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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”,...
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;...
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...
(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...
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...
