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May 12, 2021
The Other Side of Mother’s Day: Poverty Made Worse during COVID-19
Over the weekend, thousands of Belizean families celebrated Mother’s Day, showing their appreciation for the women who raised them and the struggles they went through along the way. But among the sixty-two thousand or so residents of Belize City, there are some mothers living in extremely difficult situations, often not that far from the multi-storey buildings and bustling boulevards. News Five went into one area off Antelope Street Extension where Paul Lopez met two such women. Both declined to appear on camera, but willingly shared their stories of how they are coping during hard times, and how things have gotten worse due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paul Lopez
“While this was happening, was she still breathing, or did it appear as if she had already passed away?”
Kalia Staine
“She still mih the breath, she stop breath when time she mih the ovah deh the look fuh guh cross.”
Venecia had been living on Antelope Street Extension in Belize City with her sister Beverly and had not visited home for the past two years. She had come to spend Easter weekend with her mother.
Beverly Staine
“Venecia come home over fuh enjoy himself, nuh come mek no problem with nobody. Knowing that this mih ah be my sister last. I can’t even guh eena my house. You know weh I do fuh sleep? I had to pick up my sister pillow hug it up, just fuh smell ah. I can’t sleep.”
Dec 21, 2020
Alejandro Cowo
Twenty-eight-year-old Karen Pinto is recovering this evening after she was shot on Sunday night. Pinto and a family member were on Antelope Street Extension when they were approached by two gunmen who fired several shots in their direction. Pinto was shot in the leg and the men escaped. Investigators do not believe that she was the target but rather the individual she was with. C.I.B. Commander of the Eastern Division, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, says that investigators are looking for two known suspects.
Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Eastern Division
“Miss Pinto last night just after that shooting of Mister Acosta, she was walking on a London bridge in the Antelope Street Extension along with another family member when two male persons approached her and one of the male persons fired a shot at her. She was injured to her left leg and she was taken to hospital where she is admitted in a stable condition at this moment.”