The Belize National Basketball team took on the top rated Venezuelan team on home turf and on Friday night it bombed the visitors by a twenty point margin. On Saturday the local boys headed for Santo Domingo on Saturday for the Centro Basket Games. At the opening game this morning against Trinidad and Tobago, Belize […]
Despite emerging victorious in its first match up, the roster is short of one of its top shooters who did not make it to DR because of an inadequate insurance policy. Top shooter Marlon Garnett, who was spectacular in last year’s COCABA Championship in Cancun, is noticeably absent from the hardwood in Santo Domingo. Garnett […]
This past weekend, one man was murdered and many others were injured in the continued gun violence in the Old Capital. Philip Anthony Barrera was heading to the bus terminal on Sunday morning when a gunman rode up on bicycle and fired several shots hitting him on the jaw and rib cage. It proved deadly […]
But the previous night, on Saturday, there was other gun violence in the Old Capital. Eight women were in a yard at Banak Street when gunshots interrupted their discussions. Two of the women were injured and the gunmen rode on towards Zericote Street where more bullets were fired. Three persons were hit and police have […]
The violence was not confined to the city. There was a ruckus in Camalote Village and while fortunately it did not end fatally, the incident landed two brothers in the hospital. The confrontation involved two opposing groups of youths from the same village and was over an old beef involving a stick of weed. The […]
While residents in Camalote plead for authorities to intervene, in the Belize two parents say they will pursue legal action against the police department. On Friday afternoon two minors were detained by Belize City Police following a burglary which they say netted the culprits over a thousand dollars in clothing and other merchandise. While the […]
It is becoming all too familiar; murder trial falls apart because the case file was not available. The family of thirty-three year old Brian “Benji” Williams, who was gunned down in 2009, was expecting justice to be served when twenty-one year old Carl Dalton Reneau was charged for the murder. Instead, Reneau was freed today […]
Another case crumbled in Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer’s court this morning. And again the reason was that the police failed to provide the case file. Forty-four year old Egbert Herman Card was facing charges of Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm for a stabbing incident in the Port Loyola area. […]
Kenneth Garcia was found guilty of manslaughter for the death of his uncle, fifty-four year old Serjio Amilcar Garcia on June sixteenth. His sentencing was deferred three times while his attorneys tried to find persons to give mitigation pleas and Justice Troadio Gonzalez contemplated Kenneth’s fate. Well, in the Belmopan Court today, where Justice Gonzalez […]
Tension between the Bar Association of Belize and PM Dean Barrow over the appointment of the next Chief Justice, went up a notch last weekend. About two weeks ago, the Bar wrote to the PM requesting to be consulted on the appointment of the next Chief Justice, as well as any new Justices of Appeal. […]
The Pro-tempore presidency of the Central American Integration System (SICA) was held by Panama for the first half of this year and as of July first, Belize took over the rotating presidency. Representatives from different SICA organs are in Belize to brief the local officials on the state of affairs in the region and to […]
Good Evening, I’m James Addles and this is Sports Monday. We take you immediately inside El Palacio de Deportes in the Dominican Republic where Centre Basket 2010 opened this morning with Belize facing Trinidad and Tobago. We pick up the action in the second quarter as Alex Carcamo raises up for the two pointer just […]
