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Participant, Autism Walk 2021 “A co-worker of mine has a child with autism and is a part of the organization. So I work at B.T.B. and this year we decided to lend our support and I decided to bring my daughter out for the walk to show support for her.”   Mirna Grinage, Participant, Autism Walk 2021 “We wanted to support this organization. It’s a new organization and I believe they need all the support that they can. We have a lot of cases of autism in Belize and I don’t think we have...

Jan 27, 2021 A Family’s Experience in Bridging the Learning Gap for Special Needs Students The distance learning approach has been in effect since the 2020 school year began. At the start of every week, weekly packages are picked up, completed by students, and then submitted by the end of the week, while others engage in online classes. But what about students with special needs? News Five’s Duane Moody visited with the Stephen family, whose youngest member is autistic, to find out...

Two world-renowned National Geographic writers, husband and wife team Carrie Miller and Chris Taylor, are in Belize for a week-long tour of the travel and dive aspects of Belize. Miller and Taylor, who are being sponsored by the Belize Tourism Board, are working to gather information from 50 countries in the world about the top 50 best dive and travel destinations. That information will be compiled into National Geographic’s first travel and dive guidebook. After landing in Belize just minute...