BNTU President Nadia Caliz, to Govt - pay up or Strike
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 15, 2025
Yesterday, the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) issued a 21-day notice of strike action to the Government of Belize, one day after a joint union negotiating...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 14, 2025
After declaring a State of Emergency (SOE) earlier this month, the Belize Police Department has detained over 100 gang-affiliated persons and confiscated a number of firearms...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 15, 2025
On Wednesday, May 14, the Belize City Council (BCC), as part of its Smart City initiative, launched a modern taxi service that features a fleet of...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 13, 2025
Amandala has confirmed that a cluster of measles cases was discovered in the Spanish Lookout area, with initially 2 cases being confirmed through laboratory testing on April 12,...
In the opening paragraphs of his presentation of the budget for the fiscal year 2025/26, which was tabled about six weeks after the fiscal year began, PM Briceño remarked...
Alcohol consumption has been a part of Belizean culture from the beginning of the settlement by pirates/buccaneers-turned-logwood-cutters sometime back in the seventeenth century; and like the world over, the...
Almost two months after the PUP decisively won a second consecutive term (in the March 12 general election), the new government announced that “the Fourteenth Session of the House...
UEF chairperson, YaYa Marin Coleman, who is currently guest host on the WUB morning show on Krem Radio and XTV, makes a point of insisting that she will not...
John Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 12, 2025
Members of the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) were protesting on the streets of Belmopan on Friday, May 9, as part of their effort to get the government to give them an 8.5% salary increase. However, Prime Minister of Belize, Hon. John Briceño told reporters that the increase could cost the Government of Belize almost $63 million.
“It is our responsibility to meet with them and see what we afford. If we can afford that, we will give it to them. If we can give them more, we will gladly give it to them; but we have to...
l-r Dean Martin and Rachel Heusner, artists
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 12, 2025
The Bliss Centre for Performing Arts will be featuring an exhibition entitled “Moments”, which will showcase the artwork of a Belizean mother-son duo.
Thirty original works by Belizean artist Rachel Heusner and her 20-year-old son, Dean Martin, will be on display.
“We do a lot of historical paintings, myself and my son, and so we have been working on a few pieces over the past year, you would say; and then, coming towards the end, I came up with a theme, ‘Moments,’ because when you paint, you capture a moment in time,” Heusner explained to reporters.
As a Belizean...
I retired from fulltime work at this newspaper about six years ago. About a year or two before that, a gentleman came to pay me a courtesy call. He had decided to migrate to the United States.
During the 1990s, he had been a young boy who sold our newspapers along with his older brother. Subsequent to that, he had worked at the telephone company, been active in trade union affairs, and at one time had even been the editor of the United Democratic Party (UDP) newspaper. This was after Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow took over the leadership of the Opposition UDP following the resignation of Rt. Hon. Manuel Esquivel...
Francisco Melendez, deceased
by Charles Gladden
ORANGE WALK, Wed. May 14, 2025
A 52-year-old man from Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk District, was killed on Saturday night, May 10, when an SUV hit the rear end...
