The path of tropical depression two takes it squarely over the Toledo District. The advisory from NEMO stated that the Boom Creek Road in Toledo was under four feet of water. The maximum sustained winds were up to be thirty-five miles per hour. And though warnings were issued from NEMO, the south, according to PGTV’s […]
There is a murder to report tonight…it is the third for the month of June and it happened at the eight miles community of Western Pines off the George Price Highway. Sometime around eight-twenty a.m., Hattieville Police were called out to a house under construction where the body of twenty-four year old Elias Santos was […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow came out blazing last week, accusing former Prime Minister Said Musa and former Attorney-General Francis Fonseca of signing a secret agreement with Belize International Services Limited, the company which operated the International Business Companies Registry and the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize. The agreement in question extends BISL’s management contract […]
A Belizean was detained in Cuba when he landed at the Jose Marti Airport in Havana with what we have been told are as many as five Chinese passports with Belizean visas. The man, Carlos Murga, has been held for a week giving some semblance of credibility to long circulating rumors that there is an […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working with their Taiwanese counterparts and the family of Clarencio Coc to bring the body of the twenty-six year old student home from Taiwan where he was killed Thursday night in a traffic accident. Coc, who has been on an academic scholarship since 2010, was on the back of […]
The government took control of the Belize International Services Limited (B.I.S.L.) and nationalized the International Business Companies Registry (I.B.C.R.) and the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize (IMMARBE) on Tuesday, June eleventh. Not only did G.O.B. nationalize the two registries, it slapped the management company, B.I.S.L., with a whopping thirty million dollar tax assessment. After […]
The international business community is not the only sector that is taking a hit from G.O.B. The Belize National Teachers Union (B.N.T.U.) is considering its next move after Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, came out swinging at them and teachers during a press conference held on Thursday. The verbal jabs touched all bases including: dismal […]
The Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology and Public Utilities it’s in its own battle with OCEANA Belize. On Thursday, the ministry sent out a release responding to a recent statement issued by OCEANA on a Supreme Court decision in which the validity of several offshore oil contracts, granted to six companies under the previous […]
The ministry has also proceeded to issue maps indicating areas currently being held by various companies, including Princess Petroleum and Providence Belize Energy, for oil exploration. The Petroleum and Geology Department recognizes the aforesaid companies despite the nullification of their contracts under the ruling. Furthermore, it cited an existing lawsuit in Saint Lucia for which […]
A Belizean studying in Taiwan has passed away. Clarencio Coc has been studying Plant Health at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in southern Taiwan since 2010. According to students at the school, scooters are a regular means of transportation in that part of the country. Coc and a student from Guatemala, Mervin […]
By now you are aware that the seven thousand five hundred and thirty-three students that took the Primary School Examination did not perform well in English and Math. The Ministry of Education held a conference on Thursday to examine their findings about the exam. And while the Chief Education Officer, Christopher Aird, crunched the numbers, […]
The potential of a commercial oil find by Maranco Energy Belize Limited in northwestern Orange Walk was used by Prime Minister Barrow much like a dangling carrot back in April, during negotiations with the unions over much delayed salary adjustments. The likelihood of a wage increase for teachers and public servants is contingent upon an […]
Two Belize City men were today charged for a robbery of an Orange Walk businessman in the court of Magistrate Adolph Lucas. The duo, twenty-eight year old Jaime Villanueva and eighteen year old Wardworth Clark allegedly held up fifty five year old Jose Santos with a knife earlier today. They allegedly stole his backpack containing […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow was very vocal about what he called a secret agreement between G.O.B. and Belize International Services Limited at his press conference on Wednesday. In his own words, the PM said that nobody was aware of that agreement, not legal counsel Gian Gandhi or the Financial Secretary or anybody in the public […]
At his press conference Wednesday, the PM described the agreement to extend the contract for the management of the IBC and Ships Registries as having been signed off in secret and that nobody knew about it. When News Five produced a letter proving that the Financial Secretary as well as Gian Gandhi to whom the […]
This morning during the United Democratic Party’s radio station, WAVE, Minister of National Security John Saldivar spoke about the management contracts. Saldivar and his co-hosts made some very serious allegations about Morgan and Morgan, the prestigious Panamanian Law firm that the company that managed B.I.S.L. Apparently, the three co-hosts used their combined intelligence gathering efforts […]
On June twentieth, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin will issue his ruling on government’s application for a stay of execution of an injunction handed down by Justice Oswell Legall. The ruling by Legall declared that agreements between G.O.B. and six oil companies including Providence Energy and Princess Petroleum Limited were null and void. That matter, stay […]
In a release sent out by the Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology and Public Utilities, earlier today, it pointed out that no order or judgment was made against any of the oil companies since they were not party to the proceedings. Furthermore, it stressed that only the legal authority of a ruling by the […]
Seven thousand five hundred and thirty-three students sat the exams, a five percent increase over last year. The top twenty six students have been highlighted for their achievement. But the exam which tests proficiency in English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science has not produced the desired results over the past decade. Scores in both English […]
Fifty-five year old Viola Pook, sentenced to life in prison for the New Year’s Eve murder of her common law husband in 2008, appeared in the Court of Appeal today represented by Senior Counsel Simeon Sampson. In July 2011, Pook was convicted of killing forty-seven year old Orlando Vasquez after lighting him on fire inside […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow called a press conference his morning. He touched on a number of subjects, but the hot button issue was the recent take-over of two private companies. On Monday evening, government revealed via a press release that it had assumed control of the International Business Companies Registry and the International Merchant Marine […]
P.M. Barrow says that the agreement signed between B.I.S.L. and former Prime Minister, Said Musa, and the then Attorney General, Francis Fonseca, was done in secret. That documentation sets out an extension of the contract until 2020 for a consideration of one point five million dollars paid into government’s coffers. But Barrow maintains that the […]
As we’ve told you, the agreement in the spotlight was signed by Said Musa and Francis Fonseca in 2005, and extended B.I.S.L.’s contract to 2020. The legality of that document will weigh heavily in what is sure to be protracted litigation. And perhaps in early preparation, the Prime Minister has gone to great lengths to […]
Government assumed control of the registries on Tuesday morning; and there will be much discussion and yes, expensive litigation ahead. B.I.S.L. is confident that it holds a valid agreement and government has breached that contract. In a release issued on Tuesday that company claims that it will, “vigorously defend its contractual rights and pursue its […]
It’s apparent that this is only the tip of the iceberg as far as the registries are concerned. But while it is the big issue right, there is another of an equal magnitude which continues to bubble in the pot…Noh Mul. It’s been six weeks since the Mayan monument was destroyed and no charges have […]
