AMANDALA, a biweekly newspaper published on Tuesdays and Fridays, was founded as an organ of the United Black Association for Development (UBAD), which emerged on August 13, 1969. Even after UBAD was ...
BELIZE CITY–On Friday, the Government of Belize released signed electronic copies of the 13 bilateral agreements penned in Placencia by Belize and Guatemala on Wednesday, December 17, 2014, on the ...
On Monday of this week, the Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics & E-Governance (MPUELE), with the support of the LAIT UP BELIZE! Project and the European Union, held a ceremony at Biltmore ...
Independent financial consultant Dyon Elliott has been tipped to take over the helm as general manager at the National Bank of Belize. Elliott has a certificate in public policy from the London School ...
There is a close correlation between a person’s retirement age, pension and social security benefits in that they normally fall relatively close to each other. Though a country’s standard retirement ...
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 17, 2016–On February 27, an excursion organized by the Belize Territorial Volunteers (BTV), formed to affirm Belize’s sovereignty in the troubled waters of the Sarstoon, was ...
Belize’s flag flew at half-mast most of this week as the nation mourned the passing of Sir Manuel Esquivel, our second prime minister. The tributes were many, especially from members of the United ...
Bishop Lawrence Sydney Nicasio was born to Reuben and Jane Lewis-Nicasio on September the 5th, 1956, in Dangriga Town. In his early years he attended Sacred Heart Primary School. In school and the ...
Barbara and Victor Bulmer-Thomas have done us an enormous service in producing a very readable, concise text that traces the modern macro-economic history of Belize from the days of the earliest ...
As a matter of fact, from the outset the GWU supported the People’s Committee (PC); its founder and only President during the seven years of its existence, Cecil Betson, having spoken at the first ...
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 10, 2022– In less than a month, the Social Security Board (SSB) will implement the final increase to the rate of contribution that must be paid into the pension scheme, which ...
Mestizos, or “Spanish,” as they are known locally, have a long history in Belize. The first Spanish families came from neighboring Yucatan in Mexico, fleeing the Caste War between Yucatecans and Mayas ...