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There are ongoing negotiations between the Belize City Council and the Christian Workers Union concerning the fate of twenty-six security officers, made redundant by the municipal government. Mayor Darrell Bradley says that the decision to release the men is part of ongoing belt-tightening measures being taken to reduce the council’s overhead expenses. For the better […]
Written on February 10, 2014 | Posted in
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The cost per hundred pound cylinder of butane or liquid petroleum gas is on the rise yet again, as prices across the country have inched a few dollars higher. The new adjustments came into effect on Saturday. In Belize City, the price is now a hundred and twenty-eight dollars; Belmopan and San Ignacio, a hundred […]
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The B.T.L. Park is very near completion and it is extremely impressive. Take wide open spaces, full-time Police presence, colorful booths, adequate seating and aesthetics, fashionable and functional bandstand and the view, and what the Mayor has is a certifiable hit. But there are always nagging questions which accompany all major projects, like nepotism in […]
Written on February 7, 2014 | Posted in
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On December thirty-first, the Elections and Boundaries Department rejected the Elvin Penner recall petition submitted by the P.U.P. Of two thousand and two signatures presented for scrutiny, only one thousand, six hundred and sixty-five were accepted, meaning that the petition fell short by seventy-nine signatures. The decision by the Elections and Boundaries Department unleashed a […]
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On Thursday night, we reported about a land grab in the Orange Walk East constituency. Tonight, there is another story which also involves land and money; plenty missing monies. On Thursday, we sat with an ad-hoc group from San Jose Nuevo Palmar, which is also in Orange Walk East. To understand the magnitude of this […]
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The issue of revising the existing gun laws, in light of the recent conviction of police corporal Gino Peck for possession of unlicensed ammunition, has taken center stage in recent weeks. Peck’s case is frequently compared to that of GST Supervisor Reynaldo Verde, whom it is alleged that an unlicensed firearm was discovered by police […]
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The Occupational Safety and Health Act 2014 was tabled in the House of Representatives on January twenty-ninth after pressure from the National Trade Union Congress of Belize to have the proposed law presented in parliament. While the bill remains to be passed and will have to go through nationwide consultations, the Belize Chamber of Commerce […]
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On Monday, we reported that Benque Viejo del Carmen and surrounding villages have been without an ambulance for the past several months. While it was initially rumored that the vehicle has been confiscated in neighboring Guatemala, the Benque Viejo Town Council, which is responsible for providing the service, says that the ambulance was simply towed […]
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This morning, a team from the Belize City Council met with CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd and the Labour Commissioner in downtown Belize City. The issue on the table remains the declared redundancy of twenty-six workers in the Council’s Security Department. This is the second meeting since the union took charge of the matter in late […]
Written on February 6, 2014 | Posted in
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As recent as two weeks ago, we reported that the Guadalupe Park in the Orange Walk East constituency ended up the hands of Adin Aragon, the son of the former area representative, Elodio Aragon Senior. In the days leading up to Sunday’s convention for the constituency, contested by the other Aragon, Elodio Junior, the prime […]
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The meeting between the Labor Commissioner, the CWU and the Mayor concluded a little while ago at the office of the labor Commissioner. Word to News Five is that the commissioner declared that the redundancy of twenty-six security workers is to be put off until next week Wednesday and not this Friday. The Labor Commissioner, […]
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In response to a sustained outcry against the Firearms Act, as amended in 2008, Minister of National Security John Saldivar stood in the House on Wednesday to say that his government is prepared to look at the Act with a view to possibly revising it. The matter was actually brought up by P.U.P. leader Francis […]
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Following a Special Sitting of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, the senate met today in Belmopan. Seven bills were brought from the House, including proposed legislation to deal with a threat by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force to blacklist Belize for not doing enough to tackle money laundering. Normally, the Senate would […]
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In responding to Shoman’s concerns, Leader of Government Business Godwin Hulse, echoed a similar sentiment, particularly where it pertains to laws that will inevitably have to be revisited. Nonetheless, he proceeded with the second reading of the bill. Godwin Hulse, Leader of Government Business “When you make laws without an out; that in fact, […]
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As we showed you in Wednesday’s newscast, Minister of State Edmond Castro spent twenty minutes in the House reading a prepared statement to explain, or at least attempt to explain, his role in the BAA cheque scandal. He was able to do so because the matter was raised on the adjournment by member for […]
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That was the PM in the House on Wednesday. He maintains that there were only three questionable checks, but the truth is that there were a lot more than that. BAA board member, Lindsay Garbutt, confirmed to News Five in an interview that various checks to Bowen and Bowen were used to pay for […]
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In August 2013, the government cancelled the lease held by the Ports of Belize Limited to the Commerce Bight Port in Southern Belize. That…after the Belize Bank seized control of PBL from Luke Espat. The bitter dispute which surrounded that seizure and the subsequent cancelling of the lease to the Commerce Bight Port might be […]
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The House of Representatives had a full agenda for its special sitting today. It is the second sitting since the start of the new year convened primarily to avoid blacklisting by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force. But the big stories tonight take us outside the House where the Prime Minister took questions from […]
Written on February 5, 2014 | Posted in
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In recent months, the Elvin Penner passport scandal followed by the visa hustle, the Castro Airports Authority cheques and the “hotbed of corruption” in the land departments, among others, have shaken the Barrow Administration to its core. And the Prime Minister has been found defending every scandal because of the razor-thin majority in the […]
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While the Prime Minister was short on details outside the House, Minister of State Edmond Castro was long on prose as he rose for the first time since the BAA check scandal broke to give a statement. Castro has come under persistent fire also because of the visa hustle. Today, he rambled for twenty minutes […]
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Last Tuesday, former FIU director Marilyn Williams was appointed as the new chair of the Integrity Commission, after approximately four years of the agency being defunct. The Prime Minister told us today that they are serious about activating the Commission, and members have already been selected. The appointments will be announced at the sitting […]
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Throughout the month of January, the unions took to the streets calling for an end to corruption and salary adjustments. Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Barrow announced that based on projections, teachers and public officers were looking at a salary adjustment of not less than three percent when they receive it in July. Well, […]
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Since last week the fate of security workers declared redundant by the City Council has been under much scrutiny. Those workers received their layoff letters on January twenty-third, and the Christian Workers Union jumped into the fray soon after. The union claimed that proper procedure was not followed, and the interests of the workers had […]
Written on February 4, 2014 | Posted in
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Matura-Shepherd says that by only asking for two weeks, she is showing extreme goodwill, since the union could demand its month notice. That request has been formally submitted to Mayor Darrell Bradley, who had previously agreed to give workers until this Friday. But the CWU says it needs more time to do a proper examination […]
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The recent arrest, trail and conviction of Corporal Gino Peck have brought the Firearms Act into sharp focus. But the truth is that since the Act was amended in 2008 it has been the cause of great distress, with the perception that many innocent persons have been wrongly persecuted. The argument has run the gamut […]
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