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The Prime Minister of Belize Honourable Dean Barrow proved this week that his word can never be trusted and that it is always advisable to enter agreements with him covered in the safety net of black & white documentation and notarized signatures. On Monday, August 31^st, the Prime Minister met with at least 15 members of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize. Twenty-four hours later, the NTUCB issued a release informing the general public and their members of their meeting and outlining 5 points of agreement between the NTUCB and the Prime Minister. Just hours after that, the Prime Minister was on national television claiming that he had absolutely no idea what the NTUCB was talking about and condemning that union for what he called ‘distortions and mischaracterizations.’

Politics

If Da No Soh… Perdomo found…? For months now we’ve been searching for that very elusive Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo, who seemed to have vanished mysteriously early this year. Of course, we put our best investigators on the case, but the last bit of info we got is that some months ago, Perdomo and his driver were allegedly at some embassy cocktail when the Minister got a little tippled. Oh hell, man, he was wasted, they tell us. Now the usual drill...

Lifestyles

KILLING ME SOFTLY……. I remember the first time I saw the elderly gentleman with his prom, walking slowly but purposely up Albert Street, coming from the vicinity of the Swing Bridge. I causally passed him, wondering where he was going. I remember also the first time seeing the young man with the grey eyes in the wheel chair being pushed along the pavement from in front of Brodies, not sure where he was in a hurry to go, as I parked. But as I walked to the famous information corner, id...

Business

$1 Pizza and Burgers for Sale! Belizeans - did you know that you can now get pizza for only a $1.00 a slice? Yes! You heard me right. It is a shop that most people may know as Chuch Panades Shop that is located at the corner of West Canal and South Street. Well the shop is selling Panades once again. Chuch is now resting above, but what she loved doing in her shop is taking place once again. I know she must be smiling down on us. ...

Sports

BDF holds annual Sports Day & Marathon Belize Defence Force recruit Robert Stevens and Elsa Lucas won the annual BDF marathon as part of the BDF Annual Family Sports Day activities at Price Barracks on Saturday. Guatemalan Carlos Corzo and BDF Sgt. Delcie Martinez won the annual Henry Usher half-marathon, while 17-year-old Denroy Nembhard and Erla Smith won the annual 10km run. ...

ARTS

a WORLD of JAZZ - NINA SIMONE I am currently reading a book called “The Story of Jazz,” written by Marshall W. Stearns and first published in 1956. There are updated editions is this text as well, but I have an old hard cover copy loaned to me by my Jazz friend Salim Malik, complete with book worm holes and, quite expectedly, yellowing and beat up. The first chapter – Jazz and West African Music – tells us that the “blue tonality” of West African mus...