In Breaking News, police have confirmed that there was a murder a short while ago on King Street in downtown Belize City, in front of Teddy’s Music Shop. The name of the victim is unknown at this time. Southside Police Commander Chester Williams has said that police are looking for one suspect. Further details will […]
The senate hearings got underway in Belmopan; the sole witness at the Senate Special Select Committee was Immigration Officer Ady Pacheco whose name appears frequently in the Auditor General’s report. The junior officer is named as a key player in the Won Hong Kim affair as, she admitted today, she was directly handed the file […]
Pacheco also fingered her boss, Officer in Charge of the Nationality and Services Section of the Department Gordon Wade, saying he was in regular contact with Ministers, secretaries and drivers to accept files to process for nationality. It was often the case that these files were incomplete, and the Department did not always follow up […]
At the hearing, Pacheco denied outright that she was ever paid for her role in reviewing the nationality documents by Minister Penner or Gordon Wade, and had nothing to do with the permanent residency or passport applications for Won Hong Kim. But since he never came to Belize (the double showing up with Penner at […]
A few weeks ago we told you of the confidential report of the Immigration Department and former acting Director Maria Marin on the David Nanes Schnitzer affair. The Mexican-American faces fraud charges in the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme. Nanes had been living in Belize for some time with various false documents until he was caught […]
It had not been discussed at all at prior hearings, but Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s name does appear in the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report on Nationality as a referee for Swedish national Peter Dahlstrom, who was married since 1994 to his wife Kim Simplis-Barrow’s sister. Despite Dahlstrom being married for more than twenty years […]
Pacheco says the application went to Gordon Wade who made the notation that Dohlstrom was fit for Belizean nationality. It was settled policy – verbal, not written – that the legality of applicants for nationality by marriage was set from the date of their marriage and not date of settlement. So Pacheco respectfully took issue […]
He remains Sergeant-At-Arms or Mace Bearer of the House of Representatives. But while the Senate Committee is meeting, Clerk of the National Assembly Eddie Webster announced today, Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett is disallowed from attending its sessions. Writing to the various chiefs of news media houses attending and broadcasting the hearings, Webster stated that the […]
The brightest students in the P.S.E were recognized today for academic excellence. Over seven thousand students sat the exam earlier this year, but hundreds of them failed the annual test. The average test scores for this year largely remained the same, but Math was very dismal with about half of the students failing, while Social […]
Even as they celebrate police week, two police officers in San Pedro were taken to court this afternoon on a slew of charges including theft and extortion. Police Corporal Denfield Ramos is facing charges of Theft, Extortion and Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon while Special Constable Orlando Mendez was charged with Theft and Extortion. […]
A Belize City businesswoman was convicted this morning in the court room of Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith for the drug trafficking of fourteen point six grams of crack cocaine and for possession of a small quantity of weed. Michelle Gotoy, a resident of Belize City was busted on December sixth, 2016, at the corner […]
The recent fracture within the self-styled “Morality Commission” has seen the departure of Bishop Phillip Wright and Reverend Roosevelt Papouloute, two relatively powerful church leaders who sat on the government-helmed working group. That task force was formed in the wake of a Supreme Court decision on the controversial Section Fifty-three challenge which was filed and […]
Also weighing in on the issue of the Morality Commission is Senator Valerie Woods. The P.U.P. parliamentarian is a proponent for human rights, irrespective of existing differences. She too describes the commission as a mockery, since it is unilateral in its approach to discussing standards of conduct that are generally accepted as right or proper. […]
While the church has been a dominant force in opposing the L.G.B.T.I. movement in Belize, it has also been decried for not acknowledging the basic human rights that all members of the gay community are equally born with. The National Evangelical Association of Belize has soundly criticized the United States government for promoting what it […]
The Municipal Elections are coming up next year and the U.D.P. is getting in gear in Belize City where it has been controlling city hall since 2006. Today, majority of the current U.D.P. City Councilors went in to the headquarters to submit their application for the March 2018 elections. Darrell Bradley who has been Mayor […]
The Belize Police Department has been observing Police Week since Sunday. Activities have been planned for the entire week, some are internal and others involve the community. One of the major activities they took on today was an Open Day throughout the country which saw the participation of several organizations and the community. Here’s what […]
Tonight, the rainbow flag flies on the U.S. Embassy compound in Belmopan in commemoration of the L.G.B.T.I. community in the U.S. It was hoisted this morning for the second time in two years. The gay community was invited to participate in the ceremony through which the U.S. government reinforces human rights and equality even as […]
