March is a month when we honour the contribution of our women and the role they play in the development of our nation. This special time provides us with the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women everywhere.  Here at home it is also a time to honour the courage ...

Last week, Belizeans were shocked by the tragic and untimely death of Sir Barry Mansfield Bowen.  Everywhere you went, people spoke about the incident and told their own personal stories, or stories of someone they knew who worked for or was in some way connected to Barry Bowen. During these past ...

Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able. Elements of Style by Strunk and White Have you noticed that whenever the Prime Minister cannot provide the right answers for the failures ...

On Thursday the Belize National Teachers’ Union (BNTU) announced that eight of the ten branches would participate in a demonstration in Belmopan during Friday’s sitting of the House of Representatives.  Our teachers are standing up against the passing of the Education ...

“Clearly the populace, the electorate, wants to be certain that this country will get the full benefit of the oil industry; we’ll get (to the last penny), (our) just desserts.” Dean Barrow 2007 “The oil belongs to each and everyone of us and we deserve to receive the benefit of ...

Every Belizean should know the story of Sergeant Ramon Aguilar; it is one of courage, determination and is a testament to the quality of the Belizean soldier. For nine days the entire country waited in anticipation to hear any news on a lost soldier in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. So on ...

Office of the Leader of the Opposition Belize City, Belize Central America Telephone 670- 2644 REF OL/POL/02/2009 (4) 21 January 2010 Hon. Dean Barrow Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Sir ...

On January 15th the Right Honorable George Price celebrates his 91st birthday. To celebrate this occasion I went to visit Mr. Price at his home. As always Mr. Price welcomed me to his humble home, always making a fuss over my being comfortable. As we visited together, I couldn’t ...

A friend of mine got on the bus a few days ago and was telling me that while sitting there he couldn’t help but notice that the usual happy faces you see ...

This weekend the Prime Minister, his Deputy and some of his technical officials are off to Copenhagen, Denmark to participate in the largest environmental conference since the 1992 Summit in Brazil. They are ...