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Nov 10, 09 |
City Councillors Usher and Espejo throw tantrum
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It slipped under the radar but last Friday during a caucus at City Hall two Councilors went at each other in a heated confrontation. It happened after Councilor Roger Espejo questioned a contractor about the amount of material being delivered for a ...[Read More] |
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Nov 04, 09 |
Opposition Leader speaks about Belize’s economic crisis
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By now you would know or have been feeling the pinch of the economic recession. That was announced last Thursday by Prime Minister Dean Barrow and this Tuesday, the Statistical Unit released figures that the economy contracted by one point seven perc...[Read More] |
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Oct 30, 09 |
Michael Finnegan wins ministerial tug of war
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Dawn Jorguenson tears poured from her eyes when she spoke to News Five on October fifteenth. She was upset that a parcel of land that was in her family’s possession from the sixties was taken away by Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo. Jo...[Read More] |
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Oct 29, 09 |
PM approves of City Hall’s discounts/incentives on property tax
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The prime minister also commented on the current debacle at City Hall. Councillor Leila Peyrefitte held the post of Revenue Collections for the years of 2006 to 2008. During those years she initiated a plan to offer discounts and incentives to busin...[Read More] |
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Oct 29, 09 |
PM supports Returnable Containers Bill
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August twenty-fourth, a bill to add a deposit of twenty-five cents on imports of beverages in glass bottles and tin went through a first reading in the House of Representatives. The Association of Protected Areas Management Organization and the Beliz...[Read More] |
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Oct 29, 09 |
U.D.P.’s process against mayor shows accountability says PM
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Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers has a number of legal battles in court. Attorney Hubert Elrington is challenging on her behalf, the legality of Patrick Tillett as Financial Director at City Hall and her other lawyer, Michael Peyrefitte, is def...[Read More] |
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Oct 29, 09 |
Minister of Education voted for mayor’s expulsion
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That being said, it is known that the mayor does not have too many friends in the U.D.P. hierarchy and that they can’t wait to see the back of her. One man who is not holding back is Minister Patrick Faber who told News Five on Wednesday that he pers...[Read More] |
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Oct 26, 09 |
P.U.P. agrees to keep the peace over party assets
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Both the P.U.P. and the U.D.P. had a busy weekend. While the P.U.P. headed west, the U.D.P. executive met in the city on Saturday. In the west, the contentious issue of ownership of the Belize Times, Independence Hall and Positive Vibes Radio, was ve...[Read More] |
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Oct 26, 09 |
Will mayor be kicked out of U.D.P.? Ethics committee set up
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Meanwhile in the governing party, Mayor Zenaida Flowers returned from a conference in England on Saturday on the same day her party’s National Party Council was meeting to establish the Ethics and Integrity Committee which will determine whether or n...[Read More] |
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Oct 23, 09 |
Councillor Peyrefitte denies breaking CitCo regulations...
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The Belize City Council is known to be broke and unable to pay bills. The mayor has been criminally charged and while she was out of the country, new allegations came out of more improprieties against her. Now there's another bombshell on a councillo...[Read More] |
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