Election fever has brought with it a flurry of activities, including a ramping up of door-to-door campaigning by the mass parties, as well as their respective candidates. At the elections and Boundaries offices, public officers are reportedly burning the midnight oil tightening up all the nuts and bolts that make the election machinery run smoothly. […]
That female officer, we are told, has recorded a statement with Benque Viejo Police. Meanwhile, in Belize City, a similar incident occurred two hours earlier. According to the Chief Elections Officer, they also came under attack sometime around eight o’clock when their Lumber Yard office was reportedly egged. She also claims that a suspected grenade […]
Where the Ministry of Finance is concerned, the buck stops at Financial Secretary Joe Waight. So when we got the opportunity on Thursday, we asked him about a variety of issues including the status of Petrocaribe monies. The Fin Sec revealed that three hundred million has been spent, and only forty million is left. […]
Waight also spoke on the matter of the settlement for B.T.L….particularly the arbitration ruling. The PM has said that it was his hope that the sixty million dollars paid based on the Nera evaluation remains as such. The Financial Secretary says that the arbitration decision is due within the next three months, and it is […]
And since we had the Fin Sec there, we also asked about the legal fees paid for certain select attorneys including the brother of the Prime Minister. Waight didn’t have the details, but did reveal with fees have been sectioned out between Denys Barrow and the PM’s own law firm, Barrow and Company. Joseph […]
COLA, for some time, has been calling for the head of the Foreign Minister Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington. Their campaign started when an effigy of the Minister was burnt in front of the offices of the O.A.S. off Coney Drive. The advocacy organization has consistently said that Elrington has not represented the best interests of Belize. […]
Gabriel Salazar has beaten a third murder charge, the latest one from the Court of Appeal this week. On July fifteenth, 2013, more than two years ago, Salazar was acquitted of the murder of Francis Johnston, a businessman and store owner of Big Falls, Punta Gorda. Johnston was fatally shot and killed during a robbery […]
Criminal figure, Errol Haynes aka “Butchy”, who was handed down a sentence of three years plus fined ten thousand dollars when he did not show up for his drug related trial two years ago, saw his habeas corpus application dismissed this afternoon by the Chief Justice. In May of this year, when he landed in Belize, […]
With time running out, this morning and during the lunch hour, employees at all branches of the First Caribbean Bank were protesting since they have been unable to reach agreement with the Bank over an exit package. Their actions started with sick outs and have now escalated to protests. Now, the is bank is considered […]
Matura-Shepherd says that the Bank is plain disrespectful towards the workers and is holding them to ransom unwilling to negotiate. Aside from the exit package, there is the issue of the CBA that the workers want concluded before the bank leaves Belize. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President, C.W.U. “We tried to start negotiations because at first […]
According to Matura-Shepherd, the union has been unable to get a response on the exit date of F.C.I.B. She believes that information has to be known. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President, C.W.U. “When are you leaving? Give us an idea; don’t hold us at random. Management claimed that they don’t know when they are leaving. So […]
This morning at the ITVET in Belize City, political parties, their prospective candidates, as well as all public officers assigned to the upcoming general elections met to discuss a comprehensive plan of action come November fourth. As it stands, there are a number of policies in place. Likewise, there are regulations that govern the election […]
On Thursday, BPP’s national campaign manager Robert ‘Bobby’ Lopez called to question the Election and Boundaries Department’s lateness in releasing the voters list. Lopez told the media during a press conference that the department seems to be pussyfooting with the delivery of the list. Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer “With my greatest respect for […]
While the BPP has lashed out against the Elections and Boundaries Department concerning its tardiness in distributing the voters list, Tamai told the media this morning that the revision of that list is a monthly exercise. In fact, she says that a digital copy of the list had been forwarded to the organization’s headquarters in […]
As we told you on Thursday, the Prime Minister hosted an economic forum which charts a course for public/private collaboration on the development of the country. It’s an initiative which has been hailed as a success, and one of the highlights has been the formation of an economic development council. Mike Rudon was at the […]
