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Hon. Shyne Barrow Minister of Human development, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, has stated that the Government of Belize can only continue to sustain the Grocery Bag Program for two more months. Minister Garcia has stated that there is simply no money for the program to be continued. Speaking on this matter was, Area Representative for the Mesopotamia division who boldly challenged the decision. Barrow explained during a press conference held on Thursday January 21 that, “We can’t eat streets.” This was a direct salvo against the PUP after the government was able to allocate $14 million for...

Items beneficiaries received from the Grocery Bag Program On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, announced that it has opened an application process for a redesigned Food Assistance Program. As expected under this present government, it took two releases to get the message across. The first release was posted on the Government Press Office’s Facebook page at 9:20 a.m. and it was taken down about 15 minutes later. Then at 10:50 a.m. another release was posted on the same Facebook page to announce the starting of the progra...

Items beneficiaries received from the Grocery Bag Program As soon as the new PUP administration got into office, the first thing they did was discontinue the Pantry Program. Minister Dolores Balderamos-Garcia boldly announced that she was abolishing the name ‘Pantry’ and was replacing it with ‘Grocery Bag.’ She also said that the program would be extended to rural areas that had not benefitted from it before. Well, the program has been restarted and while the promise was to expand the program, what has actually happened is that the items in the bags are now significantly slimmed down....

MetroWest Daily News FRAMINGHAM – During a normal school year, the district's small white bus carries about a dozen students to sports games. But on Friday, it was parked outside a Somerville Stop & Shop, packed with $3,000 worth of groceries for 65 school families. Crates of mangoes and jasmine rice were crammed in shelves above the seats, while boxes of milk filled the aisle. It's a ritual that takes place every two weeks. That morning, Assistant Superintendent Joseph Corazzini picked the van up from Fuller Middle School and stopped at the Greater Framingham Community Church to grab a cre...