CZECH NATIONAL ORDERED TO LEAVE BELIZE FOLLOWING AIRPORT SCARE

Published on Thursday, October 2, 2008
By Oscar Ramjeet
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent
Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com

BELIZE CITY, Belize: A citizen of the Czech Republic was ordered to leave Belize after he pleaded guilty to overstaying his visit in the country.

Forty-three-year-old Tomas Kahan was responsible for a bomb scare at the Philip Goldson Airport last Friday. He was seen leaving the airport with four coffee bottles with wires attached to them in his luggage, which Kahan said he wanted to export to Spain as a device to be used in gas tanks for vehicles to improve fuel efficiency.

Kahan was detained along with another Czech Marek Bilik, but no additional charges have been placed on them.

He was given permission to stay in the country from May 17 to May 31 2007, and was given a further extension up to September 22. He was arrested four days after the expiration of his visa.