A man who says he is a tacos vendor is out on bail for robbing a fellow tacos vendor. Twenty-two year old Allen Guzman of Pelican Street pleaded not guilty this afternoon in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. The charge follows a report by twenty-five year old Lorenzo Perez that at about seven this morning […]
‘Tis the season for hurricane preparedness. With the season well underway, two trainers from the U.S.A.I.D. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in Dominica are here on initial damage assessment and needs analysis. They are here to train a total of thirty-five personnel from the National Emergency Management Organization, related Ministries and non-government organizations, the basics […]
The Belize Port Authority has been hard at work since the middle of last year to establish a draft Maritime Port Policy, which is expected to outline government’s vision for the port sector in the years to come. That draft was presented to key players in the shipping industry as well as environmentalists, trade unions, […]
While policy is on the drawing board, the Port Authority has taken a decision on numerous boat operators heading out to sea without proper licenses. And while they’re not that easy to catch in waters, the Port Authority is giving them a chance to straighten things up. From August first to October thirty-first, it is […]
It’s an advocacy group against the domestic abuse of women and the sexual exploitation of children. And after the success of the first Miss African Queen International Pageant, the Concerned Belize Women Organization is hosting the first ever Independence Day Junior pageant. The pageant, which will be held under the theme ‘Each One Reach One, […]
Early this afternoon, the Governor General, Sir Colville Young, penned his signature to put into law, G.O.B.’s acquisition of Belize Telemedia. Just like that in a period of twenty four hours, that began on Monday, with a special session of the House, G.O.B. hijacked the utility company. The events unfolded with a surprise introduction, debate […]
No doubt that you’ve have been following the news that Government has seized control of ninety-four percent of the shares in Telemedia. And after the legal formalities, Telemedia is now a state owned company. But what does the takeover really mean for investors? Will the litigations end? News Five asked attorney Eamon Courtenay earlier today […]
In the private sector, one of the first to weigh in is the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In a stern release issued late Monday evening, the B.C.C.I. said it viewed with concern the proposed Belize Telecommunication (Amendment) Act 2009 and the haste with which it was dealt. The Chamber says “the nationalization of […]
A day after government announced it was nationalizing Telemedia; the debate is raging on the airwaves and in the board rooms. While the Prime Minister says the take over will end legal battles, outgoing Chairman of the Executive Committee, Dean Boyce, appearing on this morning’s edition of Open Your Eyes, says the contrary and that […]
Still on the biggest story so far, in the Senate today, the vote was not unanimous on the Telecommunications Act. Nine senators supported the bill, none were against, two abstained and one member was absent. Senator Godwin Hulse, representing the business community objected to the Accommodation Agreement but said that it is no secret that […]
Hector Silva was one of two Senators who abstained from voting on the matter. Silva said he is against monopolies but the areas in this B.T.L. takeover are so grey that he absolutely had to abstain from voting. Hector Silva, PUP Senator “What I’m saying is this, why I abstained is one: are we sure […]
Earlier we told you that Anwar Barrow was a member of the new Telemedia Board, but before that, in Belmopan, when the Senate debate got underway, Barrow was named Senator. While Barrow did not make his maiden speech on the merits of the bill, he did vote to support its passage. There has been speculation […]
The Hayward Charitable Belize Trust owns approximately seventy percent of Telemedia and this evening, it issued a release regarding its stake in Telemedia. Hayward’s view is that the nationalization is both illegal and unconstitutional and that assertion will be tested through the Courts under international law and it will invoke the Investment Treaty between the […]
Citrus should be sweet, but the industry has been going sour for quite a while. The Citrus Growers Association wanted to unseat three of its directors on the board of the Citrus Products of Belize Limited (C.P.B.L.). CPBL’s Chief Executive Officer, Henry Canton and directors Frank Redmond and Mike Dunker should have been replaced with […]
Also in court today, Magistrate Tracy Sosa heard a case of Obtaining Property by Deception and the woman in the hot seat was thirty year old Gina Kelly Conorquie. It appears Conorquie got overly busy on August third and she is accused of deceiving three women out of cash in separate incidents, all on the […]
A Junior College student will not make orientation this school year as he finds himself behind bars tonight on charges of Aggravated Assault upon a police constable. Twenty year old Akeem Tyrone Lord was arrested on Friday after he allegedly pulled a gun on Police Constable Harold Grinage. According to Grinage, he reacted by pulling […]
A postmortem was conducted on the body of Leroy “Red Ants” Rhaburn. Rhaburn was stabbed and killed during a Friday night altercation with Walter Beaton at Kevin’s Bar at the corner of Euphrates and Cemetery Road in Belize City. The examination certified the cause of death to be exsanguination and external bleeding as a consequence […]
Chief trouble spots around the country in times of flooding will be given top priority over the coming weeks. This afternoon, the Ministry of Works assigned contracts after the Inter-American Development Fund provided funding of ten million Belize dollars under a scheme called the Immediate Response Facility. The scope of the work will be to […]
The Barrow administration today made the announcement that it was nationalizing Belize Telemedia and is expected to assume total control in the next day or so of the utility company. We start our newscast with the reaction from Telemedia on this stunning move. In a release late this evening, Telemedia condemned the action of the […]
The reports percolated over the weekend and this morning, in a special session of the House of Representatives, which interrupted the summer recess, Prime Minister Barrow rammed through the House with indecent haste, the first, second and third readings of a Bill for the government to take over control of Telemedia. The straw that broke […]
The U.D.P. regime always had issues with Telemedia over the Accommodation Agreement and did not participate in the proceedings before the London Court of International Arbitration, except for a reaction last Monday when the court ruled in government’s favour. Earlier this year, G.O.B. threatened to arrest senior executives of both the telephone company and the […]
What does the nationalization mean for investors confidence? P.U.P. leader, John Briceño, says it sends the wrong signals and that efficiency and productivity will suffer. Briceño says it is also a matter of what’s good and what’s bad mostly for the layman and woman. John Briceño, Leader of the Opposition “I think what is important, […]
And that be told, if you are wondering about the future of Great Belize Productions/Channel Five, even before the move was taken to nationalize Telemedia, the Board of Directors met in emergency meeting and approved a dividend to Telemedia’s shareholders of the entire issued share capital of Katalyst Developments Limited, the owner of this company. […]
Two men were murdered over the weekend and both homicides occurred on Cemetery Road in Belize City. The first one involved a well known ex- gang leader. Twenty-eight year old Leroy Rhaburn, better known as Red Ants, was fatally stabbed at a club at two a.m. on Saturday morning. Rhaburn was no stranger to the […]
The other murder incident occurred at about ten p.m. on Friday night. A Honduran Laborer of Mangrove Street in Belize was brutally killed near a bus stop. Thirty-three year old Samuel Sanchez was standing near the pedestrian ramp on Cemetery Road when two male persons on bicycles rode up to him. One of the assailants […]
