This morning’s press conference lasted well over two hours at the Biltmore Plaza. John Briceño, the P.U.P. party leader zeroed in on a number of pressing issues, but his leadership also came under question. Two elected representatives have been absent from party appearances, including Briceño’s Team 31 Convention in Orange Walk Town a week ago. […]
The nationalization of the utility companies was also a particular sticking point for the P.U.P.’s Fort George Area Representative. Former Prime Minister Said Musa, took the podium and gave a memorable quote from popular culture in relation to the attacks on him in the House. His version of No Watch Me Watch Yourself, a slogan […]
Last week, leading up to today’s sitting, the government made the point on the airwaves that it had the people’s support to re-acquire Telemedia and toward the end of the week, it publicly called its supporters to Belmopan. Transportation was made available but the turnout fell shorter than anticipated. The crowd was one of the […]
Area Representative for Belize Rural North, Edmund “Clear the Land” Castro has been a lightening rod since he was elected in 2008. His office was broken into, a decapitated hog’s head was left on his desk, he lost three cabanas filled with fish feed in what he claims is suspected arson. But his fall from […]
There is a major split in the opposition party. That’s not exactly news, but leading up to the House Meeting on Monday, P.U.P. representatives Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde, issued a release at midday today on the re-acquisition of Belize Telemedia. We note that even as they sign off as senior deputy party leaders, to […]
As the legal battles mount, earlier today a communiqué was sent out from the National Assembly notifying of the special sitting of the House and Senate this coming Monday in Belmopan regarding the re-nationalization of Telemedia. From what we gather parliamentarians have received the notice of the sittings to consider the Bill for an act […]
On the political front, the People’s United Party held a huge convention in Orange Walk Central over the weekend. The “We dah blue” convention, aside from endorsing Party Leader John Briceño as the Standard Bearer for Orange Walk Central, introduced team thirty-one, the P.U.P.’s slate for national elections. Party supporters turned out in the thousands […]
The House and Senate approved the nationalization of B.E.L. with speed; the official opposition did not make it to today’s special sittings. They weren’t there because they claim the notice and House papers were not delivered to members until Friday night. The P.U.P. further states that the agenda did not warrant a special meeting and […]
Supporters of the two major political parties voted over the weekend to elect standard bearers for the next general elections. Three names were on the ballot for the United Democratic Party’s Stann Creek West constituency but when the votes were tallied Minister of Transport and NEMO, Melvin Hulse, was re-elected. Hulse garnered one thousand one […]
Five pieces of legislation, among them the Crime Control and Criminal Justice Amendment Bill, Belize Constitution Eight Amendment Bill, Indictable Procedure Amendment Bill, Juries Amendment Bill and the Supreme Court of Judicature Amendment Bill were introduced in the House in May. They are a bundle of initiatives by the government to tackle crime and violence […]
While the P.U.P. has rejected four of the five proposed amendments, including the controversial preventative detention, it does endorse the Supreme Court of Judicature Amendment Bill. Francis Fonseca, Deputy Party Leader, P.U.P. “The one that we support has to do with the amendment to the Supreme Court of Judicature Amendment Bill which is the bill […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow during his quarterly press conference last week openly stated that he would be dissuading supporters of the ruling United Democratic Party from participating in a referendum to ban offshore oil exploration. Barrow’s position came after Oceana in Belize garnered the seventeen thousand votes necessary to trigger the referendum. Oceana’s Vice President […]
She’s a former area representative and come 2013 Ana Patricia Arceo, better known as Patty Arceo, will have another shot at Belize Rural South. On Sunday, Arceo was elected P.U.P. standard bearer for that division with nine hundred and fifty votes. That’s a margin of over six hundred compared to Ramon Reyes Junior, who garnered […]
In other news on the political front, Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers as you are aware, is not running for a third term at the municipal level. Since her reinstatement into the United Democratic Party, she has had some time to consider her political future. Insiders have often considered her to be the heir […]
With convention season in full swing, the machineries of the political parties revved up in the Orange Walk South, Belmopan and Toledo East constituencies over the weekend. In the north, Rosendo “Chendo” Urbina, the sitting Ambassador of Belize to Mexico, who previously ran but lost in Orange Walk Central, garnered one thousand and fifty votes, […]
A sea of blue flooded the west and the north of the country was covered in red on Sunday as both major political parties held divisional conventions. In San Ignacio, two People’s United Party candidates made a bid for Cayo Northeast. Orlando Habet topped the polls with nine hundred and eighty-six votes and is the […]
Area Representative for Orange Walk East, Marcel Cardona’s vehicle was towed away from his law practice in Orange Walk on Tuesday afternoon. The police arrived and without any fuss, took the vehicle away as Cardona stood by. It’s the latest embarrassment for Cardona, who the government has now relegated to the opposition side of the […]
The convention season is in full swing and on Sunday, five P.U.P. hopefuls brought out their supporters in the Cayo Central division. With four hundred and ninety-one votes, Collet Montejo was named the new P.U.P. Standard Bearer when the voting ended. It is his first foray into electoral politics and if you’re not from the […]
Albert and Lake I representatives, Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde were back today, but there was one notable absence on the Hill in Belmopan. Orange Walk East Representative Manuel Cardona stole the show at the last House Meeting when he berated his own U.D.P. government. Since then, the U.D.P. has considered him persona non grata […]
The House meets this Friday in Belmopan. The government will be pushing forward five new bills to address the murderous crime rate which continues to climb with alarming speed. The bills include controversial issues such as the re-introduction of preventative detention, which is bundled in one package that is called the Eight Constitutional Amendment Bill. […]
Both political parties held divisional conventions over the weekend. On Sunday May eighth, supporters of the United Democratic Party returned Arturo Roches as the standard bearer of the Dangriga Constituency by a slim margin. The total voter turnout at the UDP convention was one thousand and thirty. Roches received three hundred and fifty seven votes, […]
As we reported on Tuesday, the national executive of the People’s United Party met today at Independence Hall. Except or a few sparks that flew across the room, the executive approved the appointment of area representatives Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde as senior deputy leaders of the opposition party. Both were not present for the […]
In news of a political nature, are Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde back in the P.U.P. graces? There is word that the executive of the People’s United Party will be meeting this Wednesday to decide on some major changes in the hierarchy of the party. The executive is being asked to consider the re-instatement of […]
And there were two political conventions over the weekend. On Sunday, the U.D.P. elected Hugo Patt, the Chairman of the Belize Sugar Industries Control Board, as the new standard bearer for the Corozal North Constituency. Patt who garnered one thousand one hundred and forty votes thrashed the area representative of the constituency, Nemencio Acosta who […]
And in news of a political nature, the United Democratic Party held its convention for a new Standard Bearer in the Lake Independence constituency and when the polls closed at four p.m., former City Councilor Mark King, emerged victorious. There are over five thousand electors in the Lake I area, of which only seven hundred […]
