General
PM presents 2024/2025 Budget
Photo: Prime Minister, Hon. John Briceño
The national budget proposals for this fiscal year project...
Women in Art
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 14, 2024
In celebration of Women’s Month – which...
UEF celebrates 28th birthday on March 10
by Sista Ya Ya Marin Coleman
United Black Association for Development Educational Foundation (UEF) 28th...
Kidney Awareness Month
Photo: Dr. Natashia Gongora, Internal Medicine and Nephrology Specialist
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Mar....
Belize City man dies in RTA collision
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 14, 2024
A well-known Belize City man died late Wednesday evening, March 13, after the motorbike he was riding...
Selgado found guilty of abetment of murder
by Roy Davis (freelance writer)
BELIZE CITY, Fri. Mar. 8, 2024
Attorney Oscar William Selgado, 54, took the verdict “like a man” today when Justice Nigel...
Market Plaza double-murder in Garden City
Photo: Robert Joseph, charged
A woman and a female minor were killed in a broad daylight shooting at the Belmopan Market Plaza; two other minors...
Savage machete attack at La Rumba Restaurant and Bar leaves one dead
Photo: Louis Siapas, deceased
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 14, 2024
On March 14, the La Rumba Restaurant and Bar, located in St. Margaret’s Village,...
Breakthrough with stevedores; CWU negotiations continue
Photo: CWU president, Leonora Flowers
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Mar. 13, 2024
In last Friday’s edition of the Amandala, dated March 8, we reported on...
Attorney “OJ” Elrington out on bail following rape charge
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 14, 2024
For weeks, the news of a prominent Belize City attorney was the talk of the town after...
One killed in Orange Walk RTA
by Charles Gladden
CHAN PINE RIDGE, Orange Walk District, Tues. Mar. 12, 2024
Two of three persons who were involved in a traffic accident on the...
Prisoner found dead inside cell
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 7, 2024
An inmate at the Belize Central Prison was found dead in his prison cell on Wednesday, March...
BNTU calls out GoB, requesting retraction of statement
Photo: Acting BNTU president, Jorge Mejia
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Mar. 6, 2024
In response to some comments by government officials directed toward educators in...
Groundbreaking for San Pedro General Hospital
by Charles Gladden
SAN PEDRO TOWN, Ambergris Caye, Thurs. Mar. 7, 2024
On Friday, March 1, residents of San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, witnessed the official...
BSI partially succeeds in a claim to strike down 2023 Sugar Regulations amendments
Photo: Sugar Mill at BSI, Tower Hill, Orange Walk
The claimants sought a declaration that 11 provisions of the Sugar Industry (License to Import and...
Northern sugarcane farmers to benefit from $50M grant
Photo: Signed agreement being presented at the GCF’s 38th board meeting in Kigali, Rwanda; sugarcane reaping
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 7, 2024
Amidst all...
Jury finds Anke Doehm guilty of cruelty to a child
by Roy Davis (freelance writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 4, 2024
A jury of 5 men and 4 women deliberated for about 3 hours today in...
Police officer charged with sexual assault
Photo: Video footage of Durman Dawson assaulting Lajuana Reynolds
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 4, 2024
28-year-old Durman Dawson, a police officer attached to the...