Among the top twenty-five students, there were only nine males; they represent a mere thirty-two percent of country’s brightest. And with seventeen percent of primary school aged students not in the classroom and another fifty percent not in high schools, there is cause for concern. At Wednesday’s P.S.E award ceremony, we also asked the Minister […]
Close to seven thousand primary school children sat this year’s Primary School Examinations from schools around the country. While the results were poor in Math and English, the results were encouraging in social studies and science. Despite the overall dismal performance, the top twenty five students who excelled in the examination were honored today. Belize’s […]
School’s out and if you don’t have any plans for your kids this summer, Peter Lacey says you can send them over to his eight annual summer camp. Director Lacey says that they have hosted a thousand and two hundred primary school students over the years and expects to accommodate three hundred students from the […]
On Wednesday’s newscast we told you about a twelve year old girl who was being barred from attending her graduation at St. Francis Xavier Primary School in Esperanza, Cayo. Her family members contacted the Ministry of Education after they could not resolve the issue with the school. The graduation ceremony occurred this morning and the […]
During this graduation season, there are often jitters and bouts of nervousness experienced by students as well as their families. Graduations are considered important milestones, especially when children are transitioning to adolescence and high school. Unfortunately, there is a twelve year old child in Esperanza Village in the Cayo District that has been banned from […]
The Ministry of Education and Youth began the National Apprenticeship Program in 2010 in an effort to keep young people occupied and provide them with the tools necessary to seek employment. Well, out of the thirty that started the program at the ITVET in Belize City, twenty completed it. The initiative, carried out in conjunction […]
Summer is on the horizon and most students are looking forward to putting away school bags and books before enjoying their annual fun in the sun. But there is a parent who is worrying that his children may not be able to return to class for the new school year. Teodore Chen has two children […]
The citrus industry is still reeling from a protracted dispute between the Citrus Growers Association and its subsidiary, the Citrus Products of Belize. Tonight there is word that another industry is in trouble, that’s the banana industry. Combined the citrus and banana industries are the life blood of the south providing most of the employment […]
Now for the good news, the PSE results 2011 were released late on Friday evening. We told you who the top scorers are; they comprise a mix bag from the Belize, Cayo, Corozal and Orange Walk Districts. Interestingly the public schools performed better than the private schools and English and Math remain areas of concern. […]
Earlier you met this year’s top PSE students; most of them from public schools. And as we said, the results in English and Math were not encouraging. Last year, the mean performance in English was at sixty-three point five percent and this year it dropped to the C level at fifty-four point nine percent. In […]
Today the buzz in Cayo was about the bee, the spelling bee that is. The finals for the annual contest sponsored by Coca Cola took place at the countryside park in Spanish Lookout. The new national speller, Jaren Young, a standard five student at St. John Vianney claimed the title this afternoon when he out-spelled […]
Sadie Vernon, it’s the city’s high school that has been on the media one too many times either embroiled in the middle of a controversy or the teacher and administration are at odds. Tonight they’re back in the news. This morning shortly after ten, Darrell Humes, President of the PTA says he visited the school […]
But while that’s the President of the PTA’s side, Kendis Ferguson visited our studios to give his account of what transpired. Ferguson says that he was unable to submit the grade book because he didn’t have it at school. He told News Five that he went to the principal’s office where Humes threatened and attacked […]
The transportation crisis disrupted the C.X.C. exams that students were sitting today. Paper Two of the Social Studies were scheduled for this morning and Paper one was set for the afternoon. Despite delays the exams proceeded and according to officials about twenty to thirty students were affected. Here is how it fared off. Juan Vargas, […]
The Orange Walk Technical High School is getting a new name; we caught up with this piece of news on Facebook, were we found that emotions were running high among those not enthused with the change. The Chairlady of the Board of Management circulated a letter to that effect today saying the instructions had come […]
The first day of class at Horizon Academy began with sixty five students on September seventh, 2009. News Five was at the launch and returned two years later to see the progress of the private primary school. We found that its enrollment has grown and the approach to learning goes beyond books and the chalkboard. […]
The forest fires in the Cayo District blanketed Belize City on Tuesday morning. But for weeks Public Service Officers in the Capital have been feeling the effects of the carbon monoxide in the air and residents have been complaining of irritated eyes. Today the Western Highway from mile twenty all the way to the Capital […]
Belize’s northern neighbor is extending higher education opportunities to over a dozen locals. México is offering fifteen scholarships at the various campuses of CONALEP University. According to the Press Officer at the Embassy of Mexico, prospective candidates can visit the Mexican Embassy or the Ministry of Education for more details about the opportunity. Marcelino Miranda, […]
We’ve reported so far in this newscast on numerous crime-related incidents, but there’s one positive story tonight involving the state of food and nutrition in Belize. A Western School walked away today with ADM Belize Mills Secondary School Nutrition Quiz. Eight schools took part and today’s first, second and third place schools will now form […]
The second half of the annual Primary School Examinations was sat on various campuses across the country today. A total of six thousand, four hundred and ninety-two students registered to sit both Math and Social Studies exams. Traditionally, problem solving has proven to be an area of great difficulty as a majority of those who […]
Diverging perspectives on the state of race relations in the Jewel since Independence was at the centre of an educational forum at the Bliss Institute. Students from three tertiary level institutions; the University of Belize, Ecumenical Junior College and Galen University presented their research findings on the weighty topic of Social Cohesion in Belize’s Multi-Cultural […]
The results of the 2010 census are revealing on a number of issues. More people live in the village of Ladyville than in the town of Punta Gorda, there are more women than men, but more men are gainfully employed in the workforce but a staggering twenty-three percent of the population is jobless. Another interesting […]
The Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, made no comments on the developments in the church-state system when we caught up with him at the inauguration of a new education center, formerly the Venus Bus Terminal. A little less than two years ago, fourteen year old Dylan Ayuso, a second form Wesley College student, was found […]
The century that started the new millennium, is bound to be etched by technology and development. So in an age where games and social settings are being redefined in electronics and cyberspace, the turn of a page, and the ink blotters of pen on paper are slowly fading away. The impact of television is also […]
Last week, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced the introduction of tough new anti-crime laws. But the violence and lawlessness continue unabated and criminals roam and kill with relative ease. So today while a peace march was not huge in numbers, the message from the University of Belize students was loud and clear…. they want an […]
