Editorial
BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year
Photo: (l-r) Myrna Pena, Carmella Cacho, and Shanice Bevans; BPD Female Police of the...
Suicide on the rise!
Photo: Iveth Quintanilla, Mental Health Coordinator
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Wed. Mar. 20, 2024
Since entering the...
NCA launches 8-year Strategic Plan
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 18, 2024
Belize’s aging population, which comprised 6% of...
Belize places Top 40 at Miss World 2023
Photo: Elise-Gayonne Vernon, Belizean contestant
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Mar. 12, 2024
22-year-old Elise-Gayonne Vernon...
Wealth untold: precedent or policy?
Let us now just hurdle past the petty negativity and unstatesmanlike behavior displayed in the people’s House last Friday. The purpose of its very...
Waterloo’s relentless assault on our environmentalists
Lord Ashcroft, a very powerful man in our country, has suggested on a number of occasions that some of our political leaders are corrupt....
Shaking our confidence
Monday, June 12, 2023
Since November 2020 and the landslide victory of the new People’s United Party (PUP) government, the “Blue Wave” has swept across...
Need apparently no longer main criteria for a gun license
In times past, one had to show a definite need for a gun before being considered for a license, but judging from the reports,...
Big fish in shallow waters
Monday, June 5, 2023
The release from Portico Enterprises that appeared on News5 last Thursday evening, when all the local newspapers had already gone to...
Portico’s stock surges; Waterloo’s stock plummets
Some Belizeans took exception when the editorial page described the present Briceño government as possibly the hardest working one we’ve ever had; certainly, there...
About treaties, exploitation and litigation
Monday, May 29, 2023
When Belize got its Independence on September 21, 1981, we may not have fully grasped the pressure under which our first...
Belize must revisit laws that harm the country
Laws are essential — necessary to create a space where human beings can function as civilized beings. Laws are not intrinsically good. There was...
Orchestrated ignorance? (Part II)
“Teach the children the truth.” (Bob Marley)
From Amandala editorial of Tuesday, May 16, 2023
“… a people who have supposedly shaken off the yoke of...
Audacious and selfish
The Amandala headline story declared it a perfect example of the need for a new Constitution: the case of businesswoman Ms. Olivia Villanueva (hereafter...
Orchestrated ignorance?
“Teach the children the truth.” (Bob Marley)
Mon. May 15, 2023
An old-time English saying advises, “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” It...
Roots Belizeans’ response to changes in Belize was slow
Much has changed on the Belizean landscape since Independence in 1981, some for the better. Looking at some positives in the post-independence Belize, there...
The dungeon in the city
Mon. May 8, 2023
As wars and conflicts lead to social disruptions, aggravated by extreme climate trends due to global warming, more and more it...
Tell Guatemala to leave Belize alone
The matter between Belize and Guatemala is at the International Court of Justice (ICJ); we were forced to go there after Guatemala kept insisting...