Sunday, April 18, 2010
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THE BELIZE TIMES
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Belize Times The Truth Shall Make You Free
Chancey Vega SUNDAY APRIL 18, 2010
Issue No. 4689
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Police Used to Brutalize Belizeans Villagers arrested by police
OC Joseph Myvette
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Gaspar Vega
As we go to press tonight, UDP supporters who attacked an elderly man in the village of Nuevo San Juan and then instigated a full scale brawl have still not been picked up by the Orange Walk Police, four days after the event. On Monday, the day after the incident, Orange Walk Police detained seven PUP supporters from Nuevo San Juan, including the elderly father of the new PUP Chairman, an elderly retired nurse and a female councilor. This move by the Police, (Continued on page 35)
Funny Business at Finca Solana‌
The Belize Times has received documentation which proves beyond a doubt that Minister of Natural Resources Gaspar Vega is using his authority and portfolio to benefit friends and family. Currently our news team has been given access to hundreds of documents of land transactions in which
Minister Vega is dispensing the spoils to select UDP cronies, close friends and family. Some of the transactions are for parcels totaling hundreds of acres, some in reserves. In many cases, the land being gifted to the UDP select has been arbitrarily and illegally seized (Continued on page 35)
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Party Leader John BriceĂąo outside Orange Walk Police Station waiting for release of villagers of Nuevo San Juan.
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