In early May, a Belize delegation headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence, Godfrey Smith, will meet with its Guatemalan counterpart in Washington, D.C. for an official “where we are” in the negotiation process. While the primary discussion topic will be an agreement on confidence building measures, recent cross-border incursions will no doubt receive […]
It’s a growing problem that police say they have no intention of ignoring. And tonight they’ve got an arrest to prove it. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story from the Queen Street station. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Sometime after ten on Monday night someone gained access into this pickup truck by prying open the back […]
And in an update to last night’s story on the shooting and robbery of business executive Phil Gallaty in Ladyville, we are informed that Gallaty regained consciousness following surgery at Universal Health Services and around two-thirty this afternoon was sent in an air ambulance to Miami for further treatment. Gallaty was shot in the stomach […]
In news from Cabinet, that body has confirmed that government will introduce legislation in the House on Friday to facilitate a two hundred and twenty-five million U.S. dollar bond issue to be placed on the U.S. and European market. Proceeds from the fifteen year issue will be used to refinance portions of government’s short-term high-interest […]
They have been vocal opponents of the privatization of the Government Printery. And today the Printers Association took G.O.B. to court seeking to have full disclosure of the agreement that moved the facility on Power Lane in Belmopan from a public entity into private ownership last July. President of the Association, Amparo Noble, says the […]
On yesterday’s newscast Channel 5’s News Director Stewart Krohn presented the results of his investigation into the redistricting exercise currently being conducted by the Elections and Boundaries Commission. His conclusion was that the recommendations of the redistricting taskforce are clearly unconstitutional in that they give far too much representation to Belize District voters and too […]
And while our constitution now allows us to democratically debate an issue like redistricting, this right must not be taken for granted. Fifty years ago today, men and women fought hard to earn the right to vote in Belize, successfully achieving universal adult suffrage for all citizens. Today the Elections and Boundaries Department hosted the […]
Consultation has become the mantra of the twenty-first century good governance movement, and while we sometimes get carried away with the concept, the feedback facilitated today in Belize City seemed to make a good deal of sense. Maud Hyde, Chief Education Officer “We feel that our students, our children have a voice. We need to […]
