Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega was not at Tuesday’s Budget Presentation in the House. And there is word that the DPM has dropped a bombshell. News Five has been reliably informed that Vega has informed the Prime Minister and U.D.P. Party Leader Dean Barrow that he will not be seeking endorsement at the upcoming party […]
Eight tourists who came in on a cruise ship today and opted to visit the very popular Altun Ha Archaeological Site off the Old Northern Highway are probably regretting that decision. That’s because six of them were robbed by two armed men as they walked along a nature trail on the ninety acre reserve. While […]
Popular DVD salesman Jamal Young, better known as ‘Bounty’, remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H., following an incident over the weekend during which he was allegedly shot in the foot by a police officer. Young was making his way along Mahogany Street on Saturday afternoon when upon reaching the vicinity of the precinct, he heard what […]
Family and friends are grieving the untimely death of twenty-nine year old Edwin Ixpatac, a Cayo resident who was brutally beaten to the head and abdomen while in police detention. And as they cope with their loss, they search for answers as to how and why the waiter, who had moved to San Pedro merely […]
An all points bulletin has been issued by the Belize Police Department for two men who are on the run, following the weekend murder of a Mango Creek businessman. Independence police are looking for twenty-nine-year-old Shane Bennett, an escaped prisoner, whom they believe is one of two men who robbed and killed forty-eight-year-old Glen Logan […]
Atlantic Bank International has reportedly met with cigarette traders operating out of the Free Zone and has informed them that effective March fifteenth, their accounts will be closed. It’s a situation we’ve been following closely because observers say that the Free Zone is failing and the movement of cigarettes is one of the few things […]
Where the dreaded loss of correspondent banking relationships is concerned, PM Barrow says there is little to report following the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting held in Placencia recently. Coming out of that meeting a decision was taken to send a high-level mission on a round of meetings with federal regulators and other pertinent agencies. […]
The derisking phenomenon is an offshoot of continued pressure from the U.S. to crack down on money laundering and other financial improprieties, real or perceived. The superpower feels that illegal money could be used to fund the narcotics movement into the US or even terrorism. Belize has been feeling the pinch of crippling financial regulations, […]
Is your electricity bill going up again in the months ahead? This afternoon, the Public Utilities Commission held a press conference to make public its initial decision to increase the mean electricity rate for the Full Tariff Period as of the first of July, 2016. The increase is part of an application made by Belize […]
B.E.L.’s submission included a proposed increase in the Mean Electricity Rate from thirty-five cents per kilowatt hour to thirty-nine cents. John Avery, Chairman, Public Utilities Commission “So at the next rate review there will still be some corrections to be made in the favor of consumers because during this six months period we’re in […]
In the court, Miguel Vanson, a first time offender, was imposed a mandatory non-custodial fine for drug trafficking of one hundred and sixty-two grams of cannabis which were found hidden inside his pants. The Mayflower resident was busted by GSU officers with the cannabis and when he appeared before Magistrate Deborah Rogers, he immediately pleaded […]
A resident of Jane Usher Boulevard, Belize City, was also before the court today for two criminal offenses. Thirty-seven year old Eldon Bevans was charged for burglary and wounding after he found out that his ex-common-law-wife was in a relationship with another man. Bevans is accused of illegally entering the house of Calbert Ferguson with […]
Where does the People’s United Party stand on going to the International Court of Justice? It hasn’t been exactly clear. There are those who are obviously in favor of resolution through the Court if that is the decision of the people in a referendum. And then there are those who nix the idea completely, claiming […]
It didn’t make it into Tuesday’s news, since the 2016/2017 Budget took center stage, but was a significant political change on the Opposition side of the gallery. The expected change was that newly sworn in Leader of the Opposition John Briceño would change position to reflect his leadership role. But what wasn’t expected is that […]
Against the backdrop of the Budget, bills were passed which may have flown below the radar of first scrutiny, but they are significant. For example, one piece of Immigration legislation pushed through the House will allow the Minister of State in the Ministry of Immigration to sign documents, like passports, when the Constitution specifically gives […]
And finally for political news tonight, we asked Prime Minister Dean Barrow about his new title of Right Honorable conferred on him recently. Generally it’s offered to government leaders in their second term of office, as it was to former Prime Ministers Said Musa and Manuel Esquivel, but Barrow now earns that distinction in his […]
About fifteen hundred residents of Maskall Village, located on the old Northern Highway, will within a year have access to reliable potable water. The million dollar project will be funded by the Caribbean Development Bank and managed by the Social Investment Fund. Today ground was broken on the first stage which includes the construction of […]
Latin America and the Caribbean is the second-most urbanized region in the world with eight out of ten people living in cities. During the last sixty-four years, the region has urbanized significantly to eighty percent since 1950. That being said, the Inter-American Development Bank, in partnership with the Belize City Council, is conducting a citywide […]
