Ten children now fatherless; Kerr’s family says his past “may have caught up with him”... While families all across Belize were getting ready for Christmas, Patrick Kerr, a 32-year-old family man and father of 10, was gunned down as he waited for a haircut. His family grieves for him but they also accept that it may have been his past which may finally have caught up with him
The murderous madness that has plagued the country for the past twelve months did not pause on Christmas Eve, Friday, December 24; on this night of celebration and preparation a stabbing incident, allegedly sparked by an “old beef”, has left a Hattieville teen of the Bainsville area lying in the morgue, after he was stabbed in the heart in a bar.
In one of his last judgments before his departure from Belize, Supreme Court Justice John Muria ruled that Government should pay BCB Holdings and its subsidiary, the Belize Bank, a $43 million arbitration award granted to the parties by the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) back in 2009.
132 murders for 2010, and the year has not yet ended! The Christmas holidays have ended, but for several families in Belize who lost loved ones during the holiday to the murderous violence that seems to have enshrouded the country, it was a Christmas, not of giving, but grieving.
Nigerian Christian Okonkwo of F.C. Belize leads all goal scorers at the end of the regular season in the 2010-2011 BPFL Opening Season for the Caribbean Motors Cup. Previously tied at 8 goals apiece with San Felipe Barcelona’s Deris “Colombia” Benavides, Okonkwo, along with teammate Jarrett Davis, exploded for 3 goals in the last game of the regular season, to take sole lead in the “goleador” column with 11. Jarrett is now tied with “Colombia” for 2nd place with 8 goals. Below is the complete list of all goal scorers in the recently completed regular season.
Only the legendary Cross Country is bigger, and the time is here, come New Year’s Day, 2011, for the 2nd biggest and most lucrative one-day cycling event in the nation of Belize – the 21st Annual Krem New Year’s Day Cycling Classic.
All three Round 11 back matches to end the regular season in the 2010-2011 BPFL Opening Season for the Caribbean Motors Cup were played last Thursday night, December 23, and the stage is now set for two quarterfinal one-smash encounters this coming Sunday, January 2, to determine the two teams who will join league leaders BDF and F.C. Belize in the semifinals, which will be the traditional home-and-away series.
Si hay una fiesta celebrada en todos los países del mundo, no es la Navidad, no es la Cuaresma, no es el Ramadán, no es el Éxodo de Egipto: es por excelencia el Año Nuevo. Llenamos el cielo de explosiones multicolores, hacemos desfiles en las calles, bailamos en los clubes, nos damos besos a la medía noche, quemamos muñecos de trapo, rumbeamos hasta el día siguiente, bebemos champaña y nos vestimos de gala.
We, as tour operators and tour guides who work in the Fort Street Tourism Zone on the outside, have decided to come together as one unit to voice our displeasure to the Belize Tourism Board of the discrepancies and challenges we are now faced with since the implementation of the Tourism Zone a few weeks ago.
The five murders over the Christmas holidays are telling us that the traditional message of Yuletide peace and goodwill was not really reaching Belizeans at the base of the pyramid. The days leading up to Christmas were tense; many Belizeans were realizing that the Pascua would be an uncharacteristically rough ride. And if the Christmas was dread, what was there to look forward to in January?
2010 was a significant year for Belize. Belize City (along with much of Central Belize, all the way through Belmopan) took its first direct hit from a major hurricane in almost half a century (Hurricane Richard), and murder rates reached an all-time high. But Belizean Dorian Villafranco, 17, brought good news home recently by excelling in regional examinations. He scored a record 15 Grade I’s in the 2010 Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
A few months ago there was a dispute inside the Muslim community in Belize City. It happened that I had very good friends on opposing sides in the power struggle. Ismail Shabazz, with whom I have been friends since 1968, was prominent in one faction, while a young brother I have known from his childhood, was vocal, and even physical, on behalf of the other faction.
The candidates elected are as follows: President – Dr. Bertie Chimilio; Senior Vice President – Mr. Bernaldino Pech; Vice President – Mr. David Jones; Member – Mr. John Moody; Member – Mr. Michael Peyrefitte.
The National Secondary Schools Sports Association (NSSSA) held its national basketball tournament on Friday and Saturday, December 17 and 18, at the Belize Civic Center, with the male and female champions of the four country zones battling for the National Championship. It was a knockout competition, hosted by Anglican Cathedral College of Belize City, and after four games on Friday, two male and two female teams were left to play for the championship on Saturday, while Friday’s losers played for 3rd place. And when it was all over, the Central Zone’s Gwen Lizarraga High School girls and Sadie Vernon Technical High School boys were both crowned 2010 National Champions.
