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Musa reiterated what Briceño has said to the PM, and that is that, if the loan is written off without the Senate’s approval, the Opposition will launch a legal challenge in the form of judicial review. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores Division “I want to say this Hipolito that in my opinion this […]
The Belize Youth Movement is calling on all the Belizean youths to rise and demand that their student loans also be written off. The B.Y.M., an arm of the People’s United Party says it is outraged at the actions taken by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to vote in favour of writing off Joshua Perdomo’s forty […]
The Leader of the Opposition John Briceño says that on October fourth he was denied the opportunity to debate the Joshua Perdomo forty thousand dollars write-off motion. Speaker of the House Laura Tucker-Longsworth told Briceño that no one rose to debate the motion when it was first introduced by the Prime Minister at the previous […]
House Speaker Laura Tucker Longsworth responded to Briceño’s letter today, saying that his statements are misleading and the facts are misrepresented. Longsworth tells Briceño that on October fourth, as the five write-off motions were moved on Friday, August sixteenth and should have been debated forthwith. Longsworth continues to say that she looked on both sides […]
About a week and a half ago, former City Administrator Candice Miller won a case against the City Council for wrongful termination. The current P.U.P. administration believes that Miller was derelict in her duties in three instances back in 2018 when there was a changing of the guard at City Hall. Miller was first suspended […]
But as the issue of compensation to the former City Administrator looms over the council, there is still another elephant in the room. A million-dollar claim by Belize Waste Control is pending and the council is nowhere close to addressing it. Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner sidelined that question, but stuck to the issue that […]
Single and unemployed women of the Mesopotamia Division will be able to take on sewing to generate income for themselves and boost economic activity in the division. Today, a centre was opened in the division creating new opportunities to the women. The P.U.P. Standard Bearer, Doctor Candice Pitts, says the facility is one through which […]
These days City Councillor Doctor Candice Pitts has been on the ground in the Mesopotamia constituency, which is considered a stronghold for the United Democratic Party under senior minister Michael Finnegan. Finnegan is stepping down and is grooming understudy and son of Prime Minister, Shyne Barrow, to take over the reins in the division. Today […]
Candice Pitts came to the political scene in 2018 when she ran and won her seat as councillor in the Belize City Council under the P.U.P. banner. Now, Pitts is aspiring for higher office and first set her eyes on Port Loyola, but that opportunity was shutdown and Gilroy Usher Senior was endorsed by Party […]
A hasty land transaction that appears questionable to many in Belmopan is raising eyebrows and causing outrage. A few weeks ago the Belmopan City Council gave the order to de-reserve a large portion of land along the Phillip Goldson Boulevard. The land was reserved for expansion of the boulevard but the council decided to survey […]
The IMF’s preliminary report on Belize’s economic says that the recovery is moving at a glacial space. During the first three months of the year, the G.D.P. grew by an unusual five point two percent. The second quarter, however, recorded a zero point eight percent decline. Officials from the International Monetary Fund were in Belize […]
The debate got testy among Senators on Wednesday when Write-off Number Two Motion was introduced. The write-off is for forty thousand dollars owed to the Government of Belize by Joshua Perdomo, son of Cabinet Secretary Carlos Perdomo. Perdomo was approved twenty-seven months of study leave to pursue a Master’s degree in Forensic Genetics at the […]
An important piece of legislation that went before the Senate on Wednesday as passed to get rid of the blacklisting by the European Union that hangs over Belize. The European Union determined in March to blacklist Belize as a tax haven. The E.U. says that Belize has significant shortfalls when it comes to laws that […]
It was a rare occasion in the Senate today. The upper chamber voted against a motion to write-off forty thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty-eight cents owed by Joshua Perdomo, the son of Cabinet Secretary Carlos Perdomo. The motion was brought to the Senate after the House of Representatives approved the motion last […]
At the end of the debate, a division was called by Senator Chebat to document the vote of each senator. As we said, seven of the thirteen voted against the write-off. While the Senate did not approve the write-off, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte says that money motions cannot be defeated by the Senate. As we […]
Also voting against the write-off was Senator for the Private Sector, Mark Lizarraga. According to Lizarraga, while it was expected that the Senate would not be able to block the write-off, the point was to represent the interest of the Belizean people. Mark Lizarraga, Senator for Private Sector “We know that in the past […]
Still on the unpopular Joshua Perdomo write-off, the Leader of the Opposition John Briceño has written to the House Speaker Laura Longsworth taking issue with the conduct of the debate on October fourth. Briceño tells the Speaker that he and other parliamentarians were denied the right to debate or comment on the write-off and that […]
Senators also debated the amendment to the Contractor General Act. The amendment removes the limitation which barred any Contractor General to return to the public service after his or her term concludes. This, according to the government, made it quite difficult to find a replacement for Godwin Arzu, whose contract was not renewed after senators pointed out […]
A project to electrify Caye Caulker Village will cost the Belize Electricity Limited some thirteen point six million dollars. The monies are being borrowed from the Caribbean Development Bank on certain conditions including that the loan shall be guaranteed by the Government of Belize. The objective is to improve electricity reliability and increase capabilities on […]
The government side of the House last Friday gave final approval to the write-off of forty thousand dollars to Joshua Perdomo, the son of the Cabinet Secretary. As soon as the motion was presented, it came under criticism from the Opposition, as well as from other sectors. Today, the B.Y.M., which is the youth arm […]
At Friday’s House meeting, Area Representative Julius Espat made a presentation on the political interference in the election process. Tensions quickly heightened during a meeting on September twenty-eighth in Georgeville, Cayo. Representatives of twenty-two villages of that district met with officials from the Ministry of Human Development including former U.D.P. Minister Ruben Campos. The meeting […]
This December will mark two years since Belize has been without a Contractor General. At the end of 2017 when the government attempted to re-appoint Godwin Arzu for another term, the Senate rejected the proposal since Arzu had failed to provide the required reporting. Arzu’s contract was therefore not renewed and since then his post […]
The Government of Belize has borrowed more than fifty million dollars to upgrade twenty miles of the George Price Highway, from the Roaring Creek Bridge to the Hawkesworth Bridge in Santa Elena, Cayo. The first multimillion dollar loan was made in 2015 and in 2018 an additional fourteen million dollars were borrowed from the International Development […]
In 2018, the Ministry of Agriculture commenced the Belize Agriculture Census. Some twenty enumerators were deployed out in the field to collect data. It was originally planned that the census would be completed within nine months; the information gathered would then be analyzed and compiled into the National Geo-reference Farm Registry. The registry would include […]
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One more issue from last Fridays House sitting, in 2018, the cost of electricity spiked twice. Later that year, Belize Electricity Limited made a formal request to the Public Utilities Commission for an increase of zero-point two-two cents per kilowatt-hour as the Mean Electricity Rate. The request was made for the company to recover approximately eighteen […]
