Today, the Senate met in Belmopan to discuss three pieces of legislation which passed through the House last week. The Immigration Amendment Bill, the Belizean Nationality Amendment Bill and the Passport Amendment Bill are designed to close doors of opportunity for lucrative corruption in the Immigration Department. We’ll have those highlights from what was a […]
But what about all those Ministers who sent in lists of Chinese nationals to be processed each week…like Minister of State Edmond Castro who sent in forty in just over a month? And former Minister of State Elvin Penner who recommended forty eight in the same period? And Minister of Police John Saldivar who sent […]
Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse also spoke on the latest Immigration scandal in which a Salvadoran national received his Belizean nationality certificate in one day. Rafael Vasquez-Medina claims that he paid five hundred dollars to an agent who got him his nationality in a week using fake documents. He received nationality by descent because those […]
When we caught up with the Minister of Immigration today, he also provided some comment, though little information, on the alleged current investigations into corruption at the Immigration Department. He says that the Auditor-General has the mechanism in place to do a thorough investigation, something that his Ministry cannot do. But there has been some […]
The hot topics were those discussed by Godwin Hulse, but this afternoon Opposition Senator Lisa Shoman got hot under the collar and walked out. She did so after the second reading and debate on the Immigration bills, when the Committee of the Whole met to minutely scrutinize the amendments before final reading and passage. Shoman […]
As we told you earlier, the Immigration Amendment Bill, the Belizean Nationality Amendment Bill and the Passport Amendment Bill were taken to the Senate for final readings and passage today. That resulted in over three hours of lively debate in which all senators not on the government side exhorted leader of government business Godwin Hulse […]
A thirty year old Belizean woman fell into the icy Chicago River and died early on Tuesday morning. She is Keisha Garnett who is from originally from San Ignacio but moved to Dallas, Texas. The tragic incident made it on the local television stations and according to an ABC report, Garnett who also goes by […]
The latest statistics provided by the Police Department says that crime has generally gone down when compared to 2012. One district that has recorded only four murders for this year is Corozal—the most recent is the brutal murder of fifty-seven year old Canadian retiree, Lynn Nichiporowich, which occurred on October twenty-eight at her house in […]
A twenty-two year old man from Caye Caulker is tonight on lock down at the Belize Central Prison after he was arraigned on ten counts of carnal knowledge of a fourteen year old girl. Jose Angel Novelo is accused of having sex with the minor many times between April and as recent as December eighth […]
We Gat Sonting Fu Seh, that’s the message that resonated today from six young Belizean poets. Some of them you will recognize from our own entertainment shows or parodies, while the others are new faces, and equally as talented. The thread that binds them is the spoken word on just about any issue affecting society. […]
The annual B.D.F. Christmas luncheon took place today at Price Barracks. Brigadier General David Jones was in high spirits; the force has had a good year having received a number of gifts to boost their work. The soldiers were also in a celebratory mood, a number of them were honored for service. Duane Moody was […]
