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Referendum Dead! Guatemala killed it.

The  decision by GuatemalA  not to proceed with its planned referendum over the future of her claim to Belize has brought any thought of a judicial solution to a screeching halt.

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Next  year, 2013 is Referendum Year! The voters of Belize will be required to vote, to say whether they want to settle the territorial dispute with Guatemala by taking the matter to the International Court of Justice.

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If it is true that foreign ships using the Belizean flag of convenience are plundering territorial waters by illegal fishing, that would be a problem requiring urgent attention.

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Recent  proposals to decriminalize the use of small quantities of marijuana in Belize have caused concern and dismay  among educators, law-enforcement  officers, members of the medical profession and religious leaders across a broad spectrum of beliefs. The proposal, if succeeds, would make  marijuana in small quantities more widely available to [...]

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Mr. Ghian Gandhi, Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Finance has pointed out that there  are laws which already define the status of a “spouse”, so that the new definition contained in the Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions Act should not be a cause for concern.

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On Monday, July 16 the Karl Heusner made history by hosting the first ever open-heart surgery in Belize. Volunteer surgeons from the United Stated, assisted by Belize’s own Surgeon specialist Mr. Adrian Coye performed two marathon surgeries with complete success. Nine weeks later, on Wednesday, August 22, the Karl Heusner [...]

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A report published this week by the Center for Teenage Mothers, an adjunct organization of the NGO Youth Enhancement Center (YES), states that the number of teenage pregnancies in Belize jumped by 16.1 percent during the five years from 2001 to 2005, from 1,303 in 2001 to 1,513 five years [...]

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he marijuana trade is big business in Belize! The empirical evidence seems to suggest that more than 30  percent of the population currently use or have used marijuana as a recreational drug. A sizable portion of that average use marijuana on a daily basis, as a stimulant, and are addicted [...]

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To those conscientious Belizeans who want to know if taking Belize to the International Court of Justice will advance the cause of Belize, we have a question. What is your vision of Belize for ten, twenty, fifty years from today?

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If  we were  by some  means able to remove the Sun from our solar system our world would become a very dark place – dark and cold because our planet Earth, is lit and warmed by the sun. Without sunlight most trees and plants, unable to photosynthesize, would die! It [...]