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Thursday, June 5, 2025

SSB celebrates 44 years

by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Mon. June 2,...

NEMO and media prepare for Hurricane Season

Chief meteorologist - Ronald Gordon by William Ysaguirre...

HelpAge hosts arts and crafts exhibition

Marilyn Ordonez, Chairperson of HelpAge Belize City by...

Joint Unions reject Government’s 3% offer

(l-r) Nadia Martin-Caliz, National President, BNTU and Dean Flowers, President, PSU Joint Unions give PM until June 4 to come back with“improved” salary proposal BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jun. 2, 2025 On Saturday, May 31, the Joint Unions Negotiating Team (JUNT), which represents the three public sector workers...

Senate budget debate

Hon. Kevin Herrera, Business Senator Business Senator finds discrepancies in Home Affairs and Defense figures; NTUCB Senator cautions, “2005 can be repeated” BELMOPAN, Fri. May 30, 2025 Today it was the Senate's turn to debate the...

Man gunned down on York Street

by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jun. 2, 2025 A Belize City man was gunned down in front of his home in the early hours of Monday, June 2, after being ambushed by a gunman. The...

KHMHAWU protests through Belize City

Members of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority Workers Union (KHMHAWU) marched through the streets of Belize City; the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) showed solidarity. by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Fri. May 30, 2025 Members of the...

Editorial

A PUDP problem

There are certainly major differences in style and character between the two major political parties, the only two that have held the reins of government in Belize; and while...

GoB ensuring courts can’t stop COMPOL’s use of favored tool: SOEs

On April 30, 2025, Dr. Richard Rosado took over as Commissioner of the Police Department; and on May 6, 2025, just a week after he took the reins of...

Arrogance, and the aberration of “89”

The appearance of retired former UDP Mesopotamia area representative, Michael Finnegan on the Krem Radio/ XTV’s WUB morning show on Friday, May 23, was of immense public interest because...

GoB struggling to find funds to give workers a pay raise

Overall, the present administration has managed our economy well. That’s what Belizeans said, overwhelmingly, when they went to the polls on March 12. But fresh off a massive victory...

Editorial En Espanol

NEMO and media prepare for Hurricane Season

Chief meteorologist - Ronald Gordon by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 29, 2025 As part of the activities for Hurricane Preparedness Week, the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) hosted a media orientation briefing at its Belize City office on Wednesday morning, May 28, to introduce the press to the new ways in which they plan to share information during the upcoming Atlantic Hurricane Season, which begins Sunday, June 1. NEMO will establish a media center at its headquarters in Belmopan, which will serve as a clearing house for all warnings and information that the public should receive about an approaching storm or any other natural disaster, such as floods, a nearby earthquake, a...

HelpAge hosts arts and crafts exhibition

Marilyn Ordonez, Chairperson of HelpAge Belize City by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 27, 2025 HelpAge Belize City hosted an arts and crafts exhibition at its Wilson Street branch on Tuesday, May 27. The exhibition was organized by elderly community members who regularly visit the institution every Tuesday. “We have a little exhibition of what our members are, and where members are all senior ladies, and we have a few males. They come here and do arts and crafts, so this display is from arts and crafts sessions we have on Tuesdays,” said Marilyn Ordonez, Chairperson of HelpAge Belize City. “It keeps their brains functioning, and it helps them to age without just...

GENERAL NEWS

Attorney OJ rape case begins

Orson "OJ" Elrington Attorney-at-Law, Orson “OJ” Elrington, 43, indicted for...

A speeding car killed him

by Charles Gladden ORANGE WALK TOWN, Mon. June 2, 2025 A...

GoB to embed special anti-crime SOEs in Constitution

Dr. Anthony Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police and Hon....

Call center sales agent convicted of cyberbullying

Erika Marie Twist BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 27, 2025 Tonight, a...

From the Publisher

I've told you before in this column that I spent thirteen years in schools in Belize (then British Honduras), from 1952 to 1965, and I read one sentence, one single sentence, in all those years about the Caste War just north of us in the Yucatan, which lasted from 1847 to 1903. If you are a colonial subject, as I was, then the education system only teaches you what your colonial masters want you to know. Thus, when I left Belize in August of 1965 to study in the United States, I had never heard of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (signed April 19, 1850) or the Dallas-Clarendon Treaty (signed October 17,...

From the Publisher

I've told you before in this column that I...

From the Publisher

I listened carefully to Friday morning's Nuri Muhammad interview...

From the Publisher En Espanol

FEATURES

Madam PRESIDENT

by Colin Hyde The easy solution for those Lower House...

Darkness falls!

Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 5:34 AM Years ago, the...

Female minor says she ran away because of abuse

Thea Ramirez, Minister of Human Development by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 28, 2025 A girl from western Belize who was reported missing by her family last week, has returned home; but prior to her...

SPORTS

Yabra FC wins 2nd BDFA U-17 championship

Yabra FC – BDFA U-17 Boys 2024-2025 Closing Season...

Alvian Strikers win 2nd BDFA U-15 girls championship

Alvian Strikers – BDFA Under-15 Girls 2024-2025 Closing Season...

Tut Bay FC & Caesar Ridge FC enter BDFA 1st Division Finals

Caesar Ridge FC by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELIZE CITY, Wed....

Sagitun Girlz win PWLB Finals 1st leg

Sagitun Girlz by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELMOPAN, Mon. May 26,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CEMJC graduation ceremonies

Saturday, May 31, 2025 Dear Editor, Saturday, May 24, 2025 was...

The new Joe Taylor Creek Bridge

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 Dear Amandala Editor,  It appears the new...

General Election 2025

Mon. Feb. 24, 2025 Dear Editor, The supporters of the UDP...

Where angels dare to tread!

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM I read a...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Kamla Persad-Bissessarre-elected T&T Prime Minister

TnT Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissesar by William Ysaguirre (Freelance...

Over 100 killed in Dominican Republic when nightclub roof collapses

Site of the collapsed Jet Set nightclub in Santo...

It’s forced labor, says the US

Donlad Trump, 47th US President by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Thurs....

Protests erupt over disputed election in Venezuela

Photo: Nicolas Maduro, re-elected Venezuelan president (Getty Images) by Kristen...

POLITICS

Opposition; GoB violating CARICOM treaty; Minister says they are uninformed

Photo: Shyne Barrow, Opposition Leader BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 13,...

Haylock wins, Shane loses

Photo: Godwin Haylock BELIZE CITY, Sun. Apr. 2, 2023 The United...

Sista B absent

Photo: Denise “Sista B” Barrow BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 27,...

Shyne kicked out of House

During Friday’s House meeting, the Speaker of the House,...
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SPORTS, SIN & SUBVERSION

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