For us to improve and develop as a nation, it appears to me that the nation-state of Belize must be proactive about its role in education. Control of the educational system by the churches is not working. It?s not even working where religion and morality are concerned. Belize is an immoral, materialistic and hedonistic society. But everybody is ?churched? when he/she dies.
Two-time Female Cross Country Champion and Belize Defence Force Officer Cadet, Gina Lovell, 23, is setting a remarkable pace for herself. It's not merely the pace she's setting on the asphalt-covered roads of Belize, but on the rocky roads of life.
This afternoon, boat captain James ?Raindrops? Swan, Jr., 24, a resident of Mile 1 on the Northern Highway, was charged in the Belize City Magistrate?s Court with one count of murder in the shooting death of Tyrone ?Shabba? Felix, 22, a messenger of the Audit Department in Belize City.
At about 4:10 a.m., on Sunday, May 14, Felix was heading home from a concert at the City Centre when he was shot once in his head. He died on the spot.
It is my view that most women want to see the mountains that the ?Female Cross Country? crosses, to ride them to seek out the compulsion of this majestic, crazy, inspiring, heroic cycle race which started as a publicity stunt, was written off as a grotesque absurdity almost as soon as its first edition ended, and yet has continued to astonish ever since.
Director of Health Services says no shunt would have saved Baby Kimorah?s life
The Minister of Health, Hon. Joe Coye, this morning presented the results of an internal investigation into the death of Baby Kimorah Leslie, which occurred at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) early on the morning of Saturday, April 29.
I write my letter in total frustration with the Development Finance Corporation. I am a Belizean student whose family fell victim to relentless pursuit of DFC to collect on a loan. I wish that they had the same fervor when dealing with those millions in default.
News was received today of the death of social and political activist, farmer and writer Bismark Ranguy, Sr., a ?son of the soil? of the Toledo District. He was 86.
Bismark, a regular contributor to Amandala, died this morning at about 1:00 at his home in Forest Home, four miles from Punta Gorda Town, attended by his family. He had returned to live there, where he originally lived, after living in Mafredi.
Police have two grisly homicide cases on their hands?one of them believed to be related to underground warfare, the other believed to be the result of a ridiculous robbery attempt. Both stories come out of the north of Belize.
The victims are Corozal resident Adonai Espat, 30, who worked as a seaman in San Pedro Ambergris Caye, and Orange Walk resident, Alvaro Zetina, 46, husband and father of 3.
?Christianity is the highest and purest of all religions; but if we study the moral precepts of the foremost American nations, we shall see that in many respects they were not far behind, and were indeed in some instances in advance of Christianity. True, the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, with all its attendant horrors; but what were the religious wars, the expulsion of Jews, the slaughter of Infidels, the burning of heretics, but human sacrifice? Moreover, while we turn in horror from the sacrificial stone of the Aztecs, where the human victims were treated as gods and whence their souls were sent direct to Paradise, yet we find among them little of that most infamous of crimes ? persecution for opinion?s sake; nor yet do we read of their ingenuity being taxed for the contrivance of engines of the most excruciating torture, as we do in the history of Christianity. Tortures which, while killing the body, it was believed consigned the soul to eternal agonies.?
- pg. 60, Introduction, THE WORKS OF HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT, Volume VI, History of Central America Vol. I 1501-1530, Arno Press, San Francisco, 1886.
I was trying to find the date, time and year of the beginning of the planetary system that we call earth, hell and heaven through the book of Genesis in Chapter 1 of the Hebrew/Christian Holy Bible. I was also trying to find how the name Belize was given to this land that was once divided into three (3) Maya Provinces with the names of Chectemal, Dzuluinicob and Manche Chol.
A couple months or so ago, while driving on the new Marine Parade, I saw something where Stake Bank has always been, but for sure what I saw was not Stake Bank. As unfocused as I was, dreamy maybe, I said it must be a ship out there. I still can?t believe that it was a couple weeks after that before someone confirmed to me that there had been changes made to Stake Bank. It was ?development.?
The Belize Bank Bulldogs, fresh off their 76-69 win over the University of Belize Black Jaguars last week Thursday in the capital of Belmopan, will tonight now focus on defeating the (1-7) Eagles hailing from Orange Walk Town. At the same time they will be trying to improve on their present (5-3) record and their hold on the second place slot in the league, behind league leaders, the San Pedro Tigersharks.
Earlier today the majority of the Belize national basketball selection left for El Salvador to play two friendly games scheduled for this Friday and Saturday. Some of the notable players who did not make the trip include Edward ?Bart? Sanchez, Kenton Paulino and Sonny Watson.
