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 ...

Be it the work of the Devil, that upon the maiden launch of the Women’s month calendar which took its centerfold spread in all the major newspapers, the most puerile and malicious display of vindictiveness posed for the evening news.  Degrading, yes, but there has to be more we can ...

Yes, it’s me again. I’m back - for how long who knows, but at the behest of my favorite Editor-in-Chief. I started out this week’s column with thoughts to impart to our Prime Minister Hon. Dean O. Borrow wishes of a belated happy birthday.  My attention was quickly diverted to ...

The PM in his most recent State of the Nation address reiterated that inflation was at an all time low at -1.1% for 2009 when compared to 6.4% in 2008.  Likewise the Statistical Institute of ...

A few weeks ago in this column I pointed out to the Minister of Education Patrick Faber that teachers were not ready for him. I cautioned, however, that when they were ready for him they would “juk him out of his cave.” Do you remember? Well at Friday’s sitting of ...

By: Mike Rudon Jr. I’ve been out of work for the past two weeks, a sort of ‘forced vacation’ if you will, and that time provided me the opportunity to think a lot about a lot of things. Already cursed with a mind that won’t easily shut down and makes ...

By: glenntillett@yahoo.com As someone who attended four of the public consultations held by the House Constitution and Foreign Affairs Committee on the Seventh (Belize) Constitution Amendment Bill, I can say categorically that almost as many people objected to the provision to allow for the Attorney General to come from outside ...

By anthony sylvestre Reasonable chastisement of children by parents or others is lawful at common law. It seems almost incomprehensible then, that this boiling debate about corporal punishment has come to this; with the Minister of Education condescendingly calling the teachers names, amongst other things, being “ignorant”. Anyone ...

With only two days remaining, it is no surprise that up until my noisy grandfather clock makes it rendezvous with tonight’s eleven o’clock hour, there has not even been the pretense of an effort to give meaningful pause for Black History Month in Belize. But while the inconvenient issue of ...

The Government of Belize in FY 2009/10 had a budget of $ 432.6M at its disposal for both recurrent expenditures on goods and service and capital expenditures in the furtherance of Government delivering services to ...