Features
E-buses launched, embraced by Belize City commuters
BELIZE CITY, Mon. July 22, 2024
The runs for the two E-buses, procured for Belize...
Belizean Peter “Chukku” Young passes in Kingston, Jamaica
BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 17, 2024
Amandala received the sad news on Monday of the...
YWCA elects new Board of Directors
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 10, 2024
Fourteen new members of the Young Women’s...
BCC and Peak Outsourcing sign MOU
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 10, 2024
The Belize City Council and Peak Outsourcing-Belize...
Older women rallied around the exhibitionists
by Colin Hyde
We first learned there were pornographic tapes featuring multiple Belizean women and men because of snippets here and there, not because it...
Shyne, Biden, and Johnny B!
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Hon. Shyne Barrow and President Joe Biden have a few things in common. They are both living in a state of...
Memory lane! – Part 1
Sunday, July 21, 2024
The Publisher has a way of bringing up long-buried or unremembered memories in us; well, especially in me. Special memories of...
Germany doesn’t want to repeat its ugly past
by Colin Hyde
Germany, because of its past as the force at the bottom of two “world” wars, goes to extremes to excise from the...
All creatures great and small!
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
There is this series on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), about a veterinarian who wrote of his experiences in 1940s England, in...
You there, Mr. Faber, get out of that lifeboat and back onto that ship
by Colin Hyde
I was as incredulous as Kareem Musa, listening to Collet Area Rep Faber explain why he hadn’t turned over a tape in...
The unraveling of Babylon!
Sunday, July 14, 2024
In the Middle Ages, 10 popes were outrightly murdered, 31 others have been martyred, a kinder way of saying they were...
New horizons!
Sunday, July 14, 2024
On my perfunctory daily walks with my friend Paul (which I look forward eagerly to, mainly because the topics of our...
Six hours away from big trouble
by Colin Hyde
The government should pass a law giving it license to commandeer “ALL sturdy hotels and private buildings not used as homes” in...
Should I go or should I stay?
Monday, July 8, 2024
I know that the press can be like a lion stalking its prey, indefatigable, unrelenting and insatiable! Once you’re caught in...
The Sleepwalking Defense
by Joey Garcia Thursday, July 11, 2024
If I say, “sleepwalker,” does your mind conjure an image from the movies or cartoons of a person walking...
Pomp and circumstance!
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
I read this letter to the editor by one Ray Meyers. I don’t think I know the gentleman, but he wrote...
A picture’s thousand words not always enough
by Colin Hyde
I saw a clip on social media with a security officer savaging a fellow who appeared to be completely unarmed and docile,...
Highways, Climate Change, UDP, PUP
by Colin Hyde
Sometime around 1980, when I was very much a young man, one of my uncles, James V. Hyde, who had traversed Belize...
