Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte is also running for the position of chairman of the United Democratic Party. He is being backed by incumbent presiding officer Alberto August. Both Saldivar and Faber joined forces against Peyrefitte in Port Loyola, but there is no love lost as Faber strongly believes that Peyrefitte is the right for chairmanship […]
Traditionally, young men are expected not to show emotions and be tough. But is this having a negative effect and is it contributing to violence? The CARICOM secretariat is holding a pilot workshop in Belize with a view of transforming the way society sees young men to allow them to embrace their role to ensure […]
It is the time of the year to give thanks for the harvest; over at the YWCA, the preschool children and everyone else were today offering gifts in many forms, from food to fruits, to say thank you for the good things around us. As a way of giving back, the offerings will be shared […]
As the U.D.P. gears up for its February 2020 convention which will elect a successor to Prime Minister Dean Barrow as leader, a number of persons are throwing their hat in the ring. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, twice an unsuccessful candidate for the United Democratic Party, is making a third bid, this time for chairmanship […]
With the leadership convention scheduled for February 2020, it would appear that the highest number of delegates is adding up in favour of John Saldivar, who lost to Patrick Faber in June 2016 when both ran for deputy leadership. But that depends on who you ask. While Hugo Patt, Beverly Williams, Shyne Barrow and Phillip […]
As for first deputy leadership, Peyrefitte maintains that both candidates, Tracy Panton and Hugo Patt, are well intentioned in spite of who they are supporting for party leader. He says that in the true spirit of democracy they are free to vote for whomever it is they believe is the better candidate. The principal concern, […]
So who is Peyrefitte supporting for new leader of the U.D.P.? That’s a question we put to him during our sit down this morning and he told us that despite having a vote to cast, he is remaining neutral, since his prospective role as incoming chairman will require him having to work with both candidates […]
The Ministry of Health is today responding to concerns raised over the importation of generic drugs. Giovanni Brackett, an activist, says the F.D.A. approved drugs are not available and while generic drugs on the local market cannot all be classified as bad, not all are good. Doctor Manzanero, the Director of Health Services says the […]
The People’s United Party is reacting to our report on the shortage of anti-retroviral medication used to treat patients living with HIV/AIDS. The P.U.P. expresses concern over the unavailability of the life-saving meds, blaming the incompetence of the Ministry of Health for the shortage. The P.U.P. has learnt that patients are being turned back due […]
Approximately two thousand delegates, including key policy decision-makers, across all domains of critical care and from over eighty-four countries gathered in Melbourne, Australia last week for the fourteenth World Congress of Intensive Care. Belize forms part of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine which was established in 1977. Its objective […]
According to Doctor Hidalgo, the five-day congress discussed the issue of diversity to include small countries around the table since their needs are different. The World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine is determined to increase its membership is developing and less populated countries. Dr. Jorge Hidalgo, Sec. Gen., W.F.S.I.C.C.M. “The […]
A deserving family of eight received the key to their brand new home today in Belize City. Silvia Castro, her husband and their six children were begging for lodging in rundown houses and after struggling for a while, they asked for help from Hand in Hand Ministries. And that help was officially handed over to […]
Three-year-old Oscar Bonilla drowned when he fell into a well in Santa Cruz Village over the weekend. The toddler was last seen playing with another child when his mother went outside to the kitchen. When she returned moments later, she could not locate the infant and went in search of him. Sadly, he was found […]
There is outrage in Hope Creek in southern Belize where villagers are not sitting down to allow the area representation to impose who sits on the water board. The village council submitted names of persons considered suitable but lo and behold these persons were rejected and instead others who lost the village council elections are […]
On Monday, Tracy Taegar Panton, the area rep for the Albert Division in Belize City announced she is seeking the post of first deputy leader of the U.D.P. when convention is held next February. Today, another female candidate announced her bid; area representative for Belize Rural Central and Minister of State in the Ministry of […]
More than two hundred people gathered in San Ignacio over the weekend to talk about birds in Belize. This is the second time the birding community has come together for the Belize Birding Festival. It is an event where bird lovers and those working with birds meet to talk about advancing the work and business […]
A CARICOM initiative to get youths involved in business is taking place in Belize City. This week, a group of thirty youths will be participating in the programme named Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity initiative. They will be learning and discussing and how to succeed in business. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane […]
In the lower courts, Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning dismissed an application brought by the P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer for Belize Rural North, Marconi Leal, against a registered voter in that division. Leal, through attorney Michel Chebat, filed a claim to have six voters removed from the voters’ list on the grounds that they provided […]
Marconi Leal was represented by attorney Michel Chebat, who says that the challenge he faced, was the fact that magistrates do not allow for the registering officers to be cross-examined. He says that in at least three of the cases, no one verified the address of the voters. The registering officer, says Chebat, would have […]
While in the U.D.P., Albert Area Representative and Minister of State in the Ministry of Investment, Trade, Commerce and Economic Development, Tracy Taegar-Panton is running for Deputy Party Leader of the United Democratic Party. The first time area representative made the announcement today that she has informed Pearl Stuart, the Secretary General of the U.D.P. […]
A contract with Taiwanese firm Overseas Engineering and Construction Company Limited for the upgrade of the Corozal/Sarteneja Road was signed today by the Government of Belize. The brief ceremony follows the signing of a loan agreement between G.O.B. and the Export-Import Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) for fifty million U.S. dollars. Signing on […]
A lengthy two-page diatribe was released late on Thursday evening in which Prime Minister Dean Barrow took a number of swipes at Opposition Leader John Briceño in response to a letter written on October fifteenth in which he threatens court action on the write-off to Joshua Perdomo. The PM’s two-page rejoinder, released through the Government […]
The Perdomo loan write-off is not going to go away in time soon. Today, U.D.P. Senator for Government Business Godwin Hulse says that the forty thousand dollar loan does not mean it is uncollectible. Perdomo is employed at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science, which is located in Dallas, Texas. He was to return to […]
Hulse reiterated the government’s position that the loan is six-year statute barred. According to him, cabinet sticks to the recommendation from the Attorney General. But Hulse did let out that the Perdomo family is making arrangement to settle the unpopular debt. Godwin Hulse, Senator for Government Business “I don’t get into the argument whether […]
It has been almost two years since a series of public hearings were conducted by the Senate Special Select Committee into the findings of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report of the Immigration and Nationality Department. That document chronicled the goings-on, including various procedural irregularities, within the department during the period 2011 to 2013 and […]
