A young man sat before me today with tears in his forlorn eyes because he had no job. He tried to hide it, for a man is not to show emotions. He has been working from the age of sixteen. Several weeks ago, he was terminated from his employment, and ...

A revolution is a journey that we embrace and embark on. It is not a destination and therefore has no end. To undertake that journey, one must travel along a path, and the vehicle in which we are to travel, must be so designed and constructed for the purpose of ...

EARLY ELECTIONS “Beware the Ides of March” These words were said to the pompous and arrogant Julius Caesar as he paraded himself in front of the citizens of Rome. What the words meant was a warning that the middle of March held danger for Caesar. Days after the middle of the month of March, ...

Belizeans got further proof that General Elections were not far away when last Friday, hundreds of new Belizeans were handed citizenship and given the right to vote. Speculations have been running rampant for some time now, that the General Elections slated for 2013 could be held as much as a ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Leader, People’s United Party - Belize The People’s United Party was established in 1950 as the vehicle to transport the peaceful constructive Belizean revolution on a journey to create a New Belize to bring about a better quality of life and a just share of the ...

If every promise of every speech delivered by our Prime Minister was to be fulfilled, Belize would be nothing short of paradise. Instead, we are living in a hell hole where babies are gunned down in their sleep and one out of every two persons live below the poverty line. ...

Today I had a brief discussion with the Editor of the BELIZE TIMES on the next phase of writing this column. As I have often said, and continue to say, I am not a writer. My academic background and professional experience is in planning, engineering and law. So writing articles for ...

As I watched Minister of Housing Michael Finnegan explaining last week how he was feeding a multitude for Christmas, the old Chinese proverb came to mind: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”. This ...

Leading up to the 1998 General Elections, I considered myself politically neutral; in fact, I was actually closer to the UDP than the PUP. Sista B., Dean Barrow’s sister and campaign manager, had recruited me to give basic Math and English lessons to a group of high school drop-outs ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Leader People’s United Party - Belize Belize City is my home. It is where I grew up and still live. Its history, socio-economic, cultural and political energy, people and other inhabitants [including the rats, the crabs, the cato etc.], spatial organization, growth and development continues to ...