Those comments made by former Prime Minister Said Musa on the political podium at Saturday’s Lake Independence convention have angered GSU Commander Mark Flowers. Now normally politicians and police keep a respectful distance from each other in public, but not this time. Flowers fired right back at Musa in an interview on Monday. He wasn’t […]
Well this afternoon, the former prime minister did come back to the media. Speaking at today’s press conference, Said Musa described Inspector Flowers’ response as an emotional attack on him. The call for the dissolution of the Gang Suppression Unit, says Musa, has long since been a policy of the People’s United Party. Said […]
The reaction from the P.U.P. was swift. The Leader of the Opposition Francis Fonseca reiterated the call for the disbandment of the Gang Suppression Unit, as well as the removal of Inspector Mark Flowers as head of the task force. The response, according to Fonseca, was virtually political in tone and rather unbecoming of a […]
P.U.P. Belize Rural North standard bearer Arthur Saldivar remains suspended tonight amid an ongoing investigation into a number of serious allegations that are directly affecting his candidacy in the next general elections. Following a meeting of the party’s national executive last week, Saldivar was placed on a two-week suspension while a probe is being conducted […]
Former Lake-I area representative and two-time Minister of Education Cordel Hyde is officially back in the P.U.P. fold. Hyde, who is unbeaten in that constituency, stepped down from participating in the 2012 General Elections when his son became terminally ill. In the wake of that decision, his would-be opponent Mark King delivered the well-known P.U.P. […]
On Wednesday, Belize Rural North Standard Bearer, Arthur Saldivar, was suspended from the P.U.P., pending the outcome of an internal investigation scheduled for conclusion on September twelfth. Saldivar, an attorney, has been accused by former client Melonie Coye of misappropriating nine hundred and four thousand dollars. The suspension has angered Saldivar’s supporters, and today the […]
But while the Belize Rural North executive shouts for Saldivar’s reinstatement and heckles the P.U.P. and Melonie Coye, the reality is that the allegations against him are serious – career ending serious. But what are they saying about the claim that Saldivar made off with nine hundred and four thousand dollars from Coye? Well for […]
Over at the Radisson, the Prime Minister was asked about the Arthur Saldivar suspension. Barrow says it’s a little too late. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “(Laughs) I don’t know that I have to be giving the P.U.P. any kind of advice. I will say though that on the basis of their pronouncements during the […]
The People’s United Party has suspended, attorney Arthur Saldivar as standard bearer for the Belize Rural North Constituency. That happened on Wednesday at a meeting called by the executive to discuss Saldivar’s fate. There were some who wanted the party to go further than a suspension and to have him removed as standard bearer. But […]
Arthur Saldivar’s political career, or at least a political career with the PUP, is tonight in serious jeopardy. The controversial attorney and Belize Rural North Standard Bearer was summoned to P.U.P. headquarters today to learn his fate. He has been accused of taking a client’s money – over nine hundred thousand dollars to be exact… […]
In the allegation of the nine hundred and four thousand dollars, the matter is being litigated and a claim has been filed against him by the Coye family. But while that near million dollar straw broke the camel’s back, there are also other complaints against Saldivar which have been taken before the General Legal Council. […]
And while Fonseca plans to take decisive action where Saldivar is concerned, he is also demanding that Prime Minister Dean Barrow do the same for Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington. Elrington’s brother Errol is a fugitive from justice, wanted in the US on racketeering and medical fraud charges. Errol is in Belize and incredibly, […]
The plight of the BML employees who, up until the prime minister’s intervention on Wednesday, were in jeopardy of losing their jobs with the sanitation company is not lost on the citizenry nor will it soon be forgotten as a major political and public relations blunder by Mayor Darrell Bradley. While the commitment from central […]
And just what are Fonseca’s thoughts on P.M. Barrow interceding in the BML fallout? Well, according to the opposition leader, he supports the idea of coming to the aid of the workers since they were the ones who stood to lose their livelihoods as a result of the impasse. Fonseca says the decision by the […]
Outspoken radio personality and well-known P.U.P. stalwart Albert Vaughn was also on North Front Street this morning taking pictures and providing coverage of the BML protest for Vibes Radio when he was arrested and detained by police. Vaughn was following a garbage truck and a BML bus, both of which were being escorted to Precinct […]
Just prior to the firing of the sanitation workers, the U.D.P.’s convention to elect candidates for its city council slate, took place. On Sunday it was not known that the bread and butter of some workers were at risk and by all accounts, the convention was one of the biggest for the U.D.P. News Five’s […]
What was attorney Arthur Saldivar’s missing Ipad doing in the home of the Deputy Prime Minister’s brother in Orange Walk? That’s the million dollar question right now for Saldivar. He lost his Ipad at a bakery in Ladyville, and when he tracked it using a built-in feature, it had somehow made its way to a […]
According to the tracking feature, the Ipad was taken to this home in Orange Walk. We didn’t know it at the time of the interview this morning, but we’ve learned that the house belongs to German Vega, who is the brother of the Deputy Prime Minister. Saldivar isn’t taking the matter lightly, even before he […]
And our question for tonight is: Do you believe Elvin Penner is guilty of committing a criminal act? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
As it concerns his political future, Mayor Darrell Bradley has always managed to beat around the bush when asked about his intention to return to City Hall in 2015 or in offering himself as a candidate for Caribbean Shores in the next general elections. While he has prevaricated at length on occasions, today he provided […]
While Mayor Bradley aspires to a seat in the House of Representatives in the distant future, Councilor Eric Chang will not be running for another term at City Hall. A recent revelation of a list of candidates shows that Chang’s name is absent from the slate. When pressed for a reason as to why Chang […]
Municipal elections are set for early next year, and already mass party machinery is cranking up for the election of slates in all municipalities. It doesn’t exactly have the fever of general elections, but it is a big deal, since these elections will be seen as a measuring stick, a barometer of sorts. And so […]
One issue that the People’s United Party is tackling is the draconian gun laws. The leader of the opposition says that the party has written and submitted an amendment to the Firearms Act to G.O.B., but has received no response. Francis Fonseca says that the Firearms Act in itself is not a bad thing, but […]
P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca got the news about Penner shortly after the former Minister of State walked out the door of the Belmopan Magistrate Court, indicted now only by public opinion. He told News Five that it is a bitter disappointment, a travesty and a sad day for Belize. But Fonseca concedes that while it […]
P.U.P. Leader, Francis Fonseca, himself a former Attorney-General, also took issue with the comments of Elrington, but like the outcome of the case, he says they weren’t surprising. He says Elrington was simply reflecting the belief and intent of the U.D.P. government. Francis Fonseca, P.U.P. Leader “The Attorney-General had absolutely no business offering his […]
