According to C.E.O. ‘Tux’ Vasquez, the Port of Belize has put in place security, as well as measures in the event that stevedores proceed with industrial action following the twenty-one day notice. Isani Cayetano “Now essentially you’ve been put on twenty-one days notice, notwithstanding the internal mechanisms that ought to be followed to try […]
The Port of Belize provides an essential service. It is a port of entry used to import and export millions of dollars worth of merchandise every single month. The standoff between stevedores and officials of the Port of Belize has caught the attention of the Government of Belize. Minister of State responsible for labor, Senator […]
The most debated motion brought to the Senate today was the conditional settlement agreement between NEWCO Limited and the Government of Belize. In 2002, the Belize Airports Authority and NEWCO Belize entered into an agreement to develop and operate the Philip Goldson International Airport. That concession agreement was terminated a year later on October twenty-seventh, […]
Taking part in the debate were U.D.P. Senator Orson Elrington and P.U.P. Senator Eamon Courtenay. Both Senators touched on Cabinet’s decision at the time to terminate the concession agreement. Orson Elrington, Interim U.D.P. Senator “Under that agreement NEWCO was given a concession for administration, maintenance and monetization of the airport. The terms include the […]
On Tuesday, we told you about sixty-year-old Salvadoran National Nicolas Guevara. He is the man who was convicted for the 1992 murder of thirty-six-year-old Marcus Antonio Tzul in the Orange Walk District. Guevara was given a life sentence but had his sentence reduced to twenty-five years. But since he has served more than that amount […]
Also today, Senators debated a loan for the Water and Sewerage Expansion in South Ambergris Caye Project. The loan is being provided by the Caribbean Development Bank and is for eight point five million dollars. The purpose of the loan is to purchase the shares of Consolidated Water Belize Limited, expand the existing water treatment […]
Attorney General and U.D.P. Senator Michael Peyrefitte has been hitting the ground in the Port Loyola Division meeting U.D.P. voters in his attempt to cement his candidacy as the U.D.P.’s Standard Bearer. Today, Peyrefitte told the media that he hopes to be victorious but if he isn’t, he will respect the decision of the voters. […]
The Government of Belize announced today that it will be expanding the hemodialysis programme to cover more than twice the number of patients with end-stage renal failure. According to the released issued from the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Health will contract K.H.M.H., Loma Luz Hospital, Miguel Rosado Dialysis Center, and Dialysis […]
The Belize National Teachers Union and Ministry of Education have been at odds about the re-categorization of hardship allowances and time off. The argument being put forward is that the ministry is making big decisions with no real information to support their decision to cut back on allowances from teachers who experience real hardship when […]
Belize Telemedia Limited, or Digi, as it has since been re-branded, held a media mixer on Tuesday night during which executives of the company presented a report covering the fiscal year April first 2017 to March thirty-first 2018. They also provided an overview of the company, its main developments in business, as well as an […]
Company C.E.O., Rochus Shreiber provided an overview of the past year under his leadership, particularly the rollout of Destination Greatness, as well as the vision for customers to take full advantage of the fiber to home network which was introduced as part of that strategy. Rochus Shreiber, C.E.O., Belize Telemedia Ltd. “This fiscal year […]
The Buttonwood Bay Nazarene Primary School on Coney Drive in Belize City has been transforming into a model education facility. Aside from expansion works here and there, the institution has also worked on improving its academic performance. As early as May of this year, two hundred and fifty students were registered for the current school […]
Recruitment manager Audralee Enriquez also took the opportunity to invite persons, eighteen years and older, to come to a job fair hosted by Transparent BPO. The company currently has eight hundred plus employees and is seeking to grow its numbers to about one thousand five hundred. Throughout the course of the year, several job fairs […]
The Port of Belize Limited is once again at odds with gangs of stevedores working at the harbor, as well as their representative union. For years, the company has shared an adversarial relationship with waterfront workers, a somewhat confrontational state of affairs which dates back to the presidency of Antonio Gonzales. Since taking over as […]
According to Arturo ‘Tux’ Vasquez, Chief Executive Officer at the Port of Belize, the labor law mandates that there be a minimum of nine hours of down time for persons working within a twenty-four hour period. While both parties were deadlocked on the issue, CWU President Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde says that they subsequently requested a […]
Since both parties are at a logjam, it is expected that Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who is also Minister of Labor, will have to intervene in the matter. Vasquez cites the Settlement of Disputes Essential Services Act which permits stevedores to give advance notice of industrial action; however, he also says that it is subject […]
Just before ten o’clock this morning, news spread like wildfire that resident youths at Princess Royal Youth Hostel were on the roof of one of the buildings. Speculation was fast and furious on social media as to why the residents were there within minutes, the police were there as well as B.D.F. soldiers. A News […]
Today, young people from across the country gathered at the Biltmore Plaza for a national consultation spearheaded by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Development and other partners such as UNICEF. The purpose of the consultation is to bring together various stakeholders, particularly the adolescents, to […]
The mass re-registration is over with a total of one hundred and thirty thousand, seven hundred and ninety-two applications received by the Elections and Boundaries Department over the three month period. During the last week of re-registration, that is between September twenty-third and thirtieth, six thousand, three hundred and seventy-six applications were submitted. The total […]
Over the weekend media representatives were taken to Cayo to visit top tourist destinations as part of B.T.B.’s annual familiarization excursion. On Monday showed you the thrilling zip-lining and out of this world cave-tubing experiences that Cavetubing.bz offers. Today, News Five’s Hipolito Novelo takes a look at two top resorts in the Cayo District. […]
Since the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, addressed the United Nations one year ago, the government has announced a date for the referendum on whether or not Belizeans want to head to the International Court of Justice to bring resolution to the Guatemalan claim. That date is set for April tenth2019. In Guatemala, in April […]
The People’s United Party held its national executive meeting at Memorial Park in Belize City. Hundreds of delegates from constituencies in the districts, travelled to join the Belize City delegates for the event on Saturday. This year, the P.U.P. celebrated its sixty-eighth birthday which was one of the reasons for the meeting. The party also […]
As an annual event, the Belize Tourism Board hosted members of the media for its 2018 familiarization tour. This year, the media was taken to the Cayo District where journalist and videographers got a firsthand experience at some of the tourist attractions that Belize has to offer in the west. The trip kicked off on […]
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned to the country on Thursday, but he was unable to attend today’s House Meeting since he is still recovering from surgery. So, Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber led the proceedings on the government side. A number of bills were introduced. The main bill; however, was for the settlement of an […]
