There is major progress to report tonight on the solving of one of the nation’s most important murder cases… but that story will have to wait on a piece of news that can only fit in the journalistic category reserved for miracles. From Maracaibo, Venezuela comes news that in the first match-up of the final […]
There’s good news and bad news out of Maracaibo, Venezuela tonight, where a Belizean delegation is taking part in the Caribbean and Central American Games. The good news is that the highly touted men’s basketball team has finally won its first game, and as a result will qualify for the final round. The bad news […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve guessed it right, it’s another portion of Sports Monday. And we take you out to yesterday’s CONCACAF Cup Winners cup showdown at the People’s Stadium where national champion Juventus played host to Municipal of Guatemala. The 2 combatants enter the arena and fans gleam a bit of professional […]
It was another heartbreaking night for Belize’s national basketball squad as on Thursday they lost their second straight in the Caribbean and Central American Games, this time to a tough team from Panama. The score was a decisive 108 to 86, although reports from Maracaibo, Venezuela say the team played hard all the way through. […]
We knew that the competition would be extremely stiff but still, ever since the CARICOM Basketball Championships, we’ve come to believe in miracles. Not so any longer. Our national men’s basketball team lost its opening game in the Caribbean and Central American Games Wednesday night to host country Venezuela. Depending on which report you listen […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley so pull up for another dishing of Sports Monday. Camalote Durley’s Crystal, after a perfect 10 and 0 regular season in the Cayo Softball competition, went into the Roaring Creek Stadium yesterday with a 1-2 up lead in the 3 game championship series against host team Roaring Creek, who made […]
The National Male Basketball Team may have left for the Central American and Caribbean Games, but the championship fever has not died. The Belize Youth Development Department has been seeking out some future stars by holding a series of midnight marathons. From July twenty-ninth to the thirty-first, six teams made up of sixteen to nineteen […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is another serving of Sports Monday. As the Belizean contingent to the eighteenth Central American and Caribbean Games continues its final preparations to Wednesday’s departure we peeked in on the training session of the National Male Volleyball Team yesterday. We step into the City Centre this quiet Sunday […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and yes this is yet another serving of Sports Monday. The final push for Belize’s participation in the eighteenth Central American and Caribbean Games is currently underway and so we decided to check in yesterday at the City Centre where the national male basketball team of Belize was working up […]
It was only a little more than a month ago that the nation’s collective heartbeat was racing just about as fast as our national basketball team was running down the court en route to its first ever CARICOM Championship. Now as a new challenge looms on the horizon the winning coaches and the first wave […]
Good evening. I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. It was billed as a showcase for Belizean cyclist headed for international competition but as we go to the picture we’re wondering how come only 17 riders appear lined up at the start for yesterday’s 80 mile road race organized by the Belize Amateur Cycling […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another great serving of Sports Monday. The B.F.L. three game championship series kicked off last Sunday with Juventus of Orange Walk handing Real Verdes a 2-1 punch at the People’s Stadium. Obviously, going into yesterday’s ball game Real Verdes needed at least a big “W” to force […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. While the World congregates at France trying to determine who’s number one in football here in the “Jewel” in Central America the B.F.L. tries to answer that very same question in its Knock-Out Football Tournament. At center stage it’s Nelson Moss of Real Verdes greeting […]
The drought that once plagued Belize’s quest for regional recognition in the world of sports is officially over. At least for basketball as the national male team proved to thousands who crammed the City Centre on Friday night that they are for real. As James Adderley tells us in tonight’s Shell CARICOM Report, not since […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. Saturday at the M.C.C. Grounds saw the National Cricket Competition try to reach its natural conclusion. It’s Brilliant of Crooked Tree in action against Tropical Disturbance in a rubber-match and indeed it seems this series may never finish. The defending champion Brilliant […]
If Thursday night’s semi-final round of the CARICOM Basketball Tournament was the refiners fire for the Belize National Male Team, then tonight’s championship match should add even more luster to those gold medals that the team’s eyes are fixed on. But the Belizeans know that as in any sports, it’s never wise to count the […]
Perhaps not since the opening tip-off has the Belize National Male Basketball Team faced such a crucial moment in the week long tournament. The pressure to win has been pushed into maximum overdrive for the boys wearing the blue, red and white. And if they do the entire country will breathe a collective sigh of […]
The first game may have been a fluke, the second could have been ascribed to luck, but by the end of last night’s third victory over highly touted regional opponents you’ve got to believe that team Belize is definitely for real. James Adderley has all of last night’s action from the house of hoop dreams, […]
The fourteenth CARICOM Basketball Championships continue at Belize City Centre with 6 female and 4 male teams battling for top honors. News Five’s James Adderley updates us on last night’s action in the Shell CARICOM Report. Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this edition of the Shell CARICOM Report. The National Female Basketball […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this monster serving of Sports Monday. For the past week or so basketball activity in the Jewel has reached dizzying heights with the fourteenth CARICOM Basketball Championship taking center stage. We’ve got a lot of stats for you so let’s start with opening ceremonies Friday night which […]
With only minutes to go until tonight’s opening tip-off all eyes are now turned to center court. This morning News Five’s James Adderley took a run over to Belize City Centre for a peek at last minute preparations. We’ll join him inside for tonight’s Shell CARICOM Report. Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to […]
Belize may be in the final stretch of a crucial election campaign, the National Assembly is poised to pass a radical new tax bill and at least one — and perhaps two — gangs of heavily armed killers are roaming the countryside. But all those events, normally the bread and butter of broadcast news, have […]
Politicians may be slugging it out in the war of words, but others are fighting for real. Not all the action will be on the basketball court, fists and feet will be flying at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall, as Belizean karate students, some as young as five years old, will be battling against the […]
While things appear to be going well for the Belize Team on the court, the overall organization of the CARICOM Basketball Championships reminds us that… well… this is the Caribbean. Case in point: the Jamaican National Teams. Both the men’s and women’s squads are defending champions but thus far they’ve been defending no-shows. Scheduled to […]
Until now Belize’s National Basketball team has been the only game in town. No longer. The first of their five CARICOM opponents arrived this morning, equipped with both first division college and semi pro experience. The eleven member male team from the Bahamas has been working out for the past two weeks and News Five’s […]
