Features
Women’s Month: Arma Arzu Divas
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 23, 2023
As we continue celebrating women for the...
COMPOL on fatal RTAs
Photo: Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
by Charles Gladden
ORANGE WALK, Thurs. Mar. 23, 2023
Numerous fatal...
Ya Ya to address N’COBRA Zoom workshop on Saturday
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 16, 2023
UBAD Educational Foundation (UEF) chairperson, Sista Ya Ya Marin...
Launch of Women in Art 2023
Photo: Kim Vasquez, Director of the Institute of Creative Arts & Art Exhibit.
by Kristen...
Shyne and Tracy let down big time
by Colin Hyde
If the present leaders of the UDP had paid any attention to history, they would have been the last to crow down...
Human Rights!
Wed. Mar. 22, 2023
I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but it seems that the United States Department of State is hell bent...
A Story of Miguel’s Life (Part 13)
When Miguel turned 20, he began to realize that this was not the kind of life he wanted to live; this was not what...
Religious reflection and food for thought – are some missionaries “gaming” the system?
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 20, 2023
It is the Lenten season and the approaching Easter, a time of sincere religious reflection among the various Christian...
I think Ms. Matura wants to be a voice for women, not all of us
by Colin Hyde
With the UDP reeling, in confusion over their leadership, and the third parties on “other” business, the spirit of the nation was...
With love from Finca Solana
The open and abandoned seas of the New World created an incentive for international maritime banditry, leading to European piracy in the New Continent....
Fentanyl vs crack!
Sun. Mar. 19, 2023
Back in the 1980s, when crack cocaine became an epidemic in the United States, especially in black neighborhoods, mainly because it...
In need of another Manuel
by Colin Hyde
It is sound thinking that the PUP would have to mess up big time to lose the next general election, but set...
A Story of Miguel’s Life (Part 12)
This area was something like a huge neighborhood. The businesses were clustered next to each other, that is, there was no space between them....
Watch that overzealousness
by Colin Hyde
If the leader of a nation in Arabia had said they had gone to war with a neighbor because dangerous values were...
We are considered a set of uncivilized, lazy people
In a closing ceremony of 3,000 university graduates composed of Maya, Africans, Chinese, Mestizo, Indians and those who were a mixture of them all,...
An important vote for teachers
by Rudolph A. Neal
Thurs. Mar. 9, 2023
By now, it is common knowledge that Senator Elena Smith, president of the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU),...
Co-ed or women teachers
by Colin Hyde
Black Americans and Kriol Belizeans have common ground in the 300 years of enslavement. Of course, our experience wasn’t identical to theirs,...
Political affiliations!
Sun. Mar. 5, 2023
A little over a year ago, I wrote about how I decided to become an NIP follower in my teenage years,...