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PUP Will Present Public Plan For Convention
posted (April 28, 2015)
And while the PUP seems like it won't be cozying up to Lord Ashcroft - we did detect some warming up in relations with the KREMANDALA Organization. Party Leader Fonseca made his very first appearance on the W-U-B since he became leader in 2011. We asked if relations are improving and what that means for the resurgent Cordel Hyde:...




PM Will Ask Vega For Answers on Caye Caulker

And so while we wait on the PUP's press conference at a date to be announced, we won't have to wait very long for the Prime Minister's one - which is tomorrow. He's expected to address a whole host of issues - and today the press asked him to add one more to the list. That is the issue of land on northern Caye Caulker. As we've reported, landowners have complained that their beach frontage was turned into private property.

Former Chairman Alberto Villanueva says the PM called him personally before the last general election and said he would resolve the matter. Today the PM told us what he knows about the case:...

Tomorrow night we'll have whatever answers we get on this issue:...



Haitian Bought Belizean Residency Online

38 year-old Haitian National David Modest arrived at the PGIA with a fake Belizean permanent residency permit, and so tonight he's at the prison for it.

We have not been able to confirm which flight he arrived on, but the Immigration Officers flagged the immigration document he presented to them when he arrived. When they did a background check, the realized that the permanent residency permit was fake. He was questioned, and he later revealed he bought the document online.

He was then charged with using a document he wasn't entitled today, and when he was arraigned today before Magistrate Ladonna John, he pleaded guilty. He was fined $1,000 to be paid forthwith, and because he couldn't pay, he was sent to prison to serve 6 month. After that, he will be deported at the earliest convenience.





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