This week the buzz word in Belize is definitely “budget” and with tax increases and spending cuts expected to be announced in Friday’s presentation to the House of Representatives, tensions are high at any official event. Such was the case this morning at the Finance Reform Forum hosted by Prime Minister Said Musa. While the […]
Panelists for this morning’s forum included Financial Secretary Dr. Carla Barnett, accountant Arsenio Burgos and Senator Godwin Hulse. While Barnett and Burgos focused on the specific amendments proposed, Hulse maintained that many of the proposals now under consideration had been included in a document presented to the Government of Belize in January 2000 by the […]
As the clock ticks down to B-day on Friday, all eyes and ears will be on Belmopan for details of what is expected to be the Musa administration’s first “haad times” budget. One man who is intimately involved in matters of public sector finance is Ralph Fonseca, the current minister of Home Affairs and Investment […]
There is another report of rape today as a woman from the Belize District has told police she was attacked while at work. According to the thirty-nine year old, she was employed as a live-in maid for a company on the Western Highway but around nine thirty last Friday night, the woman says a male […]
Tonight disturbing details continue to emerge as Orange Walk police investigate the death of a three year old boy earlier this month. Initial reports by the child’s mother, twenty-one year old Maria Concepcion Teul, were that the child, Axcel Castillo, had a fever and when it didn’t go down after two days, she took him […]
He says he is not interested in returning to ownership of Belize Telecommunications Limited, but Michael Ashcroft remains a potent presence in the industry. This week?s Tuesday Amandala reported that the former B.T.L. chairman, through various companies under the Carlisle Holdings group, is now in control of a significant chunk of shares in the company. […]
More Belizeans than at any time in our history are attending university…but whether you study at U.B. or abroad, coming up with the thousands of dollars to pay for tuition, books, room, board and travel is no easy task for students or their parents. That’s why a programme offered for Belizeans interested in a business […]
