These are words I wrote and posted to Facebook between 2008 and 2025. They reflect my thoughts about education, art, history, technology, politics, culture, creatives, and education. These words originate from Belize City, Belize inside a small home studio office I use for my art, thinking and writing. Download Book
“As always, history would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.” – Arundhati Roy The discussion of governance is one which predates and will survive us. Maybe this is intrinsic to our nature, to ponder who leads us and how. It would be helpful to frame
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At the beginning of every new era, there is a need -a driving urgency- for mechanisms to help people better understand the past, and by extension, their present selves. The reading of history is a potent way through which people can do this. In many ways, the update of Readings in Belizean History is itself
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For the first time since the 1990s, the National Festival of Arts proudly welcomes the return of creative writing— an art form that ignites the imagination, captures emotions, and gives young people an outlet to express their experiences and views. This collection brings together the literary voices of Belize’s youth and demonstrates the wonder and
Preamble: This day October 12, 1969, we, the officers of the Peoples Action Committee (PAC) and the United Black Association for Development (UBAD) come together to formulate a single historical document of our beliefs, objectives and programs which will give birth to one national movement of liberation. Download Book
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Why? because women are omitted, erased, ignored, and diminished from our narratives because still the teaching of african and maya OURstories must become foundation learning because the society did not start to melt yesterday because we must search for the truth about how we resist, revolt and reform ourselves because bembe is complicated… it is
A country is defined by its culture. One practical method to decode a nation’s culture is by looking at its art. The term “Art’ encompasses all the arts: visual, music, dramatic, dance and literary. Once common denominator, no matter what country anywhere in the world, is the historical reverence – not merely significance- reverence, each
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As an artist conceived on the crest of a cultural century in an old capital (Belize City), cultivated on crumbling colonial architecture, I often find myself lucky to be armed with an unsteady hand and an often screaming cultural membrane. You see artists are not 9 to 5’s, not assembly lines, not Made in America,
The questions I am raising include – what was the community setting that gave birth to such a great person? What were some of the incubating factors that nourished the artistic talents of Andy? How did his immediate family – mother, father, and assorted relatives – give form to the potential in the child Andy
