20jan2016 | Amandala Newspaper

Belize may get rice from Guyana, but not through Jack Charles

BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 18, 2016--On Friday, January 15, Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega and his Chief Executive Officer, Jose Alpuche, in the Ministry...

American TV executive, 39, murdered in Succotz

SAN JOSE SUCCOTZ, Sat. Jan. 16, 2016--The body of Elizabeth Ann McComb Swaney, 39, a television executive of ABC 7 News of Chicago, USA,...

2016’s terrible start – bloody, murderous weekend

INDIAN CHURCH, Orange Walk District, Mon. Jan. 18, 2016--The year 2016 has started badly, with a record 10 people being murdered so far –...

1,443 in prison: one in three awaiting outcome of trial

BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 18, 2016--Although the prison population at the end of 2015 was about 100 less than the number of inmates recorded...

Barrow and Biden chat about Belize’s correspondent banking debacle

BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 18, 2016--The “existential threat” to Belize’s banking sector, which could trigger dire consequences as early as next month if foreign...

Costa Rica says Belize can still help Cuban migrants

BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 18, 2016--Over the weekend, the first group of Cubans—a handful 180 out of 10,000 US-bound Cubans stranded in Central America—arrived...

From the Publisher

Although I am the publisher of the leading newspaper in Belize, my views are not that important. Belize is a constitutional democracy, and various...

Brigadier General David Jones reports on year 2015

BELIZE CITY, Fri. Jan. 15, 2016--At a press briefing yesterday, Brigadier General David Jones reviewed the BDF’s accomplishments in 2015 and outlined what could...

New Guatemala regime also aiming for ICJ

BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 18, 2016--The installation of a new political regime in Guatemala last Thursday—a new congress, president and cabinet—marks a new era...

Belize chairs CARICOM Council of Ministers meeting in Guyana

GUYANA, Fri. Jan. 15, 2016--Belize Foreign Affairs Minister, Hon. Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, chaired the 37th Meeting of the CARICOM’s Council of Ministers held in...

$90,000 claim against car dealer for stolen vehicle dismissed

BELIZE CITY, Fri. Jan. 15, 2016--An American couple whose high-end SUV which they bought in Belize was confiscated while on a visit to Chetumal,...

American businessman accused of abetment to murder released on $50,000 bail

BELIZE CITY, Fri. Jan. 15, 2016--Despite passionate objection from the Director of Public Prosecution that American businessman Bradley Paumen, whom police charged with four...

Violent crime affected Belizeans and businesses “big time” in 2015

BELIZE CITY and ROARING CREEK, Cayo District, Mon. Jan. 18, 2016--We are only half-way through the first month of 2016, and police have already...

Belize’s banking crisis

The vast majority of Belizeans know nothing about money, except that you work for it and then you spend it to buy things you...

Galen hosts National Disaster Risk Management Research Forum

ISCR-NICH holds National Food Heritage Workshop

Belize attends the OAS 55th General Assembly

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