte on a deed of conveyance approved by Justice […]
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Like the Belize National Teachers’ Union and the Public Service Union, the C.W.U. is asking that a formal investigation be carried out dating back to the start of Gaspar Vega’s tenure as Minister of Natural Resources. President Dale Trujeque told News Five that particular attention needs to be paid to the period when the Ministry […]
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Earlier this week, the Opposition People’s United Party went after the Government, calling for among other things, the return of all Vega-titled properties and a full investigation and commission of inquiry as well as a case of misfeasance against Gaspar Vega. The Leader of the Opposition John Briceño has put this in writing to Prime […]
A seventeen-year-old 2017 graduate from the Edward P. Yorke High School in Belize City is beating all odds and making her mark in regional exams. While the official results are yet to be released by the CSEC Committee, it is known that Bernice Ramirez sat and passed twenty CXC subjects; twelve of which were challenged […]
…and her accomplishments opened doors for Ramirez. Aside from being recognized as a youth ambassador in 2016, her achievement of twenty CXC passes qualified Bernice for a scholarship with Pestalozzi International Village in the United Kingdom. News Five caught up Bernice and her mother, Lucero Ramirez just before she departed Belize for the U.K. […]
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News Five was called out to Princess Margaret Drive this morning in front of Edward P. Yorke High School where we found special constables of the Belize City Council and police officers in a stand-off with well-known vendor Paul “Chicken Dread” Ferguson. His staff of four had been selling what he calls the best fried […]
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In environmental news, members of the Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage have written Chief Environmental Officer Martin Alegria to raise concerns on the scope of a planned consultancy intended to strengthen prevention, preparedness, and coordinated emergency response in the event of an oil spill in terrestrial, aquatic and marine environment. An outgrowth of this […]
Well-known businessman Omar Ortiz left his home this morning en route to Galen University in Central Farm, Cayo, but he never arrived at his destination. Near the cut off to Mahogany Heights between miles thirty-one and thirty-two on the George Price Highway, Ortiz lost control of his vehicle on the slippery highway, flipped over and […]
Belize’s two largest trade unions have come out swinging against the Government in the wake of the latest revelations into fraudulent and corrupt activities at the Ministry of Natural Resources. A Justice of the Peace working at the Ministry of Environment, with ties to the Vega family, reportedly facilitated Andre Vega, the son of ex-deputy […]
Meanwhile, the Public Service Union states in its release that corruption has been increasingly reported not only at Lands, but at the Ministries of Works and Health. It says it welcomes government’s initiative to extensively investigate allegations of fraud and corruption at the Ministry of Natural Resources, and calls for the same at the Ministries […]
Orange Walk East Area Representative Elodio Aragon Junior also weighed in on the ongoing land scandal involving former cabinet colleague Gaspar Vega. As Minister of State for Home Affairs, Aragon chimed in on the role of the Belize Police Department in a criminal investigation that has been ordered by the prime minister. From a political […]
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