While five P.U.P. area representatives were in Supreme Court this morning as claimants in the legal challenge brought about by the opposition, Party Leader John Briceño was in Belmopan for the presentation of the budget. We caught up with him afterwards for an official position on the legal challenge which also sees an application for […]
Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte cried foul a few weeks ago when footage of a well-known U.D.P. operative behind a desk at the Vital Statistics Department surfaced on Vibes Media. The opposition ran an ad depicting questionable practices undertaken at that government office. AG Peyrefitte described it as a misrepresentation of changes that have since been […]
Tonight there are more details about a suit against the government. Leader of the Opposition John Briceño and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee Julius Espat have launched a lawsuit against Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Finance Secretary Joseph Waight, and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte. PM Barrow is named as the first defendant as the Minister […]
In 2015, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was forced to pass the Petrocaribe Loans Act retroactively. This was after it was pointed out that the hundreds of millions of dollars that the government received as a loan from the Venezuelan Government through the Petrocaribe initiative needed parliamentary approval. The law stipulates that the government must get […]
Espat explains says that the claim is seeking a permanent injunction restraining PM Barrow as Minister of Finance and second defendant Financial Secretary Joseph Waight from authorizing the allocation and expenditure of public monies without prior approval of the National Assembly of Belize. Julius Espat, Chairman, Public Accounts Committee “We are asking that the […]
This Friday will make the first anniversary since P.U.P. Mayor Bernard Wagner and his team took office at the Belize City Council. While the mayor has met many challenges, today, he reflected on his first year as head of the largest municipality in the country. Mayor Wagner spoke about the accomplishments. Bernard Wagner, Belize […]
Going into its second year and with a budget reflecting his commitments, Mayor Wagner says that residents can expect more infrastructure works as well as social programmes being rolled out. This, he says, is in line with his council’s manifesto of putting people first. Bernard Wagner, Belize City Mayor “A continuation of physical infrastructure; […]
There are two recent legal opinions relating to the Guatemalan territorial dispute; one by international expert Stephen Vascannie, which has just been made public and the other is by attorneys Kareem Musa, Anthony Sylvester and Dickie Bradley, which looks at the Special Agreement of December eighth, 2008. The latter was released two weeks ago and […]
A small protest was held today in front of The Inspiration Centre where the Elections & Boundaries Department was meeting with monitors for the upcoming Referendum on April tenth. Leading the group was Patrick Rogers of the Belize Peace Movement which includes a number of small political parties. The movement was not invited to appoint […]
The Belize Progressive Party is blasting the Elections and Boundaries Department for not including them as Referendum Monitors on April tenth. The department sent out a list on Tuesday inviting entities to participate but did not invite the B.P.P. or other small parties. The B.P.P. notes that it has been an active and legitimate party […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s statement aimed at Justice Courtenay Abel at last week’s business forum, has been met with dismay. The People’s United Party is first to publicly interpret it as contempt of court. The party equates the statements as a scandalous and contemptible attack against a sitting justice deliberately designed to interfere with cases […]
Councilor Micah Goodin has been benched from his responsibilities with the Belize City Council, following an altercation during which he dressed down City Administrator Stephanie Lindo-Garbutt, before leaving City Hall in a fit of rage. Goodin had gotten a budget green lighted for a pending sporting initiative which he had proposed to caucus the night […]
If you have ever been to the Vital Statistics Unit, you probably have experienced the frustration that comes along with that visit. People from every single district have been complaining of not only the snail-like process but basic and serious errors on documents such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, and death certificates. But recently, members […]
For years, complaints against the Vital Statistics Unit have been mounting. In December 2018, former Prime Minister Said Musa told parliament that there are many wrongs at the unit where even rodents were eating documents. Musa said that what is happening in the Vital Statistics Department poses a serious threat to the democratic system of […]
The Opposition, People’s United Party, is outraged at today’s contract signing between Imer Hernandez, and Minister of Works, Rene Montero. The contract is for ten miles of road on the George Price Highway and has a value of more than nineteen million dollars. The P.U.P. says that its outrage is based on the many contracts […]
Tonight political and economic tensions continue to grow in Venezuela. According to online reports, Venezuelan soldiers have blocked a crossing with trucks and shipping tankers ahead of an aid delivery arranged by opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself interim president. President Nicolás Maduro, who has the support of the army, is not allowing […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño also joined the Public Service Union in condemning a request for advice for a recommendation made on behalf of Paulette Elrington, the daughter of Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. As we have been reporting, a leaked memo has raised eyebrows because Paulette, who is a contract officer in the Ministry of Foreign […]
Opposition Leader, John Briceño, also weighed in on the concerns raised by potato farmers in San Carlos Village. Farmers have complained that they cannot sell their locally grown, red potatoes because the local market is saturated with imported white Mexican potatoes. On Wednesday, C.E.O. in the Ministry of Agriculture, Jose Alpuche, explained that permits issued […]
On January twenty-sixth, the United Democratic Party’s National Party Council decided that its leadership convention will be held in February 2020. Up to date, there are only two known candidates who have made their political aspirations public. There is Deputy Party Leader Patrick Faber as well as John Saldivar, the area representative for Belmopan and […]
While we had the minister, we asked him about another statement from cabinet colleague Elrington in an interview with this station. When asked to respond to the P.U.P.’s umpteenth call for his removal, Elrington said that the demand was futile. According to Elrington, people very close to the Prime Minister and in the U.D.P. camp […]
The People’s United Party on Saturday cranked up its ‘vote no to the I.C.J.’ campaign after its National Party Council unanimously supported the People’s Declaration. After completing his nationwide consultations, P.U.P. Leader John Briceño is convinced that the government has mismanaged the education campaign, leaving voter without enough information to make an informed decision. After […]
Mobilizing tens of thousands of voters on April tenth is a task which will require resources such as human capital and most importantly, money. Prior to the P.U.P.’s National Party Council meeting on Saturday, reports surfaced that Party Leader John Briceño had communicated to the party’s hierarchy that they will need to fund their ‘no […]
Many have called on the immediate removal of Wilfred Elrington as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The People’s United Party has been a strong advocate for this. In January, when the P.U.P. launched its People’s Declaration, the demand for the immediate removal of Elrington was renewed. Elrington, however; has described the demands as futile, saying […]
Tonight we have more from Belama Phase Four where several families were officially notified that they need to vacate from land sold to a Chinese businessman. They were told that they need to dismantle their house and move out in one month. So the residents were taken aback when they found someone attempting to destroy […]
The United Democratic Party has taken the official position to support taking Guatemala’s claim on Belize to the International Court of Justice for final resolution. A release from the party says that a National Party Council met on Saturday in Belize City where, among other party business, the matter of submitting the Guatemalan claim to […]
