A good friend and mentor of mine from a foreign land once told me that in his country the law profession attracted people who wanted education, but were too dumb to do the sciences. Not so in Belize. There is no shortage of lawyer “brains” sitting in our courtrooms, running the system.

Under the tent at the Wynott Island in Culture Capital Dangriga was the party people in that city are still talking about. The hefty line up of Belizean Punta Rock Mega Stars all topped off with an international flavor Black Chiney. Punta Rock artist like Continental Cat, Supa G, Reckless and the New Rebels Band tore up the stage with their hit after hit adrenaline charged performances. I haven’t seen a Reckless performance since I was 13 years old and Supa G and Reckless were in the group Punta Rebels. His performance was my personal favorite.

Peter Wallace is or was a great man for the history of the British settlers of St. George’s Caye and Wallis or Belize Town. In those days there was no Belize as that of what we know today. “It is said that he was a Lieutenant of Sir Walter Raleigh. The archives of British Honduras contain the following information. The Honduras Almanack for 1826, the first officially authorized historical report of the Colony, states that the settlement is not older than about 1650, when it was used as a refugee from the Spaniards.” British Honduras by A.R. Gregg.

Another young man, 17-year-old Shariffe Smith, got wasted last week by multiple gun shots in the City, and, according to reports, he was on the way to reform with the CYDP. Also last week, CYDP officers appeared on television with their latest “poster boy”, who they claim is a reformed person, now versed in computer technology. The young man, who reportedly spent three years on remand for a murder charge, and had the charge withdrawn when the witness failed to appear, has maintained that he is “innocent”. Now, which is it, CYDP; reformed, or innocently/wrongly charged? Perhaps it is not such a good thing to be “showing off” these “reformed” young men.

I have been observing the activities of the drug cartel in Mexico spilling over the border into the United States, which threatens to disrupt the maintenance of order in both countries, also, the tremendous increase in crimes of violence in The Jewel during the past few years due to the drug trade, which leads me to these thoughts.

People readily recognize sound systems like Stone Love, Renaissance Sound, Mighty Crown and Coppershot to name a few, and why not? After all these international sounds are respected and loved for knowing how to “lick off dih tune”. I am one of those people who always gets into an argument of which sound is the best when it comes to sounds international and local. It surprises me how familiar people are with these people, they talk about it as if it were a class in International Sounds 101. Respect to those sounds every time, they have done the hard work and earned their names, but so have the senior sounds in Belize. By senior sounds I mean the musical fraternities, some that have nurtured music and are responsible for some big names on the Belizean scene.

From the luxury of my vantage point as an impartial, non-party citizen, I have to say that Prime Minister Barrow has my full support in his bold and righteous stand against the secret deals purportedly made in the name of the Belizean people by the past Prime Minister. But I have to say that I don’t think the UDP government has had a rosy first year in office, and it’s not all the Prime Minister’s fault. His team is weak, and there is probably a reason for that.

A company called Sagis Investments was created, claims a witness in the case of Sagis vs KREM, for the single purpose of investing in a company named KREM Ltd. This investment took the form of a loan of $75,000 to purchase equipment and $25,000 to purchase 10% of KREM’s shares.

A caller to the WuB (Krem) on Tuesday wondered which bubu had conceived the plan for homeless people on Belize City’s streets to be housed at Kolbe on the Burrell Boom/Hattieville Road. On this matter, please to attach my voice to the bubu dem.

The main goal of the New Economic International Order was to modify the old economic order conceived at Bretton Woods. We the people now claim - this is the case of Venezuela - a new international economic order. But it is also urgent a new international political order. Let us not permit that a few countries try to reinterpret the principles of International Law in order to impose new doctrines such as “pre-emptive warfare.” Oh do they threaten us with that pre-emptive war! And what about the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine? We need to ask ourselves: Who is going to protect us? How are they going to protect us?

H. Melvin Hulse must have climbed to higher heights. The bombastic one needed only 14 seconds to tell us what life is, in the H of R on Friday. I’m doing great, and the PM’s budget is great, is all the entertainment we got from him in a short lived record presentation. (His Stann Creek brother, H. Roches, followed H. Melvin with a 12-second speech).

I don’t buy boledo. I have never bought a Lotto ticket. I will not engage in any gambling until the profits off my losses go one hundred percent to the government, for all the people.

Many people in Belize might be very familiar with the event name “STING” from the popular Boxing Day concert in Jamaica that happens every year for the past 24 years. Jamaican “STING” is famous for having the hottest line-up for their local artists, the hit makers, the rump shakers, anything can happen at a “STING” from “blow away” performances to a hardcore clash, a “STING” performance can make or break your career

Glances at the poetry of Norman Rodriguez... Belize is rich with poetic talent, and the body of published poetry has in recent years been burgeoning with unprecedented access to digital technology and economical publishing opportunities for new publishing houses and even artists who venture into self-publishing – that is, producing their own books on the PC’s.