24 basketball teams played dozens of games in 25 weeks of basketball during the William Dawson Sprite Digi Youth Basketball tournament 2023.
The event is part of peace - building effort led by the Belize Police Department to bring together ballers from rival gang communities.
The event culminated on Sunday afternoon at the City Center with Hard Rock Boyz emerged victorious as reaper champions with a total of 26 wins and one loss. They played the Port Loyola Titans in the final.
The winners took home the championship trophy and medals along with $4,000 dollars. For their second place finish, the Titans took home $3,000 dollars, and the trophy hardware.
Organizers say it took "humility, respect, appreciation, purpose, understanding and teamwork, to be consistent for 25 weeks of hard, dedicated and successful teamwork" to make the tournament a success.
Tourism's Best Honored
The Belize National Tourism Awards were held last night, here in the city.
Top finishers were awarded in twelve categories.
The top prizes went to Naia Resort and Spa in Placencia as the Hotel of the Year, Alma Del Rio in Cayo as Best Small Accommodation of the year, Mambo Restaurant at Matching in San Pedro as Restaurant of the year, Tuneffe Attoll Sustainability as site of the year, and Nedia Chaplain won tour guide of the year.
For a full list of the winners you can go to the BTB Facebook page.
Judges included Kevin Geban, Karen Vernon, Chef Rob Pronk, Einar Marin, and Jamal Galvez
