There was a second murder in Belize City. A mechanic was shot while inside his vehicle on Santa Barbara Street on Friday night. Thirty-seven year old Edwin Vanegas was murdered after he left a party in the Port Loyola area. Police say he had an argument with another man and was shot and killed as […]
The third murder for the weekend takes us to Hattieville, where O’Neil Ferguson was murdered inside his home in the Village. Ferguson’s family describes him as a giving and friendly person but there was someone who wanted him dead. Ferguson was shot several times on Friday night and his girlfriend was also injured during the […]
There is another COVID related death to report tonight; the person is a male in his seventies. He succumbed earlier today at the Northern Regional Hospital so there are now sixteen COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic in Belize. The latest samples today identified forty-six new cases putting the total number of cases […]
The Orange Walk District is reporting the highest number of COVID cases. In the most recent samples, as many as seven employees of the Orange Walk Town Council was tested, that is more than ninety-five percent of the employees in the department. The first case was identified last week; this was followed by six additional […]
Still on COVID 19; a Belize City family was detained on Friday and sent to quarantine in San Ignacio. Pashwan Stuart says that she along with a few family members were at home on Aloe Vera Street getting ready to celebrate her sister’s twenty-eighth birthday when her brother showed up. The problem here is that […]
Tonight, the family of police constable Bernard Ical is hoping for his safe return. A search by the B.D.F. and Police is underway deep inside the Columbia Forest Reserve between Machaquila and San Jose, Hawaii. Ical was last seen on September second. The father of three is part of the border patrol deployed to the […]
Meanwhile Police Corporal Anibal Mena is in a critical condition and hospitalized in Belize City. The forty-four year old corporal was involved in a road traffic accident on Thursday evening. He was on a motorcycle on the road heading to Chan Chen in Corozal. According to Mena’s wife Teresita, the accident happened at around four-thirty […]
A resident of San Pedro is the latest victim to have succumbed to COVID-19. Earlier today, Cecilia Tzib lost her battle with coronavirus after being intubated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for the past week. News Five understands that the woman, the mother of a nanny employed by a prominent developer in San Pedro, […]
As to the number of new cases, after five o’clock this evening and after the press conference by Doctor Marvin Manzanero, the Ministry of Health’s infographic was released showing that of two hundred and sixty-one samples processed, thirty-four are positive. That staggering number places the total cases at one thousand one hundred and fifty-two. This […]
During the prime minister’s press conference last Friday, he announced the introduction of antigen rapid tests to replace the existing PCR tests that are being used to determine an individual’s COVID status. Those tests were supposed to have been rolled out in Belize and Orange Walk districts but the process has been halted because of […]
PCR tests have been touted as the gold standard for testing for COVID-19 and the Ministry of Health has been using this method consistently. But there are concerns that even after clearing the fourteen-day quarantine process, COVID victims are still testing positive for the disease. Today, Doctor Manzanero explained what their observations are with PCR […]
According to the Director of Health Services, it will take some patients several months to recover from the symptoms of COVID-19. He says that the observation is similar to dengue hemorrhagic fever. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services “We’re also being made aware that some persons, after they have converted and the result […]
Several persons remain in police custody pending further investigation into a viral sex video that shows a woman being forced to perform oral sex on a man while another instructs her on what to do. The video was leaked on Wednesday and, shortly after it reached the desk of the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. […]
Until those charges are laid, ComPol Chester Williams says that “Big Tom” will be taken to the central prison under the gang state of emergency, which was declared in early July following a spike in gang related murders. It is being done to hopefully allow the female victim to be comfortable enough to cooperate with […]
Hurricane Nana moved across southern Belize with a rapid trajectory causing far less damage than expected. It could have been devastating, but instead Belizeans woke up this morning with a huge sigh of relief in the aftermath of the storm. Belize emerged from the storm with no loss of life and destruction to property has […]
This morning, a team from the National Emergency Management Organization attached to the Stann Creek office was deployed to the southern parts of district where a complete damage assessment was to be undertaken. The purpose, according to Doctor Tanya Nunez, is for NEMO to be able to provide necessary support in rebuilding and repairing damaged […]
It’s been nineteen years since a hurricane has devastated Punta Gorda, Toledo; that was back in October 2001 when Hurricane Iris, a category four hurricane made landfall near Monkey River. Back then, homes were destroyed, streets flooded and trees uprooted so even though Nana developed into a category one hurricane, residents were bracing for its […]
As we said, the agricultural sector has been the most impacted. The banana industry, which is the mainstay in the south, is said to have suffered millions of dollars in damages. And a full assessment will be known in the days ahead. The ravages of Nana in southern Belize are also being felt all the […]
While Tropical Storm Nana was predicted to make landfall anywhere along the coast between Belize City and Punta Gorda – most city residents bunkered down and activated their hurricane plans in preparation for the worse. But, thankfully, the old capital only received some strong winds and some rains – and there are no casualties or […]
Tropical Storm Nana became a hurricane around nine on Wednesday night and it hit Belize at midnight as a category one storm. It made landfall along the coast between Hopkins and Placencia. The preliminary information shows that the system hit the country with winds of seventy-five miles per hour, but later, the system downgraded to […]
While the brunt of the storm was felt in the south, the rest of the country experienced some winds and rains and some communities, for instance in the north, report minimal change in weather conditions during the passage of the hurricane. We asked Meteorologist Shanea Young if the storm itself was weak considering the extent […]
While Hurricane Nana passed over Belize within couple hours and downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved over Guatemala, the National Met Service advises that communities, particularly in the south, should exercise caution as there is a flood warning. Meteorologist Shanea Young shares what the weather conditions are expected to be like over the […]
The existing curfew under the countrywide state of emergency expires at midnight, which means that on Friday morning, Belizeans will be free to move around the country. It does not mean, however, that the country is being opened up once again because specific restrictions remain in place. Businesses such as rum shops, bars and night […]
Tropical Storm Nana is expected to strengthen into a hurricane within hours and make landfall along the coast sometime between midnight and six on Thursday morning. There is a hurricane watch from Belize City to southern Belize along the border with Guatemala. Residents have been preparing for the expected hurricane which is predicted to move […]
Now to the weather coordinates. Tropical Storm Nana continues towards the coastline of Belize. There is no precise area of landfall at this time but the national meteorological service says it will be anywhere between Belize City down to Punta Gorda. What we know right now about the storm is that it has slowed down […]
