On Thursday, we told you about the Corporal Eldon Arzu versus the Commissioner of Police case that’s before the Supreme Court. Arzu’s claim is that the Commissioner of Police didn’t comply with the rules of the Police Association election process. His position is that the ComPol extended the nomination process after the deadline set by […]
Former U.D.P. politician Mark King is in hot water tonight and is under investigation by the police department for allegedly discharging a weapon in public overnight at a Belize City house. King, the owner of Brints Security and one-time area representative for Lake Independence, was departing a residence on Signa Yorke Street in Belama Phase […]
The villages of Blue Creek and San Felipe up north remain on lockdown, cut off from the rest of the country. The two villages were placed under a State of Emergency when health officials discovered a cluster of COVID-19 cases in Blue Creek Village last Friday. San Felipe is part of the S.O.E. due to […]
According to Teigrob, community members were also concerned over the depleting amount of fuel in the village. Teigrob says that after appearing on Open Your Eyes this morning, the matter was addressed. Brendan Teigrob, Manager, Blue Creek Credit Union “Nobody in Blue Creek has the necessary requirements or licenses to transport or unload fuel. […]
Seven members of a Blue Creek family are currently in quarantine at the Multi-Purpose Sporting Complex in Orange Walk Town. This is after they all tested positive for the novel coronavirus, but one of the persons is contesting that she is not sick and she is being politically victimized. Health officials have been having a […]
Thirty-six workers of the Port of Belize Limited are staring down termination. Of the thirty-six employees, twenty-nine of them are members of the Christian Workers Union. The declared redundancies may come within one week from today. While the P.B.L. has made that decision, its staff members are against it. And as we’ve reported, they have […]
On Wednesday, we were in the Senate hearings where the report from the Senate Special Select Committee on the Immigration Department was finally presented for adoption. The hearings concluded back in 2017 and for about a year Belizeans were glued to their television sets as witnesses appeared before the Committee. The debate on Wednesday provoked […]
Aside from the report on the Immigration that was adopted in the Senate, the upper house also dealt with the appointment of the new chair of the Elections and Boundaries. Now the appointment of attorney Estevan Perrera was approved, but there were loud objections because Perrera is well-known to be aligned to the government when […]
There is another appointment to confirm. As we reported last week, Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman has been appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court. Along with co-counsel Westmin James, who has also been elevated to the bench, Shoman was instrumental in the constitutional challenge of Section Fifty-three which saw that portion of the criminal […]
The Security Services Commission has granted promotions to several security personnel, including over a dozen officers of the Belize Police Department. Three senior officers were promoted including Dezerie Philips-Magdaleno who is now Deputy Commissioner of Police; Marlon Allen and Richard Rosado were promoted to acting assistant commissioner of police. Commissioner Chester Williams spoke about the […]
Today, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee Senator Aldo Salazar tabled the long-awaited senate report. The one hundred and sixty-page report confirms the findings of the Auditor General Special report on Immigration, Immigration and Nationality Department for the period 2011 and 2013. The report reveals the deep seated culture of corruption within the Immigration […]
In her report, the Auditor General found that, “since the law does not provide for ministers to intervene in the visa process, it was illegal for them to do so.” But many ministers still did, by way of so-called recommendations. Ministers such as Elvin Penner, Erwin Contreras, Frank ‘Papa’ Mena and Edmond Castro as well as Hugo […]
U.D.P. leader elect, Patrick Faber met this morning with former political opponent John Saldivar, their first sit-down after the leadership convention on Sunday. At the time that the official results had come in, the Belmopan area representative and former Minister of National Security was a no-show, leaving many to believe that Saldivar was not as […]
While several others are said to be considering not seeking re-election in November, the U.D.P. chairman says that in the case of Gapi Vega and Sedi Elrington, all indications were given ahead of the convention. Michael Peyrefitte, Chairman, United Democratic Party “We don’t say if you don’t want to be a part of the […]
In the wake of the convention, supporters of both John Saldivar and Wilfred Elrington are disappointed with the outcome, however, there are no confirmations on any new resignation in the days ahead, and as we said earlier, Saldivar and Faber appear to be mending fences. According to Chairman Peyrefitte, a disappointment is par for the […]
Residents of San Felipe and Blue Creek Villages in Orange Walk District, whom health officials believe may have been in physical contact with persons who recently tested positive for the virus, will be swabbed within the next few days, as a contact tracing exercise continues in those communities. Today, Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin […]
Orange Walk District is the last to have recorded cases of COVID-19; however, it presently has the most active cases. In Santa Elena on Tuesday, a man in his early fifties also tested positive for COVID-19 and health officials are trying to determine where the case originated from. According to the DHS, the patient reported […]
The latest coronavirus patient is a businessman whose livelihood is scrapping vehicles. His wife, who is also part of the contact tracing exercise, is a clothing vendor at the San Ignacio market. Both have informed the Ministry of Health that they have traveled across the country and have had contact with several other persons prior […]
Gapi Vega is out in Orange Walk North. The former Deputy prime Minister had been inactive and without a portfolio for some time but resurfaced when John Saldivar launched his candidacy. His fall from grace came when it was exposed that his son Andre, had been given hundreds of thousands of dollars for land compensation […]
Another U.D.P. minister to exit the political stage is Pickstock Area Representative Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington. He is demitting office at the end of his tenure and like Vega, he has also expressed publicly that he will not be seeking re-election under Faber’s stewardship of the United Democratic. It leaves his successor in quite a predicament, […]
With desertions under this leadership come in, all eyes are on Patrick Faber. Senate President Darrell Bradley is one of the names popping up to fill one of those empty seats in the City. With all the dynamic changes within the party we asked him on Sunday for a perspective on these sudden developments and […]
Robberies and other crimes continue to increase across the country; in broad daylight today, a Madisco delivery van was robbed. But is it an inside job? Surveillance camera images show as a gunman relieve one of two men inside the van of a bag containing an undisclosed amount of cash. The men, employees of Madisco, […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice has ruled that the Court of Appeal should hear an appeal filed by D.P.P. Cheryl-Lynn Vidal in respect to Calaney Flowers. Flowers who was acquitted of the hit and run murder of her ex-boyfriend, Lyndon Morrison, is still fighting to remain free despite the matter making its way through the […]
There is bad news tonight for persons who rely on the National Health Insurance Programme. A notice was issued today and it says that all referrals have been exhausted for the month of July, and that clients will now be required to pay for these services in full. The N.H.I.’s annual budget was cut and […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreck havoc on the economy and budget cuts are been imposed in most sectors, the foreign exchange crunch is not improving. Businesses are being advised that new limits are being imposed beginning this Wednesday. A cap had already been imposed earlier in the pandemic, and the new measure calls […]
