As you know by now, the national basketball team won silver at the COCABA championships in August in Cancun, Mexico. The team played under protest because the eligibility of several players were questioned by FIBA officials who felt that the nationality of the Belizean players had to be determined by the age of sixteen. The […]
The decision to appeal Haas’ judgment has to come from the Belize Basketball Federation. That is the only point bouncing in the mind of B.B.F. president Paul Thompson. The ruling never discussed the eligibility of the basketball team in the COCABA games in Cancun. So the B.B.F. is not sure whether or not the team […]
Not much has been heard of Jamal Barrow until 2000 when he release his first album “Shyne”, named after himself. The rapper, the son of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, left Belize at an early age for the United states where he was recruited by Bad Boy Records. His hit song was “Bad Boyz” featuring Jamaica’s […]
Turning to a constant in the newscast; violence. There was another home invasion early this morning in Belize City. A man reportedly entered the home of a fifty-two year old woman and viciously assaulted her. The woman was beaten on the head and face with a piece of wood and then she was sexually assaulted. […]
Water rates; are they going up? Well, if the opposition had its way, it wouldn’t. Last Friday, we reported that the Belize Water Services Limited is applying for an increase in rates… not an ordinary increase, it’s a twenty-five percent hike. The Public Utilities Commission earlier this week held a press conference to say that […]
The hardship facing the one hundred and fifty plus families of Belize Maintenance Limited Workers who have been sent home is becoming dismal. Some of the women claim that they are being threatened with eviction, though they don’t even have money to buy food to eat. The few dollars they received recently were used to […]
Councilor responsible for Garbage, Philip Willoughby, has come up with wild proposals, which were quickly brushed away by his colleagues. Willoughby today had another brainwave and he says he will now meet with the Public Service Union, UB’s Student Government and the Chamber of Commerce. On Tuesday Cabinet established a ministerial sub-committee to meet with […]
Since this morning Jason Cain, a gunshot victim, has been in the post anesthetic and recovery ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after undergoing surgery. He was shot to his chest, arm and leg on Tuesday night in front of his home on Cairo Street. A witness to the shooting told News Five today […]
Police are trying to decipher how twenty year old Randy Coye was shot dead at the Lord Ridge Cemetery last Friday without anyone hearing the gunshots. It was initially reported that Coye died after he was bludgeoned to the head with a tombstone. Coye was shot three times and a post mortem certified that it […]
Is there trouble brewing in the horizon for the University of Belize? The institution has a total of four hundred and seventy-six faculty staff and administration, two hundred and fifty of which are fulltime employees. Last week Friday, a meeting was held where over one hundred and sixteen employee signed a petition indicating that they […]
He has an extensive rap sheet but has never been convicted and today thirty-one year old Darien Banks walked away from another set of charges. And like in many other cases that are thrown out, the reason was a lack of evidence. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, withdrew two counts of Keeping Unlicensed […]
And three inmates who broke out of prison on September twenty-seventh faced a charge of Escape in Magistrate Kathleen Lewis’ court today. Twenty-nine year old Terry Bainton, twenty-two year old Jose Melgar and twenty-nine year old Jose Lewis were recaptured on September twenty-eighth on the Western Highway. So what came out of their one day […]
Also in court, a third suspect was charged today for the September eighteenth Robbery at Dave’s Furniture World. Eighteen year old Kevin Abraham is believed to be one of three men who stormed the store at the corner of Tigris and Basra Streets and held the proprietor, Lelahnie Habet at gunpoint. The men also allegedly […]
After twelve grueling weeks of competition, the finals of Duets took place at the Bliss Centre as scheduled on Tuesday night. The audience clung to every second of performances by the three remaining duets who hail from Cayo and Belize City. And what a show it was! All three couples were in top form, physically […]
