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The Association of Public Service Senior Management has served the Labor Commissioner Anne Marie Thompson with an official letter, noting its participation in ongoing industrial actions. According to President of A.P.S.S.M., Sharon Frazer, her members are public officers who are legally covered under the P.S.U.’s twenty-one days’ notice of intended strike action. Notwithstanding, Frazer says […]
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Miss Universe Belize Iris Salguero touched down in Miami this afternoon for the official arrival to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, where the sixty-ninth Miss Universe pageant takes place. Salguero will participate in the national costume competition on May thirteenth followed by the preliminaries on the fourteenth and then the live show takes […]
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The tragic loss of Kenya Barona has prompted her family to make a financial contribution to the Belize Emergency Response Team in her memory. Kenya died of natural causes several weeks ago. Her loved ones maintained that negligence played a significant role in her untimely demise and blamed BERT for not doing enough to respond […]
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The Government of Israel has had diplomatic relations with Belize since 1984 and today, as that country celebrates its seventy-third anniversary of independence, it is giving back to Belize. That gesture is in the form of a two-thousand-dollar donation to the Belize Diabetes Association and will help some fifteen diabetic persons. News Five was at […]
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In Belize, almost fifteen percent of the population is living with this non communicable disease; that is approximately fifty thousand living with diabetes. Across the world, one out of eleven persons has diabetes, one out of two persons has diabetes and don’t know it and every eight seconds someone dies from diabetes or complications associated […]
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The U.S. Embassy handed over a trove of tactical equipment and gear to the Belize Police Department Mobile Interdiction Team in Belmopan. The equipment, valued at almost fifty-five thousand Belize dollars, was donated by the U.S. International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. News Five attended the handing over this morning at the police headquarters in […]
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Tourism all over Belize took a serious hit over the past twelve to thirteen months, but tonight we can report on one sign of a pending recovery. Today, the first Marriott International property in Belize, the Alaia Belize Autograph Collection opened its door on San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. Its first seventy guests signed the register […]
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The Joint Unions Negotiating Team and representatives of the Briceño administration resumed discussion on Tuesday afternoon. That meeting was held at the House of Culture here in Belize City and lasted for almost six and a half hours. Both parties later exited the compound at around seven p.m. Today, when we spoke with the President […]
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Earlier today, our newsroom received images of burning tires near Cotton Tree Village, along the George Price Highway. Reports are that sometime around five-thirty a.m., at least three tires were set on fire in the middle of the road. Law enforcement officers were immediately dispatched to the scene and quickly doused the flames to allow […]
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Social Workers within the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous People’s Affairs are in fear of possible victimization after Chief Executive Officer Tanya Santos issued a memo to her directors in response to the recent industrial actions. In a letter dated May fourth, 2021 with the heading ‘Strike Action,’ C.E.O. Santos requested that officers […]
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Now, the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs addresses some of the most critical needs of our society, including community rehabilitation, human services and women and family support. The ministry is staffed with three hundred employees, which include social workers. And, according to the memo, these measures are being put in place […]
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And while C.E.O. Santos seeks to assure her social workers that she is not out on a witch hunt, she says the number of social workers not reporting for duty currently is very minimal. According to the Chief Executive Officer, choosing between strike action and the obligation to their clients is an ethical dilemma. […]
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Turning back to the unions…Teachers have been on strike since Monday of last week. The law provides that teachers’ salaries can be cut for their time out of the classroom during this period. But that decision is left up to the managing authorities of the schools. Well on Tuesday, B.N.T.U. President Senator Elena Smith accused the […]
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While teachers are waiting to see if their pay slips will reflect that salary deduction, on a similar front the Joint Unions are fighting to regain the ten percent salary cut for teachers and public officers, reflected in the 2021/2022 budget. According to President of the A.P.S.S.M., Sharon Frazer, while the Bill has been passed […]
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On Tuesday, Miss Universe Belize Iris Salguero got a hometown send off in San Pedro. A day before leaving the island on her journey to Miss Universe, Salguero was honoured with a farewell motorcade through the streets of the island town. Following the small parade, final preparations were made and today, the beauty ambassador arrived […]
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If you like your honey golden and sweet, you are in for double the treat when you find out that the honey coming out of Toledo is also helping the environment. It’s a sustainably harvested honey that is bursting with flavours, but also has a value that goes beyond the taste buds where beekeepers are […]
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If you went to any government offices today and wondered where the staff was, well they were very likely on the streets of Belize City. News Five followed the Public Service Union members from their opening church service to their march on Belize City. Paul Lopez, Reporting Today marks the first day of strike […]
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While members were out in the streets protesting, their leaders were behind closed doors preparing for a mid-afternoon meeting with government representatives. That meeting began at one-thirty p.m. inside the House of Culture Compound in Belize City. News Five’s Paul Lopez was there and files the following report. Paul Lopez, Reporting This afternoon, the […]
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While songs of solidarity are being sung among union executives, there is a divide on one issue. Among the list of eleven demands that the joint unions are putting forward is that all minister’s allowances be eliminated. Well, President of the A.P.S.S.M. says that her membership has been cautious about going after allowances because public […]
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Overtime for frontline healthcare workers…There are reports that overtime for nurses, accrued over the pandemic, has still not been paid. During today’s protest, News Five asked Darrell Spencer, the President of the Nurses Association of Belize, whether in fact these payments have been settled. Darrell Spencer, President, Nurses Association of Belize “From the time […]
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As we said, the nurses were out today in full force, joining the members of the P.S.U. and the B.N.T.U. President Spencer called on nurses from within the public and private sectors to come out in support because all will be affected by the decisions taken by the government. Spencer reiterates that the go-slow continues […]
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On Monday, we reported on a release dated April twenty-seventh from the Belize Energy Workers Union. It spoke to a position taken by the union on the plight of the Joint Union Negotiating Team whose members are on the brink of receiving a ten percent salary cut and increment freeze for three years. But as […]
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But according to Mora, there are aspects of the release that they do support the call for accountability and transparency by the government. On the Phone: Marvin Mora, Assistant Secretary General, B.E.W.U. “We are concerned about a couple things, especially how this ten percent cut is going to affect our brothers and sisters of […]
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In one bright spot among the union challenges over the past few days, the Belize Telemedia Limited and the Belize Communications Worker’s Union have signed a four-year collective bargaining agreement for over two hundred B.T.L. employees. According to a statement issued today, B.C.W.U. and the management of B.T.L. negotiated provisions between the company and the […]
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You may know him from his business dealings in Belize, but did you know that Lord Michael Ashcroft has also been leading the charge against the breeding and killing of captive lions in Africa? Well this week, Lord Ashcroft is celebrating as South Africa bans the practice. Lord Ashcroft helped the cause by giving evidence […]
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