COLA, the Citizens Organized for Liberty Through Action, will be organizing a public meeting in the Pickstock Constituency on Thursday. The venue is significant because of COLA’s most recent campaign. They’ve called on Prime Minister Barrow to remove Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington, but with no success. So now the grassroots activist organization is […]
Just before four this afternoon, traffic was backed up on the George Price Highway near the Lord Ridge Cemetery. Two vehicles traveling in opposite directions collided head on. From what we were able to gather from the scene, a Mazda Tribute, heading to the City, crashed into the front driver’s side of a Chevy Tracker […]
Turning to crime…Tonight, two of three suspects in a brazen daylight robbery at the premises of Southern Choice Butane Ltd., located at mile four on the Phillip Goldson Highway, are behind bars. This morning, Kevin Faber and Warren Davis were escorted in handcuffs to court for arraignment before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. They are […]
In 2009, the Government of Belize seized control of B.T.L. and when a court ruling found the nationalization to be null and void, Government renationalized the company in 2011. Now…weeks before the general election on November fourth, G.O.B. has settled with the Ashcroft Group by paying a preliminary sum of one hundred and sixty-two million […]
Denys Barrow, who is the brother of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, has also been a target in the Opposition People’s United Party’s campaign. The P.U.P. says that he has been paid millions in legal fees as G.O.B.’s lawyer of choice. The attorney hasn’t been fazed by the negative attention. He told News Five today that […]
T he negative campaign has focused on one particular instance in which Denys Barrow’s law firm was paid over five hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars for its role in a small settlement, which did not require court action. That was twenty percent of the payment to G.O.B. after a ship, the Paranga, caused damage to […]
A family grieves tonight the tragic loss of one of their own. Eleven-year-old school girl, Tezzrah Thompson, was hit by a delivery truck when she exited a school bus at the entrance of Mahogany Heights on the George Price Highway, on Monday. The young girl was heading home after a day at school in nearby […]
A gas station was robbed in broad daylight, on Monday morning for which three men have been detained. The brazen robbery occurred at Southern Choice Butane Limited located at Mile four on the Philip Goldson Highway. The gas attendant on duty was conversing with the company secretary when two men walked into the compound saying […]
In an unprecedented move last week, the Bar Association has applied to the Caribbean Court of Justice to release its decisions on the nationalizations of B.E.L. and B.T.L. Both matters were hastily settled only weeks ago, and the settlement stays the decision by the CCJ. But the Bar Association has asked to be included as […]
The Bar has determined that the decision, whatever it is, speaks to the legality of the much debated Eighth Amendment, and they say it is a matter of public interest so it should be released. But Barrow says all that is moot because the matter of the Eighth Amendment, in light of the settlements, is […]
The Foreign Minister’s speech to the United Nations in New York on Friday is causing a firestorm. While it is not the first time that Wilfred “Sedi’’ Elrington has come under fire for his pronouncements on the Guatemalan territorial dispute, his statement to the UN, about a minute or so at the very end, is […]
Is the People’s United Party attempting to capitalize on what is being described as the foreign minister’s blunder? General elections are just a month away and whatever can be used to gain political mileage is seen as par for the course. The territorial dispute is of national importance says the Party Leader Francis Fonseca and […]
The U.D.P. sent out a release this morning which was followed by a response from the P.U.P. The U.D.P. release announces that the former defeated mayoral candidate in Belmopan, Jose Chacon, had resigned the P.U.P. and crossed over to the U.D.P. Chacon’s statement in Spanish was attached to the U.D.P. release and followed by a […]
Today, employees of the Social Security Board from all branches countrywide protested for half an hour during their lunch break. The organization provides its employees with uniforms every eighteen months, but those uniforms came in very late. CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd told News Five that the protocol is clear that if the employees do not […]
Matura-Shepherd says that the reason the employees waited to receive their uniforms is because it is only at that point that they could calculate how much they believe they are due for a clothing allowance. As to the stance taken by S.S.B. Chairman Dough Singh, Matura-Shepherd told us that she believes he’s not being given […]
When we spoke to CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd in the wake of the S.S.B. protest this afternoon, she emphasized that the protest was not over the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Still, Matura-Shepherd has maintained that the Board of Directors of the S.S.B. is dragging its feet on negotiating the CBA. Chairman of S.S.B. Doug Singh disagrees. […]
Singh says any question of salary should not hold up the process since the framework places discussions on non-financials first. The CWU has condemned the S.S.B. for what they say is management delaying the process since November 2014, but Singh says they were actually presented with an amended CBA by the CWU just two months […]
Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington was among the speakers this morning to address the United Nations Seventieth General Assembly. Nineteen minutes long, his statement covered hot topic issues such as climate change, the Syrian crisis and other matters on the international scene. Elrington also offered the traditional support to Taiwan, calling for an end to the […]
The Belize delegation also included two other ministers—Godwin Hulse and Joy Grant—as well as UN Ambassadors, Lois Young and Janiene Sylvester and Elrington’s wife, among others. While they applauded the offensive statement, here in Belize, there is outrage. The P.U.P. says that it can no longer place trust on the U.D.P. administration to deal with […]
In May 2011, the home of Belmopan businessman Mike Menjivar was literally riddled with bullets during a surprise raid. Although the raid unearthed nothing illegal by way of drugs or weapons, Menjivar was promptly arrested because he fired back when the Police, unidentified as such, descended on his home. In 2013, the businessman was exonerated, […]
Today, Keyren Tzib appeared in the Supreme Court for the third time since her arrest on July twentieth on a single count of manslaughter. The Coast Guard officer is seeking bail, but sitting Justice Troadio Gonzalez has maintained that before making a decision he has to be informed as to whether Tzib is a danger […]
Police have arrested the brother of an alleged Guatemalan rape victim as well as their cousin for the rape of the under aged victim. The young girl says her cousin raped her on two occasions and that her brother aided him by taking her to his room in the house they lived at in Santa […]
In thirty-two days candidates from two mass parties and one new entry will vie for thirty-one seats up for grabs in general elections. One of those candidates believes he is in a special position, though, since he is currently a sitting Mayor. We’re talking about Darrell Bradley, Belize City’s municipal head, who is also an […]
And since he’s so fixated on what happens when he wins, the Mayor didn’t even want to entertain any question about losing. He says that he doesn’t get into any race thinking about losing. Darrell Bradley, Belize City Mayor “I can’t speak to that.” Mike Rudon “Because of the transition at city hall, […]
Bradley says that while he doesn’t plan to be there after general elections, he would definitely advise whoever is in the Council to look favorably on the bond program. Darrell Bradley, Belize City Mayor “There are so many needs within the municipality. I think that the infrastructure work has been very successful and I […]
