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Port Layola are hunting for their first Premier League of Belize championship but the Belize City side are playing handicapped without their leading goalscorer Gilroy ‘Bredda’ Thurton who is out for the next six to eight months, probably more, with a fractured right ankle.
Peter Tosh, the famed Rasta man and roots reggae singer, once chimed that “there will be no peace, until we have equal rights and justice” – Education Justice! Today our politicians give lip-service to social justice, and the environmental lobby, to climate justice. I am joining the ranks of those progressive educators in Belize and elsewhere, who are, in many different voices, calling for Education Justice.
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) has gained significant notoriety and momentum in recent years (Drozd, 2020). STEM literacy highlights the vital connection between an educated STEM workforce and national prosperity and educational and political leadership. As J. Alexander Bennett would assert, STEM education and job placement goals have been a priority in Belize over the past 70 years from the 1950s when the Belize Technical College was created by the then Colonial Government. However, the STEM gap has continued to widen contributing to increasing the social injus...
If you’ve been to the store lately and have not been able to get your usual supply of sugar, you can blame the increased illegal export to Guatemala and Mexico this year. Or rather, you can blame the ‘contrabandistas’ of Belize’s sugar.
I uncharacteristically felt a huge wave of relief when Belize decisively won the second set 25-14 in its match against Nicaragua last night, ensuring that it would win the bronze medal.