By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Leader - People’s United Party - Belize Perhaps Martin Luther King says it best. ‘The measure of a man’s worth is not where he stands in times of comfort, but where he stands in time of challenges and controversy’. The Hon. Francis Fonseca has stepped up ...

As the government prepares to take its Ninth Amendment Bill for its second and third reading, yet another major stakeholder has come forward to present objection. The Belize National Teacher’s Association met last Saturday and in near unanimous fashion, voted a resounding “no” to this latest attempt by government ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Leader - People’s United Party - Belize Next week Wednesday, October 26th, 2011, the Women’s Issues Network in partnership with the Caribbean Institute for Women in Leadership [CIWIL] and the United Nation’s Democracy Fund [UNDEF], will be facilitating a national dialogue with the aim to increase ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Leader - People’s United Party - Belize A new leader for the People’s United Party will soon emerge. The mere thought has created a tectonic shift in the political plates of Belize, and injected unprecedented excitement all across the land, as only the PUP can. The ...

Johnny Briceño dropped a bomb on Belize when he announced last Friday that he was stepping down as leader of the People’s United Party. To say that it was unexpected would be a gross understatement. Given the circumstances however, and taking all things into consideration, it was probably ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Leader - People’s United Party - Belize On September 29th, 2011, I sent out a birthday message to my colleagues on the National Executive of the Party, Chairpersons of Constituency Executive Committees and Standard Bearers and other party members whose emails I had. I thought of ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Leader - People’s United Party - Belize I was intrigued at the concept, A Prime Ministers Forum. What was the thinking behind it? I found out as I sat for approximately two hours and listened listening to two former Prime Ministers, the Rt. Hon. Manuel Esquivel ...

Belize’s murder count continues to mount and as I write, the number is fast approaching the century mark and on pace to surpass even last year’s alarming record of 132. Given Belize’s small size and population, this is truly alarming. A recently released report placed Belize among the top ten ...

Sometime in late 1999, I was approached by then CEO in the Ministry of Home Affairs Alan Usher, who offered me the post of Police Press Officer. My predecessor Christie Castillo had called it quits after only one year and had moved on to a more sensible undertaking. It was ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Leader - People’s United Party - Belize This morning I felt compelled to call the talk show to bring about awareness of a serious situation occurring in Belize, the wanton eviction of families from their homes every day. I started the conversation by firstly commending a student ...