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Last Friday, PM Barrow preempted the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice by publicly stating that government won’t and can’t pay any damages awarded to Belize International Services Limited in respect of the 2013 ship registries takeover. As it turns out, the C.C.J. has in fact ruled that the acquisition of the companies were […]
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The road ahead for B.I.S.L. to collect on the damages is uncertain as it will entail another round of litigation once a quantum is settled at the Supreme Court. According to PM Barrow, an appeal of that decision is imminent on either side and whenever the C.C.J. has presided over the matter in the appellate […]
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Comments Off on What’s the Road Ahead for Settling B.I.S.L. Damages?
The government owes Lord Michael Ashcroft and his various companies as much as two hundred and fifty million dollars, including the mounting debt from Universal Health Services, as well as pending damages from the recent B.I.S.L. judgment. In 2016, government settled the then outstanding B.T.L. compensation for over five hundred million dollars. Altogether, the Barrow […]
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The prime minister’s no-decision view on an oral judgment handed down by former Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin has raised several eyebrows, particularly those in legal circles who argue that the verdict against the Minister of Finance for flouting the Finance and Audit Reform Act is valid despite though it was in oral form. While precedence […]
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Border jumpers remain a constant challenge for law enforcers patrolling the porous borders. These border jumpers put the health of Belizeans at risk and, according to Director of Health Services Doctor Marvin Manzanero; they might become the source of a community spread of the novel coronavirus. Several have escaped from quarantine facilities around the country […]
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The national university is facing deep financial woes and things are in a state of flux. Today, President Clement Sankat of the University of Belize met with the university’s Board of Trustees as it relates to the university’s financial exigency. To cut costs, UB is proposing cuts in salaries and programmes which will end with […]
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News Five is also in receipt of a letter dated July first from the Ministry of Education to President Sankat which is causing consternation to the Union. The letter speaks to the term of office of the faculty representative of the Board of Trustees stating that her appointment ended on February twenty-eighth, 2020. The letter, […]
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The C.C.J. on Tuesday delivered a severe decision against the government using language like abuse of power, high-handed, and inconsistent with good governance. . The judgment handed down is in respect of an appeal filed by Belize Investment Services Limited, the former parent company of IMMARBE and IBC registries is a scathing indictment of the […]
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Comments Off on Lord Michael Ashcroft Reacts to C.C.J. Decision
The likelihood of Lord Ashcroft being able to collect on hundreds of millions of dollars owed to him under the Barrow administration, is likely at zero to none as the clock ticks toward the next general elections. Prime Minister Dean Barrow has ignored the ruling of the court on previous matters, including the ballooning U.H.S. […]
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Comments Off on Will Ashcroft Ever Collect on Monies Owed by G.O.B.?
After signing an agreement in Miami, the PM agreed to pay five hundred million dollars for the acquisition and nationalization of B.T.L. Government is once again indebted to Lord Michael Ashcroft to the tune of roughly two hundred and fifty million dollars. That hefty figure includes the interest that continues to accrue on the U.H.S. […]
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Comments Off on Government on the Hook for Another $250M to Ashcroft
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, the government has amended laws on several occasions to suit its position on legal matters and introduced retroactive amendments. This was first evidenced during litigation following the acquisition of B.T.L. in 2009. While Lord Ashcroft is aware of these sudden constitutional changes, he also points to the […]
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In a lengthy written decision accompanying the C.C.J.’s ruling on Tuesday, there are several points in which the bench rebukes the Government for its actions pertaining to B.I.S.L. Justice Peter Jamadar in his judgment highlighted the fact that the company was deprived of its share of income for seven years, from June 2013 when it […]
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Comments Off on Government’s Actions, Do They Bode Well for Investor Confidence?
Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte was also asked whether an oral ruling handed down by former Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin is a non-decision as stated by the Prime Minister recently. Peyrefitte says that the P.U.P. was consulted and knew the consequences of not renewing the CJ’s contract. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney General “A decision is a […]
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The Belize City Council is not going to pay the eighteen thousand dollars that Lee Mark Chang, owner of Chon Saan Palace is attempting to collect. Chang who is the U.D.P.’s Standard Bearer for Caribbean Shores and political ally of Patrick Faber, says that between September 2016 and October 2017, the Belize City Council racked […]
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The Senate met today in Belmopan on four loan motions that were tabled in the House last Friday and were passed after heated debate. Government is borrowing a total of about sixty million Belize dollars, to be used mostly in response to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The first motion brought before the Upper Chamber was […]
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According to Private Sector Senator Mark Lizarraga, the government has no solid plan for economic recovery and the right thing to do is to call elections now to give way for a new administration to put in place a viable plan. Lizarraga says this government does not have the best track record in guarding public […]
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Forty-five thousand persons have benefitted from the COVID-19 Relief Programme by the government; fifteen thousand were directly employed in the tourism industry. Those were the figures presented by Doctor Carla Barnett during the Senate Sitting today. The senate also debated a request for an additional twelve million U.S. dollars, this time from the Inter-American Development […]
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But Lead P.U.P. Senator Michel Chebat is asking where the millions of dollars went, concluding that the government is asking for money for electioneering. Michel Chebat, Lead P.U.P. Senator “A hundred million dollars, Mister President. Can you grasp how much money that is? How many Belizeans could have benefited from that hundred dollars that […]
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Another loan brought before the upper chamber was for one million thirteen thousand U.S. dollars from the C.D.B. for sugar cane farmers to restore production, following the effects of the drought that impacted the sugar industry last year. According to Senator for Government Business, Godwin Hulse, who is also the Minister of Food and Agriculture, […]
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But Senator Mark Lizarraga was quick to crunch the numbers concluding that the million dollars for the drought is not enough because it works out to only about three hundred and five dollars per registered farmer. For Senator Doctor Louis Zabaneh, monies could have been diverted from road contracts to mitigate the negative impacts of […]
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Back in March we told you about the land dispute between the Valley of Peace Farms Limited and the Valley of Peace Farmers Association. The Association is made up of over fifty farmers from the village who plant a number of crops, and as we’ve showed you they are the largest producer of cabbage for […]
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Members of the Christian Workers who work at the Port of Belize this afternoon staged a protest in front of the Port in Belize City. They are complaining that the Port is cutting their salary by ten percent. The management at the Port says that COVID-19 has affected its revenue streams and as such certain […]
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At the National Assembly on Tuesday, we had a first-hand view at the archives that date back to the colonial past of Belize. The interesting historical literature shows how the parliamentarians met and passed laws dating back to 1883. Hipolito Novelo takes us back in time when there was no Prime Minister but a Premier. […]
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PM Barrow told reporters that they need not seek a response from him in respect of the outcome of the B.I.S.L. appeal. He famously said, “I am telling you from now: won’t pay, can’t pay.” Here is that clip once again, in the context of today’s decision. Prime Minister Dean Barrow [File: June 26th, […]
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Comments Off on PM Preempts C.C.J. Ruling; He is Chided for Those Remarks
A letter was leaked today in which businessman and U.D.P. standard bearer for Caribbean Shores, Lee Mark Chang is threatening legal action against the Belize City Council for unpaid food bills, racked up under former Mayor Darrell Bradley’s administration. In a letter, dated June twelfth and addressed to the Senior Finance Manager at City Hall, […]
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