Editorial
Albert Vaughan, new City Administrator
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 15, 2024
On Monday, April 15, 2024, the Belize City Council...
Belize launches Garifuna Language in Schools Program
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 15, 2024
On April 12, Belize marked the 227th...
NATS Committee announces Farmers of the Year 2024
Photo: (left) Senior Farmer of the Year, Nandy Esban Aldana; (right) Female Farmer of...
To – David
“THE CANDLE MAY GO OUT,BUT THE MEMORY OF ITS LIGHT REMAINS”
by Thérèse Belisle-Nweke
Saturday, April...
Land speculation and public needs
There was some friction in Indian Creek at the inauguration earlier this month of a new solar system because the infrastructure hadn’t reached all...
Before we lose it: beach access woes in Jamaica
Sun. Oct. 22, 2023
Although, for reasons that may take some explaining another time, Belize is near the bottom of the CONCACAF football ranking in...
Belize grateful for decrease in homicides
Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams had every right to be beaming when he told the press earlier this month that for the first three...
“Country for sale!!”(song by Jamaican reggae artist, Buju Banton)
Let us pause, and take stock of The Jewel
Monday, October 16, 2023
With local media focused on sensational court cases and the political histrionics at...
UDP’s challenge to SSB investment didn’t feature their top economists
On September 22, 2023, the SSB (Social Security Board) unveiled what the Amandala reported as a “public-private partnership named Public Administration Campus Limited SPV...
Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance Day
Monday is a public and bank holiday in Belize, in honor of our ancestors of the Americas and their struggles to defend their lands...
A glaring omission – a right to help in health/financial emergency
Mon. Oct. 2, 2023
If we are truly a God-fearing nation, as our Constitution implies, and it does say a lot about the rights of...
Belize contemplates sending peacekeeping troops to Haiti
The announcement by the Foreign Minister, Hon. Eamon Courtenay, that Belize might be sending troops to Haiti as part of a peacekeeping mission, is...
Countdown to Belize National Football Hall of Fame
“Rungu, Toro, Mao retire.” — Amandala story for Friday, February 11, 1983 edition.
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Now that the national September celebrations are officially over,...
Happy 42nd Birthday, Belize!
Our almost month-long September celebrations come to an end tomorrow, Thursday, September 21, our Independence Day. At midnight on September 20, 1981, with the...
Our road to independence
The second Great War, which ended in Europe in 1945, exacted a massive toll on the British Empire, so much so that had it...
The fading glory of the historic 10th
It is recorded that in 1797 the people who owned mahogany works in Belize, having gotten word of an imminent attack from Mexico, decided...
A war against guns
Monday, September 4, 2023
It’s the “multi-sectoral” approach, alright; that is the best way to tackle this continuing plague of gun violence and murder in...
ASR/BSI needs to open the books, and respect farmers’ share for bagasse
The government of the day has indicated it can work around a recent ruling in the courts that the mandatory contribution of American Sugar...
