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But does Belize have the adequate facilities in place to deal with health conditions that are on the rise? According to Vice President of Group Insurance for Sagicor Life Inc, Patricia Brathwaite-Marshall, the purpose of the symposium is not to demean Belize’s health system, but to ensure that insurers as well as stakeholders in the […]
Three days short of a year, on September twenty-fifth, 2015, Belizean Tourism Police Special Constable, Danny Conorquie was murdered as he stood watch at the Caracol Archeological Site in the Chiquibul. The eighteen-year-old Georgeville resident was shot to the head by a group of men, believed to be Guatemalan bandidos, who illegally entered Belizean territory. […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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Also in the west…There’s a tragic story of a young child who was killed in a traffic accident on Independence Day. The death of the eight year old Kaylene Mai is even more devastating for the family because the vehicle in which she was travelling was being driven by her mother, thirty-one year old Evelyn […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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Independence Day was officially celebrated on Monday in the capital Belmopan with all the traditional pomp and ceremony. Apart from ogling the “who’s who” in government and society, including foreign dignitaries invited for the occasion, the highlights are always the addresses by the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister. Over our years of […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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The address by P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca was brief and unlike previous years, there was no pointed criticism of government over critical issues. Fonseca seemed pensive as he spoke about the lessons learned from thirty-four years of Independence, but more importantly, what lies ahead. Francis Fonseca, Leader of the Opposition “What will we make […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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Fonseca also pointed out the critical importance of reform, though he wasn’t taking overt jabs at government. In fact, he seemed to be looking at both the P.U.P. and the U.D.P., who between them have each governed for seventeen years post-Independence. True development calls for qualitative change, not only of the economy but of the […]
The Sarstoon – actually the wider picture of Belize’s sovereignty – has been a hot-button issue in past months. Relations between Guatemala and Belize are not at the best point due to several incidents on the Sarstoon. There is the detention of Belizeans by Guatemalans in Belizean territory and also tense encounters between the military […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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And tonight’s question is: Do you believe G.O.B. got the best deal in the settlement of the utilities? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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After three hours of meaningful discussions which concluded at about six this evening, the deadlock between the Christian Workers Union and the management of First Caribbean International Bank has been broken. Both parties met in mediation with Labor Commissioner, Ivan Williams, and according to CWU President, Audrey Matura-Shepherd, the session was productive. Employees of FCIB […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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The recent passage of the Vesting Act to enable the buyout of FCIB calls to question the timeliness of the negotiations between the union and the management of the bank. Following the lengthy meeting, Matura-Shepherd told the media that had the prime minister acted in good faith, the ensuing action by employees of FCIB could […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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Rats and snakes at the Western Regional Hospital….even the international media has been covering the scandalous state of affairs of the hospital. Today, it was about the hospital’s laundry found on the highway. But back to the rats…on Friday, you heard the Minister of Health pointing fingers at Hospital Administrator, Bernadette Seaver, and Regional Health […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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The letter was issued to the vendors on Friday following a notice that the hospital administration was requesting a meeting with them. That meeting never happened and they were in fact served with the eviction letters, which were signed by Senior Health Inspector, Mark Bernard, and copied to the Belmopan mayor, the Belmopan area rep., […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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As we reported on Friday, the Belize Communication Workers Union, in a scathing release issued following the settlement of the B.T.L. nationalization, soundly criticized the Barrow administration, as well as the management of the telecommunications company. The BCWU also lashed out against the prime minister’s son, Anwar Barrow, who chairs the executive committee of B.T.L., […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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Matura-Shepherd also gave an update on negotiations between the CWU and Port of Belize Ltd. with respect of a collective bargaining agreement for waterfront workers. While the CWU president admits that there has been no management-union agreement since the port changed ownership years ago, she says that discussions thus far have been amicable. This succeeds […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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Articles, both local and international, on the banking and financial sectors have prompted a reaction from the Bankers Association of Belize. Just last week, a US federal judge granted permission to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to seek information on US residents, who may have had bank accounts in Belize and have not complied with […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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There was a home invasion in the Santiago Juan Layout of San Ignacio Town. Just after eleven on Monday night as forty-six year old immigration officer and owner of Coaba Restaurant, Ismael Pullido, arrived at his house on Rose Wood Street, three armed masked men accosted him inside his yard. Before robbing him of some […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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Tonight two fishermen, from Belize City and a seventeen-year-old minor from Carmelita, Orange Walk District, are on remand for a nine millimetre pistol with ten live rounds which police say they found on them off the island of Turneffe Atoll. The bust was made on the eve of Independence September twentieth, 2015 during a police […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Last Thursday, Verdes FC sojourned into Mexico for its away match with Queretaro’s Gallos Blancos and this early goal by Kevin Gutierrez at the 15th minute might have gotten the green machine off its game plan. This is a wicked goal that leaves goalkeeper, […]
Written on September 22, 2015 | Posted in
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By now, a video showing a large rat inside a sterile incubator at the Western Regional Hospital just after it bit a newborn has gone viral. Even before that, the images of rats infiltrating the pantry and storage room at the hospital made everybody feel sick and disgusted. And even those unbelievable scenarios perhaps pales […]
Where the rats are concerned, though, Minister of Health Pablo Marin takes no blame. He heaps that squarely on the shoulders of Western Regional Manager, Melinda Guerra, and Administrator, Bernadette Seaver. Marin says that they have not been doing their jobs competently, and more than that, he claims that he has written to the Public […]
On Thursday, news broke that a mother of four from Big Falls had died at the K.H.M.H. after surgery at the Western Regional Hospital. Nolberta Sanchez was haemorrhaging profusely after she had given birth to a baby girl and had undergone a hysterectomy. What should have been a happy time for family ended in the […]
Written on September 18, 2015 | Posted in
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This morning, there was a critical meeting at the Western Regional Hospital concerning the tragic case of Nolberta Sanchez. We’re told it included all those who tended to her, as well as specialists from the K.H.M.H. who are acting as external evaluators to determine if indeed there was negligence. Nobody at the facility is talking […]
Late Thursday evening, the B.T.L.’s Belize Communications Workers Union sent out a release blasting the Government and B.T.L. management. It came in the wake of a settlement with Lord Michael Ashcroft, and states that, “the Union and its members were stunned to learn on Monday, September fourteenth, 2015, that the hostile relationship between the Ashcroft […]
Written on September 18, 2015 | Posted in
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The BCWU was joined today by Marvin Mora, president of B.E.L.’s Belize Energy Workers Union and also president of the N.T.U.C.B. He told us today that it’s a matter of solidarity because workers are being disrespected and their demands are being ignored. Marvin Mora, President, Belize Energy Workers Union “We realize that everybody is […]
Written on September 18, 2015 | Posted in
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Leader of the People’s United Party, Francis Fonseca, met with members of the dissident G-eleven on Wednesday, and the big news is that there is an accord of sorts. The Fonseca faction, so to speak, has agreed to what they say is an open convention which means, theoretically, that positions in the Executive, including the […]
