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Government’s monthly subvention to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is close to two and a half million dollars. Almost one hundred percent of those funds go directly towards covering the hospital’s wage bill, according to C.E.O. Chandra Cansino. And while, as an authority, the hospital’s management is obligated to access its own resources, with millions […]
Written on October 28, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, reporters got to speak with President of the Belize Medical and Dental Association, Doctor Perlita Aldana, who said that, from time to time, even the private sector has to depend on the public healthcare system when it runs out of supplies. She did say, however, that while it was difficult to source some of […]
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Internist, Doctor Fernando Cuellar is a former member of the K.H.M.H Board of Directors. He said that the head of the K.H.M.H. Workers Union sits on that board so that it should have known about the severity of the shortages at the hospital. He points to the involvement of middlemen in the acquisition process as […]
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President of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, Luke Martinez, also weighed in on the situation at the K.H.M.H today. He told News Five that the union feels that there is not an urgency to address the health issue at the hospital. Martinez says he believes that the shortages in the public health sector […]
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The Public Service Union is demanding that Prime Minister John Briceño lift the freeze on increments for public officers. Following the reinstatement of public officers’ full salary, the Government of Belize also moved to reinstate the deducted living and entertainment allowances for its C.E.O.’s. Prime Minister John Briceño explained that these allowances were slashed at […]
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And, Stuart Leslie, the Cabinet Secretary, called a press conference this afternoon to set the record straight on the reinstatement of C.E.O.’s allowances. There are reports suggesting that the C.E.O.’s never took a fifty percent cut in their allowance. Leslie argued otherwise. Here is what he told reporters today. Stuart Leslie, Cabinet Secretary “I […]
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Leslie confirmed that government C.E.O.’s had in fact lobbied for the return of their fifty percent living and housing allowance. They reasoned that such a request is fair, considering the fact that the ten percent that was taken away from public officers was returned. And, the cabinet secretary agreed with this rational. But, what about […]
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Earlier we heard the President of the N.T.U.C.B speak on the shortages within the public health sector. When he spoke with us today, Luke Martinez said that there are a number of things that concern the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, such as inflation, and the cost of fuel. Martinez said that the congress, […]
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As we have reported, the opposition is calling for a referendum on Belize’s accession to Pact Bogota. Prime Minister John Briceño says that to hold a referendum on Pact Bogota would be a waste of time and money. In responding to the Opposition’s call for a referendum, P.M. Briceño noted that the matter was already […]
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As we have reported, the proprietors of Eruption Nightclub in Ladyville have been charged for admitting a seventeen-year-old inside the establishment. That female minor said that she was drinking and ended up unconsciousness, before she woke up the following morning and realised that she had been raped. A Ladyville resident has also been charged for […]
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The Belize Medical and Dental Association today opened its thirty-ninth medical congress at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel in Belize City. Doctor Fernando Cuellar, an internist at the Belize Medical and Dental Association, was one of the presenters at the event. He focused on what the COVID pandemic taught us and how we […]
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Belize High School has done well, putting Belize on the map having won gold in Switzerland in a robotics competition. Rightly so, the team has been receiving acknowledgements – not only from their peers, but also from the U.S. Chargé d’affaires last week, the cabinet earlier this week and now today from one of the […]
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A group of U.S. nationals has been in the country over the past week, experiencing the wonders of the Belize Barrier Reef and the Maya monuments. But their main mission was the installation of a playground at the Janessa Jones Park in the heart of Ladyville. Today, the renovated park was reopened to the public […]
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This week, Sabreena Daly sat down with Miguel Vejerano, a young man from Corozal, who is looking on the bright side in his own unique way. Miguel is visually impaired, but you’d really have to see it, to believe what he does for a living. Sabreena Daly Reporting This is Miguel Vejerano, a visually […]
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It’s official, Patrick Faber is no longer running for the United Democratic Party in Collet, after five terms of representing that constituency in parliament. A letter written to the former party leader today by the Nominations Committee, informed him that notwithstanding his effort to finally comply with the directive of the National Party Council, several […]
Written on October 27, 2022 | Posted in
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Jones, who is now employed by the Football Federation of Belize, continues to explain the steps that he took in respect of the application process. He also describes the existing social conditions in Collet and what his plans are for the constituency. Ian Jones, U.D.P. Candidate, Collet “If it were that the Nominations Committee […]
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The inclusion of Honduras as a third party in Belize’s case against Guatemala that has been lodged in the International Court of Justice, has been a talking point since the subject was introduced in the Senate earlier this week. The matter involves ownership of the Sapodilla Cayes which Honduras laid claim to as far back […]
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The Public Service Union is up in arms today, having received a copy of a circular memorandum for the reinstatement of full allowances for C.E.O.s and heads of departments. The memo, signed by Cabinet Secretary Stuart Leslie and addressed to all chief executive officers of the different government ministries, is dated September eighth, 2022 and […]
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P.S.U. President Dean Flowers says that the prime minister is attempting to mislead and deceive the nation because C.E.O.s under the Briceño administration never made a sacrifice and are now being awarded more monies. He explains that back in April 2020, the former administration had instituted cost-saving measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it […]
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The union president says that it is a matter that will now be taken to the P.S.U. membership with a plan of action to determine a mandate going forward because C.E.O.s will now be getting eighteen thousand dollars annually for living and entertainment allowance, which is more than the salary of some public officers. Dean […]
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Last night, we brought you full coverage of the crisis at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. As we reported, the K.H.M.H. Workers Union called a press conference to air their concerns over the shortage of necessary medical supplies at the hospital, and income tax issues related to severance and pension. We also heard from Chandra […]
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Prime Minister Briceño also responded to a question about the ongoing investigation into monies seized at the Caribbean International Brewery Limited. He sought to make it clear that he had nothing to do with the multi-agency raid that took place. In fact, P.M. Briceño says that he supports the fact that the brewery is creating […]
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Representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are currently in Belize. According to Prime Minister Briceño, the I.M.F. is impressed with the progress that Belize’s economy has made over the last financial year. P.M. Briceño says the I.M.F. has requested that Belize’s economic recovery efforts be used as a model for other countries to follow. […]
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This week, the sugar impasse between the differing parties – the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and American Sugar Refinery/Belize Sugar Industries Limited was centre stage again. Last evening, you heard Minister of Agriculture, Abelardo Mai say that Cabinet members were concerned about the stalemate and also that there seems to be a promising move […]
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The Prime Minister said that the key to solving the standoff is to be able to guide them to reaching an agreement that will be fair to the cane farmers, as well as to the company. He also said that both sides need to be willing to sit down and have good-faith negotiations. Prime […]
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