The Elections and Boundaries Commission has finally posted the results of Wednesday’s municipal elections. The official tally of certain candidates appearing on their website is, however, different from those officially announced on Wednesday night. We have not had time to comb through the figures but we have spotted a major difference in the final results […]
Tonight we look at the margins of victory in Wednesday’s municipal elections and we can say that the results show that the U.D.P. has gained significant ground with historic margins over the Opposition, P.U.P. We start in Belize City, where the results show that the U.D.P. strengthened its support and had one of the largest […]
In January cane-farmers, represented by three separate associations and B.S.I. signed onto a seven year cane purchase agreement. A critical component of the success of that agreement will be a strategic development plan – a joint effort by the mill, the government and farmers association to chart a mutually beneficial road forward for the industry. […]
According to the ASR reps, since October of 2012 they have been trying to understand the issues and challenges particular to Belize, and have been meeting with all stakeholders to further that end. Coming out of those sessions, and as a good faith gesture, ASR will be making an investment of one million dollars to […]
For the first time in history, B.S.I. has been receiving cane from three separate entities, which made for some logistics chaos at the start of crop. That all seems to have been worked out! MacLachlan says that where the Strategic Development Plan and crop are concerned, things are going as well as can be expected. […]
In October 2013, the Public Utilities Commission requested proposals for electricity generation in order to secure additional energy generation and supply capacity to meet all reasonable demands in Belize for the short to medium term. A number of proposals were submitted for evaluation, including energy and dispatch simulations over a sixteen-year period. This would determine […]
Avery would proceed to explain the methodology used in formulating the PUC’s recommendations. John Avery, Chairman, Public Utilities Commission “Now, the way we need to look at these things is like for example, if you look at the orange line around the middle of the graft there, basically the orange line is during the […]
Over at the Saint Catherine’s Academy in Belize City, budding scientists nervously awaited a panel of judges who would determine the most innovative science project. Defending champions from Bishop Martin’s High School from Orange Walk focus this year on how the consumption of the locally grown breadfruit is good for your health. Duane Moody dropped […]
The People’s United Party suffered a most humiliating defeat in Wednesday’s municipal elections with the United Democratic Party capturing all municipalities, except the Orange Walk Town Council. Support for the P.U.P. eroded significantly and of the three town councils, it only retained one. Soon after counting began, it became clear that a red wave was […]
The only bright spot for the P.U.P. was in Orange Walk Town where Kevin Bernard has been returned as Mayor for another three years. This Saturday, a victory rally is being planned to celebrate the win. The council is a split one and the results were the last to come in after two this morning. […]
Orange Walk Mayoral candidate Kevin Bernard has earned the singular distinction of being the only P.U.P. Mayor in the country. He won by only a narrow margin, but along with four councillor candidates, managed to withstand a red tsunami. Today, with the dust cleared from Wednesday’s war, we got a comment from Bernard, who took […]
As we said, it’s a terrible loss for the People’s United Party which lost every single municipality but one…and even there the grand ole party barely held on. In the wake of that demoralizing defeat, today Party Leader Francis Fonseca called a press conference. But he’s not preaching doom and gloom. He says the people […]
Fonseca says that the Party will now be calling in councillor candidates and Standard Bearers in the municipalities to carry out an analysis of the devastating loss with a view to moving forward. The P.U.P. blames its performance on Wednesday primarily on the political pilfering of Petrocaribe money, and also on the use of government […]
The People’s United Party, previous to Wednesday, controlled the two town councils in the south: Punta Gorda and Dangriga. While early in the night, the U.D.P. claimed victory in Punta Gorda by a significant margin, the results from Dangriga would be officially known later in the night. News Five’s Isani Cayetano was on the ground […]
In the nation’s capital where the elections were fought hard for months leading into Wednesday, the U.D.P. won by an impressive margin. Newcomer, Khalid Belisle and his team would dominate keeping the town council under the red banner. Even as there was a commanding margin, the results are the most interesting because five candidates would […]
Official information was hard to come by as counting took place in the northernmost district. Still yet as tallying progressed, the incumbent U.D.P. slate maintained a steady but widening lead over the opposition. Before midnight, the results were announced by the Returning officer. Duane Moody was in Corozal and has the following report. Mario […]
While residents across the Old Capital were absorbed in the counting of ballots on Wednesday night, gunfire erupted near the corners of Mayflower and Vernon streets where a group of men were standing. Sometime after nine o’clock, a succession of gunshots was heard in the Ghost Town area. It would later be learned that the […]
But on the eve of the elections, one man was killed in San Pedro. Around eight-thirty on Tuesday night, San Pedro police responded to a shooting incident that left thirty-eight year old Pablito Barboza of San Pedrito Area, suffering with apparent gunshot wounds to the head and the chest area. Thirty-six year old Humberto Alcoser […]
A teenager is on remand tonight at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the murder of twenty-one-year-old Ian “Uno” Adolphus last Wednesday. This morning, eighteen-year-old Akeem Kirklin Trapp appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where he was indicted on a count of murder. His mother, who declined an on-camera interview, maintains that […]
The polls had just closed in Corozal Town on Wednesday night, when shots rang out. Three persons were injured in a robbery at a Chinese store. Three armed men held up a couple and a customer and inflicted injuries on them before fleeing the area with an unknown amount of cash. Duane Moody reports. […]
The twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena went red on Wednesday, like every single municipality with the exception of Orange Walk. It was an uneventful day in terms of the usual election histrionics. The municipality, with twelve thousand six hundred and seventy six registered voters, was split into three polling areas representing three […]
As you know, the U.D.P. now controls eight municipalities and the P.U.P. retained only one. Earlier today, we looked at the previous single municipal election held in 2009 to compare results. In crunching the numbers, we found that the results of Wednesday’s election bear striking similarity to 2009; a year after the U.D.P. had won […]
And one final thing on the elections…. Last week, former U.D.P. Minister Elvin Penner was stoned with eggs by an angry crowd of P.U.P. supporters as he exited the Supreme Court in Belize City. He had to depart the scene in a hurry with some help from the police. On that day in Belize City, […]
Over the weekend, Oscar Williams was brutally attacked by a group of men when he tried to defend his daughter from a group of young men hurling disrespectful remarks at her. Williams is unconscious and remains hospitalized, as he slowly recovers. News Five’s Andrea Polanco has the story. Andrea Polanco, Reporting Forty-two year old […]
Following the incident, there was some expectation that the government would host an immediate press conference to at least express top-level outrage. That hasn’t happened. In fact, the only thing that has happened is the issuance of a very tepid press release. We’ve tried getting a comment from Prime Minister Dean Barrow, and he has […]
