We got no borders That is government’s say… That is the root of all disorders: The games this government play That made us a frontier at best It did not matter if we protest A frontier like the wild wild west Our future now seems so funest Lawlessness has taken our streets Reflections of our leaders’ conceits Gluttonous power gone ...

Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Party Chairman Being the Chairman of the oldest and most successful political party in Belize is not only a challenge, but a work in progress. Being in opposition, with a political apartheid system being practiced by the UDP government, makes the journey and the organizational work of the ...

Like the rest of the world Belizeans watched in horror as the death toll continued to rise in Haiti after the devastating earthquake.  For those who were riveted to their television sets watching it all on MSNBC or on ...

February 2nd marked the first anniversary of the death of San Victor, Corozal sugar cane farmer Antanacio Gutierrez who was shot down in a hail of bullets on the main access road leading into the ...

Elizabeth Pridgeon PCSD is a not-for-profit corporation, run by a group of volunteers, who seek to protect and respect the natural environment along the entire length of the Placencia Peninsula.  Established in ...

Elizabeth Pridgeon Readers who are familiar with this column may remember that many months ago, I intended to do a ‘Voices of the Village’ article from Seine Bight on a trip to the Placencia Peninsula, but changed my ...

Elizabeth Pridgeon Jose Cruz has been at the forefront of media attention over recent months as he made public his struggle with failing kidneys.  While the media has eagerly followed his life-dependent fundraising campaign, little attention has been given to ...

By: J.A. Rebel For months now I have been hearing the islanders of San Pedro and Caye Caulker asking about the whereabouts of their area representative Manuel “Junior” Heredia. Some are even asking whether Junior attends House of Representatives meetings or not. The truth of ...

Friday, February 12, 2009 marked the last and final TV news anchoring that Jackie Woods would deliver to Belizean viewers.  More symbolically, though, it marked the end of an illustrious career of one of Belize’s most acclaimed radio and TV journalists.  Indeed, the short tributes aired at the end of ...

As the well known proverb states “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”  This is the reason why I find it so fitting in comparison that the Guardian newspaper a couple weeks ago stated the quotation of Henry Louis Mencken who once said “It is ...