Early this afternoon, the Governor General, Sir Colville Young, penned his signature to put into law, G.O.B.’s acquisition of Belize Telemedia. Just like that in a period of twenty four [...]
No doubt that you’ve have been following the news that Government has seized control of ninety-four percent of the shares in Telemedia. And after the legal formalities, Telemedia is now [...]
In the private sector, one of the first to weigh in is the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In a stern release issued late Monday evening, the B.C.C.I. said [...]
A day after government announced it was nationalizing Telemedia; the debate is raging on the airwaves and in the board rooms. While the Prime Minister says the take over will [...]
Still on the biggest story so far, in the Senate today, the vote was not unanimous on the Telecommunications Act. Nine senators supported the bill, none were against, two abstained [...]
Hector Silva was one of two Senators who abstained from voting on the matter. Silva said he is against monopolies but the areas in this B.T.L. takeover are so grey [...]
Earlier we told you that Anwar Barrow was a member of the new Telemedia Board, but before that, in Belmopan, when the Senate debate got underway, Barrow was named Senator. [...]
The Hayward Charitable Belize Trust owns approximately seventy percent of Telemedia and this evening, it issued a release regarding its stake in Telemedia. Hayward’s view is that the nationalization is [...]
Citrus should be sweet, but the industry has been going sour for quite a while. The Citrus Growers Association wanted to unseat three of its directors on the board of [...]
Also in court today, Magistrate Tracy Sosa heard a case of Obtaining Property by Deception and the woman in the hot seat was thirty year old Gina Kelly Conorquie. It [...]
A Junior College student will not make orientation this school year as he finds himself behind bars tonight on charges of Aggravated Assault upon a police constable. Twenty year old [...]
A postmortem was conducted on the body of Leroy “Red Ants” Rhaburn. Rhaburn was stabbed and killed during a Friday night altercation with Walter Beaton at Kevin’s Bar at the [...]
Chief trouble spots around the country in times of flooding will be given top priority over the coming weeks. This afternoon, the Ministry of Works assigned contracts after the Inter-American [...]
