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 […]
In crime news, police have reported the brutal attack of a young couple in the wee hours of Sunday morning in Orange Walk. A twenty one year old woman told police that she and eighteen year old Roberto Herbert were accosted as they drove along Price Avenue in Orange Walk Town by five men armed […]
Two people lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Friday night police say they found the body of Windel Middleton in a ditch just off Constitution Drive in Belmopan. According to the police, Middleton was in control of a car that was being towed, when another vehicle traveling in the opposite […]
Opening arguments were heard this morning in the Prime Minister’s libel suit against P.U.P. councilor in the San Ignacio Town Board, Marconi Matus. At a press conference in Belize City last February, Matus alleged that the P.M. knew of and supported attempts to bribe him to cross the floor. Matus also claims that he met […]
When he left the witness stand shortly before midday, the Prime Minister was off to the International Airport, headed for Castries, St. Lucia. There Esquivel will join other regional leaders for the nineteenth CARICOM Heads of Government Conference which opens on Tuesday. The week long meeting, which coincides with the Caribbean Community’s twenty fifth anniversary, […]
While the Prime Minister will take a break from domestic affairs and local politics for a few days, the country will at best have to wait for his return to find out the date for general elections. Constitutionally, the life of the current National Assembly expires on July fifteenth, but before he left for the […]
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 […]
