The special sitting of the House of Representatives earlier today focused primarily on the passage of two bills: the Income and Business Tax Amendment Bill, as well as the International Business Companies Amendment Bill. Those pieces of legislation are critical to Belize’s compliance with international regulations ahead of a deadline set for the end of […]
After a lengthy adjournment to discuss the matter in committee, the House resumed the session at which time PM Barrow rose to move a third reading of the Income and Business Tax Amendment Bill. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Madame Speaker, I rise to report that the Committee of the Whole has considered the Income […]
COP 24 is just a few days away from wrapping up and one of its big events that culminated today in Poland is the Talanoa Dialogue. It is a mechanism being used to help countries keep track of their climate change targets. This mechanism adopts the traditional style of the Pacific people. It brought countries […]
Belize has accepted the chairmanship of the Alliance of Small Island States. This week, during the COP24 in Katowice, Poland, Ambassador Lois Young accepted the leadership from the Maldives during a ministerial meeting. AOSIS was established back in 1990 – around the same time when climate change came to the fore. These same small countries […]
Sponsored by the University of Belize and the Social Sector Senators, the I.C.J. Lecture Series concluded on Tuesday night at Saint Catherine’s Academy Auditorium. Well known and respected historian and former ambassador, Doctor Assad Shoman formed part of the panel along with attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley and Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala, Alexis Rosado. Shoman and […]
Caribbean Shores Area Rep Kareem Musa has been busy drafting a piece of legislation that if passed will see Diaspora Belizeans participating in the April 2019 I.C.J. referendum. He was unable to introduce the bill in the House today since the motion would have to be tabled during an ordinary sitting of the house, but […]
Ninety-four representatives from countries around the world are in Bankok, Thailand, for the Miss Universe Pageant. They have been there for about a week, preparing for the final competition which takes place this Sunday and will be shown on this station. Jenelli Fraser, Miss Universe Belize is also competing for the crown of the premier […]
Is party politics being played with the collection of water bills in Seine Bight Village? According to Stann Creek West Area Representative Rodwell Ferguson, he had approached Junior Minister of Rural Development Frank Mena a year ago to address the issue of collection. Today, he told the House that the chairman of Belize Water Services […]
In Cayo South, residents of Armenia, St. Margaret’s and Unitedville are also experiencing a water crisis. They are having difficulty accessing potable water. According to Area Representative Julius Espat, despite the chairman of Unitedville being a member of the United Democratic Party, he is complaining about the same issue affecting the village. Julius Espat, […]
The family of Anisha Young continues to hope for the best, but is bracing for the worse. Today, a search party was organized by her family and went looking for answers. Young disappeared on Sunday morning; she was at a night club after a work Christmas party and was seen getting into a taxi. But […]
Corozal police are tonight investigating the callous murder of Michael Arnold, a beloved figure in the community. Arnold was found with two gunshots wounds to the head on Monday night. The gruesome discovery was made by police officers who were on mobile patrol that night. Their attention was caught by a white van which was […]
After being missing for more than twenty-four hours, the body of prominent Corozal businessman, forty-one-year-old Rudy Morales of Morales Bus Company was found late this evening. His body was floating on the sea near the Cuello Maya Site in the Corozal District. Morales was part of a fishing expedition that took four men and a […]
Brace up, because the first order of business in the New Year is an increase in the cost of electricity beginning, January first, 2019. If approved, it will be the second increase in six months. This Monday, B.E.L. wrote to the Public Utilities Commission proposing to increase rates to forty-one point fifty cents per kilowatt […]
The People’s United Party calls the hike a shameful act of duplicity on the part of both the Government of Belize and the state-owned B.E.L. A release states that just months ago, B.E.L. requested an increase of seven point one percent in the cost per kilowatt hour, and the P.U.C. approved six point twenty-four percent […]
Pier One Bar is under the radar once more; the bar is located within the B.T.L. Park, a popular venue for recreation by families. For some time, we have reported on recurring violent incidents at the bar. Over the weekend a Bagdad Street resident was murdered inside the hangout as patrons socialized. Residents in the […]
The ten-year lease to principal shareholder of Pier One, Joseph Kee, speaks to the payment of three hundred and fifty dollars monthly for rent of the overwater structure. Mayor Bernard Wagner also disclosed today that the previous U.D.P. administration paid sixteen thousand dollars to repair damages to the structure as a result of Hurricane Earl. […]
Back in early November, City Council employee Samuel August Senior stole the council’s backhoe and used it to kill his mother-in-law and son when he mowed down the house they were living in as well as two other properties in the Faber’s Road area. The mayor says that city is assisting the affected family to […]
Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa had lodged a bill which, if passed, will allow Belizeans living in the diaspora to be able to vote in the upcoming referendum on April tenth, 2019. As we have been reporting, Belizeans living in other countries say they have not been able to re-register due to the two […]
Musa hopes that the bill would be tabled for first reading as soon as possible in order to allow for the necessary preparations to take place before the referendum on April tenth. A Special Sitting of the House of Representatives will take place on Wednesday, but the likelihood that the bill would be tabled is […]
A Ladyville resident was taken to court this morning and arraigned for the rape and robbery of a U.S. national. The heinous crime occurred in broad daylight in the Vista Del Mar area last week Thursday. Thirty-one-year-old Adam Meighan was arraigned before Magistrate Albert Hoare. He was unrepresented and after arraignment, he was denied bail […]
Tonight, Ghost Town area resident, twenty-seven-old Kyle Chaplin, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm upon four police officers. Chaplin is accused of shooting at three constables and a corporal on December ninth, 2018 on an unnamed Street off Mayflower Street, […]
The severity of storms in the last two years in the region has displaced and disenfranchised thousands. But did you know that women are the ones most affected by these hurricanes and super storms? Droughts, floods, vector borne diseases and other issues resulting from climate change in the region has threatened the lives and reduced […]
This coming Saturday, the Belize City Council will be launching its first ever tree lighting ceremony at the Battlefield Park in downtown Belize City. A forty-foot Christmas tree will be erected as part of the rejuvenation plan to bring residents back to the downtown area for their shopping needs. About a month ago, the council […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize has a new president. Established unionist Marvin Mora succeeds Floyd Neal at the helm of the umbrella organization where he will be steering the labor movement countrywide. Mora told the media earlier today that he was initially reluctant to enter the race once again, but that the overwhelming […]
According to Mora, a number of items were on the agenda at the AGM and among the organizations priorities is a restructuring exercise. Marvin Mora, President, N.T.U.C.B. “There were several points of discussion. We are looking also at doing some in-house work, you know, reorganizing and properly organizing the NTUCB. One of the main […]
