On Friday, Cayo South Area Representative and the Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing Julius Espat made revelations into Belize Infrastructure Limited’s inner workings. The Barrow administration created BIL, and on Friday, Minister Espat alleged that BIL was a vehicle used for the “misappropriation of public monies without public scrutiny.” According to Minister Espat, an […]
This week is a critical week for the Briceño administration as they head into budget consultations with the unions. The past and new administrations have had to borrow one million dollars a day to keep on paying the staggering public sector wage bill. At the same time, the Briceño administration has publicly stated that they […]
And with the debate on wage reductions now in the public discourse, following versions one and two of the Belize Business Bureau letter, the Public Service Union expressed their concern about the possible wage reduction. The unions will be participating in a budget consultation meeting with the Government of Belize this Wednesday. According to a […]
As a part of cutting that wage bill, all ministers of government are on a ten percent salary cut. Today, during the Open Your Eyes Morning Show, Minister of Infrastructure Julius Espat shared his personal views on reducing the wage bill. Julius Espat, Minister of Infrastructure “I don’t think anybody wants to be in […]
The National Trade Congress of Belize will be meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde, Education Minister Francis Fonseca, and the Public Service, Constitutional and Political Reform Henry Usher for a budget consultation. The meeting is scheduled to take place on Friday as part of the Briceño Administration’s consultations with different stakeholders ahead of March’s […]
As those critical budget consultations continue, the Briceño administration is hoping for compromise from the unions. The new administration, still within its first one hundred days in office, must figure out how to dig the country out of the massive financial crises that they have inherited. In responding to a question about norteños feeling abandoned […]
A man was shot in Belize City today. It happened in broad daylight and the victim has been identified as Jose Santos, a forty-three-year-old truck driver of Eight Miles. Santos was inside a delivery truck on Mahogany Street when he was shot by a man on a bicycle. News Five was first on the scene […]
Why would police shoot an elderly man? That’s the question that the media tried to get answers to today. Sixty-seven-year-old Lionel Llewellyn Arnold Senior is in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Arnold Senior was shot once by a Belize City police officer on Friday night on Lakeview Street. According to the Officer Commanding Professional […]
Today, the People’s United Party announced that all of its nine municipal slates for the March third elections had been finalized. The final rounds of conventions for the municipal elections were held in the south over the weekend. On Saturday, one hundred and twenty-four delegates participated in Punta Gorda’s convention and elected mayoral candidate, Charles […]
A new mayoral candidate has emerged in the capital city. Today, Ralston Frazer launched his candidacy as an independent mayoral candidate for Belmopan. Frazer has served as a U.D.P. councilor and deputy mayor of Belmopan, and more recently, as the city administrator. The now-independent candidate believes that his two terms in Belmopan City Hall have […]
Things are heating up in the north in Corozal, where on March third voters will simultaneously select a new area rep for the Corozal Bay division and town council. That northern town currently has a P.U.P. council; led by Rigoberto Vellos. Vellos says their goal is to retain control over the local government, forging political […]
And it is now official – Elvia Vega-Samos is the P.U.P. standard-bearer that will be going head-to-head against Hilberto Campos of the U.D.P. for Corozal Bay. The division was left vacant by former area rep, David Vega, who died one month after being elected to the post. The by-election will be held simultaneously on March […]
Several persons had applied for the job to replace now deceased David “Dido” Vega as Corozal Bay area rep for the People’s United Party. But on Saturday night, the national executive of the P.U.P. came out en masse to officially endorse Elvia Vega-Samos as its new standard-bearer. Party Leader and Prime Minister John Briceño was […]
Ya’axche Conservation Trust and the European Nature Trust have partnered to promote climate-resilient farming techniques to ensure food security and protect natural resources such as forests. It has been more than a decade since Y.C.T. began to work with eighty farmers to get them to see the value in sustainable farming practices. So, as a […]
Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa, Minister of Sustainable Development Orlando Habet, and Minister of Border Security Florencio Marin did a helicopter fly-over of the Chiquibul Forest today. The three government ministers were accompanied by the Friends for Conservation and Development, who co-manages the forest. After the aerial tour of the protected area, Executive Director […]
As you heard, the three ministers accompanied the F.C.D. on the aerial tour of the Chiquibul Forest. Orlando Habet, the Minister for Sustainable Development, which includes forestry and environment, was on the trip and spoke with the media about his observations and some preliminary actions to be taken. Orlando Habet, Minister of Sustainable Development […]
Effective tonight at midnight, the price of diesel at the pumps will increase by forty-six cents. This takes the retail price of the fuel from eight dollars and seventy-four cents to nine dollars and twenty cents. Last week, the cost of regular gas went up by fifty-one cents and is now being sold at nine […]
Millions tuned in to the Super Bowl on Sunday, including many here at home who were glued to the TV screen to see one player in particular: Rakeem Nunez-Roches. He has roots in Belize, and so Belizeans were cheering him on. Nunez-Roches is Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive lineman, and his team defeated the Kansas City […]
Doctor Giovanni Solorzano has been appointed as the new chair of the National AIDS Commission and Country Coordinating Mechanism. Doctor Solorzano’s appointment was made effective on Wednesday, February third. He succeeds former Chair Laura Tucker-Longsworth. Doctor Solorzano has more than twenty-five years in the medical field and has worked with the government since 1991. Currently […]
Tonight, the family of Rafael Patrick Garrido is seeking the public’s assistance in locating him. He was last seen on Wednesday, February third. Before his disappearance, Garrido had made a trip to Orange Walk to conduct a business transaction. Garrido was dropped off at mile thirty-one on the Philip Goldson Highway on their return, and […]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees donated medical and personal COVID-19 protective equipment to the Valley of Peace community isolation facility. The donation includes divider panels, bed sheets, pillows and covers, blankets, towels, hand soap, and sanitizers, as well as cleaning supplies. According to the UNHCR, the supplies are to “enhance access to health services, […]
Today, the Taiwan Embassy handed over five hundred and twenty-three bales of fabric to the Ministry of Human Development, Families, and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs. It was a donation from the Taiwan Embassy in Belize at the cost of ninety-four thousand six hundred and two dollars. The donation includes polyester, rayon, and spandex, distributed to women’s […]
