The Barrow administration today made the announcement that it was nationalizing Belize Telemedia and is expected to assume total control in the next day or so of the utility company. We start our newscast with the reaction from Telemedia on this stunning move. In a release late this evening, Telemedia condemned the action of the […]
The reports percolated over the weekend and this morning, in a special session of the House of Representatives, which interrupted the summer recess, Prime Minister Barrow rammed through the House with indecent haste, the first, second and third readings of a Bill for the government to take over control of Telemedia. The straw that broke […]
The U.D.P. regime always had issues with Telemedia over the Accommodation Agreement and did not participate in the proceedings before the London Court of International Arbitration, except for a reaction last Monday when the court ruled in government’s favour. Earlier this year, G.O.B. threatened to arrest senior executives of both the telephone company and the […]
What does the nationalization mean for investors confidence? P.U.P. leader, John Briceño, says it sends the wrong signals and that efficiency and productivity will suffer. Briceño says it is also a matter of what’s good and what’s bad mostly for the layman and woman. John Briceño, Leader of the Opposition “I think what is important, […]
And that be told, if you are wondering about the future of Great Belize Productions/Channel Five, even before the move was taken to nationalize Telemedia, the Board of Directors met in emergency meeting and approved a dividend to Telemedia’s shareholders of the entire issued share capital of Katalyst Developments Limited, the owner of this company. […]
Two men were murdered over the weekend and both homicides occurred on Cemetery Road in Belize City. The first one involved a well known ex- gang leader. Twenty-eight year old Leroy Rhaburn, better known as Red Ants, was fatally stabbed at a club at two a.m. on Saturday morning. Rhaburn was no stranger to the […]
The other murder incident occurred at about ten p.m. on Friday night. A Honduran Laborer of Mangrove Street in Belize was brutally killed near a bus stop. Thirty-three year old Samuel Sanchez was standing near the pedestrian ramp on Cemetery Road when two male persons on bicycles rode up to him. One of the assailants […]
After spending the whole weekend and a total of five days of protest in front of the Supreme Court in Belize City, the appeals of Hirian and Charles Good have been answered. The husband and wife duo were petitioning the government to revoke the decision made by Minister Patrick Faber who dismissed Hirian from her […]
A single mother and her eight children are tonight homeless after an early morning blaze. And by the time the inferno ended, all that was left was dust. Sometime around four a.m., forty-three year old domestic of Hattieville, Bridget Wade, and her eight kids between the ages of one and thirteen were inside their elevated […]
Turning to the courts, an eighteen year old, who was expected to start school at ITVET to take up a trade, is behind bars tonight after he stole an elderly man’s cash. Michael Orlando Malic of Taylor’s Alley was charged with Robbery and Wounding in Magistrates’ Court today because he allegedly attacked seventy-six year old […]
Remember George Betson? He is the man who was displaced from his home and land when he refused to comply with a court order. Well today, the sixty-six year old part-time taxi-driver and supervisor in the sanitation department of the Belize City Council was spared from going to jail. He was charged for the aggravated […]
While the real purpose of today’s house meeting was the fate Telemedia, three other bills were introduced for a first reading. One was for an Act to control the sale of beverages in containers that would allow for a system of deposit and refund upon the return of the containers. That bill was introduced by […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re most welcome to this rush of Sports Monday. The Belize National Cricket Champion emerged yesterday at Bermudian Landing where game two of the three game championship series was staged as Excellence of Double Head went in with a one game lead over Wicked Eleven of Flower’s Bank. It’s […]
