Tonight, there is a very disturbing report of sexual assault against children. Police have finally confirmed a report circulating since the start of the week that a five-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted in the south. The young girl made the report at the Hopkins Police Station where she identified a fourteen-year-old as the perpetrator. […]
Forty-six-year-old Reynaldo Verde, the Deputy Director of General Tax Services, remains in jail in the United States. Verde is facing charges of extortion and attempted extortion. Today, he appeared before Judge Alicia Reyes in a Miami Court where he pleaded not guilty to the charges. The owner of Orchid Bay in Corozal laid out a […]
There are fresh details tonight on the unfortunate stabbing death of Isaac Marin and the stabbing of his brother Carlos, in Caye Caulker. Seventeen-year-old Isaac died shortly after the attack and Carlos is in stable condition. The person behind the stabbing is their cousin, Jaymie Marin, a mental health patient. Isaac is the second person […]
Police also provide an update to the murder of a Belize City resident. Louise Bevans Street resident Brandon Bennett was executed on Monday night and his body dumped on the roadside in Vista del Mar after eight o’clock. There were multiple gunshot wounds on the body. The twenty-six-year-old was recently charged for gang affiliation, but […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Allan Pitts, a support technician of Burrell Boom Village, was injured shortly after midnight on Tuesday when the vehicle he was traveling in came under gunfire. It is reported that sometime around two o’clock this morning, Belize City police visited the Belize Healthcare Partners where they observed Pitts suffering from a gunshot wound to […]
As the U.D.P. gears up for its February 2020 convention which will elect a successor to Prime Minister Dean Barrow as leader, a number of persons are throwing their hat in the ring. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, twice an unsuccessful candidate for the United Democratic Party, is making a third bid, this time for chairmanship […]
With the leadership convention scheduled for February 2020, it would appear that the highest number of delegates is adding up in favour of John Saldivar, who lost to Patrick Faber in June 2016 when both ran for deputy leadership. But that depends on who you ask. While Hugo Patt, Beverly Williams, Shyne Barrow and Phillip […]
As for first deputy leadership, Peyrefitte maintains that both candidates, Tracy Panton and Hugo Patt, are well intentioned in spite of who they are supporting for party leader. He says that in the true spirit of democracy they are free to vote for whomever it is they believe is the better candidate. The principal concern, […]
So who is Peyrefitte supporting for new leader of the U.D.P.? That’s a question we put to him during our sit down this morning and he told us that despite having a vote to cast, he is remaining neutral, since his prospective role as incoming chairman will require him having to work with both candidates […]
A secretary for the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court was convicted of theft at the Dangriga Magistrate’s Court for theft. Forty-nine year-old Dorkas Caliz was charged for stealing one thousand dollars from the Court on December sixth, 2013. The magistrate imposed a non-custodial sentence upon the former senior court employee and she was fined two thousand dollars or in […]
A lack of anti-retroviral medication is putting lives at risk. If a person with HIV/AIDS does not take the meds as prescribed, it can cause HIV to become resistant to the drugs and the patient will not have treatment options. This week, we have been following reports that there is an acute shortage at the […]
The Ministry of Health is today responding to concerns raised over the importation of generic drugs. Giovanni Brackett, an activist, says the F.D.A. approved drugs are not available and while generic drugs on the local market cannot all be classified as bad, not all are good. Doctor Manzanero, the Director of Health Services says the […]
The People’s United Party is reacting to our report on the shortage of anti-retroviral medication used to treat patients living with HIV/AIDS. The P.U.P. expresses concern over the unavailability of the life-saving meds, blaming the incompetence of the Ministry of Health for the shortage. The P.U.P. has learnt that patients are being turned back due […]
The Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams was flanked by the top brass of the Belize Police Department, including regional commanders, as he released a crime report. Williams says major crimes have reduced somewhat nationally, but regionally, the western belt encompassing Belmopan as well as Santa Elena and San Ignacio, the numbers have gone up by […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams during his interview with the media today took aim at the liquor establishments, who he says, have been irresponsible. He contends that alcohol consumption has been at the root of many of the murders across the country. Recently, a woman was badly beaten outside of a nightclub in Belize City […]
Approximately two thousand delegates, including key policy decision-makers, across all domains of critical care and from over eighty-four countries gathered in Melbourne, Australia last week for the fourteenth World Congress of Intensive Care. Belize forms part of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine which was established in 1977. Its objective […]
According to Doctor Hidalgo, the five-day congress discussed the issue of diversity to include small countries around the table since their needs are different. The World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine is determined to increase its membership is developing and less populated countries. Dr. Jorge Hidalgo, Sec. Gen., W.F.S.I.C.C.M. “The […]
A deserving family of eight received the key to their brand new home today in Belize City. Silvia Castro, her husband and their six children were begging for lodging in rundown houses and after struggling for a while, they asked for help from Hand in Hand Ministries. And that help was officially handed over to […]
