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Although I am the publisher of the leading newspaper in Belize, my views are not that important. Belize is a constitutional democracy, and various...
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One of my aunts on my father’s side, Chrystel Hyde Straughan, has been working on a book for some years. I’ve reached the point...
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There is this massive contradiction in socio-politics on Southside Belize City. The strongest and bravest of our youth have been dying in the streets...
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When the Belize Estate and Produce Company (BEC) muscled the Maya out of their ancestral lands in Yalbac, and forced them to resettle in...
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I’m writing this early Sunday morning, just a couple hours before the cane farmers of the Corozal and Orange Walk Districts meet in general...
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There were important differences between the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the National Independence Party (NIP), which the UDP absorbed at its founding in...
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I’ve heard a few Belizeans in the Diaspora give me credit for having remained in Belize, but, to be truthful, some of the background...
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Inside the House of Representatives, to the immediate right of the Prime Minister, sits a man who has been publicly accused of murder. Earlier...
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There’s a lot of money being spent by the ruling politicians, but the air conditioning at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts, and...
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It is not just coincidence, or mere happenstance, that Belize’s two most important stories in politics and economics are presently unfolding in Orange Walk...
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Parents who sent their children to Roman Catholic primary schools in the 1950s were getting a leg up on life for their kids. If...
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There was a period, probably for most of 1971 and 1972, when the UBAD Party was influenced by the Black Panther Party, an organization...
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The Mexican Constitution of 1917 is the first such document in the world to set out social rights, serving as a model for the...
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One of the things the ebola panic does is confirm the fact that tourism is a fragile industry. It is not desirable to build...