To get all you basketball fans out of that slump you’ve been feeling, the National Sports Council and the Taiwanese government have organized the first ever match-up between two Belizean teams and Taiwan’s National Team. The twelve players representing Taiwan arrived in Belize today after playing in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. While Taiwan […]
Their players might not be six feet tall but they played to win and win they did. The Police Department Eagles entered the interoffice basketball competition as the underdogs but went on to become the kings of the courts in the final game where they beat the Housing and Planning Team by a score of […]
A San Ignacio police officer has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at his superior. Around two a.m. on Sunday September twelfth, twenty-six year old Police Constable Denfield Augustine reportedly aimed a nine millimeter pistol at Corporal Lawrence Lopez through a window at the San Ignacio Police Station. He allegedly swore at the […]
In Belize City a security guard was stunned to learn that he was a little too late to stop a burglary from taking place at the TACA Airlines warehouse on the boulevard. Eighteen year old Jeremy Romero told police that when he showed up for work at seven p.m. on Tuesday he was met by […]
Today Trenton Green, the U.C.B. student who received a gunshot wound to his abdomen on Saturday, September eleventh denied he was acquainted with his assailant, Jerome Goff. Viewers may recall that during a police press conference, Inspector Mario Vernon, Head of C.I.B. told the media he does not believe Green was shot simply because he […]
And finally, police report that they have charged three in connection with a burglary at the home of Davidas Sukhlani in Punta Gorda over the holiday weekend. Estuardo Castellanos, seventeen, Westly Emmanuel, twenty-two, and Edwin Henry, sixteen, all of Punta Gorda Town were picked up earlier this week.
In celebrations news, Dell and the Sensations won first place in the National Song Contest at the City Centre on Tuesday night. Their winning entry was “Raise the Belizean Flag”. New Dimensions came in second with “Don’t Touch Pan Di Judge’s Daughter” while Kenny Morgan backed up by Comoso Lebe came in third with “Wild […]
While Belizeans and Taiwanese living in Belize will be watching basketball this week, softball fans also have something to cheer about with two Belizeans inducted into the International Softball Federation’s Hall of Fame. At the nineteenth I.S.F. World Congress in Korea Charles Solis Senior was elected into the Hall of Fame in the Manager/Coach category […]
Earlier this month a preschool opened in the Port Loyola Division thanks to the Beautiful Beginnings Committee of Jane Usher Boulevard. The Black Orchid Preschool is not yet completed and is temporarily housed in a neighborhood building. Today the committee received a donation from Belize Telecommunications Limited to assist with the construction. Fred Howard, Chairman, […]
Over the past several months, a flood mapping exercise was carried out as part of a Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project. The assessment, which attempts to simulate how the Belize River runs and its impact on the communities from San Ignacio to Roaring Creek during floods, was presented to the villages’ chairpersons, representatives of water resource […]
It took a while for the fire hearth to get going, but today visitors to the Culture Village at the Bliss Institute got a chance to sample a variety of Belizean culinary treats. While there was a small fee for each dish, the entertainment was free. News Five was there for the opening day. The […]
