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The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS BOUNTY occurred in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William [...]
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Last week an older man was murdered in Lucky Strike who made his living carving artistic pieces in wood for the tourist market. From the brief look I got on the television news at a couple [...]
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Brutus, and Caesar. What should be in that Caesar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name, Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well. [...]
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When I entered Belizean public life in 1969 at the age of 21, it was probably the case that my core belief was that African and Mayan (Indigenous) history should be taught to the children of [...]
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If it is necessary to turn the country into a cemetery in order to pacify it, I will not hesitate to do so. – Guatemalan President, General Carlos Arana Osorio, 1971 ( – pg. 425, POWER [...]
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Los jesuitas toman tres votos cuando entran la Sociedad de Jesús. Se trata de la pobreza, la castidad, y obediencia. Si recuerdo el libro de Jim Carney, él era un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial [...]
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Casual students of the Mexican Revolution, which may have lasted from 1910 to 1940, will readily recall the names of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, but it is only serious students of that revolution who are [...]
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To be a high-ranking “civil servant” (as public officers were called back in my youth) was to be a member of a privileged native elite back in the colonial 1950s and 1960s in the old capital, [...]
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When the Prime Minister of Belize (or, in last Friday’s case, the PM’s “representative,” the Deputy Prime Minister) delivers the Government of Belize’s Independence Day speech, whether we humble citizens of Belize realize it or not, [...]
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This year’s September celebrations, the last before next April’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) referendum, are almost over. Soon, Settlement Day and Christmas will be upon us. After that, April 10 will stare us directly in [...]
