19/07/2026
Sobel thought of the day: Arrested Development; Playing upon the sentimentality of an aggrieved people.
Sobel is in solidarity with the Collective in Honduras.
People, like some cultures, are conditioned to remain in a perpetual state of infancy. To look back and looking across is not the same as looking ahead. A Nation across borders is not the same as a Nation without borders; more clearly, a nation within a border.
Recently, Honduras made an international call for support. Belize reacted in a gesture of solidarity. And the support was acknowledged!
While for years on the domestic front, Belize Dangriga has made repeated requests to its own government and support groups as well as the NGO’s to arrest the rapidly declining conditions of the river watering the population in station 25 in Belize’s water shed program. To date, with clear evidence of the devastating effects of this environmental crisis, no effort has been made to control or correct the wrong.
The Council’s concerns about injustice in Honduras, has revived a renewed interest in the case of environmental injustice being brought against Garinagu in Dangriga, Belize. The Council should, while the fire is hot, ask Honduras to protest on our behalf the gross injustice being done to the ‘touch one, touch all’ victims in Southern Belize.
To be clear, Reaching Up and Reaching Out is a more practical approach to move a people forward. Honduras, along with our populations along the Central American littoral can attest to that.
Change the narrative from victim hood and we will experience the development aspired for by our ancestors, and, those demanded from us by our children and future generations.
Blessed Sunday to you and your loved ones Anigu. Reach Up, Reach Out. Bring Back The Love.