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Judge allows into evidence dying declaration of murder victim Egbert Baldwin
Egbert Baldwin, deceased (L); Camryn Lozano (Top right) and Albert Gill, on trial
by Roy...
Police welcome record-breaking number of new recruits
Photo: Squad 97 male graduates marching
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 22, 2024
Last Friday,...
The Museum of Belizean Art opens doors
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 18, 2024
The Museum of Belizean Art’s (MOBA) grand...
PWLB officially launched
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. Apr. 15, 2024
The Football Federation of Belize (FFB) officially launched...
Pink and red boxer/briefs, bah
by Colin Hyde
These days, we see champion male football players wearing pink boots, all for solidarity with mothers. We see males all over wearing...
“Something wicked this way comes!”
Sunday, April 21, 2024
That is the title from a story written by Ray Bradbury in 1962 and made into a movie in 1983. The...
Cheering OJ shouldn’t have happened in Belize
by Colin Hyde
I don’t know if the great American sports hero, OJ Simpson, was guilty of murdering his ex-wife (mother of two of his...
Redefining slavery!
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Whenever one thinks about slavery, one usually thinks about slavery in America. Although it has been around since man began to...
CARICOM 10-Point Plan for Reparatory Justice &Denis O’Brien Repair Campaign
by Sista YaYa Marin Coleman, Chairperson of UEF
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 18, 2024
The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) was created “to strengthen regional...
Jamming on the reef for good health
by Colin Hyde
Those of us who think God only cares about people might say of those animals with mouths, noses, and ears like ours,...
What matters most!
Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 5:25 PM
The above title is from a song written by singer/songwriter Ben Folds, whom I’m only familiar with in...
For the Roma people, justice truly is blind
Commentary by: Marie-Therese Belisle Nweke
Thursday, April 11, 2024
The Roma people in Europe are synonymous with Blacks in America, where racism is institutionalised. The Roma...
Why outside of the atrocity category
My memory tells me that we have 3 live high-profile cases involving improper sex, and they are from different molds. There’s the Ambassador Rosado...
Official remembrance of the late Ambassador Emeritus David Allan Kirkwood Gibson
“A highly accomplished statesman, diplomat, and academic”
April 2024
Introduction
A pleasant good morning to everyone in attendance. I wish to acknowledge: Ministers of Government, members of...
The colonization of Ambergris Caye!
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 12:46 p.m.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my teenage years spending Easter in San Pedro. I recounted what...
Quiet desperation!
Photo: Trump and Netanyahu
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 12:20 p.m.
Henry David Thoreau, the 19th century naturalist, essayist and poet, wrote that “most men live...
Get on with the hard decision, Belize City
by Colin Hyde
Some decisions are difficult because you just aren’t sure of yourself; and some are especially difficult because, even though you know what...
Trudeau on Immigration
by Marie-Therese Belisle Nweke
Friday, April 5, 2024
Canada is a huge, sparsely populated nation, thanks to its almost inhuman climate; and for some time has...
