But the Integrity Commission has not been functioning for five years. So who receives the reports? P.U.P. Leader John Briceño says that the Secretary of the Commission will be handed the documents in Belmopan where there is office space, but as we said, no members. Briceño believes there are many reasons why PM Barrow and […]
The Father of the Nation George Price passed away five years ago. Price led the People’s United Party for four decades from the days of a colonial outpost, to self suffrage, internal self governance; and his crowning glory was the attainment of Independence in 1981. He is revered as the humble man with an extraordinary […]
Last week we reported on the attempt by the Clerk of the National Assembly to withhold Cayo South area representative Julius Espat’s salary, community vote and office allowances following his so-called suspension from the House of Representatives on August twenty-sixth. We say “attempt,” because there has been some movement on the matter. Today, we learned […]
The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives has been the subject of much debate – but not among its members, who can barely agree on anything. The Committee last met before the last General Elections; it comprises of four government ministers and two members of the Opposition including the chair. Recently, the Government […]
Deborah Humes died on Friday night after she was crushed by a house that collapsed atop her on Dolphin Street where the Soca Moca Carnival Band was preparing for the road march. Police had predicted her death to us via text hours before it actually happened. At the start of the carnival a moment of […]
A rookie cop who discharged his licensed firearm as the carnival road march was winding down on Saturday is facing disciplinary proceedings. Police Corporal Kris Staine is accused of firing a shot with his licensed Sig Sauer nine millimeter pistol on Princess Margaret Drive within the area of the Nazarene High School. Police are treating […]
Pandemonium broke when the shot was fired, but many persons on the ground claim that more than one shot was fired and that it was not only the cop. Reports spread like wildfire that multiple persons, including a two year old baby, had been injured and rushed to medical facilities. The police maintain that no […]
Former Prime Minister Said Musa spoke today on the William “Danny” Mason affair and he did not hesitate to say how he would have handled it. Mason is behind bars having been charged with the July beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas whose head was found in the back of his vehicle as he partied in […]
The first ever Sarstoon Eco-Challenge proceeded in the waters of the national southern boundary on Saturday morning and afternoon. There was preoccupation that the event would renew hostility by the Guatemalans stationed in the Sarstoon. Organizer and leader of the Volunteers Wil Maheia, says the response to the challenge was excellent but the event was […]
Going into the carnival weekend, a tragic incident took place this afternoon at the site of the Soca Moca Mas Camp, last year’s Carnival Champs. The members were tying up ends in preparation for Saturday’s carnival road march on Dolphin Street in Belize City when an elevated wooden house caved in atop fifteen to twenty […]
Marsha Smith and her family have been living on the Dolphin Street property since 2003 and it is where the mud used for the J’ouvert is cooked…all that has been destroyed just within hours of the J’ouvert. But the house had weakened due to the passage of Hurricane Earl and the family says they had […]
Ahead of Monday’s demonstration, a marathon session of meetings was held today at the Biltmore where Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with leaders of the various unions that comprise the National Trade Union Congress of Belize. The meeting with the N.T.U.C.B. commenced at ten o’clock this morning and lasted until about one p.m. Shortly before […]
The B.N.T.U., the Association of Public Service Senior Managers and the Public Service Union remained in session well after the PM’s departure. When they emerged from that extended discussion, B.N.T.U. president Luke Palacio did not share much with the media, except to say that what was discussed today will be relayed to the respective councils […]
Ahead of this afternoon’s meeting with the Joint Union Negotiating Team and Monday’s planned demonstration in Belmopan by the Belize National Teachers’ Union, the Prime Minister had a warning: the continued education of our children cannot be compromised or halted beyond normal controls. He asked again that the Union clarify exactly what it is complaining […]
Monday’s demonstration by the Belize National Teachers’ Union will be the fifth in less than a month in the nation’s capital and sixth overall in that time span including the People’s United Party’s march through the streets of Belize City on September seventh. Prime Minister Dean Barrow says that it is clearly a concern and […]
Expanding on his separation of the politically motivated activities of the past month from the purely civic-minded concerns, Prime Minister Barrow placed Monday’s demonstration in the latter category, though he still had some misgivings. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Not politically motivated in a partisan way; no. I will not say that. Look for me, […]
The Prime Minister continued to extend the olive branch to the Teachers’ Union, promising a further meeting at some time. But he said he wants to know that the Union is serious about a dialogue on these issues and not acting out of political motivation. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “So ultimately, again, when in […]
The government has agreed to appeal a section of the ruling on Section Fifty-three of the Criminal Code on the issue of sexual orientation. That has opened a window for churches to appeal the ruling in its entirety. This afternoon, the Roman Catholic Church and the National Evangelical Association of Belize, splintered from the Belize […]
On Thursday, we brought you the early developments in the shooting of Candice Anderson, the thirty-one year old daughter of Denise “Sista B” Barrow, who is the sister of Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Police today announced that Anderson remains in stable condition and three persons have been detained as investigations continue. The Prime Minister was […]
The Prime Minister said that he could not speak to why Candice Anderson was at the house where she was shot on Thursday. As it relates to the fight against crime, the nation’s leader says as criminal activity is unceasing, so too is the Government’s marshalling resources to fight it. Dean Barrow, Uncle of […]
News Five has confirmed tonight that four children reported missing from the Buttonwood Bay Primary School on Wednesday have been found and returned safe and sound to their residence, the Dorothy Menzies Child Care Center on Saint Thomas Street. According to police, the children residing at the institution went to school in their uniforms on […]
During Thursday’s press briefing in Louisville, Corozal, addressing the matter of the three percent salary adjustment now in its third and final tranche itself, B.N.T.U. president Luke Palacio said the union’s vote was unanimous. But why exactly is the Union rejecting the Prime Minister’s proposal for a salary deferral? According to Palacio, it is about […]
Like the Opposition People’s United Party and others, the Belize National Teachers’ Union believes Government is trying to save its own skin by attempting to control the composition and chairmanship of a Senate Select Committee on the Immigration affair chronicled by the Auditor General in a special audit. The Union’s national president Luke Palacio addressed […]
There are some, especially Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber, who wonder whether the Belize National Teachers’ Union’s president, Luke Palacio, is calling the shots himself. Palacio maintains that the union has a collective process which it is following. Executive Secretary to the Union, Keisha Young, set the record straight. Keisha […]
During Thursday’s press briefing in Louisville, Corozal District at the end of the Belize National Teachers’ Union’s Annual General Meeting of the Corozal Rural Branch, national president of the B.N.T.U. Luke Palacio ceded the floor to some of his colleagues who are presidents of their respective branches to discuss some of their major issues in […]
