Trodding Thru Armageddon (Essay first published in this column in the Belize Times of November 13th, 2009) Perhaps it is my fanciful imagination but with each passing day it seems the wheels of our economy grind just a little slower. Each week brings news of another business closing under the threat of ...

- contributed – If I were a “journalist” I would be insulted by an “invitation” to attend one of the Dean Barrow’s so-called press conferences. I simply have too much self respect to be assigned a spot in the back of the room like unwanted paparazzi, behind the special invited “guests”(diplomatic ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com Is Belize prepared for the 2011 Hurricane Season? Does anyone care? It seems we’ve been in a cycle of crisis after crisis for so long that the advent of the hurricane season seems almost an afterthought. I’m not making light when I saw that usually the public announcements pre-dating the ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com I am not in the least surprised that the Gang Suppression Unit showed up a private citizen’s home in the wee hours of the morning and ended up firing almost 50 rounds through his windows and doors. In fact I had been anticipating just such an event ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com “In the Far East all Commonwealth countries - all countries that belong to the Commonwealth of Nations as we do. India - done away by jury trials. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Singapore, Malaysia. In Africa; Botswana, Kenya, Kiri Batwi, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com Prime Minister Dean Barrow talks a good game, and that is hardly surprising because he is both a top lawyer and a successful politician. He came to office riding an unprecedented wave of credibility, a veritable tsunami that gave his party a super majority in the House, and ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com “…Recall mechanism for elected officials, prosecution under an unjust law for officials who are living a lifestyle, an empowered senate, not an elected, an empowered senate controlled by the social partners and not by the government of the day, an airtight accountability of the executive to the ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com By all accounts, particularly those from the people I care about who used public transportation to go out to the cayes over the weekend, Belize’s National Coast Guard did a terrific job of trying to ensure safety and security at sea. I want to publicly thank the ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com “The problem with the Tinting regThis week I am spending time in the courtroom of Acting Chief Justice Samuel Awich listening to attorneys spar over the interpretation of certain “Acts” or laws while Senior Counsel Lois Young tries to avoid looking at me. My mind wanders at ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com “The problem with the Tinting regulations is that it was NOT thought thru clearly! ...don’t get me wrong, I understand the reasoning behind it but instead of adding more cumbersome quality of life legislation to the books, they should have first looked at ways to strengthen the ...