Adele Ramos

ADELE RAMOS is the assistant editor of the Amandala - Belize's leading independent newspaper. Her first employment in the media was in 1995, when she took on a temporary job as a reporter with the Amandala.

She has tried to venture into different fields on numerous occassions, but as fate would have it, she always found herself back in the media world.

Between 2001 and 2006, Adele's zeal peaked as she began taking on some of the biggest news stories with profound national interest. They include Government finances - the national budget, public debt, the investigations of the Social Security Board and the Development Finance Corporation; telecommunications, transporation, local industres, oil exploration, poverty, youth issues - especially crime, education, and arts and culture.

In late 2005, she began the series FOCUS - which was spawned out of the need to take an in-depth look at major national issues. But Adele also loves to write about people, and hence her resurrection of the Personality of the Week column. While FOCUS has been discontinued, she continues to write her personality features and welcomes suggestions of people to profile.

Being an artist herself, Adele Ramos (also known as Black Orchid) also takes great joy in writing about other artists and their accomplishments. She loves culture and would seize every opportunity to write about the richness of Belizean culture.

Over the years, Adele has worked in mostly in print and radio, but she has also ventured into the world of television, having worked for KREM TV as co-producer for KREM and Channel 7's joint Municipal Elections coverage in 2006. Adele is also co-writer for the initial season of Belizean T.V. dramatic series - Noh Matta Wat, produced by 13 Productions.

In the late 1990's, she worked as News Editor for KREM Radio, at times running a one woman show due to lack of human and material resources.

Adele's vision is to use all her experiences in the media over the years to serve the people of Belize and the world.

Today, her mission is to improve her dexterity with the Internet, in order to increase her accessability to a wider cross-section of people. She very much enjoys designing sites on the Web, and learning all she can about html language.