They excelled in a range of subject areas from language to math and for that they got recognition. The award program is the second for this year for students at the Anglican Cathedral College and already it is showing that recognition leads to motivation. News Five’s Delahnie Bain attended the award ceremony. Delahnie Bain, Reporting […]
Around the country, students in standard six took the first part of the Primary School Examinations that is also used as a measure for placement at high schools. This year, the number of students who sat the exams was lower than last year, but News Five Delahnie Bain found out that many students were prepared […]
An education task force was recently set up to address specific issues within the Ministry of Education. It will soon get down to the business of discussing alternative measures to corporal punishment and other burning issues that the Belize National Teachers Union and the Ministry of Education have clashed over. B.N.T.U. representative Darnelle Sterling Roches […]
Preschoolers from at least thirty-four schools around the city made their way to Memorial Park as the first activity in a month long celebration of Child Stimulation Month. The activities are aimed at promoting the importance of early childhood education and the parents and students came out in full force. News Five Delahnie Bain found […]
It has been almost a week since more than a thousand teachers, at short notice, demonstrated in Belmopan. The removal of corporal punishment without an alternative was at the core of the teacher’s anger. The issue has remained in the public domain and if you’re wondering what the next move would have been, well today […]
“Ignorant”: that’s the word that the Minister of Education used to describe some of the teachers who protested the amendment to the Education and Training Bill. When quizzed Patrick Faber offered no apologies and maintained that some of them simply don’t know any better. We asked assistant secretary to the Belize National Teachers Union, Darnelle […]
Parliamentarians from both sides of the House got into feisty debate over corporal punishment last Friday. While the debate in the Senate was less emotional, Senators from across the aisle raised concerns about the removal of corporal punishment in the classrooms and sided with the union asking for more time to put in place an […]
While the images of last Friday’s protest are still fresh in everyone’s mind, things have quickly swung around at the Ministry of Education, which has now appointed a task force to identify an alternative approach to disciplining students. And while the task force will have all the relevant agencies involved, what comes out of it […]
It was a busy day in Belmopan today. Teachers demonstrated outside the National Assembly, while inside the parliamentarians went head to head over the Education and Training Bill. The contentious article in the bill deals with corporal punishment. And while it will not come into effect immediately, the B.N.T.U. had asked for a delay to […]
It is one of the largest demonstrations against this government, and the ire of the teachers had been building up for some time. Estimates are as high as two thousand strong but by and large the teachers were orderly and peaceful. A News Five team was stationed outside the House from where Isani Cayetano has […]
While all the action was in Belmopan, where teachers from all branches of the Belize National Teachers Union marched on Independence Hill, in Belize City some schools closed their doors for the day while classes continued at others. Downtown at Holy Redeemer, the gates and classrooms were locked up and neither students nor teachers were in […]
Primary school students will be staying at home this Friday. Most of the week they ‘talked the talk’ and tomorrow teachers will ‘walk the walk’ on Independence Hill. The latest face-off between teachers and the government is over the passage of the Education and Training Bill. The Belize National Teachers Union (B.N.T.U.) has asked GOB […]
While the B.N.T.U. says that it can’t close the schools, it warns that teachers will be away from the classrooms. Parents are advised to make a make an alternative plan for their kids because primary schools are expected to be understaffed on Friday. Jaime Panti, B.N.T.U. National President “What we are telling the public is […]
Panti’s response to the possibility of the B.N.T.U. proposing an alternative to corporal punishment was direct to the school management, who he believes should take up the challenge. Jaime Panti, B.N.T.U. National President “We know that we need to move away from corporal punishment but to the table there has not come and this is […]
That’s in the valley, but all indications are that this Friday in the capital, the teachers will be facing off with government when the House meets. That’s the word coming from B.N.T.U.’s Belize District Branch President Kathleen Flowers, who told News Five that a unanimous vote was taken just before news time this evening. This […]
The Belize National Teacher’s Union has been at odds with government over a myriad of issues; its latest beef is that since 2008, it has not been able to sit with government to negotiate the collective bargaining agreement. And the Prime Minister has said increments are not in the pipeline for the next financial year. […]
Still, the Ministry of Education will proceed with the bill to the House but it may not be smooth sailing because the B.N.T.U.’s membership is said to be organizing to go to the Hill. The union says it needs time, at least six months to review the Bill. Jaime Panti, National President, BNTU “Corporal punishment […]
The Belize National Teachers’ Union says it has been trying since 2008 to sit around the table to re-negotiate its Collective Bargaining Agreement with government. But the B.N.T.U. has publicly revealed that it has had no luck getting an audience with the Ministry of Education and the Prime Minister and last week gave a one […]
On February third President of the Belize National Teachers’ Union, Jaime Panti called on the government to address the issue of their Collective Bargaining Agreement, accusing GOB of dragging its feet since 2008 and staggering the process. The fight is over an unfulfilled salary increase and Panti gave government a one week deadline to deliver […]
But according to BNTU’s Executive Secretary, George Frazer, the union has not met with government since 2008 and it is willing to sit and negotiate if only GOB would be willing to give them an audience. Frazer said the problem is longstanding since previous administrations did not meet with them to discuss a new collective […]
It is said that education is the key to success and this week, the University of Belize is cementing that idea by creating new opportunities for its students to tap into tertiary level studies in Europe. The break comes through the Erasmus Mundos scholarship programme that caters to all African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, including […]
There was tough talk coming from the Belize National Teacher’s Union today. The perennial issue is the amendment to the Education Act that was first read in the House of Representatives in December of last year and will come up for a second reading when the House convenes next week. Even before the Education and […]
Peer education is a popular learning technique that teacher’s employ by grouping students together who draw on each other’s strengths. But have you heard of peer learning for teachers? If you haven’t and you’re in the education field, then the next story is for you. A business cooperative called Teachers Learning Together intends to pool […]
The Ministry of Education today announced a series of adjustments to the education system. The forum was a press conference presided by the Minister, Patrick Faber, to outline the changes and more importantly, why they have become necessary. The detailed event lasted for well over two hours at the IT Vet building on the old […]
Last week the Ministry came under fire from students who claimed that their scholarships were being taken away. Today it was the Minister’s turn to respond – and according to the minister, some students are playing hocus-pocus. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “I will assure you that that is not the case. One thousand two […]
