In basketball news, official word from the Belize Basketball Association indicates that contrary to earlier reports, the Raiders will be able to field a full squad against the San Cas U.B. team this Wednesday. Following Friday’s fistfight between Raider Thomas Gillespie and B.T.L.’s Claude “Too Tall” Jones, the league has suspended both players for two […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is another fresh dish of Sports Monday. Things have heated up immensely in the Capital Life Basketball Tournament, so we took our cameras Friday night to the City Centre for the prime-time rematch between five time champions Raiders and archrival B.T.L. Nets, who prevailed in game one. The […]
Sports on this newscast is usually reserved for Monday and the sharp tongue of James Adderley. But today we make an exception. In case you haven’t noticed, the action in the Belize Basketball Association, once thought to be a coronation party for the B.T.L. Nets, has evolved into a genuine race involving no less than […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with your latest version of Sports Monday. League leading B.T.L. Nets took its undefeated record in the Capital Life Tournament Friday night at the City Centre against Orange Walk’s Music Centre, a team that had lost three straight going in. Maybe this is probably why the visitors had travelled to […]
James Adderley Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for another fresh delivery of Sports Monday. Five time champion Raiders went into the Capital Life competition Friday night at the City Centre looking for its third season win in the role of host to Orange Walk’s Music Centre, who came in showing […]
Work on the installation of a modern synthetic track at the Marion Jones Sports Complex was supposed to begin last October, but like many commitments made in the heat of euphoria, the promise proved easier than the implementation. Our athletes may yet get to run on a decent surface, however, thanks to the generosity of […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re a welcomed part of this dish of Sports Monday. Making its third appearance in this year’s Capital Life Basketball competition, the defending champion San Cas U.B. hosted Orange Walk’s Music Centre Friday night at the Belize City Centre. With both teams going in with a record of one […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re boxed into this special delivery of Sports Monday. Ma Cour Productions has been doing a lot of work in sports of late and this weekend they made their debut into boxing promotion and it certainly went well. So we go to the Belize Pickwick Club and the man […]
It was supposed to be a triangular softball meet between Guatemala, El Salvador and Belize…but the threesome has now been reduced to a duo. Citing conflicts with work and schooling, the Guatemalan girls left for home today after losing all four of their games. The competition will continue, however, with Belize’s B.T.L. team facing off […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re camped around another issue of Sports Monday. We’ll take you immediately into Friday night’s B.B.A. clash of undefeated ballclubs at the City Centre, where B.T.L. Nets played host to five-time champ, the Raiders. Meet the phone company’s big gun Keith Acosta, and he gets the contest started with […]
Tonight, the Belize City Centre plays host to a semi-pro basketball clash between two former champions that is expected to be nothing less than hardcore talent in motion. With both the B.T.L. Nets and Raiders fresh off wins in the early stage of this year’s league play, this game is sure to set the tone […]
If basketball isn’t your cup of tea, on Sunday you can join softball fans as they fill the Rogers Stadium as part of a historic international tournament. During the tournament the national teams from Belize, Guatemala and El Salvador will play twelve games. Vice President of the Belize Softball Federation, Patrick Henry, says the event […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’ve just crashed into this monster ride on Sports Monday. We kick things off with the Mother’s Day Cycle Classic, which rolled off Sunday morning from Santa Elena, Cayo. Here’s the start as all four contestants get busy, namely Anamarie Bennett, Marinette Flowers defending champion, Fiona Humes Gonzalez former […]
Their names may not yet carry the same cachet as Ernest “Jawmain” Meighan, Andrew Smiling or Quinton “The Baddest” Hamilton, but Belize’s women cyclists have just as much heart–if not quite the speed–of their better known counterparts. On the eve of their big race News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams talked strategy with some of the competitors. […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The Belize Basketball Association proudly opened its annual semi-pro season Friday night at the City Centre and we join B.B.A. Commissioner Troy Gabb as he thanks his sponsors in his remarks. Troy Gabb, Commissioner, B.B.A. “I would like to thank […]
Making promises, particularly in the heat of passion, is easy. Making good on those promises, long after the passion has cooled, is much harder. But today, an unusual thing happened: some guys who worked really hard to make their country proud have finally received their due. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is probably the only time […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you are in attendance for this latest issue of Sports Monday, and yes we do have pictures. So we take you out immediately to the People’s Stadium Orange Walk where the defending Regent’s Cup champion Kulture Yabra goes into game two of the three game title series with a […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is the latest serving of Sports Monday. We took our cameras inside the Lewis Leslie amateur basketball competition at the City Centre Friday night, only to be greeted by a monster female opener featuring the defending champion B.E.L. Sparks in action against B.T.L. Hawks. We join the ballgame […]
This weekend Belize City is going to be inundated with football fans from all over the country. They will pack into the M.C.C. Grounds to witness the season’s peak: Game one of the championship finals in the Regent Challenge Cup. The showdown between Orange Walk’s Fabro’s Juventus Stars and Kulture Yabra is to produce more […]
Located at the junction of the Northern Highway and Burrell Boom Road, it is the most visible symbol yet that come January first, Belize will enter a new era in telecommunications. Janelle Chanona has the story. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon, representatives of International Telecommunications Ltd, Intelco, officially inaugurated the nation’s tallest freestanding structure. At […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. It took the final match on the B.P.F.L. playoffs to determine which two teams would make it on to the three game championship series in Regent’s Cup tournament. With three teams showing nine points apiece going into the last weekend of play, it became very […]
It was one of the ugliest sights in the history of Belizean sports. Video shot after the football match on Sunday between the Kulture Yabra football club and Fabro’s Juventus Stars showed images of the game’s head referee getting hit twice and a police officer wrestling with a player for his baton. After a closed […]
Sports is usually the domain of James Adderley and his weekly Sports Monday segment. But sometimes activities on the field of play are more closely related to items coming from the police department than the sports desk. Such was the case following the dramatic finish of a semi-pro football match over the weekend. News 5’s […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Obviously you’ve seen Janelle Chanona’s news report on the melee at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday. Kulture Yabra fans erupted after the referee awarded a game winning penalty to the visiting Fabro’s Juventus Stars in week 5 of the Regent’s Cup playoffs. Before all this happened […]
He is an inspiration to athletes across the country and a constant source of amazement for his coaches…and he’s only fifteen. Local track and field star Jaheed Smith is making headlines again by becoming only the second Belizean athlete to bring home a medal from the CARIFTA Games, held over the weekend in Nassau, Bahamas. […]
