It’s not just teachers and school administrators that have been frustrated since the start of the school year … Early this morning News Five’s Marion Ali and cameraman Chris Mangar travelled up the Western Highway to mile thirty-one where they found parents and students up in arms over transportation. Marion Ali, Reporting For most of […]
There is breaking news from the Belize Electricity Limited and that is that late this evening the utility company announced that it had reached agreement with the Public Utilities Commission over installation of new electricity lines which will positively impact consumers. According to a release from B.E.L., it has received assurances from the P.U.C. that […]
The Opposition, People’s United Party, has reacted to reports of firings in the public service. In a release today the P.U.P. condemns the dismissals branding it as political and calls on the Prime Minister put an end to the firings. The release points to the recent case involving the Minister of Agriculture, Rene Montero, who […]
B.E.L. has finally released a statement on the standoff with the Public Utilities Commission following last week’s directive by the regulatory body instructing the utility company to comply with requests for new connections. B.E.L.’s position was and continues to be that because of the cap of twenty-five million dollars in capital investment, it could not […]
There is more trouble within the United Democratic Party, which is showing it is anything but united. The latest case of internal infighting involves businesspersons Kevin Gonzalez and Yolanda Parham, two solid U.D.P. names in San Pedro Ambergris Caye and the U.D.P. controlled Town Council. According to reports from the island, Gonzalez and Parham sought […]
A man from Lucky Strike found out that his luck has ran out. Yesterday afternoon around two-thirty Howard Coleman was confronted by a police officer who informed him that he owed the court seven hundred and fifty dollars. Coleman says he was surprised to find out he was indebted. Apparently, the fine was for a […]
They have been quiet for some time, but today they woke out of the slumber and issued a release on the ongoing crisis at City Hall. The Association of Concerned Belizeans is asking for disclosure of the audited financials of CitCo and all town councils. This follows the public allegations of financial improprieties at the […]
And from the A.C.B. to the P.U.P. which also today issued a release expressing solidarity with teachers and the Belize National Teachers Union and calls on the Ministry of Education to stop the political interference in the activities of teachers. The B.N.T.U. this week exposed the transfer of teachers which it said was all about […]
The Public Utilities Commission met throughout the day in Belize City over a new development in which Belize Electricity Limited is not connecting new customers to their grid, whether of a residential or business nature. Just before news time the P.U.C. issued a lengthy statement challenging B.E.L. and as it often is in these instances, […]
You would have to be on another planet not to know that the cookie has crumbled fast between the Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya and the Councillors and that the mess at City Hall is not only political but financial. Last night the CITCO administration was pulled into the fray in the internal power play […]
There is trouble brewing for the Ministry of Education just in time for the opening of the academic year. And the Belize National Teacher’s Union has come out in full blast on the issue. According to the B.N.T.U., politics is behind the transfer of numerous primary school teachers around the country. Classes began on Monday […]
There is not a dull moment at City Hall and that means more trouble for Mayor Zenaida Moya. Upon assuming office in March 2006, the then united City Council was challenged by the Belize Waste Control over millions of dollars awarded in contracts to the garbage collection company. It was claimed after much negotiations that […]
Several businesses and private sector institutions converged at the Belize Biltmore Plaza today to participate in a Needs Assessment seminar hosted by the Caribbean Technological Consultancy Services (C.T.C.S.). The C.T.C.S. Network is a programme of the Caribbean Development Bank Private Sector Development Division designed to provide technical hands-on assistance to micro and small sector entities. […]
“Positive Prevention”: it’s a welcomed term in the midst of the heinous murders and crimes reported daily on this newscast. It is also one of the main missions of the Lion’s Quest Program. And throughout this week teachers from across the country will be attending a training workshop in Belize City to equip themselves with […]
The House of Representatives met in Belmopan and there were various pressing issues on the agenda for today’s meeting which had its usual share of feistiness and drama coming from both sides of the isle. But first, before the debate on the Windfall Tax and the Sixth Amendments to the Constitution were dealt with the […]
He has significant investments in Belize, but that doesn’t mean he has been without controversy, in fact he has been at the middle of it in most cases. And it appears that from time to time he has been in the warpath with both administrations and depending on whom you talk to, there is always […]
There is still no resolution to the cable dispute and many villages remain off the cable system. Late this afternoon the Board of the Belize Cable Television Operators Association concluded a meeting in Belize City on the current stalemate between C.B.C. and Telemedia over the disruption of cable services in certain areas in the west […]
Chester Williams is fighting back and his attorneys say they are appealing the recent findings of the Security Services Commission against the former senior Superintendent and are taking issue with the public disclosure of its findings before Williams himself was informed. Senior Counsel Edwin Flowers, speaking on behalf of Williams who has been prohibited from […]
There is a twelve year old student of Saint John Vianney, who needs urgent assistance. The standard six student has undergone surgery for a tumor in his stomach, but now there are signs of yet another tumor. The young man’s mother is pleading for your assistance. Karen Dougal, Mother of Marquis Wade “Well, actually I’m […]
Reports out of Mexico City say that businessman, Hussein Nasr Harmouch, is being held in custody by Mexican federal agents. Harmouch was nabbed when he attempted to board a plane, flight number four nine nine bound for Frankfurt with Lebanon as his final destination. Harmouch was detained at the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico […]
The results of a survey conducted in Belize a couple years ago revealed that in addition to child abuse, the country’s children were also regular victims of commercial sexual exploitation. The issue is a complex one as unlike child abuse, CSEC has its roots in poverty and for many victims and their families it is […]
Today, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints donated two hundred and fifty wheelchairs of various sizes to CARE-Belize and Belize Red Cross. It is the second such gift that the church has made as in 2002 they double that amount to CARE-Belize when the agency was officially chartered as an NGO providing services […]
There are some new developments in the ongoing cable crisis in villages to the west and south of Belize. At news time tonight, Channel Broadcasting Corporation and Telemedia have agreed to restore limited service to subscribers in the Dangriga area. We say limited because Channel Seven and Krem will not be shown due to the […]
It‘s eyeball to eyeball and earlier today—at three o’clock to be precise—Telemedia disconnected access to its fiber optic cable at mile sixteen as they had said to the C.B.C. cable station in a letter yesterday. The matter has been simmering for some time and came to boiling point today when the communities on the western […]
Skirmishes along borders are nothing strange but Belizean and Guatemalan authorities managed to pacify a situation before it got out of control on Wednesday morning near the office of the Organisation of American States. It all stemmed from an observation that Belizean border police made around nine-thirty that morning of a suspicious Guatemalan coyote entering […]
