At sixty-one million U.S. dollars it’s the largest single private sector investment in the nation’s history … and today Belize Sugar Industries announced that its power generation project is fully financed and ready to break ground. According to a press release from Belize Cogeneration Energy Limited, known as BELCOGEN, the final financial arrangements have been […]
Normally meetings of the Senate do not make headlines, but tonight a number of appointed legislators are claiming they were robbed of their right to debate the 2007-2008 Budget. This afternoon, our canvass of Government, Private Sector, and Opposition senators revealed that Leader of Government Business Richard Dickie Bradley did present the motion properly but […]
The results of the latest public opinion poll conducted by the University of Belize have created quite a stir on the local political scene. On one hand the United Democratic Party has endorsed the survey which produced statistics largely in their favour. But members of the People’s United Party have dismissed the facts and figures […]
In news from the labour front, today the Belize Communication Workers Union issued a press release complaining that despite plans for the scheduled arbitration to proceed on Monday morning, they have yet to receive the necessary terms of reference. According to the release, the union has appointed a former Labour Commissioner, Winston Carr, as their […]
A former police officer convicted of manslaughter has been sentenced to ten years behind bars. On January twenty-ninth, a jury found then police constable Burton Caliz guilty in the shooting death of Leroy Pilgrim. This morning, the defendant’s primary school teacher, Pamela Bodden and Inspector Dinsdale Thompson, chaplain of the Police Department, spoke on his […]
The controversy over exactly who won the first set of Village Council Elections held on March eighteenth remains anything but settled as both major political parties continue to claim victory. According to the United Democratic Party, information from the rural areas indicates that U.D.P. candidates won a majority of seats in thirty-four villages, the P.U.P. […]
It appears that things may finally be working out between the Belize City Council and the Ministry of Works at the garbage dump at mile two and a half on the Western Highway. Not only has M.O.W’s heavy equipment returned to the site, clearing the roadside of all the accumulated debris, but the construction on […]
There are smiles all around in the Orange Walk district tonight following a two-week humanitarian exercise by the U.S. Army. The kids are happy because their teeth are fixed. And the soldiers? Belize is a whole lot friendlier than Iraq. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting By Friday over five thousand primary school children in the Orange Walk […]
