This makes the fourth week since school has reopened for elementary school goers, but Doris Staine, 4, who has spina bifida but whose mental faculties are completely intact, has been forced to return to preschool – clearly a retrograde step for a bright child who has already graduated – because she has been rejected from the schools for which she has applied.
No disrespect to readers, but I had decided not to write a column for this issue. When I get angry, it can be difficult to write. And if I wasn’t angry enough about Mose and Rufus, the public and international humiliation the Americans put Marion Jones through, just put me in a rage.
The Tattaglia and Sollozzo faction of the ruling PUP decided to move the political debate from a rhetorical one to a military one last week with two cold blooded strikes against leading members of the Kremandala family.
When Marion Jones draped the Belizean flag around her shoulders after winning the 100 meters at the 2000 Olympiad, she became our hero. Before this, Ludwig Lightburn was no. 1. He was our brightest star athlete on the international stage of boxing, though he never won a world championship. Marion superceded him when she earned the title of the world’s fastest woman.
He was on the run for days after being accused of trying to kill Rivero Street resident Julius Gonzalez, 21, on September 12, almost a month ago, but on Wednesday, October 3, police took Ernest Sacasa, 24, a resident of Kraal Road, to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, where he was charged with one count of attempted murder
On Monday, October 8, 2007, the managers of the Chiquibul National Park invited Amandala to fly over the park and see first hand the damage done to the forest by illegal farmers from Guatemala.
On April 10, 2006, he was accused of igniting a fire at his family home, located at #44 Mopan Street. Today, halfway into his trial, David Sosa, 38, who had initially pleaded not guilty to arson, suddenly decided to change his plea to guilty.
A Chinese businessman, Hi Hyung Cheong, 47, who is said to be from Chetumal, Quintana Roo, appeared in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court, where he was charged for extortion, allegedly for conning a Korean businessman, Hueng Tack Kim, 50, of #65th Street, out of $25,000 worth of name brand socks.
Former BDF Captain, Charlie Good, visited Amandala today with his daughter, Samantha Good, 12, who was involved in a traffic accident yesterday evening while she, her mother and her older brother were heading home to Belama. Good’s wife, Leticia, and his son, Matthew, 16, were also injured in the traffic accident.
Cuba. I got in an argument recently with a born again Christian. She accused me of being gullible. She said that I don’t know anything about the package called Fidel Castro. She listed some real derogatory attributes of the gentleman. She told me (born again Christians get their info from the Mr. Jesse Helms and friends group) all about bondage in Cuba (flies in the face of God), and dishonesty (flies in the face of God), and killing people (state executions) who don’t agree with him (flies in the face of God).
Early Friday morning, the most popular talk show host in the land, KREM’s Evan “Mose” Hyde of the WUB (Wake up Belize) morning show, heard gunshots and awoke to find two unlit Molotov cocktails in his vehicle, the window of which had been smashed. Five days later, on October 4, Rufus X, a panelist on KREM’s Tuesday night Kremandala Show, was viciously attacked with a piece of iron as he got out of his vehicle on his return home from the show.
