The mystery over who will represent the People’s United Party in the upcoming by-election in Cayo South is over. Joaquin Cawich, son of the late Agripino Cawich, earned the right to seek his father’s old seat in the House when he defeated Sam Waight and Carlos Santos in Sunday’s convention. The final tally was seven […]
Cayo South voters will go to the polls this weekend in the first of two elections designed to fill the House of Representatives seat made vacant by the death of Agripino Cawich. While the United Democratic Party has already declared John Saldivar as its candidate in the division, the People’s United Party has three hopefuls […]
Following the death of Area Representative for Cayo South Agripino Cawich earlier this month, the People’s United Party has to choose a new candidate to contest the upcoming by-election. According to a press release, the P.U.P. National Executive has chosen Sunday, September fourteenth as the date for the Cayo South Convention. They have already accepted […]
It was a send off the likes of which are rarely seen in the nation of Belize, let alone its sweltering capital. Official business came to a halt this morning as the country paused for the state funeral of Cayo South Area Representative, Agripino Cawich. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting Hundreds of […]
Out of the nation’s twenty-nine political constituencies, his was the biggest…and tonight Cayo South is without its elected leader, Agripino Cawich. Cawich, who also held the post of Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs, succumbed to cancer on Friday, after being flown to the United States for treatment. Details of […]
The untimely death of Pino Cawich, aside from bringing grief to family and friends, has also created a political vacuum. Under the constitution a by-election must be called within three months of the vacancy, which would mean an approximate deadline of November eighth. While neither party is in any mood to crank up the political […]
One thing that Social Security officials at today’s presentation did not want to discuss was government’s proposed legislation that would mandate a radical increase in Social Security contributions from both employees and employers. One organisation not so shy, however, was the Opposition United Democratic Party, which held a press conference this afternoon to criticise the […]
Opposition Leader Dean Barrow promised it shortly after his party was defeated at the polls, and today the U.D.P. released the composition of its shadow Cabinet. Members of the group include all seven elected representatives, all three Senators, seven defeated candidates and one political newcomer. Each is assigned a specific portfolio, as follows. Foreign Affairs: […]
The United Democratic Party today announced its selections for the three Senate seats it is allotted under the constitution. At a press conference this afternoon Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow prefaced his introduction of the new Senators by saying the choices signal that the U.D.P. can attract talent, and he expects the appointees to […]
In news from Belmopan, the Prime Minister’s Office has announced a number of new appointments in the two-week-old administration. Margaret Ventura, long-time civil servant and former president of the Public Service Union, has been named as C.E.O. in the Ministry of Public Service. She replaces Marion McNab, who had been previously named as C.E.O. in […]
In other news from Belmopan, today the Leader of the Opposition, Dean Barrow, was sworn in by Governor General Sir Colville Young. Following the ceremony at Belize House, Barrow paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister. According to a government release, the discussions were cordial and constructive and both leaders commended voters for participating […]
After a decisive 22-7 defeat in Wednesday’s election, the Opposition United Democratic Party may be down…but it’s definitely not out. This afternoon I sat down with U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow to find out where he and his supporters go from here. Janelle Chanona “Following, the United Democratic Party’s National Party Council meeting on Saturday, what […]
The voters only went to the polls on Wednesday, but by early next week the wheels of government should already be turning smoothly. News 5’s Janelle Chanona was on hand in Belmopan this morning for the unveiling of the nation’s top executive body…and found that the second Musa administration is no clone of the first. […]
The victors may be boasting and the losers may be hiding, but today supporters of every political candidate have two things in common. One, they’re all tired from a very late night and two, they are unanimously thankful that the national ordeal called elections is finally over. News 5’s Stewart Krohn recounts the memorable events. […]
Tonight, although many Belizeans are still recovering from election fatigue, the People’s United Party is preparing get down to the business of governing. The new Cabinet heads to Belmopan first thing Friday morning to be officially sworn in by the Governor General at Belize House. This afternoon, we sat down with party secretary and new […]
Elections are about numbers and we would be remiss not to document the final results of election 2003. So here are the details. We’ll begin in the Belize District: In the Freetown Division the P.U.P.’s Francis Fonseca won with 1,154 votes, beating U.D.P. candidate Doug Singh who received 771 votes. In Caribbean Shores incumbent P.U.P. […]
There’s an old adage popular in the legal profession, which says that anyone who chooses to defend himself instead of hiring a lawyer has a fool for a client. Independent Albert candidate Sydney Fuller may be feeling a bit foolish tonight as one day after he filed his own constitutional motion to have Marilyn Williams […]
And in a story that we were hoping we didn’t have to report, it appears that one candidate in Belize City just couldn’t resist playing the race card, even if he did wait until the last day of the campaign to do it. The billboards, entitled “The national pie: how it is divided up” purport […]
Over the weekend the campaigns of both the People’s United Party and United Democratic Party peaked as each held televised rallies in Belize City. The last two days before the elections are almost anticlimactic as the rival political organisations seek to fine tune the election day machinery that will ultimately decide the outcome of Wednesday’s […]
For the U.D.P.’s Dean Barrow, Said Musa and his colleagues do not deserve a second chance. Dean Barrow, Party Leader, U.D.P. “Given all that has happened over the last four and a half years, there really is a need for a change and that the United Democratic Party does possess the determination and the ability […]
The P.U.P. said it wasn’t going to bother and the U.D.P. dared them to try. Well today both parties could only watch as independent Albert Division candidate Sydney Fuller quietly filed a motion in the Supreme Court to have his U.D.P. opponent, Marilyn Williams be declared ineligible to run for a seat in the House […]
As the election campaign of 2003 winds down to its final weekend, it is no surprise that tensions are running high. One indication of the adrenaline level occurred this morning in Belize City when for a few minutes it looked like Belize’s tradition of peaceful electioneering might be in jeopardy. But, as News 5’s Jacqueline […]
On yesterday’s newscast, U.D.P. candidate in the Albert Division, Marilyn Williams admitted that in the course of becoming a U.S. citizen she had sworn allegiance to the United States of America. This, according to her opponents, makes her ineligible to run in the general elections under section fifty-eight of the Belize Constitution. Today, leader of […]
And moving right along, there is the U.D.P. accusation of scandal aimed at Education Minister Cordel Hyde’s sister, Jacinta. Barrow and the U.D.P. maintain she headed a sham business enterprise, Green Patch, that collected thousands of dollars for landscaping work never actually performed. Despite P.U.P. denials following his press conference, this morning Barrow stood his […]
This morning, flanked by men and women he says are employees of Green Patch Company, and armed with paperwork: receipts of equipment purchased and maintained, Minister of Education Cordel Hyde came to his sister’s defence. According to Hyde, they have the documents and the people to prove they worked for every cent they collected. Cordel […]
