Be it the work of the Devil, that upon the maiden launch of the Women’s month calendar which took its centerfold spread in all the major newspapers, the most puerile and malicious display of vindictiveness posed for the evening news.  Degrading, yes, but there has to be more we can ...

With only two days remaining, it is no surprise that up until my noisy grandfather clock makes it rendezvous with tonight’s eleven o’clock hour, there has not even been the pretense of an effort to give meaningful pause for Black History Month in Belize. But while the inconvenient issue of ...

Part I The only time Belize seems to give any attention to blackness is when an eye- witness or a newscaster belches out the description of a suspect or when we breathe a transient sigh of relief as some nappy headed south-sider skips out of the pan of a ...

“Perhaps it does not understand English” thought Alice. “I daresay it’s a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.” (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything happened.) So she began again: “Ou est ma chatte?”[ English translation “where is ...

“Worker”. I guess the appellation of being the singular most iconic figure in Belize’s political and social history as well as the force behind the boldest, most revolutionary act of national liberation and self-determination for the people of Belize would not fit in the miserly thirty ...

As a child, the smell of the mustard and brown sugar caramelizing on the Sikafi ham was by far my fondest Christmas season memory. Well, maybe, second only to the bragging rights for my finesse in being able to untangle the intimidating coils of knotting Christmas lights that ...

Big up to the Central American Black Organization (CABO). The organization has relapsed in Belize with the opening ceremonies that were nothing short of a spiritual experience.  It was hard not to be seduced by the Panamanian drum rhythms into a metaphysical flashback of a people strengthened and divided by ...

“Unfortunately, it seems that the more sophisticated Belizeans become, the more subtle becomes the discrimination.”(Cayetano – 1997) Imagine walking into the most refined department store on the north side, only to be slapped with one of the most culturally ...