The Ministry of Health is currently dealing with an outbreak of dengue fever. A rash of the disease is being confirmed in the country, a concentration of which has been noted in the Cayo District. The vector-borne illness, also known as break bone fever, is up by thirty-six cases from the same period in 2014. […]
The dengue virus is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which reproduces in areas where stagnant water is not properly drained. Despite an awareness campaign which remains ongoing, the ministry is appealing to the public to organize cleanup efforts in order to do away with unwanted receptacles to mitigate the spread of resultant dengue fever. […]
According to health officials, additional manpower has been brought in to assist with fumigation efforts, as well as the application of larvicides. Residents are required to do their part to keep their surroundings clean. Kim Bautista, Chief Operations Officer, VCU “Each of the districts has hired an average of between six to seven additional […]
Still on health related matters, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is faced with yet another embarrassing dilemma which has forced the national referral facility to suspend elective surgeries until Monday, August tenth. The predicament comes on the heels of a spike in admissions of trauma patients. On Wednesday, the hospital informed the public that as […]
A similar concern had been raised about the diagnostic X-ray scan. The CT scanner has been out of service for quite some time and it was only on Friday of last week that the machine was finally repaired. Dr. Coye, in offering comment on the bed crisis, briefly commented on the issue of the CT […]
A Mennonite community up north is grieving the unexpected death of one of its own. A freak accident on Wednesday associated with a tropical wave passing through the north took the life of twenty-four year old Johan Friesen of a Mennonite community fifteen miles from the Santa Martha Village on the Old Northern Highway. Heavy […]
A fifteen year old San Antonio resident of Corozal remains tonight in police custody for the murder of twenty-four year old Samir Vivas. Vivas was fatally stabbed on Tuesday night across from where he lived at the Venezuelan Site area of the town and police believe that the minor, who is a former student of […]
While Guatemala’s territorial dispute will take time to solve if it lands before the ICJ, trade relations between Belize and Guatemala are moving along. In June 2010, after years of negotiations, a partial scope agreement was signed with Guatemala. Today, discussions took place at the Belize City Ramada Princess on the functions of the Administrative […]
C.E.O. in the Ministry of Trade, Mike Singh, expressed optimism that in the next few days all the wrinkles will be ironed out in the cross-border trade. Mike Singh, C.E.O., Ministry of Trade “We do offer the Central American countries, including Guatemala, a strong opportunity to enter into the CARICOM market, which is […]
The North Side Strike team of the Police Force is reporting a huge drug bust in the south side of the city. The team along with the CIB Precinct Four embarked in anti drug operations early on Wednesday morning. Between five and seven in o’clock, the joint operation discovered seventeen parcels of cannabis in an […]
Forty-two year old Lincoln Moguel, an unemployed former taxi driver was remanded to prison today for a charge of burglary after he pleaded not guilty. On Monday, August third, Carla Cleland reported to police that Moguel entered her home in Belama with the intent to cause her bodily harm. She told police that she arrived […]
The Youth Apprenticeship Program graduated eighty students this morning. The six month course prepared the apprentices to enter and stay focused in the work force. The program has had a good rate of success and the majority of those who have passed through are today gainfully employed. Duane Moody was at the Ramada Belize City […]
Over the past few years we have shared many stories on the projects of the Belize Camping Experience. It’s a N.G.O. that has been supporting camps with children primarily in Belize City, but they have spread their wings and reached out children in other parts of the country. Now, this camp relies heavily on the […]
Three years after Jasmine Lowe was brutally killed in the Cayo District, the Jasmine Alert was created in her memory to help protect young children. A program fashioned after the U.S. Amber Alert, the Jasmine Alert triggers a warning via social media and phone companies when there is a reported missing child. Earlier this year, […]
The summer vacation for students is winding down and so are the summer camps that have been keeping them occupied. At Body Two Thousand here on Coney Drive, about sixty-five children enrolled for tennis camps organized by the Belize Table Tennis Association. It is two-fold: to provide a healthy outlet as well as to identify […]
World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from first to seventh August in more than one hundred seventy countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. The last survey conducted on Breastfeeding in Belize showed that only fourteen percent of babies were exclusively breastfed for the first six months of […]
