Public consultations have taken place countrywide on the controversial Equal Opportunities Bill. This morning, the media gathered at the Radisson Fort George in Belize City, at the invitation of the [...]
While the Bill makes reference to the LGBT community, it is only one of nineteen vulnerable groups identified in the proposed anti-discrimination law. The Bill speaks to four categories: conduct, [...]
But what does the bill contemplate about cases of political victimization or discrimination? According to section thirty-eight of the proposed legislation, (Quote) “discrimination on the basis of political opinion shall [...]
The proposed legislation also deals with HIV prevention and care. The 2018 statistics from the Ministry of Health show that there were two hundred and fifty-four new infected persons with [...]
On Thursday night, the Ministry of Human Development and National AIDS Commission held a public consultation in Belize City as a part of its community outreach to get feedback on [...]
So, following those three presentations, as well as remarks from Enrique Romero Executive Director of the National AIDS Commission, the public had the opportunity to make comments and give feedback [...]
And while there was support for the bill – there was a group of independent persons who wanted clarity on some of the points. But there were many who didn’t [...]
Last year we were there when a group of Belize City youths completed an apprenticeship programme. Today, we were at Youth for the Future Drive, when they happily received their [...]
A public consultation led by the National AIDS Commission and the Ministry of Human Development is underway at the SJC Auditorium tonight where the topic of discussion continues to be [...]
Businessman and politician Lee Mark Chang came up big for Dara’s Feeding Programme. Today, Chang presented a thousand dollar check to the grassroots initiative that feeds about fifty underprivileged school [...]
A series of countrywide public consultations commenced over the weekend; on Monday it was held in Belmopan where proponents of the Equal Opportunities Bill presented, to an audience of interested [...]
The Equal Opportunities Bill is of serious concern for the National Evangelical Association of Belize, NEAB, which has come out strongly against the proposed legislation because of the perceived same-sex [...]
The murder of three-year-old Mark Tuyul Junior has pushed the issue of domestic violence to the front burner. Domestic violence is pervasive and has become commonplace to a point where [...]
Equally concerning is the issue of child sexual abuse resulting from pedophilia. According to Lovell, this kind of predatory behaviour often manifests itself in situations where children are groomed by [...]
Is the ‘Dara Feeding Programme’ closing its doors after thirteen years? Not just yet – that is, if Joel Dara Robinson gets his way. The local philanthropist says that his [...]
The National AIDS Commission is championing the drafting of a new piece of legislation which seeks to address the issue of discrimination in and around the workplace. Discussion around the [...]
Executive Director Caleb Orozco of United Belize Advocacy Movement, UNIBAM, also chimed in on the Equal Opportunity Bill. He admits that while the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community will [...]
P.U.P. Leader John Briceño also spoke briefly today on the proposed Equal Opportunities Bill for which consultations start over the weekend. While he says that a draft copy of the [...]
If you’ve been around the city in the past couple days, you would have seen a number of stop and searches being carried out by the police. Today, Superintendent Alejandro [...]
The Evangelical Churches today offered their interpretation of the recent ruling relating to Section fifty-three. On December thirtieth, 2019, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment, upholding the Chief [...]
There is no certainty that there will be an appeal that would take the case to the Caribbean Court of Justice but it is under consideration by the association. Vice [...]
N.E.A.B. today made claims on a number of issues in regards to the decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold the CJ’s ruling on Section Fifty-three. The Association is [...]
The National Evangelical Association of Belize is also of the view that the extension of the meaning of the word sex to include sexual orientations opens the door to many [...]
On Friday, B.E.L.’s Chief Executive Officer John Mencias, at a stakeholders meeting organized by the Belize Tourism Board, promised residents and proprietors on Caye Caulker that a locally sourced generation [...]
Belize Water Services, for its part, has also committed to erecting a pair of storage facilities on both ends of Caye Caulker. In addressing the growing concerns about sewage and [...]
