The Ministry of Education today released the results of the Primary School Examination. And while some of the numbers are upbeat, they are not painting the kind of picture of primary school performance that educators were hoping for. According to a preliminary assessment done by the Examinations Unit, the national average this year in mathematics […]
While educators mull over the results of the P.S.E. to see how they can improve student performance, one person who has no complaints about his grade is Micah Munoz. The thirteen-year-old Saint Ignatius Primary School student topped this year’s P.S.E., beating out thousands of his peers to take the Jane and Michael Nembhard Award. Munoz […]
The hazards of construction work proved fatal for one Belize City man today. Information remains sketchy, but sometime around eleven o’clock this morning, twenty-seven year old Moises Gonzalez was working on the first floor of a building on Saint Thomas Street when he apparently fell to his death. The cause of the fall is not […]
Most reports of missing persons wind up with happy endings, as a rambunctious child or roaming spouse finally find their way home. But some cases do not fit the usual pattern…and that’s why tonight one distraught woman is asking the public for help. Ann Pou, Sister “I don’t know, I honestly don’t know. But just […]
It’s one of the fastest growing brands in Belize and today Milo, “the food drink of champions” stepped up to the plate to help the nation’s youngest athletes. Country Representative for Nestlé’s Milo, Errol Brisco, this morning handed over a twenty thousand dollar cheque to the National Sports Council. According to the council’s treasurer, the […]
With an economy perhaps fifty times bigger than ours, there doesn’t seem to be much incentive for the Guatemalan private sector to concern itself with doing business in Belize. But even in the world of international commerce, the saying “one-one fill basket” still applies…as News 5’s Janelle Chanona found out this morning at the Biltmore. […]
In the age of instant computerized communication, it is often overlooked, but the seemingly lost art of spelling is very much alive and well in Belize…as I discovered this morning at the City Centre. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Numismatic, which is spelt N-U-M-I-S-M-A-T-I-C was not the only difficult word the students had to spell. The finals […]
