When the Prime Minster on Thursday delivered the address that was essentially written for him by seven renegade cabinet ministers, it was thought that the wording of the document, calling for “restructuring at the highest levels” with “implementation by month?s end” was sufficiently vague to buy the P.M. at least two weeks time to do […]
With a majority of the cabinet now relegated to life on the backbench the obvious question arises of what happens next. In a phone call late this afternoon Press Secretary Ernesto Vasquez, released the following recording made by Cabinet Secretary Robert Leslie. Robert Leslie, Cabinet Secretary ?Today, August sixteenth 2004, the Prime Minister received the […]
Today none of the combatants in the P.U.P. civil war were talking to the media although a press conference by the seven samurai has been tentatively scheduled for tomorrow. One man who was only too happy to comment, however, was Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow, who called the resignations "the most fascinating development in […]
While the political bombshell of seven cabinet resignations has dominated today’s headlines, the issue that refuses to go away is the one that prompted the crisis in the first place: that is the Government and Social Security Board guarantees that were given to millions of dollars in questionable loans to former P.U.P. Minister Glenn Godfrey. […]
Believe it or not there were other events making news today, including an old media staple called crime. Jacqueline Woods chronicles the latest murder in the old capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-five year old Andrew Kelly Young better known as Pancho was only a stones throw away from his house when he was gunned down […]
This morning during a brief ceremony at the Museum of Belize, the Belize Philatelic bureau launched its latest postage stamp issue. The stamp depicts the whale shark and it is the first time in more than a decade that the Belize Postal Service has featured anything from the sea. According to Philatelic Supervisor Emelia Cayetano, […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and here?s the latest version of Sports Monday. The quest for the Regent?s Insurance Cup titled boiled down to a decisive Game III that brought Sagitun of Independence and Juventus of Orange Walk to the MCC Grounds yesterday. Also in town was Otto Mejia flown in from […]
