There’s a packed newscast tonight and we start with the budget presentation in the House today. The fiscal year closes at the end of March and the budget’s performance for 2009 to 2010 was poor, and don’t hold your breath because the coming year promises to bring new and additional taxes. In the current financial […]
But while the economy did fare off well, the 2010 to 2011 budget comes with new tax measures. Hardest hit is an almost five percent business tax imposed on electricity, meaning B.E.L., which soon afterwards caused a blackout, and a two point five percent increase in sales tax, which means that coupled with the two […]
But Barrow said it’s not all doom and gloom. The Poverty Assessment Report indicated that more Belizeans are poor. So naturally, increased taxes will push employed individuals into a category of the working poor. So to appease one section of the electorate, Barrow intends to exempt anyone earning less than twenty four thousand dollars a […]
The Prime Minister read a list of goods from which he intends to remove import duties. The list includes: cooking oils, luncheon meat, potted meat, macaroni and cheese dinner, and cereals. The P.M. also said that the government would remove General Sales Tax on similar items. But if you don’t intend to eat canned goods, […]
Earlier we reported on the budget for the new financial year and the additional taxes that will be imposed. But the House meeting would not be over without the usual dose of mudslinging. And as it has in the past, the arrows of Prime Minister Dean Barrow were slung again at his predecessor, Said Musa. […]
While the Barrow Administration presented its third annual budget before the National Assembly, Belizeans continue to prepare for inevitable tax increases in what will be an overall difficult financial year ahead. According to the Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño, the VAT man is back. In speaking with News Five, Briceño gave his rapid response […]
The appeal of Belize City businessman Dean Fuller was dealt with today before a three-member panel of judges at the Court of Appeal. Fuller was represented by Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay and attorney Ashanti Arthurs Martin. In November of last year Supreme Court Justice Oswell Legall ruled against Fuller and his companies Omni Networks and […]
Late this afternoon, the latest robbery was reported. It took place at the offices of Social Security Board in the city. The thieves were on time for the mid month payments that follows pay day. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details on the most recent robbery of a yet undisclosed amount of money. Marion […]
And we’ve heard about the hog head for various cultural practices – the hog head dance, the baked hog head and there’s the pig snout which is taken from the hog face and soaked in brine to season that pot of beans. Well it seems that someone thought Minister of State in the Ministry of […]
Sentencing was reserved for this morning in the case of twenty-three old Theophelia Brakeman after Magistrate Sharon Frazer found her guilty of grievous harm. The wait was worth her while because the mother was spared from going back to the Hattieville Prison. According to Fraser the few nights Brakeman spent in jail gave her an […]
And the Chief Magistrate heard the preliminary inquiry in the case of twenty six year old Leroy Kerr, a former police officer. Kerr was accused of stealing one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars worth of fuel from the government between the period of November of 2006 and April of 2007. The allegations were that […]
In the margins of today’s House meeting, we caught up with Juan Coy, the Minister of State, in the Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation. Coy was in the news recently for reports that he ejected Bartolo Teul, one of his ardent campaigners, from a meeting at Big Falls in Toledo. Teul claimed that […]
It’s a growing tourist destination, but over the weekend Placencia Village was the location of an inferno that demolished four buildings. At about three-thirty on Saturday afternoon the village volunteer fire team received reports of the blaze and when they arrived at the scene the first building was engulfed in flames. The strong wind caused […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s your weekly dish of Sports Monday. Week five of the Caribbean Motors Cup brought Paradise Freedom Fighters to the M.C.C. Grounds as they took aim at F.C. Belize who has climbed up to second place in the standings at this juncture. Five minutes in the host team looks […]
