Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Education

MoECST Receives Donation from Grace Kennedy (Belize) Limited

On February 25, 2022, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology (MoECST) received a donation of 530 hand towel dispensers including napkins and hand towels from Grace Kennedy (Belize) Limited at a small ceremony held at the ministry’s office in Belize City.

The MoECST Receives Donation of Medical Face Masks

On February 17, 2022, Hon. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology (MoECST), received a generous donation of 5,000 medical face masks from H.E. David Kuan-Chou Chien, Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to Belize.

The Transcultura Program of UNESCO and the EU promotes the training of young people from the Caribbean in cultural entrepreneurship

The Transcultura Program: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, implemented by UNESCO and financed by the European Union, keeps open the call for scholarships for the online courses on cultural entrepreneurship of the Open Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWIOC, for its acronym in English).

MoECST Receives Donation of Laptops from SIF

On Thursday, January 27, 2022, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology (MoECST) received a donation of 99 laptops and accessories from the Social Investment Fund (SIF) at a ceremony held in Belize City.

The MoECST Receives Donation of Sanitization and Cleaning Supplies

On January 20, 2022, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology (MoECST) received a donation of school sanitisation and cleaning supplies from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during a handing over ceremony at the Government House in Belize City. The donation is valued at BZ$180,691.63 and consists of children's masks, disinfectant, hand sanitisers and liquid hand soap, among other items.

The Government of Cuba Awards Medical Scholarships to Belizean Students

On January 13, 2022, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology in partnership with the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Belize and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration held a ceremony at the House of Culture to give recognition to thirteen recipients of the Cuba-Belize Scholarship Programme 2022. Of the thirteen recipients, ten will be majoring in medicine, two in nursing and one in psychology.

New semester starts with hybrid learning: schools yet to be fully re-opened

Several schools across Belize re-opened on Monday, January 10th to a hybrid learning system. The system sees some students taking online classes, while others attend face-to-face sessions. The re-opening (particularly in governmental institutions) is considered imperative by the current government, but in San Pedro Town, the only schools offering in-person classes, since last year, are reportedly the private institutions, while governmental institutions still prepare to offer physical teaching.

Presentation of the “Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO” experience in Belize

The work of this Program of Mexico and FAO in Belize focuses on the implementation of a school feeding program following the "Sustainable Schools" model.