The United States Government today declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, with over seven thousand cases confirmed in the U.S. Neighboring Guatemala announced its first confirmed case on Wednesday, while over ninety cases of the monkeybox has been identified in Mexico as of today. Across the globe, over twenty-six thousand cases have been […]
And, with no confirmed case of monkeypox in Belize, schools across the country are preparing to welcome returning students at the end of the month. Minister Fonseca also gave an update on how the preparation process has been coming along from his ministry’s end. Here is what he had to say. Francis Fonseca, Minister […]
In July 2021, it was announced that Doctor Vincent Palacio, the then Dean of the Faculty of Management and Social Sciences at the University of Belize, would be named the Interim President of the national university. One year later, Doctor Palacio has been confirmed as the President of the University of Belize. It is a […]
Twenty-five students heading into secondary school were awarded scholarships by Digi Belize. These scholarship recipients were selected from across the country based on their academic achievements and financial need. The Digi scholarship will provide each child with the finance needed throughout the duration of their high school experience. They gathered in Belize City today to […]
Over the last twenty-one years, the Social Security Board has awarded scholarships to over one thousand students across Belize. According to S.S.B. Director Marcelo Blake, this amounts to a pay out of over four million dollars. This year, S.S.B. is enabling an additional fifty-five students to achieve their academic goals. 2022 saw the highest number […]
Today at the Holy Redeemer Credit Union Conference Room, the U.S. Embassy and Peacework Belize launched MediaSmart, a three-month training program that will be piloted in four high schools in Belize City and Independence. The program, with the support of colleagues from across various media houses, including News Five’s very own C.E.O. Marleni Cuellar, will […]
Tonight’s look on the bright side highlights the Jah Love evening program where kids from the George Street community are provided with support from a man with a story of redemption. Sabreena Daly shares this story after an evening spent with community members. Sabreena Daly, Reporting It’s a regular day for Glenford Stamp. He […]
During the presentation today, President of the Belize National Teachers’ Union, Senator Elena Smith said that during the consultation, secondary school teachers expressed concerns about job security. Would the new curriculum framework see some teachers displaced? Education Minister Francis Fonseca confirmed that that will not be the case and that in fact, teachers will need […]
Pediatric vaccines for children ages five to eleven will be expiring in the next few months and the data shows that of that population, only five thousand, six hundred and twenty-six or seven point six percent have received two doses. While with Minister Fonseca, he was asked if there were any concerns since schools will be […]
Belize High School student Karina Espat today successfully completed a STEM Summer Camp with youths from her community. Around fifteen children were engaged in learning science concepts and were handed their certificates. Espat also invited some of her peers from the robotics team at B.H.S. who exposed the camp goers to the fundamentals of this […]
It is one of three summer camps that were organized in the Fort George constituency. Area Representative Henry Charles Usher says that the youth within the community were also engaged in an art and sport summer camp, which he says it critical for their overall development. Henry Charles Usher, Area Representative, Fort George “Every […]
It’s the end of a two-week summer camp at Tina Johnson’s free tutoring program. The kids have completed the academic session of the camp, but it was surely not short of fun. What began as an initiative to keep kids engaged academically during the pandemic, has blossomed into a registered program and a growing number […]
Earlier this week, we reported on the twenty-million-dollar loan that the Social Security Board is providing to the Development Finance Corporation to be used on its mortgage program, as well as its real estate, and infrastructure and refinancing programs. S.S.B will disburse the money every two years in tranches of five million dollars. It is […]
Twenty-nine Belizean farmers and agriculture students returned home today after spending the last eighty-four days in Colombia in Technical Agriculture Studies. All twenty-nine graduated from the program. Noemi Romero is an agriculture student who hails from San Pedro Columbia Village, Toledo. She is enlisted in agriculture studies at the Central Farm campus and told News […]
Romero shared that prior to now, she was experimenting with trial and error to apply bio-fertilizers, but now she has the technical know-how on what to do and how much of what to use on her farm, as well as in her agriculture course. Noemi Romero, Completed Technical Agriculture Studies “I was practicing some […]
During the down time of summer, kids look for a way to make memorable moments with their family and friends. Summer camps are a way to do that. All over the country, kids will be able to engage in activities in and outside of the classroom; on land and in the water there’s something to […]
Today’s cabinet brief also focused on education and what government is doing to increase the age of compulsory education from fourteen to sixteen, taking into consideration that while the change will lead to other legislative and policy adjustments, it is a step in the right direction in preparing Belizean students for life. Stuart Leslie, […]
The P.U.P. campaigned on a platform that included free education for high school students on the south side of Belize City. Now the first phase of that pilot program is about to be rolled out under what is called the Education Upliftment Project –Together We Rise. Today, Minister of Education, Francis Fonseca told reporters that […]
Earlier we heard Minister of Education, Francis Fonseca speak about the rollout of government’s free education for the southside program. The minister explained that the program will include more and more schools with each passing year. But he also spoke with us about a countrywide summer program entitled Let’s Catch Up that the ministry is […]
The Shirley Roberts-Young Care and Educate Foundation is providing twenty scholarships to deserving children who are transitioning to high school this coming August in its inaugural scholarship program. The recipients are from across the length and breadth of the country, as the organization had the difficult task of choosing the lucky students out of one […]
The Belize Police Department is fighting crime by equipping Belize City children with the necessary tools needed for success. A.C.P. Howell Gillett spent the morning engaging children from across the city in a first-of-its-kind tour of the Supreme and Magistrates Court. He then made himself available for a ceremony at the Raccoon Street Police Station […]
Last October, the Cabinet decided to take a multi-sectoral approach to help to fight crime when the Ministry of Home Affairs, through the Department of Youth Services. D.Y.S. enlisted over seven hundred youths in three different programs and today, those students graduated from their courses and have options to either return to take another course […]
It’s summertime and the kids are rolling into two months of recess! Summer camps are kicking off and the Bliss Institute for the Performing Arts is one of the places being occupied by children while they are out of the classrooms. Kids ages three to fourteen are currently engaged in three weeks of theater activities. […]
Education is one of the keys to success, and members of the Belize Coast Guard are well on their way to becoming university graduates. Today, the Belize Coast Guard and the University of Belize signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see five coast guard officers receive scholarships to study at the university in the […]
Sixteen young Belizean football players were awarded scholarships to attend university in the United States. The combined value of the scholarships amount to over eight hundred thousand Belize dollars. Of the sixteen athletes, four were awarded scholarships to pursue their master’s degree, six were awarded scholarships to pursue their bachelor’s degree, and the remaining six […]
