Dwain Davis, the Director of Finance for the Belize City Council, is clinging to life tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Davis appeared in court today where his case was adjourned. After leaving the courthouse, Davis called his wife to tell her about the case and that was when he was hit with a […]
In the deep south, residents of San Pedro Columbia are vocal against the building of a hydro dam in their community. Research work has already begun by the company, Belize Hydro-electric Company, and at a meeting last Sunday called by the Ya’axche Conservation Trust, an assessment was presented outlining substantive damages to the area, including […]
It’s the first storm to head this way for the 2009 Hurricane Season and the forecast is that Ida will bring a lot rain in the next few days. Ida formed in the southwest of the Caribbean on Wednesday afternoon and by night it was the topic of conversation countrywide. But today Ida has weakened […]
The most memorable claim of hospital negligence this year came from Cenaida Reymundo, the woman who gave birth at the P.G. Polyclinic without the assistance of a doctor. Her baby boy died shortly after at the K.H.M.H. following a series of unfortunate events. And sadly today, the Faber family lost their five day old infant […]
Baby Alexander is not the only fatality that occurred today. At about ten o’ clock this morning a man from Double Head Cabbage was knocked down and killed. Late this evening a senior citizen of the United States, eighty year old Gordon Stout, who is presently residing in Consejo Shores, Corozal Town was slapped with […]
Turning to the war among the two telephone companies, the smaller but more aggressive SMART challenged Telemedia this afternoon to disclose the true number of subscribers that have switched companies. The government’s mouthpiece this morning declared that ten thousand subscribers have left SMART for the government controlled Telemedia. According to SMART, this is false and […]
Orange Walk Branch of the Belize National Teachers Union has taken a different position than its parent organization, the B.N.T.U. Late this evening it held a press conference at the La Inmaculada Primary School to make public its objection to a number of issues with the amended education rules being proposed by the Ministry of […]
The Privy Council on Wednesday dismissed murder convictions on Ernest Savery, Lenton Polonio and Francis Eiley for the 2002 Murder of Justo Perez. Perez was killed at his home in San Pedro and when his body was found, it was gagged and had deep wounds on the head. The motive was robbery. The three men […]
And in an early morning bust in Belize City, police seized a point thirty-eight Smith and Wesson pistol loaded with four live rounds of ammunition along with fifteen live rounds of point twenty-five ammunition. Thirty year old Librarian, Bernard Timmons and his common-law-wife, twenty seven year old Keisha Reneau were jointly charged with unlicensed firearm […]
Also in court, three persons were charged following a drug bust in the City that led police to the discovery of a bag containing sixty transparent plastic bags of marijuana which police claimed was in a sofa on which the trio sat. Two men and a woman identified as Albert Pollard and Kenroy Smith of […]
The number of HIV/AIDS cases continues to rise in the Jewel and stands at over four thousand; it is estimated that between seven to eight persons die monthly from the disease. This worrisome trend has prompted the Labour Department to encourage organizations to implement a workplace policy that protects employees from discrimination. Over twenty companies […]
HIV/AIDS is a disease that threatens humanity. The methods of transmission, treatment and prevention are frequently discussed but the contributory factors of the spread of the disease are not as commonly exposed. Healthy living this week looks at one social issue that often times falls under the radar but contributes to the growing number of […]
