The Debate Rages: Are Parents Prepared to Send Children to School?
A debate is raging on social media about whether or not parents are prepared to send their children back to school on January tenth. The Ministry of Education continues to [...]
A debate is raging on social media about whether or not parents are prepared to send their children back to school on January tenth. The Ministry of Education continues to [...]
During an interview with Chief Executive Officer Dian Maheia of the Ministry of Education, she told News Five children have experienced learning losses over the almost two years of distance [...]
And then there is the reality that many children have dropped out of school. Since last year, we have been reporting that a number of children have been lost to [...]
The staff at K.H.M.H. is fighting its own wave of infections. Currently, some twenty staff members at the hospital are out with COVID-19. That number could rapidly increase, which would [...]
While active COVID-19 cases are currently above two thousand, the number of persons admitted to the COVID Unit at the K.H.M.H. right now is low. As of Tuesday, only twelve [...]
An appeal has been lodged by Waterloo Investments Holdings Limited to challenge a decision by the Department of Environment which has denied environmental clearance for its proposed tourism development project [...]
Your next light bill will more than likely be higher than what it was last month, whether or not you dressed your house for the recent Christmas holidays. The Public [...]
Following COP26 and other efforts to boost Belize’s sustainable development, the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development, and Investment announced it has created a Climate Finance Unit. The C.F.U. comes on [...]
The Social Security Board and its N.H.I. Department has partnered with the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital to provide affordable treatment for cancer patients. S.S.B. invested one hundred and fifty thousand [...]
These medications will be available at a lower cost at the hospital, because N.H.I. was able to negotiate a discounted price. Chandra Cansino, C.E.O. at K.H.M.H., explained that prior to [...]
Two former Ministry of Health C.E.O.s are now employed at the National Health Insurance Department. Doctor Ramon Figueroa, the General Manager of N.H.I., was the C.E.O. at ministry under former [...]
Like government departments across the nation, the National Health Insurance’s budget was reduced at the onset of the pandemic. This no doubt affected the quality of healthcare the most vulnerable [...]
The rapid proliferation of the Omicron variant across the country will undoubtedly affect frontline workers, including police officers who are tasked with keeping law and order amid the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
Home Affairs Minister Kareem Musa, his wife Carla, and the couple’s eleven-year-old son, contracted COVID-19 during the Christmas holidays. The family was pretty much quarantined for the better part of [...]
The final tally for the number of homicides committed in 2021 is yet to be released by the Belize Police Department. Nonetheless, we asked the Minister of Home Affairs for [...]
This morning at the Department of Youth Services in Belize City, the Leadership Intervention Unit met to chart a way forward for the next twelve months. As we reported a [...]
The Belize Central Prison currently boasts a significantly smaller population that it did only eight years ago. The facility, which is managed by the Kolbe Foundation, houses adult men and [...]
January is often the time when people need to update their driver’s license, vehicle license and insurance. And if you are one of those people where your documents have expired [...]
Driving under the influence of alcohol is a criminal offense. And, since December of 2021, the Department of Transport has been using breathalyzers on the nation’s highway to identify persons [...]
Today is World Braille Day, commemorating the birthday of Louis Braille, a French educator who became blind at a young age and invented a system of reading for the visually [...]
As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people are wondering how much longer we will need to follow protocols, especially keeping our masks on. [...]
And while he was on Open Your Eyes, Doctor Coyi shared something that medical professionals know, but which may be new to the public: you can get a combination of [...]
