The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is the nation’s only referral hospital, and is currently being bombarded with very negative publicity following the deaths of newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit related to a bacteria outbreak. There are other problems at the hospital including water allegedly covering the floor of the maternity ward. Maureen Staine […]
From hospitals inundated with water to forests under siege…The Chiquibul National Park is Belize’s largest national park; about four hundred and fourteen square miles, which is approximately the size of the Corozal District. Patrolling, monitoring and protecting that area is a monumental task which falls primarily to a non-governmental organization known as the Friends of […]
There are five more months to go before the end of Hurricane Season. And though we have barely begun the first month in the season, Tropical Depression Two won’t be forgotten in a hurry. Across the country, the stories and images have been plenty. Our photographers composed a montage of what they saw on the […]
Forecasters predict an active hurricane season with eighteen storms of which nine are expected to develop into major hurricanes. And so it is that two weeks into June, the first tropical depression for this season to affect Belize has been causing heavy rains in the south and the rest of the country. While it first […]
The depression has affected schools in the southern, central and western districts while in Cayo District, students were sent home at three p.m. The northern districts, however, have been sparred and classes continued as scheduled. News Five’s Jose Sanchez has a report on the schools. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The downpour of Tropical Depression Two […]
The path of tropical depression two takes it squarely over the Toledo District. The advisory from NEMO stated that the Boom Creek Road in Toledo was under four feet of water. The maximum sustained winds were up to be thirty-five miles per hour. And though warnings were issued from NEMO, the south, according to PGTV’s […]
There is a murder to report tonight…it is the third for the month of June and it happened at the eight miles community of Western Pines off the George Price Highway. Sometime around eight-twenty a.m., Hattieville Police were called out to a house under construction where the body of twenty-four year old Elias Santos was […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow came out blazing last week, accusing former Prime Minister Said Musa and former Attorney-General Francis Fonseca of signing a secret agreement with Belize International Services Limited, the company which operated the International Business Companies Registry and the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize. The agreement in question extends BISL’s management contract […]
A Belizean was detained in Cuba when he landed at the Jose Marti Airport in Havana with what we have been told are as many as five Chinese passports with Belizean visas. The man, Carlos Murga, has been held for a week giving some semblance of credibility to long circulating rumors that there is an […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working with their Taiwanese counterparts and the family of Clarencio Coc to bring the body of the twenty-six year old student home from Taiwan where he was killed Thursday night in a traffic accident. Coc, who has been on an academic scholarship since 2010, was on the back of […]
Amateur video of a police apprehension in San Ignacio on Saturday at around four pm has made the rounds of Facebook and has resulted in somewhat mixed reactions. The video shows officers escorting an individual toward a police mobile, and then shows the person being placed none too gently into the back of the pickup […]
There is a disturbing report coming out of the south. A fourteen year old student of the Toledo District is claiming that she had sex with her teacher. The minor visited the police station in the company of her father and reported that on May twenty-ninth, she went to her teacher’s house in the Santa […]
The trial of attempted murder against Mike Menjivar continues in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Menjivar’s house was raided in May 2011 by the Gang Suppression Unit; the raid started before five in the morning and concluded in the evening after five o’clock. Menjivar’s house was riddled by gunfire, and while there was no incriminating evidence […]
Belmopan Police are currently investigating two incidents which occurred over the weekend that have left several persons recovering at the Western Regional Hospital. The first incident happened at around eleven-thirty on Saturday night in Valley of Peace. Salvadoran farmer, Edwardo Antonio Garcia, reported to police that he and a group of friends were coming from […]
And on Sunday, an altercation in Ontario Village in the Cayo District also landed three women and a minor in the Western Regional Hospital. Police are still trying to sort out the details, but preliminary indications are that the minor is the daughter of Aminta Jimenez and was at a shop when she was allegedly […]
The National Institute of Culture and History and the National Youth Orchestra and Choir of Belize announce the international recognition of young Belizean violinist Courtney Gillett. Gillett, who lived her entire life in Burrell Boom, is the daughter of Lincoln and Antoinette Gillett. Her star is shining brightly as she recently completed a two-weeks intense […]
Jaguars have not been combing through the dense forests, but also on the playing field. The national football selection, also known as the Jaguars, has been working extremely hard to prepare for the 2013 Gold Cup. Recently, the team played friendly matches with professional clubs in Guatemala. And following a win and a draw, the […]
On the Road to the Gold Cup: The National Football team will be playing the United States, Cuba and Costa Rica in the upcoming Gold Cup games in July. Tonight in our series featuring team members of the Jaguars, we go one-on-one with shot stopper Woodrow West to find out what it takes to keep […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports. The age old rivalry between Belize Telemedia and Mirage Lady Rebels produced another monster showdown Friday night inside Rogers Stadium as both teams came out determined to grab the #1 seeding for the upcoming playoffs. It’s Barbara Cadle who gets B.T.L. going when she smocks […]
The government took control of the Belize International Services Limited (B.I.S.L.) and nationalized the International Business Companies Registry (I.B.C.R.) and the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize (IMMARBE) on Tuesday, June eleventh. Not only did G.O.B. nationalize the two registries, it slapped the management company, B.I.S.L., with a whopping thirty million dollar tax assessment. After […]
The international business community is not the only sector that is taking a hit from G.O.B. The Belize National Teachers Union (B.N.T.U.) is considering its next move after Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, came out swinging at them and teachers during a press conference held on Thursday. The verbal jabs touched all bases including: dismal […]
The Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology and Public Utilities it’s in its own battle with OCEANA Belize. On Thursday, the ministry sent out a release responding to a recent statement issued by OCEANA on a Supreme Court decision in which the validity of several offshore oil contracts, granted to six companies under the previous […]
The ministry has also proceeded to issue maps indicating areas currently being held by various companies, including Princess Petroleum and Providence Belize Energy, for oil exploration. The Petroleum and Geology Department recognizes the aforesaid companies despite the nullification of their contracts under the ruling. Furthermore, it cited an existing lawsuit in Saint Lucia for which […]
A Belizean studying in Taiwan has passed away. Clarencio Coc has been studying Plant Health at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in southern Taiwan since 2010. According to students at the school, scooters are a regular means of transportation in that part of the country. Coc and a student from Guatemala, Mervin […]
By now you are aware that the seven thousand five hundred and thirty-three students that took the Primary School Examination did not perform well in English and Math. The Ministry of Education held a conference on Thursday to examine their findings about the exam. And while the Chief Education Officer, Christopher Aird, crunched the numbers, […]
