We’ve covered nearly every meeting of the House of Representatives since 1992, including some that more closely resembled street brawls than legislative sessions. But the tone of today’s gathering on Independence Hill was particularly ugly, reflecting—depending on your point of view—ten years of frustration or plain bad manners. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from Belmopan. […]
The fear of being held-up is one that many business people live with … and on Tuesday it became a reality for an auto parts store on Cemetery Road. Around twelve-thirty in the afternoon, a man walked into Mike’s Spare Parts and asked Assistant Manager Robert Sinclair if they sold Sheltox. The strange request, coupled […]
The company, one of Belize’s largest, had withheld its payment of millions of dollars in business tax as a set off against what it says was an unattained guaranteed rate of return promised by the previous government. And while the media anxiously awaited a confrontation between B.T.L. and the Income Tax Department at Magistrates’ Court […]
It does not come as any surprise but Belize Electricity Limited has submitted its formal objection to the Initial Decision made by the Public Utilities Commission. Viewers may recall that B.E.L. had applied, as part of its Annual Tariff Review Proceeding, for rate increases averaging thirteen point four percent and the P.U.C. subsequently rejected that […]
On yesterday’s newscast we highlighted the lack of security regarding container shipments moving into Belize. But missing containers are not the only problem. Sitting on the Customs compound in Belize City are twelve late model vehicles, most of which are believed to have been stolen in Guatemala then smuggled into Belize. Comptroller of Customs, Gregory […]
The communications technology exhibition at the Belize City Centre today was held under the banner “Connecting Persons with Disabilities: I.C.T. Opportunities for All”. And something for everyone was exactly what News Five’s Marion Ali found. Marion Ali, Reporting In keeping with this year’s theme for World Telecommunications Day, B.T.L. is stressing the need to keep […]
