Hon. Tracy Panton
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 20, 2025
During a ceremony at the Ramada Belize City Princess Hotel today, Albert standard bearer, Hon. Tracy Panton, who claims interim leadership of the United Democratic Party (UDP), officially launched her 2025 general election slate with 15 candidates....
Jeremy Enriquez - Redistricting Claimant
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Feb. 19, 2025
The High Court has denied a request for an interim injunction to stop the March 12 general elections. While the claimant, Jeremy Enriquez today...
(l-r) Rudy Wade; Giovanni de la Fuente; Sharon Pitts; and Paul Morgan
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Feb. 18, 2025
On Tuesday, February 18. The Belize Peace Movement (BPM) held a press conference in Belize...
(l-r) George Lincoln Gomez, Errol Norman Flowers, Madame Louise Esther Blenman and Ion Cacho, Sr., JP.
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 20, 2025
The Honorable Chief Justice, Madame Louise Esther Blenman, swore in three new Commissioners...
Earlier this week the court dismissed a case brought by a trio of concerned citizens (led by Jerry Enriquez) who were seeking a court order that the general election...
“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...
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 20, 2025
Who in the football, softball, basketball, whatever sporting arena in Belize City from the 1970s onwards, did not know “Lash” from the Rogers Stadium sports and culture club base? Whether as a player, or as an outspoken fan, as friend or foe, Lash brought his enthusiasm, joy and intensity to the game and made the contests more exciting. A real sportsman, he was; no fear, no grudges. The younger brother of the late softball Hall of Famer, Patricia “Pat” Bennett, and the older brother of 1970s star football player and erstwhile softball coach, Leslie “Tucumcari” Rogers, Errol “Lash” Bennett was laid to rest today...
Pallotti Gators – 2025 CSSSA female football champions
by William Ysaguirre (freelance reporter)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Feb. 17, 2025
The Pallotti Gators will represent the Central Region at the upcoming National Secondary Schools Sports Association (NSSSA) football championships to be hosted by Mount Carmel High School at the Marshalleck Stadium in Benque Viejo Del Carmen on Friday and Saturday, February 21-22, after winning the Central Secondary Schools Sports Association (CSSSA) championship at the Marion Jones Sports Complex on Saturday afternoon, February 15.
SCA Seahawks – 2025 CSSSA female football sub-champions
In Game 1, the consolation match for 3rd place, the defending champions Gwen Lizarraga High girls triumphed easily, 2-0, over the Wesley College girls with goals by Latisha Requeña (11’) and Shakeisha Jones (45’).
Jasha Bernardez -...
The late Emory King, who was the right-wing scribe representing the interests of the large business houses in British Honduras/Belize when UBAD burst on the local scene in 1969, used to argue that we UBAD were bringing a problem, the race issue, to Belize from the United States. He famously declared that race in Belize was a "family affair," so Belize had no race problem.
Unbeknownst to me when I returned home in 1968 from America, was that there had been a small group of black activists, members of Hon. Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam, who had been struggling to get off the ground from early in the 1960s. What I...
Andrew Baird, President, KHMHWU
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. Feb. 17, 2025
This week, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority Workers Union (KHMHAWU) met with government and hospital officials to discuss the union’s demand for a...
