By anthony sylvestre Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles in the 2002 movie “City of God” depicts the growth of organized crime in the Rio de Janiero slum  of Cidade de Deus (Portuguese for City of God) between the end of the 1960s  and the beginning of the 1980s. It is said to ...

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 ...

By anthony sylvestre George Bernard Shaw (not the retired CNN broadcaster), once grudgingly lamented that “it’s a pity youth is wasted on the young”. The witty Irish playwright is also noted for his truism on nationalism: "A healthy nation,”  he said,  “is as unconscious of its nationality ...

Two years of Success, he says By anthony sylvestre So after months of saying nothing and doing nothing while Belizeans were being killed in their homes, killed in the streets, losing their jobs, businesses closing down, gas prices continuing to rise above the $7.00 threshold he said would ...

By anthony sylvestre History records that the Haitian people are a resilient and strong people. They were the first former European predominantly black colony to become independent, having done so on the 1st January, 1804. They fought off and exiled from their land, under the leadership of generals like Toussaint L’Ouverture and ...

By anthony sylvestre In the summer of ’93 the country of Belize was buzzing with a whirlwind of excitement called the Belize Games. It was a great time to be a teenager and to be a part of history- either as a participant, spectator or volunteer in ...

By anthony sylvestre As the Prime Minister beats his chest and boasts of having been given the best Christmas gift ever, the rest of us cannot say the same; ...

By anthony sylvestre The Prime Minister of our Jewel a couple weeks back in Trinidad proclaimed to the world that Belize is “in a state of ...

By anthony sylvestre It seems like such an eternity: November, 1989, that is. Indeed Belize has changed a heck of a lot since that time. ...

By anthony sylvestre It’s definitely one of the craziest things I have heard in years. Sometime in August, 2004, a mother ...