On Friday, fifty-two-year-old Belize City resident Luis Romero Senior was confirmed to be the third person in the country to have died due to COVID-19. He passed away at the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He had been admitted five hours before his death and many days after he began exhibiting […]
As a result of the ordeal with Luis Romero Senior, the Romero family has launched a petition and is asking for public support in requesting that the Ministry of Health pays closer attention to, and establish continuity of their very own rules, across the entire board. The Romero family is calling on the Ministry of […]
A K.H.M.H. doctor, who tested positive for COVID-19, was spotted in the city conducting business. Surveillance footage captured the doctor on Friday afternoon and that image was widely circulated online. News Five understands that the doctor suffers from a pre-existing condition and was hospitalized over the weekend. But tonight questions surrounding the doctor’s movements in […]
In the south, a pastor in Santa Cruz village in the south is facing charges under the State of Emergency Regulations. Police say that there were sixteen persons inside the church on Sunday night, which is contrary to the new S.I. that was passed. The new piece of legislation makes provision for church goers but […]
There are no charges for Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia following the viral images of a mass gathering in front of his house last Friday. Videos and pictures show Heredia and his family on their veranda in San Pedro giving out “assistance” to residents using a string to lower the assistance to the crowd. The video […]
Over the weekend, three persons who conduct contact tracing tested positive for the corona virus. Today, four more police officers have tested positive for COVID-19. These two officers join a growing number of colleagues and other frontline workers who have tested positive. The police officers work in Belize City and San Pedro. Today ComPol Chester […]
While Luis Romero died of the virus, there are questions over the death of a San Felipe man. The family of sixty three year-old Carlos Peralta is tonight trying to confirm if he died as a result of COVID-19 over the weekend. The Director of Health Services says that Peralta died at the Karl Heusner […]
Turning to the growing numbers of persons carrying the virus, which put Belize as one of the countries in the Caribbean, with the highest number of cases. Now. more cases of COVID-19 will be announced later tonight and as wait for those results, as of Saturday night, Belize registered four hundred and fifty-two cases with […]
According to Doctor Manzanero, the Central Medical Laboratory did not run any batch of samples on Sunday as they are preparing samples for processing today as well due to routine quality control measures. Manzanero says that twenty thousand testing kits are remaining and given the testing rate at the moment, the kits will last about […]
A fifty-nine-year-old woman from Lindos Alley in Belize City is currently in a critical condition at a medical facility in Belize City after she was attacked at her home earlier this morning. Rosa Delia Chinchilla was at her home when a twenty-five-year-old man visited her residence and asked to borrow some money. Police say that […]
As Chinchilla fights for her life at the K.H.M.H., a man was found dead inside his house on Rivero Street in Belize City. A caretaker found Bernard Gillett lifeless, slumped on his bed. Police do not suspect foul play since Gillett had a pre- existing condition which may have caused his demise. Here is Duane […]
A grocery store on Central American Boulevard in Belize City was targeted by armed thieves over the weekend. On Sunday evening, ABC Shop owner was robbed of three thousand dollars in cash by two masked gunmen who held him up and demanded that he turned over the money from the cash register. He complied and […]
Police are looking for a man in connection with a stabbing incident on Saturday in Belize City. Fifty-five-year-old Aubrey Brown lives alone in a small wooden house on Johnson Street and while socializing with another man, an argument ensued. Brown was stabbed to the right side of the chest around one a.m.; he was later […]
Early data from pregnant women with COVID-19 indicates that the disease is linked to premature birth and changes to the placenta that might reflect altered blood flow. However, these studies were of women with severe cases of the disease. Last week, two pregnant women were diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus. Fortunately one woman has given birth, and according to Doctor […]
The Belize Police Department has stepped up its operations along the northern border. Commissioner Chester Williams says that they seized a number of contraband goods and as well as canoes that are used for transportation in the border villages. The goods seized consists primarily of alcoholic beverages, including seventy-three bottles of beer; sixty-seven cans of […]
Police arrested and charged close to two hundred persons for breach of the State of Emergency regulations over the weekend. From our records, it appears to be the largest number of persons charged under the S.O.E. Commissioner Chester Williams says the one hundred and eighty-eight persons didn’t adhere to social distancing; curfew and face mask […]
Placencia Police were called out to the scene of an aggravated burglary on Saturday just before eight. An armed man entered a house, held up the homeowner at gunpoint and robbed him. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says that they have detained one person in connection with the burglary at the home of a […]
In other crime news, police have arrested a man in the west for an unlicensed firearm. Police say that a patrol unit encountered Nectali Yeh walking with the unlicensed firearm in his hand. Here’s more from Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “While San Ignacio Police […]
The sale of Scotiabank Belize to Caribbean International Holdings Limited, the parent company of Belize Bank, is still being finalized by the Central Bank. The Central Bank is pouring over details of the proposed transaction to ensure that proper due diligence was done by both parties. On Friday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow gave a brief […]
Belize has gotten a much needed break as far as the payment of the super bond even though the country’s credit rating was downgraded by Standards and Poor to a rating of selective default. On Friday, PM Barrow congratulated those who were instrumental in deferring the payment of the super bond amid the economic downturn […]
At the start of the week, the states of emergency for COVID-stricken communities, including Guinea Grass, Shipyard and Santa Marta in the north and San Pedro in central Belize have been extended for an additional two weeks. Along with the extension is a nationwide curfew that came into effect on Sunday night which requires everyone […]
Classes resumed at the University of Belize this morning, but from all indications, it appears there was a poor turnout. When we visited the main campus in Belmopan, it didn’t look like the opening of the academic school year, but more like a ghost town. Over a hundred faculty members of the U.B. Faculty and […]
From saying no to the formal teaching for the opening of the new school year to a seat at the table, the U.B.F.S.U. says that they are heading into negotiations with two major items on the table. Starting on Tuesday, the union and the Board of Trustees will begin talks for a Collective Bargaining Agreement; […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize, N.T.U.C.B., has written to Prime Minister Dean Barrow objecting to the amendment to the Labour Act that was passed in the House of Representatives on Friday. The umbrella organization says that it was never consulted in respect of these changes, notwithstanding the fact that it is very much […]
