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Belize celebrates International Girls in ICT Day 2025

Erwin Wills (c), an expert from the...

UN helps Belize City become Resilient

Belize City Mayor, Bernard Wagner, with UNDRR...

KHMH celebrates Nurses Week

Chandra Nisbet-Cansino, CEO of the KHMH by Charles...

State of Emergency in Belize and Cayo Districts

Dr. Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police A State of Emergency was declared for one month, but it could be extended. by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 7, 2025 In response to a string of shootings that have taken place in the Belize District since Saturday, May 3,...

White smoke signals new pope elected

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) VATICAN CITY, Rome, Thurs. May 8, 2025 White smoke rising from the Vatican on Thursday morning, May 8, signaled that a new pope has been selected. The cardinals’ paper ballots which...

UDP leadership issues unresolved

Justice Tawanda Hondora Court decision fails to end UDP dispute; leadership battle rages on BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 8, 2025 The case of who is the real UDP that went to trial on March 31 has...

Unplanned BEL outages hurt industrial users

BEL CEO, John Mencias by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 8, 2025 The entire country was plunged into darkness by an unexpected power outage around 11:45 p.m. on Monday, and while Belize Electricity Ltd. was able...

Editorial

Belize, waiting for the 2025/26 budget

Almost two months after the PUP decisively won a second consecutive term (in the March 12 general election), the new government announced that “the Fourteenth Session of the House...

Generational harm

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...

Ministry of Education didn’t like BNTU’s words

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...

“No quit” in CEOs as they push(ed) for more

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”,...

Editorial En Espanol

UN helps Belize City become Resilient

Belize City Mayor, Bernard Wagner, with UNDRR - Nahuel Arenas by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 8, 2025 Belize City has joined 1,835 other cities in 92 nations around the world to become a part of the United Nations’ initiative, “Making Cities Resilient (MCR) by 2030”. Mayor Bernard Wagner signed an agreement to this effect with regional director Nahuel Arenas of the United Nations’ Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) agency’s regional office for the Americas and the Caribbean at the Best Western Biltmore Plaza Hotel in Belize City on Wednesday evening, May 7. Also present to witness the signing was UN resident coordinator Raul Salazar. Belize City Mayor, Bernard Wagner, signs agreement with UNDRR;...

KHMH celebrates Nurses Week

Chandra Nisbet-Cansino, CEO of the KHMH by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 7, 2025 The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) honored over forty of its hard-working nurses on Tuesday, May 6, during a special ceremony in recognition of Nurses Week, which is celebrated from May 6 to May 12. This year’s theme is, “Caring for Nurses Strengthens Economies”. Nurses recognized “It’s important for us every year to ensure that we recognize them, and we thank them, and that their voices are heard,” said Chandra Nisbet-Cansino, CEO of the KHMH. She continued, “It’s now competition among not only the world, but within Belize itself. We have a lot of healthcare institutions opening that are now...

GENERAL NEWS

High Court judge asked to recuse himself in Redistricting appeal

Jeremy Enriquez by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELMOPAN, Thurs. May 8,...

MOE says classes stay open, while BNTU protests

by Charles Gladden BELMOPAN, Wed. May 7, 2025 After learning that...

Conchshell Bay man killed on Ebony Street

Kadeem Orozco, deceased by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 6,...

Man gunned down near Double Head Cabbage bus stop

by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 5, 2025 A man...

From the Publisher

(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...

From the Publisher

(A blast from the past. The column which follows...

From the Publisher

I thought a few paragraphs from a paper I...

From the Publisher En Espanol

FEATURES

Religion in schools

Contributed by Hortence Wade (retired educator) Question: Is it defensible...

Bye to Brother Joe McGann

by Colin Hyde This week the highly accomplished, unique, always...

Man, 65, gets prison sentence for groping boy’s buttocks

Glenford Herman Arnold, aka "Blackie" BELIZE CITY, Wed. Apr. 30, 2025 A 65-year-old man received a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a boy, 12, in early February of this year. It...

SPORTS

Orange Walk F.A. suspends three players for racial slurs

by Charles Gladden ORANGE WALK, Thurs. May 8, 2025 The Orange...

Berger United & Ebony Lake lead BTB U-13 football

Yabra FC’s Kyrone Martinez scored 2nd goal in 3-2...

Belize United & Ebony Lake win in BTB U-10 Mundialito

Ldv goalkeeper Omar Escalante (r) denies Bze United’s John...

KP Strikers lead BTB U-15 girls Mundialito

Goal Getters’ Shuilan Hazel (l) denies KP Strikers’ Kaylee...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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...

We need to do much more as a community

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Editor, AMANDALA Dear Editor, The chilling video of...

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 The Editor, Amandala Dear Editor, I write to...

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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