Just before news time the Ministry of Health is meeting with key stakeholders to take major decisions in respect of the H-one-N-one flu. But up to this morning there were no confirmed cases of the Type A H-one-N-one virus, according to health officials. This is based on results of the second batch of samples sent […]
And while there are no known confirmed cases of Type A H-one-N-one in Belize, there is a new term used in respect of the three samples sent to Canada for testing. The classification of a suspected case is keeping health officials on high alert. Epidemiologist, Dr. Paul Edwards, explains what places the three suspected cases […]
And if any of the cases test positive for Type A H-one-N-one, health officials say that particular measures will be put in place where the case originates which will be different from the rest of the unaffected areas. Dr. Paul Edwards “Let’s say for example a case was confirmed in San Pedro and I’ll use […]
There were two murders in Belize City over the three day weekend. The first involved the shooting of a man who was no stranger to the police. Twenty-seven year old Ryan Walker left his home at number thirty six Zericote Street and drove off with a friend after eleven p.m. on Thursday April thirtieth. A […]
Glenford Audinette murdered two blocks from his home. The second murder occurred two blocks away from the residence of the victim. About one-thirty Sunday morning, Glenford Audinette, a resident of Mahogany Street was on Ebony Street when he was shot twice; to the back and right side of his neck. He fell in front of […]
He was last seen leaving his home in San Joaquin Village in Corozal after a domestic dispute on the morning of March twenty-eighth. And on Saturday, the remains of forty-six year old taxi-man and former Belize City engineer, Ricardo Enrique Magana, were found. Five weeks after his disappearance, Magana’s body was found some two hundred […]
In an update to the murder of sixty-eight year old business woman, Rosa Cristina Cornejo, two persons, an adult and a minor have been arrested and charged for her homicide. The woman, who was the owner of a store at Market Square in the capital, originally hailed from El Salvador. She was reported missing from […]
The threat of the H-One-N-One flu did not keep robbers off the streets and three attempted to jack the Western Union Office located on Regent Street on Saturday. Around eleven a.m., the trio, wearing rags over their faces and armed with guns, busted into the busy money transfer establishment. The bandits were stopped on their […]
There was an accident on the Western Highway on Sunday night sometime between eleven and twelve. The details of the accident are still sketchy but as soon as Belmopan Police received information about the crash they went to mile thirty-six on the Western Highway where they found a Kenworth brand, eighteen wheeler towhead with a […]
Two brothers who are also partners in crime appeared in court today charged with Robbery. Twenty-four year old Emerson Neal and eighteen year old Alrick Carcamo pleaded not guilty but could not be offered bail and were remanded into custody until June fifth. Carcamo was additionally charged with Keeping a Firearm and Ammunition Without a […]
A suspect was before Magistrate Sharon Fraser today for the rape of a twelve year old school girl. His name, however, will not yet be released because an identification parade is still pending and the young girl was sitting the P.S.E. today. The suspect faces charges of Rape and an Unnatural Crime. No plea was […]
Also in the courts, thirty-eight year old former security guard George Banner had a change of heart and pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary. Because Banner does not have a previous conviction, Magistrate Albert Hoare fined him three thousand dollars instead of handing out a custodial sentence. He was given until June fourth to […]
The Belize Bank this afternoon reacted to conflicting media reports on a ruling last Thursday by Justice Minnet Hafiz in the Supreme Court against the government in which GOB was ordered to pay the costs of A.C.B. in bringing this case. Last week Justice Hafiz delivered a judgment in the case brought by the A.C.B. […]
It was not necessary for health officials to postpone the Primary School exams today and when News Five checked with some students at the close of the exams, most were prepared while others said they were hoping for the postponement. But many of them were equipped with more than pencils as they had their hand […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley. Welcome to Sports Monday. The current shutdown imposed on public gathering because of the Swine Flu pandemic put a halt on most sporting event inside the nation. Nevertheless, we caught up with Karate inside the Princess Hotel on Saturday here in Belize City as presented by The Belize Shotokan Federation […]
