Krem's 22nd Annual New Year's Day Cycling Classic kicked off this morning at 9 at the Belize-Mexico Border in Santa Elena, Corozal and if anything can describe this year's race, it is the fulfillment of expectations: Expectations that it be different from last year when the winner was basically decided not too long into the race and a foreigner, Costa Rican Marco Salas took away the crown.

The Belize Rural High School from Double Head Cabbage has much to be proud of. The Belize Under 17 female softball team, which went to Panama to compete in the 3rd Central American and Caribbean Scholar Games, was made up of students from their school, with the addition of 5 students from other schools. And the girls distinguished themselves by bringing home silver medals from the competition.

Before a packed house today at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts—so packed, in fact, that during his speech, Minister of Education Patrick Faber was forced to apologize to disgruntled parents who were unable to get a view of their sons and daughters on stage—some 991 top performers in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and 16 in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) were recognized for their performance in exams sat in May and June.

Fishing is one of the last surviving traditional occupations for Belizeans—one that transcends the divide in ethnic backgrounds as well as the chasm between the youth and elders, its participants numbering in the thousands, who exploit what the experts now contend is a dwindling natural resource.

The staff at Western Health Regional Hospital in Belmopan is pleased to announce the successful delivery of a set of triplet girls that took place this morning at approximately 9:51 am to Ms. Irene Garcia and her common law husband Alfred Avilez.

It is notified for general information that public and bank holidays specified in the First and the Second Schedules to the Holidays Act, Chapter 289 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2003, will be observed on the following days