As we reported on Wednesday, cabinet has approved the phased return of face-to-face instruction of schools at all levels and sectors across the country. Since September of 2020, secondary and tertiary students have been attending virtual classes, while learning packages were distributed to primary schoolers. But beginning April twelfth, schools who believe that they have […]
So schools are going to have to get innovative with their learning continuity plans. C.E.O. in the Ministry of Education, Dian Maheia speaks of blended learning as a possible new normal. Dian Maheia, C.E.O., Ministry of Education “If you want to bring back all your students, you have to find a way to stagger […]
Phase two of the COVID vaccination rollout is currently underway where teachers are now allowed to get their jabs as an added protection against the deadly virus. Like some frontline healthcare workers, there are a number of teachers who are not willing to get take vaccine. During our one-on-one interview with C.E.O. Dian Maheia of […]
Back in June of last year, four airplanes that were seized during drug plane landings in the country were sold by the Barrow administration for under a million Belize dollars. The business jets were said to be in a state of disrepair and sold via a bidding process as a joint venture between the former […]
A Mexican accused of landing a drug plane in Belize, Miguel Cruz Meseguer, was taken before the Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, but the prosecution was not prepared to carry on with the case against him so the matter was further adjourned until March thirtieth. Meseguer was one of six Central American men who were facing […]
The story of what happened to the Belize Jaguars when the landed in Port-au-Prince on Monday has gotten considerable international sports coverage. CBS Sports to TMZ, Al Jazeera and even the Times of India have circulated the news about the team’s bus being pulled over by armed gunmen as they left the airport and the […]
A thrip pest threatens Belize’s grain industry which includes black and red beans, white and yellow corn, soy bean, black eye peas, rice and sorghum. It is the first time that the Asian bean thrip has been detected in the Belize and the second report for the Americas since March of last year. The pest […]
The concern for the future planting of the bean crop is real because the pest cannot be eradicated so a taskforce has been formed to devise a plan to manage the Asian bean thrip. Francisco Gutierrez, Acting Managing Director, BAHA “We are concerned and all measures and strategies have to be developed because the […]
Today, the Belize Coast Guard received a hefty donation from the U.S. Government in the form of outboard engines and night vision goggles to help in its crime fighting efforts at sea. News Five’s Duane Moody was at the ceremony held this morning and files this report. Duane Moody, Reporting Four hundred thousand dollars […]
While were with the Minister of National Defence and Border Security, he also spoke about the welfare of the soldiers at the Belize Defence Force. A former military man himself, Florencio Marin Junior says that in taking up the ministry, one of his top priorities is to ensure that the living conditions of these law […]
Chargé d’affaires Keith Gilges of the U.S. Embassy in Belize says his mission is coming to an end in the next four months. President Biden is expected to appoint an ambassador to Belize later this year, and a new chargé who will take over Gilges’ own post has already been selected. Keith Gilges, Chargé […]
In the excitement over Cabinet’s approval of the phased reopening of primary and secondary schools beginning in April, other news from Prime Minister John Briceño’s cabinet meeting on March twenty-third may have escaped public notice. While the government press office release did not give details, it noted that the Union Budget Consultation Team updated cabinet […]
The partnership between UNICEF and the Statistical Institute of Belize to gather comparable data on women and children using a Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey has been valuable in understanding their everyday circumstances. MICS, as it is known, has also been useful in providing government with information that can be used to create policies that are […]
The survey has also provided key data to assist the National Committee for Families and Children as they address child marriage and early unions in Belize. Surprisingly, in 2011, teenagers between fifteen and nineteen years old were still getting married. That information, according to Executive Director Margaret Nicholas, was used to create a roadmap to […]
The Ministry of Education, on the other hand, has used information from MICS to look at early childhood development and literacy. John Newport, Ministry of Education “When we began to look at the more qualitative aspects of the young child’s life and how they were learning, what their home life was like and how […]
A two-week training for special constables ended this week in Sarteneja. The constables who work at the Shipstern Nature Reserve attended sessions on Green Law and learned about making arrests, building their cases and what to do and not do when dealing with people violating the laws of the reserve. The special constables were sworn […]
As you saw earlier in the newscast with the swearing in of the Shipstern wardens as special constables, there are many young people attracted to working in conservation and protecting Belizean wildlife and natural ecosystems. This is also the case for those employed by the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment. This N.G.O. manages over […]
