While the focus has been on the team captain, the coach and the goalkeepers, the other players on the team also had their post-game comments. Deon McCaulley, Belize National Football Team “I feel bad because we lost four to zero after coming off a very good game with Costa Rica. Having the key players […]
With zero points on three losses and no wins during round one, the Belize Jaguars earned the dubious distinction of being the team with the worst stats in the Gold Cup. The most attention the team got, from the international media at least, was because of the challenges it faced getting to the Gold Cup […]
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A taxi driver from the Belmopan area disappeared over the past weekend. The father of a four year old daughter went missing after a fare hired him on Saturday morning while he was stationed within close proximity of his wife’s stall at the Belmopan market. Jose Ummana’s wife says he had a habit of calling […]
It was as though everything came to a standstill this afternoon around the country, when the Belize Jaguars took on Cuba, to watch Belize’s last opportunity to advance to the second round of the Gold Cup 2013. Anticipation for game three of Belize’s debut in the Gold Cup was best described as nervous, as either […]
Immediately after the disappointing loss to Cuba, which dashed Team Belize’s hopes of qualifying to Round Two of the Gold Cup, Coach Ian Mork faced the media in the standard post-game press conference. Mork was subdued but still relatively positive as he looked not at the loss, but at what Team Belize will take away […]
The postmortem examination has been completed on the newborn that died early Sunday morning at the K.H.M.H. The infant was due on August eighteenth but the expectant mother, Elvira Ack, gave birth on July twelfth. The results have just been released and late this evening, hospital officials told Lawrence Bol that his baby died from […]
The pro-constitution anti-gender policy movement touched down in the city today, proclaiming the bold message NO TO UNIBAM…YES TO GOD. While the underlying theme has been the condemnation of homosexuality as an abomination, the focus has been on the gender policy. The government has committed to making amendments based on input from the church, but […]
As we reported on Monday, the results of a recent study published by the Inter-American Development Bank on challenges being faced within the education sector indicate that Belize is underperforming in comparison with other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to outdated instructional models and materials still in use, teachers rely heavily […]
Seventy-four year old Glen Roaden Senior was reported missing last Tuesday. He was seen leaving his home earlier that day. But the family was clueless as to his whereabouts…that is until late Monday evening, when they were called out to a creek some one hundred and twenty yards off the Jane Usher Boulevard. The decomposed […]
Three years ago, Stephen Buckley was shot by the police paralyzing the left side of his body and unable to work. Buckley was promised assistance by the department, but that never materialized and these days, Buckley has been reduced to hustling on the street to take care of his family. There is little to come […]
Thirteen babies died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in the first three weeks of May. An independent investigation by PAHO found that the babies were infected with the enterobacter cloacae. No one has taken responsibility and tonight, there is another disturbing report that a premature baby died at the hospital over the weekend. The […]
Belizeans here and abroad were tuned in this past Saturday as the Belize Jaguars took on Costa Rica in their second outing in the 2013 Gold Cup. And after losing to Costa Rica in an auto goal, the Belize Jaguars are now in Hartford, Connecticut where they will be playing the Cuban selection. Now, Cuba […]
In Sports Monday, James Adderley looks at Saturday’s game against Costa Rica blow by blow. And by now you may know that Costa Rica’s only goal was scored by Co-captain of the Belize Jaguars, Dalton Eiley. The auto goal came in the first forty-five minutes of play and even though in the last minutes of […]
Following Saturday’s heartbreaking defeat to Costa Rica, coaches and players of the Belize National Football Selection, discussed the painful one to nothing loss. The winning auto-goal was a mistake that will certainly be recorded in the chronicles of Belize’s sports history; one the team is expecting to put behind it in an attempt to advance […]
Cuba is the last country that Belize will on the soccer pitch. With a loss of six to one in game one against the USA, and a one-nil loss against Costa Rica, the national team has one more opportunity to make a comeback. It’s a do or die situation for our local boys as they […]
A funeral service was held this afternoon in San Ignacio for Theresita Jimenez, the mother of star forward Daniel Jimenez, who had to return from the United States on Friday to be with his ailing parent. Jimenez suffered a stroke prior to her son’s departure to Portland, Oregon the week before the regional CONCACAF competition […]
The Jaguars are ready and the Cuban team is also ready for the showdown on Tuesday at the Rentschler field in Connecticut. The Cuban Coach was confident because one of their top players who was previously injured, will play in the game. Cuban Coach “I believe that we are ready for the match physically. […]
On Saturday afternoon, the Belize Jaguars will meet Costa Rica in the pitch at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Salt Lake, Utah. Internationally, the national team is considered the underdogs and has been building up a fan base. In numerous sports stories today, Woodrow West and Ian Gaynair were in the spotlight for turning down […]
And while nobody can dispute or disagree with Jimenez’s reasons for coming home, the fact is that his offensive runs in the game between Belize and the U.S.A. provided some of the few bright moments for the Jaguars. He told News Five today that he is confident that whoever replaces him on the roster will […]
Team Belize Coach Ian Mork has announced that he will start Woodrow West in goal against Costa Rica, but his decision to play Shane Orio in goal in the first round matchup between Belize and the USA has still been the subject of much criticism, most of it on Facebook to be factual. The criticism […]
The Jaguars will go up against a very strong Costa Rica on Saturday, and the good news is that both team captain Dalton Eiley and striker Dion McCauley have been cleared to play. Eiley did not play in the first game against the U.S.A. because he complained about chest pains and breathing problems. McCauley played, […]
So Team Belize is ready to roll, and at a press conference about an hour ago in Salt Lake, Utah, Costa Rica Coach, Jorge Luis Pinto was nothing, but respectful of our players who he says are fast and strong. Pinto says he has watched games played by the Jaguars in UNCAF and will structure […]
On Thursday afternoon, sometime around three o’clock, twenty-eight-year-old Deon Bruce was arrested by personnel from the Anti-Drug Unit before being escorted to the Queen Street Police Station, where he was held pending extradition to the United States. Bruce is wanted in Chicago on a slew of charges, including murder, attempted murder and possession of a […]
In another extradition attempt, the case against Mark Seawell, wanted in the United States on drug-related charges, has been adjourned yet again, following a medical emergency which impeded attorney Arthur Saldivar from appearing on his behalf. Seawell has been languishing in prison since being detained a few years ago and today Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin […]
