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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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The COVID-19 vaccination campaign was launched on March first and phases one to three are currently open, allowing for teachers, parliamentarians, law enforcement officers, healthcare workers and others to be inoculated. The highest vaccination coverage for first dose is healthcare workers with eighty-five point three percent; fifty-one percent of teachers have been vaccinated and fifty […]
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But there is an appeal for persons to visit vaccinations centers across the country to get their jab. Belize received donations from the governments of Barbados and India as well as thirty-three thousand six hundred doses via the COVAX facility. And while the vaccination rate is higher than many other countries, there is still the […]
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Twelve weeks after getting your first jab, you are to return to a vaccination center to receive your second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. For those who were among the first to be inoculated, within the next two weeks, that second jab is due. Doctor Beer says that for those frontline healthcare workers, it is […]
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During our interview with Doctor Beer, she did confirm that at the end of the month of May, the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine expires. This increases the urgency for why persons who fall within the opened vaccination phases should come out and get their jabs. But Doctor Beer says that the ministry is working strategically to […]
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The latest COVID-19 data shows that the numbers are once again on the decline. Today, there are five new confirmed cases, bringing the total number of active cases to eighty-five. While there were no deaths recorded for some days now, the total deaths reported are three hundred and twenty-three since the pandemic began. There were […]
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The Belize Network of N.G.O.s, led by Senator Osmany Salas, has come out in defense of the Belize Maya Forest Project which has been criticized by parliamentarians in the upper house. B.N.N. stands behind its support for the initiative, touting it as, quote, yet another excellent example of the opportunities that we can capitalize on […]
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According to Senator Salas, the Belize Maya Forest Project is not the first land trust to be established in Belize. In fact, he says, the Rio Bravo trust was established in the late eighties and remained to the benefit of the Belizean people ever since. Osmany Salas, N.G.O. Senator “One of the main benefits […]
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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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Today, News Five spoke with Shanelly Carrillo Balan from the Forest Department who confirmed that earlier this year; a sixteen-foot crocodile had escaped from the enclosure at the Caribbean Shrimp Farm in Ladyville. It is one of two that had escaped, but one was recaptured and now the department continues to monitor the situation. Balan […]
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There are reports from residents in the Vista del Mar community who say that they have spotted a crocodile in the area. But is it the croc that recently escaped from an enclosure at a farm in the Milpa area of the village? Due to the connecting creeks in the mangrove area, the reptile can […]
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Wildlife Program Manager Shanelly Carrillo Balan of the Forest Department tells you what to do if there is a sighting of a crocodile in your area. Shanelly Carrillo Balan, Wildlife Program Manager, Forest Department “What we have seen in the past years is that Belize City and Ladyville areas is that it is becoming […]
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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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