We start the newscast tonight with developments in the citrus industry which continues to find itself on the brink of collapse. For some time, the once thriving industry has been on the decline and tonight some two hundred and sixty-nine citrus growers are in limbo and their employees face unemployment. At the core of the […]
The Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño is ramping up pressure in respect of a write-off of a loan of forty-thousand plus dollars to the son of the Cabinet Secretary. The write-off was passed in the House and rejected by the Senate last week, but it is not going away. Briceño has fired off a […]
After the House of Representatives approved the write-off without debate, it went to the Senate and seven out of the thirteen senators voted it down including Church Senator Ashley Rocke who called on the Prime Minister to personally ensure that the forty thousand dollars are recovered. But Attorney General and U.D.P. Senator Michael Peyrefitte says […]
Musa reiterated what Briceño has said to the PM, and that is that, if the loan is written off without the Senate’s approval, the Opposition will launch a legal challenge in the form of judicial review. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores Division “I want to say this Hipolito that in my opinion this […]
The Belize Youth Movement is calling on all the Belizean youths to rise and demand that their student loans also be written off. The B.Y.M., an arm of the People’s United Party says it is outraged at the actions taken by Prime Minister Dean Barrow to vote in favour of writing off Joshua Perdomo’s forty […]
The P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer for Belize Rural North Marconi Leal is challenging six re-registration applications, believing that those persons gave inaccurate information regarding their place of residence. Originally, Leal was challenging fifty-nine applications but later abandoned fifty-three; the U.D.P.’s Edmond Castro to defend the remaining six. In court today, Leal along with Nathaniel Alvaro testified […]
The Leader of the Opposition John Briceño says that on October fourth he was denied the opportunity to debate the Joshua Perdomo forty thousand dollars write-off motion. Speaker of the House Laura Tucker-Longsworth told Briceño that no one rose to debate the motion when it was first introduced by the Prime Minister at the previous […]
House Speaker Laura Tucker Longsworth responded to Briceño’s letter today, saying that his statements are misleading and the facts are misrepresented. Longsworth tells Briceño that on October fourth, as the five write-off motions were moved on Friday, August sixteenth and should have been debated forthwith. Longsworth continues to say that she looked on both sides […]
Police in Orange Walk are investigating an armed robbery. Thirty-two-year-old Lizeny Marchand told police that at around two-thirty this afternoon, a man entered Zitro Western Union and he was followed by another seconds later. One of the men held the security guard at gunpoint while the other ordered Marchand to hand over the cash. Fearing […]
Twenty-year-old Troy Polonio was shot and killed while holding his infant son at his mother-in-law’s residence on Raccoon Street on Monday night. He was shot twice by an assailant who reportedly fled the scene on foot. Polonio’s father happened upon the shooting while on his way home that night and saw his son’s attacker as […]
The murder of San Lazaro, Orange Walk, resident Basis Hazid Diaz over the weekend is the most recent and most violent crime that has happened within that community in just over two months. Diaz’s body was found by a search party in a shallow grave off a feeder road. The murder follows two home invasions […]
In the south, retired rural development officer Santiago Pop was also murdered over the weekend. The fifty-eight-year-old was chopped to death inside his house sometime between Friday and early Saturday morning. His body was discovered inside his house in Cow Pen Village around six-thirty on Sunday evening. When we spoke with Village Chairman Victor Juarez, […]
Alleged murder suspect Lionel Kelly, walked free on Tuesday after his attorney Simeon Sampson, made a no case submission which was upheld by Justice Colin Williams. The Justice agreed that the crown could not prove the charge of murder against Kelly. The Mayflower resident was charged for the July six, 2016 murder of twenty-year-old Tevin […]
About a week and a half ago, former City Administrator Candice Miller won a case against the City Council for wrongful termination. The current P.U.P. administration believes that Miller was derelict in her duties in three instances back in 2018 when there was a changing of the guard at City Hall. Miller was first suspended […]
But as the issue of compensation to the former City Administrator looms over the council, there is still another elephant in the room. A million-dollar claim by Belize Waste Control is pending and the council is nowhere close to addressing it. Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner sidelined that question, but stuck to the issue that […]
Single and unemployed women of the Mesopotamia Division will be able to take on sewing to generate income for themselves and boost economic activity in the division. Today, a centre was opened in the division creating new opportunities to the women. The P.U.P. Standard Bearer, Doctor Candice Pitts, says the facility is one through which […]
These days City Councillor Doctor Candice Pitts has been on the ground in the Mesopotamia constituency, which is considered a stronghold for the United Democratic Party under senior minister Michael Finnegan. Finnegan is stepping down and is grooming understudy and son of Prime Minister, Shyne Barrow, to take over the reins in the division. Today […]
Candice Pitts came to the political scene in 2018 when she ran and won her seat as councillor in the Belize City Council under the P.U.P. banner. Now, Pitts is aspiring for higher office and first set her eyes on Port Loyola, but that opportunity was shutdown and Gilroy Usher Senior was endorsed by Party […]
The Hand in Hand Ministries handed over its thirty-second house for this year. The new home was built in Ladyville and the keys were presented to the owner this afternoon at a handing over ceremony. This house was funded by the Heritage Bank. Reporter Andrea Polanco shares more in the following story. Andrea Polanco, […]
The Belize Scout Association held a pile driving ceremony today on site of where its new headquarters will be built. The “Sir Colville N. Young Building” will serve as the Scout Association of Belize’s first ever base, which will include a conference room and a scout supplies shop. As we showed you back in February […]
A FIFA sponsored beach soccer course is underway at the Football Federation of Belize Headquarters in Belmopan. About twenty-one coaches from across the country are actively taking part. The train the coaches’ exercise is to providing the basic techniques and strategies of beach soccer, which the F.F.B. will venture into, as part of its official […]
Thirty-six children have been preparing to participate in a Children’s Parliament to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Children next month. The event is to have children demonstrate two key rights, to share their opinions and to take part in matters relating to them. The Children’s Parliament will be […]
