There was no shortage of news from the P.U.P. and according to deputy party leader and Lake Independence Area Representative, Cordel Hyde, hundreds of public officers have been fired for political reasons. Cordel Hyde, Area Rep, Lake Independence “The four workers at BAHA and the forty-two workers of Youth for the Future are the latest […]
On August twenty-eighth, 1963 Martin Luther King Junior delivered a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. in which he said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of […]
And in news of a political nature, they have been quiet for some time and except for a few press releases, not much has been heard from the People’s United Party. But tonight there is word that there is plenty trouble brewing within the top ranks of the P.U.P., and all the bad breeze is […]
Last week Central Government bailed out the financially strapped Belize City Council by giving them almost a quarter million dollars. The funds came with a stern warning to get its house in order. Today the P.M. reported that he has met with the council and is satisfied that they are on the road to financial […]
The process was long coming for the N.G.O.s as it would be the first time they would have a seat in the senate. And this morning according to their plan, APAMO, a grouping of environmental N.G.O.s, together with other N.G.O.s joined forces to elect a representative to the senate. Gregory Ch’oc, a Mayan leader and […]
But this morning’s elections has run into plenty trouble and according to Barrow in a press conference at just about the same time the N.G.O.s were voting, not so fast. The so called progress, says the P.M., in which APAMO and the N.G.O.s are heading, is premature and a seat in the senate is not […]
And while the APAMO appointment is in trouble, the appointment of Cynthia Pitts as ombudswoman was confirmed today. Pitts, an attorney by profession, is attached to the law firm of Pitts and Elrington. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Cabinet has agreed to recommend to the National Assembly, the appointment of Ms. Cynthia Pitts as the Ombudswoman […]
Zenaida Moya won her place back on the U.D.P. ticket as mayoral candidate for the March 2009 elections but that does not mean she is out of the woods. The bitter and personal campaign against her mounted by her own councillors, exposed gross financial mismanagement at City Hall. Auditors were called in and last Thursday, […]
And from a police brawl to the U.D.P. convention battle from where one decisive winner emerged: Zenaida Moya. But now there is unease among some councillors who made it back on the U.D.P. City Council ticket; unease because they publicly opposed the incumbent Mayor and called on her to pay back ninety thousand dollars in […]
Late last week the salvo came from Deputy Mayor Anthony Michael and nine Councillors who had opposed Moya and who called for intervention from the Ministry of Local Government. Moya’s, attorney, Michael Peyrefitte, came back fighting on Friday with copies of two signed cheques paid in salaries to the mayor which bore Michael’s signature. So […]
It was the mother of all conventions that ended months of a nasty and bitter campaign with Mayor Zenaida Moya at the epicenter of the City Council’s political turmoil. She was bruised and then battered and the cards were clearly stacked against but when the counting and tallying of the over six thousand ballots started, […]
Voting started on time for the unprecedented number of candidates that offered themselves as councillors for the U.D.P. On the ground, the battle was fierce with strategists putting last minute tactics in place to get the voters out. The big fight was between the incumbent Mayor and her Deputy who aspired to unseat her. The […]
It has become one of the biggest scandals to hit Mayor Zenaida Moya and within days of Sunday’s U.D.P. convention. It is the matter of an additional ninety thousand dollars she has collected since 2006 and which the Councillors say was unauthorized and she’s got to pay back. The usually outspoken mayor, was quiet today […]
The political fortunes of Mayor Zenaida Moya are quickly sinking as the day of reckoning is set for Sunday at the City Center. There is a new development today in the issue of the mayor’s exorbitant salary and allowances. A meeting was convened today by councillors who have publicly come out against her and who […]
Not one to shy away, Mayor Moya told News Five she stands by her earlier statements. Moya said that the three thousand dollars were approved in a resolution passed by the Council shortly after she took office in 2006. When she appeared on News Five two evenings ago, Moya vehemently denied any wrongdoing. And today […]
News Five received today a peculiar press release from the Financial Intelligence Unit, warning the public that the Money Laundering (Prevention) Act contains an offence for tipping off the subjects of an ongoing investigation. The release goes on to say that persons who commit that offence will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the […]
It’s down to the wire – and its four days to the U.D.P. mayoral convention. There are thirty-four horses at the gate for Councillors and two mayoral candidates. And the two contenders for Mayoral office have stepped up the gas in their campaigns. On one corner is the current Mayor, Zenaida Moya. In the other, […]
As the political heat begins to turn up leading to March 2009 City Council elections, allegations and counter-allegations are flying from camp to camp. And tonight Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya is at the heart of another financial scandal. Late this evening an envelope with explosive documents was anonymously dropped off at our news studios […]
The two major political parties in Belize are celebrating birthdays. The oldest, the P.U.P. turns fifty-eight today while the U.D.P., turned thirty-five on Saturday. The P.U.P. is Belize’s first political party and was birthed when its founders, Leigh Richardson, John Smith, Phillip Goldson and George Price re-organized the then People’s Committee that was formed in […]
In news of a political nature, you would know of the infighting in the Belize City Council between the Mayor and her councillors. Now it seems that the next U.D.P. battle is not on St. George’s Caye but on San Pedro Ambergris where sparks are flying over convention rules. The party’s San Pedro Executive is […]
Earlier this week, the Belize National teachers Union locked horns with the Ministry of Education over the transfer of teachers and the premature termination of school boards. And today there are reports of a another storm ready to erupt at the Toledo Community College where the high school has not yet opened and classes could […]
And there is yet another storm brewing, and this one is at the Punta Gorda Town Council where according to the Mayor, a record clerk has been imposed on the Council. Charles Galvez, Punta Gorda Mayor “What happened yesterday is after we concluded the interview—we had a format—and after concluding the interview one Shamia McKenzie […]
This afternoon we caught up with the Deputy Mayor Rene Pennil who denied the allegations on the hiring of Town Board employees. Rene Pennil, Punta Gorda Deputy Mayor “That’s absolutely not true Marion. What transpired there is that we had asked some people from the community to make up a panel to interview. There were […]
The Senate meets tomorrow in Belmopan and top on the agenda will be the ratification of various bills that received House approval last Friday, including the Amendment to the Income Tax and Business Tax Act through Government which hopes to collect eighteen million for budget support. In the House on Friday, the Opposition said not […]
If you thought that Friday’s press conference by Mayor Zenaida Moya or the pronouncement by Party Leader Dean Barrow that Councillor Mark King will not run in the October convention, would end the dispute at City Hall, you were wrong. And today the ante was raised with television campaign ads were launched by King. Apparently, […]
