Mayor Wagner and a New Belize City Council are Sworn-in channel5belize.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from channel5belize.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mar 5, 2021
A Wrap Up of Municipal Elections 2021
The People’s United Party served the United Democratic Party a major defeat in the 2021 Municipal Elections. The P.U.P. went from controlling three full councils to majority control of all nine. The U.D.P. was left with only two seats in the west where the P.U.P., after many years, was able to make dent in the red hills of the towns by securing five councilor seats. As our wrap up of the municipal elections, we take a cursory look at the results from the elections. Here’s the story.
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Feb 11, 2021
Budget Consultations Continue, G.O.B. Meets with B.N.T.U.
The government continued budget consultations today, preparing for the presentation of the budget in March. Today, a team of high-level ministers met with the Belize National Teachers Union. Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde and Ministers Francis Fonseca and Henry Charles Usher sat down with B.N.T.U. National President Senator Elena Smith and members of the executive. The government made presentations regarding the state of the nation’s economy. It has been a continuous declaration of the new administration that the country is in a financial chokehold. This evening the government released an Analysis of the State of the Nation’s Economy. The report states that Belize’s unemployment rate is more than triple the average unemployment rate throughout the Caribbean and more than quadruple that of Central America; that government revenues fell by almost thirty percent or over three hundred millio
Feb 10, 2021
Will Net Vasquez be Criminally Charged?
Prime Minister Briceño updated the media on the Net Vasquez, B.T.L. Credit Card Scandal. Briceño says that the former Chairman of B.T.L. Nestor Vasquez is querying some of the credit card charges. Vasquez was forced to resign after News Five revealed that he had misused the company’s credit card and racked up bills at B.T.L. Vasquez has hired attorney Estevan Perrera to challenge some of the charges for the period 2016 to 2020. The bill is more than eight hundred thousand dollars and the public was under the impression that Vasquez had paid what he owed as they were calling for him to be criminally charged.