That meeting with the Government of Belize and the Joint Unions Negotiating Team has been proposed until December eighth. But, how reasonable is the expectation of a return to full salary for public servants and teachers? Minister Fonseca commented. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education “I think we have come a long way in one […]
Police officers Nelson Middleton, Elmer Nah, Delwin Casimiro and George Ferguson have been granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of forty thousand dollars each. The four were arraigned on November eighth in connection with the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway near Bladen, as well as the seizure of twenty-three bales […]
Seven-year-old Darwin Castillo has been safely reunited with his mother and family. Earlier today police confirmed that Guatemalan law enforcement located the child in Melchor de Mencos. A relative told News Five that he is in good health and without any physical injuries. Late this afternoon, Noticias de Peten was reporting that his father, Brian […]
A police officer for more than a decade, Police Constable Kieron Carlos lost his life while driving home from work on Tuesday morning. Carlos reportedly lost control of his motorcycle and collided into a concrete wall between Miles fifty-nine and sixty. A large culvert is situated in the area where he crashed and his body […]
As we reported on Monday, our News Five crew witnessed a fatal accident on the George Price Highway near mile nine that claimed the life of a woman and a ten-month-old baby. The child’s mother survived the ordeal and today chronicled to News Five’s Duane Moody the traumatic experience of losing both her baby and […]
Last night we told you about the Sunday morning traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway, just outside Belmopan, that claimed the life of Kimberly Griffith and Elmar Avila. Police have since arrested and charged Armando Pastrona with two counts of manslaughter by negligence, two counts of causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care […]
The lifeless body of thirty-three-year-old Lucas Robert Hoare was recovered from a cane field in Xaibe Village, Corozal District this morning. Hoare was reported missing by his sibling on Monday. According to Phillip McCauley, he heard someone over at his brother’s residence in the Sosa Layout of Corozal Town on Monday evening around six-thirty. This […]
Since the beginning of October, health officials have been seeing a dip in the number of new COVID infections in the Belize District, while other districts have shown a slight increase in their numbers. According to Deputy Manager for the Ministry of Health’s Central Region, Doctor Melissa Diaz-Musa, the numbers in the Belize District have […]
COVID deaths and COVID-related deaths: we see and hear the terms every day, but many use them interchangeably and don’t know how COVID deaths are determined and classified. News Five asked Deputy Manager for the Central Health Region, Doctor Melissa Musa to differentiate between the two. Dr. Melissa Diaz-Musa, Deputy Manager, Central Health Region […]
And while the number of infections decreases in one part of the country, there is still a stretch further that the Ministry of Health has to go before it gets the majority of the population vaccinated. Doctor Musa says the vaccinated population is currently at around forty-four percent. She explained that the vaccinations helped to […]
Three fatal accidents on three different highways in three consecutive days have claimed the lives of five persons, including a ten-month-old boy. It’s the chilling statistics of the past few days, time that was supposed to be the joyous Garifuna Settlement Day weekend and start of another workweek. On Sunday, Kimberly Griffith and Elmer Avila […]
Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association has announced that the first Junior Pan American Games is set to take place in Cali, Colombia from November twenty-fifth to December fifth, 2021. Belize is sending a delegation of twelve athletes and five officials for nine different sporting disciplines. The contingent will be led by the Chief of […]
And finally tonight, we have some good news to report about the popular pediatrician, Doctor Cecilio Eck. He has had a rough bout with COVID, and experienced complications soon after he contracted the virus. He ended up on a ventilator not once but twice, much to the dismay of his fellow medical colleagues. Thereafter went […]
