Editorial
Record profits projected for Boledo
CEO Narda Garcia estimates that gross revenue from lottery sales could reach up to...
New record second payment for cañeros in the north
ORANGE WALK, Wed. Aug. 21, 2024
The 2023-2024 sugar crop season ended up north on...
Differing views widen rift in Indian Creek
Villagers are torn and confused about the leadership of the Maya community
by Marco Lopez
BELIZE...
Gastroenteritis on the rise
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Aug. 21, 2024
While mpox (monkeypox) has been declared a...
Trust, betrayal, and changing tides
Monday, August 26, 2024
Trust is a very important thing in our daily lives, be it in personal relationships, business dealings, or political appeal. Aside...
After the SOE
It has been relatively peaceful in Belize since the government, in desperation, pulled out the big stick SOE (State of Emergency) in Belize City...
The price of gold
“There’s gold in them thar hills!” – from The American Claimant, Mark Twain 1892
Sunday, August 18, 2024
The Belize national anthem reminds us that this...
Corruption or mercenary land speculation
One of the first responses to the news this week, first broadcast by Belize’s number one investigative journalist, Channel 7 News’s Jules Vasquez, that...
Demographics, development and safety valves
Sunday, August 11, 2024
A lot of grant money has been coming into Belize lately, for various causes—the environment, refugees, farmers, women, which is fine;...
Home Affairs Ministry lambasted for SOE detention of boy, 13
It didn’t come to the attention of the media immediately, that a 13-year-old boy had been caught in the SOE (State of Emergency) net...
Stop the killing; people power
The learned legal counsels have issued “A Reply” to Amandala’s editorial of Tuesday, June 18, 2024, titled “Sacrifice – the death penalty option,” in...
No ideologicalwar
Leadership issues, specifically who gets the top job, have dominated news coming out of the main opposition party, the UDP, ever since the party’s...
Afrikan Emancipation Day, August 1: Why remember?
Belize is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-colored, multi-religious, diverse people under one flag and one anthem, calling ourselves Belizeans. Belize Creole or Kriol has been...
Belize gears up to celebrate Emancipation Day
Three years ago, on Sunday, August 1, 2021, Belize joined the rest of the Caribbean in celebrating Emancipation Day, the day when the chains...
Belize’s football blues
BELIZE CITY, Sun. July 21, 2024
The newly built Belize Civic Center was inaugurated with a semipro basketball game in May of 2018, and since...
Toledo East bye-election confirms PUP is strong
The winner of the Toledo East bye-election on Wednesday, which became necessary after the death of Minister of State/Toledo East representative, the PUP’s Mike...
The Golden Generation: a Golden Opportunity for the MCC
The recently announced US$125 million (BZE $250 million) grant to Belize from the USA is a huge bonanza, almost like what landed in the...
Sizable deportation could provoke Bukele-type response
It’s not our call to influence who fills the leadership positions in other countries, but it is incumbent on our leaders to consider the...
