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Young’s Engineering addresses City Hall ceiling
Dear Editor,
We write to offer clarification to an article printed in last week’s issue of your esteemed newspaper, in which, among other things, our...
Poor turnout at BECOL meeting update
Dear Editor,
On Monday, July 13, we went to the meeting that BECOL holds every three months to update the people of Cayo about the...
Get ready: it’s going to be a bumpy ride
Dear Editor,
According to the website https://countrymeters.info/en/Belize/economy, Belize's debt in US dollars is 3.365 billion and Belize's GDP in US dollars is $ 1.997 billion, which means that the...
NEEDED: A BULL’S-EYE RESET
Samuel Haynes got a ballocking from Clinton Luna over a poem Haynes wrote 90 years ago, titled “Land of the Gods.” Luna mistakenly thought...
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today
Dear Editor,
The internet, artificial intelligence and sovereignty will be key issues of the 21st century. The entire global economy is in disarray. The fight...
A committee that is innovative, with radical solutions, is needed
Dear Editor,
In June, the international Monetary Fund projected that the world economy will contract by 4.9%. Two-thirds of the world's governments borrowed US $11...
An experiment without a rubric
Dear Editor,
In a matter of weeks, schools across the country will be reopening and welcoming students for the new school year. This comes on...
The Constitution of Belize is a con job, a sham and a deadly joke
Dear Editor,
A privilege is a special right or immunity granted or available only to a particular group or person, such as a right or...
Thousands more will lose their jobs by the end of 2021
Dear Editor,
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that Belize’s GDP will shrink by 1.2 % for 2020. Unemployment has skyrocketed. Belize has borrowed US$12...
BELIZE’S NATIONAL ANTHEM IS DISCRIMINATORY
We are not “Sons of the Baymen’s Clan”. We are “Children of the Belizean Soil”— women and men, girls and boys, females and males,...
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Cyber Crime Bill introduced in the House
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Sept. 17, 2020-- The long-awaited Cyber Crime Bill was finally introduced in the House of Representatives during Wednesday’s meeting. The Cyber...
Belize’s Constitutional requirement for electoral redistricting can and must be done
90.- (1) The Elections and Boundaries Commission shall, after considering the electoral distribution of the population throughout Belize, make proposals from time to time...
$27 million in Supplementary Appropriations passed
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Sept. 17, 2020-- Members of the House of Representatives debated a supplementary appropriation bill at length during Wednesday’s House meeting. One...