The cell phone may hold with it the power to unite the world, but there is a darker side to mobile communications, writes Kyle Reneau, a 17-year-old from Belize. Cell phones are an integral part of our lives today. Most of us cannot live without our cell phone. It is the first thing we see …

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No one is born confident. You acquire self-confidence through years of practice and learning, writes Kyle Reneau, a 17-year-old Belizean from Belize City. In the highly competitive world we live in the importance of self confidence cannot be exaggerated enough. Ordinary men and women who were once stuck in minimum wage jobs have today become multimillion …

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Women in Belize are distinctly lacking from the high offices of government. It’s a far cry from the world of the mythical ‘Amazons’, writes 16-year-old Phaedra Mohammed-Ali. Throughout the centuries, women have gradually proven themselves to be agents of change. For the end of ‘Women’s Month’ in Belize, commemorated under the theme ‘valuing ourselves – promoting …

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Women in Belize are distinctly lacking from the high offices of government. It’s a far cry from the world of the mythical ‘Amazons’, writes 16-year-old Phaedra Mohammed-Ali. Throughout the centuries, women have gradually proven themselves to be agents of change. For the end of ‘Women’s Month’ in Belize, commemorated under the theme ‘valuing ourselves – promoting …

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Misled by false advertising, we believe that the products we buy will enhance our lives, but they do not, argues Kyle Reneau, a 17-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent, and a Christian, from Belize. It has been said that God created the world and everything in it and he made living beings, similar to himself, to watch over …

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Misled by false advertising, we believe that the products we buy will enhance our lives, but they do not, argues Kyle Reneau, a 17-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent, and a Christian, from Belize. It has been said that God created the world and everything in it and he made living beings, similar to himself, to watch over …

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Proposed changes to Belize’s constitution affecting both the ownership of public utilities and the rights of the judiciary are provoking heated debate in the small Caribbean nation. Phaedra Mohammed-Ali, 16, a Commonwealth Correspondent, offers her perspective on what is at stake. There has been much debate of late in Belize about the Ninth Amendment to …

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Proposed changes to Belize’s constitution affecting both the ownership of public utilities and the rights of the judiciary are provoking heated debate in the small Caribbean nation. Phaedra Mohammed-Ali, 16, a Commonwealth Correspondent, offers her perspective on what is at stake. There has been much debate of late in Belize about the Ninth Amendment to …

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