Tonight there is a development up north where the sugar industry has been at a standstill. And there is light at the end of the sugar-cane crop tunnel, as both B.S.I. and the BSCFA have compromised, if only tentatively, on a way forward. Both parties met today in Orange Walk, and the BSCFA presented as […]
This is the first time in Belize’s history that the sugar cane crop season has been so delayed. Generally it kicks off in the middle of November. Mother Nature has played a role in the delay, with incessant rains negatively impacting cane quality and destroying roads through which farmers access their fields and the factory. […]
The move to recall U.D.P. Cayo Northeast Area Representative Elvin Penner is dead in the water. In a letter to the Governor-General dated December thirtieth, 2013, Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai stated that the requisite petition threshold of thirty percent of voters had not been met. It wasn’t met because the Elections and Boundaries Department […]
If you’re a Boledo regular, you might want to buy fifty-two tonight. The Penner recall petition, as it became known during its famous but short life, was shot down because of rejected signatures fifty-two for persons who were not registered in Cayo Northeast, fifty-two for persons who were not registered to vote at all, and […]
While fifty-two might be the rake for Boledo, the number which is giving the Opposition heartburn tonight is seventy-nine – and with good reason. The Elections and Boundaries Department rejected seventy-nine signatures because they say those persons signed twice. And that’s the exact number of signatures by which the petition falls short of the thirty […]
The People’s United Party will be holding a press conference on Thursday to discuss the failed recall petition and, we assume, other pressing issues. But today, even as the Elections and Boundaries Office briefed the press on the reasoning behind the rejection of signatures and the petition, the P.U.P. held a National Executive meeting to […]
The flu season is taking its toll in Belize. And so far, we can confirm that there have been two deaths due to influenza and there are several patients admitted at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with severe respiratory infections. But the Ministry of Health has another major concern in its hands because there are […]
There is another health concern. As we reported on Tuesday night, former traffic officer, Michael Lewis died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital by what his family says was a confirmed case of the disease. The family was also told that others had been diagnosed with leptospirosis. But sources tell News Five that Lewis was […]
The Immigration scandal has gone into an induced coma – lulled to a deep sleep by the deafening silence from officials in the Ministry of Immigration. Reports of multiple investigations have come and gone, but no information has surfaced. First, there was the internal administrative investigation by Ministry officials. That allegedly started in mid-September, and […]
On Tuesday night, we reported that the MCC Grounds had closed for much needed repairs and that the football community was up in arms because the Premier League of Belize was heading into playoffs. According to PLB President Maito Perdomo, the National Sports Council had unilaterally closed the football facility. Well today, the Sports Council […]
There is a change tonight at top of the Financial Intelligence Unit. Via government press release it was confirmed today that Marilyn Williams, had stepped down and that she is being replaced by Eric Eusey as Director. Eusey is a former commissioner of Income Tax and listed as a member of the board of directors […]
A Cuban national was today busted on arrival at the P.G.I.A. with documents that purported that she was a Panamanian national. Nairoby Aleyda Gonzalez Villareal who also goes by the name Deysi Reyes Avila and her son were caught with not one, but four passports. Reyes Avila who is a Cuban Mathematics teacher arrived on […]
The Foreign Minister of Guatemala, Fernando Cabrera, arrives in Belize this Thursday on an official visit on the heels of changes in the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry which saw the removal of two vice ministers. Cabreras will be meeting with Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington and Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials in Belize City. It is not […]
