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Will Eric Chang and Patrick Tillett Defy Senate Committee?
Patrick Tillett and Eric Chang As we have reported, former deputy Mayor of Belize City Eric Chang and financial controller with the Belize City Council, Patrick Tillett, declined an invitation to...
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Vernon Leslie ‘Disappointed’ by Cano Response
Vernon Leslie This afternoon, it was the turn of Tench’s former supervisor, Vernon Leslie, to appear. He will retire in December after completing thirty years on the job, which he says he will miss....
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Somebody “Ratted Out” The Investigators and Police Were Not Called In
Tench told the Public Service Commission that his advice to Edgar Cano and Vernon Leslie to call the police in relation to the missing foils was not taken. Instead, he was brought up on disciplinary...
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Investigation Spread North as Alleged Ringleader Confessed…
The investigation widened to include other persons. According to Tench, they tried their mightiest to get the agent identified as selling the foils to Chang and Tillett to confirm other’s involvement,...
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What Really Happened on Boxing Day, 2012, in the West?
Mark Tench And while that may be the biggest bombshell out of today’s public hearings, what exactly happened out west over that holiday period in 2012 has only been obliquely told. In Tench’s version...
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Officer Mark Tench Says Investigation into Missing Visa Foils was Extensive
Immigration Officer of eighteen years’ experience, Mark Tench, appeared before the Senate Special Select Committee this morning as one of two witnesses in the inquiry on the Immigration Department....
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African Immigrants Find Unique Way to Falsify Visas
Mark Tench Tench said to the Committee that there were ways to “game” the system if one was really in desperate need of a visa. He gave an example of his time in Belize City, where he dealt with...
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Printing of Passport Another Link in the Won Hong Kim Chain
Mark Tench also confirmed that he printed the passport for pickup to be delivered to Won Hong Kim in August of 2013 after being transferred from the Western Border office. Kim certainly did not meet...
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How Lax Was Access to Visas in West?
The Senate Special Select Committee has been actively poring through a single incident reported in the Auditor General’s Special Report on Immigration for weeks now. The more important issues of...
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Cop Not Guilty, Colleague to be Tried Again for Fatal Shooting of Prisoner
David Griffith A verdict has been handed down in the Southern Session of the Supreme Court in Dangriga in relation to a highly-publicized police-involved shooting three years ago. Eighteen year old...
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Supervisors’ Decision a Matter of “Administration”
As noted, a decision was taken, later endorsed by Cano, to basically pretend as if the visas had never gone missing. It involved receiving payment from legitimate travellers seeking a visa. They were...
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Vernon Leslie Admits Director Should Have Been Called in Sooner
In the afternoon, there was further discussion of the visa foil issue. As one of the senior men at the border during the incident, one would have expected that Vernon Leslie would have personally...
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Mark Tench Says He Should Not Have Been Surcharged for Visa Monies
Mark Tench Tench continued to enumerate his version of events at the Public Service Commission hearing for the Senators on Wednesday. He emphasized that the former C.E.O. had nothing to do with the...
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Why Were Mark Tench and Vernon Leslie Targeted in Visa Investigation?
Mark Tench Did the Immigration Department try to sweep the visa foils affair under the rug and turn on the man who instigated an investigation of the matter? Immigration Officer Mark Tench said as...
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Getting to the Bottom of the Visa Foils Saga
Are you scratching your head about the many twists and turns in the Senate Special Select Committee’s public hearings over the last month or so with regard to eight visa foils that disappeared in...
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Accused Double Murder Suspect Pleads Guilty to Robbery of Church Worker
Double murder suspect, twenty-year-old Jayear Flores, who is on remand for two murders in the city, one including a seven-year old school boy and an adult today began to serve a one-year sentence...
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B.N.T.U.’s Palacio Says There is More to be Clarified
Luke Palacio According to B.N.T.U. National President Luke Palacio, the court has pointed out that there is confusion in the language used in the trust document, particularly in a release issued by...
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Court Limits Beneficiaries of Public Sector Workers Trust
Philip Castillo Representatives of the Public Sector Workers Trust appeared in the Supreme Court earlier today before Justice Courtenay Abel, to settle a decades-old matter involving the organization....
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More Woes for G.O.B., Glenn D. Holds Them Off in Intelco Appeal
Aside from superbond payments, government is facing another multimillion dollar payment. Glenn D. Godfrey’s GDG Acquisitions LLC has had a judgment of ten million dollars plus in its favour against...
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Accused Driver in Brandon Bennett Shooting Charged; Accused Shooter at Large
On Friday afternoon sometime after two, twenty-four-year-old Brandon Bennett was shot in the stomach as he rode his bike on the Belcan Bridge. The gun man identified in that shooting is Lindburgh...
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