The Ministry of Health & Wellness is kicking off a month of activities beginning today with Global Hand-Washing Day. The events, in partnership with Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), are [...]
The COVID pandemic, tropical storms and even the La Soufriere volcanic eruption created considerable challenges for secondary students across the region who sat the Caribbean Examinations Council this year. In [...]
Five scholarships have been awarded to students in secondary and tertiary level institutions by the Belize Hotel Association. The five recipients are: Blythe Thompson from Saint Catherine Academy, Raonie Guerra [...]
Recently the Ministry of Education announced the reopening of schools – a decision that has received widespread criticism and no less than a doctor who came forth to say that [...]
Jamal Galves, popularly known in Belize as “Manatee Man,” is the recipient of the 2021 WCS Christensen Conservation Leaders Scholarship. Galves, whose career as a conservationist began when he was [...]
Today the Child First and Last Organization, better known as CFAL, awarded scholarships for primary and high schools in Belize and Cayo Districts. Twelve primary schoolers from Calvary Temple and [...]
On Monday, the Ministry of Education gave the go-ahead for hybrid instruction to resume for schools that meet strict requirements under the existing COVID guidelines. Not surprisingly, many of those [...]
Meanwhile, Belize is one of four winning countries of the IDB’s Superheroes of Development 2021 Initiative. The awards recognize creative and innovative solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. The four [...]
The Ministry of Education has granted approval for only a few schools, at various academic levels that meet specific requirements, to be reopened whenever they are ready to do so. [...]
According to the CEO, the approach to reopening schools, notwithstanding the surge in COVID numbers, is an inclusive process that takes into account the views of parents, as well as [...]
With uncertainty for weeks over whether schools would be able to resume any in-person classes on Monday as previously announced, and the Ministry of Education waiting until Thursday to invite [...]
Talking about interventions, while we were with the Director Nicholas of the National Commission of Families and Children, she spoke of the need for change in legislation for the age [...]
Due to the rise in COVID cases, the Ministry of Education is having to step back from a return to fully face-to-face learning, but moving full steam ahead with its [...]
The planned reopening of schools for face-to-face learning does not seem like a good idea with the climbing COVID-19 numbers. While many students, ages twelve to seventeen, have been vaccinated, [...]
Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa appeared on Open Your Eyes today where he spoke about the need to enforce the law on gang membership. Although a gang leader could [...]
Minister of State Christopher Coye also discussed how Belize will benefit in the long run from the funds that will be saved under the bond buy back. Christopher Coye, [...]
The Belize Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (BAPSS) is partnering with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health and Wellness to support vaccination [...]
Today, the robotics team at Belize High School successfully launched a cube satellite into the lower atmosphere. It’s a part of the FIRST Global Challenge which is a yearly Olympics-style [...]
October fourth is the proposed reopening date for face-to-face school instruction. And while the vaccination rollout is underway for children twelve to seventeen, G.O.B. has been working with the Belize [...]
One of the events just for kids in September is the annual Children’s Rally. Hundreds of children usually feel the excitement of dressing in patriotic colors or waving little flags [...]
Active COVID-19 cases continue to rise and the planned reopening of face-to-face learning in school on October fourth remains up-in-the-air, despite strong efforts to get students ages twelve to seventeen [...]
With less than twenty percent of the population vaccinated and students coming out for their second jabs this week, will enough students be vaccinated in time for the safe return? [...]
The University of Belize is joining the nation in celebrating forty years of Independence with a public lecture on the state of the nation at forty. The panel includes career [...]
The Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Belize-Taiwan Alumni Society co-hosted a semi-virtual Orientation for the 2021 Taiwan scholarship recipients on Saturday. Ambassador David Kuan-Chou Chien congratulated the fifty-one aspiring young Belizean [...]
The Prime Minister says that some projects have had to be put on the back burner due to the COVID-19 situation and constraints. One of those is a free education [...]
