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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

High Court to decide on election injunction

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...

Belizeans summoned to the polls for March 12

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...

Four attorneys to receive Senior Counsel status

(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...

“Road Closure: Rotary Roundabout to Belcan Flag Roundabout” until Sunday

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...

Editorial

A cold shoulder from US, for our stance on the international rule of law?

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...

We’re in this together

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...

GoB should pay for security, and referees, at sports matches

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...

Beyond Chester and L.I.U.

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...

Editorial En Espanol

Kremandala and Belize mourn the passing and celebrate the life of Belizean legend, Dr. Cornelius “Pat” Cacho – (October 2, 1926 – February 7,...

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...

GoB declares a holiday on Election Day

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...

GENERAL NEWS

Man killed in vehicle accident on Ferry Road

by Charles Gladden COROZAL, Thurs. Feb. 13, 2025 A Corozaleno man,...

Guns and ammo found in San Pedro

by Charles Gladden SAN PEDRO, Ambergris Caye, Wed. Feb. 12,...

Our Caves: for Culture, Conservation and Tourism

Dr. Melissa Badillo (Director of Institute of Archaeology |...

Fr. Weber passes at 98

by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Mon. Feb. 10, 2025 The well-beloved,...

From the Publisher

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...

From the Publisher

I believe the photograph of the truck and celebration...

From the Publisher

Belizeans are a Christian people in the vast majority....

From the Publisher En Espanol

FEATURES

Understand, innately ALL white people think dehn superior

by Colin Hyde In regard mainly to those persons with...

Lilliput!

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM In Jonathan Swift’s...

National Symbols Bill among 6 new legislations passed by the House

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...

SPORTS

BES girls & Holy Redeemer boys win Belize District primary schools volleyball championships

Belize Elementary School girls – Belize District primary school...

Wesley College boys take on Gwen Liz in CSSSA football finals on Saturday

Wesley College boys reached the finals via sudden-death in...

Pallotti Gators challenge SCA Sea Hawks in CSSSA football finals

Pallotti Gators go on to the finals, after upsetting...

HRCU Eagles win Belize City Interoffice Softball Marathon

Holy Redeemer Credit Union (HRCU) Eagles won the 2025...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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...

Questions about “unlawful carnal knowledge”

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 The Editor, Amandala I would like for...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Protests erupt over disputed election in Venezuela

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

Labour Party’s Keir Starmer is new UK prez after historic election sweep

Photo: Keir Starmer, new UK president (Photo: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters) by...

Hurricane Beryl’s devastation in the Caribbean

Photo: Communities destroyed by Beryl in St. Vincent and...

Hurricane Beryl reaches Category 5

NEMO begins update on approaching Hurricane Beryl by Kristen Ku BELIZE...

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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