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The Belize Times
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19 FEBRUARY 2017 | ISSUE NO: 5033
The Truth Shall Make You Free
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FROM THE BELLY OF THE BEAST…
VAT IS BACK Fin Sec: Increased Taxes Are Inevitable Pg. 2
HE CUT HER THROAT AND STABBED HER 32 TIMES Pg. 6
“the Immigration Department has an entrenched culture of corruption and hustling, milking the cow, we say, from the very top, to the very bottom of the ladder.”
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Former Finance Officer in the Ministry of Immigration, Teresita Castellanos, is perhaps the first person called by the Senate Special Select Committee who has not spent hours diverting blame and dodging allegations made in the Auditor-General’s report. Her testimony this morning was shocking and passionate, as she revealed that “the Immigration Department has an entrenched culture of corruption and hustling, milking the cow, we say, from the very top, to the very bottom of the ladder.” According to Castellanos, there were a few honest Immigration Officers, but the rest of them acted like a fraternity of corruption carrying out all manner of wrongdoing in the Department. “I was in the belly of the Beast. I was at the Immigration Department for 3 years, and I'm among those named in
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WHY NO ARREST FOR ERIC CHANG? Pg. 2