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Crooks, Crime & Cussedness |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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The Opposition’s response to the crime situation has been the boilerplate, politics-as-usual approach to call for the resignation of the Minister of National Security as if someone from the government or opposition benches could do a better job.
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British Negligence unleashes Urban Terror |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
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The British have a moral obligation to offer reasonable compensation to the families who have been traumatized or had members killed by the grenade attacks; to do their best effort to find those grenades. It is a small price to pay for the death and terror that their negligence has unleashed in a city given over to criminality and chaos.
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Sedi’s Foot in Mouth Disease |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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The two-day verbal flogging administered by Hyde, whose media organization enjoys a monthly payment of $3,000 from the minister’s personal funds for hosting his television show “Belizean Exposure”, bordered on cruel and inhuman punishment. It was a crucifixion of the pious Methodist minister.
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Moses in the Land of Melchisedek |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Friday, November 06, 2009
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He acculturated quickly and with a mixture of talent and smarts bootstrapped himself into the dizzying stratosphere of the rap world and into the company of megastars like Jay Z, P Diddy and Jennifer Lopez.
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From Musa with...Malice? |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Friday, October 23, 2009
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The party leader is caught between the visceral, untamed ambition of his deputy and the resurrected ghost of the party leader past. But he should not be spooked.
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The Attorney General's Fight with the Judiciary |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Friday, October 16, 2009
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Mr. Elrington’s remark that there is no money for judicial travel is hypocritical. Ministers as well as bureaucrats travel a great deal more than judges do. The travel expense of a single government department is greater than that of the judiciary as the third branch of the state.
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Abolish the Belize City Council |
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By Godfrey Smith on
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
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Taxpayers money used to maintain non-functioning municipal bureaucracies could be directly applied to the upkeep of infrastructure if city councils and town councils were abolished and replaced with a handful of appointed, skilled city and town administrators.
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