COVID-19 affecting more young people
WASHINGTON DC, USA, Wed. May 5, 2021-- COVID-19 was initially seen as a virus that primarily afflicted older members of the population. Recent studies...
Launch of Regional Mental Health Fair
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 3, 2021-- From May 3 to May 8, the Institute of Mexicans Abroad and the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs will...
Covid-19 Update
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 6, 2021-- The Ministry of Health and Wellness is calling citizens to get immunized before the first batch of AstraZeneca...
BEWU will not strike…yet
BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 4, 2021-- A draft of a release that was to be issued from the Belize Energy Workers Union (BEWU) was...
Dr Gene Leon takes office as CDB President
Kingston, Jamaica. Tues. May 4 2021— Dr Gene Leon, on Wednesday, took office as President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), becoming the sixth...
Unions lay out 11 demands
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 5, 2021-- The tripartite union team has released a list of eleven demands to the Government of Belize to lay...
Sports training to resume
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 3, 2021-- Last month, athletes took to social media to vent their outrage at the Government of Belize’s decision to allow...
Cricket Corner – Games resume
BELIZE CITY , Wed. May 5, 2021-- To all you lovers of cricket, players and fans, after a year ’ s break from our...
FFB announces National Beach Soccer Selection
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 6, 2021-- On Monday of this week, the Football Federation of Belize (FFB) announced that it had commenced preparation for...
Me, Belize and books
At the end of this piece I’ll begin the last two chapters of the latest draft of my unpublished book, Lord, if You wake...
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Tons of intrigue in sugar and ports
It can’t be said that the move by ASR/BSI to stop shipping bulk sugar to the Belize District, to be handled by the Port...
The nature of the beast
In these very tough financial times, when the poorest of the poor are getting more desperate, the Belizean people have for the most part...
Needed: moratorium on big agriculture and big tourism
On December 15, 2020, a little after a month in office, the new government (PUP) announced that it had constituted a task force, an...
Unions “shall not be moved” from reform demands
If the collective memory of Belizean public service employees was getting sluggish, they were all jolted into keen attention by government’s recent decision to...
From the Publisher
Remember now, beloved, I write today not as a young, macho activist who feels he has to prove or act out everything he says. I...
From the Publisher
There is a growing tension in The Jewel which features the recently elected People’s United Party (PUP) government facing off with the workers’ unions...
From the Publisher
One problem in the United States in the middle 1960s was that white college students had a very good idea of what was going...
We need confidence and faith in official statistics
Dear Sir,
I watched 7News on Monday night, and in a piece of footage in that newscast, a simple question was posed to the representative...
Time to fix a battered Belize
Fellow citizens, to make meaningful political change, we don’t need to fly to the moon or Mars to get the right materials. For too...
Renaming Freedom Day as Emancipation Day
May 5, 2021
Greetings, Attorney and Solicitor Generals,
Re: Renaming Freedom Day “Emancipation Day”
UBAD Educational Foundation (UEF), a 25-year-old, community-based organization with a focus on consciousness-raising,...
Is it time to “de-friend” social media?
Dear Editor,
The internet is an encyclopedia of easily accessible information. The benefits of these new technological devices and programs are obvious, but are cracks...
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BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 5, 2021-- Following Cabinet’s decision to allow northern cane farmers to sell their surplus cane to the Santander Sugar Company,...
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From the Publisher en Español
Recuerden ahora, queridos, que escribo hoy, no como un activista joven y machista que siente que tiene que demostrar o actuar todo lo que...
From the Publisher en Español
Hay una creciente tensión en La Joya, en la que figural el gobierno recientemente elegido del Partido Unido del Pueblo (PUP) enfrentándose a los...
From the Publisher en Español
Un problema en los Estados Unidos a mediados de la década de 1960 era que los estudiantes universitarios blancos tenían una muy buena idea...
From the Publisher en Español
Creo que muchos beliceños asumieron que yo había empujado a mi segundo hijo a entrar en la política aquí, aproximadamente en 1994, para que...
La naturaleza de la bestia
En estos tiempos financieros muy difíciles, cuando los más pobres de los pobres se están desesperando más, el pueblo beliceño se ha vuelto en...
Se necesita: moratoria sobre la gran agroindustria y el gran turismo
El 15 de diciembre de 2020, poco después de un mes en el cargo, el nuevo gobierno (PUP) anunció que había constituido un grupo...
Los sindicatos “no serán movidos” de las demandas de reforma
Si la memoria colectiva de los empleados del servicio público de Belize se estaba debilitando, fueron sacudidos a la atención con la reciente decisión...
No hay “todos ganamos” sin buena gobernanza
Belize nunca ha cumplido con las masas de sus ciudadanos, y estábamos en una profunda recesión cuando la pandemia asestó un duro golpe en...
International
Mexican overpass crumbles
MEXICO CITY, Tues. May 4, 2021-- A tragic incident in Mexico City claimed the life of at least 24 people and injured dozens more....
International
Mudslides in St. Vincent
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Thurs. Apr. 29, 2021-- The aftereffects of the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano continue to wreak havoc on...
