In the absence of what many expected to be a timely report, there has been talk that completion and presentation of that document is deliberately being stalled for political reasons. While those sentiments have been voiced elsewhere in the media, Senator Salazar says the most salacious pieces of evidence have been ventilated during the hearings, […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Jose Hilberto Gallegos is behind bars for counterfeit U.S. dollars. The Mexican national was busted at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on October tenth with forty thousand, eight hundred dollars in counterfeit U.S. currency and appeared this week in court for arraignment before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford and was read three counts of possession […]
Deborah Baptist Estrada is moving up to replace Diana Locke as the Director of Immigration. Estrada is being promoted from her post of Deputy Director of Nationality and Passport Department. Locke is now retiring after long years as a pubic officer with spectacular service in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Public Service and Immigration. Estrada […]
A formal ceremony took place at the Supreme Court this morning. Alyson Courtenay, who is the youngest member of a family of distinguished attorneys, was called to the bar to legally practice the profession. Family, friends and colleagues came out to support the newly minted lawyer. Aly, will of course, practice at the law firm […]
Tourism numbers in the past three years have been showing double digit growth signalling that Belize is a top destination. Today, the Belize Tourism Board held a conference with the theme, Destination Marketing and its Impact on Belize. While the jewel is known for beach and sand, the conference is focusing on cultural emersion trends […]
A third tranche of money from the Cultural Development Fund of the National Institute of Culture and History was disbursed today at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. The fund was created to assist those who work in preserving the tangible and intangible culture of Belize. Today, fourteen persons and organizations received cheques totalling […]
Today, Belize joined the international community in celebrating World Food Day. This year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is focusing on the importance of healthy diets in tackling global hunger. The organization has highlighted an urgent need to ensure healthy and sustainable diets are both affordable and accessible to all. This year’s activities were […]
Earlier in the month, we reported on a hasty land transaction that raised several eyebrows. The Belmopan City Council de-reserved a large portion of land that had been designated for the expansion of the Queen Elizabeth the Second Boulevard. Twenty-eight residential lots were surveyed and sold off to new owners for a paltry sum. The […]
Today, the Belize Bureau of Standards held a session about standards for video. The event was held in light of World Standards Day 2019 under the theme, “Video Standards Create a Global Stage.” Each year, on October fourteenth, global standard-setting bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization celebrate World Standards Day, to pay tribute […]
Tonight, the Prime Minister Dean Barrow is blasting the letter by Opposition Leader John Briceño, a day after Briceño wrote to him. That letter by Briceño, dated October fifteenth, was on the Joshua Perdomo forty thousand dollars loan write off and it got the better out of the PM. Barrow tells Briceño that his letter […]
The Public Service Union is pressing ahead with a legal challenge to regain its former Hilltop headquarters in Belmopan. The P.S.U. has been issued a notice to vacate by Estevan Perera, attorney for Simplex Designs- the legal owner of the property after it was sold by the Belmopan City Council. The P.S.U. has been given […]
Perera says that if the deadline passes and the P.S.U. has not vacated the property, a court order will be pursued to have the union move out. According to Perera, the process can take anywhere between a couple of months to a year. Estevan Perera, Attorney for Simplex Designs “The way it works is […]
The dispute between several families and businessman Alex Chang over six acres of land in Belama Phase Four, Belize City, remains unresolved. Chang through attorney Brandon Usher of Williams Law Firm filed legal action against eight families whom Chang says are illegally occupying his land. The dispute commenced in January of this year when Chang […]
Since enacting a statutory instrument on September fourth, government, as well as stakeholders in the public transportation sector, have been monitoring developments within the industry where Guatemalan and Mexican buses are concerned. On Tuesday, all sides met to discuss the existing state of affairs since the passage of legislation to regulate foreign buses entering the […]
According to AG Peyrefitte, the statutory instrument has since been amended to reflect additional changes. The revised S.I., he says, has been forwarded to Transport Minister Edmond Castro. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney General “The bus owners have graciously, in a meeting on Tuesday we had with all sides, they said, “Listen, we appreciate fully the […]
The long lines and the slow process at the Lands Department are well known to persons who have to head to the capital to work out land issues. So now, the Ministry is coming to the City to sort out those perennial difficulties faced by land owners. The U.D.P. Port Loyola hopeful was at the […]
Philip Willoughby also wants to host a consultation on the production of industrial hemp. Willoughby says he is in contact with respective ministries and representatives to have the consultation held next month. According to Willoughby, the purpose is to have the residents of Port Loyola interested in hemp production since it could be beneficial. […]
Schools in the Belize District took part in the revived Father Marion Ganey Primary School Quiz Competition. The two winning students are from Hattieville and Belize City. The pair will now move ahead to the national competition in November, which teaches the students at an early age, the benefits of financial literacy. News Five’s Duane […]
Every year, the third Thursday in the month of October is celebrated worldwide as International Credit Union Day. Credit Unions around the globe organized a range of activities today to commemorate the occasion under the theme, “Local Service; Global Reach.” Here in the country, the Belize Credit Union League and its nine member credit unions […]
But with a collective membership of almost half the country’s population, what is the future of the credit union movement in terms of the services it offers to its member-owners? Corrine Robinson-Fuller of the Belize Credit Union League says that they have received their license from the Central Bank of Belize and come 2020, seven […]
The Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño is ramping up pressure in respect of a write-off of a loan of forty-thousand plus dollars to the son of the Cabinet Secretary. The write-off was passed in the House and rejected by the Senate last week, but it is not going away. Briceño has fired off a […]
After the House of Representatives approved the write-off without debate, it went to the Senate and seven out of the thirteen senators voted it down including Church Senator Ashley Rocke who called on the Prime Minister to personally ensure that the forty thousand dollars are recovered. But Attorney General and U.D.P. Senator Michael Peyrefitte says […]
Musa reiterated what Briceño has said to the PM, and that is that, if the loan is written off without the Senate’s approval, the Opposition will launch a legal challenge in the form of judicial review. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores Division “I want to say this Hipolito that in my opinion this […]
The Belize Youth Movement is calling on all the Belizean youths to rise and demand that their student loans also be written off. The B.Y.M., an arm of the People’s United Party says it is outraged at the actions taken by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to vote in favour of writing off Joshua Perdomo’s forty […]
The Leader of the Opposition John Briceño says that on October fourth he was denied the opportunity to debate the Joshua Perdomo forty thousand dollars write-off motion. Speaker of the House Laura Tucker-Longsworth told Briceño that no one rose to debate the motion when it was first introduced by the Prime Minister at the previous […]
