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We also asked Darrell Bradley to comment on the mammoth anti-corruption protest organized by the opposition party. Bradley says it is a function of democracy, which is required to stomp out corruption. Darrell Bradley, Attorney-at-law “First of all, it is a good sign whenever our political process and people involved mobilize. I think the […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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The National Trade Union Congress of Belize has come out in support of the National Student Union of Belize. The student union on Thursday joined the N.T.U.C.B. in its anti-corruption demonstration in Belize City. But reports emerging from the national university are that members of the staff there are demanding an apology from the student […]
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Cabinet met today in Belmopan. One member who was not around the table was Patrick Faber, who is travelling overseas. According to the reports, the new Minster of Fisheries, Omar Figueroa got the nod from Cabinet as U.D.P. leader-elect, though he is still relatively new to politics running for office for the time in 2015. […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Last week Monday we told you about the twenty-seven-year-old Roy Grinage who drowned while he was swimming across the Belize River. Grinage, a resident of Saint Matthews Village, was returning from work with Santander and reportedly didn’t wait for the boat to ferry him across the river. Today, employer Santander commented on the tragedy and […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There is a bizarre case of police brutality reaching our news desk tonight, where a cab driver reported that on Sunday evening, following the P.U.P. protest a pair of officers attached to the Mobile Interdiction Team reportedly caught his taxi at the stand on Mahogany Street. The policemen casually asked fifty-six-year-old Gerald Jones, also known […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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According to Jones, his life is under threat following the incident on Sunday because the young men in the neighborhood believe that he had a hand in the police raid. This morning, he made an urgent appeal to residents in the area that he was taken by surprise when the officers caught his cab to […]
Written on February 25, 2020 | Posted in
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A fifteen-year-old boy is missing tonight and his parents say they have more questions than answers. Ashton Emmanuel Stevens was at the Rockville Booth Camp on Monday when he disappeared. His family says that he was last seen playing basketball around four-thirty that afternoon, but by fifteen minutes later he couldn’t be located. According to […]
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The People’s United Party is energized tonight. In the thousands, supporters came from the villages, towns, cayes, and from the two cities in what looked like the greatest show of anti-corruption. They marched from Faber’s Road through the streets all the way to the Battlefield Park in the heart of the city. A long list […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party’s massive demonstration on Sunday culminated at Battlefield Park in downtown Belize City hours after its start. The crowd flooded the area of the Supreme Court spilling into Albert and Regent Streets. There, thousands were addressed by leaders of the party. The fiery messages focused on corruption in the U.D.P. government, change, […]
Written on February 24, 2020 | Posted in
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The People’s United Party’s demonstration was announced two weeks ago when Leader John Briceño released the party’s proposed agenda on campaign financing, making five demands on the government. Briceño is calling for the appointment of an independent commission of inquiry chaired by an international Commonwealth jurist to inquire into the unlawful and unconstitutional spending of […]
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The demonstration and rally went without a hitch on Sunday. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and his team kept law and order as demonstrators marched through the streets of the Old Capital and collected at Battlefield Park. Commissioner Williams was on the ground where he spoke to News Five about his estimated numbers of participants which, we […]
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A sixty-year-old Canadian retiree was robbed on February fifth in San Pedro Town. The Canadian national visited our studios to share his story. According to the victim, he befriended a Belizean woman in her early twenties a month ago. He gave her access to his apartment where she stayed for few weeks. But according to […]
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According to the Canadian national, the investigation into the robbery has not advanced since the incident two weeks ago. He wants the full force of the law on the woman. Voice of: Canadian National “I don’t believe that the investigation is going very well at all.” Hipolito Novelo “What do you mean?” […]
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Former National Security Minister, John Saldivar has been on the airwaves extolling his innocence after he was named in a court in Utah for taking money from the accused fraudster, Lev Dermen. According to messages revealed during the trial, Saldivar refused a wire transfer of the money and traveled to Miami to pick-up fifty thousand […]
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After denying that he received monies from fraudster Lev Dermen, John Saldivar later admitted that he received fifty thousand U.S. dollars from Dermen during a trip to Miami in 2014. Saldivar first said the monies were used for campaign financing, but later said it was used to buy sports equipment. The trade unions and opposition […]
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The Coastal Highway Upgrading Project was formally launched in La Democracia today with attendance from representatives of the governments of Belize and the United Kingdom, as well as the Caribbean Development Bank. When the contract, worth one hundred and thirty million dollars, was awarded to Government’s favourite contractor, Imer Hernandez, it caused the Opposition to […]
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The new Minister of National Security Michael Peyrefitte told the media on Thursday that an investigation has been launched into the allegations of wrongdoing by embattled former minister John Saldivar. This is after text messages surfaced in a Utah court showing that Saldivar rejected a wire transfer and accepted to go to Miami to receive […]
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According to ComPol Williams, the police will be working with various agencies and government departments, including the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, in the probe. Williams, however, says that the investigation can possible exculpate Saldivar of any wrongdoing. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “If it is at […]
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The ten unions of the National Trade Union Congress that took to the streets on Thursday were united in the fight against the rampant corruption that has invaded the government. Throughout their protest and rally, their battle cry was to stomp out the evil threat to the nation. The unions say that the people are […]
Written on February 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Senator Elena Smith, who leads the Belize National Teachers Union as President, has indicated that Thursday’s demonstration is only the beginning of major changes to come in respect of good governance. The turnout of teachers at the rally was noteworthy, with as many as thirty buses coming into the city from other parts of the […]
Written on February 21, 2020 | Posted in
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The scourge of corruption that continues to permeate all facets of Belizean society is not lost on ‘Mose’ Hyde who took the opportunity while addressing the masses of teachers and unionists during Thursday’s rally to remind of the many patrimonies that have been sold off as a result of corruption. He went as far as […]
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On the heels of a successful demonstration staged by the unions, this Sunday the People’s United Party will descend on the Old Capital for a national demonstration against Prime Minister Dean Barrow and his government. Party supporters will convene at the corner of Fabers Road and Central American Boulevard where the march will kick off […]
Written on February 21, 2020 | Posted in
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Briceño says that Sunday’s march should send an unequivocal message to PM Barrow that Belizeans have had enough with corruption. The Opposition Leader says that the People’s United Party is ready to take on the United Democratic Party whenever elections are called. Hipolito Novelo “How would you react to the criticism that people might […]
Written on February 21, 2020 | Posted in
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The embattled John Saldivar continued with his media rounds this morning appearing on the U.D.P.’s morning talk show, where he not only defended his integrity, but called the media a bunch of hypocrites. In Saldivar’s world, the media is responsible for his fall from the grace of the U.D.P. The Minister of National Security Michael […]
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Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin on January thirty-first ruled against the government, handing down a much anticipated verdict in which he declared that over one billion dollars were spent illegally and that the Prime Minister had violated the constitution. On February seventeenth, in a strongly worded letter, Prime Minister Dean Barrow made it clear to Opposition Leader John […]
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