The Foreign Minister’s speech to the United Nations in New York on Friday is causing a firestorm. While it is not the first time that Wilfred “Sedi’’ Elrington has come under fire for his pronouncements on the Guatemalan territorial dispute, his statement to the UN, about a minute or so at the very end, is […]
Is the People’s United Party attempting to capitalize on what is being described as the foreign minister’s blunder? General elections are just a month away and whatever can be used to gain political mileage is seen as par for the course. The territorial dispute is of national importance says the Party Leader Francis Fonseca and […]
The U.D.P. sent out a release this morning which was followed by a response from the P.U.P. The U.D.P. release announces that the former defeated mayoral candidate in Belmopan, Jose Chacon, had resigned the P.U.P. and crossed over to the U.D.P. Chacon’s statement in Spanish was attached to the U.D.P. release and followed by a […]
Today, employees of the Social Security Board from all branches countrywide protested for half an hour during their lunch break. The organization provides its employees with uniforms every eighteen months, but those uniforms came in very late. CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd told News Five that the protocol is clear that if the employees do not […]
Matura-Shepherd says that the reason the employees waited to receive their uniforms is because it is only at that point that they could calculate how much they believe they are due for a clothing allowance. As to the stance taken by S.S.B. Chairman Dough Singh, Matura-Shepherd told us that she believes he’s not being given […]
When we spoke to CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd in the wake of the S.S.B. protest this afternoon, she emphasized that the protest was not over the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Still, Matura-Shepherd has maintained that the Board of Directors of the S.S.B. is dragging its feet on negotiating the CBA. Chairman of S.S.B. Doug Singh disagrees. […]
Singh says any question of salary should not hold up the process since the framework places discussions on non-financials first. The CWU has condemned the S.S.B. for what they say is management delaying the process since November 2014, but Singh says they were actually presented with an amended CBA by the CWU just two months […]
According to our records, since the start of the year, there have been five murders in the northern municipality of Orange Walk. On Friday night, that count went up by one after a sixty-three year old man died at the K.H.M.H. Carlos Griffiths was badly beaten last Monday night in front of Monica’s Pawn Store […]
There is another case of murder that the police will have to crack. Over the weekend, the remains of man were found stuffed in a sack in a community on the Hummingbird Highway. The sack was placed between two rocks in an area about six miles south of the Amish community of Springfield. At this […]
But back to Orange Walk where twenty-four year old Jose Antonio Zepeda Junior of Guinea Grass Village was chopped to the forehead last Friday. Zepeda Junior claims that after nine p.m., while having a few drinks at a restaurant in the village, he was assaulted by Adan Meza after he refused to loan him some […]
Just before ten on Friday night, two thieves, believed to be Belize City residents pounced on a Chinese Grocery Shop in Trial Farm, Orange Walk. While the robbers have not been detained, there is video image of the duo as they assaulted the owner of Mister Yan Supermarket. Luckily the proprietors and patrons at the […]
Since delivering a lengthy address before the UN General Assembly on Friday, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington has been raked over the coals for failing to properly address the Belize-Guatemala dispute. For many, including the opposition and COLA, it was a final opportunity before the elections for the often criticized minister to come correct on the […]
COLA’s endgame since going on the offensive a few weeks ago is the removal of Sedi Elrington as Belize’s Foreign Minister, but that is a moot point because elections are just around the corner. While the grassroots organization has refrained from calling for his head as an elected official, President Geovanni Brackett is gung ho […]
Port of Belize Limited and the Christian Workers Union have reached significant accord in the framework to negotiating the CBA governing stevedores. That’s good news in a negotiating process which was stagnant for many months. Today CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd told News Five that she is surprised and pleased by the gains that have already […]
Where the negotiation with First Caribbean International Bank is concerned the news is not as good. Matura-Shepherd told News Five that the bank continues to operate in bad faith, so there is practically no progress to report. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President, CWU “With FCIB, there’s not so good news because we feel that the staff […]
Good evening I am James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Yesterday’s PLB matchup between the Champions Verdes FC and Police United inside the Norman Broaster Stadium proved to be a nail biter as both teams tried to establish themselves as the team to beat. Orlando Jimenez uses this set piece to get the […]
