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A Rights Inclusion Conference was held today at the Radisson Fort George in Belize City. The event which is a collaborative effort between the Women’s Issues Network, better known as WIN-Belize, and the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) seeks to spark a discussion that human rights extend to every human being, and does not discriminate […]
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The conference saw the participation of representatives from various sectors—including social, environment and health—and is part of a larger public education strategy to get citizens to think about the issues in their communities and to understand that human rights are everyone’s business. According to Orozco, the conference hopes to advance rights among marginalized groups. […]
Since the inception of the Taiwanese scholarship program over two hundred and sixty Belizeans have successfully acquired graduate and post graduate degrees from Taiwanese institutions and over a hundred and sixteen others are currently in Taiwan studying. Today, Taiwanese Ambassador to Belize, Benjamin Ho, and his team hosted its 2015 scholarship briefing. Duane Moody reports. […]
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Where is Doctor Marco Tulio Mendez? That’s the question everybody’s asking after some very serious and disturbing allegations about the P.U.P. Area Representative in Orange Walk East spread like wildfire on Monday. According to reports Mendez, who is separated from his wife, is being accused by her of inappropriate behavior. Nobody in the family is […]
Written on January 27, 2015 | Posted in
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Most Belizeans, or at least those who watch the news, are likely family with the case of Lucia Martinez. Eighteen year old Martinez had her first child at the K.H.M.H. recently, and claims that a retaining swab was left inside her during the birth. She developed an infection which allegedly almost killed her, and following […]
Today, the Ministry of Health is working to contain a localized outbreak of Hepatitis A at a government school in Buena Vista, Cayo. According to reports, there was one case of the virus reported before Christmas, and since then at least twenty more cases which have resulted in much concern. The outbreak in a public […]
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CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd has been in the news more often lately than she has been out of it. Currently the union is embroiled in a Collective Bargaining Agreement dispute with the Social Security Board. Matura-Shepherd called a press briefing today to deal with that issue, and we’ll have that a little later in our […]
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Matura-Shepherd was also asked about her political future. It’s become the propaganda of choice for the United Democratic Party, which for weeks has been claiming that Matura-Shepherd has been compromised by the People’s United Party. So in a carefully rehearsed play this morning, Guardian reporter Shane Williams asked Matura-Shepherd if she had been approached by […]
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Has the Government of Belize secured highly trained Israeli surveillance team to monitor phone conversations and text messages? For some time now, several reports have been claiming that this is the case. We have been doing research on this highly sensitive issue to connect the dots and have found out the following. There has been […]
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Last week Friday, the Cleopatra White Polyclinic closed its doors and sent waiting patients home. That’s because there was somebody waiting for attention with an open abscess which ruptured right there in the waiting area. That was enough to cause a scare of sorts which led to the closure, but that’s not exactly the protocol. […]
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And from matters of health and infection to matters of internal politics…Doctor Allen has certainly seen his share of controversy and contention. Right now he’s dealing with a vacant post in the Ministry…that of Deputy Director of Health Services. In August, the Ministry announced that Doctor Marvin Manzanero had been given the position, but apparently […]
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And from internal politics to corruption…last year after audits of the Punta Gorda Polyclinic and the Dangriga Polyclinic administrators of both were let go. The audits allegedly turned up evidence of misconduct, enough so that both contract officers were let go immediately. Today, Allen claims that as far as he knows Police did conduct an […]
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Once a Belize Youth Ambassador to the United Nations, twenty-five year old Kenroy Young was sentenced to prison for forgery. The U.B. graduate has been serving a seven year sentence for burglary for the past three years. Today he was before the courts answering for five counts of uttering a false document after he cashed […]
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A jury found thirty-six year old Ryon King not guilty of arson this afternoon. Back in February 2010, King’s then common-law wife Kendra Pennil accused him of setting her mattress and other bedding on fire. This morning, the evidence of the case against King concluded in the Supreme Court. In the trial, Pennill testified that […]
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Corozal teen Ana Villanueva has been found. Corozal police say the fifteen year old is now safe and in good health. We told you on Monday night that the fifteen year old had left home two months ago and was reportedly living with relatives in Orange Walk. Her mother reported to police that she received […]
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Tonight the brothers from Calla Creek, who allegedly had sexual intercourse with a teen who is now pregnant, are in police custody. Police arrested and charged twenty-five year old Maysin Smith and a seventeen year old Belizean chef for the crime of “Unlawful Sexual Intercourse.” This follows a report by a thirteen year old girl that […]
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Today at the conference room of the Central Health Region in Belize City, representatives from the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, the Poultry Industry and the Ministries of Agriculture and Health gave an update on the presence of Avian Influenza Type A in western Belize. On January fifteenth, two poultry farms in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District […]
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The virus primarily affects poultry and according to BAHA, there is a low risk for transmission from poultry to humans; there is also no evidence of human to human transmission. Nevertheless, the agencies have since been on the ground putting in place containment measures prohibiting all poultry products from the affected farms to leave the […]
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Just a couple weeks ago the K.H.M.H. benefitted from the donation of two cell saver machines from Spine Overseas, and today the institution’s international partners came through again. Through ongoing collaboration between the K.H.M.H., the Carolinas Healthcare System and Heineman Medical Outreach in Charlotte, today the Breast Cancer Diagnosis Unit was opened to the general […]
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There is some contention between the Christian Workers Union and the Social Security Board. The result of that contention is that three hundred S.S.B. workers, always paid on the twenty-sixth of every month, have not received their pay. It has to do with the Collective Bargaining Agreement currently being negotiated by the parties. In a […]
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The Friends for Conservation and Development, better known as FCD, has been working tirelessly to stop a number of illegal activities inside the Chiquibul. For the FCD, illegal logging remains one of the top issues to tackle. For the past three years, the organization has had an agreement with Asociacion Balam, a Guatemalan organization that […]
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Fans flocked to the northern entrance of Belize City on Sunday for a unique event that is growing in popularity. Owners of the hottest cars and motorcycles turned out to show off their pimped out vehicles. There were SUVs, classic cars, small and big cars, and many more four wheelers, but we kept our eyes […]
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This morning, the 2015 sugar cane crop season opened with delivery of cane from the Orange Walk Branch. Its seven weeks late, but the fact that is happening at all is cause for some jubilation by factory representatives and politicians who claim to have saved the day. The challenge now will be for stakeholders to […]
Written on January 26, 2015 | Posted in
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Exactly one week ago, Prime Minister Dean Barrow informed the nation that G.O.B. had allocated two million dollars for immediate work on sugar roads. But according to Orange Walk Branch Director, Alfredo Ortega, there is no massive work project underway. Ortega told News Five that only sugar roads in San Estevan and Patchakan are being […]
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For the first time in history, there are three associations delivering cane to B.S.I. That is now legally possible because of amendments to the Sugar Industry Act pushed through by G.O.B. last Monday. Those amendments have been roundly criticized because one, there was no consultation with stakeholders and two…it is believed that the Act needs […]
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