Deadline for the payment of approximately twenty-six million dollars towards Belize’s consolidated billion dollar debt, collectively known as the Super Bond, has elapsed. That closing date is today and government, despite a recent trip by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to New York City to meet with representatives of bondholders, has not met its obligation. That’s […]
While the Super Bond is very much a pressing issue, the Barrow Administration is also preparing for its annual budget presentation, ahead of the 2017 fiscal year. Described by Prime Minister Barrow as a mild recession, there are serious concerns about Belize’s economic stability, particularly the very real possibility of tax increases. The idea, says […]
P.U.P. Senator Eamon Courtenay has come under fire from the ruling United Democratic Party and the Government of Belize, both of whom are demanding his immediate resignation from upper parliament. Courtenay is being asked to step down as the People’s United Party’s lead senator after filing an application challenging the constitutionality of the recently passed […]
So, what about the perceived conflict of interest purportedly arising out of business being conducted by the prime minister’s law firm with Ashcroft-related companies? The PM flatly describes that perception as a blue herring, a ploy that is being promulgated by the People’s United Party. Isani Cayetano “There’s been the issue of a conflict […]
Last Tuesday, during a press conference held by the People’s United Party, it was revealed that government is considering selling minority shares in the various utilities. The move, it is widely believed, is an effort to meet its quota for the forthcoming annual budget. The idea, we are told, is also being frowned upon by […]
What about word of a proposed offering to a Barbados-based outfit? PM Barrow says there has been no such proposition. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “There’s been no such approach. Remember I am telling you that Ambassador Espat who was going to be the point man in all this would have been talking to people, […]
The People’s United Party, following a bolt from the blue, during a testimony given by former Immigration Director Ruth Meighan, claims that the 2012 general elections were stolen by the United Democratic Party. The charge comes after it was revealed during the ongoing Senate Inquiry that hundreds of immigrants were fraudulently naturalized ahead of the […]
It has been a while since we’ve spoken about matters coming out of the Special Senate Select Committee inquiry with Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse. First there was Ruth Meighan’s testimony that hundreds of documents were obtained without the proper documentation – suggesting massive fraud. And there was Teresita Castellanos’ testimony last week about the […]
Thousands of potatoes are rotting in La Gracia Village in the Cayo District and farmers say they are set to lose thousands of dollars for this year’s potato crop. Some farmers have been experiencing losses for almost two weeks now – they have either been dumping or storing potatoes because they don’t have any buyers. […]
So, what is the Ministry doing about the potato crisis? Well, we caught up with Minister of Agriculture Godwin Hulse today and he told us that the ministry met with potato producers from seven zones, as well as with as many as nineteen of the twenty-five importers. Minister Hulse says that a potato working committee […]
Patrick Tillett, Financial Controller for the Belize City Council, and Eric Chang, former councillor and Deputy Mayor of Belize City, may be summoned by the Senate Special Select Committee. The pair will likely answer in testimony with regard to questions surrounding eight missing visa foils reported stolen from the border office in Cayo District that […]
Within a period of thirty hours, there were four homicides recorded: one in the city that claimed the life of a seventeen-year-old, as well as a murder in Ladyville where a fifty-seven-year-old man was brutally killed; he was almost decapitated. And then there were two murders in San Ignacio within hours of each other and […]
Several hours later, Rural Eastern Division police officers were called out to a remote area on Marage Road, near the Caribbean Shrimp Farm in Ladyville. There, they found the mutilated body of fifty-seven-year-old Walter Dawson, a resident of mile eleven on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Dawson had multiple chop wounds to the head and shoulder […]
Two men were killed in less than twelve hours in San Ignacio – but are they connected? One man was killed as he and his common-law walked in a park and the other was found shot to death on a dirt road. So far, police have identified one of the men – he is a […]
Freedom is closer than ever for thirty-seven-year old Danny Ku, despite a twenty-three-year prison sentence handed down by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin this afternoon. That’s because he has been in prison for the past ten years. Ku was on remand on charges of murder in connection with the death of his wife, nurse Anna Marie […]
Even as news filtered through on Friday of the death of Doctor Cecil “Chubby” Reneau, there were fears for the life of another famous Belizean in the hospital, the “Queen of Brukdown,” Lila Genus Vernon. She had been in treatment for a week for chronic renal failure and family members indicated to us then that […]
Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Church in Belize, the late Most Reverend Osmond Peter Martin, will be laid to rest next Monday, February twenty-seventh, following an official funeral service at Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral in Belmopan. The Church accepted an offer from the Government to make it an official funeral, in recognition of […]
Good evening, I am James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlight of weekend sporting activities….]
