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Ground was broken today for a green building for which BELTRAIDE is partnering with the University of Belize. B.E.I.-Two, as it is called, is being built at the university’s Belize City campus to strengthen services for innovation and business development. That aside the new facility will also host two technical units of BELTRAIDE. Duane Moody […]
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At this time of the year and in the month of October, the number of persons affected by the flu or respiratory diseases goes up. While many persons resist getting the flu vaccine, it advisable to do so and do so early because it takes two weeks for it to work best. This year’s flu […]
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The settlement of the Belize Telemedia Limited nationalization with the Ashcroft Group was signed on September eleventh, taken before Cabinet on September fourteenth…to the House on September fifteenth and today it was before the Senate. That body was asked to give the green light to the supplementary appropriation of one hundred and sixty-two million in […]
Senator for Government Business, Godwin Hulse, insists that the Senate is only being asked to approve the specific sum of one hundred and sixty-two million outlined in the schedule, and not the blank check as is being claimed. Putting it diplomatically, Opposition Senator Lisa Shoman says that’s just plain garbage. Lisa Shoman, Senator, People’s […]
As we told you, the settlement was penned and approved in both houses of the National Assembly in a matter of four business days. Senator Shoman says that’s just plain indecent haste, and claimed that Prime Minister Dean Barrow will rue the day he spawned this demon child. Lisa Shoman, Senator, People’s United Party […]
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But blank check or not…the appropriation bill was pushed through the Senate today. According to Opposition Senator Anthony Sylvestre, all be told, the National Assembly has been asked to approve nearly two billion dollars in just this financial year – that’s billion with a B. Anthony Sylvestre, Senator, People’s United Party “In March, when […]
The sixty million plus dollars being paid in this first instance to the Ashcroft Group is based on an estimate share value of one dollar and forty-four cents. But when government sold shares in B.T.L. to S.S.B., for example, they did so for five dollars per share. So it’s very probably that the arbitration panel […]
The fact is that despite the fire and fury over the B.T.L. settlement today, any debate has been rendered purely academic because the government has the majority in the Senate. And that’s what happened today after a discussion which lasted almost three hours before ending with one statement of support and the wrap-up by the […]
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The People’s United Party issued a release today signalling that it is closing ranks following a tumultuous period of internal rift. A meeting was held today at Burrell Boom between P.U.P. Leader, Francis Fonseca, and the G-Eleven, excluding Dan Silva, the standard bearer from Cayo Central who is not in Belize. This afternoon, the P.U.P. […]
The Western Regional Zoo…sorry we meant Hospital, is back in the news tonight, and as our viewers have come to expect, it’s not good. Just over a week ago a newborn baby was bitten by a huge rat while in a sterile incubator in the nursery at the hospital. And tonight News Five has confirmed […]
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Another round of protests was held this morning at Faith Nazarene in San Ignacio where classrooms have been emptier than usual since the beginning of the school year. Parents are not backing off on their demand for the removal of the principal, Policarpia Pech. This Friday, it will be three weeks since the dispute erupted. […]
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While all the fireworks revolved around the B.T.L. settlement, the Senate also passed a vesting act which will facilitate the transfer of FCIB assets to the Heritage Bank. Members on the Opposition side did not receive their documents outlining the proposed Act until Monday, and Opposition Senator Lisa Shoman took issue with the late notice. […]
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Seasoned parliamentarian Michael Finnegan, area representative for Mesopotamia, is once again making headlines for unsavory remarks made against CWU President, attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd, in the House of Representatives. On Tuesday, Finnegan went on record during the debate to excoriate Matura-Shepherd, describing her, among other things, as a second rate legal professional. If that wasn’t bad […]
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While Finnegan’s comments seemingly express disrespect towards women, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, who has been on the receiving end of that vitriol in the past, maintains that he is not fit to remain in the House of Representatives. Isani Cayetano “Aren’t these remarks in some way misogynistic seeing as though it is the second such verbal…” […]
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Member for Mesopotamia Michael Finnegan took his licks from the UWG, but he was also a topic of interest in the Senate today. Before the debate on the vesting act, and even before the hotly contested B.T.L. settlement, Finnegan was named in the Senate for his unfortunate comments about CWU President, Audrey Matura-Shepherd. Lisa […]
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Today at the ITVET in Belize City, the data of the 2014 survey on Knowledge, Attitudes and Sexual Behavior and HIV in Belize was officially released. The survey was sanctioned by the National Aids Commission in anticipation of the 2014 HIV/AIDS Report. A total of two thousand eight hundred households were selected across the country […]
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Former police officer Wilfred Garcia, accused of the murder of Luke Nunez Junior, was acquitted of that charge earlier today in the Dangriga Supreme Court. Nunez was stabbed twice to the chest and once to the back on December twenty-sixth, 2012. Garcia’s trial commenced back in July and after five days, Justice Denys Hanomansingh reserved […]
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On Monday’s newscast, we reported on several shootings in the city following the 2015 Carnival Road March. The first occurred around nine-thirty p.m. on Curassow Street, about two blocks away from the Raccoon Street Police Station. As a female corporal of police socialized in front of her house along with friends and her common-law husband, […]
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The eastern division of the police department has been on a community policing campaign for some time now. Officers from precincts around the city and in rural Belize have been going into neighborhoods to meet with residents to better police their areas. This afternoon, the eastern division north and south officers took to the streets […]
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The House of Representatives met in special sitting today. There were two main issues on the agenda—the passing of the Vesting Act relating to the sale of FCIB to Heritage Bank and the compensation for Belize Telemedia Limited. Coming on the heels of the announcement on Monday of a settlement with the Ashcroft Group on […]
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Against that backdrop, the PM also got into more detail on the financial aspect of the settlement package between G.O.B. and the Ashcroft Group. As a first payment, the agreement involves more than sixty million dollars based on the NERA valuation of one dollar and forty-four cents per share. That package received House approval through […]
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Those figures aren’t sitting well with the Opposition People’s United Party, which doesn’t share G.O.B.’s triumphal touting of the settlement with the Ashcroft Group. Fonseca says that the only reason taxpayers will have to bear this multi-million dollar load is because of the PM’s pettiness and arrogance. Francis Fonseca, Opposition Leader “One is, as […]
Also on the agenda today was the vesting bill, which will facilitate the sale of First Caribbean International Bank assets to Heritage Bank. While the transaction is a private one between two sizable players in the industry, it’s gotten some bad press because at least sixty employees of FCIB will get the axe when that […]
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Since Fonseca was demanding answers, the Mesopotamia Area Representative decided to give him some, in his own ‘special’ style. According to Michael Finnegan, G.O.B. has absolutely nothing to do with workers losing their jobs, so can’t be expected to step in. Michael Finnegan, Area Rep., Mesopotamia “Mr. First Caribbean Bank…guess ih want get out […]
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Not surprisingly, former Prime Minister and Fort George Area Rep., Said Musa, disagreed with that position by G.O.B. He claims that the entire situation has been mishandled because of government’s refusal to get involved, and that’s why it’s gotten to this point where so many workers will soon be out of doors. Said Musa, […]
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