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April 25, 2021

Teachers prepare for strike action

The teachers are protesting the 10 percent salary cut and three-year freeze on annual increments, which the GOB says will save a total of $80 million [...]
April 19, 2021

BNTU continues protests this week against salary cuts leading up to a strike next Monday

The BNTU protest continued this morning as its members blocked the country’s highways. Teachers, dressed in the BNTU green t-shirts, drove behind one another and at [...]
April 19, 2021

Public Service Union and Belize National Teacher’s Union plan daily protests against salary cut

BNTU started out its protest activities last Friday morning picketing in front of businesses they claim owe taxes to the government.
April 1, 2021

Public Service Union attacks government over firings in the Ministry of Health and Wellness

The Union explained that it has received copies of termination letters for public officers at various medical facilities countrywide. The union notes that in the height [...]
April 1, 2021
Dr. Marvin Manzanero Belize

BREAKING: Union president confirms Dr. Manzanero situation “not settled”

Dr. Manzanero is working at the Ministry, said Frazer, but not in his substantive post as Director of Health Services. The Minister left it to the [...]
March 30, 2021

No Easter break for Joint Union Negotiating Team as meetings on proposed salary cut continue

Belize National Teacher's Union (BNTU) President Elena Smith, during an online live-stream last night explained that the team and GOB have meetings set for Good Friday [...]
August 20, 2020

Labour Minister says “good basis” established in University of Belize union talks

The University and the Union have been at loggerheads over financial challenges suffered by the University and the Union's defiant decision to refrain from teaching until [...]
August 2, 2020

Breaking: Port of Belize and Christian Workers Union sign Collective Bargaining Agreement

The CWU says that the signing brings to an end a process that has been ongoing for some 16 years. The union said that the signing [...]