Belize has been without a Contractor General for almost two years and the work that the office is mandated to carry out is currently being executed by the Attorney General’s office. In order to attract possible qualified candidates, the Government amended the Act removing a specific limitation that prevents anyone who takes up the post […]
The Senate met in Special Session for about an hour this morning in Belmopan to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States and the United Kingdom. This is in preparation for the highly expected exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The EU is expected to agree to the UK’s request […]
Today, applications to contest positions in the U.D.P. Executive closed. As we have been reporting, the big election will be for the new leader of the U.D.P. between Patrick Faber and John Saldivar. Both are lining up the ducks with Saldivar putting up a slate. But in the south, Clifford “Boss P” Peters says, “Not […]
As you would know, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte wants to be the U.D.P.’s next party chairman. The party will hold its convention in February of next year and Peyrefitte’s intention is to replace current chairman, Alberto August. His candidacy is supported by August himself who, oddly enough, has submitted his name for the vice chairman […]
The U.D.P. is gearing up for its national convention in February 2020 so this week there was a buzz of activity to met deadlines. . Albert Area Representative Tracy Panton and Beverly Williams, who represents Belize Rural Central, have submitted their names for the posts of Deputy Party Leader and Second Deputy Party Leader, respectively. […]
While a few area representatives and standard bearers have come forward in support of John Saldivar’s candidacy for Deputy Party Leader, Faber has remained fairly quiet about his support base. Saldivar, who has put together his own roster of candidates for the various posts, is also being endorsed openly by them. So where does Faber […]
It is no secret that Patrick Faber and John Saldivar joined forces in November of last year to ensure that Phillip Willoughby won his seat as standard bearer for the U.D.P. in Port Loyola. Both opponents came together to secure a victory for Willoughby who was running against Michael Peyrefitte in that constituency. But Willoughby […]
Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte is also running for the position of chairman of the United Democratic Party. He is being backed by incumbent presiding officer Alberto August. Both Saldivar and Faber joined forces against Peyrefitte in Port Loyola, but there is no love lost as Faber strongly believes that Peyrefitte is the right for chairmanship […]
Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte has submitted his application for U.D.P. Party Chairman to succeed Alberto August, who has served in that post since 2013 and is going down a notch vying to become deputy chairman. This morning, John Saldivar, contender for the U.D.P. leadership, posted support for Peyrefitte. But later in the day, Mark King […]
As the U.D.P. gears up for its February 2020 convention which will elect a successor to Prime Minister Dean Barrow as leader, a number of persons are throwing their hat in the ring. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, twice an unsuccessful candidate for the United Democratic Party, is making a third bid, this time for chairmanship […]
With the leadership convention scheduled for February 2020, it would appear that the highest number of delegates is adding up in favour of John Saldivar, who lost to Patrick Faber in June 2016 when both ran for deputy leadership. But that depends on who you ask. While Hugo Patt, Beverly Williams, Shyne Barrow and Phillip […]
As for first deputy leadership, Peyrefitte maintains that both candidates, Tracy Panton and Hugo Patt, are well intentioned in spite of who they are supporting for party leader. He says that in the true spirit of democracy they are free to vote for whomever it is they believe is the better candidate. The principal concern, […]
So who is Peyrefitte supporting for new leader of the U.D.P.? That’s a question we put to him during our sit down this morning and he told us that despite having a vote to cast, he is remaining neutral, since his prospective role as incoming chairman will require him having to work with both candidates […]
The People’s United Party is reacting to our report on the shortage of anti-retroviral medication used to treat patients living with HIV/AIDS. The P.U.P. expresses concern over the unavailability of the life-saving meds, blaming the incompetence of the Ministry of Health for the shortage. The P.U.P. has learnt that patients are being turned back due […]
There is outrage in Hope Creek in southern Belize where villagers are not sitting down to allow the area representation to impose who sits on the water board. The village council submitted names of persons considered suitable but lo and behold these persons were rejected and instead others who lost the village council elections are […]
On Monday, Tracy Taegar Panton, the area rep for the Albert Division in Belize City announced she is seeking the post of first deputy leader of the U.D.P. when convention is held next February. Today, another female candidate announced her bid; area representative for Belize Rural Central and Minister of State in the Ministry of […]
In the lower courts, Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning dismissed an application brought by the P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer for Belize Rural North, Marconi Leal, against a registered voter in that division. Leal, through attorney Michel Chebat, filed a claim to have six voters removed from the voters’ list on the grounds that they provided […]
Marconi Leal was represented by attorney Michel Chebat, who says that the challenge he faced, was the fact that magistrates do not allow for the registering officers to be cross-examined. He says that in at least three of the cases, no one verified the address of the voters. The registering officer, says Chebat, would have […]
While in the U.D.P., Albert Area Representative and Minister of State in the Ministry of Investment, Trade, Commerce and Economic Development, Tracy Taegar-Panton is running for Deputy Party Leader of the United Democratic Party. The first time area representative made the announcement today that she has informed Pearl Stuart, the Secretary General of the U.D.P. […]
A lengthy two-page diatribe was released late on Thursday evening in which Prime Minister Dean Barrow took a number of swipes at Opposition Leader John Briceño in response to a letter written on October fifteenth in which he threatens court action on the write-off to Joshua Perdomo. The PM’s two-page rejoinder, released through the Government […]
The Perdomo loan write-off is not going to go away in time soon. Today, U.D.P. Senator for Government Business Godwin Hulse says that the forty thousand dollar loan does not mean it is uncollectible. Perdomo is employed at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science, which is located in Dallas, Texas. He was to return to […]
Hulse reiterated the government’s position that the loan is six-year statute barred. According to him, cabinet sticks to the recommendation from the Attorney General. But Hulse did let out that the Perdomo family is making arrangement to settle the unpopular debt. Godwin Hulse, Senator for Government Business “I don’t get into the argument whether […]
Tonight, the Prime Minister Dean Barrow is blasting the letter by Opposition Leader John Briceño, a day after Briceño wrote to him. That letter by Briceño, dated October fifteenth, was on the Joshua Perdomo forty thousand dollars loan write off and it got the better out of the PM. Barrow tells Briceño that his letter […]
The Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño is ramping up pressure in respect of a write-off of a loan of forty-thousand plus dollars to the son of the Cabinet Secretary. The write-off was passed in the House and rejected by the Senate last week, but it is not going away. Briceño has fired off a […]
After the House of Representatives approved the write-off without debate, it went to the Senate and seven out of the thirteen senators voted it down including Church Senator Ashley Rocke who called on the Prime Minister to personally ensure that the forty thousand dollars are recovered. But Attorney General and U.D.P. Senator Michael Peyrefitte says […]
