The call for pensions is growing louder. Today, workers from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital took to the streets of Belize City, demanding the government honor their years of service with a proper retirement plan. The K.H.M.H. Workers Union says employees who served between 2000
As the Belize National Teachers’ Union continues to push for an eight-point-five percent salary adjustment, the government is now facing added pressure from another front. The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority Workers’ Union is demanding that retiring staff receive pensions, a benefit they say is
News Five has learned that the Public Service Union and the Association of Public Service Senior Managers have joined the Belize National Teachers Union in rejecting the government’s proposed three percent salary increase. Union leaders are expected to formally notify the government of their members’
BNTU President Nadia Caliz is pushing back against the Briceño administration’s claim that teachers and public servants are already getting a fourteen percent raise over three years, more than the eight-and-a-half percent adjustment they requested. Caliz says that the argument misses the point. She believes
Union leaders are expected to officially notify the government’s negotiation team tonight that their members have rejected the proposed three percent raise. BNTU President Nadia Caliz confirmed the update and says the unions are ready to return to the table, ideally as soon as Monday,
The Belize National Teachers’ Union has flatly rejected the government’s proposed three salary increase. On Thursday, teachers across the country made their voices heard, marching in green and waving signs with a clear message: “We matter.” Prime Minister John Briceño acknowledged their concerns but said the
The Court of Appeal has dismissed two high-profile appeals brought by the Attorney General, affirming compensation awards to former Deputy Prime Minister Hugo Patt and former Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Both men had challenged the findings of a Commission of Inquiry into the sale of
The Senate has approved a plan to pay for the country’s share in a major capital increase by the Inter-American Development Bank. Last March, the I.D.B. announced a three-point-five-billion-dollar boost to support a new model for its private sector arm, I.D.B. Invest. As a member,
At today’s Senate Special Select meeting, Business Senator Kevin Herrera praised the government’s efforts to grow the economy, noting an eight-point-two percent increase in GDP and a thirteen percent rise in annual revenue compared to the previous year. But he says that’s not enough. Herrera
The Briceño administration says it’s using lottery profits to expand Belize’s National Health Insurance program. According to the Prime Minister, sales from the popular Boledo lottery have brought in about seventeen million dollars in profits—money the government plans to invest in making healthcare more accessible
