Today the daunting details regarding the secret guarantee Prime Minister, Hon. Said Musa, gave to the Belize Bank for Universal Health Services (UHS) were disclosed. So far only a select few people, mostly parliamentarians, have seen the purported guarantee, the latest being Leader of the Opposition UDP, Hon. Dean Barrow, who today questioned the document’s very authenticity and Musa’s authority to venture into such an open-ended promise to pay UHS’s debt to the bank, a debt now standing at $33 million.
Amandala late this evening spoke with a horrified and very angry mother, Semona Bacab, a resident of Rivero Street, who said that she is convinced that someone at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) put her son, Jomo Lamb, 15, who was shot five times on Thursday night, April 18, in the morgue when he was not dead, leading, she believes, to his death.
On Friday morning, police took a 17-year-old to the Belize Magistrate’s Court, where he was charged with murder in the shooting death of Jomo Lamb, 15, who had been shot the previous night sometime after 8:00.
In a sense, when Edgar X Richardson, 59, passed away on Saturday, April 21, in Los Angeles, the dream that was UBAD passed with him. We say that because Edgar X participated only in the first of UBAD’s several phases. But that first phase, from February to September of 1969, was the purest of all UBAD’s phases. And Edgar X Richardson himself was the purest of all those leaders who served in UBAD.
The Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL) is fighting an order granted by Supreme Court Justice John Muria calling on the company to reinstate Mrs. Christine Perriott, general secretary of the Belize Communication Workers’ Union and grade VI Internet technician at BTL. The company terminated Perriott on February 27, but she has gone to the court for a reinstatement, claiming that BTL fired her because of her union activities.
Christine Perriott’s fight with the Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL) is turning out quite like the fight between David and Goliath. BTL fired her on February 27, but instead of walking always with the nearly $20,000 BTL paid to her, she launched a court battle, seeking her full reinstatement to her job. Perriott said she could not sit idly by while the court hears her case and tries to make a final ruling, so she sought interim reinstatement. When she won it, however, BTL immediately put her on indefinite special leave, and told her she would be paid no salary for 25 weeks, because that’s how much extra money she got on her termination.
Shortly after 10:00 tonight, a 15-year-old resident of Rivero Street, Jomo Lamb, was shot six times in the back, according to police sources, as he was on Baracat Street, just two blocks away from his home. Tonight, Amandala spoke with a tear-filled aunt, who could not believe the news that she had just received.
Tomorrow night, at 7:00, seven young, attractive and talented young ladies, students of St. Michael’s College, will be vying for the prestigious title of “Queen” of their school in a pageant to be held at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall.
No representative of the Government of Belize appeared in court today to defend Government in the lawsuit lodged by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), in which the Chamber is asking the court to order the Government to collect the revenues it had surrendered to privateers through the privatization of the Belize Companies Registry between 2000 and 2005.
The Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) resumed today, Thursday, with in camera sessions to hear testimonies from attorneys Norman Neal and Christopher Coye.
In an effort to force the Government of Belize to release the guarantee document GOB says binds it to settle a $33 million debt for Universal Health Services (UHS) with the Belize Bank, the Association for Concerned Belizeans (ACB) has now gone to the Supreme Court.
Domestic worker Phillipa Longsworth, 60, is mourning the shooting death of Earl “Old Man” Figueroa, 29, her second son to die violently. Earl’s younger brother, Edward “Bones” Figueroa, 20, was stabbed to death almost 7 years ago, on July 4, 1999. The incident occurred on Curassow Street, not far from his home.
There were three separate stabbing incidents in Belize City over the weekend, but only one was fatal. Police said that on Saturday night, sometime around 2:30 in the wee hours of the morning, they were called to an area near West Canal where they found Albert Castillo, 36, a chef at Belize Sugar Industry (BSI), suffering from what appeared to be two stab wounds to the neck.
