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G.o.b. Signs Mou To Protect Jaguar Corridor
This morning in Burrell Boom, officials from the Ministry of Forest, the University of Belize and Panthera, as well as other representatives from various environmental groups, gathered for the signing...
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View ArticleFectab’S Fiery Press Conference To Clear Yhony Rosado’S Name
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A Workshop For Artisans Who Work Adjacent To Archaeological Sites
Making Tourism Benefit Communities Adjacent to Archeological Sites…It is a project that is the brainchild of the Belize Tourism Board, the National Institute of Culture and History and the European...
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Chief Justice Agrees To Review Why Belize Police Commissioner Refuses To...
This morning Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin granted permission for Judicial Review on the matter of the Opposition Leader Francis Fonseca's request for the Supreme Court to order a Writ of Mandamus...
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P.u.p. Wants Compol Allen Whylie To Criminally Investigate Elvin Penner
Dean BarrowThe P.U.P. chose this less travelled route of seeking a writ of Mandamus because the party has maintained that it has exhausted all other options, legal and political. But is there another...
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Court Grants P.u.p.’S Application To Seek Judicial Review
The People’s United Party wants former Minister of State Elvin Penner to be held criminally liable for his role in the Won Hong Kim passport scandal. Just as vehemently, the United Democratic Party has...
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Was Prime Minister Dean Barrow Aware Of The Memo?
Dean BarrowShortly after receiving a copy of that damning memo, News Five contacted D.P.P. Cheryl Lynn-Vidal for comment. She was livid about the leak and had absolutely nothing to say about the memo....
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Penner’S Signed Recommendation Claims He Knew Won Hong Kim For 3 Years
The memo from the D.P.P. queries whether the police intends to proceed with an investigation to determine if anyone can be charged for immigration irregularities. News Five has also obtained a...
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Leaked Memo From The D.p.p.; Penner Was Protected In Immigration Investigation
It is almost six months since former Minister of State with responsibility for Immigration Elvin Penner was removed from Cabinet for his role in the illegal issuance of a passport to South Korean...
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Compol Decided That There Be No Criminal Investigation Into Penner
Allen WhylieWe’ve presented to you the judicial review hearing in a nutshell, but there was much more of interest coming out of today’s proceedings. Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie was missing in...
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Immigration Forms Prove Elvin Penner Falsified Information On Won Hong Kim
We reported on Thursday night that we have a dossier of the immigration scandal, as it relates to the issuance of a passport to Won Hong Kim in September 2013. The documents are voluminous and telling...
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Compol Whylie Appears Before Cj For Writ Of Mandamus Hearing
The pressure to have the man who apparently masterminded the Won Hong Kim passport fraud criminally investigated and charged refuses to go away, despite government’s best efforts. And it is building...
View ArticleBelize Tourism Board Says Tourism Arrivals Up In 2013
According to the Belize Tourism Board (BTB)’s final figures for the last calendar year 2013, Belize’s overnight arrivals were up 6.1% and cruise tourist arrivals by 5.7%. In a press release issued...
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Armed Mexican Soldiers Enter Belize; They Are Detained, But Soon Released
What is being called a miscommunication between the Belize Defense Force and the police department resulted in the brief detention of several armed officers who crossed into Belizean territory at the...
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3 More Asians Got Nationalities Almost On Arrival To The Jewel
Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal dropped an inadvertent bombshell last week, in the form of a memo to the National Crimes Investigation Branch. In that memo Vidal quotes from a report...
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Cj Orders Compol To Investigate Elvin Penner And Passport Issued To Won Hong Kim
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today issued a writ of Mandamus against Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie. In simple terms, the Court has now instructed Whylie to criminally investigate the Won Hong...
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Belizean Banana Farmer Challenges Dea On Chapo Guzman
If you follow international news, you'll know that Mexico's biggest cartel boss, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was caught 9 days ago in Culiacan, Mexico. He's now in a maximum security Mexican jail...
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Attorney Speaks On Writ Of Mandamus
On Monday, People’s United Party leader Francis Fonseca won a significant victory in the court of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. With commendable dispatch, the CJ issued a directive to Commissioner of...
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