Francis Oliver Eiley, better known as Chino, held the official launching of his book, Caged Chronicles / Cries for Justice on Friday, February 19, 2010 right in front of his residence and family restaurant, El Fogon. Chino’s sister Olive Eiley gave the welcome while Gach Guerrero acted as master of ceremonies.Close friend of the family Nellie Gomez spoke on the life of Francis Eiley and retired high school Principal and Godfather of Francis, Angel Nuñez gave a critique of the book.Caged Chronicles is a collection of poems put together by Francis Eiley while he was serving a sentence of life imprisonment in prison for a crime which he and everyone in San Pedro knew he did not commit. (Read more on this week's issue of Ambergris Today)
Mr. Angel Nuñez interviewed on the beach by William and Marleni
The Belize City Open Your Eyes morning show was in San Pedro early this morning filming a very special Island edition. Hosts William Neal and Marleni Cuellar hosted a group of local Sanpedranos who included Mr. Angel Nuñez, Catherine Paz, Miguel Alamilla Jr., The San Pedro Dance Company and Rock in Peace band. The show was filmed at Central Park and was broadcasted live in San Pedro and Belize at 7a.m. If you missed the show you can catch it on local TV channel 8 that broadcasts reruns of the show all this week. Read more on this story on this week’s Ambergris Today Newspaper – out on Thursday, both in stores and online.
William chats with the boys of Rock in Peace
Marleni interviews Emely Gomez of the San Pedro Dance Company
Space shuttle Endeavour returns to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, after a 14-day mission to the International Space Station.
The space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned safely to Earth late last night as it made a rare night time landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending its successful two-week mission.
But to most of us who did not know about the space shuttle landing the event was quite a scare as we were startled to hear the loud sonic boom. Residents who witnessed the ‘deorbit burn’ thought that two planes had collided in mid air and crashed north of Ambergris Caye. Eye witnesses tell Ambergris Today that they saw this plane-like structure engulfed in flames, burning across the sky, moving northward with a long burning tail behind it. Shortly after, the loud sonic boom was heard over San Pedro Town and some residents even reported their house shaking.
Facebook and Twitter posts confirmed that most of Belize heard the shuttle’s re-entry overhead that took place at around 9:30p.m. The sonic boom from the space shuttle was heard as the orbiter re-enters the planet's atmosphere travelling faster than the speed of sound. Because the shuttle's landing flight path takes it over Central America, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Naples area as it cuts across the Florida peninsula en route to Cape Canaveral, Belize residents were able to hear the sonic boom — two distinct claps less than a second apart — about 10 minutes before the shuttle's scheduled landing time. It was quite a spectacle to those who were outdoors and able to witness it.
Shuttle Endeavour's landing flight path has it flying right above Belize
