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$5 minimum wage by New Year
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Dec. 1, 2022
In exactly one month, the minimum wage will be...
Belize City Council Receives Half Million Grant from Japan
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Dec. 1, 2022
In a ceremony held at City Hall on Wednesday,...
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence commence
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Fri. Nov. 25, 2022
On Friday, November 25, Belize joined the...
Rare photos from the AMANDALA archives
Photo above: On September 10, 1969, before UBAD marched for the first time in...
D-Line’s scintillating chilena
by Colin Hyde
Hey, the World Cup is on. It happens every four years, and every time I am reminded of our greats in the...
Institutionalized Corruption
~Any person who was not born in Belize but who carries a Belizean passport and abuses the rights of natives for no reason or...
Russians at the border
I was reading an article in the NYT highlighting the fact that Russians fleeing the war, and who end up at the southern borders,...
TO GOB: PUT IN PLACE LANGUAGE/CULTURE CURRICULUM FOR ALL ETHNIC GROUPS
by Wellington C. Ramos
It is to the advantage of all governments in this world to have a language and culture curriculum for all the...
They should have debated spanking
by Colin Hyde
Congratulations to all the young leaders who participated in the parliamentary exercise in the National Assembly Building. No, no, no, not Children’s...
Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Valdai Foundation
On October 27, 2022, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, gave a speech at the Valdai Discussion Club Foundation which I find to be...
John Saldivar pleads his case
by Colin Hyde
In the world of I-told-you-so, I advised Brother John Saldivar a number of times to give up ownership of the BMP Bandits...
We shall see
When we try to analyze the history of the 41 years of independence of the country of Belize, we find several very interesting issues,...
Kindness
There is so much hatred in this world today. Open and read any newspaper, watch the news on TV, or the internet, and you...
Unfreeze The Increments!
by Rudolph A. Neal
As 2022 draws to a close, the year will end in sheer un-certainty for many. The festive Christmas season is right...
BPO job da noh regular job
by Colin Hyde
I think the moment you sign up to work for a BPO you should be told, if you don’t know already, that...
Long live the Revolution
No state should interfere in the financial affairs of the neoliberal corporations; in this case, as Belize has already taken that route for its...
Roja, give da bwai tarjeta roja
by Colin Hyde
I watched some of the two semi-final BPL football games on TNC over the weekend, and the players and team play were...
Better our Democracy
The Belizean people have been waiting for a change in the political system, but more than anything, what we citizens want is a better...
