Highlights
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...
Government appoints Omar Mitchell as Contractor General
BELMOPAN, Fri. Jan. 17, 2020-- For almost two years, Belize has been without a Contractor General, although government has given out scores of millions...
Belize signs agreement for much-needed primary radar
The primary radar will be used for, among other things, detecting illegal aircraft even if their transponders are turned off
LADYVILLE, Belize District, Fri. Jan....
Roberto Pott raises alarm that Belize Sailing Association is “taking on water.”
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 14, 2020-- The Belize Sea Scouts has been in existence in Belize since 2004 and functions as a unit within...
The road to equal opportunity
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 16, 2020-- The National AIDS Commission (NAC) has collaborated with the Caribbean Partnership against HIV & AIDS (PANCAP), the Human...
Pat Andrews, CEO in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, resigns
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 16, 2020-- Pat Andrews, a former banker who left the banking business to take up a government appointment as Belize...
Immigrants overwhelm Swift Hall, seeking answers
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 14, 2020-- Hundreds of Central American immigrants who have been living in Belize, but have not yet obtained their residency...
Old Road Football Classic at Lucky Strike Field
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 16, 2020-- Here are the results from games played so far in the Dickie Hernandez Old Road Football Classic, which...
Pilots of cocaine plane and others remanded further to March 18
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Jan. 15, 2020-- Eight foreigners, from Ecuador, Honduras and Mexico, who were jointly charged with drug trafficking for the importation of...
Amandala 2019 front page review — October to December
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 13, 2020-- Headlines for Amandala’s October 1 issue:
• Mysterious jet crash-lands on Blue Creek road. The suspected drug trade executive...
Second phase of Social Security increase comes into effect
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 9, 2020-- Last June the Belize Social Security Board (SSB) proposed an increase of the social security contribution paid by...
Murders and major crimes decreased in 2019
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 9, 2020-- There were 134 recorded murders in 2019. According to police, this constitutes an 8% decrease in the number...
Belize will need to appoint 5 Supreme Court judges shortly
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 9, 2020-- This year, at least 3 Supreme Court justices are scheduled to demit office, and this will create a...
Eight Belizeans on the Queen’s New Year’s Honors List
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 7, 2020-- The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the London Gazette have released the names of 8 Belizeans who have...
Fire destroys house in Cotton Tree; 11 homeless
COTTON TREE, Cayo District, Tues. Jan. 7, 2020-- A house in Cotton Tree was completely destroyed by fire, leaving 11 persons homeless. An investigation...