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. […]
In other sporting news, this time from the national pastime called politics, leader of the opposition Said Musa has announced the holder of a key portfolio in any future P.U.P. Cabinet: himself. The statement came in response to a question from host Stuart Leslie on last night’s “One On One”. Q: “Should the P.U.P. win […]
In crime news, the four suspects detained in the beating of a P.U.P. campaign worker in the Mesopotamia division were today formally charged in Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-one year old Dean Jones, twenty-five year old Raymond Codd, thirty-one year old Darrington Lauriano and thirty-two year old Michelle Cattouse were each charged with one count of grievous […]
Thousands of primary school children countrywide are grudgingly watching the calendar as the count down to the proverbial burning of the free paper quickly approaches. But while the boys and girls are enjoying their last days of freedom, teachers in Belize City have been hard at work, brushing up on their skills. An intensive two-week […]
The Central Bank’s governor and staff have been clamoring for their own building for what seems like decades. Tonight, although surrounded by partisan political controversy, that building is a reality. This morning the press, including News Five’s Patrick Jones, got a tour. The three story concrete structure will unite all of the Central Bank’s operations […]
The Albert division in Belize City has been the perennial home of veteran political leader Philip Goldson. But with Goldson’s retirement the race has been thrown wide open. The P.U.P.’s Mark Espat has been working hard in the area for several years, while the N.A.B.R.’s Gilda Lewis, hoping to inherit her leader’s following, is also […]
The commentaries on the Last Word have traditionally managed to avoid the subject of partisan politics, and while he does not intend to deviate from that practice, with less than two weeks to go before elections, G. Michael Reid has a bit of eleventh hour advice for the electorate. “Many have pointed to December 31st […]
