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11/12/2025

“Baked with love, styled with elegance — discover the magic of Orfelina Cakes & Accessories.”

11/12/2025

11/12/2025

Get ugly with it! 🎄😂 Pull up in your worst sweater and let’s party!

11/12/2025

✨ A Gift of Pure Indulgence✨
Crafted by hand on our family homestead, this curated wellness collection is a celebration of luxury and nature in perfect harmony. Featuring our nourishing shampoo & conditioner duo, silky exfoliating scrub, sumptuous body butter, calming herbal tea, and wild forest honey—each element is designed to elevate the ritual of self-care.
A sophisticated holiday offering, created with intention and delivered with love. 🎁🌿

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11/12/2025

**With Malice to None: Some thoughts on State Ownership in Belize**
By Berisford Codd

Telecoms show us the stakes. New service delivery models have transformed the sector in ways unimaginable 15 years ago. Yet when the state leans heavily into ownership, opening the door to competition becomes even harder, as models that could out‑innovate or out‑deliver the state company often never get a fair chance. And once utilities are nationalized, rolling them back is messy: investors remember expropriations, citizens resist losing control, and weak regulators make transitions risky.

Zooming out, Belize is simply too small for real competition in most utilities—these are natural monopolies. The real debate isn’t one company vs. many, but how to keep the big player honest:
- State ownership = control, but risks inefficiency.
- Private ownership = efficiency, but risks profit over people.
- Public‑private mix = balance, but needs strong governance.

And here’s the bigger picture: Belize’s 25‑year trend of nationalization begs hard questions. Are we crowding out private investment and stunting sector growth? Would our scarce resources be better spent on human development—education, skills, and innovation capacity—rather than propping up ownership structures? That way we could really prepare our people to make the leap into the higher end of industry that attracts top dollar. Is our regulatory capacity ready to take on another monopoly, one where tech changes significantly every 5 years?

Bottom line: no model works without strong, independent regulators. In small states like ours, building those institutions is the real test. The happenings in our political economy are real‑life case studies, rich food for debaters and PhD researchers in regulation, public policy, and development economics. I miss my senior the Late Great Glenn Tillett. His pen would have been must read 🧠 🕊️

11/12/2025

Zeidy Flavor Bites

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The new location n menu coming n soon 👏 so you could enjoy a lot more of some delicious 🤤 FLAVOR BITES 😍 thank you everyone 🙏❤️for so much love ..

11/12/2025

Chon Saan Introduces Photo-Menu Self-Ordering Kiosks

Chon Saan has launched new self-ordering kiosks that allow customers to browse and select their meals using full-color photos of every menu item — just like the well-known Chon Saan mobile app.

The touchscreen stations let diners scroll through the menu visually, customize their orders, and submit them without joining the line. While similar technology has existed behind the scenes for internal control in Belize, this marks the first time customers themselves are directly entering their orders into a system at a local restaurant.

According to proprietor Lee Mark Chang, the kiosks do not currently accept payments, but portable credit card machines are available, and customers may also pay at the counter.

Once an order is placed, the system instantly generates a pickup number. The new feature is designed to speed up service, ease congestion at the cashier, and provide a faster, more modern takeout and dining experience for customers.

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11/12/2025

🔥 WEEKEND SALE EXTENDED! 🔥
Upgrade your comfort with King & Queen Mattresses, as well as sofas at Belize Local Deals — now at a massive 15% OFF!

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Don’t miss out — sale continues this week only!
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11/12/2025

Local fiber artist and designer Samantha Bethancourt is celebrating a major creative milestone after announcing that her crochet pieces are featured in the 2026 Belikin Calendar, which launched just a few weeks ago.

Bethancourt shared the news on social media, revealing that her Fresh.Off.Sam’s.Hook creations appear from July through November.

“I can finally let the cat out the bag… I was one of the many fortunate Belizean artists who had the honor of having their work featured,” she wrote, thanking supporters for their continued encouragement.

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11/12/2025

The START of the FINAL!!! IBL 2025!!!