Remember those six suspect containers we told you about last week? Well
they are still being held at the Customs Department.
Importer Vernon Cuthklevin - owner of the company Belize Garden Consortium
- had told us and Customs personnel that he would be doing his own tests on
the three thousand sacks of what he says are fertilizer chemicals.
He said he'd collect those samples on Monday, but Cuthklevin has not turned
up at Customs to gather those samples and we have been unable to reach him
by phone.
And so, the bottom line remains that the Police Forensic Department has
confirmed that the hundreds of sacks, which are declared as titanium
dioxide - are not that chemical.
And the hundreds of sacks that should contain ammonium sulfate - some of
the samples taken of those are not ammonium sulfate.
And while that's what they are not...what are they? Well, it seems that's
the big question facing Customs and the Forensic Department.
We understand
some samples have been sent away for testing by Customs to determine just
what the chemicals are.
Those results are expected by Friday.