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In another case, De La Rosa shares the story of an individual who later found out that his information was used to acquire a piece of land. He approached De La Rosa, who at the time was also under Montero’s employ, and asked him to relay a message to the former Minister of Works. He […]
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In light of Eddie de la Rosa’s testimony, who says he witnessed the corrupt activities within government ministries, the P.S.U. says that people like De La Rosa need protecting. De La Rosa fled to the U.S. after he felt his life was in danger because he is now a whistleblower. The Public Service Union says […]
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The Public Service Union is also addressing complaints made by public officers regarding unfair dismissal. In its release, the P.S.U. says that it received several complaints from public officers who have been terminated under the Briceño Administration. The union says that it vows to challenge these terminations following the rules and regulations set out under […]
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The P.S.U.’s Dean Flowers took the opportunity to weigh in on the Good Governance motion introduced in the House on Friday. The unions have always been a very vocal advocate for signing the UNCAC and more stringent anti-corruption policies. Flowers says that legislation is what is needed to fight corruption, not a motion. He says […]
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Patrick Faber made his debut as the Leader of the Opposition during the Sitting of the House on Friday. It is the first time he and his elected members are sitting on that side of the House. And while they may be few in numbers, they are strong in debating. Here is that story. […]
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The Sitting of the House wasn’t without its sparks, and several flew across the aisle on Friday. Things got testy between Leader of the Opposition Patrick Faber and Prime Minister John Briceño. But the back and forth between Mesopotamia Area Representative Moses “Shyne” Barrow and Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat was a bit more […]
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When the People’s United Party was in opposition, its members bashed the then U.D.P. Government for its nepotism. But since the P.U.P. has now formed government and political boards are being appointed, the now opposition U.D.P. is turning the tables. The U.D.P. is calling out the Briceño Administration for what it says are nepotistic appointments […]
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On January fifth, cabinet announced following a weekly briefing that authorization had been given to the National Forensic Science Service to enter into a formal agreement with Central America Health Sciences University. For years, the forensics department had been using the Belize Medical College anatomy lab to conduct post-mortem examinations on bodies found in advanced […]
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Even Football training is going online. The Football Federation of Belize announced today that it is investing eighteen thousand U.S. dollars in developing its youth players. The money is to the enrolment of a hundred and eighty players from the u-fifteen, u-seventeen and u-nineteen players to the Evo Soccer programme. It is a year-long online […]
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Will Elections and Boundaries Commission Chairman Estevan Perera resign? Perera is not saying, but Prime Minister John Briceño has called for him to resign. You’ll recall that he was appointed as Chairman of the Commission back in July 2020, four months before the General Elections. And while many political appointees under the previous administration have […]
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The Supplementary Appropriations Bill will tide the Briceño administration over until the start of the next financial year on April first after it goes before the upper house on Wednesday in a special sitting of the senate. The three-month period is an entire quarter that government would need to be financed. The dire strait it […]
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During its first Sitting of the House of Representatives for 2021 on Friday, the new P.U.P. Administration tabled its Good Governance in Belize Motion. The motion is a model of the P.U.P.’s PLANBelize manifesto presented to the electorate before the November eleventh general elections. In the motion, members of the Briceño Administration pledge to uphold […]
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…from a motion for good governance from elected officials to a constitutional amendment to expand the grounds for removal of Supreme Court judges. For years, there has been a backlog of judgments within the judiciary. It is not a situation unique to Belize but common in many of the Caribbean nations where the judiciary is […]
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While Prime Minister John Briceño and his government table bills to alleviate the financial constraints, he has the hefty superbond payments hovering above his head. Early in the pandemic, then Prime Minister Dean Barrow decided that it would be better to ask bondholders for a deferral on the bond payment. Bondholders agreed to defer the […]
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The government-owned bank, the National Bank of Belize, has a new board of management. The bank, which is headquartered in Belmopan, will now be headed by new chairman, Thomas Tillett. The rest of the new board includes Ashanti Martin, Arsenio Burgos, Oscar Arnold, and Carlo Habet. It is the Prime Minister who appoints the board […]
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Of the eight bills that the government tabled on Friday, four are related to the government’s fiscal plan to address the challenges of COVID-19 and the recent weather-related disasters. One of those bills is the Central Bank of Belize Amendment Bill of 2021. Through this amendment, the Central Bank of Belize can provide for emergency […]
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Through the Finance and Audit (Reform) (Amendment) Bill of 2021, Briceño’s government also proposes the establishing a Contingencies Fund to be used for urgent and unforeseen expenditure for which no other provision exists. It is the first time in history that a contingencies fund is being created. Prime Minister John Briceño “The constitution recognizes […]
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The Barrow administration had been heavily criticized for issuing tens of millions of dollars in public contracts, especially in infrastructure, to what the P.U.P. describes as known U.D.P. cronies. These contracts would go through the office of the Contractor General for approval, but the former Contractor General Godwin Arzu failed to submit yearly reports as […]
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On Friday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources Cordel Hyde detailed a massive land scam that had been festering for several years. In his statement by minister’s address, Hyde named former Minister of Works Rene Montero and former Works C.E.O. Errol Gentle for allegedly gobbling up huge tracks of lands in the Mountain […]
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Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde wasn’t buying Patt’s explanation and made it clear after his address. The D.P.M. told Patt that the U.D.P. government gave away millions of dollars to a single individual during economic hardships. He told Patt that the best thing they could have done is to leave the distribution of the parcels […]
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While the current and former deputy prime ministers went up against each other in the House, outside the National Assembly Building, Prime Minister John Briceño spoke about the “Boots situation.” The Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing repossessed a Bitumen Batching Plant on Friday from a property associated with former U.D.P. Minister Anthony “Boots” Martinez […]
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A criminal investigation is underway at the Corozal Polyclinic where an employee is accused of embezzling almost sixty-five thousand dollars over a seventeen-month period. Adan Orozco, an assistant administrator at the healthcare facility, was reportedly double-dipping when he paid himself twice the sum of his monthly salary. If he thought that no one would discover […]
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While Ingrid Vega slowly recovers, politically speaking, the People’s United Party has to be quick and decisive to retain control of the Corozal Bay Division. David “Dido” Vega was the P.U.P.’s gentle giant in the division, flipping the constituency and defeating the U.D.P.’s Pablo Marin. Vega must be replaced with a formidable successor for the […]
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Iris Salguero is the new Miss Universe Belize. The latest beauty ambassador was chosen via a virtual casting call that included several rounds of interviews with a local and international panel of judges. The crowning took place live on Channel Five, and News Five’s Duane Moody files this report. Duane Moody, Reporting Miss Universe […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño chaired his first House meeting today. A marathon sitting that just concluded less than a half-hour ago. During these COVID-19 times, the chambers have been retrofitted with plastic cubicles separating the area representatives. The P.U.P. Government commenced with explosives details about a land hustle in the Department of Lands. When the […]
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