And the mayor also dealt with the never-ending story about the infamous cheques that were disclosed last year by Councillor Mark King. The cheques were made out to Moya’s sister-in-law, Sharon Wade, for work done by the mayor’s brother’s company, SM Construction for the council including garbage collection. Today Moya revisited that issue. Zenaida Moya […]
City Hall is admitting that it owes Social Security contributions in contradiction to what Mayor Zenaida Moya told News Five yesterday in respect of over three hundred thousand dollars owed in Social Security contributions. When approached, the mayor was vehement that she signed cheques to the Belize Social Security Board and she was not aware […]
It’s the count down to elections and the campaign is beginning to pick up dust from both sides of the political spectrum. Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya when confronted on Monday about thousands of dollars in cheques made out to her brother’s trucking company, SM Construction, said they were not new. Tonight the P.U.P.’s mayoral […]
It is three weeks since the horrific killing of Antanacio Gutierrez in one of the worst strikes in the country. Today, while the dust has settled at the Tower Hill Mill, the core sampler has been dismantled and deliveries are back on stream, his widow has broken her silence. Benita Gutierrez has released a letter […]
Last night we reported on a controversy over the ownership of a building at the Farmer’s Market and tonight the tempest has increased to a war of words. This morning Laura Leonardo’s lawyer, Dolores Balderamos Garcia, contacted News Five disputing the chain of events given by the Ramclams. According to Balderamos Garcia, the Ramclams did […]
Two Belize City women find themselves in very dire straits tonight after two separate incidents just hours apart left them incapacitated in the female ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The first incident occurred some time after one on Saturday morning as twenty-nine year old Pamela Stuart was heading to her house on Pelican […]
The second case involves a case of attempted arson. When we covered the story on Monday night there were no injuries to report but tonight we have images of very graphic burns a woman sustained when her house was set on fire. Fifty-five year old Juanita Gonzalez told News Five from her hospital bed that […]
The current state of the financials at City Hall continues to beg questions about fiscal discipline at the nation’s largest municipal body. And as we reported last week, the Council missed the revenue target by twenty percent in 2007-2008, collecting only thirteen point seven million of the projected seventeen point four million dollars in recurrent […]
When we caught up with the mayor today, we asked her about the report that City Hall has defaulted on Social Security contributions on behalf of City Council employees to the Social Security Board. Marion Ali “There is an allegation as well that the Council has not paid, I think it’s over three hundred thousand […]
He has close to two hundred investments in countries around the globe and as such Lord Michael Ashcroft has quite an insight into economics. Today, he stopped by the Open Your Eyes morning show and for about an hour, he touched on a wide range of issues. Ashcroft has been having his own share of […]
Ashcroft says his companies are not the only ones being affected by GOB’s decisions… and he points to NEWCO, the international consortium of companies tied up in legal battles with the government over a nine billion dollar arbitration settlement in respect of a canceled airport contract with the past administration. NEWCO also finds itself at […]
HL’s Burgers, they are a staple and the burger stands have become institutions at strategic locations on some of Belize City’s more popular streets. But soon Belize’s burger king, our own HL’s, will be no more. That’s because the franchise has gone into receivership after its owner, Howell Longsworth, declared bankruptcy following default of seven […]
We have reported that businessman Archie Lee has been spending plenty time before the courts with more than fifty charges laid against him for licenses for his businesses. And now, as a result, Lee is thinking of closing down his restaurant and convenience store and going into retirement. This is if his latest appeal to […]
The issue of communal land rights for the Mayas is back on the radar. The Toledo Cacao Growers Association yesterday sent a stinging press release, distancing itself from the Mayan Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcades Association. Today they followed up with two releases signed by heads of households on behalf of over four hundred […]
It’s a project that has been under the microscope since late last year due to environmental concerns. The South Beach project on San Pedro Town is back in the news today and it is not getting rave reviews. This time it is because the over one hundred construction workers, in a preemptive strike, took to […]
The Mayan Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcalde Association have been the driving force of the Maya Land Right’s lawsuit over communal land rights. While it appears that there has been a united front by Mayans in regards to the case, a release written by Armando Choco, the manager of the Toledo Cacao Growers Association […]
It is four days now that Archie Lee’s Shopping City Convenience Store and Restaurant on Central American Boulevard has been closed for business. And according to the proprietors, the losses incurred as of today stand at thousands of dollars and continue to grow. Nine workers have also been sent home. Friday night’s closure is the […]
Belize Electricity Limited has yet another fire to put out. Today President of the Belize Energy Worker’s Union, Sean Nicholas, issued a letter to C.E.O. Lynn Young alleging once again that the dismissal of six members of the union last year was indeed union busting. According to Nicholas, this time they’ve got proof. He cites […]
It is the fifth day since the country’s only sugar mill cranked up again at Tower Hill and things are going back to normal in respect of cane deliveries. Last Sunday’s removal of the cane sampler ended a twelve day strike in the sugar belt but now there are some emerging problems and it relates […]
There’s a new twist to the story of the cargo ship that ran aground on the reef in January, the Westerhaven. Well, the ship is still in Belizean waters though the courts have offered bail of six point five million dollars. While the ship is anchored, many businesses in Central America and the United States […]
A bodega owned by a Guatemalan national remains standing in Belizean territory in the village of Jalacte. On January twenty-first, Prime Minister Barrow said that its owner, Leonel Arellanos and the villagers of Santa Cruz where the bodega will be relocated had threatened to attack if the bodega was moved. But there is information to […]
But back in Belize, the strike in the sugar industry ended last Friday and as we reported, the contentious core sampler will be removed from the mill. It is not known whether a decision has been taken on the other demands by the farmers, including the removal of Nemencio Acosta as chairman of the Sugar […]
And on Friday, five days after he was killed and on the day the strike was called off, forty-four year old Antanacio Gutierrez was laid to rest at his home village. The farmer from San Victor in the Corozal District was in a truck at Tower Hill among striking farmers when he was hit by […]
And while the Gutierrez family grieves the loss of Antanacio, they are still awaiting the results of the investigation into how exactly he was shot and killed last Monday in the height of the strike by Corozal and Orange Walk farmers. The security forces, either the police or the B.D.F., opened fire using live rounds […]
In other news on the strike and the tragic death in the Sugar Industry, the Belize National Teachers’ Union today issued a release expressing regret at the shooting death of Antanacio Gutierrez while at the same time, it is offering some assistance to the family. According to the Union at its meeting on Saturday, its […]
