It’s official: salaries for teachers, public officers and open vote workers will be readjusted to reflect a ten percent reduction as of June first. Earlier today, Financial Secretary Joseph Waight [...]
It was rumored from last week that there would be a challenge to Patrick Faber’s leadership of the United Democratic Party. This evening, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, the U.D.P. area representative [...]
On Monday, we told you about a COVID-19 cluster identified in Santa Cruz village in the Stann Creek District. Well apparently this is not the only area of concern. This [...]
While an account of how many children have been infected so far could not be shared, the spread of the virus in schools is an eventuality that the country was [...]
Those additional cases have pushed the country over the hundred mark once again. For weeks now, the number of active cases has been low, despite several clusters popping up here [...]
Before we get to additional details about the COVID-19 situation in the country, the Minister of Health and Wellness also confirmed that about twenty-five to thirty nurses from the Karl [...]
The Minister of Health and Wellness has once again made an appeal for teachers to get inoculated. Currently about forty-seven percent of the teaching population has received a first dose [...]
Later this week, a third shipment of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to arrive in country through the COVAX facility. But the Ministry of Health and Wellness is also in [...]
On Monday, Prime Minister John Briceño said in an interview on Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes that Belize’s international bondholders had been playing what he called “hard ball,” but were [...]
In a demonstration of regional solidarity, the Caribbean Union of Teachers has written to Prime Minister John Briceño asking him to reconsider the ten percent pay cut for Belize’s teachers. [...]
As we reported on Monday, the Forest Department has issued a cease and desist order to Gary Seawell and a co-investor, halting logging operations in the vicinity of communal land [...]
For years, the main street in Dangriga in front of the bus station has been in a deplorable state. Well works have finally begun on one of two streets in [...]
NICH is bringing archaeology into the national museum and district houses of culture. The history of the Maya people, coupled with the benefits of forest gardening from a climate change [...]
The Friends for Conservation and Development are reporting an escalation of illegal activities inside the Adjacency Zone. FCD notes that they have been using remote sensing, aerial reconnaissance and ground [...]
The Friends for Conservation and Development has also detained two Guatemalan poachers in Chiquibul Forest. Raul and Victorino Rivera were detained on Saturday and handed over to San Ignacio Police. [...]
As we reported at the top of the newscast, the U.D.P.’s Patrick Faber is having his leadership challenged following a videotaped altercation with his daughter’s mother. Since the video went [...]
Last week Friday, a number of community leaders got together to hold what they call a leadership intervention program to address crime and violence in Belize City. A release from [...]
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the Belize High Seas Fisheries Unit, Oceana and Global Fishing Watch for the availability of tracking data for commercial vessels flying the [...]
The Protected Areas Conservation Trust, a statutory body is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. Since its inception in 1996 the organization has invested over thirty-four million dollars in the country’s protected [...]
Job seekers may be interested to know that openings in the public service will soon be advertised on a new job search website launched today. According to the ministry, the [...]
The northern border has been reopened for approximately nine days and the agencies on the ground are confident that the protocols in place will allow for safe travel into Belize [...]
As we said, Ken Gladden is the site manager at the northern border entry point. His job is to ensure that there is efficiency; that protocols are being adhered to, [...]
And finally from the northern border, the entry point sits only a couple of miles away from the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico where over two thousand positive COVID-19 cases [...]
