On Tuesday we reported that the Tubal Trade and Vocational school in Ladyville was contemplating sending home four teachers due to financial constraints. The school’s founder, Lyndon Bailey, told the media that the subvention that the Ministry was providing was not sufficient and that he and his wife have been using their personal funds to […]
If you have been on the Northern Highway, you would recognize the Tubal Trade School. It was opened back in 2001 by Belize and Mrs. Lyndon Bailey to give underprivileged youths a shot at education. It’s nine years since it first opened and the school has grown in numbers. But the economic hard times are […]
Saint Catherine Academy currently has an enrollment of five hundred and fifty students. That’s a far cry from when it was established more than a century ago. The all girl high school is in fact celebrating one hundred and twenty-seven years and it can rightfully take credit for excellence in sports and academics. To mark […]
A.C.C. students who earned more than eighty percent in their first term grades were recognized for their academic performance today. The Anglican Cathedral College says it is also a way of motivating other students to improve their scores. The top scorer, a first year student, was granted a scholarship for the remaining years of study […]
Both the Corozal and Orange Walk teachers unions have publicly come out against the proposed amendments to the Education Act, primarily because of the terms of the Teaching Services Commission. The Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, has said he is moving ahead and the amendment will be tabled in the House on December eleventh. Since […]
And in the city there was another group of happy recipients. Three hundred plus students scored top grades in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate, formerly C.X.C., and one in the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examination earlier this year. Today, they were honored at an award ceremony. The students from high schools and sixth forms came out […]
In October of this year, the Board of Trustees of the University of Belize reported that a draft audit of the university’s finances revealed that millions of dollars were not reported in the financial statements. This led to a decision to freeze the salary increments of the faculty and staff and to propose a tuition […]
Following the upheaval in October at the University of Belize, changes are apparently afoot in respect of two posts: the Financial Controller, held by Harry Lui and Human Resources Director, held by Yuri Monsanto. In respect of the office of the Financial Controller it was revealed in October that millions of dollars were not reported […]
Orange Walk Branch of the Belize National Teachers Union has taken a different position than its parent organization, the B.N.T.U. Late this evening it held a press conference at the La Inmaculada Primary School to make public its objection to a number of issues with the amended education rules being proposed by the Ministry of […]
The names of the three students that placed highest in the CXC exams were released this week and all three are from Belize City schools. The top student passed eleven exams with an impressive perfect score. News Five Delahnie Bain found work that hard work paid off for the top scorers. Delahnie Bain, Reporting Edward […]
It is not huge, but it will go a long way for the students of the Salvation Army Primary School. The donation of recorders is from a husband and wife team living in Houston, Texas, who are sponsors of the Association for Belizean Artists First. The school received their share of the instruments, which were […]
The proposed Teacher’s Commission was contentious when it was first introduced by Minister Patrick Faber. But it now appears that common ground has been reached. The Education and Training Bill, which includes the sticky issue of the commission, was taken to Cabinet this Tuesday and got its green light despite a request by the Belize […]
The high school was re-opened in 2000 and the enrollment currently stands at two hundred and seventy-six students. Saint Michael’s High School was today renamed the Maud Williams High School after former educator and Justice of Peace, Misses Maud Williams nee Goldson. Williams who has devoted fifty years to education having ascended from teacher, to […]
The Sunrise Rotary Club of Belize handed out twelve computers to Belize City primary schools on Thursday. The donations kicked off their Computer Aid Program, which will assist schools on the south side to start or resume computer classes. The computers were purchased with the help of a three-H initiative; Health, Hunger and Humanity grant […]
Turning to the thorny issue of the proposed teacher’s commission, the Belize National Teacher’s Union has written to the Minister of Education imploring that Patrick Faber back off and delay his Cabinet presentation about the Teaching Services Commission and the Teaching Service Appeals Tribunal. The letter, which was also copied to the Prime Minister, states […]
Things have simmered down between the faculty and students of the University of Belize and its board of trustees. The increment freeze for the faculty and staff has been removed and the discussions of tuition increase that would have affected students in 2010, postponed. Following a meeting between the representatives of the Board of Trustees […]
It has been a bad week for the University of Belize. A financial crisis brought the university to its knees when the current Board of Trustees received information from the Chief Financial Officer and his team which indicated that U.B. was about to go broke. That prompted the board of trustees to implement austerity measures […]
The financial situation at the University of Belize is still under investigation by the board. The board doesn’t run the day to day operations of the school. The institution is run by its president Santos Mahung and the Chief Financial Officer is Harry Lui. Did they have a clear view of the financial stability of […]
One component of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy is the free movement of skilled labor throughout the region. What this means is that Belizeans have to be more competitive and better prepared. The Mexican government is making available an unlimited number of scholarships to qualified Belizeans who want to take up bachelors and post […]
Educators from the Americas and elsewhere are conferring in Belize City. And from the looks of it, the educators are learning new teaching strategies and having fun. They are taking part in innovative training that is showing new ways of better engaging their students in classroom activities. What does this all lead to? Better learning […]
An increment freeze has been cancelled and the increase in tuition has been put off… at least for now at the University of Belize. But that is not the big story tonight, the bombshell that was dropped earlier today is that the finances of the flagship university are in a huge mess. We have heard […]
But after the news was revealed of the financial mess, the Board delivered its decision in respect of the increment freeze and tuition increases, which sparked off protests in the nation’s capital earlier this week by the students, faculty and staff. Here’s how that went. Imani Fairweather-Morrison, Chair, UB Board “It has decided to take […]
More on the situations at UB, classes were cancelled at all four campuses as of eleven this morning and students descended at the gymnasium at the Garden City Campus to meet the board as planned. When the board was a no show, the students crashed the press conference. The board was handed a statement on […]
We reported on the financial mess at the University of Belize. This afternoon, the government issued a five-minute page statement warning students of the protest and saying that it has increased its subvention to U.B. by over a million dollars. But Leader of Opposition, John Briceño, has a few reservations with government’s approach and says […]
The heat associated with the capital today was not only emanating from the high temperatures, but also from the University of Belize. During break, students, faculty and staff converged at the gymnasium in a unified battle mode that grew hostile in the afternoon sun. The university’s employees, who had already heard that the UB board […]
