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Will Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber get to meet with the Belize National Teachers’ Union on Friday? The answer depends on the outcome of a prior meeting of the Union’s Council of Management on Friday morning. At a press briefing held this afternoon, the Union’s top figures, Executive Secretary Keesha Young […]
The Union also cites previous instances when both the Prime Minister and Minister of Education have met with the Council of Management as its basis for explaining why the Council should not be pared down for this meeting. Luke Palacio, National President, B.N.T.U. “You don’t know who you are dealing with when you are […]
The Strike Fund – it has become the latest tug-of-war between the Ministry of Education and the Belize National Teachers’ Union. The Union has maintained that its Fund is established solely for actions undertaken by the Union – from strikes, to demonstrations and other related activities. Now, the Ministry is proposing that the monies therein […]
There is Breaking News coming out of San Pedro. Minutes ago, a man was murdered in the Boca Del Rio Area on Ambergris Caye. Reports reaching News Five are that several shots were fired and Police are currently processing the scene. The victim has since been identified as thirty-year old Jason Gillett. More details on […]
Written on October 26, 2016 | Posted in
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Belizean fugitive Juan Carlos Martinez has evaded police for almost a year, but tonight he is dead, following a shooting in the San Pedrito area of La Isla Bonita. Martinez was serving a ten-year sentence for firearm-related charges, but escaped from custody on the island on December fourteenth, 2015 when he was brought from the […]
Minister of Education Patrick Faber is meeting with the leadership of the Belize National Teachers Union on Friday to discuss a way forward in the wake of an eleven-day strike effected by the organization. Among the issues to be covered is a salary deduction from teachers who participated in the industrial action. The union was […]
Both parties have agreed to meet and discuss the terms of the deduction, but has there been any consideration on the part of government to do away with a pay cut altogether? That’s what we asked Faber this morning. He says the issue is not a cut and paste situation. Isani Cayetano “Have you, […]
In advance of Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage wrote to Prime Minister Dean Barrow on Monday seeking clarifications and statements on several issues. The Coalition is asking for information on the recent multi-beam and seismic testing activities in Belize, including all agreements and contracts between TGS, the company in […]
Cabinet met on Tuesday and as we reported, the matter of the seismic testing in Belize’s waters, which many fear is the first step to exploring for oil in our deepest seas, was discussed. However, nothing has been issued on record as to Cabinet’s position. Today we spoke with the Belize Tourism Industry Association Executive […]
Today, the environmentalists also showed us a video package of separate interviews granted to the media in February of 2012 and May of 2015, in which no less than Prime Minister Dean Barrow himself appeared to support both the idea of a moratorium and plans for a referendum on offshore oil exploration. Tonight, we recap […]
He was not in Cabinet today; however, Minister of Defence John Saldivar is back in office after being suspended last week by Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Saldivar’s one-week suspension was originally described as a leave of absence. It came after documents were revealed that pointed to the existence of the company he formed with accused […]
While John Saldivar was not available for comment today and neither was Prime Minister Barrow, two of his Cabinet colleagues were willing to speak for him. Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Senator Godwin Hulse offered a succinct summary of the legal opinion and an even more terse response to the question of whether his […]
Also weighing in was Minister of Human Development Anthony “Boots” Martinez. Minister Martinez, too, is satisfied that Saldivar has been sufficiently cleared of questions surrounding his involvement with Mason and says he was glad to have him back in the fold. Anthony “Boots” Martinez, Minister of Human Development “In my humble opinion, from I […]
A Coast Guard Officer and father of two is fighting for his life at the K.H.M.H. tonight. Daniel Arzu Junior was shot in the head yesterday in Belize City when he went to visit his child’s mother. While Police aren’t able to say what triggered the attack, they are questioning three men in connection with […]
The near fatal shooting of Petty Officer Daniel Arzu Junior has shocked the Belize National Coast Guard, as well as the Belize Police Department where his father is an experienced officer. The unexplained attempt on Arzu’s life has left him in an unconscious state at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. There at his bedside is […]
The fate of a coastguard sailor who brutally pummeled a pair of men in Ladyville on Monday morning also hangs in the balance, as Ladyville police are yet to record a statement from the victims, to determine whether or not the seaman acted in self-defense. As we reported, the twenty-four-year-old resident of Orange Walk was […]
Cabinet was expected to discuss the aborted plans for seismic testing in the deepest of Belize’s waters today. Last week, hastily whipped up public outcry forced Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia Junior to intervene with the Government. While no announcement has been made on the plans going forward as of news time, newly-appointed Minister of Agriculture, […]
Nitaya Locke was the first female auto-mechanic in a male dominated industry. She has a level-two mechanical engineering degree, was certified by Isuzu and was employed at Bravo Motors in Belize City. But on Friday night, a traffic accident near Public’s Supermarket on the Phillip Goldson Highway claimed the life of the well-known technician. After […]
Police in Rural Eastern Division have a thorny case of alleged attempted rape to investigate tonight. The case involves a Coast Guard officer, a manager for a major import and distribution outlet and a secondary school teacher, the latter two of whom lived at the same address in Ladyville. They came one after the other, […]
Written on October 24, 2016 | Posted in
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In Hattieville over the weekend, Rural Eastern Division police made a major seizure of drugs and a firearm. Two persons, including a minor, were arrested and charged and police have reason to believe the adult was a courier for an operation in the West. We get more from ASP Juanito Cocom of Ladyville Police. […]
Written on October 24, 2016 | Posted in
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Thirty-two-year old Sarita Ash, an unemployed single mother of three children, now has a conviction on her record for theft. But the circumstances are somewhat unusual. According to security guard forty-eight-year-old Frederick Trapp, he had his wallet stolen on Thursday, October twentieth, while at the Uno Gas Station on Youth for the Future Drive in […]
Written on October 24, 2016 | Posted in
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Elwin Vanegas managed to successfully avoid capture by evading authorities for eleven years, after fleeing a prison bus in 2005. But we can report that he has been captured and returned to Belize from Guatemala, where he was said to be in hiding. Vanegas was picked up over the weekend and today, a warrant was […]
A somber moment today, as hundreds gathered to bid Senior Counsel Michael Young farewell at Wesley Methodist Church in Belize City. Of the many in attendance at the funeral service, Governor General Sir Colville Young and Prime Minister Dean Barrow were among prominent figures, including a who’s-who in the legal fraternity. In spite of the […]
Written on October 24, 2016 | Posted in
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Since raising the alarm on a pair of offshore studies, including a proposed seismic survey, the local environmental community has been frank in objecting to government’s approval of such maritime activities. Opposition from Oceana in Belize, the Association of Protected Areas Management Organizations, Healthy Reefs and the World Wildlife Fund, as well as public outcry, […]
This week, Minister Gaspar Vega resigned from cabinet after evidence surfaced that his son was superbly compensated for land sold to him which was held privately. Prime Minister Barrow had to reshuffle the cabinet in light of Vega’s departure. Minister John Saldivar was sent home for a week pending investigation into his business relationship with […]
