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Mar 12, 2021 John Briceño One of the big stories for over a week now has been the response of the public service and teachers’ unions to the government’s proposed pay cuts and increment freeze. While there have been communications with the unions from the Financial Secretary Joseph Waight and the Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde as well as Education Minister Francis Fonseca, there seems to be a very different understanding of what the term “consultation” means.  And just how much power the unions have to resist the cuts and freeze.  Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes host Ma...

Local View: 'Name a thing for what it is' From the column: "We watched in real time the incitement of the insurrection on Jan. 6. Our grandson saw it. He can name a thing for what it is." Written By: David Tryggestad | × Odd as it might seem, naming a thing for what it is apparently is not accepted everywhere, nor is it everywhere obvious. The events of the past couple months in our country took me back to my first year in theological seminary. I expected the very notion of retreating from everyday life, including putting a wife and three children on the back burner (according ...

Dec 17, 2020 Kareem Musa One of the other COVID-19 prevention changes that we can expect will be in public transportation.  According to Minister Musa, the crack down on public transportation to cut the spread of COVID-19 will see buses and boats reduce their carrying capacity to fifty percent. This will allow for less overcrowding and reduce chances of virus transmission.   Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs “One of the proposals that came to Cabinet and was approved is in relation to exactly that – the buses and the boats traveling between Belize City, San Pedro and Caye C...

To that. >> why are you always talking about you know this particular country open you'r and you're ng about that particular country. my choice of a country to talk about is not my preference of countries. it is based on what country is violating basic me human rights. >> is her charge that israel violating basic human rights accurate and what do you have to say about her continuing to work with groups that are not just anti-israel but have tie to terrorism? >> it's incredible. it's shocking. i know she works with groups that have compared israel to isis. you know, in my book on anti-semitism,...