Editorial
UNDP appoints new DRR for Belize
Photo: Michael Lund, the new DRR for Belize
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Thurs. Sept. 12, 2024
On...
Belize senators attend Digital Economy workshop in Miami
by Charles Gladden
MIAMI, Florida, USA, Thurs. Sept. 12, 2024
Two of Belize’s senators – Carolyn...
Elswith Claire becomes the first female Bishop in Belize
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Sept. 3, 2024
Bishop Elswith Claire was officially inducted as...
Belize City Council Flag Raising Ceremony
by Roy Davis (freelance reporter)
BELIZE CITY, Sun. Sept. 1, 2024
Twenty-two Belizean flags were raised...
Our health system challenged
A line in the hymn/folk song “All My Trials”, says: “If religion was a thing that money could buy, the rich would live and...
September 10 reset
In times past when we commemorated the Battle of St. George’s Caye it was the number one secular celebration in our country, but the...
GoB missteps – creeping arrogance or signs of corruption?
Sunday, September 1, 2024
In another of her very comprehensive and inspiring monthly reports, Honorary Consul of Belize in Florida, USA, Ms. Janine Sylvester left...
Dr. Sosa: feed our children, give cash to our people in need
Belizean neurologist, Dr. John Sosa, responding to a question from a caller to XTV’s Wake Up Belize morning show last Friday, about his thoughts...
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...
