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Coming close on the heels of the COVID cluster from two public health facilities in the Cayo District last Friday, another cluster has been detected in Caye Caulker. Today, the Caye Caulker Village Council put up a Facebook post in which it informed that twenty-one cases had surfaced in that community and that Coast Guard […]
Written on August 23, 2021 | Posted in
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The virus moves when you move, so there is need to reduce movement and keep wearing your masks. Now, the healthcare system is already strained because the team is dealing with the outbreak as well as the vaccination efforts, so the public needs to adhere to restrictions. Doctor Melissa Diaz-Musa, the Deputy Regional Health Manager […]
Written on August 23, 2021 | Posted in
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Viewers may have to make some additional adjustments to their eating, drinking and work life, as G.O.B. announces several changes to the COVID-19 regulations. With the exception of the tourist destinations of San Pedro and Caye Caulker, all restaurants in the Belize District can now offer outdoor dining only, at fifty percent capacity, via advanced […]
Written on August 23, 2021 | Posted in
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Well-known internist, Doctor Fernando Cuellar has been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19. On Saturday, he began feeling congested with a headache and low-grade fever. One day later, he experienced excessive weakness. This morning, his oxygen saturation fell and so Doctor Cuellar checked himself into the hospital. A CT scan showed bilateral pneumonia and so […]
Written on August 23, 2021 | Posted in
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Health personnel who work at several departments at the San Ignacio Community Hospital are in isolation after they tested positive for COVID-19 this week. There is a possibility that the number could rise because of the nature of their work and the persons they may have interacted with before the detection was made. Four of […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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Interestingly, the cluster at the San Ignacio and Benque Viejo health facilities happened around the same time that neighbouring Guatemala had reported a collapse of its health system due to the rise in COVID cases. Today, that country reported the presence of the deadly lambda variant as well. We asked Doctor Morey if he believes […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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“Unfair, inconsiderate and simply distasteful” – strong words used by the Central Medical Laboratory in a letter sent today to the Ministry of Health and Wellness on the way overtime is being calculated. On Thursday, a meeting was held with Central Lab employees on payment of overtime. The new proposed structure was reportedly presented by […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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New COVID-19 regulations will be coming into effect at midnight on Sunday. An official statutory instrument is yet to be released, but today, we learned from the Prime Minister some of what those new regulations will entail. PM Briceño says several of the new regulations will affect the Belize District exclusively. And, if the numbers […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño says his administration is not walking back on its position against states of emergency as a tool to tackle crime. The Briceño Administration has come under criticism since a state of emergency was declared on Thursday. Some are of the view that PM Briceño, who is on record criticizing the former […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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From a broader perspective, PM Briceño says his administration is working on keeping children in school and creating job opportunities as an approach to addressing gang violence. Prime Minister John Briceño “But it is more than that. We need to be able to reach out to that community, especially the young children. My appeal […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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There is a state of emergency in effect for ten locations designated as hot spots on the south side of Belize City. It also includes the entire area behind the Charles Bartlett Hyde Building known as Back-a-Lands. It is the neighborhood in which sixteen-year-old Kanye King was executed on Monday morning. Since his death, the […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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With a recent spike in violent crimes, including murders, there have been threats of arson, as well as failed attempts to torch the properties of families believed to be involved in those incidents. Earlier this week the residence of Lisa Lauriano was gutted by fire deliberately set by someone in the wake of the stabbing […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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In many of the instances where armed assaults are tied to gang violence, the shooters are often teen minors. In the case of the arson attempts on Park Street, the family, having viewed surveillance footage of the incident, believes that the would-be arsonist is also a minor. ComPol Williams spoke briefly about teen gang members […]
Written on August 20, 2021 | Posted in
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Southside Belize City is on thirty days of lockdown. The Governor-General of Belize declared that effective today, August nineteenth; a public emergency exists in that part of the city. This latest S.O.E. was proclaimed as a result of increasing gang violence in the city, particularly gang-related shootings. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says the department […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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ComPol Williams says the cabinet agreed that the best option to deal with the spike in gang-related crimes is to instate an S.O.E., considering the fact that the police have been unable to gather sufficient evidence through witnesses and victims for arrests to be made. But, the Briceño Administration has long criticized using state of […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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Earlier today, word spread like wildfire that the national referral hospital was at and above capacity for critical patients. The information being posted on social media was that all intensive care units were full; that the COVID units overflowed and that the surgical ward was full and overflowing to the medical ward. There was also […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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The number of COVID-19 cases now stands at over eight hundred as the positive cases are being identified across the country. The Belize District alone is responsible for almost half of that number. Today, News Five spoke with Deputy Regional Health Manager of the Central Health Region, Doctor Melissa Diaz-Musa about the COVID-19 spread. […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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While it has been confirmed that there are multiple COVID-19 variants in Belize, the delta is sixty percent more transmissible. There is significant spread among households and at workplaces. Doctor Melissa Diaz-Musa says that there is a range of symptoms that residents should make note of. Dr. Melissa Diaz-Musa, Deputy Regional Health Manager, Central […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, Belize received one hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and fifty doses of Pfizer vaccine courtesy of the U.S. Government. Plans are already in place for administering it to children from ages twelve to seventeen. In the Belize District, there are sixty primary schools and eighteen high schools, and consent forms are being […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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Comments Off on Central Health Region Ready for Pfizer Adolescent Roll Out
In Orange Walk, Muffles College students will be among the first to be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine during a vaccination drive for their students on Monday. News Five spoke to Vice-Principal Maria Urbina about the effort to get their students back into the classrooms. Maria Urbina, Vice Principal, Muffles College “We are working […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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Vaccinations for minors from ages twelve to seventeen are to commence on Monday. Parents accompanying their children to the various vaccinations centers across the country will have to submit a consent form in order for their kids to get their COVID jabs. According to Chief Executive Officer Dian Maheia, a schedule will be released so […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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The academic year 2021 is set to commence later this month, with high schools and primary schools reopening on August twenty-third and thirtieth, respectively. The Ministry of Education, on the advice of health officials, has called off the return to face-to-face instructions until the number of infections can be stemmed. Until then, students will be […]
Written on August 19, 2021 | Posted in
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This morning, the press lay-waited Prime Minister John Briceño as he left a radio station to ask him about a range of burning issues; chief among them – the surprise departure of Central Bank Governor Gustavo Vasquez after only four months. Vasquez had told staff he “faced stiff opposition from the Ministry of Finance and […]
Written on August 18, 2021 | Posted in
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Last week it made headlines that B.T.L. cellular accounts assigned to personnel within the Ministry of Rural Transformation, Community Development, Labour and Local Government were switched to Smart mobile accounts. In response, the Public Service Union issued a release stating that the decision is contrary to the government’s best interest and appears to be a […]
Written on August 18, 2021 | Posted in
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PM Briceño says the Government of Belize is still giving millions of dollars in business to B.T.L. and that the switch to Smart of some government phone plans should be a “wake-up” call. Prime Minister John Briceño “As it is right, now the government is propping up B.T.L. to the tune of millions of […]
Written on August 18, 2021 | Posted in
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