Sunday, May 1, 2011
THE BELIZE TIMES
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Issue No. 4742
SUNDAY May 1, 2011
Prostituting Belize
GOB cuts Permanent Residency permits for Chinese nationals from $10,000 to $2,000!! Belize City, April 27, 2011 On November 5, 2010 Belizeans will remember the disturbing news that there was a move afoot by the UDP Administration to secretly give away Belizean patrimony to 20,000 illegal immigrants. Cabinet Paper no. 119 of 2010 proposed to surrender permanent resident status under the disguise of an “Amnesty Program” to 20,000 illegal immigrants, which represents a whopping six per cent of the total Belizean population. Now the same incompetent Minister who messed up the crime situation and the Belize Police Department is at it again. Carlos Perdomo, was finally fired following his disgraceful tenure as Minister of Police. UDP style, he was promoted only to mess up a bigger portfolio as the Minister of Defense and Immigration. BELIZE TIMES has been monitoring the activities at the Immigration Department
Briceño: Protecting local farmers must be a Priority
Immigration Minister Carlos Perdomo must explain the reason behind the cheap sale of Belizean patrimony
and with the assistance of international watchdogs who are extremely concerned, we were given a copy of Continued on page 3
Police find 20lbs
of suspected cocaine inside San Joaquin home
San Carlos Village, Orange Walk District, April 26, 2011 On Tuesday, April 26 2011, Party Leader Hon. John Briceño, accompanied by former Director of Extension and Marketing in the Ministry of Agriculture Jose Mai, met with onion producers in San Carlos Village in the Orange Walk district. San Carlos is home to more than 20 Continued on page 3
Hon. John Briceño went to see firsthand the damage suffered by onion producers & pledged to defend them
GUILTY OF
MURDERING
WIFE
Packages of suspected cocaine found inside home
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Photo by Allison Reisz
Belize’s Royal Family snubbed by UK Royalty
Farid Puck & Maricarmen Zul Castro
Fake royalty, PM Dean & Kim
Real royalty, Prince William & Kate
Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez
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