Home » 2020-10-05
You are currently browsing entries tagged with the keywoard: 2020-10-05
Belizeans are heading to the polls on November eleventh to elect a new government. The announcement was formally made this morning via a press release from the Office of the Prime Minister. A couple of things: the general elections will be held during a pandemic, a historic first for the country. While there is precedence […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Featured,
Miscellaneous,
People & Places,
Politics |
Comments Off on A Date for General Elections is Finally Set!!
PM Barrow is now retiring and cannot seek a fourth term; Patrick Faber will be appointed as the U.D.P. Leader later this week, but will not automatically take up the post as Prime Minister for the rest of the term of government. Leader of the Opposition John Briceño has been calling on PM Barrow to […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Featured,
People & Places,
Politics |
Comments Off on P.U.P. Ready for Elections on November 11th
After a three consecutive terms in at the helm of power, the U.D.P. is fighting an uphill battle to return to Belmopan for a fourth term. Is John Briceño prepared to lead the country? Briceño says that he is confident on the work that his thirty candidates have been doing leading up to the elections. […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Featured,
People & Places,
Politics |
Comments Off on Is John Briceño Prepared to Lead the Country?
It is said that elections are won on election day and this time, Briceño is the maximum leader of the P.U.P. Though confident of victory, Briceño’s fate is in the hands of the electorate. Win or lose government, Briceño says he will continue to serve as area representative for Orange Walk Central—a seat he is […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Featured,
People & Places,
Politics |
Comments Off on Briceño Says He’ll Resign if He Loses General Elections
Corruption in government is one of the big issues that Belizeans are unhappy about, and from all accounts corruption is rampant in rampant in Belmopan. The outgoing PM has admitted there is corruption in government and several of his ministers have been accused of corrupt acts many times. In 2004, Prime Minister Dean Barrow famously […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Featured,
People & Places,
Politics |
Comments Off on P.U.P. Promises to do Everything to Curb Corruption
A young woman was shot and killed on Saturday night while visiting with her sister in Belize City. Twenty-one-year-old Nelisha Nolberto, a single mother of a six-month baby, was with family and friends when two gunmen entered the yard and opened fire. When one of the gunmen could not discharge his gun, the wanted man […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Crime,
Featured |
Comments Off on A Young Mother is Slain in Gang-related Shooting
Shyne Barrow, the son of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, was accused of domestic violence by his wife. Catherine Barrow claimed that the U.D.P. standard bearer for Mesopotamia had attacked her on Saturday when she wanted to visit her family in San Ignacio. But within twenty-four hours she recanted her statement, saying she had exaggerated, though […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Crime,
Featured |
Comments Off on Domestic Violence Report Made Against U.D.P. Standard Bearer Shyne Barrow
Nomination Day is set for October twenty-first and the official signing-up of candidates for all thirty-one constituencies this year will be devoid of the fanfare that has traditionally accompanied both mass party events. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the massive seas of supporters parading down Mahogany Street in Belize City will be a […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Featured,
Miscellaneous,
People & Places,
Politics |
Comments Off on A 2020 Nomination Day with no Fanfare
The General Elections, come November eleventh, will be governed by a set of regulations that will ensure that social distancing, as well as sanitization, is maintained. While it will mean that voters may remain in lines longer, the process, according to the Chief Elections Officer, must comply with measures that are currently in place to […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Miscellaneous,
People & Places,
Politics |
Comments Off on A National Voting Exercise amid These COVID Times
Like other countries in the Caribbean, Belize is holding a national vote amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Tamai, her office has been in touch with regional counterparts to look at ways in which Belize can adopt some of the measures that were implemented on Election Day in those jurisdictions. The primary concern, says the […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Miscellaneous,
People & Places,
Politics |
Comments Off on Kindly Exercise Patience while Voting
The COVID-19 related deaths are now at thirty; the weekend victims are from Corozal, Orange Walk and Unitedville, in the west. Kent Smith is the latest to die from the virus; he is a veteran cowboy and long-time fixture at the rodeo shows of the National Agriculture and Trade Show. Smith, according to the Ministry […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Health |
Comments Off on Popular Cowboy Dies from COVID-19 Complications
Two other persons also died as a result of the novel coronavirus over the weekend, bringing the total number of deaths to thirty or a mortality rate of one point three seven percent. On Friday, a female from Corozal was rushed to K.H.M.H. in a critical state and died; on Saturday a man in his […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Health |
Comments Off on COVID Deaths Climb to 30
There are one hundred and seventy new COVID-19 cases identified in three days. Between Friday and Sunday, eight hundred and thirty-eight samples were tested for the novel coronavirus of which a little over twenty percent returned positive. The alarming figures, majority of which were discovered in Corozal and Orange Walk has the Ministry of Health […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Health |
Comments Off on 170 New COVID Cases in 3 Days
When we last spoke with the Director of Health Services, he said that due to activities held in September as well as a family gatherings still taking place, the Ministry of Health was expected that the number of positive cases in the first week of October would spike. Today, DHS Manzanero spoke on the factors […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Health |
Comments Off on Factors Contributing to Increasing COVID Numbers
As the political campaign goes in full gear, the corona virus has hit the U.D.P. standard bearer for Corozal Southeast. Tony Herrera tested positive over the weekend and is in quarantine. We are told that other family members of the first-time standard bearer have also tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile, John Saldivar from the […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Health,
People & Places |
Comments Off on U.D.P. Standard Bearer Tony Herrera Tests Positive for COVID-19
Since last Thursday when the Philip Goldson International Airport resumed commercial flights, seven hundred and twelve persons have arrived in the country, primarily via United and American Airlines. It is expected that as the high tourism season starts, the number will grow exponentially. This figure was released by the National Oversight Committee. And according to […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
People & Places,
Travel |
Comments Off on 712 Persons Arrived at P.G.I.A. So Far
Police have arrested and charged Clayton White with the crime of murder for the killing of well-known Belizean artist, Mister Program. Cops are also looking for Raheem Marsden in connection with this killing. The report is that Gilbert Alamilla, better known as Mr. Program, was at a house on Simon Lamb Street with Clayton White […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Clayton White Charged for Murder of Mr. Program
There was a sigh of relief in Dangriga when a family returned home safely. Over the weekend it was wildly reported that the family of Francis Ramirez had perished, but on Sunday, a crowd gathered at the riverbank to receive the family. They had gone fishing and failed to return as scheduled so the worst […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Miscellaneous,
People & Places |
Comments Off on Sigh of Relief as Dangriga Family Return Safely Home
There was a shooting in Belize City on Friday night. Police say that two men were shot around six-forty that night but fortunately they didn’t sustain life threatening injuries. Deputy Head of the Crimes Investigation Branch says that this shooting is as a result of ongoing gang rivalries. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Two Men Shot in Belize City
In Orange Walk, a fifteen-year-old boy was shot on Sunday night. Police say that Victor Pott was walking in Trial Farm Village with another person when a vehicle drove past him and fired shots in his direction. He was hit once in the leg. Police say that it is unclear who the intended target of […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Minor Shot in Orange Walk. Was He the Intended Target?
On Friday night, just after eight, police carried out an anti-contraband operation at a residence in San Victor Village. Police say they intended to conduct a search of a vehicle in a fenced yard when a man armed with a machete approached the police. Police say that although the cops were outnumbered they were able […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on A Contraband Raid in San Victor
Two Guatemalan who entered the country illegally are in police custody tonight after their vehicle flipped while attempting to escape from police on the San Antonio Road. Police say that around nine-forty-five on Saturday night, they saw a suspicious vehicle heading towards Santa Cruz Village – a border village that is connected to illegal crossings. […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Miscellaneous,
People & Places |
Comments Off on Illegal Guats Captured in the North!
A postman was busted with weed and contraband alcohol in a postal truck last week Friday. Police say they were acting on information when they stopped and searched a van that belongs to the postal service. A parcel of weed weighing a little over one hundred and seventy grams, along with unaccustomed bottles of whiskey […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Crime |
Comments Off on Postman Busted with Weed and Contraband
The Southside State of Emergency, which saw more than one hundred individuals incarcerated on July eight and was extended for two more months, comes to an end tomorrow, October sixth. However, in the last week or so, reports are that the around thirty gang members were being slowly released from prison back into society. At […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Miscellaneous,
People & Places,
Social Issues |
Comments Off on Southside State of Emergency Comes to an End
On Saturday, law enforcement officers were deployed to the Belize-Guatemala border in the west following reports of a caravan with thousands of Hondurans was making its way through Guatemala to head to the United States. The Belize Defense Force soldiers were deployed with riot gears to block the entry of the caravan in the event […]
Written on October 5, 2020 | Posted in
Miscellaneous,
People & Places |
Comments Off on Belize Has Measures in Place if Honduran Caravan Comes!
