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PM presents 2024/2025 Budget
Photo: Prime Minister, Hon. John Briceño
The national budget proposals for this fiscal year project...
Women in Art
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 14, 2024
In celebration of Women’s Month – which...
UEF celebrates 28th birthday on March 10
by Sista Ya Ya Marin Coleman
United Black Association for Development Educational Foundation (UEF) 28th...
Kidney Awareness Month
Photo: Dr. Natashia Gongora, Internal Medicine and Nephrology Specialist
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Mar....
Unholy alliance!
Saturday, March 9, 2024
I was watching an interview with one Patrick Menzies; oh, his title is: President, Alliance of Ministers and Leaders of Belize....
The 9th March sailing regatta and Baron Bliss
by Colin Hyde
Today the 9th March holiday is called National Heroes and Benefactors Day, but for generations it was known as Baron Bliss Day,...
These are not serious people!
Thursday, March 7, 2024
I am borrowing a line from the series, “Succession,” where Logan Roy told his children after listening to them bickering, “You...
To be a pilgrim!
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m pro America. Despite all its faults, and there are many, apart from the Jewel,...
Children of enslavers scold Thais forworking monkeys
by Colin Hyde
It is just preposterous for this PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to be organizing boycotts of coconut products from...
Be good to yourself!
Sunday, March 3, 2024
I always tell people I care about to be good to themselves. It’s very simple advice, but I think it’s good...
To Know Thy Self
by Marie-Therese Belisle Nweke
Sunday, March 3, 2024
The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examinations have all but replaced Britain’s General Certificate School Examinations (GCSE) in Belize and the other CARICOM...
In good hands with Dolores and Marshalleck
by Colin Hyde
Borrowing from Mrs. Rosanna, I will say to my Mayan friends that when Dolores quoted the celebrated Tolstoy she, ehm, “didn’t mean...
Our missing history!
Thursday, February 29, 2024
The publisher of Amandala encouraged me to read about the Caste Wars in Yucatán, through his writings about it over the...
Diasporans in Ghana
by Marie-Therese Belisle Nweke
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
This extract below represents one of the annoying aspects of the story about what’s happening in Ghana. Here...
Transgender women “breeding” real women inpenal institution
by Colin Hyde
It took a while for this story to make its way around the world, all the way from 2022 – truth crushed...
Easter!
Saturday, February 24, 2024
I remember as a teenager in the 1960s, looking forward to the Easter holidays, saving up my money, the little that...
The 2 state farce!
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Like I’ve said before, I was an ardent supporter of Israel when I still believed in all the fairy tales told...
Mainly because L. Ashcroft and Sen. Herrera’s brother wanted to embarrass NEAC
by Colin Hyde
One core story behind this Senate Inquiry into that “Definitive Agreement” that Erwin (former Minister of Economic Development) signed for Portico, is...