It has been a little over a month since the deaths of thirteen newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital was first reported in the media. Following news of the tragedy, an inquiry was launched by the K.H.M.H. Authority and while it was later discovered that a possible bacterial […]
Last week, the Ministry of National Security announced that major crimes, murder in particular, has decreased for the first five months of the year, when compared to 2012. But though the numbers have dipped, two persons were killed over the weekend. A charge has not been issued for the murder of a Sandhill resident, but […]
The second murder occurred in Belize City. The victim was well known businesswoman in her neighborhood. But while it had the appearance of a scripted robbery, it was anything but a robbery. It was a cold blooded murder. It is not certain who wanted the woman dead, but her life was extinguished with precision. Isani […]
A businessman from Corozal District did not suffer the same fate as the shopkeeper in Belize City, but he was terrorized during a home invasion. According to police, as the Louisville Village resident and his wife exited their vehicle; they were ambushed by five armed and masked men at eleven p.m. on June twenty-first. They […]
For years, Mexican vendors have travelled across the border between Belize and Mexico selling just about any product to Belizeans and other Mexicans traveling to the two countries. But the days of buying sweet bread and soft drinks on the bridge are over. The new bridge that has been constructed to alleviate the commute between […]
Tropical Depression Two and the rainfall left in its wake, has affected communities deep in the south. The small community of Jordan in the Toledo district was inundated with water when the Moho River, locally known as River Jordan, overflowed its banks after the heavy rains. The floodwaters started rising on Thursday and by Friday […]
Earlier in the newscast, you heard the Pan American Health Organization’s report on the K.H.M.H., and it did not speak well of the nation’s referral hospital. The Western Regional Hospital is also facing an inquiry that some are alleging is incompetence. A mother loses her offspring during labor and to add to the pain, the […]
In the court today, twenty-five year old Shannon Borland, was intercepted along the Boston Village Road in February, in possession of seventy-two Botan logs without a valid permit. He appeared in magistrate’s court today. Borland told the court that he believes he was deceived by the owner of the premises, Amin Awe, from which he […]
People hide their drugs under the bed, in their closet and in food cans. But a family was charged for drugs in a coconut tree. Six persons were taken before Magistrate Adolph Lucas today to answer to a single charge of possession of controlled drugs found during a GSU raid on a Belize City home. […]
Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, gave an unceremonious portrayal of the Belize National Teachers Union (B.N.T.U.) and its members when the Ministry explained the results of the 2013 Primary School Examination on June thirteenth. He said he would get in trouble for his comments…and he did. The B.N.T.U. did not mince words today with the […]
The 2013 Revised Gender Policy is the handiwork of the Women’s Commission and it is certainly one revision that has attracted the attention of the nation. The policy’s inclusion of sexual orientation and updated definition of gender has reached the desk of the Belize National Teachers Union. The B.N.T.U. has been doing its homework on […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has left the country over the weekend, to attend a fundraising event in London. Barrow was accompanying his wife, Mrs. Kim Simplis at a fundraising gala dinner to benefit the Belize Children’s Trust. The Prime Minister will return to the country on Wednesday, July third. In his absence, Deputy Prime Minister, […]
In our series of Road to the Gold Cup, Channel Five follows the players who have been selected to join the national team, the Belize Jaguars. Tonight you get to meet Luis Torres, who hopes to achieve gold in Gold Cup. {Feature on Luis Torres…}
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We take you out immediately to the F.F.B. Stadium at Capital City Belmopan where the National Male Football Team of Belize continued its preparation for the Gold Cup inside the United States by taking on a handpicked selection of local players on Saturday. Coach […]
