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Dec 23, 2021
New Sugar Crop Starts Monday
An intervention from Prime Minister John Briceño led the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) and Belize Sugar Industries...
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Dec 17, 2021
BMDA TO OPINE ON LAND-BORDER REOPENING
Belize’s land borders are scheduled to reopen on January 1st, 2022, and the Belize Medical and Dental Association (BMDA) says that their...
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Dec 15, 2021
WHO: “77 countries have now reported cases of Omicron.”
“Seventy-seven countries have now reported cases of Omicron, and the reality is that Omicron is probably in most countries, even if it...
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Nov 26, 2021
APSSM President: ‘Chebat out of line’
The Minister of Health and Wellness (MOHW) is out of line in the way he sought to curtail the powers of the ministry’s CEO, Association...
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Oct 22, 2021
NEAB opposes vaccine mandate for Churches
The National Evangelical Association of Belize (NEAB) has penned a letter to Prime Minister John Briceño expressing their discontent with...
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Oct 16, 2021
Deputy DHS: ‘Approx. 80% of fully vaccinated COVID patients who have died had NCDs’
Approximately 80 percent of the fully vaccinated persons who have died from COVID-19-related complications, were also persons with other...
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Oct 13, 2021
Corozal Free Zone Successfully Keeps COVID-19 Out
The Corozal Freezone, which reopened its doors over eight months ago, despite heavy criticism from the public surrounding the safety of...
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Oct 12, 2021
OPINION| Digging into the COVID numbers
So there’s depressing news on the COVID front again this week, as we report 11 people died over the weekend, and the number of patients...
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Oct 12, 2021
MOHW reports almost 500 new cases, 11 COVID-related deaths
The Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW)’s COVID-19 update for Monday, October 11th, informed that 491 new cases have been identified,...
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Oct 8, 2021
PSU to GOB: Regulate COVID test’s prices at private institutions
The Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) has announced the rollout of “free testing” sites for the public to access, a move the Public...
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Oct 7, 2021
UDP critiques MOHW’s policies, calls for transparency regarding COVID test prices
Belize City, October 7, 2021 “Test, test test! Isolate, isolate, isolate!”, was Opposition Leader Hon. Patrick Faber’s urgent call to the...
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Oct 7, 2021
Cabinet approves ‘COVID-19 Enforcement Unit’
The Government has approved the establishment of a “COVID-19 Enforcement Unit”, this week’s Cabinet brief announced. The unit is to help...
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Oct 7, 2021
PCR, Rapid Test and Your Budget
Effective October 1st, 2021, under the new testing regime that the Government of Belize will be implementing, which will mandate that any...
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Oct 6, 2021
Nurses Association: ‘Vax’ making Belizeans too ‘Lax’
Effective Friday, October 1st, anyone entering a Government building or office is required to show proof of immunization or a negative...
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Oct 1, 2021
Medical Community supports ‘Vaccine Pass’ introduced under new COVID rules
By Michelle Sutherland A recent poll conducted among approximately 200 members of the Belize Medical and Dental Association (BMDA) has...
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Sep 29, 2021
YouTube to remove ‘fake news’ about COVID vaccines
By Javan Flowers “Content that falsely alleges that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, claims that...
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Sep 25, 2021
MOHW Data: Pandemic of the ‘unvaccinated’
Approximately 77 percent of the COVID-19-related deaths recorded from August 1st to September 24th are among unvaccinated persons, newly...
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Aug 21, 2021
Belize inching closer to WHO’s CT level 3 classification?
Belize’s COVID-19 positivity rate has since surpassed the five percent threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO), and if the...
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Jun 30, 2021
New COVID Variant Spreading Fast, MOH Introducing New Measures
The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting the possibility of the detection of a new Covid variant in the country, which is...
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