Last night, Tuesday, December 4, 2007, around 7 , some person or persons entered the yard of Amandala’s highly respected Assistant Editor, Adele Ramos, and tried to force something through one of her windows. Adele says she was at home entertaining some friends when her daughter (11 years) and her goddaughter, who were studying in her daughter’s room, alerted her that someone was tampering with the bedroom window. Adele says she called 911 immediately.
The police, unfortunately, did not respond right away. When they arrived (PC Novelo was the lead investigator) about half an hour after the emergency call (police say they had difficulty finding her house), the person or persons had already left. Investigations revealed that the person had taken a chair from off the verandah, and placed it under the window that is about shoulder high, to reach it.
Adele feels the person was trying to scare her, not enter the house, because the person had to have known that there were a number of people in her home at the time. A few months ago, Rufus X, a senior panelist on the Kremandala Show and part owner of KREM Radio, was ambushed at his home. He suffered a broken arm fending off his attacker, who wielded an 18-inch long piece of steel. A few days earlier, the vehicle of Mose Hyde, popular talk show host of KREM’s morning show (Wake Up Belize) and eldest son of Amandala publisher Evan X Hyde, was vandalized.
Adele Ramos, a granddaughter of national hero, Thomas Vincent Ramos, apart from being widely considered Belize’s best print journalist, is a poet, singer, and producer. She has been on maternity leave (a bouncing baby boy, named Emeri) since the end of September, and is expected to return to her desk at Belize’s leading newspaper, the Amandala, in January.