And while Doctor Errol Elrington’s fugitive status isn’t the government’s concern, the controversies surrounding nephew of the Deputy Prime Minister, Imer Hernandez, aren’t either. Hernandez is a contractor of choice, awarded millions of dollars for contracts across the country including the Belmopan market and the Orange Walk road and drainage project. Hernandez, the nephew of […]
At his lengthy press conference the Prime Minister was also asked, as he routinely is, about the state of the economy. There have been unprecedented injections of mostly Petrocaribe sourced cash into the country’s infrastructure – roads and buildings across the country. But despite massive spending on infrastructure, the economy continues to record negligible growth, […]
But while Barrow isn’t paying any attention to the IMF, he’s paying plenty to the hotbed of corruption in his own front yard. So much so that Cabinet has approved a proposal for big changes submitted by C.E.O. Sharon Ramclam and Commissioner of Lands Wilbert Vallejos. Those two senior officers have tag-teamed to come up […]
As you heard, accountability will be one of the key premises of the new systems being put in place – making all officers accountable for their actions. A critical component of the cleanup will be cracking down on lands officers who have used their status, connections and knowledge to raid government coffers in every way. […]
On Monday, News Five reported on the appointment of Foreign Affairs C.E.O. Alexis Rosado as new Ambassador to Guatemala. He will be taking over from the late Alfredo Martinez. It’s an important posting, more so because of the critical and ongoing discussions between both countries where the territorial dispute is concerned. As we said, the […]
The Isidoro Beaton Stadium in the nation’s capital is the home of the Belmopan Bandits, owned by Belmopan area representative John Saldivar. That stadium will soon be getting a major upgrading, complete with bleacher and parking facilities and an upgraded field, thanks to the government of Belize and Belize Infrastructure Limited. It’s not a bad […]
The Prime Minister was also asked for his response to a move by environmental and conservation entities who have expressed concern about the proposed scale of the mega-tourism Puerto Azul project. They say that the Italian developers have already been given a terms of reference for an EIA on the project. Well today, PM Barrow […]
Fishermen and vendors operating along Marine Parade were taken aback this morning when they showed up to their assigned location around ten o’clock only to find it is being dismantled by employees of the Belize City Council. Several months ago, they had been relocated from the seawall adjacent to Happy Tails to an area further […]
Bernadine Lauriano was all smiles today when she officially received a house from Belize Electricity Limited and Hand in Hand Ministries Belize. To qualify Lauriano had to assist in its construction as well as participate in building houses for others and become an active member of her community in the Lake Independence area. The value […]
Today, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Trade and Investment Promotion Mike Singh signed a memorandum of understanding with C.E.O. in the Ministry of Education David Leacock. That M.O.U. envisions the start-up of a call centre training facility. There are currently sixteen companies in the ‘business processing outsourcing’ industry, so to speak, employing some two thousand […]
Carnival 2014 is quickly approaching and carnival groups across the city and other districts are putting the final touches to their elaborate costumes for King, Queen and revelers. But while the fete is a highly anticipated event for the September Celebrations, it is also very costly. These bands would perennially look to sponsors for assistance […]
What was attorney Arthur Saldivar’s missing Ipad doing in the home of the Deputy Prime Minister’s brother in Orange Walk? That’s the million dollar question right now for Saldivar. He lost his Ipad at a bakery in Ladyville, and when he tracked it using a built-in feature, it had somehow made its way to a […]
According to the tracking feature, the Ipad was taken to this home in Orange Walk. We didn’t know it at the time of the interview this morning, but we’ve learned that the house belongs to German Vega, who is the brother of the Deputy Prime Minister. Saldivar isn’t taking the matter lightly, even before he […]
On June eleventh, 2013, the Government of Belize assumed control of the shipping and companies’ registries that were managed by Belize International Services Limited. That led to a round of litigation in which BISL challenged the legality of the acquisition and is seeking compensation. But there is another angle in the seemingly unending litigation involving […]
On Friday, employees of Belize Maintenance Limited were up in arms over City Hall’s mounting debt with the sanitation company. BML had been contracted by a previous city council administration to clean streets and drains across the Old Capital at a cost of almost eighty thousand dollars weekly. Shouldering the hefty sum has always been […]
While Mayor Bradley aspires to a seat in the House of Representatives in the distant future, Councilor Eric Chang will not be running for another term at City Hall. A recent revelation of a list of candidates shows that Chang’s name is absent from the slate. When pressed for a reason as to why Chang […]
Barbadian attorney, Anika Jackson, has been appointed as the new solicitor general of Belize. On August first, she will be formally taking the reigns from Acting Solicitor General Nigel Hawke who has been deputizing since late 2013. Concerns are being raised however, regarding Jackson’s appointment since the position is a public service post. News Five […]
Police have not released the name of a man who died at the health centre in Burrell Boom on Saturday. According to reports, the man was drinking in front of the gas station in the village when he allegedly complained that he was not feeling well. He was immediately taken to the health centre and […]
Hattieville Chairman Kevin Carcamo has been missing since July twentieth and the search for him has continued unabated. The Discover-seis employee went to work that day and never came home. Every day since then employees of the company have joined his friends and family, the Police, Coast Guard and B.D.F. in combing the area where […]
In the wake of the unexplained disappearance of Hattieville chairman Kevin Carcamo, reports have been spreading like wildfire across the community that the company, for which he worked, had lost a cache of high-powered explosives. Over the weekend, the reports concerning the loss of charges from Discoverseis’ in Hattieville led to a police raid being […]
If you were glued to the TV over the weekend, you probably caught at least a bit of the Prime Minister’s extended sit down with banker Steven Duncan. It clocked in at just over an hour and a quarter and the nation’s leader spoke on a matter of issues from corruption and infrastructure to the […]
And while the PM can speak openly about the corruption of some members of Cabinet, he maintains that he personally has held firmly to his integrity, and that, more than anything else, will be the legacy he would like to leave behind when his political career comes to an end. Prime Minister Dean Barrow […]
U.S. Capital Energy is tonight one step closer to drilling for oil in the Sarstoon Temash National Park. On Thursday, a convoy of vehicles carrying heavy equipment used to set up a drill rig entered the country at the northern border. The fleet is the first of several containing the necessary items to be used […]
Belizeans have been following with much interest the curious case of Nasley Sommerville, formerly the administrator of the Southern Regional Hospital. She has been under investigation for at least a year, for misappropriation of what is said to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. She has been the subject of particular interest in an […]
Seventy-two year old McKesson Garrett remains hospitalized recovering from injuries sustained when he was attacked by four vicious Rottweilers. Garnett went to visit his friend, Leroy Woods, who lives at mile four on the Phillip Goldson Highway. But the friendly visit almost turned deadly for Garrett who was attacked when he was welcomed by Woods […]
