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World Down Syndrome Day

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BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year

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Suicide on the rise!

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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...

Guat loggers, xateros fire on BDF, forest rangers in Toledo!

The conservation of rich, natural areas is central to our way of life in Belize. We have a well developed national system of protected areas that characterizes who we are as a nation and ensures quality of life and a healthy environment for future generations. Organizations such as Ya’axché Conservation Trust help guarantee our conservation values by managing the protection of these brilliant natural areas. This past Friday afternoon, August 29, our “conservation values” came under direct violent assault from illegal loggers and xateros in the form of a gunfight. A multi-agency team of 16 members from the Belize Defence Force (BDF), Bladen Nature Reserve and Ya’axché Conservation Trust conducted a five-day patrol in the scenic Colombia River Forest Reserve.

Disrespect! School principal jacked!

The first day of primary school is usually full of excitement for our children. But late this morning, the kind of excitement that was visited upon a few persons at St. John’s Primary School is the kind of excitement that most people would rather live without. Robbers hit the school, and at least one of them was armed with a handgun. The school’s principal, Mrs. Patricia Johnson, was in her office along with one of her male teachers, Rashid Murillo. They had just finished collecting some registration fees and were taking a few minutes break before they rang the bell to let their children out for the lunch break.

City Hall haul anh pull!

Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya, is once again in the center of a political maelstrom, only five weeks away from the United Democratic Party’s mayoral convention, for elections slated for March next year. The political storm winds gusting in the old capital have already claimed one victim, in the person of WAVE Radio morning talk show host and Senator, Juliet Thimbriel, and may soon claim another, Councilor Mark King, who appears to be a bitter opponent of Mayor Moya

Laundering charges dropped against Belize banks!

The Belize Bank and First Caribbean will not stand trial for a string of charges under the Money Laundering (Prevention) Act, following a Government-sanctioned decision by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for the charges to be abruptly dropped, allegedly under pressure from banks abroad.

Mennonite executed in Corozal Free Zone!

The two assassins had silencers on a machine gun and a handgun. Police are presently interviewing three witnesses to the murder yesterday of a Belizean Mennonite contractor in the Commercial Free Zone in Santa Elena, Corozal border - a first for the zone. A Mexican who lives in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico, was detained yesterday by police after displaying suspicious behavior and inconsistency in his story, but he was later released.

Mayor Lopez turns back Belisle challenge in heated UDP Belmopan convention

It was pitched as young versus not-so-young, innocence versus experience, at the United Democratic Party’s mayoral convention for the Belmopan City Council yesterday. Newcomer Khalid Belisle, 27, challenged the incumbent, Simeon Lopez, 58, to be the UDP’s mayoral candidate in the upcoming municipal elections. Also on the ticket was Eugene Brown, 21, who is currently a city councilor serving under Lopez.

BTL pulls the plug on CBC

No cable from Hattieville to Cotton Tree, Dangriga to 16 Miles. As of 3:20 this afternoon, residents of Hattieville, Mahogany Heights, La Democracia, Cotton Tree, Armenia, Saint Margaret’s, Cotton Tree and Dangriga up to Mile 16 on the Hummingbird Highway, have no cable television. Around 400 households along the Western Highway and 1,500 in the Dangriga area are affected.

Kings Park mom raped, murdered

A professional single mother who lived in a residential Kings Park neighbourhood last night became the latest victim of the new brand of crime – home invasion.

Belize Bank tiene que pagar!!

The decision is the first of the newly appointed Appeals Board. Chairman Samuel Awich and members Jeffrey Locke and Jaime Alpuche will now focus their efforts on the Bank’s substantive appeal, which is against the March fourteenth directives of the Central Bank. Those orders had instructed the payment of the Venezuelan monies as well as the details of the monies sent from the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Following tonight’s decision, the Board scheduled the first hearing of that matter for the second of October.

Cops’ “pack of lies …”

News reaching Amandala around 5:00 p.m. today, Monday, was that Alexander Herrera, 51, had just died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH). Herrera’s death is controversial because while a police report says that an unnamed police officer shot him once last night in the vicinity of the southside of the Swing Bridge around 11:20, presumably because he was carrying “a black handgun,” family members told Amandala that Herrera was shot in the back of his head and in his back a total of four times. They said, even from this morning, that the injuries were so severe that they did not expect him to survive.

10 bullets for our beloved Travis!

July - 2008’s most murderous month! The Old Capital continues to reel under an onslaught of murder and mayhem that began last week Thursday, July 24, and continued over the weekend. The period saw four men killed, four attempted murders, and two bodies found.

Criminals rule!!

4 murders, 2 remains found, 4 attempted murders, 3 home invasions in 5 days

Lucky Strike femme fatale!

A set of bizarre romantic circumstances culminated in the tragic deaths of two Lucky Strike men yesterday afternoon. Sometime shortly after two in the afternoon, Terrence Herbert, 43, went in search of a man that he had threatened before, that he would kill him for having an affair with his woman.

Cabinet wants ICJ for the Guat claim!

Referendum to be held early 2009; International court could cost Belize up to $20 million and take 3 to 4 years, says Attorney General Elrington
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