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A survival budget with even less crumbs for the poor
The United Democratic Party (UDP) has controlled government for over 12 years, and on Thursday, March 5, the Prime Minister, Hon. Dean Barrow, who...
Los trabajadores deben obtener acciones/propiedad de PBL
En una semana en que Belize todavía se está recuperando de la pérdida de cuatro soldados en circunstancias que aún no están claras, una...
Workers should get shares/ownership of PBL
In a week when Belize is still reeling from the loss of four soldiers in circumstances that are not yet clear, a week of...
The price Belize pays in this war on drugs —getting steeper
The news on Friday that four top soldiers of the Belize Defence Force (BDF) (Belize’s Air Force, essentially) had been found dead in a...
GoB bloats contracts for projects and invests little in the people
Belizeans appreciate that a new bridge over the Haulover Creek and improvement of the Coastal Road are worthy projects, and they would praise the...
The UDP didn’t increase the nation’s wealth
Data on our economy compiled by the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB) shows that our productive sector has shrunk immensely over the past decade...
Belize’s labor unions (and the PUP) take to the streets
The ruling United Democratic Party’s mismanagement of the resources of this country and their failure to improve our democracy have to be considered among...
VIP insistence on campaign financing laws, vindicated!
We can never know how far the political party, VIP (Vision Inspired by the People), would have gone in electoral politics if Belize had...
Patrick defeated; then John steps down
Hon. Patrick Faber and Hon. John Saldivar, the two political leaders who contended for leadership of the ruling United Democratic Party (UDP) last Sunday,...
Betraying the people is a very bad thing
Since past behavior is a good gauge of what one will do in the future, it is a near given that when the United...
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