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Access to the Sarstoon was one major concern for Belizeans – another was the flagrant, brazen, unhindered illegal fishing not only on our side of the Sarstoon but all the way north to Barranco. From reports we’ve gotten unofficially, that situation seems to have been somewhat quelled, or at least not so brazen. Brigadier General […]
Written on July 27, 2016 | Posted in
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This morning at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in the capital, we caught up with Police United Football Club as the players trained to take on a Honduran team in a home and away game in the CONCACAF’s Champions League on August sixteenth. It’s a big leap for the team that hopes to qualify for its […]
Written on July 27, 2016 | Posted in
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Now, to get Police United to the Scotia Bank’s CONCACAF Champions League is an expensive venture. Approximately two hundred thousand dollars is required for the team and delegation to travel and compete in the regional games in Honduras. Club Manager, Superintendent Andres Makin Senior says that the league, as well as corporate sponsors, has assisted […]
Written on July 27, 2016 | Posted in
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A cross-section of participants from various organizations, government and N.G.O.s gathered at the Radisson for a daylong conference where they discussed the impacts of climate change. A panel of presenters was on hand today to share professional opinions on the existing phenomenon. The forum was aptly titled Energy of Nature versus the Nature of Energy. […]
Written on July 27, 2016 | Posted in
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Oh how the mighty have fallen. At five-thirty this evening, former Gang Suppression Unit Commander Mark Flowers was formally arraigned for two counts of Unlawful Sexual Intercourse and has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison. Up until five minutes before he entered the Courtroom, CIB had asserted that on two occasions – once in […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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Flowers was brought to court just before four this afternoon, and there was the usual Police confusion which seems to surround all major cases. After about forty-five minutes of waiting for Flowers to be logged in and assigned a Court, CIB officers jumped back in their vehicle and sped off, presumably when the instruction was […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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Flowers is not going down quietly. Today he provided a one-on-one interview on a number of explosive issues such as his relations with suspected murderer William “Danny” Mason; what he knows about financial contributions made to several politicians and of course about, Minister John Saldivar, his boss, who has not uttered a word to him […]
While Flowers admits to meeting the minor in the summer of 2015, he maintains that he never had any physical contact with her. As we mentioned, the report against him was made shortly after he relieved her stepfather of his duties as a farmhand. Additionally, Flowers says that similar complaints, had been filed by the […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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According to Flowers, there is a move afoot to tarnish his reputation. He believes that he is being politically railroaded because of a picture he posted on Facebook. That image reportedly shows Belmopan Area Representative John Saldivar’s political opponent Patrick Faber at an event where he can be seen interacting with another individual. That image […]
Following the sensational murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, who was decapitated on July fifteenth, friends and acquaintances of alleged murderer, businessman William Mason have all disassociated themselves from him. One person who has been seen prominently posing with Mason in a photo that has since gone viral is Mark Flowers. The former GSU boss says […]
Flowers, in his account of meeting Mason, told News Five that the accused murderer bragged about having GSU protection when he first arrived in Belize a few years ago. That protection was provided by no other than his successor at the GSU, Inspector Glenn Caliz. Supt. Mark Flowers, Former Commander, GSU “As far as […]
Minister Frank Papa Mena, has admitted he received ten thousand dollars for his bye-election campaign in 2015 from William Mason. While everybody is keeping their distance with a pole a mile long, Minister Saldivar on Monday, admitted that he had received in excess fifty thousand dollars from Mason for his football club, the Belmopan Bandits. […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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But Flowers tells an entirely different story than that of the minister. According to Flowers, Mason made it known to him that he was part owner of the football club after handing over well over a hundred thousand dollars to Saldivar, but he could not appear as co-owner because he didn’t have an account in […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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Central to what has been unfolding over the past week and a half is Belmopan Area Representative John Saldivar, whose name is repeatedly being called in the current saga. Flowers insinuates that the senior politician may have had a hand in creating this perfect storm to distract from what is taking place with the Lucas […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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A pair of thieves netted over ninety thousand dollars during a home invasion in Belize City on Monday afternoon. Seventy-five-year-old Maria Sylvester, the Patroness of HelpAge Belize, reported to police that she was sitting inside her living room at her residence near the corners of A Street and Princess Margaret Drive. While conversing with her […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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With the home of an affluent Belize City family robbed in broad daylight, does the aggravated burglary pose a threat to other well-off residents in that neighborhood? Reporter “Should others in the area be concerned that they too may be targeted? This is an affluent area of the city.” Supt. Hilberto Romero, O.C., […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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There was an impromptu protest this morning against ASR/B.S.I. Notwithstanding, the company set up barricades and the police showed up just in case. The protest was not advertised so only a handful of caneros came out to say they cannot accept part of the financial losses resulting from affected molasses. ASR/B.S.I. is proposing that the […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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On Monday, the People’s United Party chastised ASR/B.S.I. for the suggestion that the farmers will need to pick-up the bill for sixty-five percent of the losses incurred by the affected molasses. The losses, said the P.U.P., was due to the failure to follow standard procedures, but today, B.S.I. shot back strongly rejected the P.U.P.’s view. […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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A total of persons comprising two families are victims of a fire this morning in Belize City. A family of eight lost everything when the blaze swept through her house destroying all her personal belongings. The neighbor’s house was also damaged, but the fire was not as devastating. Luckily, no one was physically injured since […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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The ongoing saga involving the relations between murder suspect, William Mason, and Cabinet Ministers as well as the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas won’t go away any time soon. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry today sounded off its view in the context of its Business Sustainability Agenda released just before the 2015 general […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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There was a candlelight vigil held in Belmopan on Monday night, a first step in what organizers say is a move to take the country back. We’ll have that for you later in our newscast, but first we take you to a protest on the foothills on the National Assembly. There were no huge numbers […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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Pastor Llewelyn Lucas, a common man who died the most gruesome of deaths in bizarre circumstances, was memorialized by friends and family at a candlelight vigil held in Belmopan on Monday night. It was a night of solidarity with the family and a sharing of grief, but as we found out it is all part […]
Written on July 26, 2016 | Posted in
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Mark Flowers, head of the infamous Gang Suppression Unit, is tonight a fugitive from justice, according to a police source. Over the weekend, an arrest warrant was issued for Flowers, who was out of the country on vacation leave. The news broke last week that a report had been lodged at the Domestic Violence Unit […]
Written on July 25, 2016 | Posted in
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According to Bradley, Flowers remains commander of the Gang Suppression Unit despite recent announcements that he has since been replaced by Inspector Glenn Caliz. Bradley says his client is a senior public officer and as such the Public Services Commission and the Police Services Commission are the only two agencies empowered to remove him. To […]
Written on July 25, 2016 | Posted in
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There were three murders over the weekend, in Gardenia, Belize District where a bar owner was executed; in Belmopan where a woman was likely raped and murdered and up north in Orange Walk Town where a teacher was stabbed and killed. The Orange Walk resident is a teacher at the Belmopan Comprehensive High School and […]
Written on July 25, 2016 | Posted in
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