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As government prepares to rollout out phase two of its unemployment relief program, it is also gearing up for the introduction of another initiative to assist micro, small and medium enterprises in rebounding from the economic crisis associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. MSME Support Program will see up to fourteen million dollars being earmarked for […]
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The C.C.J. on Tuesday delivered a severe decision against the government using language like abuse of power, high-handed, and inconsistent with good governance. . The judgment handed down is in respect of an appeal filed by Belize Investment Services Limited, the former parent company of IMMARBE and IBC registries is a scathing indictment of the […]
Written on July 1, 2020 | Posted in
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The likelihood of Lord Ashcroft being able to collect on hundreds of millions of dollars owed to him under the Barrow administration, is likely at zero to none as the clock ticks toward the next general elections. Prime Minister Dean Barrow has ignored the ruling of the court on previous matters, including the ballooning U.H.S. […]
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After signing an agreement in Miami, the PM agreed to pay five hundred million dollars for the acquisition and nationalization of B.T.L. Government is once again indebted to Lord Michael Ashcroft to the tune of roughly two hundred and fifty million dollars. That hefty figure includes the interest that continues to accrue on the U.H.S. […]
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Under the leadership of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, the government has amended laws on several occasions to suit its position on legal matters and introduced retroactive amendments. This was first evidenced during litigation following the acquisition of B.T.L. in 2009. While Lord Ashcroft is aware of these sudden constitutional changes, he also points to the […]
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In a lengthy written decision accompanying the C.C.J.’s ruling on Tuesday, there are several points in which the bench rebukes the Government for its actions pertaining to B.I.S.L. Justice Peter Jamadar in his judgment highlighted the fact that the company was deprived of its share of income for seven years, from June 2013 when it […]
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The ruling by the C.C.J. was grounded on equitable treatment since for over twenty years the receipts went into an escrow account rather than directly into the consolidated revenue fund and for over twenty years, the government had no complaints since they received all the money they were entitled to. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, this […]
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Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte was also asked whether an oral ruling handed down by former Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin is a non-decision as stated by the Prime Minister recently. Peyrefitte says that the P.U.P. was consulted and knew the consequences of not renewing the CJ’s contract. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney General “A decision is a […]
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A politician was hauled before the courts today where he was read a single charge of failure to provide a specimen. P.U.P.’s standard bearer for Belmopan, Oscar Mira was arraigned following an accident on Friday night. But is it that cops are being stringent with the law or are they being used to target the […]
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Also appearing in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court today was Corporal Oscar Itch; he was arraigned for ten counts of forgery, for which he pleaded not guilty. On Monday, the firearms section of the Belize Police Department in Belmopan was closed as an investigation ensued into the allegation of fraud. The investigation revealed that between December […]
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The Belize City Council is not going to pay the eighteen thousand dollars that Lee Mark Chang, owner of Chon Saan Palace is attempting to collect. Chang who is the U.D.P.’s Standard Bearer for Caribbean Shores and political ally of Patrick Faber, says that between September 2016 and October 2017, the Belize City Council racked […]
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News media in Chetumal are reporting that the health system there is on the brink of collapse due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases. Chetumal has surpassed Cancun with the number of positive COVID-19 cases and only thirty-five beds are available for seriously ill patients. Health officials in Chetumal, according to news articles, say […]
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According Garrido, the Quintana Roo government is working with its people to curb the curve and prevent the further spread of the virus. A campaign called ‘stay at home’ is being pushed with a goal to re-open its economy slowly while keeping the people safe and healthy. María Garrido, Head of International Cooperation Affairs, […]
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As the numbers increase across the border, on Tuesday, Belize recorded four new COVID-19 cases. This brings the total number of active cases to eight—five females and three males. According to Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero, the persons entered the country last week two came via the northern border, and the other two […]
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According to Doctor Marvin Manzanero, the Ministry of Health is currently assessing how many beds and ventilators are currently available in the country for seriously ill COVID-19 patient. This is part of the preparation ahead of the reopening of the Philip Goldson International Airport on August fifteenth due to the expectation that there might be […]
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The Senate met today in Belmopan on four loan motions that were tabled in the House last Friday and were passed after heated debate. Government is borrowing a total of about sixty million Belize dollars, to be used mostly in response to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The first motion brought before the Upper Chamber was […]
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According to Private Sector Senator Mark Lizarraga, the government has no solid plan for economic recovery and the right thing to do is to call elections now to give way for a new administration to put in place a viable plan. Lizarraga says this government does not have the best track record in guarding public […]
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Forty-five thousand persons have benefitted from the COVID-19 Relief Programme by the government; fifteen thousand were directly employed in the tourism industry. Those were the figures presented by Doctor Carla Barnett during the Senate Sitting today. The senate also debated a request for an additional twelve million U.S. dollars, this time from the Inter-American Development […]
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But Lead P.U.P. Senator Michel Chebat is asking where the millions of dollars went, concluding that the government is asking for money for electioneering. Michel Chebat, Lead P.U.P. Senator “A hundred million dollars, Mister President. Can you grasp how much money that is? How many Belizeans could have benefited from that hundred dollars that […]
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Another loan brought before the upper chamber was for one million thirteen thousand U.S. dollars from the C.D.B. for sugar cane farmers to restore production, following the effects of the drought that impacted the sugar industry last year. According to Senator for Government Business, Godwin Hulse, who is also the Minister of Food and Agriculture, […]
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But Senator Mark Lizarraga was quick to crunch the numbers concluding that the million dollars for the drought is not enough because it works out to only about three hundred and five dollars per registered farmer. For Senator Doctor Louis Zabaneh, monies could have been diverted from road contracts to mitigate the negative impacts of […]
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Back in March we told you about the land dispute between the Valley of Peace Farms Limited and the Valley of Peace Farmers Association. The Association is made up of over fifty farmers from the village who plant a number of crops, and as we’ve showed you they are the largest producer of cabbage for […]
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Members of the Christian Workers who work at the Port of Belize this afternoon staged a protest in front of the Port in Belize City. They are complaining that the Port is cutting their salary by ten percent. The management at the Port says that COVID-19 has affected its revenue streams and as such certain […]
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Thirty-one-year-old Anselmo Ack was injured during a shooting incident in Punta Gorda on Tuesday night. The security guard was along with forty-nine-year-old Olympia Pate, the manager of the local Uno gas station, when they were fired upon by persons who attempted to rob them of the day’s proceeds in sales. Pate reported to PG police […]
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At the National Assembly on Tuesday, we had a first-hand view at the archives that date back to the colonial past of Belize. The interesting historical literature shows how the parliamentarians met and passed laws dating back to 1883. Hipolito Novelo takes us back in time when there was no Prime Minister but a Premier. […]
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