OPINION | Revert to Permanent Secretaries! A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
By Dyon A. Elliott As was recently reported, the Joint Unions met with the Prime Minister and his team to discuss a range of issues. One,...
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- Dec 22, 2022
In Good Faith? The Role of the Minimum Wage Task Force
Contributed by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry “On November 25, 2021, CABINET requested that the ministry develops a plan for...
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- Dec 10, 2022
Minimum Wage and a Balanced-and-Evidenced-based Approach
Contributed by the Belize Chamber of Commerce & Industry “Many countries have discovered that a gap exists between the legitimate needs...
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- Sep 28, 2022
Statement by Hon. John Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize 77th Session of the UN General Assembly
Mr President, I take this podium with a heavy heart. More pessimistic than I was last year. More cynical and disappointed. We have come...
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- Jul 13, 2022
A Balanced and Evidence-based Approach to Minimum Wage Adjustments
As the conversation on a minimum-wage adjustment develops, it is good that all stakeholders agree—even the business community, as...
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- Jun 18, 2022
The Trade License Regime: A ‘tax’ by any other name (Part 3)
Contributed by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry In this final installment of this three-part piece on the Trade Licensing...
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- May 27, 2022
The Trade License Regime: A ‘tax’ by any other name (Part 2)
Contributed by the Belize Chamber of Commerce & Industry In the immediately preceding Business Perspective (BP) Column entry, we had...
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- May 21, 2022
Opinion| The Trade License Regime: A ‘tax’ by any other name
Contributed by the Belize Chamber of Commerce & Industry “The mere fact that something is labeled a ‘fee for services’ does not...
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- Mar 31, 2022
A Few Thoughts on Constitutional Reform
By Ambassador Daniel Gutierez I remember September 21st, 1981, clearly, the buzz, the music, and festivities, the bangs of the...
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- Nov 2, 2021
POSITION OF THE BELIZE MEDICAL AND DENTAL ASSOCIATION ON THE REGULARIZATION/LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUAN
Introduction: The Belize Medical and Dental Association (BMDA) is a responsible organization in civil society that advocates for the...
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- Oct 19, 2021
OPINION| Redistricting
By Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington We are now into the twelfth month of the Briceño administration. Our country continues to experience the...
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- Oct 16, 2021
OPINION|POLICE DON’T KNOW THE LAW
Contributed by the Human Rights Commission The police do not know the law, but it is not their fault. By law, the police are a...
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- Oct 12, 2021
OPINION| Digging into the COVID numbers
So there’s depressing news on the COVID front again this week, as we report 11 people died over the weekend, and the number of patients...
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- Oct 8, 2021
Rights and responsibilities that follow
Contributed by the Human Rights Commission Today Belize is grappling with human rights violations in every single organ of society. In...
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- Sep 18, 2021
OPINION: Belize’s Persistent and Silent Electricity Emergency
By Amb. F. Daniel Gutierez Early in the morning 4 days before we celebrated our 40th anniversary as an independent nation, the Commision...
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- Aug 15, 2021
Are people in the Caribbean becoming architects of their own destruction?
By Sir Ronald Sanders The question has to be asked. Are some people in Caribbean countries becoming the architects of their own and the...
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- Jul 18, 2021
Independent data analyst shares thoughts on new Poverty study Part 2
With the release of such long awaited poverty data (a wait of over 10 years!) there should be a wide-ranging and thought-provoking...
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