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Are residents of the Caribbean Shores paying significantly more in property taxes than others elsewhere in Belize City? It’s an assertion that Mayor Bradley’s political opponent, Kareem Musa, has made and which he describes as an unfair assessment. But the mayor says that properties on the north side, particularly in that constituency, are seemingly larger […]
The Jaguars played against the Canadian team this evening at the BMO Stadium in Toronto. The game ended a while ago with the Canadian team penetrating the Belize defense and securing three goals, while the Jaguars were only able to make one attempt to make it on the scoreboard. After ninety minutes of play, the […]
Written on September 4, 2015 | Posted in
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There is a new president in Guatemala; he is Alejandro Maldonado, who will serve until January when a new president takes office. His installation came within hours of the resignation of Otto Perez Molina. The former President caved in at midnight after months of prolonged and escalating anti-corruption protests outside the Presidential Palace. Perez Molina […]
Former President, Otto Perez Molina, who is in lockdown tonight before another Court appearance on Friday, was in Belize in December 2014. That’s when Belize and Guatemala officially signed off on thirteen bi-lateral agreements, which until today have not been implemented. PM Barrow says that because of the relationship established between the countries during the […]
The first round of voting in Guatemalan elections is scheduled for September sixth. Since Perez Molina’s resignation at midnight, polls show that the front-runner Manuel Baldizon from the Renewed Democratic Liberty Party, is now trailing behind independent candidate, Jimmy Morales. Baldizon’s proposed Vice President is also under investigation in another scandal. But according to PM […]
And it is likely that a surprise victory by Sandra Torres, currently running third in consecutive polls, wouldn’t be a bad thing either. Torres is the ex-wife of former President Alvaro Cocom, but she has very close ties with Belize. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “I got to know her when her husband was President, […]
A near-fatal collision this afternoon along the Crooked Tree causeway has left several persons, including two minors, hospitalized with varying degrees of injuries. Sometime around three o’clock, a grey Toyota Tacoma heading in the direction of the village collided head-on with another vehicle traveling in the opposite direction. The violent impact of the crash sent […]
Written on September 3, 2015 | Posted in
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There was a murder in the old capital this afternoon and at this point, there are only preliminary reports about what happened on Castle Street. Just before two this afternoon, twenty-five year old Glenford Vernon was killed as he sat on a chair inside a tattoo shop. A lone gunman entered the lower flat of […]
Written on September 3, 2015 | Posted in
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Exactly two years ago, on September second 2013, the National Bank of Belize opened its doors for the first time in Belmopan. The mandate was clear cut – the provision of mortgage financing…primarily to public officers, but also to low and middle income Belizeans. Today, the Bank celebrated its second anniversary with the opening of […]
Written on September 3, 2015 | Posted in
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Today’s special sitting of the House of Representatives included matters of routine housekeeping, the introduction of one bill and the passage of two bills and two loan motions through the House. But by far the show-stopper today was the passage of the Electricity Acquisition Settlement Bill in one sitting. The Prime Minister announced on Monday […]
Written on September 2, 2015 | Posted in
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According to the Prime Minister – faced with such an achievement, it is inconceivable to him that anybody would stop to count the actual financial cost. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “But for those who do let me correct the blatant miscalculations, the wrong songs, the mathematical stupidity that I have heard coming from some […]
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Opposition leader Francis Fonseca says he gets it all right…and the People’s United Party actually welcomes the settlement of the four year protracted legal battle between G.O.B. and Fortis. But that doesn’t mean he likes the terms and concessions, and he made that very clear in his response to the introduction of the Bill. […]
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Those comments by Fonseca drew a very heated response from Prime Minister Dean Barrow. He says that those wrongheaded assertions by the Leader of the Opposition are exactly why he would never hire Fonseca for his legal expertise. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister “He said we’re also not charging any tax to Fortis for the […]
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The Barrow administration, for better or worse, has been embroiled in seemingly unending litigation. And with that litigation has come criticism for G.O.B.’s choice of high-paid, select attorneys who have raked in millions over the years. That criticism was front and centre in today’s session, raised first by P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca. The PM has […]
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According to the member for Cayo South Julius Espat, what is happening today with Fortis is all part of, in his words, a premeditated and wicked plan in which the only ones to benefit are the PM’s circle of family and friends. Julius Espat, Area Rep., Cayo South “The Prime Minister installed his law […]
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Now, if you expected those comments by Espat to be unremarked, you would be wrong. The Prime Minister always seems to reserve special attention for Espat, and today was no exception. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Let me start with the member for Cayo South. Now, Mr. Speaker, in his intervention he was rude, he […]
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Special Patrol Unit Officer Ryon Wagner, the bodyguard assigned to the Prime Minister’s wife, Kim Simplis Barrow, was arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate Court this morning on a single charge of murder. The disturbing story of an intoxicated policeman allegedly putting two bullets in the head of Nicaraguan Eduardo Sanchez Perez has gone somewhat under […]
Written on September 1, 2015 | Posted in
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And in other news from Belmopan, a witness in the brutal slaying of the notorious Roaring Creek resident, Russell Hyde and Marcy Humes has given a statement to police. Authorities had been seeking that person who was with Hyde and Humes as they approached the gate of Hyde’s hilltop home in Camalote on Friday night. […]
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An arrest is yet to be made in the weekend murder of twenty-year-old Malik Dixon, who was fatally shot as he rode a bicycle along Flamboyant Street on Saturday night. Toony, as he is popularly known, is affiliated with the Ghost Town Crips and, according to Belize City police, his death may have been gang […]
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Belize plays Canada this coming Friday at the BMO field in Toronto. And we are pleased to announce that we have teamed up with Channel Seven to bring you the broadcast of the game right in your living rooms on Friday beginning at 5:30. The Jaguars left the country on American Airlines this morning heading […]
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Late this evening News Five received confirmation of very significant news which happened completely under wraps. The Ramada Belize City Princess has changed management, effective today. We are told that the Princess, which recently associated itself with the popular Wyndham Ramada brand, is now being completely leased by an Asian company known as Gray Enterprises […]
Written on September 1, 2015 | Posted in
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And tonight’s question is: now that a deal to pay Fortis seventy million dollars plus thirty-three point three percent of shares has been sealed by G.O.B., was the acquisition of B.E.L. in the best interest of Belize? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll […]
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On Monday Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced a settlement with Fortis on the arbitrary 2011 acquisition of that company’s shares in B.E.L. G.O.B. will be paying seventy million dollars to the Canadian company which will also get back thirty-three point three percent of shares in the company. At the time of acquisition, it owned seventy […]
The Government of Belize has gotten rid of one albatross which has been hanging around its neck since June 2011. That’s when government nationalized Belize Electricity Limited, seizing seventy percent of shares from Fortis, the Canadian company that has assets amounting to twenty-eight billion dollars. Fortis had initially challenged government’s takeover of B.E.L. and the […]
The Prime Minister says he is confident that the new and improved relationship will work out, and if it doesn’t, there is a clause which allows Fortis to sell its shares back to G.O.B. in four years. G.O.B. and the Social Security Board will also control the Board of Directors through its majority of nine […]
