Mayors across the country are facing financial problems created by the impact of the COVID-19. Like businesses, councils are not able to conduct business and collect revenues. The entire Cayo District has been placed under enhanced quarantine measures and Mayor of Santa Elena/San Ignacio, Earl Trapp says that his council will not be able to […]
On Monday we reported on the death of fifty-five-year-old Hubert Pipersburgh, the Economic Advisor to the Belize City Council, who died as a result of complications related to the COVID-19. As we’ve shared, Pipersburgh’s wife Maria Estella Recinos shared how she desperately tried to medical attention for Pipersburgh. She gave a timeline to provide the […]
COVID-19, that’s what the Belize Medical and Dentist Association said today. On Monday the association sent out a release sharing the concerns of doctors, nurses and other medical staff on the frontline. Those concerns include the quality and accessibility to personal protective gears; adequate trainings, as well testing of medical workers for COVID-19. Today, we […]
In our interview with Doctor Atanacio Cobb, he shared that the problem appears to be a lack of communication from top managers to clinicians and other workers on the ground. He says that many junior frontline workers fear to speak out because of victimization. Doctor Cobb called on the medical authorities to address these issues […]
Patient Six remains in self-isolation in his home in San Ignacio Town. The middle-aged male is believed to have contracted COVID-19 from patient four, Hubert Pipersburgh, who died from the virus on Sunday. Patient six would travel with Pipersburgh from San Ignacio to Belize City regularly and says that he did not show the regular […]
To defeat the COVID-19 Prime Minister Dean Barrow says that the public’s full cooperation is needed. Doctor Marvin Manzanero’s team will be boosted by health professionals from the private sector while Prime Minister Dean Barrow is asking Belizeans to be confident in the health professional as the battle against COVID-19 just begins. PM Barrow pledges […]
One more issue from Ask the Experts. To wear a mask or not to a wear a mask – it’s the question that’s on most people’s mind at some point during this COVID-19 pandemic. The research and advice on the issue is still developing – where some recognized institutions abroad are not promoting the use […]
Even though several officers are under fire for questionable and deplorable behaviour during the state of emergency and curfew, there are others who are holding their own as frontline persons on the ground. The health and safety of the thousands of police officers is being addressed by top cop Chester Williams. The ComPol say that […]
In Belize City, one of the efforts to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus involves the vulnerable homeless population. A number of agencies are collaborating and have picked up and placed homeless individuals at the MCC Grounds, where aside from shelter, they are provided with three meals a day. So far, the plan is […]
There is a large group of Belizeans living in the US which has become the epicenter for the novel coronavirus. Belizeans now wishing to return home are not able to do so because the borders here have been closed. Belizean-American Cherilyn Godfrey Brown resides in New York and members of her family, including her husband, […]
There are seven known cases of COVID 19 now, the first Belizean to die here from the virus is fifty-five-year-old Hubert Pipersburgh; he passed away on Sunday at the isolation unit of the K.H.M.H. The San Ignacio resident tested positive on Friday, April third. Pipersburgh was experiencing fever, a mild cough and difficulty breathing five […]
While Prime Minister Dean Barrow says that herculean efforts were done to attempt to save him, Pipersburgh’s wife says otherwise. In an emotional Facebook post, Maria Recinos shared her family’s ordeal when they desperately sought medical attention for Pipersburgh. Recinos concludes that based on her experience Belize, is not ready to handle this pandemic. The […]
On Sunday, Belize confirmed its fifth COVID-19 case. Patient five is a Belizean student who returned from the U.S.A. via Mexico and remains in strict quarantine. The student arrived in Belize on Friday, April third, and as we said is at a quarantine facility. He is without symptoms and stable. Prime Minister Dean Barrow […]
Belize has confirmed seven cases of the deadly novel coronavirus so far. Two hundred and sixty-eight persons have been tested so far. Patient four, fifty-five-year-old Hubert Pipersburgh, died from the virus on Sunday, while in the isolation unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The two new cases are both males and are also from […]
Late this afternoon, the Prime Minister released a recorded statement after today’s meeting of the National Oversight Committee. PM Dean Barrow announced new measures. The first is that the entire Cayo District will be placed under quarantine. The Cayo District has recorded three of the seven COVID-19 cases. Buses will no longer run to and […]
The National Oversight Committee took additional measures with respect to the rest of the country. Hardware stores that were allowed to keep their doors open in the first list are now only to offer delivery services. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “The lists of approved business will continue in effect but there are some changes […]
The Belize City Council, the Belize Territorial Volunteers and many others are mourning the passing of Hubert Pipersburgh, the first casualty of COVID-19 in the country. The fifty-five-year-old returned to Belize several years ago after living in the United States for quite some time. Upon his return, Pipersburgh became active in the sociopolitical discourse before […]
Mayor Bernard Wagner is among a group of employees at City Hall who have been sequestered inside their homes after being swabbed over the weekend. They remain in mandatory isolation after having interacted with Pipersburgh as late as March twenty-third, despite testing negative for COVID-19. According to the mayor, it is important for his staff […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also told News Five that infected COVID-19 persons, who fail to comply with quarantine directives, can be charged for negligent behaviour if they do not adhere to self-isolation and quarantine guidelines imposed by the Quarantine Authority. Last week, prior to the complete closure of entry points, a mandatory quarantine for […]
Earlier in the newscast we had details on the COVID-19 patients. Belize confirmed its third case of the novel coronavirus on March twenty-ninth. As it relates to Patient Three, he is a thirty-eight-year-old Belizean, who returned to Belize from New York. He started to show minor signs and symptoms on March twenty-fifth after which he […]
This afternoon, the Nurses Association of Belize sounded an alarm saying there is lack of material and equipment to deal with an outbreak of COVID-19. NAB says it has concluded a nationwide tour and sent a report to the Deputy Director of Health Services and the Chief Nursing Officer on March twenty-sixth. The list includes […]
Responding to the concerns of the Nurses Association of Belize was Prime Minister Dean Barrow today during live video statement. Barrow says that the Association’s concerns will be addressed including the need for P.P.E.’s, and heavy-duty tents from the Belize Defense Force and elsewhere. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “We do have absolutely a sufficiency […]
The Belize Central prison is bursting at its seams with the number of inmates behind bars. The recent arrests of state of emergency offenders have swollen the number to about one thousand one hundred and fifty. There are no known inmates infected with the corona virus, but the facility is getting ready for the likelihood […]
At one-twenty-five this morning, a fourth case of COVID-19 was confirmed following a battery of tests of twenty-five persons. The announcement was made before nine o’clock this morning to the nation by the Director of Health Services. The fifty-five-year-old man is from San Ignacio and commuted to the city as an employee of City Hall. […]
At least twenty persons have been included so far in the mapping exercise relating to the fourth person carrying the virus; this includes his immediate family members and those individuals he came in contact with at work in Belize City. The west has been devastated by the news. San Ignacio Mayor Earl Trapp says the […]
