The Imer Hernandez Development Company Limited has already begun construction on the stretch of Fabers’ Road between Central American Boulevard and the George Price Highway. For that approximately one-mile stretch of road, they will be paid handsomely – almost eight million dollars to reinforce the road bed and put in sidewalks and drains to the […]
But before it gets to that, COLA has engaged Kareem Musa to write to the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Works, Errol Gentle, along with Minister Rene Montero and Contractor General Godwin Arzu, under the Freedom of Information Act. Musa seeks a look at the specific contract to Hernandez, the selective tendering process employed by […]
The People’s United Party issued a statement today condemning the award as containing no rational justification other than to, in the P.U.P.’s words, enrich select U.D.P. ministers and cronies and pad election coffers. They cite the similar works on the Philip Goldson Highway done by Cisco Construction for less than half the cited amount of […]
A recycler was killed over the weekend following a clean-up of the George Price Highway. Elroy Jones was on the job when he lost his life; he was run over by a truck he was travelling in. The Belize City man was putting in bags of trash into the trailer when he accidentally slipped, fell […]
Around seven-thirty on Thursday night, shots rang out in the vicinity of Dolphin Street near the rear of Roger’s Stadium. A well-known taxi driver and activist had been gunned down in cold blood. Seventy-two-year-old Albert Anthony Cattouse was driving his Lincoln Town Car on Hicatee Street when he was targeted by a gunman. The bullet […]
Warren Lewis has been on remand for over eight years for the August eighteenth, 2009 murder of Albert Allen. After almost a decade and after a third trial for murder was not forthcoming by the judiciary, attorney Darrell Bradley sought bail today for twenty-six-year-old Lewis, a former B.D.F. volunteer, who at the age of eighteen […]
The badly decomposed body of sixty-nine-year-old Christoffer Jan Roggema was found today in some high bushes in Saint Margaret Village. The Norwegian- Belizean businessman went missing on Monday while out scouting for a piece of property to build a business. According to close friend, Jaime Perez, who has known Roggema for more than fifteen years, […]
They had expected many more, but only fifteen family members and friends and a handful of concerned citizens joined the search for seventeen-year-old Erwin Rodriguez. Although all signs point to foul play, the family of the teenager is focused on finding his body and knowing definitively what happened to him. The inhospitable terrain of the […]
Attorney Kareem Musa has written the Ministry of Works and Contractor General Godwin Arzu under the Freedom of Information Act. On behalf of Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, he is asking for reasonable inspection of several documents in connection with Thursday’s contract signing for the reconstruction of Fabers’ Road between the George Price Highway […]
The Belize National Teachers’ Union is joining in on the backlash against the proposed appointment of Franz Parke to the Court of Appeal. In a statement released today it questioned Parke’s qualifications. Citing Section 101 of the Constitution, it argues that Parke, from his widely publicized C.V., has neither served as a judge in the […]
On Thursday, Daniel Fabro and Frank Sharp were formally introduced as candidates in the upcoming race for the president and vice president of the Football Federation of Belize. Both men have decided to throw their hats in the ring to challenge the leadership of the organization. The direction of F.F.B. remains under question since a […]
By whom will Party Leader John Briceño be challenged for control of the P.U.P.? It’s a question being pondered by many within the opposition party, in light of the fact that candidates are yet to enter the intramural political race. While it is strongly believed that the seat will be contested by Deputy Party Leader […]
According to Party Chairman Henry Charles Usher, every other position within the national executive is up for challenge. He goes through the necessary procedures of nomination. Henry Charles Usher, Chairman, People’s United Party “This morning we had the first national executive meeting since the last National Party Council which was held on September thirtieth […]
On Wednesday, Deputy Party Leader Kareem Musa, in an interview with the media, said that endorsements for Briceño’s leadership were being gathered from caucuses across the country. That effort came in the wake of the National Party Council held on September thirtieth. But today, Party Leader John Briceño set the record straight. He says he […]
At present Briceño’s office remains unchallenged, but that’s subject to change in the weeks ahead. The party chairman confirmed this fact when the question was put to him bluntly. Isani Cayetano “Do you have any idea preliminarily, of any interest being expressed in terms of challenging the leadership of John Briceño?” Henry Charles […]
In some corners there has been talk of discord within the People’s United Party, a perceived lack of unity that continues to affect the P.U.P. at the polls. In our interview, we asked the party leader if the imminent challenge is a deliberate move to unseat him by factions within his organization that are dissatisfied […]
While the party chairman agrees that there is no friction within the P.U.P., he says that members of the party should rally around the slate of candidates leading up to the municipal elections of 2018. Henry Charles Usher, Chairman, People’s United Party “It was the National Party Council that had called for this national […]
Is there an unexpected challenge for the leadership of the People’s United Party ahead of a national convention in the weeks ahead? Deputy Party Leader Kareem Musa called a press today; he did not spell out he is, but instead he said he is weighing his options. Musa, the son of the former Prime Minister […]
Since the announcement of the national convention, letters of endorsement for Briceño’s leadership have been issued from an overwhelming number of caucuses; in fact, from as many as twenty-eight those close to Briceño say. According to Musa, it’s strange that the incumbent party leader would seek to solidify his seat even before a challenge is […]
On the occasion of the National Party Council meeting in Belize City, party leader John Briceño was asked specifically about a Kareem Musa leadership challenge and whether the timing of the convention was by design, to forestall any momentum developing for such a challenge. Briceño maintained that the decision was all about mobilizing the party, […]
With only a midterm in electoral politics to his credit thus far, is Musa prepared to take the reins of the oldest political organization in Belize? He admits that his bid for leadership would be symbolic of the confidence and faith that his colleagues have placed in him; however, Musa says that he can also […]
According to Musa, the P.U.P., despite being in opposition since 2008, remains a house divided and continues to be bogged down by dissent among factions within the party. Musa says he does not belong to any of the feuding groups, but has been labeled as one or another, the proverbial sins of the father hanging […]
At this station, we have joined media colleagues countrywide in a boycott of all activities of the Belize Police Department as we await action on various issues to better improve our coverage of crime and law enforcement-related stories for you, our viewers. Last Wednesday on his return to office, Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie had […]
The law firm of Courtenay Coye and Company, acting for Opposition Leader John Briceño, this afternoon filed a fixed date claim form against the Attorney General concerning the appointment of Jamaican-American Franz Parke to the Court of Appeal. Briceño is asking the court to declare Parke’s appointment unconstitutional, null and void as he does not […]
With two murders over the holiday weekend and a third reported this afternoon, the murder count for 2017 is up to one hundred and fourteen murders unofficially, slightly ahead of the 2016 pace. We start with what appears to be an execution-style murder on Jasmine Street, a stone’s throw from the neighborhood police station on […]
