Yesterday it was Panama, today in semifinal play Team Belize—Belizean Heritage—won comfortably over Costa Rica by twenty-four points on the way to proving that games should be settled on the court. Final score: Belize ninety-nine, Costa Rica seventy-five. So what’s next for our Dream Team? Team Mexico in the finals. Yesterday Mexico demolished Costa Rica […]
And Minister of Sports, Elvin Penner, left the country this morning to join the throng of supporters standing behind the Belize National Team in Cancun, Mexico. Penner, along with representatives from his ministry, will also accompany the team on their return trip to Belize. When they touch down at the Phillip Goldson International Airport, following […]
But after Saturday’s motorcade, what’s next for Team Belizean Heritage after the COCABA Championship for men is still up in the air. Yet the possibilities seem endless at this point for our dream team. Even if Belize makes it all the way to the 2012 Olympics, there is a roadmap that the players must follow […]
Tomorrow the Ministry of Sports will break ground for the phase one of the reconstruction of the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. During halftime our correspondent in Cancun, Ava Lovell, caught up with National Sports Council Executive Director, Anthony Michael and asked about developmental plans for basketball in Belize. Anthony Michael, Executive Director, National Sports Council […]
The September celebrations are only a few weeks away. But the plans are already underway for this year’s celebration. There was a one-liner minor mention in Tuesday’s cabinet press release that promises a major change in the tradition of the celebrations. The major difference is that the official Independence Day program will be held in […]
The current transportation schedules that exist in the south and west were introduced last October. And since then there have been many complaints about the quality of service provided, the unavailability and overcrowding of buses, only to mention a few. But if that were not bad enough, northern commuters have to put up with those […]
Social workers within the Ministry of Human Development have been participating in a three day workshop at the Belize Institute of Management in Belize City. Facilitator Dr. Peta Anne Baker, Coordinator of the Social Work Program at the University of West Indies Mona Campus, says that the workshop will strengthen the community mobilization and advocacy […]
It is the seventh year that the Kolbe Foundation has been in control of the prison facilities. And since Sunday, August ninth, activities marking Kolbe Week have been taking place, under the theme: “Restoring Life through Meaningful Rehabilitation, Successful Reintegration and Brotherly Love.” And while the walls and bars are there to suppress criminal minds, […]
Today marks the conclusion in the second phase of the Belize Defense Force Summer Camp Program 2009. More than one hundred and seventy students from across the country participated in the two week program in which they learned various skills including driving, building construction, painting and boat handling. And today, at a ceremony held at […]
Two people are in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after they were shot last night in Belize City. The incident happened shortly before eight on the street in front of a Neal’s Pen Road residence. News Five understands that twenty-four year old Darren Dawson and his twenty-seven year old sister, Shanda Dawson, were standing outside […]
An eighteen year old Mahogany Street resident was charged with Burglary today when he appeared before Magistrate Tracy Sosa. The youth, Alexander Nunez, allegedly broke into a store in the area on Tuesday and made off with sixty dollars cash and grocery items valued at approximately a hundred and forty dollars. Nunez appeared in court […]
It was not a good day in court for thirty-four year old Elliott Palacio, a farmer from Bermudian Landing who was caught with illegal drugs and ammunition. Palacio was charged with Drug Trafficking for five point four grams of cocaine, Possession of a Controlled Drug for a hundred and twenty-eight grams of cannabis and Keeping […]
It’s not considered one of the core subjects in the curriculum, but Physical Education classes are essential to the holistic development of children. The problem in Belize—particularly at the primary school level—is that P.E. is more times than not simply considered a free period and the students are allowed to run around as they please. […]
Last week News Five reported on the controversial development in San Pedro Town by developer, David Mitchell. Mitchell is constructing a mile long road that will connect the east and the west of the island over marshy wetlands. The roadway will also provide access to two housing projects, one by government and the other by […]
But San Pedro is not the only community with environmental controversy. On Tuesday night, villagers of Hopkins in the Stann Creek District gathered to discuss dredging activities that are taking place on the western side of the community. According to them, for months now the works have been going on without any consultation with the […]
