Since entering into receivership in January 2012, Port of Belize Limited, under the administration of Arturo Vasquez, has undertaken significant expansion of its daily operations. The company was appropriated from businessman Luke Espat by the British Caribbean Bank for failure to service a loan portfolio upwards of sixty-four million dollars. Along with other assets, including […]
The revocation, according to the release, states that Port of Belize Limited failed to honor three essential requirements, including the submission of a development plan to carry out any development works at Commerce Bight, the dredging of the approach channel and the dock basin, as well as payment of the lease rental to the Government […]
The executive of the Christian Workers Union, led by president Antonio Gonzalez, has been experiencing an upheaval within its membership, particularly from a gang of stevedores, who contend that they are not being properly represented at the negotiation table with Port of Belize Limited. Over a hundred stevedores working at the facility are calling for […]
Amidst the apparent implosion of the Christian Workers Union is the Port of Belize Limited (P.B.L.). The stevedores, one of nine entities represented by the union, are contracted by P.B.L. to load and discharge the contents of cargo vessels at the harbor. The company has been engaged in ongoing dialogue with union leaders concerning a […]
And with all those issues surrounding P.B.L. and the Christian Workers’ Union, the announcement that the C.W.U. had been suspended from inclusion in the National Trade Union Congress of Belize (N.T.U.C.B.) seemed like vindication of the stevedores. N.T.U.C.B. President, Dylan Reneau, told News Five that the reason for suspension of the C.W.U. had to do […]
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is one of the most underrated yet important group that promotes and fights for good governance. The PAC makes judgments on government spending by examining the Auditor General’s reports. For at least a decade, mischief, poor accounting records, and missing files have plagued government departments and ministries, but the PAC […]
And since we were on the subjects of finances and benefit to the Belizean people, News Five asked Reneau for an update on the salary adjustment issue. It’s been months since the protest by teachers and public officers who demanded an increase in salaries. It might have gone completely under the radar, since the proposed […]
A forty-two year old Salvadoran national is currently in serious condition at the Western Regional Hospital. Amilcar Alvarado Cortez was chopped to the head and hand on Thursday evening while hanging out at the corner of Guatemala Street in the Salvapan area of Belmopan. Residents of the area told News Five that Cortez was chopped […]
What does a person do with eighty five and a half pounds of marijuana? Get busted by the police of course. On Friday August sixteenth, 2013 the Gang Suppression Unit searched the upper flat of the Saint Anthony Trading Center building located on Princess Margaret Drive. The building has three flats. The caretaker, forty-four year […]
The under-twenty female football team is leaving Belize on Tuesday to represent Belize in the UNCAF tournament in Comayagua, Honduras. The team has been preparing since July for the tournament which is a qualifying game for the CONCACAF elimination games that will be held in the Cayman Island in January. The UNCAF tournament is broken […]
The Blue Hole is at the top ten slot to possibly become the eighth wonder of the world. That’s the news coming out of the Belize Tourism Board following its nomination of the Great Blue Hole into a Trip Advisor and Virtual City competition. Launched in June, the world-wide contest features over three hundred natural […]
Ras Indio, the offspring of Bredda David has grown into his own brand of music a long time ago. Indio is not just a reggae singer, but also a promoter of the Belizean spirit at festivals in Africa, Europe and North America. Indio has just returned from the Reggae on the River tour in California […]
A cohort of thirteen special constables was sworn in this afternoon during a brief ceremony at City Hall. The commencement exercise saw a group of men and women, mostly employees of the Belize City Council, being inducted into the law enforcement, following an intense two-week program organized by the Belize Police Department. Darrell Bradley, […]
The Ballers for Life Basketball Summer Camp closed this morning with a rally and inter-district competition at the Saint John’s College gymnasium in Belize City. It’s a program hosted by the Belize Basketball Federation throughout the country and today seven hundred youths from as far as Punta Gorda and Corozal came together in one location […]
