Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Party Chairman Being the Chairman of the oldest and most successful political party in Belize is not only a challenge, but a work in progress. Being in opposition, with a political apartheid system being practiced by the UDP government, makes the journey and the organizational work of the ...

February 2nd marked the first anniversary of the death of San Victor, Corozal sugar cane farmer Antanacio Gutierrez who was shot down in a hail of bullets on the main access road leading into the ...

Elizabeth Pridgeon Jose Cruz has been at the forefront of media attention over recent months as he made public his struggle with failing kidneys.  While the media has eagerly followed his life-dependent fundraising campaign, little attention has been given to ...

Friday, February 12, 2009 marked the last and final TV news anchoring that Jackie Woods would deliver to Belizean viewers.  More symbolically, though, it marked the end of an illustrious career of one of Belize’s most acclaimed radio and TV journalists.  Indeed, the short tributes aired at the end of ...

As the well known proverb states “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”  This is the reason why I find it so fitting in comparison that the Guardian newspaper a couple weeks ago stated the quotation of Henry Louis Mencken who once said “It is ...

Rev. Eugene Edison Card was born on December 9, 1941. He was the 5th son born to Mr. Wilfred Card and Florence Card nee Burns. Daddy attended St. Mary’s Primary School around 1947.  Coming out of school he went straight ...

No one can deny that with each passing day, the country of Belize is falling deeper and deeper into the proverbial abyss.  The police no longer got your back, they will shoot you in your back. But who might these young officers be emulating?  Their seniors, perhaps?  Two weeks ago, ...

When the Crime Control Council announced its “Comprehensive National Plan” at a press conference on the 1st of October 2008 it declared the guiding motto to be “Crime is a Community Problem and Requires a Community Solution”. One of the intended objectives expressed in the ...

On Sunday 28th February, the Leader Emeritus visited with senior supporters of the People’s United Party. Mr. Price, who was ill for a few days but was feeling better, was able also to make an ...

The Purpose of Government People by nature do not like to be told what to do. In fact there are even more people who despise being coerced into acting a certain way! However there are thousands ...