In two days, the race to lead Belize City will come down to fewer than eight hundred PUP delegates. Deputy Mayor Eluide Miller and Councilor Allan Pollard are battling for the mayoral nomination in what is shaping up to be the party’s most fiercely contested
A deadline has come and gone, but Belize’s trade unions say the Prime Minister’s office has not even acknowledged their demands. The National Trade Union Congress of Belize gave Prime Minister John Briceño until today to respond to an eleven-point list of concerns delivered earlier
For two weeks, the unions have been raising their voices, but they are still waiting to see whether the Briceño administration is listening. After joining forces to publicly outline their demands during a two-hour press conference, the unions formally placed those concerns before the Prime
Could today’s growing frustration spark the kind of mass protest Belize witnessed in 2005? We put that question to Union Senator Glenfield Dennison, asking whether organized labor and the wider public could once again unite against the government. Dennison reminded us that the historic 2005
The NTUCB says its demand to remove Markhelm Lizarraga as chairman of BTL’s Board is not an empty threat. Its deadline to the Briceño administration expires today, even as the Prime Minister maintains that Lizarraga and the board did nothing wrong when they supported BTL’s
Government says the proposed Semi-Autonomous Revenue Authority would modernize Belize’s tax system and give employees more flexibility to meet the demands of a changing economy. But the plan is meeting growing resistance from public officers, and attorney Darrel Bradley is questioning whether government needs to
The dispute over government’s controversial NeoPeople human resources system is intensifying. The Public Service Union is urging public officers to boycott the pilot program, accusing the Ministry of Public Service of moving ahead without its consent. The union has raised concerns about privacy, biometric data
For many Belizeans, the cost-of-living crisis is making it harder to keep the lights on, put food on the table and stretch every dollar. But can politicians who receive generous salaries, allowances and stipends truly understand that struggle? As concerns grow over rising prices and
A deadly highway accident that claimed the life of a seventy-seven-year-old retiree remains under investigation tonight. Erlene Gillett was crossing the Philip Goldson Highway when a Dodge van struck her on Thursday. Today, police provided new details about the fatal collision and the direction of
The Belize Defense Force is mourning the loss of one of its soldiers following a deadly motorcycle crash on Thursday afternoon. Twenty-five-year-old Estevan Cus reportedly lost control of his Lifan motorcycle and crashed into a guardrail along the Thomas Vincent Ramos Highway. He was not
