By Hugh O’Brien: The issue with ANY PROBLEM WE HAVE IN BELIZE, including INFLATION and the COST OF LIVING, amongst others, is that our culture is to look outside for solutions and not to marvel enough at our individual resilience. As a people, we look 1st to the International Community for solutions, 2nd to the Government, 3rd to our Area Representatives, City or Town Councils, 4th to our community, friends and neighbours, 5th to our family, and last to each of OURSELVES.
Within ourselves lie the solutions, as when we change and make decisions, we influence our family and friends, then we influence our community, then eventually our approach to local government and national government and ultimately the international way of life.
‘WE CANNOT EXPECT THE CHANGE IN OTHERS THAT WE OURSELVES ARE UNWILLING TO MAKE AND LIVE BY.”
Food prices have risen sharply over the last 5-10 years, and the sad news is that food prices are expected to continue to increase in the next 5 to 10 years – Let’s begin to plant and eat a little more healthy callaloo, chaya, okra, spinach, sweet potato, habanero pepper, leafy onion or chives, cilantro etc in our backyard, and for those living in the villages, let’s plant and consume more coconuts, papaya, banana, plantains, limes, avocado, breadfruit, golden plum, bluggoe, cocoyams, cassava, etc. and grow more local chickens, eggs, a lil sheep or goat here and there etc.
The photo below shows a health patch of callaloo being grown in the yard of a villager in the Cayo District.
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By Hugh O’Brien: The issue with ANY PROBLEM WE HAVE IN BELIZE, including INFLATION and the COST OF LIVING, amongst others, is that our culture is to look outside for solutions and not to marvel enough at our individual resilience. As a people, we look 1st to the International Community for solutions, 2nd to the
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