Three mass naturalization ceremonies which the present administration has held over the past three weeks appear to have opened a Pandora’s box as Belizeans clamor to find out if the naturalizations havebeen conducted properly in the pre-election rush.
As hundreds of immigrants have been sworn in as Belizean citizens, the Opposition People’s United Partyexpressed its concern at a press conference on Wednesday, January 18.
Guatemalan truck driver Victor Manuel Osorio Sarceño, at the wheel of a truck loaded with seven tons of Belizean sugar, in 140 hundredweight sacks, was arrested by the Guatemalan National Civil Police (PNC) at a checkpoint at the 12th kilometer near Paxcaman Village in Peten last Saturday, January 14.
Osorio was able to produce neither an export permit nor a purchase invoice when the Police requested him to produce the appropriate documentation for his cargo.
The wholesale produce vendors who ply their wares from the old city Pound Yard at the corner of West Collet Canal and Cemetery Road are soon to have a permanent roof over the heads.
Belizean businessman Arun Hotchandani, the Honorary Consul for India, who is also the owner of the land, has decided to build a ferro-concrete city market to house the wholesalers.
