In terms of numbers, they form the two largest components of Belize’s increasingly restive union movement. So when after days of suspense the Belize National Teachers Union and Public Service Union simultaneously announced their decision to go out on strike as of Tuesday morning, it looked like the long anticipated final offensive to unseat the […]
One reason for the light attendance at Battlefield Park may have been that a majority of the city’s teachers and public officers declined to participate in the walkout. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited a number of city schools and files the following report. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Despite the call for strike by the Belize National […]
Although Belize City has been the focal point of the most recent civil unrest, in other parts of the country various union and citizens’ groups have also mounted protests. This footage, provided by Centaur TV in Orange Walk, shows a small demonstration in that town in which a few dozen protestors marched with placards on […]
If viewers are sometimes confused over exactly what the current national crisis is all about, don’t feel bad; we’re not always sure either. While the main thrust of protesters now appears to be the unconditional resignation of the government and the holding of new elections, there are other intermediate issues. The most prominent is a […]
In related news, the Director of Public Prosecutions today dropped charges against B.T.L.’s Human Resources Manager, Dale Trujeque. According to D.P.P. Kirk Anderson, he was never notified or consulted by the police prior to their levying the charge against Trujeque, namely “taking part in a strike in connection with a trade dispute without the dispute […]
Many Belizeans are in shock tonight following the death of one of our brightest scholars in Trinidad and Tobago. Seventeen-year-old Rishi Cummins was a Belizean student at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. According to reports, around three on Monday afternoon, Cummins made his way to the roof of the three-storey Natural […]
In much of our reporting over the last several weeks, we have used the word crisis to describe the situation now facing the country. But the following story, reported by Jacqueline Woods, forces us to realize that there are things in this world more precious than political power and corporate shareholding. Things like the life […]
