The Senate Select Committee has asked for his head, the Prime Minister confirmed he would be fired and today Social Security Board Chairman Yasin Shoman pursued his only honourable option: he resigned. In a letter dated Saturday July fifteenth, but released to the media only this afternoon, Shoman defended government’s securitization initiative and the Board’s […]
We spoke to him in the early afternoon–before learning of the Shoman resignation–but Investigating Committee Chairman, Senator Godwin Hulse did not hesitate to offer his opinion about what should happen next. For him, it’s all about good governance. Godwin Hulse, Senator ?The next stage is of course to have the judiciary also accept and work […]
When we last visited the dispute over who should run the Corozal Free Zone–not to mention the People’s United Party and nation of Belize–P.U.P. Leader Emeritus George Price had put a lashing on outspoken Minister Mark Espat. Today, Espat’s brother-in-law and fellow minister offered his thoughts on the conflict. Cordel Hyde, Minister of Youth and […]
A fourteen month old child of Corozal Town is dead tonight, an apparent drowning victim. According to police reports, sometime around noon yesterday, twenty-three year old Alma Hall went to buy fish, leaving her son, Daniel Hall, in the care of her mother. When she returned, Daniel was nowhere to be found. Hall immediately proceeded […]
Police have been pursuing him ever since the Thursday night shooting of Dangriga businessman Orlando Habet. Now they want the public’s help. Shooting suspect Darren Chiu is accused of attempted murder and is considered armed and dangerous. If you see Chiu, also known as “Dala Coin,” please contact the nearest police station.
Rather than do hard time, tonight two women arrested for beating each other over a man have agreed to keep the peace. Sixty-four year old Ampero Burgos and fifty-seven year old Rose Lino appeared before Magistrate Robert Ordonez today and promised to stop assaulting each other. In default, both will be taken into custody. The […]
Four residents of Belize City received a scare and some cuts and bruises today when the Regent Street veranda on which they were walking, collapsed. For Allen Valdez, it all happened in a flash. Allen Valdez, Victim ?This is a building, a warehouse for Tourist Board. We were offloading some hundred boxes, these boxes right […]
Consumers already forced to cope with certain unscrupulous merchants using the implementation of G.S.T. to price gouge, now face another G.S.T. scam–this time on their electricity bills. As announced long ago, beginning July first the ten percent tax has been placed on all light bills above one hundred and fifty dollars per month. That was […]
It’s been almost one year since the launch of the XChange movement in Belize, and today XChangers from around the Caribbean gathered at the Belize City House of Culture to celebrate their achievements and plan for success. Rana Flowers, Country Representative, UNICEF Belize ?XChange is a positive movement of change for young people across the […]
With so much rain during the last month, there has been no shortage of flood stories. The latest comes from Ladyville. Robert Lightburn, Area Resident ?We are concern because we could see the water backing up in some areas where water never stayed before. So we are concern about what is happening, and we would […]
