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March 19, 2022

Belize Brain Awareness Society observes Belize Brain Awareness Week

The Belize Brain Awareness Society is observing Brain Awareness Week from March 14 to 20, 2022.
March 11, 2022

BREAKING: Two women in the race for new NGO Senator – voting underway

Those contesting the position are Dr Sharmayne Saunders and Janelle Chanona, both well known in NGO circles and exemplary women in their respective fields.
March 1, 2022

Christian Workers’ Union president says banks refusing to do business with them

The Union and the Government opened a particular account at the National Bank of Belize to handle disbursements, but some stevedores had not been able to [...]
March 1, 2022

Lawyers for Christian Workers’ Union (CWU) assert they did nothing wrong in paying stevedores

Attorney Darrell Bradley, who along with Magalie Perdomo represents the Union, argued that nothing was in place preventing the CWU from distributing the funds, not even [...]
February 26, 2022

Christian Workers Union says no progress has been made on implementing arbitration ruling

In January, the Essential Services Arbitration Tribunal had delivered its ruling on the dispute between the CWU and PBL. In that ruling, the five-member tribunal had [...]
February 9, 2022

Senate adds unanimous voice to national condemnation of gender-based and domestic violence

Senators told personal stories of abuse, violence and increasingly, indifference in official circles – such as Government Senator Isabel Bennett, who told of a man who [...]
February 1, 2022

Free Prior and Informed Consent Protocol: what it is and what it is not

Per Article 6 of the 1989 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (ILO Convention 169), governments are obliged to (a) consult the peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures [...]
January 31, 2022

National Council on Ageing condemns ageist attack

On social media a video was seen of an older man being assaulted to the point of unconsciousness in the city of Belmopan for no apparent [...]