The controversy on the procurement of medical supplies at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital continues unabated and there are more allegations and rebuttals. Up to news time, the parties were still engaged in negotiations, that is the Belize Medical and Dental Union and the K.H.M.H. Board. That meeting started around five-thirty this evening and there […]
While doctors continue locked in negotiations with the management of the K.H.M.H., there is one man who has a lot to answer. News Five has obtained a copy of a Memorandum dated May thirteenth, signed by the Acting C.E.O. of the K.H.M.H. Laurel Grant and addressed to the Director of Finance. The document states that […]
And still on the contracts, there is more information available about medical suppliers to the K.H.M.H. News Five has obtained a copy of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Supplies Tender of the Evaluation Committee Procedural Report, which was to be tabled to Cabinet on March thirty-first of this year. Three suppliers stand out. The matter was […]
Still on the issue of the reports of fleecing at the K.H.M.H., the Prime Minister’s office says that the P.M., who leaves for New York on Tuesday, has commissioned a team to investigate the allegations of corruption in supplies procurement. The team has been given a specific mandate to conduct a preliminary quick investigation into […]
It was another deadly weekend and criminals were on a rampage. Tonight, there are four murders to report —three which took place in the City alone. We start with the early morning homicide that occurred shortly after four on Saturday. Thirty-nine year old Mayhar Singh—an office assistant for Attorney’s Arthur Saldivar and Dickie Bradley—was shot […]
And while Singh’s post-mortem has not been completed, shortly after two this afternoon, Pathologist, Doctor Estradabran, was called to the scene of another murder. This latest homicide involves a woman, in her mid-thirties, whose body was found partially decomposed and half nude. The body, which has still not been identified, was found in a pool […]
The third murder of the city occurred shortly after two o’clock Saturday afternoon when a group of friends socializing on Yarborough Road came under fire. Twenty-five year old Jonathan Faber also known as ‘Chap’ received several shots to the body and head and later died at the K.H.M.H. News Five’s Duane Moody found out that […]
But a man from Benque Viejo del Carmen will spend the remainder of his life behind bars on a murder conviction. Miguel Matus was on trial in the Belmopan Supreme court late last week for the shooting murder of seventeen year old Patricia Tzib of Cristo Rey. Tzib was shot in the head on October […]
The problems at a high school in the Cayo District continue to mount and this past Friday things got physical. There wasn’t a fight, but police had to be called out as teachers protested the removal of furniture and books from Western Christian Academy which was recently scheduled to be closed by Yudora Millhollon Guerra, […]
If you have been waiting to indulge in CARICOM spirits, well there is good news because beer from the region will soon be available locally at competitive prices. In the case of rum, a wide variety will now be entering the Belize market. This is all in line with the Treaty of Chaguaramas that Belize […]
There were many issues… and dirty laundry aired at last Friday’s sitting of the House of Representatives. A number of amendments to the constitution were tabled, two that change appointments to key roles in government and are being hotly debated in the public domain. Prime Minister Dean Barrow proposed to allow persons with dual citizenship […]
One area that government is not seeing much opposition is a move to replace the Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final appellate court. Courtenay this morning said he believes that “the abilities and qualities of the C.C.J. are as good if not better than those at the Privy Council”. He […]
We reported two weeks ago that the National Fire Service had received eight right-hand fire trucks from the United Kingdom. The Ministry of Public Utilities and National Emergency Management stated in a release that the trucks were bought for four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. But The News, an online U.K. newspaper said that Durham […]
We reported last week Tuesday that U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor’s, membership in an exclusive women’s club was causing controversy as the nominee headed for the confirmation hearings in mid-July. Well, there is now word that Sotomayor has quit her membership in all-women’s club, Belizean Grove. Since her nomination, Sotomayor received criticism by several […]
If you didn’t make it to the Miss Y Pageant on Saturday night, you missed out on a lot of entertainment. Six ladies, ages sixty to seventy-six showed off their beauty and energy in the highly rated competition at the Belize City Center. Myrl Bowden, Olga Cook, Sonia Garnett, Kathleen Stanford, Joyce Tillett and Rosaline […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this weekly rush of Sports Monday. The B.P.F.L. moved to conclude the second round of the playoffs this weekend but was hampered by inclement weather. However, out west the Norman Broaster Stadium came alive yesterday with game two of the home and away series between Suga […]
