This morning at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in the capital, we caught up with Police United Football Club as the players trained to take on a Honduran team in a home and away game in the CONCACAF’s Champions League on August sixteenth. It’s a big leap for the team that hopes to qualify for its […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Certainly was a biggie at Birds Isle Friday night in Interoffice Basketball play as Heritage Bank Heatz challenged the supremacy of the league leaders Mayan Man Warriors in what turned out to be a low scoring affair. Winston Pratt got the Warriors off to […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We begin with Belize District Football t the MCC Grounds where the mad dash to make the championship match raged as Lake I Bombers and Sports Academy almost fought to a standstill. 8 minutes in, Francesco Briceño guides this set piece into the danger […]
Softball, volleyball, football and basketball are the four disciplines that will be featured in the National Sports Council’s 2016 Summer Sports Camp. The annual activity will commence on Monday, July eighteenth from nine a.m. to twelve noon and will run for two weeks at the Roger’s Stadium in Belize City. National Sports Coordinator, Charlie Slusher, […]
The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is coming up in August and aficionados are eagerly anticipating the games. Today, Great Belize Productions/Channel Five struck an agreement with the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees, CANOC, to broadcast the upcoming games. The rights to air the games succeeds an agreement with the International […]
The overall impact of the programming, says Romany, will be felt across the region since its aim is to bring unity among athletes, fans and viewers at home. Larry Romany, C.E.O., CANOC Broadcasting Inc. “We see, I mean, a huge impact primarily because the Caribbean region to see their athletes in action. They will […]
The annual CODICADER games concluded in Belize over the weekend, after several days of competition in various sporting disciplines. With several venues across the country hosting games simultaneously, local organizers were busy coordinating the events. When it was all said and done, the experience for Team Belize and the National Sports Council was invaluable. Notwithstanding […]
Going into the CODICADER games, there were serious concerns about Belize’s ability to successfully the host the respective Central American countries. Those expectations, says Sutherland, were all met. Deon Sutherland, Head of Mission, Belize “Well definitely the overall expectations were met, you know, in terms of the hosting; I mean we pulled it off. […]
Over the weekend, Eastern Division South hosted a basketball tournament on the court at the Yarborough Green on south side Belize City. The community policing initiative is aimed at bringing together youths caught up in crime in an effort to mitigate criminal activities in the city. ACP Chester Williams explains. ACP Chester Williams, Regional […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Friday night’s ticket of BDBA Firms basketball play surely was something to see as Atlantic Bank currently in second place took a surging BWS looking to move on. The bank gets off fast as Ervin Orosco strikes the pose for a triple, would tally […]
The 2016 CODICADER Games continued today in Belize City, Orange Walk, Belmopan and San Ignacio where a number of tournaments, including basketball, football, table tennis and volleyball are being played. It is Belize’s first time hosting the regional competition for athletes below the age of thirteen and, according to Head of Mission Deon Sutherland; things […]
Belizean/American track and field athlete Kenneth Medwood claims to have been snubbed from participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics because the Belize Athletic Association reportedly failed to include him on a list of athletes representing Belize. According to Medwood, there had been little communication from the BAA regarding his status as a member of the […]
Medwood, who finds himself in a similar situation as Kaina Martinez, says that they have been disrespected by the Belize Athletic Association. Kenneth Medwood, Athlete “I just feel that it’s a great disrespect, I mean, me and Kaina competed in the 2012 Olympics and Kaina ran in the quarters and then Kaina qualified to […]
Kaina Martinez, who has been quite vocal about her displeasure with not being selected, also granted News Five a Skype interview this evening. She too demands that the association shows more respect for Belizean athletes. Kaina Martinez, Athlete “They should have a little bit more respect for athletes, as well as they should answer […]
Today, delegations from several Central American countries arrived in Belize to join their colleagues who will be participating in the CODICADER Primary School championships over the next week. It’s been a challenging time for the National Sports Council with financing a primary concern, but as we saw when we arrived at the Phillip Goldson International […]
With the start of the 2016 CODICADER Games less than three days away, final preparations are being made to ensure that Team Belize maintains the best chance of excelling in the regional competition. That being said, the National Sports Council is busy tying up loose ends logistically, both for the visiting teams, as well as […]
The cheque was presented to the National Sports Council by Communications Director William Neal. According to Neal, ASR/B.S.I. decided to make a contribution towards the initiative primarily because it will go a long way in terms of its impact on Belize’s participation in CODICADER. William Neal, Communications Director, ASR/B.S.I. “Generally, ASR is one of […]
The opening ceremony for CODICADER 2016 will be held at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex on Thursday evening and is being organized by the National Institute of Culture and History. Representatives, as well as other members of the respective national teams began arriving in the country on Monday, ahead of the launch of the games. […]
School is out and summer camps are in. Across the country, various organizations are hosting recreational events for children who are presently on vacation. Over the next few weeks we will be covering a myriad of summer camps in everything from swimming to basketball and everything in between. Tonight however, we’ll look at an annual […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Saturday night brought out the big time showdown between Infotel and Belize Telemedia at Bird’s Isle. As the BDBA Firms Basketball season continues to roll. In the 1st quarter, Jason Vasquez power Telemedia first with this hammer. He comes back with the triple and […]
We’re just back from Las Vegas, Nevada where over the weekend; Belize was represented by eighteen poker players in the World Series of Poker Monster Stack Event. It was the second year a group travelled to Sin City to compete in the event. While the performance of the Belize team has improved, the poker players […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Friday night’s big match dubbed the battle banks saw Atlantic Bank challenge the Heritage Bank in a bid for bragging rights inside the BDBA Firms Competition. Heritage Bank roars out of the starting blocks. Kevlin Rhoden misses the jumper but Kurt Burgess is there […]
Starting Saturday, twenty Belizean poker players will be competing in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada. The team has doubled since last year and all the players are eager and ready to compete against an estimated six thousand players at the WSOP’s Monster Stack Event. A News Five Team is in Vegas […]
The first qualified, Belizean boxing coach since the International Boxing Association began a recertification exercise in 2013 is Dwight Cadle Junior. He has been hitting the books and the punching bags hard for the past year, preparing himself to lead the next crop of Belizean pugilists to the global stage. Prior to Cadle’s accreditation, local […]
Track and Field athletes Katy Sealy and Brandon Jones will represent Belize at the Olympics 2016 in Rio. As we told you in Tuesday’s newscast, twenty-two athletes competed over the weekend at the seventeenth Central American Championships in El Salvador and Belize’s performance was exceptional. Today News Five learnt that athletes are already preparing for […]
