The Central Health Region has released the second part of its bi-annual health bulletin for the Belize District for 2016. The data, which is pulled from the Belize Health Information System, shows that communicable diseases have, for the most part, remained the same when compared with data from 2015. There are, however, some conditions that […]
The Central Health Region also released the latest data on the infant mortality rate for the Belize District in 2016 and there is some good news to report. In 2015, the infant mortality rate was at twenty four per thousand live births, but by 2016 that number had almost halved and now stands at fourteen […]
Another key set of numbers released for the Belize District are the numbers for the vector borne diseases. The Environmental Health Unit at Central Health Region continues to monitor the cases of these diseases – malaria, dengue, and Zika. Spraying and fogging have been ongoing in areas mostly affected by Dengue and Zika. Classic dengue […]
A new national team has been selected to represent Belize in the 2017 UNCAF Copa Centro Americana Games scheduled to begin on January thirteenth through to January twenty-second. The team is made up some familiar faces, including striker Deon McCaulay, midfielders Ian Gaynair and goalkeepers Woodrow West and Shane Orio. The Copa Centro Americana tournament […]
Belizean recording artist Dan Marcus is in Belize working on a new project. Marcus will be releasing a short film with two music videos as well as an EP that will be available online. These will all be available for purchase later this month across digital music platforms. Today, we spoke with Marcus who tells […]
In tonight’s newscast, we feature Kendis Gibson; he is a Belizean American who currently works at the ABC News network. Gibson relocated to the U.S. at the age of ten and has been described as a “talented journalist with wide-ranging experience.” He joined the ABC team back in 2014 as a correspondent. In this feature […]
Police have cracked the second of six murders that occurred over a four-day period. It’s been two days since the murder of Police Street resident nineteen-year-old Randolph Johnson and tonight, another Belize City youth, nineteen-year-old Elden Edward Flowers, a resident of Croton Lane has been charged for his execution. Late this evening, Flowers appear before […]
There has been a prison break reported, but not in Belize. Ten inmates escaped from a jail in El Salvador on Sunday. Authorities in Honduras and Guatemala are on alert, and earlier this week Police in Belmopan shared the general alert with local media and the public. The inmates are suspected to be part of […]
It may be “maaga season,” but there is money circulating in Belize. Too bad it’s not the genuine kind, according to Belmopan Police. This week they found counterfeit twenty-dollar bills at the automated teller machines inside the capital’s branches of two major banks, after a similar report a few weeks ago. While investigations continue, Officer […]
A final list from which a thirteenth senator will be chosen was formalized on Wednesday, after a steering committee vetted the names of all nominees. That number has since been reduced to five, since the executive director of the Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association, TASA, has withdrawn his candidacy. Tonight, we’ll introduce you to Janelle Chanona […]
Gay rights activist Caleb Orozco, executive director of UNIBAM, has raised several issues concerning the process being used by the Thirteenth Senator Steering Committee in going about the selection of the remaining parliamentarian. In fact, he points out that the panel should be proactive in its approach to reach out to other nongovernmental organizations, regardless […]
Guatemalan newspaper, Prensa Libre, in its January second issue, carried recent statements made by Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Carlos Raul Morales. According to the article, FM Morales announced that Belize had ratified the amendment to the referendum law, which now allows for a simple majority vote. This, he said, was approved by the Congress of Guatemala […]
On Tuesday, we covered a fatal motorcycle collision in the Teakettle area, which claimed the lives of two young men from the village. It is the last of eighty-three fatal incidents reported in 2016, or an average just shy of six per month. While such mishaps have become as much a fact of life as […]
Of the eleven traffic incident fatalities reported in December, it is noted that seven took place between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, including the death of Gilbert Myers on the George Price Highway near Mile four after he was run over by Alfonso Noble, and the death of David Alfaro at Mile forty-one on […]
Twenty-year-old Frederick Sutherland, a former deliveryman for James Brodie and Company, was dragged to court today on a single charge of theft. It is alleged that the fisherman of East Collet Canal made off with an assortment of food items from the Northern Highway store. Those items include cases of Nestum Wheat and Honey, Cerelac, […]
News Five has confirmed from reliable sources that the Office of the Solicitor General filed a claim in the Supreme Court on December twenty-eighth against the son of former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Lands Gaspar Vega, Andre Vega, and attorney Sharon Pitts, for the repayment of the sum of four hundred thousand dollars […]
You may recall that a few years back the Police Department installed surveillance cameras in key spots on south side Belize City; at the corner of George and Dean Streets; including the corner of Kraal Road and Haynes Street; Foot of the Pound Yard Bridge and BelCan Roundabout. From what we have gathered, none of […]
2016 ended off as one of the deadliest years in Belize’s history – with one hundred and thirty-seven murders. The transition into the New Year was a bloody one as well – with five murders in the first three days of 2017. Most took to the airwaves or online to express their discontent with the […]
The Christmas Season saw a noticeable increase in the number of police officers assigned to various hotspots across Belize City. In fact, it would almost seem as though a small tent with a pair of foldable chairs and two officers are stationed at the corners of every street leading towards the downtown area. Those measures […]
Starting June fourth, there will be a daily direct flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Belize at rock-bottom prices. That’s the latest coming out of the Belize Tourism Board, the marketing arm of the country, following ongoing dialogue with Southwest Airlines. According to B.T.B., the flight will have multiple connections to and from Fort Lauderdale […]
The B.T.B. wants your vote to make the Great Blue Hole the ‘Best Caribbean Dive Site.’ Belize was nominated in the ‘Ten Best Readers’ Choice Award’ contest after it was selected by a panel of diving and Caribbean travel experts. The voting online is now open and ends at midnight on Monday, January thirtieth. Belize […]
So we’ve all heard of the military diet, the alkaline diet, grapefruit diet, and the cabbage soup diet, all that seem to be popular here in Belize when we want to lose weight as quickly as possible. Especially after the holidays with all that turkey and ham. That’s when we turn to quick fixes like […]
The top brass of the police met in emergency and closed door session today, in light of a murder spree since the start of the year. They were not providing details on the recent string of murders and that’s perhaps because they said too much on Tuesday night to incense the criminal elements. By seven-thirty, […]
Hours before Bert Abraham was executed, nineteen year old Randolph Johnson was among a group of friends fishing when he too was ambushed near Belize Waste Compound on the George Price Highway just after two in the afternoon. Johnson’s family believes his movements were being monitored before the gunman pounced on him. News Five’s Duane […]
Since December thirty- first, the six murders have the police working around the clock, but except for one, police are yet to crack the cases. Dillon Grinage did not live to see the New Year; he was killed in Sandhill at the close of 2016. Patrick Harris, a resident of the same village, was arraigned […]
