Photo posted by the BNTU on its Facebook page the day of it's vote, Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Masse national demonstration on Friday, May 9
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 5, 2025
While Parliament holds its long overdue inaugural joint sitting in open air at the Sir Edney...
(Top l-r) Hon. Marconi Leal, Jr., Hon. Devin Daly and Hon. Thea Garcia; (Bottom l-r) Hon. Lee-Mark Chang, Hon. Godwin Haylock and Hon. Miguel Mike Guerra
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 5,...
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 5, 2025
The University of Belize hosted its annual Prize for “Investigative Journalism” in Belize City on Saturday, May 3, and Amandala’s Marco Lopez emerged victorious with his story,...
by Charles Gladden
LADYVILLE, Mon. May 5, 2025
Just after midday on Monday, May 5, a known affiliate of the Majestic Alley/Ghost Town/Back-a-land Crips (BLC) gangs, 38-year-old Nelson Henry of Majestic Alley, was shot in broad daylight...
UEF chairperson, YaYa Marin Coleman, who is currently guest host on the WUB morning show on Krem Radio and XTV, makes a point of insisting that she will not...
May 1 is celebrated in most countries as Labor Day, and it is set aside to honor the contributions of paid workers and their labor movements. The modern Belize...
In Luke 18:1-8, Jesus told a story about a persistent widow and an unjust judge, in which the unjust judge, who didn’t “fear God or care what people think”,...
Cayo Rosario, a mangrove island on the west side of Ambergris Cay, is in the news again after the island’s owner/s stepped up activity on a project that would...
(Top l-r) CEO Francis Usher - National Security and Border control; and Director Nigel Carter - Civil Aviation Authority; (Bottom l-r) Deputy director Stanley Gideon - Civil Aviation Authority; and Major Ruben Cowo - JIOC commander
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 5, 2025
Air travelers will eventually pay the cost of the new security measures being implemented by the Belize Airport Authority (BAA) in the wake of the Holy Thursday, April 17, hijacking of a Tropic Air domestic flight, admitted Chief Executive Officer Narda Garcia of the Ministry of Civil Aviation at a press conference addressing the incident at the Best Western Biltmore Plaza Hotel in Belize City on Wednesday afternoon, April 30.
The April 17 hijacking...
Rash caused by measles
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Apr. 29, 2025
Amandala has learned that five more cases of measles have been confirmed in the country, in addition to the previous case confirmed in mid-April.
In mid-April, the first cases emerged in Belize after the country had been measles-free for 34 years. The infected persons were two unvaccinated teenagers, both 17 years of age, a male and a female — one from Cayo and the other from Corozal, leading officials to suspect that the measles virus was imported from neighboring countries.
Measles symptoms include high fever, dry cough, a runny nose, conjunctivitis, and a rash that starts at the hairline and spreads...
(A blast from the past. The column which follows was first published in August of 1994, AMANDALA no. 1303. Dr. Manuel Esquivel's UDP was in power, having won an upset general election victory in June of 1993. The Kremandala/Johnson Raiders were two-time semi-pro basketball champions at the time this column was published.)
The Belize Government apparently helped to subsidize the Belize vacation tour last week of Los Angeles Clipper Pooh Richardson, other UCLA basketball alumni and some Hollywood actors. In return, the basketball players played three friendly games against a Belize team selected by Pulu Lightburn and coached by Pinas Staine. The American basketballers also ran training camps in Belize...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Fri. May 2, 2025
A nighttime shooting on Thursday, May 1, claimed the life of 61-year-old Carlos Avelar, a mechanic of the Kings Park area in Belize City.
According to police,...
