Ready Call Center, a locally based customer care calling center for American cellular telephone company Tracfone, has had a checkered reputation since it opened its doors several years ago in Belize City. It repeatedly ran afoul of the local laws and attracted media attention after some of its workers complained that the company was cheating them.
As the KHMH Commission of Inquiry begins, recently completed audit report cites numerous questionable activities at hospital and Ministry of Health, involving senior officials and employees... The long-awaited Commission of Inquiry into the process for procurement of pharmaceutical and medical supplies at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) began this morning in Belize City with the reading of the recently completed general audit report into the record.
When I bought an old printing press from Norman Bouloy (deceased) for $200 in 1971, the Chandler and Price machine was moved from Benex Press on Nurse Seay Street to 46 Euphrates Avenue. Galento X Neal, a UBAD officer, had rented the Euphrates place for his tailoring business, and UBAD/Amandala later got the other half, or Galento gave us half. It’s a long time ago, and I’m not sure.
“Black Power leader Evan X Hyde, son of a civil service family, articulated and defined the feeling of those Belizeans in their teens and twenties most evocatively in his own poetry and fiction. His movement, the United Black Association for Development (UBAD), created an explicitly sexualized but also antifeminist politics, casting the nation’s redemption as depending on the recuperation of black masculinity from the womanish leaders of female-dominated political parties.”
We are a Third World Country with First World problems, which the authorities think that we’ll solve by First World methods. They will not work. For example, the First World solution to witness intimidation is a Witness Protection Program. Where are we going to get the resources to implement such a program? Also, what protection can the authorities offer to members of the witnesses’ family when they are threatened with bodily harm?
Ministers of Environment of the region discuss what the “industrialized world” owes them, ahead of Copenhagen (Denmark) climate change summit... As unprecedented meteorological occurrences continue to be documented in the region and around the globe, climate change, the accused culprit, has emerged as one of the leading topics on the international fronts.
Further to our telephone conversation earlier this morning on the above subject. As I mentioned to you I also spoke with Councilor Willoughby prior to talking with you.
A hearing involving Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers and the United Democratic Party, (UDP) had been scheduled to take place in the Supreme Court of Justice Minet Hafez on Thursday, November 12, but none of the parties showed up and the matter was adjourned until Thursday, December 10, 2009.
Admitted to ward at KHMH in stable condition... The Institute of Creative Arts (ICA), a division of the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH), has confirmed that paranda legend Paul Nabor, 81, was flown by air ambulance to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) for treatment this morning after being hospitalized at the Southern Regional Hospital on Thursday.
The Operations Manager for Belize Maintenance Limited (BML), Mitchell Danderson, confirmed to Amandala tonight that 100 of 150 workers at the troubled sanitation company responsible for the upkeep of the City were sent home this morning, unable to be paid.
“We are still recovering from what turned out to be a shocking turn of events”— attorney Arthur Saldivar, after the ruling was delivered... Seven accused persons who were charged with money laundering by the Finance Intelligence Unit (FIU) will have to stand trial in the Supreme Court of Belize, according to a ruling handed down this morning by the examining magistrate, Kathleen Lewis, who heard arguments earlier this month in a preliminary inquiry into the $1.5 million money laundering charge.
Anthony Ferguson, a data attendant employed by the National Transport Department, appeared in the #6 Magistrate’s Court this morning before Magistrate Sharon Frazer, where he was arraigned on a charge of attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm.
This morning Chief Justice Dr. Abdulai Conteh made a significant ruling in the case that Mrs. Hirian Good, the widow of the late Captain Charles Good, is bringing against the Government of Belize for wrongfully terminating her from her job as a school warden in August of this year.
