Belmopan, Belize 13 August (Belizean.com) The Prime Minister of Belize Hon. Dean Barrow has called into question the decision by FIBA (International Basketball Federation) to disqualify the Belize team over issues of nationality. Belize is currently playing in Cancun, Mexico at the FIBA sponsored CoCaBa basketball championship and has had three consecutive wins including today's victory over Panama ranked 29th in the world.
Belize has filed an appeal to FIBA headquarters in Geneva. The Prime Minister of Belize today suggested in a broadcast interview that FIBA Secretary General Patrick Baumann was disingenuous in the rationale he gave for disqualifying the tiny nation of Belize – the only English-speaking nation in Central America.
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