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Apr 23, 2021 Hugo Patt Area Representative for Corozal North, Hugo Patt criticized the 2021/2022 budget as being a bill that creates additional burdens for the Belizean people.  He noted that while the U.D.P. administration was criticized for its borrowing practices, they never cut the salaries of public servants.  And while the records will show that the former administration did enact a one-year increment freeze in 2020, Patt condemned the Briceño administration’s recent hiring ...

Apr 22, 2021 2021 Budget Debate Off to a Tepid Start While the unions made their presence known outside the National Assembly, on the inside, it was business as usual for the first day of the Budget Debate, as the members took turns both criticizing and supporting parts of the budget that most directly affect their ministerial portfolios and constituents. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has excerpts from day one.   Isani Cayetano, Reporting Kicking off the 2021 budget debate this morning...

Apr 22, 2021 Faber and Fonseca Spar over Unions During his rebuttal to the budget presentation, Leader of the Opposition Patrick Faber raised the issue of outstanding taxes owed to the Government of Belize. He commended the current administration for its decision to allocate funds to beef up tax collection; however, he questioned whether the Briceño administration has the political will to go after large companies with outstanding tax debts.  Faber lauded the unions for standing up a...

Danish authorities have been accused of putting the futures of dozens of refugee children at risk by threatening to expel them to Syria, despite warnings that it is not safe to do so. In a statement released on Wednesday, the childrens rights group Save the Children said it was "deeply concerned" to discover that at least 70 refugee children are at risk of being expelled to Syria. Denmark sparked an outcry after it announced plans to strip Syrian refugees from Damascus of temporary protections ...

Denmark sacrificing the future of 70 Syrian children Format Save the Children is deeply concerned to discover that 70 refugee children are at risk of being returned to Syria by the Danish authorities, which would be detrimental to their physical and mental safety. Hundreds of Syrian refugees from the Damascus region are at risk of losing their Danish residency permits, which puts them at risk of being sent back to Syria -- a country steeped in conflict for ten years. Save the Children can confi...

It is just 5 months since the General Elections and already one PUP Area Representative is receiving the wrath of those he was supposed to represent. A video forwarded to the Guardian Newspaper shows villagers in the Corozal South West constituency in the village of San Narciso, publicly rejecting the Area Representative for that division, Ramiro Ramírez. They took down his flag and as they did, bitterly complained that he had abandoned them. The show was streamed live and at least one of the ...

Area Representative for the Mesopotamia division in Belize City, Hon. Shyne Barrow, provided some 500 food packages to his constituents on Tuesday April 13. Shyne told The Guardian that the distribution of food items comes after he appealed to some of his family members in the U.S. for him to be able to assist his constituents in these trying times. Barrow explains that the food was distributed to those persons in his constituency who are currently unemployed. The package includes basic commodi...

  His colleague, the member for Mesopotamia, “Shyne” Barrow said that in his view,Espat’s use of the term “boy” was both belittling and racial. He says the exchange people immediately started to contact him following the exchange.   Reporter “Do you think boy is a term of belittlement or it is a term of a racist put down?”   Shyne Barrow, Area Representative, Mesopotamia “Yes, I believe it is both. I got several texts from people in my constituency outraged and they felt that...

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  Patrick Faber “Madam Speaker, I will ask you to have him apologize to me.  That remark is completely unparliamentary.”   Julius Espat “Madam Speaker, I will repeat myself, emergency funding of twelve million dollars was spent.  Madam Speaker, twelve million dollars was spent when it was never spent before.  Twelve million dollars built a hundred roads, twelve million dollars hired forty contractors.  Twelve million dollars was spent legally.”   Patrick Faber “Madam Speaker, t...