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Belize City Council Flag Raising Ceremony
by Roy Davis (freelance reporter)
BELIZE CITY, Sun. Sept. 1, 2024
Twenty-two Belizean flags were raised...
Another 1970s top footballer, Charles “Chuck” Gutierrez passes
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Sept. 2, 2024
We received the sad news today of the passing...
End child marriages
Photo: Shakira Sutherland, Executive Directive for National Commission for Families and Children
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN,...
NICH Launches Access 501 Project
by Roy Davis (freelance reporter)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Aug. 29, 2024
It was standing room only...
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In the 1974 general election, I ran as the single UBAD Party candidate in the Collet constituency. At that time, Collet included much of what...
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When you write in the attempt to convince someone of something, I believe such writing is described as “polemic” in nature. Since local scholars...
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Despite all the hype and euphoria at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago at which Kamala Harris officially became the Democrats’ nominee for the...
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I sense a certain unease in the Belizean people with respect to the future judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Some of...
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I was in school in America during the rise and heyday of the Messengers...
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Ivan Duran’s and Bilal Morris’ “Belize Music Project” has brought back so many memories that it would take several columns for me to do justice...
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Karl Marx famously said that religion was the opium of the masses, in other words, something used by the wealthy to sedate the poor.
Two...
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The late, great Dr. Leroy Taegar used to say to us: “Christianity makes you fearful; Islam makes you fearless.”
In Belize, one cannot talk critically about...
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Nothing the Europeans do or advocate surprises me. To paraphrase Kamala, I know their history, and I know they were executing people in the...
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I am your basic small-town boy. I guess the big problem is my airplane phobia, but I also suffer from something called social anxiety...
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When the ruling PUP decided in February of 1970 to arrest Ismail Shabazz and me and charge us with seditious conspiracy, I absolutely couldn’t...
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Tears came to my eyes, as I’m sure they did to the eyes of millions of black people all over planet earth, when Barack...
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As late as 1988, when Franklin Patterson wrote his very important paper on the history of the Guatemalan military academy, the population of Guatemala...
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The demolition of the Mike’s Club building at the corner of Regent Street West and West Canal a few months ago took place with nary...
