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One man who didn’t make it on the P.U.P.’s Orange Walk slate is Haresh Vaswani. He first joined the P.U.P. team in 2018; he was elected a councilor with five thousand and fifty-four votes. Vaswani has had his run-in with the law after being charged for violating the COVID-19 regulation. However, Vaswani says that he […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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Here in Belize City, the final P.U.P. slate is still unknown. Mayor Bernard Wagner has confirmed he will be seeking re-election, but it’s anyone’s guess as to who will be on his slate. Party Chairman Henry Charles told us that the slates would be finalized as early as this week as the successful applicants’ names […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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The by-election for the Corozal Bay constituency that was left vacant by the recent death of David “Dido” Vega will be held simultaneously with the municipal elections on March third. The P.U.P. has made a call for interested candidates. This is even after the late Vega’s sister, Elvia Vega-Samos, had already announced her interest in […]
Written on January 19, 2021 | Posted in
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On March third, voters head back to the polls for the municipal elections. The two major political parties are readying their slates as there are a total of sixty-seven seats up for grabs. Public Service Minister Henry Charles Usher, under whose ministry elections and boundaries fall, says that preparations are well underway for the municipal […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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On Sunday, the United Democratic Party announced that it had held a virtual convention to determine its city council slate for Old Capital. Very few details about the process were revealed except that there were four mayoral and twenty-four councilor hopefuls. Media personality, Orson Picart was selected as the mayoral candidate for Belize City in […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, the P.U.P. National Executive is expected to meet this week, where its nine municipal slates will be approved for the upcoming elections. The process was different this year, and conventions were not held due to COVID-19. Henry Charles Usher – in his capacity as P.U.P. Chairman – says that after the December eighteenth deadline […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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Corozal Mayor Rigoberto Vellos says that he and his slate have been readying for a second term in office. The P.U.P. Mayor says that there are three new candidates on his slate, and they have already hit the ground running. Rigoberto Vellos, Mayor, Corozal Town “We already going on the ground, a slate is […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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Public Service Minister Henry Charles Usher chimed in on what he referred to as the insolence of Estevan Perera, who has refused to resign from the appointment as chair of the Elections and Boundaries Commission. In July 2020, just four months before the general elections, the former U.D.P. administration gave Perera the appointment. Last week, […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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On Friday, as Belize commemorated the first George Price Day – now a National Public and Bank Holiday – People’s United Party officials along with family members of the late Father of the Nation gathered for a wreath-laying ceremony. Every January fifteenth, since his passing, the tradition has been held to celebrate the birth of […]
Written on January 18, 2021 | Posted in
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The municipal elections are about a month and a half away, and the United Democratic Party is gearing up. Party Chairman Michael Peyrefitte says that there has been an overwhelming interest from persons wanting to represent the U.D.P. in the upcoming elections. The hopefuls need to apply and be vetted by the party’s screening committee […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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The five-year contract signed by the Director of Tourism Karen Bevans in April 2019 is the subject of much scrutiny, particularly since it has left the new P.U.P. administration hamstrung and cannot name a director of its own. In poring over the agreement, we note that the former Chief Operations Officer at Belize Telemedia Limited […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño departed the country on Tuesday, January twelfth, 2021, on personal leave. This means that Lake Independence Area Representative Cordel Hyde is acting Prime Minister. Briceño will return on Sunday, January seventeenth. But before he left, the Prime Minister chaired a virtual cabinet session on Tuesday, during which several decisions were made. […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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There was some controversy about who would succeed Collin Griffith as the next comptroller of customs. There were two frontrunners, senior customs officers Ian Haylock and Estelle Leslie. Both have the same qualifying skills, training, and education, but Leslie’s interview was successful. She was named the first female Comptroller of Customs. During the Senate’s Sitting […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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Senator for Government Business Eamon Courtenay quickly corrected Senator Peyrefitte. Courtenay produced a letter from the Office of the Prime Minister sent to the Public Services Commission, expressing the Prime Minister’s intention to appoint a new Comptroller of Customs. That letter, however, went unanswered, and the government proceeded with its plan. Courtenay stressed that the […]
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And the unanswered letter from the PM to the Public Services Commission is telling. The Commission’s functions include the formulation of schemes for recruitment to the public service and the fixing of salaries and privileges. But there is the sense that the Commission has been non-function for some time. Union Senator Elena Smith says that […]
Written on January 14, 2021 | Posted in
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The Senate had its first sitting for the new year today in Belmopan. As the government, the People’s United Party now has control of the Senate with six members mainly debating opposition senators, led by Michael Peyrefitte as Lead Opposition Senator. Unlike Friday’s House session, today’s Senate Sitting was shorter, but the debate was robust […]
Written on January 13, 2021 | Posted in
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Responding to Peyrefitte was Senator for Government Business, Eamon Courtenay. After P.U.P. Senator Christopher Coye explained the expenditures, Courtenay stressed that the Briceño government did not breach the constitution and reminded Peyrefitte that it was the former Chief Justice who ruled that former PM Dean Barrow acted in contravention of the Belize Constitution. Eamon […]
Written on January 13, 2021 | Posted in
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The Senate also debated the People’s United Party’s Good Governance in Belize Motion. The motion contains ten covenants that the twenty-six elected government officials pledge to uphold during their term in office. It includes eight pledges and promises that the Briceño Administration says it will see during its five years in office. These include the […]
Written on January 13, 2021 | Posted in
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Senator for Government Business, Eamon Courtenay responded to Peyrefitte’s criticisms of the motion by reminding the senators on the other side that the motion places on House and Senate record the covenants of the P.U.P. government. Courtenay explains that through the motions, the elected area representatives can be held accountable. Eamon Courtenay, Senator for […]
Written on January 13, 2021 | Posted in
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Reacting to the Government’s Good Governance Bill were three social partners senators. While they applauded the government for tabling such a motion, they also have concerns and criticism of what the motion contained. Osmany Salas, Senator of N.G.O.s “I think it is a good thing that this motion is being tabled here today and […]
Written on January 13, 2021 | Posted in
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Today, Senators from both sides weighed in on the Chairman of the Elections and Boundaries Commission decision not to resign from his post. The P.U.P. Government expected that Perera would resign following the elections. They see his appointment as purely political as Perera is a known U.D.P. supporter. Perera, however, is resisting and has yet […]
Written on January 13, 2021 | Posted in
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Chairman of the United Democratic Party Michael Peyrefitte was asked to comment on the allegations being made against former U.D.P. Minister of Works Rene Montero. The new Administration has collected evidence and passed it on to the relevant authorities for a criminal investigation to be conducted into Montero and his time in office. The government […]
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Former Minister of Works Rene Montero is at the heart of a land scandal in which it is alleged that a number of dubious transactions were conducted on his behalf through the Ministry of Natural Resources during his terms of office. The latest revelation regarding a scheme that was purportedly ran by the Cayo Central […]
Written on January 12, 2021 | Posted in
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In another case, De La Rosa shares the story of an individual who later found out that his information was used to acquire a piece of land. He approached De La Rosa, who at the time was also under Montero’s employ, and asked him to relay a message to the former Minister of Works. He […]
Written on January 12, 2021 | Posted in
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In light of Eddie de la Rosa’s testimony, who says he witnessed the corrupt activities within government ministries, the P.S.U. says that people like De La Rosa need protecting. De La Rosa fled to the U.S. after he felt his life was in danger because he is now a whistleblower. The Public Service Union says […]
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