Barbadian Commentators “The ball is in the air, he misses. This could be it here. They have the play…from Barbados. Three seconds, two seconds, the clock in running out. The shot is up, it goes and we have extra time here.” But there was to be no extra time for Belize as officials at the […]
For his part, Dwight Myvette, the man who made the dramatic shot, had absolutely no doubt that his short jumper left his hands well before time had expired. Dwight Myvette, Guard, Belize Nat’l Team “Number thirteen for Barbados was fouled. The coach called me to the bench, he was shooting two free throws. The coach […]
It was a big weekend for Belize’s emergency rooms as a number of shootings and stabbings kept doctors and nurses working late into the night. In the most serious incident one Belize City victim is clinging to life with a bullet still stuck inside his skull. Earlier I visited his family at the KHMH. Sixteen-year […]
As the Martinez family pray that their son recovers from his wound, police are looking into several other shooting incidents that took place in Belize City over the weekend. Around 4:00 Saturday morning residents of Nargusta Street were awakened by the sounds of gunshots. When the firing stopped, fifty-five year old Norris Leslie lay wounded […]
A long standing dispute between neighbours has left a mother and son hospitalized in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to San Pedro police, at about 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning, Dolores Uk was having a heated argument with one Michelle Pineda. Uk’s son, Orlando, seeing the dispute taking place apparently intervened but as he […]
She left work after the news Friday night, but what was supposed to be Janelle Chanona’s last day at the job was extended a few hours by a fire not far from her home. She and cameraman Brent Toombs tore themselves away from watching the basketball game to chronicle the tragedy. Tonight’s story was then […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re just in time for this big time version of Sports Monday. “We were robbed” is the prevailing view of the Belizean public after watching the semifinal showdown between Belize and the host team Barbados Friday night in the 15th CARICOM Basketball Championship. Nevertheless lets take it from the […]
