Health
Belizean teen nets Yale scholarship
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 25, 2024
Seventeen-year-old Douglas Langford, Jr. from Belize has...
World IP Day 2024
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Apr. 23, 2024
Every April 26, countries around the globe...
Promoting the gift of reading across Belize
Photo: L-R Prolific writer David Ruiz, book publisher Monttse Casademunt, and Chief Librarian Lusiola...
Judge allows into evidence dying declaration of murder victim Egbert Baldwin
Egbert Baldwin, deceased (L); Camryn Lozano (Top right) and Albert Gill, on trial
by Roy...
Health Ministry braces for “a lean and mean year”
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 25, 2016--The national budget is due to be presented in Parliament in the coming weeks. There will be much debate...
Drug crisis affecting thousands of mental health patients
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Apr. 8, 2015--The Cayo Consumer Association has successfully lobbied for urgent intervention by the Ministry of Health to address the scarcity...
KHMH opens new Breast Cancer Diagnostic Unit
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 27, 2015--A brand new Breast Cancer Diagnostic Unit, which was made possible through a donation by international partners of the...
Cotton swab left inside woman after childbirth almost kills her
BELIZE CITY--Lucia Martinez, 18, the mother of a 1-month-old baby, is lucky to be alive after a cotton swab was left in her body...
Barrow asserts that GOB will pay Janae’s $2 mil award
BELIZE CITY--Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dean Barrow confirmed via the media today that the Government of Belize will make good on the...
Did wrong diagnosis cause death of 19-year-old?
BELIZE CITY--A 19-year-old 4th form student of Gwen Lizarraga High School, Flory Palacio, died in September, allegedly after her medical condition was misdiagnosed as...
Dr. Errol Elrington’s license suspended by Michigan authorities
BELIZE CITY--The allegation that Dr. Errol G. Elrington—US “fugitive at large” who is the brother of Foreign Affairs Minister Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington and former...
5.1 million persons died from diabetes in 2013
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Nov. 26, 2014--Diabetes is a chronic disease which occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin or cannot use insulin effectively....
New Caribbean Regional Framework for HIV/AIDS adopted
BELIZE CITY--Caribbean leaders have committed to a new agenda for battling HIV/AIDS in the post-2015 era. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, head of the Epidemiology Unit...
Dengue burdens productive population on Southside Belize City
BELIZE CITY--Latest data received today from the Belize Ministry of Health indicate that up to October 2014, roughly 350 cases of dengue have been...
Chik-V test of possible index patient in Belize sent to CDC in Atlanta
BELIZE CITY--Belize has still not been able to confirm via lab tests whether Maria Alvadaro, a Salvadoran woman visiting Las Flores, Belmopan, Belize, who...
Lab results for possible index case of Chikungunya in Belize still pending
LAS FLORES, BELMOPAN--Two family members in Las Flores, Belmopan, can breathe a sigh of relief after official tests conducted by the Ministry of Health...
Cruise lines threaten to pull plug on Belize over new Ebola screening measures
BELIZE CITY--North Korea has announced a travel ban on foreign tourists, and while Belize is not considering such a blanket ban on tourists, it...
Belize bans travelers from West African nations affected by Ebola outbreak
BELIZE CITY--Today, Belize joined two other Caribbean island nations, Jamaica and St. Lucia, which have issued travel restrictions for travelers from countries in West...