A man killed his own wife on Christmas Day, allegedly after an argument over a Christmas ham which escalated to a murderous height. What was even more tragic about the incident was that the murder happened in front of the couple’s three sons.
Amandala today spoke with a not-too-happy Matthew Smiling, proprietor of the famous “Smiling Meats,” located on New Road in Belize City, who is not only angry that his business is being used for nefarious purposes, but also wants to warn the general public, abroad and in Belize, about a con artist operating in the United States.
For the year 2006, we thought that we would honour a lady of extraordinary dignity and strength who has worked for many years in the underfinanced and underequipped primary school system in the heart of Belize City’s Southside – the most violent community in the nation of Belize.
Kolbe Foundation, the Belize Central Prison, held its 5th Annual Family Day on December 26, 2006. Over 3,240 people including, families of inmates, church leaders and affiliated persons, showed up to spend the day with their loved ones.
Businessman Arun Hotchandani this morning moved to evict the Belize City Council from its Pound Yard location. Reports to Amandala are that at about 10:00 this morning four of Hotchandani’s workmen began dismantling a wooden shack that was being used as the carpentry shed. The Council knew that they were coming, and the materials from the shed were removed yesterday
The countdown is on with less than a week to go. If you are thinking about New Year’s Day, then you are on the right track. But I am not talking about any celebration of the sort. I am talking about the 17th riding of the annual KREM New Year’s Day Cycling Classic.
Last Saturday night at the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk, Suga Boys Juventus and Adventures FC saw their action after getting automatic bids to the second round of the tournament.
What is it in Belize City with politicians and football fields, that they always seem compelled to destroy our earthen playgrounds in pursuit of some lofty goal, usually involving votes for the politician?
On New Year’s night thirty-eight years ago, a group of young university graduates carried placards and demonstrated on North Front Street in front of the Eden Cinema. The Belizean graduates and intellectuals – including Assad Shoman, Said Musa, Evan Hyde, Lionel del Valle (deceased), Derek Courtenay, Ronald Clarke (deceased), and others, said that they were objecting to the showing of an American movie named “The Green Berets,” which extolled the United States’ war effort in Vietnam.
Over the Christmas holidays a PUP insider told me that their Hon. Ralph Fonseca is once again considering a run in the PUP’s Belize Rural Central convention. According to the published instructions of the PUP Secretariat, all 31 constituencies should have held their conventions by July 31 of this year (2006), but PUP Rural Central remains up in the air. This looks like one more case of special rules for special people.
On Tuesday of this week I visited the FFB headquarters to get a first hand look on how the training for the national selection was progressing. To be honest, I did not get to see much, partly because of Mother Nature and because of the fact that an exhibition match was scheduled for later in the day. Currently there are 32 players attending training camp, but I was informed that interested players are still welcome to tryout for positions.
Last Saturday night, December 16, 2006, at the Carl Ramos Stadium in Dangriga, Esperanza’s Gentle Touch Strikers defeated the host team, Griga Ambassadors, 2-1 in a penalty shoot-out to claim the Belize Female Football Competition Committee’s 2006 title.
On our weekly gathering at the Corozal Central Park Office where we discuss several issues, one of our commentators brought up the issue about why many of the leaders of the GWU of the 60’s couldn’t respond in a more efficient way on behalf of the working class of the country.
