PUP holds massive national convention
BELIZE CITY, Sun. Feb. 16, 2025
The incumbent People’s United Party (PUP) has cited estimates that approximately 10,000 people attended their national convention and unity rally today at the Belize City Civic Center. At the height of the massive, highly choreographed...
Hon. Moses "Shyne" Barrow and Hon. Tracy Panton
BELIZE CITY, Fri. Feb. 14, 2025
High Court Justice Tawanda Hondora today delivered a significant decision in favour of Hon. Tracy Panton. It was a virtual session,...
Christopher Nesbitt
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Feb. 17, 2025
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) has recognized Christopher Nesbitt, a farmer in Belize, as a Leader of Rurality in the Americas for...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Feb. 17, 2025
Residents of Belize City experienced water disruption on Saturday, February 15, which began with low pressure and gradually decreased until there was no water in the pipes.
This unplanned...
“The P.U.P. won the general elections of 1989 only to lose again after it called early elections in June 1993, a year and a half before it was constitutionally...
The Amandala of February 5, 2025, reported that a January 20 Executive Order by US president, Donald Trump, froze funds earmarked for foreign aid, and among the organizations affected...
With close to a hundred Belizeans soon to be deported back home from the U.S., it is clear that the impact of the new policies under the Trump administration...
Responding to a devastating incident over the weekend—murder and mayhem in a place of innocence where Belizean men, women, and children gather to recreate, Police Commissioner Chester Williams said...
Grant recipients along with Government officials
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Thurs. Feb. 13, 2025
The Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT) distributed 4.4 million BZD in grants on Wednesday, February 12, to four Belizean organizations to support four subprojects under its Building Community Resilience via Transformative Adaptation project (EDA Project).
The EDA Project is funded through the Adaptation Fund’s Enhanced Direct Access with a 10 million BZD project that aims to improve Belize’s long-term capacity to protect communities from the impacts of climate change over five years.
The EDA Project is an on-granting mechanism for in-country climate finance, targeting five interconnected components critical to building community resilience, and was approved by the Adaptation Fund Board...
Dr. Cacho receiving honorary Doctor of Laws Degree at FGCU on May 12, 2022.
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Feb. 12, 2025
As promised in our Tuesday issue, Amandala presents a repeat of an article from almost a decade ago featuring an exclusive interview with Mr. “Pat” Cacho, who passed from this life on Friday, February 7, in Naples, Florida, USA, where he had resided for the past few decades.
Messages of condolences and thanks for his life have poured in from various organizations and individuals touched by Mr. Cacho, a Garifuna Belizean from Dangriga whose professional career culminated with his post as a senior economist at the World Bank.
In announcing the passing of...
In my post-World War II lifetime, the PUP had won every single general election (1954, 1957, 1961, 1965, 1969, 1974 and 1979) until the Opposition UDP made a breakthrough in 1984, under the leadership of Dr. Rt. Hon. Manuel Esquivel.
The UDP, a coalition of three Opposition parties (NIP, PDM, and Liberal) had done very well in the 1974 generals and was generally expected to oust the PUP in 1979. There was a dispute inside the UDP beneath the surface, however, as the 1979 election approached, and the UDP lost by a 13-5 margin in seats.
Dr. Esquivel had only become the UDP leader in January of 1983, when he defeated...
Dr. Melissa Badillo (Director of Institute of Archaeology | NICH) presents a copy of the Belize Cave Management Policy 2025 to Minister of Culture, Hon. Francis Fonseca | inside St. Herman’s Cave, Hummingbird...
