A national campaign by the Ministry of Health and Wellness, as well as the Ministry of Education, to vaccinate as many children between five and eleven years old is underway. The effort coincides with a recent delivery of over a hundred thousand Pfizer doses. Personnel have been assigned to various districts and teams are hitting […]
New cases of COVID-19 continue to increase daily, with the positivity rate now above ten percent. Today, the Ministry of Health and Wellness announced a total of one hundred and twenty-two new cases, bringing the total number of active cases to one thousand, one hundred and fifty-four. Fortunately, ninety-six recoveries were recorded with no new […]
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has received a procurement of over a hundred thousand doses of the Pfizer pediatric vaccines. The donation was made possible through a partnership between the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Republic of Slovakia. Altogether, exactly a hundred and twenty-four thousand doses were handed over to the Ministry of Health […]
Children have been the only category of Belizeans that before now have not had immunizations against COVID-19 but, as C.E.O. in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Doctor Julio Sabido, said, this procurement now makes all of our people protected . Dr. Julio Sabido, CEO, Ministry of Health and Wellness “The procurement of COVID-19 vaccines […]
A shooting incident in Belize City on Monday has left thirty-year-old Joanna Parham hospitalized with gunshot wounds to her body. Parham, however, wasn’t the intended target of the armed assault on Curassow Street. Shortly after seven p.m. last evening, nineteen-year-old Anthony Parham was making his way on foot towards his home and upon reaching the […]
Twenty-two-year-old Shawn Humes and twenty-three-year-old Selvin Waight have been arrested and charged for robbing a store in downtown Belize City. The men entered Midtown Store on Saturday afternoon where they proceeded to holdup Layas Ahmed, the proprietor, at gunpoint. The incident was captured on surveillance footage inside, as well as outside of the establishment. On […]
A Belizean mechanic of Santa Elena Town and a fellow mechanic from Succotz Village have been charged in connection with the shooting of twenty-six-year-old George Requeña, a baker of a Belize City address. Requeña was socializing with family and friends in the downtown area of San Ignacio when he was approached by a male person […]
There was a road traffic accident along the Stann Creek Valley Road on Friday evening that has left a male cyclist recovering from injuries at the Southern Regional Hospital. According to Polly Alford, she was driving a Toyota Rav 4 along that stretch of road in the direction of Pomona Village and upon reaching mile […]
A flood alert has been issued by the National Met Service and NEMO for flood-prone areas along northern Belize. Chief Meteorologist Ronald Gordon told News Five today that while Hurricane Agatha which struck the southern part of Mexico’s Pacific coast posed no threat to Belize, the storm’s remnants are expected to move towards the Yucatan, […]
Belize Electricity Limited is preparing to expand its renewable energy sources in order to become self-sufficient. B.E.L. relies heavily on Mexican supplier C.F.E. to supply power to the national grid. While C.F.E. sells to Belize at mostly low rates, recurring instabilities in C.F.E.’s system often leads to countrywide blackouts. With a self-sufficient system in place, […]
In addition to B.E.L.’s planned distributed generation system, customers without the necessary finance to install a solar panel system may qualify to enter into an agreement with B.E.L. for the company to cover the cost of the system. Fuller says, a customer who takes this route will still be able to enjoy low cost electricity […]
B.E.L. loses thousands of dollars in revenue annually due to illegal connections. The company says it is prepared to regularize households that are connected to the grid illegally. However, a lack of proper distribution infrastructures, such as roadways, in some of these areas presents the greatest challenge. Fuller says B.E.L is now working with local […]
Electric vehicles are the future of transportation. In Belize, less than ten electric vehicles are on the nation’s highways. That number is now expected to increase, with an investment in the creation of an E-mobility eco-system. The ecosystem will see charging stations and other necessary facilities in municipalities and villages across the country and B.E.L. […]
The Football Federation of Belize is on a mission to make it once again to the Gold Cup and for some time now, it has been readying the National Senior Men’s team who they believe can make that a reality. They officially introduced the team, which included some familiar faces, as well as some young […]
The Aktun Tunichil Muknal or A.T.M. Cave in Teakettle Village has been a popular tourist destination, and with the opening of a newly-built facilitation centre, the archaeological site is expected to become even more famous to tourists, both locals and foreigners alike. The new facilitation centre has been under construction over the last sixteen months […]
The Land Registry Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Petroleum and Mining continues to carry out its land registration mobile clinics across the country. The department’s latest stop was in Hopkins, Seine Bight, and Placencia. Residents showed up to renew old land titles under the deed system to a land certificate. Here is a […]
A Belize City resident is seeking financial assistance on behalf of his eldest brother, Alexander Cardenes. Milton Cardenes, the middle child of three brothers, is taking on the medical expenses associated with Alexander’s ailment. Alexander has racked up nearly ten thousand dollars in hospital bills. Due to his deteriorated physical condition, he is unable to […]
The Wildlife Conservation Society is calling for nominations for the Fisher of the Year Award 2022. As of June first, interested persons will be able to make submissions. The winner of the Fisher of the Year Award, as well as two Outstanding Fisher Awards, will be announced on June twenty-ninth, 2022, Caribbean Fisher Folks Day. […]
Police are investigating the murder of thirty-eight-year-old Randulfo Alvarez, a resident of Cotton Tree Village. Alvarez lived in the village with his relatives and, though he and his siblings resided in separate households, their relationship was such that they would frequent each other’s home. On Saturday night when Alvarez visited his sister’s home to collect […]
Nineteen-year-old Henry Osorio is recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained while in a vehicle with two female passengers on the Hummingbird Highway, just outside of Belmopan on Saturday night. By all accounts, Osorio is known to be a straight A student in school, and this may simply be a matter of wrong place, […]
Orange Walk police are still investigating the shooting death of Reynaldo Marchand. The thirty-eight-year-old was in the company of Nazir Vasquez in front of Five-O-One Shop when they came under fire from a pair of gunmen on motorcycle. Multiple gunshots rang out shortly after eight p.m. on Wednesday and when the shooting subsided Vasquez and […]
Well-known attorney Orson “OJ” Elrington ran afoul of the law over the weekend when he made an illegal turn in front of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Saturday night. While driving his 2010 Ford Explorer, the U.D.P. caretaker for Freetown made a left on the ambulance exit on Princess Margaret Drive near Belize Elementary […]
Senator Michael Peyrefitte has written to Prime Minister John Briceño under the Freedom of Information Act, requesting a copy of the document in which Governor General Froyla Tzalam was informed that government was retaining the legal services of Courtenay Coye L.L.P. That is the law firm of Senior Counsel and Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay and […]
Delroy Cuthkelvin, a card-carrying member of the U.D.P., is at odds with his party and will likely be facing its Ethics Committee in the days ahead. Cuthkelvin has been highly critical of Party Leader Moses “Shyne” Barrow in a number of social media advertisements, since his victory at the leadership convention earlier this year. Ashton […]
Stake Bank Enterprise, the parent company for Port Coral, suffered another loss in the Supreme Court today when Justice Lisa Shoman dismissed an application brought before the bench seeking leave for appeal in a decision that she handed down several weeks ago. That matter had to do with an application for judicial review of an […]
