Editorial
$5 minimum wage by New Year
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Dec. 1, 2022
In exactly one month, the minimum wage will be...
Belize City Council Receives Half Million Grant from Japan
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Dec. 1, 2022
In a ceremony held at City Hall on Wednesday,...
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence commence
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Fri. Nov. 25, 2022
On Friday, November 25, Belize joined the...
Rare photos from the AMANDALA archives
Photo above: On September 10, 1969, before UBAD marched for the first time in...
An intentional act or an accident on our western border?
On November 26, a Belize Defence Force soldier stationed at the Valentin Conservation Post along the Belize/Guatemala western border was shot in the buttocks...
“Wealth untold!” Big decisions and referendums
Monday, November 28, 2022
Governments are elected to govern, and we often boast of our functioning “parliamentary democracy,” where free and open elections are held...
Maybe small sugarcane farmers should get their own factory
When, in 2015, the GOB approved a 50% increase in the controlled price of sugar sold on the local market, from 50 cents to...
Waves of sadness; but love will see us through
Sunday, November 20, 2022
When will the madness and the heartbreaks end? Each time there seems to be a lull in the reported cases of...
Belize, BSCFA, and ASR-BSI
For the good of Belize we all want the milling of sugarcane to start on schedule, around the second week in December. It’s been...
Lisa blows our “cover”
Monday, Nov. 14, 2022
It is almost two weeks now since Hurricane Lisa, a Category one hurricane, blew her way through Belize City and environs,...
Wholesome, affordable food—an urgent need we must meet
In the blink of an eye things got worse in our country. Unfortunately, our governments didn’t do a great job with our resources in...
Law and Order after Lisa
“Ah hear ‘Putum BOOM!!’, and the crowd start to scatter!” — from “Ten To One Is Murder,” by The Mighty Sparrow
Sunday, November 6, 2022
On...
A terrible Cat 1 hurricane
Belizeans living across central Belize, particularly those in Belize City and the Belize District, are reeling after being hit by a late season hurricane,...
“Time for a change”; Repent, Belize!
Monday, October 31, 2022
An old timer in Belize, who passed away in the latter 1950s before Hurricane Hattie had devastated the then British Colony...
Behind the troubles of Afro-Belizeans
Afro-Belizeans living in Belize – the Creoles/Kriols and Garinagu — have never had much economic power, and for decades their fortunes have been dwindling....
“No cutting corners”; but P.M. wary of Waterloo?
“Stand Up, Belizean!” – Bredda David & Tribal Vibes
Monday, October 24, 2022
Minister Louis Farrakhan declared that, “You’re small, but you’re powerful!”, referring to our...
Put down that gun, all weapons
It isn’t right to boast about what we are not. The author of the words of our National Anthem, Samuel Haynes, could have led...
Another murder!? Lord help us!
“Take me back, to my old home, Belize! There is not a place so fine!” – Mr. Wilfred Peters
Monday, October 17, 2022
Belize no gaan...
