Also questioned was the matter of nationality through marriage to a Belizean. As seen in the case of Peter Dahlstrom, section eleven of the Nationality Act requires persons registering to be Belizeans to be both married to a Belizean and a resident in the country for one year. Dahlstrom was allowed to qualify by virtue […]
And finally from the Senate Special Select Committee tonight, Solicitor General Nigel Hawke addressed the issue of ministerial responsibility and alleged interference in the Department through direct instructions and recommendations to Immigration officers. The nation’s top legal eagle agreed with many previous witnesses that legally, such instructions and recommendations for services hold no sway, though […]
Can more be done to stabilize and reduce fuel prices? Despite the best promises of Prime Minister Dean Barrow after a series of cruel spikes between August and early October, prices have only returned to the pre-spike levels. Two weeks ago, Financial Secretary Joseph Waight informed that prices would be stable and only go down […]
Belize is coming up on the one-year anniversary of the signing and accession to the United Nations Convention against Corruption on December ninth, World Anti-Corruption Day. The government devoted a press release in September to the strides made in implementation but there is still much work to be done. But part of that work is […]
What’s happened to the Occupational Safety and Health Bill, which would address working conditions for all employees countrywide? In October, Prime Minister Dean Barrow stated that he had no update from the National Trade Union Congress of Belize as to whether its negotiations with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry have commenced. The re-introduction of […]
Earlier this year, two bargaining units affiliated with the Christian Workers Union – employees of Social Security Board and stevedores working at the Port of Belize – engaged in high-profile action to draw attention to their labour issues. The former wore t-shirts to work on two successive Fridays in April in support of negotiations for […]
The annual marketing expo organized by the University of Belize was held today at the Ramada Belize City Princess where thirty-five innovative business ideas came to fruition. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Students from the University of Belize partook in the tenth annual marketing expo held today in Belize City. Thirty-five […]
The Belize Red Cross is enhancing capacity and building resiliency in sixteen communities in the Belize District. The Belize Red Cross has ongoing assessments in communities to identify gaps and they have found that communities where they haven’t done a project before are lacking in some skills and training in core areas of health and […]
A deserving mother of three children was the lucky recipient of a house in the Lord’s Bank community, just in time for the upcoming Christmas season. Taralee Burgess and her family were devastated by Hurricane Earl last August and despite having her roof replaced, they were still inconvenienced whenever it rained. On Monday, Hand in […]
The seventh annual tacos festival is this weekend. On Sunday, Orange Walk will come together to celebrate the tacos. A staple of the Orange Walk food and culture scene, organizers want to highlight the importance and versatility of this quick, filling and flavor packed food eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Between four to five […]
The Customs and Excise Department has to continuously grapple with contrabandistas, especially in the north. The latest culprit has been identified as one Edwin Patt, the brother of Labour Minister Hugo Patt. Villagers from Patchakan, where the brothers live, reportedly fought with police and Customs officers to hold on to the contraband goods and briefly […]
Later in this newscast, we will show you what the Customs Department is doing about enforcement on importation of known counterfeit goods. But the Department is practically a sort of border patrol along with Immigration and Nationality. On Friday at the western border, four Guatemalan soldiers and a media crew entered the Champon or so-called […]
For the next two days, representatives of both the employers and employees in Belize will meet at the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s office complex here on Coney Drive. Among the topics of discussion is social dialogue – the communication and discussion between the Government, employers and business organizations, and labour that drives the […]
The Government had to put together seventy-eight million U.S. dollars to repay Dunkeld International Investments Limited and the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust as final payment for the acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited twice over. Both Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Financial Secretary Joseph Waight indicated that there should be no immediate effect on buying power. But Waight […]
The more than half a billion-dollar in settlement for Belize Telemedia Limited with its former owners has been paid off, but at what cost to the nation? President of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, Floyd Neal, told us today that the nationalization of the company in 2009 and again in 2011 was presented […]
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Natural Resources, Doctor Carla Barnett, on Thursday delivered the thirty-second Adlith Brown Memorial Lecture as part of the Forty-ninth Annual Monetary Studies Conference held last week. According to the Central Bank, the lecture elaborated on the emerging importance of climate change and its impact on developing […]
It has been a very busy few weeks for the Customs and Excise Department, at least in terms of training. First it was about trade facilitation two weeks ago; last week it was about immigration and border security. This week, the scene shifts to the Ramada Princess Hotel, where Belize and its Central American counterparts […]
The search for eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards, a retiree of Sand Hill Village, continues after five days of being lost. Anna Richards reported to police that she hasn’t seen her father since he left her residence on Queen Helmet Avenue in Coral Grove last Thursday. Despite surveillance footage reportedly showing the elder man in the vicinity […]
Despite cloudy skies and showery weather, the Garinagu of Belize marked Garifuna Settlement Day this past Sunday. It commemorates the arrival en masse of Garifuna settlers in 1832, although a smaller number had landed thirty years earlier. 2017 marked the fortieth national observance of the holiday, established in 1977 after having been observed mostly in […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, as we had reported last Tuesday, was to have been the designated guest speaker at Sunday’s official Garifuna Settlement Day ceremony in Belize City. He had held the role for the past two years when the ceremony was held in Dangriga. But according to his deputy, he had an emergency family […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
A Tropic Air flight carrying Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber and Immigration Minister Godwin Hulse plunged into the Caribbean Sea in Placencia shortly before nine o’clock this morning. Reports are that upon taking off from the Placencia Airstrip, the left landing wheel made contact with a passing vehicle that had managed to bypass the barriers. […]
As personnel from the Civil Aviation Department and Belize Airports Authority began their investigation into the incident, the management of Tropic Air and the Government of Belize issued separate releases on the mishap. According to the airline company, the aircraft clipped a vehicle at the end of the runway as it was taking off, which […]
As we told you on Thursday, P.U.P. Leader John Briceño will go into the national convention unchallenged with a few changes to the National Executive, ratified during yesterday’s meeting at Independence Hall. While the projected date for the convention is January twenty-eighth, it has to be approved by the regional caucuses since it was a […]
And speaking of politics, the People’s United Party is licking its chops at the prospect of a potential United Democratic Party implosion after ten years of dominance at the polls. With Prime Minister Dean Barrow set to retire after three terms and more than three decades in government, the next leader of the U.D.P. is […]
