The House of Representatives met in Belmopan this morning; two bills were introduced and passed, but we will have more on that later. The sitting ended by midday and we were gratefully spared of the usual theatrics. Outside the House, the Prime Minister fielded questions on a wide range of issues. In our newscast on […]
The overabundance of local currency will predictably have an adverse effect on the availability of foreign exchange, particularly U.S. dollars. The Central Bank of Belize which is the supervisory body for commercial economic activity is expected to regulate says the prime minister. Dean Barrow “I have signaled long before this last time that I believe […]
When will elections be called? There’s a guessing game that the next General Elections will be early and that Belizeans will be going to the polls long before the term of government expires in 2013. While the precise date of the big dance is always a surprise, the Prime Minister gave somewhat of an indication […]
The state of affairs within the beleaguered rice industry remains a hot button issue for farmers across the country who continue to suffer major financial losses on excess tonnage of grain presently held in storage around Blue Creek. At least one producer, Uncle John’s Rice, has been forced into closure. At the center of the […]
In the south, over a thousand five hundred rice growers are similarly irate because of a delay in final payment for their crop which was due on Thursday. According to Dennis Usher, chairman of the Toledo Rice, Beans & Corn Production Association, the Ministry of Agriculture and the BMDC have failed to live up to […]
You’ve heard the Prime Minister say that you can expect general elections by the end of 2012. But on Tuesday we asked our viewers if they would vote for the current government if the election was held before its term expired in 2013. The results show that fifty-six percent of participants in our online poll […]
On Thursday night, the government-owned Belize Telemedia Limited held its annual general meeting; its chairman Net Vasquez declared dividends of fifteen million dollars. That translates roughly into thirteen million dollars that government will be earning on the seventy percent shares it holds. As we reported Thursday night, however, industry analysts say that the financials are […]
As we said, there was smooth sailing at the House today and if you’ve been following the sittings, you’d know that they are usually characterized by high theatrics. Well we don’t know if it is the spirit of the Christmas that swept through the House today, but the sitting was not only short; it was […]
Seismic testing within the Sarstoon Temash National Park remains ongoing despite strong objections from SATIIM and its umbrella organization, the Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage. U.S. Capital Energy has also come under fire from other quarters to cease oil exploration within the protected area. Since Wednesday of this week, our emails have been overflowing […]
Since hosting a series of workshops on the teaching of Health and Family Education, QUADS, a department with the Ministry of Education as well as the U.S. Peace Corps, have come under fire from various organizations including Vision Inspired by the People for promoting what they consider to be the homosexual agenda. Today, Minister of […]
In the courts, Kareem Hamilton, Steven Armstrong and Carlos Matura, were committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court on April sixteenth of 2012 for three separate sex offenses. In the first case, twenty-four year old Hamilton was arraigned on the fourteenth of June of this year for Committing an Unnatural Crime. It is alleged […]
He spent fifteen days behind bars at the Belize Central Prison, but today, B.T.L. employee, forty-five year old Bernard Bent was spared from doing more jail time. Bent was remanded on December first when he pleaded guilty to a charge of grievous harm after he physically abused his girlfriend, twenty-six year old Kendra Henkis on […]
More than one hundred of Belize’s brightest primary school students, selected by the Mexican Embassy, travelled to Chetumal on Thursday to visit the new “Yook’ol Kaab” Planetarium and the Museum of the Mayan Culture. The students, ages ten to thirteen years old, were treated to a fun lesson on astronomy and Mayan culture. At the […]
But other students did not make it to Chetumal. A van carrying thirteen persons ran off the road early Thursday morning as it made its way from Punta Gorda. The passengers included five students along with their parents and teachers who were en route to Chetumal to take part in a cultural presentation. But at […]
The Barrow Administration has embarked on a Christmas Assistance Program. It is providing cash to ministers for their constituents countrywide. While the Prime Minister did not confirm the dollar amount being issued to each area representative, he attested today that the disbursal of funds, believed to be in the area of forty thousand dollars per […]
There were happy faces today on children from three institutions who were gifted with an assortment of wares just in time for the Christmas. The goods were collected in the US and delivered today in Belize City. News Five’s Delahnie Bain was on hand. Delahnie Bain, Reporting Barrels of goodies were delivered to the Dorothy […]
