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This afternoon, the Roman Catholic Church sent out an unprecedented release signed by no less than the Bishop of Belize City and Belmopan Dorick Wright. The Catholic Church is taking on the National Women’s Commission and its rally for twenty-thousand women to be held by on Thursday. We note that the rally is being heavily […]
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today issued a writ of Mandamus against Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie. In simple terms, the Court has now instructed Whylie to criminally investigate the Won Hong Kim passport scandal and, of course, the man in the middle of it all, former Minister of State Elvin Penner. In addition, the Chief […]
Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal dropped an inadvertent bombshell last week, in the form of a memo to the National Crimes Investigation Branch. In that memo Vidal quotes from a report by Police investigator A.S.P. Julio Valdez. Valdez makes the shocking revelation that he found discrepancies in the Immigration Department during his investigation, but […]
What is being called a miscommunication between the Belize Defense Force and the police department resulted in the brief detention of several armed officers who crossed into Belizean territory at the northern border last Friday. The incident occurred prior to a high-level meeting held between B.D.F. officials and members of the Mexican military and caused […]
A San Ignacio police officer was stabbed as many as eighteen times over the weekend. The stabbing took place in Orange Walk Town where the cop had reportedly gone to visit his mother-in-law. PC Abimael Romero was found in a pool of blood by a resident of the area and it is believed he was […]
While PC Romero remains hospitalized at the Northern Regional Hospital with multiple stab wounds, in Burrell Boom, a Belize City man was more fortunate despite a volley of bullets unleashed in his direction. Giovanni Berry was asleep inside a newly built house in a remote area of the village when a group of villagers looking […]
Ongoing enmity between two rival Belize City groups has resulted in yet another brazen shooting, this time at a residence on Curassow Street. On Saturday night, a group of young men socializing inside a yard came under fire when an assailant reportedly rode up to the mouth of the alley and let loose a barrage […]
Moses Williams was shot and killed on February seventeenth, on his farm in Big Falls in the Toledo District. Police say they went for the mentally challenged young man to take him to the hospital and he attacked them with a machete. They claim that he chopped one officer before he was shot in the […]
The pressure to have the man who apparently masterminded the Won Hong Kim passport fraud criminally investigated and charged refuses to go away, despite government’s best efforts. And it is building rapidly. Wherever former Minister of State Elvin Penner was today, his ears must have been ringing. The P.U.P. requested and received permission this week […]
We reported on Thursday night that we have a dossier of the immigration scandal, as it relates to the issuance of a passport to Won Hong Kim in September 2013. The documents are voluminous and telling and we will walk you through some of the irregularities we picked out during perusal of the documents. We […]
We’ve presented to you the judicial review hearing in a nutshell, but there was much more of interest coming out of today’s proceedings. Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie was missing in action after being given seven days to answer a letter asking him to investigate Elvin Penner. He refused all calls for interviews with the […]
The Commissioner of Police decided that there would be no criminal investigation of Elvin Penner. That’s what the Court was told today by his attorney. But, did Whylie make that decision all on his own or did he receive instructions from his political bosses? If he did so, then it suggests that he might also […]
After two weeks of carefully ironing out the details on the proposed way forward in the embattled citrus industry, Prime Minister Dean Barrow held a press conference this morning, where he presented the content of a memorandum of understanding signed by various stakeholders, including the Social Security Board, the Citrus Growers Association and Banks Holdings […]
Four persons have been charged in connection with the daring robbery at the Corozal Free Zone. The crime happened in the parking lot of the Fabrica de Mayoreo this past Tuesday and within minutes, two men escaped with one point two five million pesos, which comes out to approximately two hundred and eight thousand Belize […]
Tonight, Ryan Alvarez, a resident of Supal Street, is on remand after he was accused of pulling a gun on his own uncle. This morning, Ryan, who was unrepresented, appeared in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where he was read a single charge of aggravated assault upon forty-nine year old Dwight Alvarez. […]
It is almost six months since former Minister of State with responsibility for Immigration Elvin Penner was removed from Cabinet for his role in the illegal issuance of a passport to South Korean fugitive sitting in a Taiwanese jail. There have been allegations of multiple investigations, but a scarcity of any information. And what information […]
The memo from the D.P.P. queries whether the police intends to proceed with an investigation to determine if anyone can be charged for immigration irregularities. News Five has also obtained a comprehensive dossier on two separate internal investigations that were conducted on the immigration scandal that continue to hold the attention of the nation since […]
Shortly after receiving a copy of that damning memo, News Five contacted D.P.P. Cheryl Lynn-Vidal for comment. She was livid about the leak and had absolutely nothing to say about the memo. But she did say that if somebody in the Police Department would see it fit to leak a document which is plainly marked […]
Teachers and public officers will get a salary adjustment in July, retroactive to April. The increase has been the subject of heated discussion and intense negotiations, but it appears, at least as far as verbal commitment is concerned, to be set in stone. The quantum has been the unknown factor and as the numbers continue […]
Prime Minister Barrow has stated that they are locked into the commitment, so even if revenues decrease next year, G.O.B. will still have to shin up. The next big issue on the agenda is the GDP. The Statistical Institute of Belize announced on Wednesday that GDP growth for 2013 was zero point seven percent, much […]
This Friday, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin will hear an application by the People’s United Party’s Leader Francis Fonseca on why Elvin Penner should be investigated by the Commissioner of Police for his role in the passport issued to Won Hong Kim. That aside, COLA today brought its own pressure to bear. The firebrand organization held […]
The People’s United Party wants former Minister of State Elvin Penner to be held criminally liable for his role in the Won Hong Kim passport scandal. Just as vehemently, the United Democratic Party has shielded Penner from any criminal scrutiny. The P.U.P. tried the recall petition, and that was blocked by the Elections and Boundaries […]
The P.U.P. chose this less travelled route of seeking a writ of Mandamus because the party has maintained that it has exhausted all other options, legal and political. But is there another option? At a press conference last week Prime Minister Dean Barrow scoffed at the P.U.P. plan to seek judicial review, saying their case […]
Two men were shot on Tuesday night as a surge in urban warfare grips the City. On Tuesday night following the funeral of Supal Street’s Tarique Cadle who was murdered last week, a spray of bullets was unleashed at seven men hanging out at Armadillo Street, not far from where Cadle once lived. When the […]
