There was a huge blaze last night just behind San Cas Warehouse on Cran Street. A decrepit building which has been vacant for several years was eviscerated when someone set the place on fire. Fortunately, no one perished in the inferno and the damage to property was kept at a minimum, thanks to the concerted […]
In the wake of the blaze, the fire department has once again come under criticism for its response to the distress call. According to onlookers who went live on social media, the fire truck arrived at the scene about half an hour after the call was made. That account is being disputed by the station […]
A twenty-one-year-old resident of Pickstock Hutment is recovering from serious injuries he received overnight when he attempted to set himself on fire inside an apartment building. Sometime around midnight on Tuesday, Idelfonso Ku reportedly doused himself with fuel before lighting himself on fire. The incident, News Five understands, took place inside the home of deceased […]
There was a sizeable drug bust this afternoon in Placencia where two boxes containing over fourteen kilograms of cannabis were confiscated by police at the municipal airstrip. The discovery was made around three-thirty today when law enforcement officers visited the cargo section at Tropic Air. Inside the boxes were three transparent plastic bags containing the […]
The recent killing of Tracy Thompson in Calcutta and the chilling videos that have captured women being beaten unconscious and, in some cases, being left for dead, have sent shockwaves across the country. While some have lost their lives at the hands of their spouses, many more continue to suffer in silence for various reasons. […]
The National Women’s Commission has issued strong condemnation of the recent series of violent attacks that have made it to the news, one of which ended in the murder of a woman in Calcutta Village. “Violence against women remains devastatingly persistent and starts alarmingly young,” the Commission states, citing new data from the World Health […]
There are disturbing cases of the sexual assault of minors that we are reporting on tonight. The first is an incident in Belize City where a sixty-four-year-old man has been charged with “Rape of a Child” and “Assault of a Child by Penetration.” The elderly man was charged on Tuesday. But according to the police […]
The two other incidents of sexual assault occurred in Orange Walk and Belize City. Earlier this month, a six-year-old girl, accompanied by her mother, visited a police station in Belize City and the minor reported that on April eleventh of this year, whilst at home, her uncle took her to a bedroom and touched her […]
Consumer prices for the month of March were up by almost six percent, as the cost of fuel, food and liquefied petroleum gas were most affected. The Statistical Institute of Belize has issued the results of its Consumer Price Index survey which indicate that the country experienced an overall national inflation rate of five point […]
It has been in existence since 1995 when the old Belize City Hospital was decommissioned. Twenty-seven years later, with a fixed subvention from the government and a growing number of patients over the years, the K.H.M.H. finds itself in dire straits having to balance its revenues verses its expenses, and particularly more so since the […]
And while the K.H.M.H. was lucky to receive some much-needed medical supplies, the hospital is still without an important piece of equipment. The C.T. Machine has been out of commission for several months now. Today K.H.M.H. C.E.O. says there is an effort to get a replacement. Chandra Nisbet Cansino, C.E.O., K.H.M.H. “The CT Machine, […]
With the number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths on the decrease, many people believe that the virus that only months ago was still wreaking havoc in Belize is now behind us. And while the beds at the K.H.M.H. have not been filled to capacity with COVID patients for many weeks, the hospital’s C.E.O. is […]
Cansino explained that people with high hospital bills with the K.H.M.H. can work out payment plans to cover their debts. She said that a lot of times, patients’ bills are high not only because of the P.P.E. outfits that are required to be worn by the medical staff but also because many of the patients […]
Earlier this week, a memorandum of understanding was signed between Resilient Rural Belize and the University of Belize. The Resilient Rural Belize program was signed back in 2018, but was never implemented. At risk of losing financial support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the program will now be delivered through partnership with the […]
The project is focusing on tomato farmers and building that industry. According to C.E.O. Osmond Martinez, Belize imports millions of dollars worth of canned and bottled tomato products annually. The investment in this industry can create jobs and boost economic activity in the country. The program will address limitations such as knowledge, science and technology […]
An official funeral service was held this afternoon for former U.D.P. minister Ruben Campos, who was a previous area representative for the Orange Walk North and South constituencies. Campos died last Friday at the age of seventy, having lost his battle with prostate cancer. As a former government minister, Campos was given full military honors, […]
