What is History? What we call history is always a matter of interpretation of selected facts: Each generation must use its own sense of right and wrong to determine what it considers to be its true history. No matter who interprets history many things will always remain ambiguous. You must decide what you accept as […]
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Know Ourselves features the life and work of 46 Belizean creatives and artists. The 116 page book was developed with research and contributions by Katie Numi Usher, Ingrid Cayetano, Ilona Smiling and Briheda Haylock. Choosing these four women as contributors was intentional. Their insights are grounded in years of making, experimenting, organizing, teaching, and building
When in June 1699 Captain Caleb Fibber sailed his ship (the Seaflower), into the harbour at Venice, he had every reason to celebrate. He had made the long journey (see Figure 1) safely from the settlement in the Bay of Honduras that would later be known as Belize without landing at any of the ports
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The publication will be made public after the national teacher training workshops. Download Book
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This booklet replaces “The First Primer on the People Called Garifuna”, which was published and shared in 1993. As research increases, new and factual data are literally unearthed. So is the case with this study. It’s a People’s story, from enslavement and indigeneity to Kalinago and Garinagu. The new and updated Primer is the outcome
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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 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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