From assisting affected fire victims in the San Pedro fire to politics….the Belize Rural South area rep and Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Manuel Heredia Junior, was also quizzed today about what is seen as the “pushing out” of Senator Doctor Carla Barnett from the Ministry of Natural Resources. Was the senator moved because […]
Moving on from the exit of the senator, Manuel Heredia Junior went on to throw his support behind elected cabinet colleague Hugo Patt, saying that Patt’s integrity and political will are reflections of him as politician and leader. Manuel Heredia Jr., Minister of Tourism “Let me be very open. I have great respect for […]
The Ministry of the Public Service recognized dozens of outstanding public officers during an awards ceremony this evening in Belize City. Policemen, firemen, and other employees from across various government departments gathered at the Princess Hotel and Casino where they celebrated Public Service Day. Many of their colleagues were on hand to join in the […]
With the hurricane season now underway, concerns about the use of the new Civic Center as the Emergency Operation Center for CEMO have been put to rest. Late on Thursday, NEMO sent out a release stating that “Minister of National Emergency Management Edmond Castro and officials from NEMO and CEMO agreed that the Civic Center, […]
There has been an increase in military presence near the outskirts of Otoxha Village, in an area adjacent to the Guatemalan border. The need for B.D.F. patrols to be deployed into the fringes of that southern community follows a report from villagers that there has been clearing taking place in the nearby forest in Belizean […]
The Youth and Community Transformation Project (YCT) and RESTORE Belize partnered to train nineteen service providers in conflict mediation. The social workers, community rehabilitation officers, police officers, and youth workers have been equipped with mediation skills to build capacity in their departments and organizations where they will serve as conflict mediators. Andrea Polanco stopped in […]
His promotion to the second most powerful government ministry is still making headlines, but since the announcement that on June twenty-fifth, he will become the new Minister of Natural Resources, Hugo Patt today gave his first impression as to the way forward in the ministry. According to him, a number of reforms have been implemented […]
Hugo Patt’s ascension as well as the significance of the portfolio he has been assigned, leads many to question whether the U.D.P. Corozal North area rep is being primed for higher office. He has not made those ambitions clear, but with talks that a third or a fourth candidate may be eyeing the party leader’s […]
As you heard, Minister Patt officially assumes direction of the Ministry of Natural Resources, in the next two week. The minister from the north has not held any of the weighty ministries before, but on two occasions in recent times, he has been named as acting prime minister. Those brief appointments have now propelled him […]
The announcement on Tuesday that Senator Carla Barnett was leaving the Ministry of Natural Resources took a lot of people by surprise because it is well known that the senator was highly rated to clean up the ‘hot bed of corruption. So what went down? The official line is that her demotion to the relatively […]
Political pundits view Hugo Patt’s promotion to the Ministry of Natural Resources as an attempt to neutralize any power play by frontrunners Patrick Faber and John Saldivar in the run up to the May 2019 leadership convention for the United Democratic Party. Faber who has gone up the ranks of the U.D.P. has made no […]
Despite having lost to Collet’s Patrick Faber for Deputy Party Leader in May 2016, John Saldivar has reemerged as a serious contender. The Belmopan area representative is already on the ground campaigning. According to Saldivar, the current focus is on delivering services required by all Belizeans through the Ministry of National Security, in order to […]
Is a move by the Belize City Council to bill the managing company of the Civic Center approximately half a million dollars for trade licenses, a case of political victimization by the P.U.P.? Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber thinks so because Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner had been against the multimillion dollars facility in his […]
The Fire Department continues its investigations into the horrific fire in the Escalante Subdivision of San Pedro. Thirty-six-year-old Clarita Bacab, perished in the inferno as did her two children and niece. All died when they were unable to get out of the burning house just before three o’clock on Tuesday morning. Two fire trucks attempted […]
A baby girl drowned in a pit of water in Bella Vista Village on Tuesday. Police responded to the drowning sometime around one-thirty that afternoon when a woman reported that she noticed her three-year-old daughter Abigail Umana was missing. She searched the nearby yard and found the baby lying in the hole with water. The […]
The Queen of the Bay pageant is a highlight in the September calendar as highly anticipated as the Carnival Road march. Deep in tradition, the pageant has been running for decades, but last year, the event became a spectacle during the crowning of the Queen of the Bay on the morning of September tenth. As […]
The death of four family members in a horrible fire in San Pedro is being felt throughout the tightly knit community in San Pedro. A mother, her two children and a niece were unable to get out as a fire blazed through their house on the Escalante Sub division of the island early on Tuesday […]
As the family grieves their sudden loss, sharp questions arise as to the state of essential services on the island. The fire trucks were not able to tackle the inferno and soon ran out of water. Residents of the prime tourism island are looking for answers as to why, despite previous destructive fires, the island […]
Tuesday’s announcement of yet another reshuffling of ministerial portfolios prompted by a sudden change in the top layer in the Ministry of Natural Resources is being met with serious concerns. It is the fourth re-organization of Cabinet since the departure of former Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega who demitted office amid a land scandal involving […]
Minister Edmond Castro, himself a fairly new minister, when asked to weigh in on the latest round of ministerial musical chairs, told the media that the prime minister has the power to make such decisions. When pressed about the optics of Barnett’s demotion to a low key ministry, Castro stuck to his guns, stating that […]
Baby Dashawn Dwehene from Gales Point Manatee was discharged today from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he had been recovering from a gunshot wound to the back. Over the weekend, the newborn was shot by his father Lincoln Dwehene with a safety-off pellet gun. The child’s mother, Tyreeka Welch spoke to News Five today […]
On Monday, Justice Sonya Young handed down a decision in favor of five-year-old Brenae Timmons. As a toddler, she suffered severe brain injury when an iron gate fell on her while visiting with her father at the Lake Independence Library in January 2016. In the wake of that most unfortunate incident, Brenae’s parents filed a […]
The Pickstock Development Association provides services to residents of the Pickstock and Lake Independence communities, primarily through after school initiatives, gardening and coffin-making. Elrington says that as many as a hundred and fifty children benefit from these services on a daily basis. The area rep says assistance provided may be jeopardized if Brian Espat is […]
The Civic Center has been in use since officially opening its doors on April thirtieth. The largest and most expensive public building in the country is being run by a private entity which was awarded a management contract by government back in March. The issue tonight, however, is the cost that Apex Event Services will […]
The P.U.P. standard bearer for Port Loyola, Gilroy Usher Senior, has responded to statements made about him by Minister Anthony Boots Martinez. In a brief statement, Usher Senior says that it is noteworthy that a drowning man will grab at a straw. He also points out that under his candidacy, the P.U.P. has made significant […]
