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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
This week’s article focuses on an issue that I have been asked many times before to address. Since 1978 I have worked as a professional educator, both as teacher and guidance counselor, in high schools and classrooms throughout Belize and in the United [...]
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Published on Oct 29, 2012
Earth Dr Reese Halter is award-winning broadcaster and writer, distinguished biologist and sought after public speaker.
Earth Dr Reese Halter’s love of Nature began as a child. A springtime tree-planting ritual with his father and brother became his passion. He knew from the time he was a child that [...]
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Today is teacher’s Day in Belize, I know it’s a bit late but here goes anyway.
Teacher’s Day is celebrated as a tribute to the valuable contribution made by teachers to the society by imparting knowledge and enlightening and shaping the career of students. Celebration of Teacher’s Day is fairly popular in many countries across [...]
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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
Some people may consider it as pathetic, even disgusting perhaps, that today’s super-advanced mobile technology has surpassed and replaced everyday human interaction. Raging over the internet this month is a picture of Albert Einstein, with a caption next to his picture, “Has this [...]
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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
Recently, a reader and grandmother of two high school students asked me if I thought that our responsibilities to teach our children today have changed. She pointed out the many drastic changes in the lifestyles and attitudes of young people today compared to [...]
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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
In my articles I try to point out and describe to readers, both inside and outside of Belize, the many responsibilities as well as the essential needs of educators, students, parents, and the community/country at large. The bottom line and ultimate goal of [...]
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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
In previous articles I pointed out that presently many of our people in Belize are struggling, day in and day out, to survive ever-increasing hard times. However, as pitiful and miserable as our current violent situations may be, positive change for the better [...]
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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
In a previous article I pointed out that in 2013 (too) many people in Belize are struggling, day in and day out, and trying to survive ever-increasing “hard times”. During these very difficult times life gets harder and harder with each passing day. [...]
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We want to apologize for an incorrectly posted version of this article. This is the Original article that should have been posted.
By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
Today, in 2013, (too) many people in Belize are struggling through “hard times”. These difficult times specifically include: never-before-seen high unemployment [...]
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Who in their right mind would tell their enemy where their weak spot is?
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The Inca Empire, at its peak, was the largest kingdom on Earth. The Incas were known as master builders, fearsome warriors, and practitioners of human sacrifice. Yet in the year 1532, this mighty state was conquered, overnight, by fewer than 200 Spanish adventurers. How could this happen? Step by step, clue by clue, Sullivan decodes [...]
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by Eamon H. Courtenay
Dear Editor,
On the Channel 5 newscast for February 11, 2012, Hon. Wilfred Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Attorney General, gave an interview in which he once again acted completely contrary to the national interests of Belize.
Mr. Elrington said: “But because the land border is already defined and the [...]
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We don’t have the best possible Education System in Belize today to prepare our children to live in this era of advanced technology. Before we can create one, though, we must first “want it”! Sadly, Education Systems in Belize have not been developed due to the overwhelming apathy from parents, educators, and the government towards [...]
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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
During my recent 2 years working at a local high school in Belize I quickly found out about the very public cases of students who were gossiped about openly by other students, teachers, and the community. Some students had parents who were [...]
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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”
– Clare Booth Luce (1903 – 1987)
The main goal of all professional guidance counselors in schools is to guide and counsel all students; but their top priority [...]
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By Gustavo A. Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant
“If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman scholar 106 BC – 43 BC)
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