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According to Briceño, PM Barrow is unable to dole out the final three percent salary adjustment due to teachers for several reasons. Briceño points out that the economy is contracting and G.O.B. is broke having rolled out the Petrocaribe funds to win elections. And now the government is unable to keep promises made. John […]
Written on September 19, 2016 | Posted in
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Ahead of Monday’s demonstration, a marathon session of meetings was held today at the Biltmore where Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with leaders of the various unions that comprise the National Trade Union Congress of Belize. The meeting with the N.T.U.C.B. commenced at ten o’clock this morning and lasted until about one p.m. Shortly before […]
The B.N.T.U., the Association of Public Service Senior Managers and the Public Service Union remained in session well after the PM’s departure. When they emerged from that extended discussion, B.N.T.U. president Luke Palacio did not share much with the media, except to say that what was discussed today will be relayed to the respective councils […]
Ahead of this afternoon’s meeting with the Joint Union Negotiating Team and Monday’s planned demonstration in Belmopan by the Belize National Teachers’ Union, the Prime Minister had a warning: the continued education of our children cannot be compromised or halted beyond normal controls. He asked again that the Union clarify exactly what it is complaining […]
Written on September 16, 2016 | Posted in
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Monday’s demonstration by the Belize National Teachers’ Union will be the fifth in less than a month in the nation’s capital and sixth overall in that time span including the People’s United Party’s march through the streets of Belize City on September seventh. Prime Minister Dean Barrow says that it is clearly a concern and […]
Written on September 16, 2016 | Posted in
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Expanding on his separation of the politically motivated activities of the past month from the purely civic-minded concerns, Prime Minister Barrow placed Monday’s demonstration in the latter category, though he still had some misgivings. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Not politically motivated in a partisan way; no. I will not say that. Look for me, […]
The Prime Minister continued to extend the olive branch to the Teachers’ Union, promising a further meeting at some time. But he said he wants to know that the Union is serious about a dialogue on these issues and not acting out of political motivation. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “So ultimately, again, when in […]
Written on September 16, 2016 | Posted in
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During Thursday’s press briefing in Louisville, Corozal, addressing the matter of the three percent salary adjustment now in its third and final tranche itself, B.N.T.U. president Luke Palacio said the union’s vote was unanimous. But why exactly is the Union rejecting the Prime Minister’s proposal for a salary deferral? According to Palacio, it is about […]
Written on September 16, 2016 | Posted in
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Like the Opposition People’s United Party and others, the Belize National Teachers’ Union believes Government is trying to save its own skin by attempting to control the composition and chairmanship of a Senate Select Committee on the Immigration affair chronicled by the Auditor General in a special audit. The Union’s national president Luke Palacio addressed […]
Written on September 16, 2016 | Posted in
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There are some, especially Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber, who wonder whether the Belize National Teachers’ Union’s president, Luke Palacio, is calling the shots himself. Palacio maintains that the union has a collective process which it is following. Executive Secretary to the Union, Keisha Young, set the record straight. Keisha […]
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During Thursday’s press briefing in Louisville, Corozal District at the end of the Belize National Teachers’ Union’s Annual General Meeting of the Corozal Rural Branch, national president of the B.N.T.U. Luke Palacio ceded the floor to some of his colleagues who are presidents of their respective branches to discuss some of their major issues in […]
Written on September 16, 2016 | Posted in
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Late this evening, the Ministry of Education issued a press release informing parents, teachers and students that in compliance with the Education Rules, managing authorities will take necessary measures to make certain that schools and institutions are kept open for classes on Monday. As such, stakeholders, including bus operators are informed that school buses will […]
Written on September 15, 2016 | Posted in
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Having made concessions on Tuesday for a Senate Select Investigation on Immigration; government has another hot potato in its hands. That’s because the Belize National Teachers Union may be gearing-up to protest in the days ahead. For days, the branches of the B.N.T.U. have been meeting and on Thursday, they will formally announce their course […]
Written on September 14, 2016 | Posted in
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The flyer that the minister refers to was circulated today. The B.N.T.U. makes seven demands for good governance as part of its “Stand Up for Belize Campaign.” As we reported on Tuesday, the Joint Unions Negotiating Team has written to Prime Minister Barrow on its final position as it concerns the salary adjustment. The Association […]
Written on September 14, 2016 | Posted in
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Other collaborators in the project include the Belize History Association which is the formal host of the lecture; the Institute for Social and Cultural Research; the Belize Archives and Records Service; and the Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo in Mexico. But does having independent confirmation change anything? Doctor Cal says the confirmation gives us […]
Written on September 7, 2016 | Posted in
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Reuse, Recycle and Renew are environmental issues that are well-known in Belize, but it was also the theme that participants expounded on in this year’s Florida Caribbean Cruise Association’s poster and essay competitions. There were hundreds of entries from the Caribbean and Belizean students placed well. Janae Rodriguez captured the first prize in the junior […]
Written on September 7, 2016 | Posted in
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In time for the new academic year, six young Belizeans are preparing to pursue their academic dreams in the field of tourism. Today, the Belize Tourism Board gave them important assistance. Correspondent Aaron Humes reports. Herbert Haylock, Director, Quality Assurance and Industrial Standards, B.T.B. “The intent and the hope is that they do continue […]
The education system has lost a pioneer in early childhood education movement. Jean Bennett, the well-loved and highly respected educator passed away on Sunday morning inside the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. She left a mark on thousands of outstanding Belizeans, and touched many more lives of persons who had the […]
There are four Tropigas Branches across the country—in Belize City, Belmopan, Orange Walk and San Ignacio. Today, about seventy-five students from those municipalities were chosen as the recipients of a school grant of one hundred and fifty dollars to assist their parents with the cost of their education fees. News Five’s Duane Moody stopped in […]
Written on August 22, 2016 | Posted in
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The country’s largest telecommunications provider also runs one of its biggest scholarship programs. Established in 1991, Belize Telemedia Limited’s scholarship program has helped hundreds of Belizeans gain access to secondary education in the quarter-century it has been in existence. Today, Aaron Humes met with the latest cohort of scholars at the Radisson. Aaron Humes, […]
Written on August 19, 2016 | Posted in
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A ground-breaking ceremony was held today on a three-acre plot of land on Faber’s Road extension. It is the construction site for an extension of Grace Primary School that will cost the government over half a million dollars. Funded through a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank, the new school with cater to one hundred […]
Written on August 17, 2016 | Posted in
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There are several schools for which the new academic year has already started, but most primary schools across the country won’t start classes until September fifth. Most of the education system programs, such as the three hundred dollars subsidy for students, are in place to ensure that children are back in school, what about teachers. […]
Written on August 17, 2016 | Posted in
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At the last press conference held in the aftermath of Hurricane Earl, Prime Minister Dean Barrow spoke briefly about having a discussion with the unions in terms of having a delay in the increase of salary for public officers and teachers considering the relief efforts and the external debt payments. On Monday, PM Barrow met […]
Today, Unicomer’s Dare to Dream Scholarship program, in its eighteenth year, saw a new cohort of fourteen students benefit from the program. A total of thirty-three applicants were interviewed and five high school, seven sixth form and one university scholarship were awarded. The scholarship covers eighty percent of the cost of books and tuition while […]
Written on August 12, 2016 | Posted in
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By any account, one of the biggest summer camp is held in Orange Walk. One thousand seven hundred students to be precise attended the event in the Orange Walk North constituency. It concluded today with a celebratory mood for the young participants. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting For over a decade, […]
Written on July 29, 2016 | Posted in
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