By glenntillett@yahoo.com Wisdom comes by disillusionment. - George Santayana It was a year ago this week that the Honorable Prime Minister stood before the House of Representatives and introduced legislation that would enable the Government of Belize to take away the majority shareholding in Belize’s largest and most lucrative private company. Two ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com A Facebook comment this week reminded me that sometimes in Belize the only constant seems to be change, but the more things change the more they remain the same. I doubt that you can find it in the historical record because a lot of what was said back then ...

by glenntillett@yahoo.com I did not know Dean Barrow would make an appearance on LOVE TV’s Belize Watch show this week, and so I have no idea how he was received or what was said for the vast majority of the show. By the time I tuned in host Rene Villanueva Sr., ...

by glenntillett@yahoo.com Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.  - George Santayana I’m sure it was my imagination, or perhaps it is just a case of me reading a lot from too little, but the news snippets I saw and heard of Dean Barrow’s speech at ...

by glenntillett@yahoo.com Don’t get me wrong, but I am not happy that Dr. Herbert Gayle exposed the Dean Barrow administration as bogus. He didn’t say anything in that regard that we didn’t know all this time but like they say, some time it is as plain as the nose on ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com I had the opportunity to travel with PUP Party Leader Johnny Briceno on a meet and greet trip through several villages in western Toledo, southern Belize a few weeks ago. It was an opportunity to observe the interaction between Johnny and ordinary Belizeans away from the media-centric urban ...

by glenntillett@yahoo.com I hardly envisioned when I wrote the first “Barrow is bogus” column four months ago that I would still be at it now, that it would take on a life of its own, and that my faithful readers would demand that I do not stop until I had ...

by glenntillett@yahoo.com Oil prices have spiked sharply over the past ten days and despite a small decline to US$86.74 per barrel as I write this, most of the talking heads (experts) on CNBC and on the internet are saying that US$100 is likely in the short term. Coupled with the just ...

by glenntillett@yahoo.com The violent crime situation in the old Capital is so bad that nearly everyone I have spoken to over the past few months that don’t live in Belize City have expressed some reservations about visiting the City. Some have told me that they no longer go to the City ...

by glenntillett@yahoo.com “In response to a question from a journalist, Barrow expressed his personal support for Belize joining the jurisdiction of the new Caribbean Court of Appeal, which would replace the Privy Council as the court of final jurisdiction. He pointed out, however, that such a move would require an amendment ...