The 97 point output registered in regulation time by the Belize Bank Bulldogs on Friday last at the City Center against the visiting Sugar City Eagles was a season high for the team as well as a Belize Basketball Association (BBA) high for the 2006 season. This output surpassed the Bulldogs? previous high of 95 points produced in their win against the defending champs, BTL Nets, on April 7.
We respect the system of political parties and the qualities one requires in order to function successfully in it. One needs to be disciplined, flexible, intelligent and a team player. Some otherwise talented people find it hard to be team players, for example. Artists like to work alone. Many entrepreneurs are individualistic. Some people do not want to be flexible. They prefer to be straightforward and determined, so they seek areas of activity where they do not have to compromise all the time. Our point is that not everybody was cut out for party politics.
In primary school softball action held on Monday May 15, 2006, at the Rogers Stadium in Belize City, Muslim Community and Holy Redeemer had to settle for a split in the male and female divisional games. In the first match up, Muslim Community girls defeated Holy Redeemer by the score of 8-5. In the second game, Holy Redeemer boys avenged the loss by the females and defeated Muslim Community by the score of 5-2.
For us to improve and develop as a nation, it appears to me that the nation-state of Belize must be proactive about its role in education. Control of the educational system by the churches is not working. It?s not even working where religion and morality are concerned. Belize is an immoral, materialistic and hedonistic society. But everybody is ?churched? when he/she dies.
Two-time Female Cross Country Champion and Belize Defence Force Officer Cadet, Gina Lovell, 23, is setting a remarkable pace for herself. It's not merely the pace she's setting on the asphalt-covered roads of Belize, but on the rocky roads of life.
This afternoon, boat captain James ?Raindrops? Swan, Jr., 24, a resident of Mile 1 on the Northern Highway, was charged in the Belize City Magistrate?s Court with one count of murder in the shooting death of Tyrone ?Shabba? Felix, 22, a messenger of the Audit Department in Belize City.
At about 4:10 a.m., on Sunday, May 14, Felix was heading home from a concert at the City Centre when he was shot once in his head. He died on the spot.
It is my view that most women want to see the mountains that the ?Female Cross Country? crosses, to ride them to seek out the compulsion of this majestic, crazy, inspiring, heroic cycle race which started as a publicity stunt, was written off as a grotesque absurdity almost as soon as its first edition ended, and yet has continued to astonish ever since.
Director of Health Services says no shunt would have saved Baby Kimorah?s life
The Minister of Health, Hon. Joe Coye, this morning presented the results of an internal investigation into the death of Baby Kimorah Leslie, which occurred at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) early on the morning of Saturday, April 29.
I write my letter in total frustration with the Development Finance Corporation. I am a Belizean student whose family fell victim to relentless pursuit of DFC to collect on a loan. I wish that they had the same fervor when dealing with those millions in default.
News was received today of the death of social and political activist, farmer and writer Bismark Ranguy, Sr., a ?son of the soil? of the Toledo District. He was 86.
Bismark, a regular contributor to Amandala, died this morning at about 1:00 at his home in Forest Home, four miles from Punta Gorda Town, attended by his family. He had returned to live there, where he originally lived, after living in Mafredi.
Police have two grisly homicide cases on their hands?one of them believed to be related to underground warfare, the other believed to be the result of a ridiculous robbery attempt. Both stories come out of the north of Belize.
The victims are Corozal resident Adonai Espat, 30, who worked as a seaman in San Pedro Ambergris Caye, and Orange Walk resident, Alvaro Zetina, 46, husband and father of 3.
?Christianity is the highest and purest of all religions; but if we study the moral precepts of the foremost American nations, we shall see that in many respects they were not far behind, and were indeed in some instances in advance of Christianity. True, the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, with all its attendant horrors; but what were the religious wars, the expulsion of Jews, the slaughter of Infidels, the burning of heretics, but human sacrifice? Moreover, while we turn in horror from the sacrificial stone of the Aztecs, where the human victims were treated as gods and whence their souls were sent direct to Paradise, yet we find among them little of that most infamous of crimes ? persecution for opinion?s sake; nor yet do we read of their ingenuity being taxed for the contrivance of engines of the most excruciating torture, as we do in the history of Christianity. Tortures which, while killing the body, it was believed consigned the soul to eternal agonies.?
- pg. 60, Introduction, THE WORKS OF HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT, Volume VI, History of Central America Vol. I 1501-1530, Arno Press, San Francisco, 1886.
