According to Palacio, despite the unexceptional turnout the business of the annual gathering continues and issues, including the Occupational Safety and Health Bill will be discussed on Thursday. Luke Palacio, National President, B.N.T.U. “The participation of teachers from other parts of the country is there—it is not at the maximum that we would like […]
Former University of Belize President Dr. Cary Fraser demitted office in mid-November of last year, amid a swirl of controversy as to whether he was indeed granted leave by the Board of Trustees or if he left on his own will. Since his departure six months ago, Dr. Wilma Wright, the university’s provost, was appointed […]
Four schools in the Belize District will be getting spanking new classrooms as part of a project by New Horizons Belize. The U.S. Southern Command is teaming up with three government agencies to build the classrooms and provide free medical services across the country. The U.S. Chargé d’Affaires, Margaret Hawthorne says that the annual initiative […]
According to school officials, two students who were on the trip have had to be hospitalized. It is an extremely serious matter, and the parents of Edgar Puck and Anahi Zepeda are holding the school responsible. It is still too early to say whether that will have legal implications, but it is possible. What we […]
Primary school students around the country were up bright and early this morning for day-one of the Primary School Examination. More than seven thousand six hundred sat the exam, for many, anxiety faded once they saw the test papers for English and Science; others felt the tests were as easy as a-b-c. The results won’t […]
On Friday, an internal discord among teachers and management of St. Ignatius High School in Santa Elena Town came to a head when representatives of the Belize National Teachers Union were called in on behalf of a handful of discontented staff members. The teachers, as well as the union, are not happy with recent decisions […]
The Mexican Embassy on a yearly basis provides scholarships to Belizeans students to obtain graduate and post graduate degrees at universities and education facilities within that country. And as of today, a Special Scholarship Program 2014 has launched for Belizean artists, teachers, media personnel and artists to obtain degrees and certifications from institutions within Mexico. […]
In the west, there is growing dissention tonight among the faculty and staff of St. Ignatius High School in Santa Elena Town, following a series of unsanctioned decisions reportedly being taken by the principal to transfer administrative personnel from their respective posts. A number of teachers, including vice Principal Diana Askari, are up in arms […]
The International Children’s Day of Broadcasting was launched by UNICEF in 1991 in order to encourage broadcasters worldwide to create awareness for children issues. ICDB, is a day when broadcasters around the world “Tune in to Kids”. Broadcasters would air quality programming for and about children. Over the years, children’s participation became a keystone of […]
The 2014 preschool festival of arts opened on Monday at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. Hundreds of preschoolers from Belize District are performing in dance, music and drama for the rest of the week. National Coordinator for Expressive Arts, Leroy Green told News Five on Monday that the event is a prelude to […]
March twenty-first has been proclaimed as the International Day of Forests by the United Nations General Assembly and it is celebrated by bringing awareness to the importance of the various types of forests. This year, the Forest Department along with the private sector and the Environmental Research Institute of the University of Belize is putting […]
Travellers Liquors is not the only organization that has experienced theft. An overnight break-in at Biscayne Government School, which resulted in the theft of a number of laptops and audiovisual equipment, has set the institution back significantly. Sometime between Monday evening and the early hours of this morning, the standard six classroom was burglarized by […]
As part of their activities for child stimulation month, the Preschool at Saint Mary’s Primary School held its annual cultural day. The preschoolers dressed up in different cultural attires for the occasion and were clearly having fun while learning about the rich cultural heritage of the jewel. Principal, Joy Ross, spoke to News Five about […]
The Prime Minister announced that a big slice of the 2014/2015 Budget will be spent on personal emoluments; that’s three hundred and thirty two million dollars. Teachers and public officers will be getting five percent in salary adjustments and two percent in increments. Barrow made that announcement inside the house, but outside the teachers held […]
The Spelling Bee is perhaps one of the most anticipated competitions on the primary school calendar. In the yearly event, schools from across the country compete round after round until the best speller clinches the competition from a reserved list of unconventional words. It started twenty years ago and has grown into a hugely successful […]
Listen, read, and act; that is the approach used to encourage primary school students to go back to text books. The project took six months to materialize and this morning a DVD entitled “It’s Story Time” was released by BelCaribe. Included are all time favorite stories but the difference is that the content was transformed […]
Officials from the Ministry of Education, as well as stakeholders from across the sector, particularly those belonging to the Consortium for Belize Educational Cooperation (COBEC), gathered in Dangriga for its annual symposium. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the continued strengthening and expansion of higher education in Belize. Present at the launch of […]
Students looking for their dream jobs or for career options had the opportunity today to interact with a number of organizations. Over at the Saint John’s Gym, a number of organizations were available to interest students in different areas of work and study. Duane Moody dropped by for the event. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Duane […]
After crunching the numbers, the Prime Minister said on Wednesday in the House that the quantum in salary adjustments for teachers would not be less than four percent. The Belize National Teachers Union has so far not reacted because it has to go back to its membership, but it is known they were banking on […]
Throughout the month of January, the unions took to the streets calling for an end to corruption and salary adjustments. Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Barrow announced that based on projections, teachers and public officers were looking at a salary adjustment of not less than three percent when they receive it in July. Well, […]
Fresh off a series of rallies and marches, the Belize National Teachers Union took stock today of a series of industrial actions held throughout the month of January. The final stop was last Friday in Punta Gorda and the biggest turnout was in San Ignacio where the teachers braved the rain. The most militant and […]
At the height of the recent demonstrations, there were heated exchanges between the Belize National Teachers Union and the government. The prime minister called B.N.T.U. President, Luke Palacio, a windup doll, while the Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, was referred to as a little boy. But despite the adversarial relationship, none of the insults are […]
With the teachers rallies now concluded, the Ministry of Education is launching a financial aid program for students enrolled in secondary schools. Following an extensive review of the sector, the program was launched as a collaborative effort between MOE and the Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation and is incentive-based. According to Faber, potential […]
On Thursday, teachers marched in Dangriga, and today the B.N.T.U. movement moved to the deep-south – Punta Gorda. This is the sixth and final rally planned by the union as a series of industrial actions. It might have started out as putting some measure of pressure on government where the salary adjustment is concerned, but […]
A play entitled “Nowhere to Fly – Gangs and Boys” is a recent project by RESTORE Belize with a message intended to curb crime in the Old Capital. Today, the production, done under the directorship of Joseph Stamp Romero, had an encore presentation for the students of the Gwen Lizarraga High School. It is a […]
