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BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year
Photo: (l-r) Myrna Pena, Carmella Cacho, and Shanice Bevans; BPD Female Police of the...
Suicide on the rise!
Photo: Iveth Quintanilla, Mental Health Coordinator
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Wed. Mar. 20, 2024
Since entering the...
NCA launches 8-year Strategic Plan
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 18, 2024
Belize’s aging population, which comprised 6% of...
Belize places Top 40 at Miss World 2023
Photo: Elise-Gayonne Vernon, Belizean contestant
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Mar. 12, 2024
22-year-old Elise-Gayonne Vernon...
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The apparent murder/dismemberment of Akeem Augustine may be an example of how the powerful and revered Garifuna culture is losing control of its young...
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Every now and then, I ask the question: what happened to, and where are, the archives and the library of the British Honduras Broadcasting...
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Belize’s population center, Belize City, is still in shock following the Ramnarace execution murders on New Year’s Eve in Belmopan, our capital city. But...
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In America, they speak sometimes about something called the “deep state.” It appears to me that the deep state is where personnel from the...
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Michael Usher died a couple weeks ago, and there was nothing said here. Pele died a few days ago, and there was a lot...
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In Dean Barrow’s first run as leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP) in March of 2003 (he had replaced the late Manuel Esquivel...
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A little over two weeks ago, a Belizean soldier was shot (in the buttocks) somewhere near the Belizean border with Guatemala. From the beginning,...
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Christmas was supposed to be a religious holiday, but the power structure, I guess worldwide, transformed it into a commercial extravaganza.
In Belize, roots people went...
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I began college at Dartmouth in September of 1965. I was 18 years old. Dartmouth is located in Hanover, New Hampshire, a small town...
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The case of the missing businessman, Owen Tucker, intrigued me, despite my semi-retirement from case research. It was a routine “missing person” announcement in...
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In September, the Guatemalans disrespected Belizeans when their soldiers uprooted Belizean flags from the Sarstoon River island and took the flags to Guatemala City. A...
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The French writer Balzac (1799-1850) once wrote that behind every great fortune there is a crime. One assumes he allowed for the existence of multiple...
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We older Belizean sporting fans are mourning heavily because two of our very, very greatest -- Pat Bennett (softball) and Arthur “Goatman” Leslie (football) passed...
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The marriage of my father to my mother in 1946 was the union of a pure intellectual, my dad, with a highly intelligent but...