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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams during his interview with the media today took aim at the liquor establishments, who he says, have been irresponsible. He contends that alcohol consumption has been at the root of many of the murders across the country. Recently, a woman was badly beaten outside of a nightclub in Belize City […]
Written on October 23, 2019 | Posted in
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Approximately two thousand delegates, including key policy decision-makers, across all domains of critical care and from over eighty-four countries gathered in Melbourne, Australia last week for the fourteenth World Congress of Intensive Care. Belize forms part of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine which was established in 1977. Its objective […]
Written on October 23, 2019 | Posted in
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According to Doctor Hidalgo, the five-day congress discussed the issue of diversity to include small countries around the table since their needs are different. The World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine is determined to increase its membership is developing and less populated countries. Dr. Jorge Hidalgo, Sec. Gen., W.F.S.I.C.C.M. “The […]
Written on October 23, 2019 | Posted in
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A deserving family of eight received the key to their brand new home today in Belize City. Silvia Castro, her husband and their six children were begging for lodging in rundown houses and after struggling for a while, they asked for help from Hand in Hand Ministries. And that help was officially handed over to […]
Written on October 23, 2019 | Posted in
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A Caye Caulker was stabbed to death and his brother injured in a violent stabbing incident after midnight on Monday. Police are calling the incident a stabbing death because the person who inflicted the fatal wounds has a mental health condition. It happened in the dead of night when the siblings were inside the bedroom […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Even before the stabbing death in Caye Caulker, a Belize City man, well-known to the law, was found dead at the entrance of Vista del Mar on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Twenty-six-year-old Brandon Bennett was executed and his body left on the roadside after seven o’clock. Hours before his execution, Bennett was active online, clad […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Former President Geovanni Brackett of the Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, COLA, has gone the solo route as an independent activist and this morning he invited the media to the Radisson for an hour-long press conference. In his live presentation, Brackett took aim squarely at the Ministry of Health for reportedly passing a statutory […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Brackett referenced a memorandum that was issued in April 2017 giving formal notice for the purchase of pharmaceuticals from designated N.H.I. providers. He openly questions whether there have been studies conducted to test the quality and effectiveness of generic drugs. Geovanni Brackett, Activist/Journalist “This is noted April 1st, 2017 and I will read it, […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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So what informs Brackett’s decision to come out against the Ministry of Health which regulates and oversees the procurement and retail of pharmaceuticals across the country? While it can be written off that the firebrand is batting in favour of big pharma, he says that it’s all about freedom of choice and the ability for […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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While there are reports that only generic meds are being imported, there are also concerns growing among persons living with HIV/AIDS as reports suggest that the anti-retroviral medication have depleted across the country. In effect, there is a shortage of the much needed medication. The Collaborative Network for Persons Living with HIV, also known as […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Director of CNET+ Diego Grajalez says that he has written to the Ministry of Health and the National AIDS Commission to ascertain what is the issue with the procurement of the vital medication. Grajalez says there is a urgent need for the Ministry and the Commission to address this matter. Diego Grajalez, Director, CNET+ […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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William “Danny” Mason, Ashton Vanegas, Kieron Fernandez, Terrence Fernandez, and Ernest Castillo were back in the Belmopan Supreme Court today as the trial continued. As we reported on Monday, the trial resumed before Justice Antoinette Moore where U.S. Special Agent provided testimony about a report that Mason made. Mason told him that he was allegedly […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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In July 2018, Supreme Court Justice Shona Griffith ruled in favour of Bhrea Bowen who successfully sued the Gang Suppression Unit for violating her constitutional rights. In July 2012, Bowen who was fourteen-year-old was arrested by G.S.U. officers who went in search for her at a summer camp. They did so after they conducted a search […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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The infamous Bert Vasquez appeared in the Court of Appeal this afternoon. Vasquez, who remains incarcerated on sex charges, appeared unrepresented to appeal a 2018 conviction for forcible abduction and sexual assault on a sixteen-year-old female minor. In June, Vasquez told the court that no attorney wanted to take his case and he sought to […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Ignatius Williams, a notorious figure of the Saint Martin’s de Porres area, was convicted late on Monday in the Supreme Court for the stabbing of a Field Service Technician of Belize City. A jury of nine stepped into the deliberating room before noon and emerged some three hours later concluding that Williams is guilty of […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Tonight, a former murder suspect is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was nabbed in Ladyville in possession of an unlicensed firearm. Thirty-one-year-old Michael Edward Pook was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for kept firearm without a gun license and kept ammunition without a license. […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Three-year-old Oscar Bonilla drowned when he fell into a well in Santa Cruz Village over the weekend. The toddler was last seen playing with another child when his mother went outside to the kitchen. When she returned moments later, she could not locate the infant and went in search of him. Sadly, he was found […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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There is outrage in Hope Creek in southern Belize where villagers are not sitting down to allow the area representation to impose who sits on the water board. The village council submitted names of persons considered suitable but lo and behold these persons were rejected and instead others who lost the village council elections are […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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New prices for premium gasoline and diesel take effect at midnight. Premium gasoline will increase by thirty-eight cents and goes up ten dollars ninety-seven cents per gallon. Diesel will go up by eight cents to ten dollars and nine cents. Consumers will be sparred as it relates to regular gasoline which will decrease by twenty-two […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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On Monday, Tracy Taegar Panton, the area rep for the Albert Division in Belize City announced she is seeking the post of first deputy leader of the U.D.P. when convention is held next February. Today, another female candidate announced her bid; area representative for Belize Rural Central and Minister of State in the Ministry of […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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More than two hundred people gathered in San Ignacio over the weekend to talk about birds in Belize. This is the second time the birding community has come together for the Belize Birding Festival. It is an event where bird lovers and those working with birds meet to talk about advancing the work and business […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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A CARICOM initiative to get youths involved in business is taking place in Belize City. This week, a group of thirty youths will be participating in the programme named Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity initiative. They will be learning and discussing and how to succeed in business. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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On Monday evening, Belize’s U-thirteen Volleyball Team returned with gold from the CODICADER Games in Costa Rica. The first place win is a big deal for the Belize team as they bested some of the region’s tops in volleyball. The team held a motorcade along the George Price Highway and through Belize City late Monday […]
Written on October 22, 2019 | Posted in
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In the wake of another suspected drug plane landing, the Ministry of National Security says it does not have the resources to track or intercept planes entering the airspace. On Sunday morning, police discovered a hawker jet near Blue Creek, in the general area where an executive jet landed ten days ago. The suspected narco-jet […]
Written on October 21, 2019 | Posted in
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A sixty-six-year-old man, who lived alone, was hacked to death in the wee hours of Saturday inside his home in Corozal Town. It was a horrible murder that started after midnight and lasted for about an hour. Noises inside his house were reported to the police, but by the time they finally got there, Paul […]
Written on October 21, 2019 | Posted in
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