Jan 27, 2021
A COVID-19 Education Task Force is Formed
The Briceño Administration has established a COVID-19 Education Task Force to help guide the government in delivering quality, accessible education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has dealt a blow to education, with regular classroom sessions suspended since March of last year. So the idea is for the task force to provide specific recommendations for the safe and responsible reopening of schools for face to face instruction in the new school year, tentatively in August 2021. Among those on the task force are Special Envoy Rossana Briceño, Senators Isabel Bennett and Elena Smith, and Acting DHS Melissa Diaz Musa, principals Jamie Usher and Salome Tillett. Rounding off the members are: Martine King of Mind Health Connect, a member of the UB Faculty and Staff Union and the President of the National Student Union of Belize.
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For thousands of years, the sheltered and fertile plains and river courses that make up the vale of Tralee have attracted settlers to the region.
From the first farmers to the Normans, right up to the present, the area is home to an eclectic array of pre-historic and modern settlement.
One of the positives to come from the wholesale development in the past 20 years has been the depth of archaeological features that have pieced together our past. A case in point is the publication of In the Vale of Tralee: the Archaeology of the N22 Tralee Bypass .
Edited by Patricia Long, Paul O Keeffe and Isabel Bennett, it presents the remarkable discoveries made along the route of the bypass by archaeologists from Rubicon Heritage Services and Irish Archaeological Consultancy in 2010 and 2011. The construction of the bypass provided a rare opportunity to explore the rich heritage of North Kerry through large-scale archaeological investigation, with the excavations revealing evidence of over 6,
Dec 11, 2020
Senators Sit for Inaugural Senate Meeting
Preceding the inaugural Sitting of the House of Representatives, an introductory Sitting of the Senate was held inside the chambers of the National Assembly. The Government appointed six new senators and they are Eamon Courtenay, Christopher Coye, Doctor Isabel Bennett, Bevin Cal, Collet Montejo and Erica Jang. The Opposition, United Democratic Party has appointed Michael Peyrefitte as Lead Opposition Senator who will be supported by Sheena Pitts and Aldo Salazar. The N.G.O. community voted to keep Osmany Salas in the Senate and so did the unions with Elena Smith. The Churches have chosen Bishop Moses Benguche to replace Pastor Ashley Rocke and Kevin Herrera replaces Mark Lizarraga as the Senator for the Private Sector. The President of the Senate is now Carolyn Trench-Sandiford who was warmly received by the senators.