There was an execution style murder early on Thursday night in Belize City. Michael Bucknor, the manager of Bingo King Apartments, was shot and killed on Fabers Road as he was conversing with a female friend. The bullet penetrated the back of his head, exited through the right eye and grazed the woman. Bucknor, who […]
This morning, the Belize Court of Appeal handed down a judgment in favour of media personality, Glenn Tillett. Viewers may recall that in 2011, Tillett had claimed declarations against Lois Young, Net Vasquez and the Belize Social Security Board (S.S.B.) that the decision of the S.S.B. to purchase fifty million dollars of B.T.L. shares from […]
The Pan American Health Organization’s report on the bacterial outbreak in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has laid out pages of inefficiencies and areas where the nation’s referral hospital can improve. The Belize Medical and Dental Union (B.M.D.U.) is now sharing its views on the K.H.M.H. According to the […]
There is word that a Guatemalan national who was shot by B.D.F. personnel in the Caballo Camp area of the Chiquibul is tonight at the KHMH being treated for a serious infection. The official report at the time of the shooting, on June third, was that Edgar Alexander Alveno allegedly fired on a B.D.F. patrol. […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is winding down an official one week visit to the United Kingdom. PM Barrow’s itinerary included an audience with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. He addressed trade and investment with financiers and had meetings with the Mayor of London, Alderman Roger Gifford, as well with the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague. […]
New Horizons is a project first brought to Belize by the US Southern Command in 2001 and again in 2007 and now in 2013. It involves soldiers from SouthCom and the Belize Defense Force coordinating in a joint exercise which combines training with infrastructure projects and education, health and humanitarian works carried out in different […]
The European Union, along with the Pan American Health Organization, has teamed up with the Ministry of Health to provide infrastructure and training that would improve maternal as well as neonatal health. Reducing neonatal mortality is a current national concern since the May deaths of thirteen newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit of the […]
Back on May thirtieth when the deaths of the neonates was first acknowledged by the K.H.M.H., the Prime Minister, who was at a press conference, committed government finances saying he would also seek funds from international donors to build a new ward to house the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. On Wednesday, the Minister of Health […]
A man accused of removing a forest product without a valid permit, has been acquitted of the charges. In February, Shannon Borland was hauling seventy-two pieces of Botan logs from Lucky Strike Village for Amin Awe. Borland was instructed to get the license from the gate of the premises, but the driver had no clue […]
Three men who were accused of stealing one hundred and twenty-five tons of brown sugar from B.S.I. back in April 2012 were today committed to stand trial at the September session of the Supreme Court. The men had their original bail revoked and were offered a new bail of twenty-thousand dollars each plus one surety […]
Since its introduction into Belizean waters a few years ago, the predatory lionfish has been frowned upon as an unwanted specie. The striped scorpion fish is known to feed on juvenile fish, greatly reducing the existing fish stock. In trying to diminish its numbers Oceana partnered with the organizers of the annual Placencia Lobster Fest […]
For the second year, Belize joined the Caribbean for the sixth Regional HIV/AIDS Testing Day. The initiative was celebrated throughout the Caribbean and it is co-sponsored by Scotia Bank. At five locations countrywide today, the Ministry of Health also partnered with the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National AIDS Commission, the Caribbean Broadcast […]
