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Belize’s Foreign Minister returns from Migration Summit in Guatemala

Photo: Foreign Ministers of signatory countries by Kristen...

250 students graduate from BPD’s PEACE program

Photo: ACP Howell Gillett, Commander of National...

Senate Inquiry delves into Portico project

Photo: David Gegg, Portico Enterprise Ltd. CEO testifies before the Senate Special Select Committee on the Portico Definitive Agreement Developer testifies 7-figure campaign financing request made to expedite Portico project BELMOPAN, Wed. May 8, 2024 The testimony today of Port of Magical Belize developer, David Gegg, CEO...

Legal battle over Stake Bank continues

Photo: Marlowe Neal, appointed receiver of Stake Bank Enterprise Limited Feinstein Group asks for independent inspector of ABL; SBEL receiver cites spending irregularities BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 9, 2024 The litigation that Atlantic Bank has initiated...

BEL updates the public on scheduled power outages

by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 8, 2024 Belize continues to experience widespread power outages, as Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) continues scrambling to address the shortfall in its power generation capacity. The country’s current in-country...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency donates to Belize

Photo: Hon. Alex Balona, Minister of State; Hon. Jose Mai, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise; Servulo Baeza attaches JICA stickers to the new equipment. Staff from the Japan Embassy look on by Orlando Pulido SANTA...
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Accused murderer walks free; main witness afraid to testify

Photo: Jahstar Wassani Gonguez, free BELIZE CITY, Fri. May 10, 2024 Tonight, a Belize City man, after spending 2 years, 6 months, 3 weeks, and 10 days on remand for a charge of murder, is...

Giovanni Ramirez, key witness in Selgado case, jailed for gang membership

Photo: Giovanni Henry Ramirez, charged by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 13, 2024 On Thursday, May 9, police officially arrested and charged Giovanni Henry Ramirez, a 30-year-old Belizean laborer of Seine Bight Village, for being...

Belize’s Foreign Minister returns from Migration Summit in Guatemala

Photo: Foreign Ministers of signatory countries by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 9, 2024 Hon. Francis Fonseca, Belize’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, has returned from Guatemala after participating in the Third Ministerial Meeting of the “Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection” on May 7. The summit convened foreign ministers and senior officials from 20 signatory countries, including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, and several Central and South American nations. During the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken led the American delegation, which also included key figures like the White House coordinator for the Los Angeles Declaration, Marcela Escobari, and Kristie Canegallo, the acting deputy secretary of the...

Editorial

Solidarity! Towards our destiny

Sunday, May 12, 2024 As the days and weeks and months pass by, it is becoming nearer and nearer to that time when we Belizeans will be sitting on edge,...

Witness stonewalls Senate Inquiry on land transactions for Portico project

Photo: Sanjay Hotchandani, real estate businessman testifies at Portico Senate Inquiry BELMOPAN, Wed. May 8,...

250 students graduate from BPD’s PEACE program

Photo: ACP Howell Gillett, Commander of National Community Policing by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 8, 2024 The Positive Engagement and Civic Education (PEACE) program, which is run by the Belize Police Department (BPD), held a graduation ceremony on Tuesday, May 7, at the Bliss Centre for Performing Arts...
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PM Briceño visits Mexico, signs ALCE agreement

Photo: l-r) Hon. John Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize and Alicia Bárcena, Mexican Foreign Secretary by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 8, 2024 Earlier this week, Amandala received reports that the Prime Minister of Belize,...

From the Publisher

As a follow-up to last Friday’s column, let it be emphasized that while the PUP’s Ralph Fonseca, who had...

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As the eldest child (three sons, one daughter) of...

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When I started to get on my feet financially...

AstraZeneca acknowledges vaccine side effects

by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 9, 2024 The Oxford-AstraZeneca...

US State Department issues 2023 Country Report on Human Rights

by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Wed. Apr. 24, 2024 The Country...

Teacher discusses traditional and alternative/authentic assessments

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Dear Editor, Assessment is an ongoing process...

Dictators v. Tribunes

by Hart Tillett Mon. Apr. 15, 2024 Dear Editor I’m enclosing this...
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Features

Ugly US roast

by Colin Hyde Ever since a US presidential hopeful named...

The Village Ram!

Friday, May 10, 2024 In 1963, The Mighty Sparrow, the...

15 May, Wednesday, is NAKBA Day

 Sunday, May 12, 2024 We commemorate the Catastrophe that was...

Indifference!

Monday, May 13, 2024 “All the buoys which have marked...

Sports

Cayo beat Hurricanes

by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 13, 2024 The Cayo...

Ahmadiyya Basketball League Week 10 results

by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 13, 2024 The Ahmadiyya...

Biscayne Gov’t girls and San Narciso RC boys are national primary school softball champions

Photo: Biscayne Government School – National Girls Primary School...

Verdes comes to town!

Photo: Verdes striker Matias Veron vs Port Layola defender...
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