The ongoing impasse between the Belize Medical and Dental Union and management at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is one week old and has now reached boiling point. And after another day of meetings there is still no cure in sight to the crisis. News Five has confirmed that a final meeting will be held […]
And while the controversy rages on at the K.H.M.H., there is more coming to light on the purchasing of supplies at scandalous prices. One man in the centre of the storm is Chairman of the Board, Dr. Ricardo Fabro. On Monday, News Five showed a copy of the memorandum which approves his handsome salary of […]
The Prime Minister has called for a quick investigation into the alleged corruption taking place at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital but the opposition party says this is not going far enough. The People’s United Party issued a statement today saying that the official investigation is insufficient and unacceptable because there are no known terms […]
And this just in, a press release from the government’s press office states that an attempt by the Ministries of Health and Labour to diffuse the crisis at the KHMH has been deferred. The release states that Labour Minister, Gabriel Martinez appointed Labour Commissioner, Ivan Williams to mediate over new proceedings between the two sides. […]
A proposed amendment to the Education Act is causing conflict among stakeholders. On one hand, the Ministry of Education says the amendment has been on the table for a year but others in the system say not so. The grey areas are the establishment of a Teachers’ Service Commission and the process of consultations. If […]
The Ministry of Education had another bone to pick with the SJC president. He said when one off his school wardens, a single mother, came to his office to ask for assistance in paying an eleven hundred dollars fee for SJC, he made a check and found out that last year’s fee was three hundred […]
The minister of Education, Patrick Faber has another controversy on his plate and it has to do with the Sadie Vernon High School off Mahogany Street in Belize City. At the heart of this dispute are the Parent Teachers Association and the teachers. We say teachers because the parents support the school’s principal, Laura Baptist […]
There is trouble at BELTRAIDE, the beleaguered trade and investment agency of G.O.B. Earlier today, five members of staff, including two in senior ranks, handed in their resignation. The situation has been topsy-turvy since last year when a new Executive Director was brought back from the US and installed as head of BELTRAIDE. But that […]
Christine Perriott versus Belize Telemedia Limited; it’s a highly publicized case that’s taken many turns in the courts. The most recent round went in favour of Telemedia. The background is that Perriott sued the utility company in 2007 because she felt her employment was wrongfully terminated. But Telemedia subsequently took issue with Perriott’s attorney, Lois […]
On Monday’s newscast we reported on the vicious murder of a woman on Central American Boulevard. Police have confirmed that the woman is forty-one year old Ella Mae ‘Gial Gial’ Bennett, a Honduran domestic of Mopan Street. Bennett, who has lived in Belize for the past nineteen years was last seen alive on Saturday night. […]
In an update to the murder of twenty-five year old Jonathan Faber who was shot and killed on Saturday afternoon, police have arrested and charged a nineteen year old man. Alexander Underwood was taken to court late Monday afternoon and was remanded by Magistrate Dorothy Flowers for the crime. Underwood is expected to return to […]
Over the past two days, the bodies of two Guatemalan nationals were found floating in the Mopan River. In the first case, shortly after six Monday morning, police discovered the body of thirty-two year old businessman, Egidio Fidel Perez, of San Marcos City in Guatemala. Perez was wearing a t-shirt and underwear. But while the […]
And the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons report has been released in the United States and it is not good news for the jewel. Belize is one of three CARICOM countries placed on the U.S. Tier Two Watch List. That means the country has not been making satisfactory efforts to deter trafficking of persons for […]
UNESCO’s report on the state of Belize’s Barrier Reef, a World Heritage site, has confirmed that there needs to be better protection, not only in writing, but in practice of the country’s natural resources. APAMO, The Association of Protected Areas Management Organization has written the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister and is tasking […]
It is not a world Heritage site but still very recognized; that’s the Belize Zoo. SMART Belize donated approximately five thousand dollars to the zoo today through SMART Cares, a program put in place by the company to give charitable assistance. The money was raised through a raffle that the company held at the beginning […]
