Take a right off the Southern Highway some 14 miles from Punta Gorda and the journey starts on the bumpy, unpaved, narrow road that takes you through the Ketchi villages of Santa Teresa, Mabilhox, San Lucas, Corazon, Otoxha and then finally, Dolores.  Life here is perhaps what Belize City must ...

Take a right off the Southern Highway some 14 miles from Punta Gorda and the journey starts on the bumpy, unpaved, narrow road that takes you through the Ketchi villages of Santa Teresa, Mabilhox, San Lucas, Corazon, Otoxha and then finally, Dolores.  Life here is perhaps what Belize City must ...

By anthony sylvestre Maybe it’s just me, but didn’t the Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries last Thursday at his pre-Easter Crime Press Conference along with the Prime Minister, gave the order for Belizean policemen to shoot and kill criminals on the spot? Well, he didn’t use those exact words, but that’s ...

By anthony sylvestre Maybe it’s just me, but didn’t the Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries last Thursday at his pre-Easter Crime Press Conference along with the Prime Minister, gave the order for Belizean policemen to shoot and kill criminals on the spot? Well, he didn’t use those exact words, but that’s ...

By anthony sylvestre I suppose as a defense attorney, every now and then you have to take a step back from this lawyer thing and you ponder on whether your craft is dubious as they put it; whether it helps to empower those in society or further disadvantage them. This is the ...

By anthony sylvestre Despite his eloquence, his great facility with words and being a learned man, Dean Barrow obviously doesn’t know the power of words. Can’t be! How can anyone (let alone the Prime Minister of a country) who knows the ...

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 ...