Jeremy Enriquez - Claimant in Redistricting Constitutional Claim and Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay
Decision for election injunction application expected to be delivered next week.
Attorney General asks that case be dismissed
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Feb. 12, 2025
In six hours and a half, High Court Justice Tawanda Hondora...
Prime Minister John Briceno announces date for general elections
BELMOPAN, Tues. Feb. 11, 2025
Flanked by the People’s United Party’s other 30 standard bearers, the PUP leader and Prime Minister, Hon. John Briceño announced the...
(Top l-r) Melissa Balderamos-Mahler and Ashanti Arthurs Martin (Bottom l-r) Priscilla Jennifer Banner and Attorney General Anthony Sylvestre
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 13, 2025
The Chief Justice of Belize, Hon. Madame Louise Esther...
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 13, 2025
Vehicle drivers who have to enter Belize City on the Philip Goldson Highway (PGH) each morning may be inconvenienced a few more days with traffic diversions through Coney Drive, but...
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...
Ever since the advent of crack cocaine and the associated business that spawned the formation of criminal gangs in Belize, older Belizeans have witnessed the once peaceful Jewel enter...
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...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Feb. 12, 2025
The government has announced that the 2025 general elections will be held on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, and the Ministry of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries has declared that there will be a countrywide holiday on that date.
This decision was made under Part II, Section 9 of the Holidays Act, Chapter 289 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2011. The declaration, which follows the dissolution of the National Assembly, was confirmed under the Holidays Act.
The decision to make Election Day a public and bank holiday appears to be aimed at maximizing the voter turnout in the country and providing those...
I believe the photograph of the truck and celebration seen here was taken when PUP leaders, Leigh Richardson and Philip Goldson were released from the old Her Majesty's Prison after serving nine months (of hard labor) of a one-year sentence ("back-a-Baptist"). Richardson and Goldson were charged with sedition by the British colonial government of the time, and convicted in the Supreme Court of British Honduras because of words in a newspaper article which the powerful British considered provocative. They were convicted in 1951, but I'm not sure whether they were released in late 1951 or early 1952.
Leigh Richardson
The single gentleman in the other photograph is Leigh Richardson. I assume...
BELMOPAN, Fri. Feb. 9, 2025
Although he said he had a difficult time getting his colleagues to agree, Opposition Leader, Hon. Moses “Shyne” Barrow reported to the House of Representatives today that the United...