To kick off the Christmas season, a dance extravaganza will take place this weekend at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. The annual event is being hosted by NICH and the Institute of the Creative Arts. Dance companies from the City and elsewhere will be putting on special presentations in what promises to be […]
Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is what’s happening Belize. Tonight the Youth Hostel will be having a talent showcase inside the House of Culture. This will be held in order to raise awareness of the violence affecting our country. There will also be a special guest appearance by Shyne. Belize Rural High will be having […]
The anticipated public hearings of Commission of Inquiry into the procurement of medical and pharmaceutical supplies at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital began this morning in Belize City. The Commission was established after doctors at the K.H.M.H sounded alarm bells back in June and early July of scandalous prices being paid for medical supplies. Deputy […]
The inquiry is seeking to determine whether any fraud or improprieties occurred in the procedures and processes for procurements during the eighteen month period. The audit team, which included Wayne Simon, Mark Jones, Charles Flowers, Randolph Young, and Arlington Frazer took three months to review the files at the K.H.M.H. They confirmed the suspicions of […]
But there was more stench to come. Simon said that the audit team found that there was general wastage and that they could not confirm that the medication purchased was received by the patients. And in some instances, there was a clear conflict of interest. Wayne Simon “In other instances K.H.M.H. made purchases of items […]
International services to the ninety thousand subscribers of Smart continues interrupted. Last Friday, Telemedia removed Smart’s access to the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1); a fiber optic submarine communications cable that links the Americas and the Caribbean. Smart sought another means of achieving international calls and on Sunday it changed its antenna that is […]
In response, Telemedia issued a release after six tonight in which it said that it terminated the unfiltered E1 service to SpeedNet in order to eliminate Telemedia’s significant losses of revenue over arrangements made with SpeedNet in the past. Telemedia viewed Smart’s installation of a satellite on Sunday as a breach of security, so it […]
While things heat up at Smart, a fire this afternoon gutted a two storey wooden home in the Fabers Road Area in Belize City belonging to Sheddrack Banner and Clarine Budna. The couple was not at home when the fire broke; it engulfed the house quickly and took some twenty minutes to completely gut the […]
And as to the cause of the fire, Training Officer of the National Fire Service, Kenneth Mortis, says that the negligent use of extension cords was once again deemed to have caused the inferno. Kenneth Mortis, Training Officer, Nat’l Fire Service “This afternoon the cause of the fire was another malpractice of extension cords. What […]
The forty-five million dollar loan owed to British Caribbean Bank (BCB) became public only last week, but it has sparked heated debate. Prime Minister Dean Barrow is saying that Belize Telemedia Limited, which borrowed the money does not owe BCB because the loan was acquired by government when it nationalized Telemedia on August twenty-fourth. As […]
In crime news before the courts, the trial of three men accused for the rape and murder of Cruz Sho in Lord’s Bank over two years ago, began on Monday. The main suspect was nineteen year old Ervin Franklin, who was charged along with his uncle Lindsdale Franklin and his cousin Ryan Herrera. When the […]
In other crime related news, a businessman parked his vehicle on Woods Street near KBH Security Company and just as he was exiting it, he was held up at gun point and robbed of twenty thousand dollars in cash. Belmopan resident, Carlos Moreno, the owner of Belize Food Supply located at Mile four on the […]
The Commonwealth Summit is being held for the first time in this region. It opens Friday in Port of Spain, Trinidad where the Fifth Summit of the Americas was held earlier this year. Head of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth is already in Port of Spain and is being joined by leaders from the fifty-three member […]
Classical music is not often heard in Belize. But if you have an ear for the piano and the violin, there is an event this weekend that will give you a measure of both. The Embassies of Mexico and the United States are bringing in two artists for a piano and violin recital this weekend. […]
Appendicitis is a well known medical condition. It is considered an medical emergency and requires immediate removal, but like most other conditions discussed on Healthy Living, the earlier the diagnosis and treatment, the lesser the complications. Healthy living this week looks at the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of appendicitis. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting The appendix is […]
The dust appeared to have settled of late on the August nationalization of Telemedia, but the issue has surfaced head on again because of an outstanding debt of forty-five million dollars for which the British Caribbean Bank is demanding payment. Senator Godwin Hulse says that for government to acquire this loan, which would have to […]
On Tuesday, Smart announced that it had fully restored its international and roaming services, through another source, and not through Telemedia which last Friday pulled the plug on the company stranding ninety thousand subscribers. Word to News Five is that the situation got physical this afternoon when Smart made adjustments to its external equipment, which […]
Guatemalan national, twenty-two year old Glenda Montero of Succotz Village was on trial for the murder of her husband Cornelio; a crime police say she admitted to committing. But tonight Glenda is free because the caution statement with her confession, which the case depended upon, was not allowed into evidence and police had no other […]
Another issue that has now been settled is the squabble between Ministers Michael Finnegan and Carlos Perdomo. That was over a parcel of land being purchased by one of Finnegan’s Constituents, Dawn Jorguenson, and which was being taken away by Perdomo back in October. But after a public tongue lashing from Finnegan, he and the […]
Both the Corozal and Orange Walk teachers unions have publicly come out against the proposed amendments to the Education Act, primarily because of the terms of the Teaching Services Commission. The Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, has said he is moving ahead and the amendment will be tabled in the House on December eleventh. Since […]
It’s the season for giving and six organizations are benefiting from a large supply of medical and educational material. The donation was made today by the U.S. armed forces to the Belize Defense Force for onward distribution to the Non Governmental Organizations. A representative from the U.S. Embassy was on hand to make the delivery. […]
And in the city there was another group of happy recipients. Three hundred plus students scored top grades in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate, formerly C.X.C., and one in the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examination earlier this year. Today, they were honored at an award ceremony. The students from high schools and sixth forms came out […]
He was born four years ago with a rare skin condition and since then the brave young boy has been fighting the odds. But Tarell Sutherland needs your help and urgently so. He is only the second person in Belize to carry this disease. His mother, Nicole McDougal, says that Tarell has a congenital skin […]
Moses Leviy made a scheduled appearance at the Hattieville prison at the invitation of Youth for the Future as part of his rehabilitation that would hopefully land him back to the United States. Leviy did not take questions from the press, but he did admit that he was responsible for the shooting in a Manhattan […]
There were one thousand three hundred fifty-one cases of domestic violence reported in 2008. That is what the statistics show, but the National Women’s Commission, the Women’s Department and the Y.W.C.A. have collaborated on an exhibit to get the public to look beyond the numbers. According to Public Relations Officer for the Y.W.C.A., Ann-Marie Williams, […]
