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Cabinet met for the first time on Tuesday since Prime Minister John Briceño returned from an extended trip overseas where he attended high-level meetings in more than a few countries, including Brussels and Suriname. The head of government arrived in Belize this past weekend and, on July twelfth, met with senior government officials to discuss […]
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Today’s cabinet brief also focused on education and what government is doing to increase the age of compulsory education from fourteen to sixteen, taking into consideration that while the change will lead to other legislative and policy adjustments, it is a step in the right direction in preparing Belizean students for life. Stuart Leslie, […]
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Also discussed in cabinet was the Belize National Curriculum Framework 2022, developed by the Ministry of Education. After months of consultation and focused effort by education stakeholders, the ministry plans to implement the new curriculum come next month when the new school year commences. The idea is basically to remove the fluff from the education […]
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Are teachers ready for the changes coming to the curriculum? Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Education, Dian Maheia says that beginning this summer, there will be capacity building programs for teachers across all levels to ensure that they not only have tools, but the knowhow to build the competencies of the students under […]
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The Laddie Memorial Park was inaugurated today on a plot of beachfront property in Placencia Village where Laddie Gillett was shot and killed one year ago. Laddie’s relatives and friends gathered at the park for a brief ceremony in his memory. Musicians Stig Da Artist and Kylon Eiley performed at the event, and family members […]
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Today, Jasmine Hartin walked up the stairs of the Supreme Court for an indictment hearing before Justice Ricardo Sandcroft. The hearing was in reference to the manslaughter by negligence charge on the Canadian national for the shooting death of Superintendent Henry Jemmott, which occurred on May twenty-eighth, 2021. During the proceedings this morning, Hartin pled […]
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Twenty-two-year-old Frederick Rodriguez, a resident of Riverside Street, Benque Viejo Town has been arrested and charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply. That’s after he was busted during a special operation being conducted by police along the banks of the Mopan River from the San Jose Succotz Ferry to Benque Viejo […]
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Also in the vicinity of the Mopan River on Riverside Street, Benque Viejo police discovered a nine millimeter pistol containing a magazine with fifteen live Luger brand nine millimeter rounds of ammunition. No one was in the area at the time and as a result, the firearm and ammunition were sealed, labeled and deposited as […]
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Today, at the Edward P. Yorke High School a multimillion-dollar agreement was signed between the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology and Digi for the expansion of wifi to approximately two hundred schools across the country, particularly institutions in rural communities. The idea is to bridge the digital divide in the country and for […]
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A couple months ago, a teacher from St. Luke Primary School took to Facebook to share the frustration and humiliation that she was enduring at the school, allegedly at the hands of three administrative officers. When Joanne Ysaguirre went live on video to share her experience, it captured the attention of thousands of Belizeans who […]
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The Labor Department is hosting an employment recruitment drive at the ITVET Compound in Belize City from July eighteenth to the twentieth. The department is looking for two hundred job seekers to match with potential employers. Over the course of the three days, participants will be receiving training in areas such as customer service, work […]
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This morning at the Biltmore Hotel, government officials and their counterparts from the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service, BELTRAIDE, the Economic Development Council, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, as well as their counterparts in the private sector attended the launch of the Belize National Investment Policy and Strategy. NIPS, as it is […]
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The Energy Unit within the Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics, & E-Governance is embarking on an initiative to improve policies that can support the economy, as well as the environment. To do so, it has been engaging organizations through the Belize National Energy Use Survey 2022; that data will assist in with updating the energy policy and for creating […]
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He was awarded a contract as an information consultant for the Briceño Administration, working out of the Government Press Office – a post that has been questioned as to the need and justification for the salary. But today when he was asked about it, Cabinet Secretary, Stuart Leslie told reporters that the job offered to […]
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Leslie made reference to other activists who went on to work with previous governments, such as Nuri Muhammed and Ambassador James Murphy. Leslie shared his view that we need to develop another generation of those types of people, and it was with this in mind that the government reached out to Brackett and offered him […]
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Belizean Musician, thirty-two-year-old Emilio Thomas, has been performing across the world for the better part of the last decade with the Garifuna Collective. During this time, he has been able to hone his musical skills which he began developing as a child growing up in Dangriga. Thomas has since acquired experience and knowledge that sets […]
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