His name is synonymous with rebellion, but tonight Odinga Lumumba, the man who led the civil unrest against the 1981 Heads of Agreement, is dead. Lumumba, born Wilhelm Buller in Dangriga in 1942, suffered a stroke several weeks ago and died Saturday at the K.H.M.H. He was a political activist, both in Belize and his […]
Belize Water Services received some good news today, courtesy of the Court of Appeal. That body reversed a ruling of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh who on February second issued an interim injunction barring B.W.S. from enforcing a clause in its contract with Government calling for the settlement of disputes by an outside arbitrator. The controversy […]
And in a ruling just issued, the Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction and sentencing of Mark Vega, Omar Vellos, and Luis Urbina. The three had been successfully prosecuted for rape, kidnapping and commission of an unnatural crime stemming from a series of incidents in Corozal and Orange Walk in June of 2002. Their […]
It may have occurred on Friday, but the reverberations from the bizarre conclusion of the House meeting are still being felt. That legislative session ended in chaos, featuring loud verbal protests and a plastic cup of water being flung to the floor by the Leader of the Opposition. The problems began when representative for Mesopotamia, […]
This morning a calm but obviously seething Barrow told News Five that while the prospect of a new speaker being appointed is highly unlikely given the P.U.P.’s majority in the House, his United Democratic Party will launch a public relations campaign against Zabaneh’s “acts of lunacy”. Barrow contends that there are no Standing Orders–standing orders […]
While he may be launching a campaign against the Speaker, Opposition Leader Barrow is more focussed on his party’s campaign to form the next government. Over the weekend, the U.D.P. held conventions in two constituencies: Collet and Cayo North. While the incumbent Patrick Faber’s affair in Collet was an endorsement event, the results in Cayo […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Game one of the Regent?s Cup three-game championship series got off to a roaring start yesterday inside the People?s Stadium where Juventus of Orange Walk played host to the defending champion, Sagitun of Independence. The visitors managed to rouse Charlie Slusher in the […]
