BELIZE PROGRESSIVE PARTY: CHANGING THE SYSTEM IN BELIZE

Original posted on January 11, 2015. Sunday Commentary A cane farmer, Lucilio Teck has applied to the courts to have a mandamus order to force the "sugar board" to open the season. Prime Minister Barrow has said that the Sugar Industry Control Board (SICB) cannot force Belize Sugar Industries (BSI) or American Sugar Refineries (ASR) to accept crop for harvesting without an agreement. The P.M. has said " it is Government’s unalterable conclusion that it is impossible…impossibl

Article reproduced from here Ed Kashi arrived in Nicaragua last January to shoot some photos for a local nonprofit organization. At the time, it seemed like just another two-week commission — no different from the countless others he's completed during his career as a far-flung photojournalist — but what he saw there stuck with him for much longer. "Literally every single day I was there, there was a funeral," says Kashi, who is based in New Jersey and works for VII Photo. "I