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Nurses Southern Regional Hospital Voice Their Concerns to the Minister of Health

On Monday, Minister of Health and Wellness, Kevin Bernard, made a commitment to visit the nurses at the Southern Regional Hospital in the wake of a demonstration that began with [...]

Thirty Million Dollars in Medication and Medical Supplies to Be Distributed

The Ministry of Health and Wellness recently signed tender contracts valued at thirty million dollars for the supply of medications and medical supplies. Minister of Health Kevin Bernard explained that [...]

Consultant for Waterloo Project Responds to NGOs

Nextera Environmental and Engineering Consultant, Allan Herrera, has responded to a group of non-government organizations that wrote to him last week. The group of N.G.O.s had asked Herrera, the principal [...]

Vulcan Denies Using Divide and Conquer Strategy in Gales Point

As we reported last week, Vulcan Materials Company has written to the people of Gales Point, offering them jobs that pay two times the existing minimum wage to carry out [...]

Child Dies From Electrocution in Pomona Village

A child is dead following a freak accident inside her home in Pomona Village. Eight-year-old Jacqueline Valdez was electrocuted while connecting a television to an extension cord. She was alone [...]

“Jungle Rat” is Found Guilty of 2014 Murder

Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Sanchez appeared before Justice Herbert Lord on Monday where he was convicted for the execution style murder of Emmerson Arnold, an employee of Belize Water Services Limited. The [...]

B&B Security Guard Charged for Stealing 15 Boxes of Smirnoff

A security guard employed by the Belize Brewing Company has been charged for stealing fifteen cases of Smirnoff from the compound in Ladyville.  Thirty-year-old Phillip James Lopez is accused of [...]

A Joint U.N. Work Plan for Migrants, Refugees & Belize Amnesty 2022

A second joint U.N. work plan was officially signed today between partner agencies as part of a strategic program to support migrants, refugees and the Belize Amnesty 2022. It is [...]

7,000 Applications for Amnesty Program So Far

During today’s press conference, News Five asked about the status of the Amnesty Program 2022. There are an estimated sixty thousand unregulated migrants living in Belize. The process so far [...]

UN System in Belize Supports Amnesty 2022

On the ground, there are those who, due to financial constraints, have not applied to the amnesty program. And so, to help with boosting those numbers, the U.N. network in [...]

Karl H Menzies Closes Its Storefront and Goes Fully Digital

Karl H. Menzies is making the switch to online sales only. The decision to do so comes after five decades of doing business from the company’s storefront on Barrack Road. [...]

FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, Scheduled To Visit Belize

FIFA President, Gianni Infantino will be in Belize ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Infantino is scheduled to pay a visit to the Football Federation of Belize’s headquarters [...]

B.D.F. to Receive Troop Lifting Vehicles and Office Equipment

The Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of National Defense and Border Security signed a pair of contracts at a value of roughly three million dollars for the purchase [...]

Highlights from Day 1 of Mas Camp 2022

The highly anticipated return of the Carnival Road March is four days away and band leaders are preparing their final costumes for the bacchanal. A total of nine bands will [...]

Meet the Winners in the Battle of the Giant Costumes 2022

Carnival season is in full swing and over the weekend, the battle of the giant costumes raged on at the Belize City Civic Center. While the competition does not have [...]