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On Friday, the caravan was spotted by the Cadena’s operating base near Belize’s border with Guatemala. The splinter group comprised of about fifteen to twenty persons who authorities feared would have made their way into Belize. Captain Bennett says none of the migrants made their way into Belize. Captain Elton Bennett, Commandant, Belize Coast […]
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The National Security Council comprised officials from the ministries of National Security, Human Development and Immigration. While some of the migrants are in search of a better life, others are known to be attached to criminal organizations. Captain Elton Bennett shared a list of concerns with migrant caravans. Captain Elton Bennett, Commandant, Belize Coast […]
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The motion to appoint Omar Mitchell to the post of Contractor General was today ratified by the Senate but not before several senators voiced concerns. Mitchell succeeds Godwin Arzu who was axed when the Senate would not ratify the renewal of his contract after he failed to produce reports for many years. Mitchell’s appointment will […]
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Responding to the senators’ concerns was Attorney General and U.D.P. Senator, Michael Peyrefitte. Peyrefitte chastised the senators for pre-empting the works of Mitchell by alluding he would fail at his job. The Attorney General called on the senators to ‘give the man a chance.’ Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney General “So Mr. Mitchell will come in, […]
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Belize Telemedia Limited owes millions of dollars in taxes to the Government of Belize – that’s the position of the Belize Tax Service. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight confirmed last week that the Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte was asked for legal advice concerning B.T.L.’s tax woes. As we reported in 2019 when the issue came to […]
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February ninth has been set aside by the United Democratic Department for its leadership convention. As you know, Patrick Faber and John Saldivar are going head to head to become the next leader of the U.D.P; both have been meeting with delegates to secure their vote. The Lev Dermen’s scandal, however, looms above the Barrow […]
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Gwen Liz High School is back in the news tonight. There was a huge brawl among various groups of students at Gwen Lizarraga High School on Friday which forced classes to be suspended for the remainder of the day. News Five understands that police officers and an ambulance had to be called to the scene […]
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Over the weekend, residents of San Antonio Village in Toledo District held a protest during which they strongly objected to the disposal of medical waste in a pit dug behind the Isabel Palma Polyclinic. Our colleagues from PGTV say that the issue arises from a lack of proper facilities at the Punta Gorda Hospital to […]
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Precipitating the harsh criticisms levied against the Barrow administration on adjournment at Friday’s house meeting was a pair of audit reports presented to PM Barrow back in October. The results of separate financial reviews for Julian Cho Technical High School and the National Sports Council were submitted by Auditor General Dorothy Bradley after carefully going […]
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Both documents will also be handed over to the Public Accounts Committee chaired by Deputy Leader Julius Espat of the People’s United Party. While Opposition Leader John Briceño cited a pending Auditor General’s report that is yet to be returned to the house, he called out PM Barrow for failing to take decisive action against […]
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A new Fisheries Resources Bill was tabled in the House of Representatives on Friday which will aid in making small-scale fisheries more sustainable for marine life, as well as fisher folks. This new piece of legislation which was unanimously supported in the upper house replaces the previous law which has been on the books for […]
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Orange Walk South Area Representative, Jose Abelardo Mai spoke of the legislation in the context of the New River crisis of 2019. According to Mai, the Fisheries Resources Bill also allows for the protection of inland resources such as the New River Lagoon. Jose Abelardo Mai, Area Rep, Orange Walk South “The existing act, […]
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The inaugural sitting of the House of Representatives for the New Year 2020 got underway this morning in Belmopan, amid a number of scandals wracking the Barrow administration. While several bills were tabled for readings in parliament, the gist of today’s house meeting was reserved for the adjournment where the opposition People’s United Party went […]
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In attempting to defend his position, PM Barrow reiterated what was said at his press conference on Wednesday, that essentially he is hamstrung until and unless names and credible evidence are presented during the upcoming trial involving Lev Dermen in Utah. He once again emphasized that whomever are the guilty parties will be fired from […]
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The issue of Belizean nationalities being hurriedly granted to questionable characters was also a hallmark in the opposition leader’s statements on adjournment. Quite a number of Canadian and American nationals who received their Belizean passports under rush in 2013 turned out to have either been arrested, convicted or wanted for their respective roles in criminal […]
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An audit of the National Sports Council for a one-year period showed the blatant disregard for government financial regulations and suspected fraud of huge sums of money. That audit was tabled today in the House of Representatives and so was the Julian Cho High School Special Audit. In this case, acting on a complaint from […]
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Area Representative for Toledo West Oscar Requeña spoke on the audit’s findings on the adjournment of the House. As a matter of national importance, Requeña called for action and highlighted the fact that the discrepancies occurred under the watch of his political opponent, Doctor Simon Coc, who is the former principal and current U.D.P. Standard […]
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Was the timing of the Auditor General’s reports on the National Sports Council and Julian Cho Technical High School designed to undermine the Deputy Prime Minister whose portfolios as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports includes those two institutions as he heads to the leadership convention? It’s a question that was bluntly put to DPM […]
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In respect of the damning audit of the National Sports Council, in a memorandum dated February twenty-eighth, 2019, Director Ian Jones reacted with an eighty-five pages memorandum. The majority of pages are full of procedural information, job descriptions, and the entire handbook. As we have been reporting, the Auditor General’s team found massive fraud and […]
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Deputy Prime Minister Faber says he was the one who commissioned an audit of the National Sports Council when both previous junior ministers demitted office. Those ministers of state also included Herman Longsworth who has now taken up an appointment as Consul General in New York. The audit report indicates that he too was involved […]
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This afternoon on adjournment in the House, Caribbean Shores Area Rep Kareem Musa also weighed in on the Lev Dermen scandal, stating that because it is a federal case before the U.S. courts, the names of the two accused ministers have already been disclosed. He, too, is calling for the names to be made public […]
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And while he may not have been close to Lev Dermen, Deputy Prime Minister was asked once again about his involvement with convicted murderer William “Danny” Mason. You will recall that upon defeating John Saldivar to become Deputy Party Leader of the U.D.P. several years ago, Faber visited Mason’s Intelco Hill residence where he had […]
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Minister of National Security John Saldivar was not present in the house this afternoon when Cayo South Area Rep Julius Espat took square aim at him for his open affiliation with nefarious figures who have since been imprisoned. Those persons include William “Danny” Mason and now Lev Dermen. In referring to the security minister’s associations, […]
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Late this afternoon, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry acknowledged that at three-twenty-five p.m., it received two packages addressed to the president containing the Procurement and Contract documents for the Coastal Highway Upgrading Project, which were granted to Imer Hernandez, and worth one hundred and thirty million dollars. The B.C.C.I. says it will review […]
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It was an emotional day today for the family of Mark Tuyul Junior, who was laid to rest this afternoon at the Eternal Garden Cemetery at mile thirteen on the George Price Highway. The three-year-old was sexually assaulted and murdered allegedly by his stepfather, Kenrick Longsworth, exactly one week ago at his house in an […]
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