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WORKERS UNITE! |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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May 1st is known around the world as International Workers’
Day, and is a commemoration of the execution of the men who were arrested after
the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois. This riot was the culmination of four days of
labour unrest that begun on May 1st, and has thus become an international
celebration of the social and economic achievements of the working class and
labour movement.
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CRISIS |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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The euphoria following the dramatic UDP victory at the polls
on February 7th has come to a screeching halt. Skyrocketing fuel prices, a
pending electricity rate hike, basic food items like flour, rice, milk, cooking
oil, meat and chicken increasing by as much as forty percent at the shops and
supermarkets in a society caught in a spate of violence and crime have quickly
transformed Belize into a state on the edge of a crisis.
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REINVENTING THE WHEEL THAT FAILED |
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
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Without a doubt, the high level of violent crime is our most
troubling and critical problem. The recent spate of murders, robberies and
sexual assaults points to the dreadful and inevitable conclusion that crime in
Belize is spiraling out of control.
The response of the Barrow administration has been to
resurrect the same failed policies pursued during the last UDP government
arbitrary: detention on suspicion.
We recall the barbaric scenes at Militia Hall when scores of
youngmen were caged behind barb wire. No charge, no court, just held in custody
on grounds of preventive detention.
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The UDP’s Distraction |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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The media feeding frenzy orchestrated by Belmopan over the
Venezuelan money is designed to do several things. The first is to demonize the
former two-time elected P.M. and his trusted former Minister, hoping to shatter
once and for all the many good deeds of the PUP administration during the past
ten years. The second is to create a major distraction from the hard times the
Belizean people are already suffering due to the escalating food and fuel
prices and the rising crime and violence stalking Belize City streets.
This is political persecution at its worst carried out by a
vindictive, and malicious regime, aided and abetted, some would say goaded, by
jaded and jaundiced journalists. The plain and simple fact is that the former
PM or any of his officials did nothing wrong or illegal. What diversion of
public funds?
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