The Social Security scandal stayed hot today, as the unions pointed fingers, and the S.S.B.’s General Manager bobbed and weaved. But long after the financial foibles, real and imagined, have been forgotten, the problem of violent crime will remain with us. And that’s where we begin tonight…with a bank robbery in the Stann Creek District […]
Details are sketchy tonight but News 5 understands that the crash of an ultralight aircraft on Ambergris Caye has claimed the life of a tourist. According to San Pedro Police, around three thirty this afternoon, South African Martin David Walker and an American woman were taking off from the San Pedro runway in their tiny […]
As the press continues to sink its teeth into Social Security saga, this morning the list of civil society organisations to weigh in with their concerns and suggestions expanded to include the National Trade Union Congress of Belize. Complete with representatives from the Belize Energy Workers Union, the Christian Workers Union, the Belize Communication Workers […]
General Manager of the Belize Social Security Board Narda Garcia has been having a tough fortnight. She?s made presentations to several bodies, including Cabinet and the Belize Governance Improvement Commission, in an attempt to explain how it was that the S.S.B. guaranteed millions of dollars in questionable loans to companies owned by former PUP Minister […]
On our newscast of last night Minister of Home Affairs and Investment, Ralph Fonseca, alleged that attorney and UDP politician, Wilfred Elrington, borrowed seven hundred and sixty three thousand dollars from the St. James National Building Society, and that loan formed part of the package of mortgages bundled for securitization by the DFC and guaranteed […]
And while the aggrieved attorney expressed his anger, he also had some interesting things to say when asked about his encounter with Glenn Godfrey. Stewart Krohn “Mr. Elrington, you say you spoke to Mr. Godfrey this morning; now you are a very privileged man because many people in the media have been trying to get […]
While GOB, SSB, DFC and a long list of other alphabetized agencies are having their share of financial woes, there is one woman from Santa Elena, Cayo, who tonight is counting her new found cash. Irene August held the winning ticket in Saturday’s sixty-seven thousand, five hundred dollar Lotto draw…and today she claimed her prize. […]
It’s so far so good for Marion Jones in Athens. Last night she qualified easily for the finals in the long jump, despite a foul on her first attempt. Here’s how it went on the NBC broadcast. NBC Sportscaster “Now Marion Jones received that foul in her first attempt. They only get three to qualify […]
