Belize ahead by a mile; that is in Cancun, where the national team played in protest and secured an early lead in the COCABA regional games. The team massacred Nicaragua at the Cancun Poliforum where the games got underway this afternoon. Despite a last minute challenge from FIBA on the issue of the citizenship of […]
The COCABA games had a rocky start for Team Belize. The excitement wasn’t expected until the boys hit the court, but it appears that there was some strategy to scratch off more than half of the players from the roster prior to the first game. The late challenge was made by the International Basketball Federation […]
Denys Barrow took the oath today as a Justice of the Court of Appeal. Justice Barrow was sworn in by Governor General, Sir Colville Young, at Belize House in Belmopan. Denys Barrow, Sworn in as Appeals Court Judge “I Denys Barrow do swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance in Belize and will […]
And in the Magistrates’ Court, three persons were arraigned for the Murder of fifty-three year old Glenford Williams, who was employed with Anchor Security. The incident, a robbery attempt at the Western Union offices on Regent Street in May, ended fatally for the security guard on duty. That was three months ago and today two […]
In other news from the courts, the brother of the Commissioner of Police, sixty-four year old William Jeffries doesn’t seem to have much regard for the law. And after eight previous drug related convictions, Jeffries finds himself behind bars for Possession of a three and a half inch pipe used to smoke drugs. The Tigris […]
A shooting occurred in Belize City over the weekend in an area prone to violence. On Saturday night at about nine, a minor was standing at the corner of Vernon and Lakeview streets when two assailants rode up and blasted shots. One of the bullets caught the youth on the buttocks. Though the incident wasn’t […]
A family outing in the Valley of Peace Area ended fatally for one member who was mistaken for wildlife. Sometime around four o’clock last Friday, a party of the Guardado family took off on a hunting trip. The group included thirty-nine year old Jose Antonio Guardado, his brother-in-law and three friends. The group headed to […]
Also on Friday, around two-thirty that afternoon, a store in the Saint Matthew’s Village near mile thirty-nine on the western highway, was the target for an armed robbery. Seventeen year old victim, Elsworth Cus, told News Five off camera that he was alone at home with his mentally challenged brother when two men entered the […]
And in the capital, a fourth person was charged this morning in connection with the vicious murder of eighty-two year old Belmopan taxi-driver, James Young. Twenty-five year old Sherlock Myvette now joins twenty-six year old Matthew Gentle, twenty-five year old Leon Gentle and nineteen year old Transito Ricardo Tzul for Young’s murder. Mister Jimmy, as […]
In other news, the US States Chargé D’Affaires J.A. Diffily, handed over a donation to Belize today at the House of Culture. These funds will be used for cultural preservation and under the Ambassador’s Fund program, the House of Culture and the Institute of Archaeology, received grants totaling over two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. […]
The construction work that was occurring within Krooman Lagoon has stopped. The reserve is the only of its kind in Belize City and its importance as a catchment basin for runoff waters after rains has been established for years. Businessman Jitendra Chawla, the owner of Xtra House who is better known as Jack Charles, was […]
The COCABA games are dominating the national airwaves today, but there are a host of other sports whose fans want to know what occurred over the weekend. James Adderley has more on sports. In football news, game one of the Belize Female Football championships kicked off at Esperanza on Saturday August eighth when Gentle Touch […]
