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A training workshop on employers’ and workers’ rights and responsibilities under the Belize Labor Legislations and ILO conventions was held today in Belmopan. Representatives from the National Trade Union Congress of Belize and the Ministry of Labor and Local Government, including Labor Commissioner Ivan Williams, were on hand for the daylong session. Among the issues […]
Written on May 9, 2014 | Posted in
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Senator Hulse also spoke on the establishment of a Labor Advisory Commission which is chartered to look closely at issues pertaining to employment practices. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Local Government “Also worthy of mention is the appointment of the Labor Advisory Board. The main function of this body is to undertake a comprehensive review […]
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The Belize Electricity Workers Union and Belize Electricity Limited are at odds tonight over the fate of four long-standing employees. Come May seventeenth, a team of plant operators, stationed at the company’s mile-eight facility, will be unemployed following a decision to make their respective jobs redundant. In 2012, the government-owned utility transitioned from operating its […]
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In responding to the concerns of the union, B.E.L.’s Manager of Corporate Services, Dawn Sampson-Nunez says that the employees were given a chance to undergo training but when they refused the offer that window of opportunity later expired. Dawn Sampson-Nunez, Manager, Corporate Services, B.E.L. “The company immediately offered to the employees involved the opportunity […]
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There is one more report on Belize Electricity Limited. The company has announced an offering of twenty-five million dollars in series six debentures to shareholders in the government-owned company. While the bonds are being advertised to series three holders since May fifth, B.E.L. says it has been generating the interest of investors who are willing […]
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In light of the ongoing debacle within the Ministry of Health, particularly where it concerns the recent appointment of Danini Contreras as Director of Drug Inspectorate, as well as the procurement of pharmaceuticals, a release has been issued by a collective of suppliers in support of stringent measures by the Ministry of Health to ensure […]
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Tourism stakeholders are meeting for the rest of this week in their expo known as BETEX. It is one of the major events hosted by the Belize Tourism Industry Association and this year, there are new and familiar faces. BETEX provides immense opportunities to those in the market to show what individual operators have to […]
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There is other good news in the industry. The Belize Tourism Board is reporting that arrivals for overnight, cruise and airport visitors went up between January to March 2014, when compared to the same period last year. In respect of airport tourist arrivals, there was a ten percent increase for visitors arriving at the P.G.I.A., […]
News Five can confirm tonight that seventeen U.D.P. representatives have received fifty thousand Belize dollars each for Mother’s Day programs and activities in their respective constituencies. That’s a whopping eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars of government funds that have gone to the representatives on the government side of the House. At Christmas time, U.D.P. […]
Can you say cover-up at the highest levels of government? Well that’s just how it’s looking tonight. Last year, the Auditor-General was brought in to investigate corruption in the Ministry of Immigration. But there is confirmation that the Auditor-General finished her preliminary report in March and that copies of that report were handed over to […]
The existence of that preliminary report has been kept under wraps, so what’s contained in it is anybody’s guess. As we said, it only came up as a side note in a letter from the Auditor-General to COLA, which has mounted a private prosecution against Elvin Penner. The case is set for disclosure on May […]
It’s a frustrating development – or maybe we should say lack of development – for COLA. The small grass-roots organization has taken the lead in the Penner fiasco, even as it appears that government wants nothing more than to let it all go away. With three weeks to go before trial date, much hope is […]
We told you earlier about the significant setbacks Cola is experiencing in the private prosecution of Elvin Penner. But despite the setbacks, COLA is unwilling to relent in the criminal prosecution of Elvin Penner. They’re utilizing all means at their disposal where the law is concerned, but thanks to an anonymous donor, there’s now a […]
In the latter months of the Elvin Penner debacle, the only man who has come under similar fire is Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie. That’s because widespread public opinion is that the Police have fallen down on the criminal prosecution of Penner. Add in the writ of Mandamus court issue and now the inaction where […]
Written on May 7, 2014 | Posted in
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And finally where COLA and Elvin Penner are concerned, today it is clear that all legal avenues are being pursued, or at least contemplated. It’s even possible, according to the claimants, that if all else fails you may eventually see Prime Minister Dean Barrow on the witness stand. That’s probably unlikely, but as we said, […]
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“It is the historical trademark of a corrupt, inept, despotic and discriminatory government.” Stern words coming from the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management, in a letter written to Prime Minister Dean Barrow on Tuesday. SATIIM, which represents the villages of Midway, Conejo, Crique Sarco and Graham Creek, is lashing out at the Government of […]
As we reported earlier, the annual financial literacy training initiative of PricewaterhouseCoopers in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Peace Work culminated today at the ITVET Compound. It gave way to a well attended community fair. The main attractions were a Vendor’s Fair and a Business Showcase which encouraged primary school students to become […]
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Geographic information systems or GIS, as it is called, is designed to process geographical data of all types. The technology is driven by location, purpose or application requirements. Today, the fourth annual symposium to focus on the implementation of GIS in the national development of the country was held at the Biltmore Plaza. Loretta Palacio, […]
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There is growing discontent in San Ignacio tonight over one acre of land. The land is a portion of a five acre plot on which the Center for Employment Training sits. The institution doesn’t own the land…government does. And government wants to build a new fire station there. CET has no problem with a new […]
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The village of Barranco is a Garifuna community in the Toledo District; it is also one of five buffer communities on the outskirts of the Sarstoon Temash National Park where pre-drilling activities are taking place and where US Capital Energy had previously established an operating center. While the position of the Maya communities on oil […]
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One of the prime tourism islands has been without a doctor, in some instances for months, and the access to timely healthcare on Caye Caulker has become an issue for residents. The problem, we are told, is a perennial one, where the facility has been short of a physician at times for up to eight […]
The appointment of the new director of drug inspectorate has brought to the forefront a wide range of shortfalls within the system in respect of imported pharmaceuticals and persons practicing without a license. According to the Pharmacists’ Association of Belize, there is need for drug inspectors across the country to ensure that proper procedures are […]
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A Belizean who left Belize years ago has died in a helicopter crash at Fort Bliss, Texas. He is twenty-seven year old Sergeant Dwight Burn who lived in Barstow, California up until his death on Saturday, while on a training exercise in a helicopter belonging to the eighty-second Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, North […]
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Financial Literacy Training…it not a topic that you often hear about, but it is an initiative that has been ongoing in Belize since 2008. It targets teachers and students from various schools across the country as well as parents and even private companies. For the past two days at the ITVET, these various groups of […]
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The two-day training is interactive and includes presentations from various institutions. Deputy Chief Education Officer, Carol Babb, spoke of how the continuous work of the international organization has led up to three fairs at the ITVET Compound. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Carol Babb, Deputy Chief Education Officer “First it started with four schools and then […]
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