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An ambulance was stopped by heavily armed police at the Hattieville junction on Sunday afternoon. It was coming from Hopkins in the south and was transporting a patient accompanied by her daughter. A woman inside the ambulance was heard pleading that her mother was ill. The scary sight of the police drawing their weapons at […]
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Even though the police department found out that the ambulance was in fact transporting a patient, and so the life of a the patient was at risk, the Commissioner of Police is demanding an apology from Southern Emergency Services for the manner in which the ambulance driver reportedly conducted himself at the checkpoints. On the […]
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Belize has passed its first wave of COVID-19. But don’t expect that things will go back to normal immediately. Coming out of today’s meeting of the National Oversight Committee, it is anticipated that some of the restrictions will be relaxed, such as the re-opening of hotel restaurants and use of its facilities. But curfew hours, […]
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A joint meeting between Prime Minister Dean Barrow, the Public Service Union and the Belize National Teachers’ Union is scheduled to take place on Wednesday. The meeting will revolve around G.O.B.’s cost-saving measures proposed to these unions and the Association of Public Service Senior Managers, which according to the Prime Minister, is in support of […]
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Also on Friday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow stated that ministers, chief executives officers and heads of departments will also be making a sacrifice which is much more than what public officers are contributing. P.S.U.’s Dean Flowers says that the Prime Minister needs to check his facts before going before a microphone. Dean Flowers, First […]
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The Belize National Teachers’ Union is yet to form an official position on the government’s cost-saving measures proposal. The waiving of increments will also affect the thousands of teachers and the National President, Senator Elena Smith agrees with the P.S.U. In speaking with News Five today, Smith says that for years the government was being […]
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In a letter sent to the President of the P.S.U. by Financial Secretary, Joseph Waight, the union is told that if it continues to reject the proposal, the prime minister will use the power of his office. Waight says that the PM will proceed to advise the Governor General to amend the Public Service Regulations […]
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According to the Prime Minister, the ministers will be giving up fifty percent of their entertainment allowance, which is a monthly sum they receive to host international guests as well as their thousand-dollar telephone monthly allowance. But do ministers actually spend a thousand dollars on telephone every month? We asked the union leaders today. […]
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As we reported on Friday, former Prime Minister Said Musa was hospitalized after a mild stroke on Thursday night. The seventy-six-year-old For George Representative continues in the hospital tonight. His son Kareem, who is the Caribbean Shores Area Rep, posted to say that the former PM is in good spirits. While the Musa family is […]
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There was a home invasion in Ladyville in which an elderly man was brutally stabbed multiple times. Sixty-one-year-old Michael Avilez was inside him house when two persons stomped in the door and robbed him of one hundred and ten dollars, but not before gun butting him to the head and stabbing him twice to the […]
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And there is trouble at the border points. Up north, the Mexicans don’t want him, and the Belizean authorities won’t let him enter his own country. Tonight Guillermo Foreman finds himself stateless, stuck at the border with Mexico. He made his way to the Belize/Mexico border after leaving the USA and says he has been […]
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An American national was busted up north for entering Belize illegally over the weekend via the Corozal Free Zone. According to police, the man was intercepted while attempting to make his way through a hole in the fence of the compound. He was immediately detained and taken into quarantine where he managed to escape from […]
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Tensions ran high this morning across the western border, in Melchor de Mencos, where Guatemalan drivers blocked the bridge. While the borders remain close, cargo is allowed into the country. Since the crisis started, the process is that routinely, a nurse would check the drivers for COVID-19 symptoms, if there are none then the drivers […]
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Even though it is now twenty-eight days without any new confirmed case of COVID-19, a state of emergency remains in place for the country. Thousands have already been charged for offenses under the emergency power regulations and over the weekend, an additional one hundred and fifty-six persons were added to the list. Sixty-three persons failed […]
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A Guatemalan labourer is in big trouble with the law tonight for a slew of firearm offenses. Police say that on Sunday in Santa Cruz Village, Stann Creek District, Geovanni Castro was discovered with three firearms, one of which is a high-powered rifle with a scope that is prohibited in Belize; he was also found […]
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In recent weeks, there has been a spike in gun violence in Dangriga where four persons were injured in separate shootings. The incidents, according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, were the result of rivalry between two groups in that southern municipality. Well since then, several operations were carried out in the south of the […]
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At the top of the newscast, Director of Health Services, Doctor Marvin Manzanero shared that Belize has contained its first wave of the COVID-19, but the number of cases are increasing in the region. Despite the fact that everyone is now required to wear a mask and practice physical distancing, the risk of a second […]
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Doctor Manzanero says that it’s not likely that they will recommend for an opening for the borders. As you know, Belize is the only country in Central America with no active cases of COVID-19. During today’s webcast, one viewer asked if we can expect to see the borders or the airport open by July of […]
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And on the topic of testing, the Central Medical Lab will not be doing daily COVID-19 testing, with the country’s first wave contained. Director of Health Services Marvin Manzanero outlines when tests will be conducted and what’s the future of the CPR testing. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services “To date, we have […]
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A doctor was criminally charged in the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Doctor Fausto Alvin Pineda of Benque Viejo del Carmen was arrested and charged for ‘Engaging in Private Practice, While Prohibited from Doing So.’ Pineda works at the San Ignacio Community Hospital, but also runs a private practice and he was found to […]
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In a separate, but health related matter, the Belize Dental and Medical Association also called on the Ministry of Health to look into a case of what they deem victimization of a doctor employed at the Southern Regional Hospital. The B.M.D.A. says that they have received a report that a medical doctor was being transferred […]
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During today’s Ask the Experts webcast, Lizette Bell of the Policy, Planning and Project Management Unit provided a list of funding and donation committed to Belize for COVID-19. The total expenditure, according to Director of Health Services, is about six million dollars, two thirds of which was drawn directly from government. The Ministry of Health […]
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Almost two weeks ago we reported on a Kinkajou that was injured up north and was receiving treatment at the Belize Wildlife Referral Clinic. Well, the sad news tonight is that the Kinkajou, called Fuego, didn’t survive the injuries. He passed away on Sunday night while receiving treatment at the clinic. On April twenty-eighth, the […]
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May ninth is recognized as European Union Day and this year the occasion highlighted the impact that the novel coronavirus is having on Europe and other countries that enjoy bilateral relations with the union. To commemorate Europe Day 2020, the Head of European Union Delegation to Belize, Ambassador Malgorzata Wasilewska and Minister of Foreign Affairs, […]
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