While the fishermen plea for help, on Tuesday we reported that some eight million dollars in relief was issued to the National Emergency Management Organization to start efforts at reconstruction and rehabilitation following the ravages of Hurricane Earl. In addition to relief from major country donors and international organizations, some Southside Belize City-specific relief is […]
On Thursday, we reported about Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales’ maiden speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, where he spent about two minutes of a nineteen-minute speech addressing the forensic report on the death of Guatemalan minor Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano in April, essentially contradicting points raised in the report, and […]
On behalf of the B.P.P., Smith called on Belize’s diplomatic leaders and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington to issue a formal rebuke of President Morales’ remarks. He told us that anything less would not be acceptable. On the Phone: Paco Smith, Chairman, B.P.P. “It is obvious that based on the facts, with regards […]
Back to the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech, which told the story of a recession. If there was any good news to be found in the address, it was about the proliferation of public works. These projects were funded in part by Petro Caribe funds of sixty million dollars given to Belize Infrastructure Limited (BIL) […]
On the matter of public works, according to the Prime Minister, there is more to come. He announced the planned paving and aligning of the Coastal Road, opening up the southern Belize District and northern Stann Creek District to traffic from Belize City and Dangriga. But that is only one of the new infrastructure projects […]
Police generally do a good job sealing off exits and entrances for crime scenes and at court moving prisoners around. But scene security during fires, in contrast, has been a constant struggle for officers who are deployed to cordon off the area and ensure that essential service providers like the Fire Department, B.E.R.T and B.E.L […]
This morning, at a brief ceremony on Coney Drive, the United Nations Population Fund handed over one hundred dignity kits to the Ministry of Human Development to aid with ongoing efforts to provide assistance to families affected by Hurricane Earl. Hundreds of families were displaced by the category one storm that made landfall back on […]
The Ministry of Human Development is the chair of the relief and supplies committee for NEMO and act as the first responders in the communities affected by Hurricane Earl. Director Liannie Arthurs told News Five today that the Human Development Department has already identified key groups to benefit from the donation. Liannie Arthurs, Director, […]
The jewel is preparing to host an international volleyball competition. It’s a first for the local volleyball association which is putting its best foot forward in terms of logistics as well to compete. The local team will be competing against teams from the region but the highly anticipated game will be against Guatemala. News Five’s […]
The J’ouvert is one of the top attractions of the annual carnival activities. Thousands took over the streets of the Old Capital early on J’ouvert morning just prior to the road march this past Saturday. The party goers jammed for hours until dawn broke. It was a smooth and safe experience and we captured it […]
The Belize National Teacher’s Union and the Prime Minister are meeting at this time at the Biltmore Plaza. The marathon meeting started at two p.m. and continues as government attempts to hammer out an agreement with the B.N.T.U. The meeting follows another from last week with the joint negotiating team, which in addition to the […]
Belize marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of Independence this past Wednesday. This September twenty-first comes at a major crossroads, when much of the nation is agitating for change and there is unease about where the country is heading. The official ceremonies were held in Belmopan where both Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the Leader of the […]
Just moments ago, the marathon meeting between Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the Belize National Teachers’ Union’s Council of Management concluded. This is after four and a half hours of negotiations on an eight-point agenda at the Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel this afternoon. This meeting comes on the heels of a successful demonstration and rally […]
Shortly after Palacio’s interview with the press, Prime Minister Dean Barrow came down and addressed what he discussed with the teachers, much of which he had already responded to in a letter to the Union responding to their original letter of a few weeks ago. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Well the agenda was pretty […]
Gringo, it’s the anticipated documentary about John McAfee, the eccentric millionaire, which is airing this Saturday on Showtime. But like most things in McAfee’s life, there are twists and turns that are surfacing just prior to the airing. Showtime producers are being accused of bribing four former employees to lie about McAfee. And they have […]
Tuesday’s hearing at the Caribbean Court of Justice addressed a number of issues with regard to the Settlement Agreement for Belize Telemedia Limited, including the issue of paying back the former owners of the telephone company, represented by Dunkeld International Investments and the B.T.L. Employees Trust, in U.S. dollars. The attorneys for Dunkeld and the […]
But aside from the B.T.L. arbitration award, there are other outstanding cases before international courts. Belize stands to lose another significant sum based on the decision of the most powerful court in the United States. Financial Secretary Joseph Waight gave us the details on Tuesday. Joseph Waight, Financial Secretary “There are three arbitration awards […]
There was no holiday on Wednesday for members of the National Fire Service based in Belize City, as around one in the afternoon they were called out to battle a blaze on Neal’s Pen Road in Belize City. Orin Smith, Station Manager at the Fire Department reports that the fire totally consumed the upper portion […]
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Christopher Glancy, delivered Wednesday’s invocation at the Independence Day celebrations. But was he more to the point than the PM and the Leader of the Opposition? At least part of it was an indictment of governments’ missteps which have put them – and the nation – in peril. But […]
And while on the subject of the General Assembly, UNIBAM’s Caleb Orozco also addressed a side event of the assembly organized by the UN LGBT Core group in New York. That presentation took place on Wednesday and Orozco met with personalities such as Vice President Joe Biden as seen in the photographs.
Zika education continues. The Ministry of Health and other agencies have been working to keep the public aware of the preventative measures being recommended. As this emerging illness continues to be studied there is more and more information available to the public on the risks and effects. It is common knowledge that pregnant women should […]
A three-judge panel of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) this morning advised attorneys representing Dunkeld International Investments, The B.T.L. Employees Trust and the Government of Belize to work out with all possible speed the settlement of the amount due from the government to the former shareholders of Belize Telemedia. Otherwise the court will step […]
The Government has said that the tribunal divided the award into a forty-sixty ratio; forty percent of the total representing the non-Accommodation Agreement portion and sixty percent representing the Accommodation Agreement portion. But government’s interpretation is that the lion’s share of the total figure is owed in Belize dollars and can only be spent to […]
It was left to Senior Counsel Denys Barrow to defend Government’s actions. He explained that Government assumed that whatever was left in the second payment would be sufficient to cover the value of the accommodation, but it is not turning out that way. Now government is on the hook to pay the first fifty percent […]
There were differing views on whether the Government can adhere to paying the remaining portion of the award due to Dunkeld in U.S. dollars, and should have paid the first instalment in Greenbacks. As we previously reported, the Central Bank’s Governor, Glenford Ysaguirre, wrote Financial Secretary Joseph Waight on July twenty-second, reporting that, “The Dunkeld […]
