Four clubs entered the big dance for a shot at snatching the 2004/2005 BPFL championship hardware that has eluded Juventus and the now defunct Builders? Hardware Bandits. Kulcha Yabra had a couple of glory years, winning a back-to-back and a single championship, and defending champions Sagitun has been enjoying this year after taking the championship trophy down south to Independence after previously winning two championships.
A little over a year ago, police had arrested and charged one of their own, Police Officer Burton Caliz, Jr., with the shooting death of San Pedro resident Leroy ?Dan? Pilgrim, 23, a young married man and father of a baby girl.
The shooting occurred on Thursday, February 12, 2005 on San Pedro.
Belizean Shores (3-2) vs Complex Bombers (1-4), Diamond Int?l (1-4) vs BIMS/Alberts (2-3), Aero Despatch (4-1) vs Atlantic Bank (4-2), Belize National Selection vs American Airlines ?Rough Riders? team from New York
Excellence beat Berlan ? Brilliant and Surprise suspended
The semi-finals of the Harrison Parks National Cricket Competition continued over the weekend with matches played at Lords Bank and Flowers Bank. Excellence defeated Berlan at Flowers Bank by a score of 75 runs to 68 runs. The match played between Brilliant and Surprise was suspended due to nightfall, at which point Brilliant was all-out for 196 runs and Surprise had 105 runs with 12 overs remaining to bat. This match will continue in Lords Bank on Saturday, June 25, 2005.
The House of Representatives is scheduled to meet on Friday, June 17, 2005, to discuss some major money matters, including tax increases, the sale of shares in Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL), and possibly the divestment of the assets of the Development Finance Corporation (DFC).
Debt servicing is putting a major strain on the public purse, and GOB is hoping that it can boost tax earnings and revenues from asset sales enough to alleviate that tight strain.
Amandala spoke with attorney Marcel Cardona Cervantes of Marcel Cardona Cervantes and Company, of Orange Walk Town today, who told us that he is alarmed about the poverty situation in Santa Martha Village, which led to the death, after 4:00 p.m. on Monday, June 13, of a 4-year-old female child, Kimara Rodriguez.
Kimara died of sepsis, which is secondary to malnutrition.
School Liaison Officers (SLOs)/Truancy Officers play a vital role in preventing children between the ages of 5 and 14, at the primary school level, from being absent or becoming dropouts from school.
On Monday, June 13, the Truancy Department, an arm of the Ministry of Education, which supports the Education Support System Service, in a meeting, told liaison officers from the districts of Belize and Cayo that their services were being terminated.
Gas prices have increased again, and according to gas station outlet personnel with whom we spoke, a majority has said that the new prices came into effect on Wednesday, June 15.
The new gas prices coming from the pumps around the country of Belize are: In Belize City, gas prices went up as follows - premium, $8.85 cents per gallon, an increase of .6 cents, from the old price, $8.79 cents; diesel, $6.41 cents per gallon, an increase of .23 cents from the old price, $6.18; regular, $8.52 per gallon, an increase of .8 cents from the old price, $8.44.
Traditionally a cycling race would run from the flat roads to the mountainous region. The Father?s Day Classic runs from the gradual ascent of the mountain range in the Cayo District crossing the entire length of the Western Highway, beginning at the Benque Viejo Del Carmen border. Then there is the plunge into the new Capital City, subsequently through the gentle rolling hills onto the flat roads leading to the Old Capital City on the coast. This is essentially the course the Father?s Day Classic follows ? the youngest of the classics.
Police on Wednesday arrested two Belizean minors, aged 16 and aged 14, and charged them with the rape and murder of a 20 year old Guatemalan domestic on Friday, June 10, in Lords Bank. Because the accused are minors, pictures of them have not been released, but all indications were that the two accused, who are brothers, are black. The victim is a Hispanic, from a group the streets of Belize have come to refer to as ?aliens.?
Well, I had ended my last month?s edition of ?Horseracing? with a plea to GOD to show our horses mercy from the treacherous racetrack at Castleton, and sure enough, GOD is good. The rainfalls in the country were surely felt in beautiful Burrell Boom over the past week, and a visit to the track reveals that this Father?s Day, June 19, 2005, promises to be a day of wholesome family fun filled with exciting horse racing. A11 the races should be fast due to the fast track condition.
BWSL ?Pressure? were able to exert extreme ?pressure? on ?Aero Despatch/Customs? in Monday night interoffice basketball, defeating them 55-47.
?Aero/Despatch/Customs? who entered the game as one of the four remaining undefeated teams, were not able to match up inside with ?BWSL? big men, Karim Thompson (28 pts 10 rebs) and Deon Andrews (6 pts 9 rebs), and as a result were out rebounded 34-25 in the game. Their fast break attack was practically non-existent, as their sparkplug player, Myron Flowers, was held to a season low 3 pts. This, coupled with Ronald Alarcon?s (15 pts) early second half disqualification from the game for verbally abusing the referees, made it a long night for ?Aero Despatch?.
Women have been relegated from the highest political parties arena in our country in such a way that we can count them with the fingers of one of our hands.There have been a very few that have gotten the opportunity to serve as an area representative.
