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Opposition BlastsBarrow’s Cabinet Reshuffle

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Are YOU Better Off Today?

The Opposition People’s United Par ty has come out swinging against the reshuffle/expansion of the UDP Cabinet presented to the nation by the acknowledged ‘smoke and mirrors’ master, Prime Minister Barrow, calling the exercise ‘no more than a feeble game of political musical chairs, which

Rodwell Williams Clinging to Life


The Prime Minister's law partner and good friend Rodwell Williams, Senior Counsel, lies in the intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Florida after he was shot at close range on Monday night. The vicious attack occurred at around 8:00 on Monday night while Williams was leaving his office, Barrow and Williams, at #99 Albert Street and heading toward his parked vehicle just 50 yards away on Albert Street West. A security guard who was accompanying him was the first person

whom the two youths riding a bicycle approached. They searched the guard, apparently looking for a gun and then they produced one of their own and shot Williams.

Residents in the area heard the gunshot and looked outside to see Williams lying on the ground near the parking lot and two youths running towards Saint John's Church. One woman said she saw a black car pass by the office, followed by someone on a bicycle following the shooting. Williams was rushed to the Belize Healthcare Partners Limited where a team of specialists from the city's three hospitals performed three surgeries in a 12 hour period on him. But the gunshot caused life-threatening injuries in 10 different locations in Will iams' abdomen, including his lower intestine and a portion of the vena cava, a main artery that pumps blood to the heart. Doctors say he had literally bled to death, with blood pressure and oxygen levels at zero, but they managed to resuscitate him and kept him alive by feverishly supplying him with an enormous amount of blood units. During one of the

regrettably will not enhance by one iota, the services rendered to the Belizean people.’ In a s t a t e m e n t i s s u e d o n Wednesday, the PUP laments that ‘after many months of speculation and uncertainty, and a v i r tua l s tandst i l l in Ministerial performance given


The Biggest LosersThe Prime Minister’s Cabinet

expansion offered to Belizeans as a reshuffle was as bogus and insubstantial as the man who made the presentation. After more than two years of absolutely dismal failure and the worst administration in memory, the Prime Minister promised to shake up things and went so far as to admit that things have not worked and things have gone wrong with his crew. So Belizeans in concert said finally, the man admits failure and now maybe, just maybe things will

Belize’s Top Student


The week started out like any ordinar y week for young S i ian Rancharan; he had to make it in time for classes, get through his chores at home, take care of the dog, listen to his iPod and it was all a part of the life for a young boy, until he found out that he was the top primary school student in Belize.

Siian placed first out of the 6,661 primary school students who sat the exams and scored 386 out of a

take a turn for the better.And then we get that bit of

nonsense early this week. Not one single person in Mr. Barrow’s Cabinet was punished for the mistakes and failures that he claimed. If anything, they benefitted. Mr. Perdomo who ranked as one of the worst UDP Ministers in a really bad bunch is still a UDP Minister, paid the same big salary. The only difference now is that he can really dedicate himself fully to his extracurricular activities

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THE MIDTERM JUGGLEWhen the Prime Minister announced his intention to juggle his

Cabinet months before the actual juggle, his devilish intention was exposed: to prod his Ministers to perform in the Village Council elections that would take place in the months subsequent to his announcement. The PM was placing UDP politics before the business of the nation, even in a time of recession and surging insecurity.

Dropping their executive duties like hot potatoes, Ministers and aspiring Ministers alike scurried to their constituencies to badger and to bribe voters, all to prove their worthiness to their political leader. It is no surprise, then, that for example, the Hurricane Season is upon us and adequate preparations have not been made by the Ministers of Works and NEMO, not even the cleaning of the major canals and waterways that would drain Belize City in the case of a storm.

Mr. Barrow has also put politics first in the Cabinet juggle itself. From a pool of 25 Representatives elected to office, he could not find one person that would meet the task of heading the nation’s Security Ministry. Instead of tapping an elected Representative, the PM selected the UDP’s Chairman, a person bereft of any experience in law enforcement. Senator Singh’s forte, if he possesses any, is in the sphere of business management and investment. Does this appointment indicate that heavy-handed law enforcement tactics by the Police Department, those obviously preferred by some elements in the business community, will now intensify? It certainly seems that way to us. Among the many stakeholders this appointment will disappoint will be the Grieving Mothers who have lost sons through the errant and unlawful conduct of the Police.

The appointment of B.Q. Pitts to the post of Attorney General is no less absurd. This is a man who in the twilight of his years would so obviously prefer the checkers table and the bar stool to the rigors of the AG’s chair. Insiders speculate that Pitts, a UDP crony who failed to win the confidence of the voters, will be nothing more than a proxy for the real Attorney General – the PM’s ex-wife. At a juncture in our nation’s history when nine out of every ten accused murders walk free, the best that this PM can apparently do is to appoint a fading, foundering shell-of-a-man like Pitts to a post that so patently demands a giant.

To put a glaze on the poisoned cake he is force feeding us, the PM’s juggle also included tacking on Sports to the Public Service Ministry and Youth to the Education Ministry. Without novel programs, without fresh funding, neither of which was announced with the juggle, these changes are ornamental; they will produce nothing but rhetoric from either Saldivar or Faber.

There is some intrigue in the instance of the Public Utilities portfolio, which was stripped from the loquacious Melvin Hulse and handed to Elvin Penner. Insiders have suggested that this is a maneuver to hand greater authority, again, to the PM’s ex-wife whose sword has been drawn against both the telephone and electricity providers. Hulse, it is said, was taking too independent an approach, so he had to be replaced with the more pliant Penner. Hulse’s lackluster showing in the village council elections in Stann Creek West provided Barrow with a timely pretext to demote Melvin.

Quite apar t from the hopelessness of the jug gle are the Constitutional and cost implications. Mr. Barrow has now reached outside the House of Representatives for his two new Ministers. Neither will be accountable to the House. Both will owe their complete loyalty to the Prime Minister alone. Barrow is manipulating our Constitution to arrogate to himself Presidential powers. And then there is that little matter of the huge costs involved with two new Ministers: salaries, benefits, offices, vehicles, drivers, etc. Hundreds of thousands more will be gobbled up in administrative costs that will produce nothing for the country. This is the UDP mantra – penny-pinch with public officers and splurge with UDP cronies.

Mr. Barrow, as he did in his press appearance this week, does not brook criticism maturely. He will consider these criticisms to be unfair. Actually, the criticisms we make in this editorial are unfair because they are built upon the premise that the Prime Minister of Belize should rate the business of governance as his first priority and that he should select the best elected officials to serve in his Cabinet. In the matter of Mr. Barrow, this is a faulty foundation. His priorities are his own political fortunes and those of his party. He assigns Cabinet responsibility based upon the perceived loyalty of the holder to the Prime Minister…and the people pay the price for his vanity.

Let Us Move ForwardDear Editor,Please allow me space in your newspaper to voice my opinion.Following the devastating defeat of the PUP on February 7, 2008 the then

leader of the PUP felt compelled to step down leaving a void that needed to be filled. Johnny Briceño applied for the job and on March 30, 2008 he was elected as PUP Party Leader by a majority of party delegates.

Now, there seems to be a bunch of so called PUPs who claim to be speaking on behalf of the rank and file party supporters who week after week are bent on attacking the party leader at every given opportunity. In their writing they boastfully admit that they did not endorse the candidacy of John Briceño for party leader and behave like spoilt brats who could not get their way and started creating mischief and confusion for our party supporters. They create an illusion of gloom and doom within the PUP; they use all the words in their dictionary to discredit the party leader and blame him for disunity within the party while they themselves propagate disunity. They infer that because the leader is not from Belize City he is incapable of leading the PUP to victory. Using this rationale is like saying that Said lost the reins of Belmopan the Political Capital because he is not from Belmopan City. In this era of modern transportation and communication the leader can come from any part of the country not only from the old capital as they try to imply to our party supporters. A leader is not to sit back and relax in his office and wait for his supporters to visit him but rather visit each constituency and convive with party supporters and that is exactly what our present leader John Briceño is doing.

Said Musa was given the opportunity to lead the PUP into three general elections. Now, John Briceño has earned the right to lead us towards our victory. I call on the Spot Checker, Jeremy Robinson and Gordon Smith whoever she/he is to stand down and “give peace a chance” for the love that you all claim to have for this great party. See, you are the ones who are excluding yourselves from the PUP and that onus falls squarely on you all.

The PUP constitution gives provision for a National Convention to be held every two years on a day in November, so just be patient. It also empowers the National Party Council to declare any office in the National Executive vacant and up to my writing this letter there is none declared. Rougher days are coming especially when the new school season starts and parents need to find the additional fees to keep their children in school. It is then that they will need all of our support as a party united and strong. Long live the PUP! Que viva Belize! Let’s move forward.

Sincerely,Rustic

We Pray for All of Us!EditorI was left with my mouth open when I saw the news of the Prime Minister

asking the country to pray for his law partner who was shot and is in serious condition. I had to watch a repeat of the news to make sure of what I heard.

It must be much more than 200 persons who have been shot since Mr. Barrow became Prime Minister. Under his government his Police officers and even Customs officers have shot innocent citizens. During the sugar cane protest last year an innocent protestor was shot and killed in cold blood. Not once has the Prime Minister showed any compassion or asked for us to pray for the persons or their grieving family.

My family is the victim of a police shooting. Only this weekend Mr. Buckley was released from hospital after being shot by Police. Mr. Barrow did not ask us to pray for that young man.

Mr. Barrow has broken the commandment which says thou shalt not call the Lord’s name in vain. Mr. Barrow does not attend church. He does not try to be a Christian or follow the Bible. He has done many wrong things to Belizeans by taking away land, by victimizing people, by taking away scholarships, and taking away many jobs from innocent Belizeans. His Police beat and shoot people and he could not care less. Now he has the face of brass to ask us to pray for his law partner. So no one else who has grieved and suffered is worthy of having the nation pray for us?

I and my family will pray for Rodwell Williams in the same way we pray for all those who have suffered pain and injustice since the victimizing Mr. Barrow and his Ministers became the government.

Mr. Barrow needs to find Jesus. He should go to church with his family and try to be an example to the country.

Helen Hyde


intimidating voters to promising land and cable to threats and he was still kicked in the face by the PM. Maybe he should have taken a lesson from Kenny Morgan. Hahahahaha! I’m trying to imagine a bald-headed hog. He got absolutely nothing, zilch, nada and was still crying when we checked up to yesterday. I understand the PM has made it clear that he can’t stand the fool and is only waiting for a chance to give him the real boot…If Da Noh Soh!

Poor Dim-Witz…Another sour face recently has been

that of my friend from Cayo South, Mr. Dim-Witz himself. The PM made a real fool out of him for real. See, he was promised a run as Minister and

impetuous and premature idiot that he is, was already making big promises and hiring a whole new staff in his head. I hear he had already picked out a new fancy ride. All that went up in smoke when the word was made flesh, so to speak. Nothing for poor Ramon…all his dreams ground to dust. The PM better watch his back, though, because Dim-Witz is saying that this is one insult he won’t take lying down. Should be interesting to watch…If Da Noh Soh!

Governor-General, who is the head of state. But yeah, anyway, Belize will be the next in line to chair the Central-American Integration System (SICA) and we hear that the wife of the Prime Minister (not the First Lady, we stress) is coordinating a conference for the First Ladies of the region. So far, we’ve been told, only one person has accepted her invitation which makes for a very lonely conference. Oh and by the way, could the Prime Minister say whether it is true that his wife has been relocated to a very pricey suite at the very tippy top of a very pricey building on Coney Drive? And could the Prime Minister say whether that office is being financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? I have to say I don’t believe this is so, not when the economy is in recession and things really, really dread…If Da Noh Soh!

Return of the Hog…Guess who wasn’t smiling at the

Prime Minister’s recent reshuffle/expansion? If you guessed the hog dread, then you were absolutely right. Remember we told you that he had already gone figurative hat in hand to the Prime Minister to ask for a nudge

up to Minister? The Prime Minister had told him that if he delivered Belize Rural North he would get his shot. Well that food did everything he could from

had heard it all from the city hall idiot. I mean, he’s offered to sell City Hall to pay salaries for garbage workers and offered to nationalize garbage collection. Hell, he even had this little Febreze bottle of disappearing potion which he claimed would make all the garbage at the dump disappear. Remember that one. But his latest interview with Jules

made me realize that we may not even have begun to plumb the depths of this boy’s stupidity. Jules was asking the boy wonder (insert ‘roaring with laughter’ here) if he didn’t think it was a problem that three senior managers at City Hall had just up and resigned. I mean, we’re talking about the head of Finance, the head of traffic and the city administrator, right! Well, that boy just scratched his head, pondered the matter for a second and said – ‘NOPE!’ what a dope! But then again, maybe he meant that things were already so bad that they could not possibly get any worse. There’s always that possibility…If Da Noh Soh!

Oh where oh where…Oh where oh where has our little

Mayor gone, oh where oh where could she be? The poor little woman was kicked to the curb by her Party and since then she’s apparently gone into seclusion. But then again, what the hell can she say? To be kicked out of a morally upstanding and sterling organization is one thing but damn, to be kicked out of the dodo-bird ranks of the UDP must have been a devastating blow. Hahahaha! Zenaida is so bad that even the UDP can’t stand

her. But never fear, I have the utmost confidence that Zenaida will be back in the spotlight, speaking in the third person like she does without seeming to realize how stupid it makes her sound. Oh, and you can bet that she will mention God at least three or four times as her guiding light. Sorry to kick you when you’re down, Zenaida, but even God is probably holding his head and trying to figure out where he went wrong with you…If Da Noh Soh!

Not the First Lady…We mean absolutely no disrespect,

but could somebody please, please inform Kim Simplis-Barrow that she is not the First Lady of Belize. How hard can that be to understand? Jeez. If she chose the take the title, the First Lady would rightly be the wife of the

A temporary appointment…Folks in the know are saying that

the appointment of Mr. B.Q. Pitts as Attorney-General is only a temporary thing and a deal has been struck which will have him vacating the post in about

three months for ‘health reasons.’ Hell, this is eminently believable because the baldhead has done much worse than this. And judging from past experience and his peculiar affection for his first lady love, the rumour that Lois will then step into the post is also eminently believable. Apparently Mini-Mugabe decided that there was just too much scrutiny on him at this time and he needed to buy some time before presenting first wife second lady with another of those precious and highly lucrative little baubles…If Da Noh Soh!

The Barber & the morons…This columnist understands that the

barber, the confused ‘man’ and the fool with the 20 year old hair and 100 year old face met up at the barber shop last week. From what we understand, the biting insects were flaunting a roll of blue bills and telling everybody that the UDP will never win another term, so they intend to get what they can while the getting’s

good. I hear that the old fool was sipping a little devil juice and told the barber that unlike him, when the UDP is kicked out he won’t have to go back to cutting hair for a living. The barber apparently got a little pissed and told the old fool that he has made his fortunes already but doesn’t go around flaunting it. Anyway, after the harsh exchange of words we understand that the three made up in a nearby bar…If Da Noh Soh!

Stupid Philloughby…Is Deputy Mayor Phillip Willoughby

really such a moron that he does not even realize when people are laughing at him to his face? Doesn’t he realize that when members of the media call him Philloughby, it’s not exactly a complimentary term? Jeez. I thought I


JUST PLAIN RIDICULOUS!

Today all of us in this room share two emotions. First all of our hearts are heavy with sadness because we lost our friend, our father, brother, husband, confidante. We are sad because we lost Frankie.

But even in the midst of this painful loss, we are grateful for the times we shared with him.

I know that the Castillo family is carrying the greatest burden of this loss; his wife and family members who were by his side throughout his battle with cancer. Today I want each and every one of you to know that you are not alone, we are all here for you and each and every one of us here showed up to celebrate the life of this good man, but more so to let you know that you are not alone in this; the entire community and yes, the entire PUP family is here with you to share in the celebration of Frankie’s life and to help to dry your tears.

For us in the PUP Francis “Frankie” Castillo J.P. was not just a PUP, he was our Party Chairman, a person who loved the Party and was always a good, hardworking Party Member. He was a divisional chairman; he was an advisor to PUP supporters countrywide, but especially here in the south. For him the Party was indeed bigger than any single one of us.

Frankie Cas’ actions were that of a man who loved Belize, and who loved the Belizean people. He was always ready to serve the people in any way possible. He was our Senator, a man who never flinched to do his part for his country. He was active in the Roman Catholic Church and he was a strong family man. He liked to say that the 3 most important things in life are his religious beliefs, his wife and his party. In fact he used to say it like this: “There are three things I will never change - my religion, my party and my wife.”

Frankie also loved Dangriga and Dangriga loved him. His two terms as Mayor of this town were testament to his commitment to public service, and he was not just the man in the office; when that alarm sounded, he stepped out as a volunteer fire fighter, putting himself in harm’s way to save life and property. He led by example and he lived a life sharing whatever he had with others. There was never a moment when he did not want what was best of his family, what was right for his community and what was right for Belize and of course pleasing to his Creator.

His example inspired us; his legacy will push us always forward. Frankie wanted to live in a country where all of us could have a chance to be the best we can be always working for the good of one another. He loved God and he loved his neighbour as he loved himself. He respected his family and appreciated his friends. His kindness will always be remembered.

Frankie Cas left this world a better place than the one he was born into. He did his work and now he is gone on to his eternal reward. We should honour him by always trying to do right; we should show our gratitude for his life by keeping him in our hearts and always in the service of others.

Thank you Mr. ChairmanThank you Mr. MayorThank you Senator CastilloGo now and be at rest good friend.

Thank you Frankie Cas

Prime Minister’s Cabinet Shake up no more than playing Musical Chairs without the music

The People's United Party expresses its utter disappointment in the Cabinet changes announced yesterday by Prime Minister Dean Barrow.

After many months of speculation and uncertainty, and a virtual standstill in Ministerial performance given the premature disclosure by the PM three months ago of his impending shuffle, the actual announcement fails to meet the high expectations of the vast majority of Belizeans citizens and stakeholders.

Both the new Minister of Police and the new Attorney General are nothing more than un-elected UDP party insiders. Neither crony brings any special skills to their high profile jobs. The appointments are a slap in the face of the elected pool of UDP Representatives, whom the PM has sidestepped in order to cater to his Party officials. These appointments disrespect the voters in our system of governance.

With relation to the portfolios of Youth, Sports and Public Utilities, neither the previous holders nor the new holders of these important assignments have brought any distinction to their work.

It is the considered view of the Opposition that this much anticipated Cabinet reshuffle is nothing more than a feeble game of political musical chairs, which regrettably will not enhance by one iota the services rendered to the Belizean people.

What Belizeans most want is a team and plan to reverse our economic recession, restore law and order and offer opportunity to the thousands of our citizens, including those who will enter the job market this summer.

This reshuffle fails to address any of these concerns.

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Editor Sir,This Prime Minister and his bunch of incompetent Ministers

never cease to amaze me. Can you imagine the kind of cabinet reshuffle done? Now we end up with more incompetencies…as if we never had enough we had to bring two other jokers. The deck is only getting bigger and the government is only stacking up more jokers.

Everyone is commenting on the joke that has been played on us Belizeans. Someone even said to me, “gal now I believe that there is a God and he is punishing us indeed”. This UDP, both at national and municipal levels, is full of buffoons. I could not help but feel embarrassed tonight when Jules interviewed the now over played Philloughby. I have never seen a public figure make such a jackass of him or herself…well of course with the exception of the Belize City Mayor who dreams up a Crime Summit. Imagine, in the middle of all the criminal charges she faces and coupled with the public flogging by her party the UDP, Zenaida has the heart and face of brass to be hosting a Crime Summit.

For God’s sake!Now the Prime Minister appoints two new Ministers to curb

the escalating levels of crime. As another person pointed out “this Prime Minister is still imagining the possibilities”. I believe this to be so true. Our government is stuck on imaginations and machinations that will never see us out of this crisis.

Belizeans, we need a government that can lead us out of the social and economic calamity that we face today. For sure it cannot be this present government. This government is plagued with incompetence and corruption at all levels of governance. One only has to look at what is happening at the Belize City Council and most of the ministries to realize the great problems confronting this country. Especially when you see the strategies that are designed to address these problems, you realize that we are in a deep hole from which it is almost impossible for us to come out.

As my mother said to me…”lets hope and pray that this crime situation gets under control because if you leave it up to what the government is doing there is not much hope”. The recent cabinet reshuffle is just plain ridiculous!

Sincerely,Jasmine Smith


and the stress, but for the same pay. We now have to find money to pay for a new Attorney-General because Mr. Elrington couldn’t handle the ‘herculean’ task. So Mr. Elrington also will have less work, but for the same pay. Thanks to Mr. Barrow, Belizean taxpayers will have to find more money to pay Mr. Singh and Mr. Pitts, and I assume to pay for new vehicles with drivers and new office space and new furnishings

and new staff. See what I mean…we end up paying the price for the Cabinet’s incompetence. Check this out – our little nation now boasts the largest Cabinet in its history – larger than the US, larger than the UK and larger than other countries in the region. The UDP messed up and we get to pay. What do you think about that?

As for Mr. Singh…There are several issues surrounding the

appointment of Mr. Doug Singh as Minister of Police. The first is that he brings absolutely nothing to the table. Mr. Barrow’s justification was that Mr. Singh had spent years in the private sector. So what? What does that mean? The truth is that the little gentleman has absolutely none of the expertise or qualifications which would even remotely make him suitable for what is admittedly a difficult job. And then there is also this persistent rumour about companies in which Mr. Singh's brother Mike was involved being investigated for money laundering. Those persistent, insistent little rumours have followed the Singh brothers for years. Some people say that at one point

the US was even at the point of making a move on one or the other of the brothers, though that has been difficult to confirm. But still, it makes me wonder how the US will view the appointment of Mr. Singh to this very important and powerful post. It makes me wonder just what the hell Mr. Barrow was thinking to make the appointment. Not only is Mr. Singh completely unqualified, but he reportedly has baggage attached to him which will most certainly have undesirable repercussions.

Drill, baby drill…Opposition to offshore drilling

in Belize is mounting at a furious rate, even as it is reported that more than 22 million gallons of oil have now spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. The Belize Tourism Industry Association is now joining the fray in some capacity and has said that they will make a firm position statement in the days ahead. Keeping in mind the stakeholders

in the BTIA, it is difficult to envision them taking a position in support of offshore drilling. Mr. Barrow maintains, though in eloquent speak, that he doesn’t give a damn who opposes offshore drilling – he will not be swayed from the position his government has taken. I believe that the gentleman is making a serious miscalculation. I am fairly certain that if Mr. Barrow persists, this government may be brought to its knees in a hurry. There is simply too much at risk. This government has made too many mistakes with fairly simple matters for Belizeans to have any confidence that they can deal with an oil spill in our waters. The thing is that Mr. Barrow is risking our jewel simply because his ego cannot countenance him stepping back from a position he has taken. His pride refuses to allow him to backtrack. I say it again – Mr. Barrow would do well to listen to the Belizean people – not only listen, but hear what we are saying.

We are paying…We taxpayers must begin to take stock of

the practices and policies of this government, since it is our money that is being spent. Weeks ago the Opposition revealed that government vehicles were being used by the UDP in the elections to ferry voters to and from polling stations and do other general political work. It must be understood that whenever these government vehicles move,

we pay the cost – for fuel, for the drivers and for maintenance. The people will need to take a stance because Mr. Barrow sure doesn’t give a damn. After the reports came out, the UDP decided that their response would be to remove the license plates from all government vehicles but still use them. So at every election the latest model SUVs and luxury pickups can be seen in the care of political operatives. I repeat…we are paying for all this, and according to GOB we have precious little to spend. Have a heart, Mr. Barrow.

Royal disdain…The Prime Minister’s disregard

for the critical situation in City Hall is nothing short of a slap in the face of residents of Belize City. Mr. Barrow has become so enamored of his so-called grandiose plans to rid the nation of crime that he seems completely oblivious to a disaster not in the making, but made a long time ago. It is time for her Majesty’s loyal Opposition, and indeed the people of the city to call for the removal

of UDP Mayor Zenaida Moya and the Councilors who have demonstrated amply their incompetence, inefficiencies and in some cases their propensity for lucrative financial deals on the side. It is time for a concerted effort to instigate a by-election which will see a new Council placed into office. It is frankly almost beyond belief that Mr. Barrow has so determinedly ignored such blatant abuses of office as have occurred in City Hall. There is no need at this point to go into the transgressions of Mayor Moya. Suffice it to say that they are many and sordid. Any one instance should have ensured her removal and replacement. It is indeed quite remarkable that the United Democratic Party issued an official release calling the Mayor a thief, and even the Ministry of Local Government went public to accuse her of misappropriating funds, and she still sits in her luxurious office in all her coiffed and manicured glory while her political boss and the leader of the nation is absolutely focused on punishing her because she said he has no balls. It is bad enough that the rest of the region and the world must be taking us for a laughing stock. But it is far worse that the people of the city have to live in the filth and with the mess created by the UDP in City Hall.

Safe hands…I’ve been chastised often for my

loose fingers on the keyboard and the fact that my emotions frequently get away from me. But really, when Mr. Barrow will get up in a press conference and say that there could be no safer hands in charge of national emergency management than those of Melvin Hulse, I am compelled to say that he is a bloody jackass. I would tend to want to remind Mr. Barrow of the seven deaths down South by flooding while Mr. NEMO was asleep at the wheel. It is perhaps an apt time to remind Mr. Barrow of this, since

as I write this it is June 2, two years to the day of the tragedy. Perhaps it is a good time to remind Mr. Barrow of the situation down South even as this is being written, because again Mr. NEMO was asleep at the wheel and the rains caught the emergency management organization unprepared. It is important that Mr. Barrow be informed of such things because for some reason he doesn’t really seem to care about the people down South. Mr. Barrow is a fool, Mr. NEMO is a joke, and God forbid that there is a disaster of any significant proportions. It will give me no satisfaction for my words to be proven justified, because the cost will be great.

Kendall…Even as we enter the hurricane

season, there has been no word on the bridge at the Kendall crossing which washed away in the floods two years ago today. Apparently it is not a priority for Mr. Barrow at this time, or really at any time in the past two years. It is unthinkable that government has not been able to find $4million dollars to replace a bridge which is so critical to the resident of the South. In the

past two weeks, the crossing has been inundated at least four times by flooding, rendering it impassible. Mr. Barrow has found money for his ex-wife, for his son, for his daughter, for a fence at the sporting complex, for a whole fleet of luxury vehicles for his ministers, for travelling all over the world and for a host of other things which may not seem like a priority to the rest of us but are obviously very high up on his list. But there has still been no Kendall Bridge. The last thing we heard about it months ago is that they are still seeking funding. That is simply unacceptable.

The Cabinet expansion…Some readers may have thought that the ‘reshuffle’ in Cabinet would have

been the first thing in this column. But see, it’s simply not that important. In fact, political observers are calling it nothing but a joke. Mr. Barrow is simply doing what he does best, in trademark smoke and mirror style. After presiding over the most incompetent and inefficient bunch of dodo-birds in history, our erstwhile leader pretended to hear the screams of the citizenry, but even cursory analysis will show the reshuffle for what it really is – an expansion of his Cabinet. For all his buffoonery, Mr. Perdomo now has less than a quarter of the work

UDP Politics as usual


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Family Emergency SuppliesHave these items in your residence ready to use in the event of an emergency: * Flashlights with extra batteries. Keep flashlights with extra, fresh batter-ies and keep them beside your bed and in several other locations. Do not use matches. * Portable radio with extra batteries. Most telephones will be out of order or limited to emergency use. The radio, including NOAA Weather Radio, will be the best source of emergency information. * First aid kit / first aid skills. Keep your first-aid kit well stocked and in a central location. Take basic first-aid and CPR courses. Keep your skills cur-rent. * Fire extinguisher. Your fire extinguisher should be suitable for all types of fires and should be easily accessible. Teach all family members how to use it. * Food. Store a three-day supply of food for each person. Items such as canned or dehydrated food, powdered milk and canned juices can be rotated into your daily diet and replenished on a regular basis. Include food for infants or the elderly, snack foods and items such as a non-electric can opener, cook-ing utensils, paper/plastic plates and plastic utensils. * Water. Store a 3-day supply of water (one gallon per person per day). Store in air-tight containers and replace them every six months. Keep a disinfectant, such as iodine tablets or chlorine bleach, to purify water, if necessary. * Extra blankets and clothing may be required to keep warm. Sturdy shoes protect feet from broken glass and debris. * Alternate cooking source. Store barbecue, charcoal, starter and matches in case utilities are out of service. Do not use these methods of cooking within a confined area. * Special items for infant, elderly, or disabled family members. Have at least a one week supply of medications and foods for infants and those on special diets. * Tools. Have a crescent or pipe wrench to turn off gas and water if neces-sary and know the location of the shut-off valves. * Important documents should be stored in a waterproof container. Exam-ples: insurance policies, medical records, bank account numbers, Social Secu-rity card, etc. Also, checkbook, cash, credit cards, ATM cards.

Be PreparedIn preparing for the Hurricane Season, make plans for action: * Know the hurricane risks in your area. Learn the storm surge history and elevation of your area. * Learn safe routes inland. * Learn the location of official shelters. * Ensure that enough non-perishable food and water supplies are on hand. * Have at least a one week supply of medications on hand. * Obtain and store materials, such as plywood, necessary to properly secure your home. * Clear loose and clogged rain gutters and downspouts. * Keep trees and shrubbery trimmed of dead wood. * Review your insurance policy. * Determine where to move your boat in an emergency. * Make plans now on what to do with your pets should you be required to evacuate your residence. Public health regulations do not allow pets in public shelters, nor do most hotels/motels allow them.


Former cop, Kevin Alvarez, a.k.a "Cowboy" is no stranger to the news. He's incarcerated and facing a murder charge for the death of Hui Lin Chen, 36, of Orange Walk, whose throat was slashed in March of 2009. When he tried to escape, Alvarez also allegedly shot three police officers.

But since Alvarez was stabbed in the midsection on Saturday at the Hattieville Prison by another inmate, Jeffrey Flowers, he has cried foul, saying he has been deprived of certain rights. Alvarez took the accusations one step further when today escorted by prison guards he went to the office of the Ombudsman to file a complaint against the prison management. In the multi-page complaint, Alvarez claims that he feels that even though he was the victim of the stabbing, he is the one being punished. Alvarez contends that on Tuesday they sanctioned and denied family members from visiting him, which in his case means that the food he receives from them is also being denied entry to him. Aside from that, Alvarez says that he is also being denied phone calls. And his belief is that the punishment followed a comment he made to a counselor at the prison that he was considering suing the prison

because the management knew that the inmate who stabbed him has been a threat to inmates at the prison because he has done so before, and he has been allowed to roam around freely.

In addition, Alvarez says he is being kept in isolation while Flowers is still allowed to remain in a regular cell. It's a matter Ombudsman Cynthia Pitts says she will take to the Prison and ask for their version before she makes a conclusion on the matter. Another related issue she is reviewing is the request by the mother of the prisoner who provided the blade that was used in stabbing Alvarez. Daisy McKenzie is claiming that if her son, Jeremy Harris, provided the weapon, he should be punished. But in sharp contrast, she says the man who committed the actual stabbing, Jeffrey Flowers, should also be punished. Harris, she says, is also being kept in solitary confinement.

Accused Murderer ‘Cowboy’ Complains About Denial of his Rights...

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Over the last two years the social fabric of the Belizean society has been severely challenged by the global financial and economic crisis that spawned from the industrialized nations and its lasting effects being felt in the developing world. Fueled by dismal economic activity, crime and criminal activity have soured to unprecedented levels in Belize. Businesses and communities no longer feel safe and security for property and life is of paramount concern to all. The state has a constitutional obligation to provide for public goods and services, infrastructure and national security to its citizenry. The various calls on the current Government to take exceptional measures to address the increased levels of crime in Belize have been sung for much too long. Now at its pinnacle, the Government has unveiled its response dubbed Plan Restore Belize.

This write will critically examine Government’s response to crime by way of this recent proposal and the accompanying cabinet changes. However, to meaningfully address the potential benefits of these changes it is imperative that there is some appreciation for examining the economic and social cost of crime in Belize. It is by assessing what is the cost implication of crime that policy decisions can be made that provide for the optimal utilization of limited resources. Developing countries like Belize are plagues with many challenges and limited resources, therefore policy decisions must be so informed that they create the greatest impact at all times.

Plan Restore Belize, is premised on re-establishing security through outreach rehabilitation and education and is accompanied with an institutional arrangement that leaves much to be desired. The Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act, Chapter 102 of the laws of Belize allows for the establishment and functioning of a Crime Control Council. This Council has representatives from the churches, cabinet ministers, non-governmental organization (NGO), business community, judiciary, bar association and one representative nominated by the leader of the opposition. Among the many function of this Council is to “liaise with a broad spectrum of community-based and social-service organizations to develop a coordinated team-approach to reducing gang violence or the effects of substance abuse or other criminal activities”. The law therefore currently

provides for a coordinating function to be executed by this Council and to make recommendations to the Prime Minister for legislative reforms necessary in the pursuit of its objectives. In the exercise of its functions the Council can establish committees of its own members and may co-opt other persons for specific purposes. Therefore, with the existence of a coordinating mechanism already, it begs the question why the establishment of a parallel framework is being presented at this juncture, with no legal teeth. The Restore Belize Council as proposed is merely a cabinet sub-committee of ministers. While the Program Steering Committee which is a subordinate body is yet another coordinating group of ministry chief executive officers, representatives of the business community, NGO’s and Community Based Organizations (CBO). Under the current economic constraints faced by the Government this proposal is hollow in nature and places further strain on limited financial resources. A full-time Program Coordinating Unit will be ineffective in intervening in any meaningful way to prod ministries to execute their responsibilities; that is the function of cabinet and the Prime Minister. This writer thus opines that a more meaningful proposal could have been one that provided greater expansion, accompanying funding mechanism and strengthening of the Crime Control Council.

The objectives of the sub-committees to be established addresses all key areas that ought to have been reflected in work programs of the existing ministries. Police department reform, municipal government infrastructure and aesthetics, human development, legislative reform and

PLAN RESTORE BELIZE NOT A NATIONAL SOLUTION

communication are areas that ought to have continuous attention through the respective line ministries. Furthermore, the attention of those areas must be a national one and not geographically targeted as can be expected with the creation of safe zones. The creation of safe zones albeit a new proposal, is an existing mandate of the police department through its community outreach programs. The accompanying budget that will be expended in the execution and implementation of these initiatives in the long term will reflect an increased cost to addressing crime in Belize and by extension an increased burden on tax payers. It is important that as an initial step efforts should be made to assess the economic and social cost of crime to inform policy decision

making. In the absence of data on costing, the evaluation and appraisal of Government’s current effort will be most challenging. From the presentation made by the Prime Minister one can surmise that verifiable indicators that would measure the progress of Plan Restore Belize may be lacking. In as much as there is possibly an inclination to give this Plan a chance, critical analysis at this stage is imperative if the desired effects are to be realized. Few would be able to argue against the seeming inconsistencies in the presentation. One such inconsistency is the explanation for the non-renewal of the Chief Justice’s appointment based on age criteria when this position was not applied with the appointment of the new Attorney General. The cabinet changes as the Opposition so rightly identified are simply musical chair changes. The people’s call for Government to act must not be used as the impetus to expand cabinet, which is glaringly evident from the changes made. When results are not forthcoming one would not be surprised to hear the explanation that a portfolio for education and youth is too burdensome.

In the next edition of this column this writer will examine the multifaceted impact of crime and the importance of assessing the cost incurred in the anticipation of crime, as a consequence of crime and the cost associated in responding to crime.

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The Board of Governors & the Parent Teacher Organization of Belize Elemen-tary School congratulates the class of 2010 for their outstanding P.S.E. results.

Of 55 students, 48 received an overall “A” average, 6 received an overall “B” average and 1 received an overall “C” average.

5 students ranked in the top 25 country-wide.

4 received a perfect score in Mathematics.

1 received a perfect score in Social Studies. B.E.S. continues to educate our leaders of tomorrow as we abide by our motto – Commitment to Excellence.


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Thursday, Independence Hall at 7:30pm

The publicly disparaged Honorable Carlos Perdomo has been sacked finally as the Minister of National Security whose responsibilities included the oversight of the beleaguered Police Department, making way for the Senator in charge of Government Business the Hon. Douglas Singh otherwise known as the “I will be the next Minister of Finance.” Please, say it is not so!

Oh, how the criminals must be shaking in their shoes on account of the visions of the well coiffed, well manicured, dainty “Dougie” Singh holding court at the Police. The Prime Minister the Hon. Dean Barrow obviously has his reasons for placing his trust in Mr. Singh, but no one will argue that he is an upgrade over Mr. Perdomo. In fact, he may be considered a downgrade in comparison to Mr. Perdomo. And we all know what an utter failure the latter was.

Under Mr. Perdomo, who survived the tinkering of the Cabinet and was appointed to the newly created post of the Minister of Defense, the Police, who have been wracked recently by rampant accusations of corruption and excessive use of force on the people of the nation, struggled with the chronic problem of violent crime, particularly the wanton gun related murders. It is plain to see that the officers are starved of resources such as transportation and communications, operate out of dilapidated police stations, are not given proper training, and are supervised by incompetent commanders.

Truth be told, things will not get better anytime soon, regardless of the declaration of Mr. Barrow of turning the “word into flesh.” Moreover, we expect the morale of the Police ranks to take a hit on account of the appointment of the prissy Mr. Singh. In all honesty, he does not have the capacity to inspire confidence in the men and women who put their lives on the line on a daily basis to protect and to serve us. Besides everyone knows that he does not have the mettle to reel in the rogue officers who will continue to run roughshod over the rights of the people.

What is more, with the appointment of Mr. Singh to the newly created post of the Minister of Police and Public Safety, it seems that the Cabinet of Mr. Barrow continues to be dominated by personal friends too closely associated with him, and who bring no tangible skills other than their obsequiousness to their posts. This is all nonsense and frustrating at the same time. Come on Mr. Barrow, having a pretty face should not be the primary qualification for heading the Police.

Meanwhile, the unveiling of the new anti crime fighting plan “Restore Belize” by Mr. Barrow on Wednesday displays a stunning lack of leadership. His words comfort no one and solve nothing. It is plain to see that he and his Cabinet remain unable to solve problems competently even as lives hang in the balance. But it is unacceptable that they continue to allow so many people to be in harm’s way for so long. Clearly, we are no safer than we were before the unveiling.

Actually, “Restore Belize” will bog down the fight of the Police against the alarming crime situation in the red tape

of a bloated bureaucracy. Without a doubt, the Police action will be paralyzed waiting on too many Chief Executive Officers and close United Democratic Party insiders to make up their minds on which direction to move the Police. In the not too distant future, this experiment

Nothing More than Smoke & Mirrors…will make us long for the days of Mr. Perdomo as the Minister in charge of the Police that saw the criminals acting with impunity, terrorizing the nation. Imagine that!

Even with the appointment of a new Attorney General B.Q. Pitts, it is expected that the justice system will remain handicapped by overcrowded courts and prisons, the intimidation of the key witnesses that results in their reluctance out of fear for their lives to appear in court, and the criminals walking free also on account of their defense attorneys exploiting loopholes in the system. And that is not even taking into account the question of the competency of Mr. Pitts, who has limited experience in the higher courts. Then again, he does not need the experience when First Lady Emeritus Lois Young is only a phone call away.

We should be outraged by the continued nonchalant response of Mr. Barrow to the chronic problem of violent crime. “Restore Belize” is surely not the answer as it only glosses over the crime problem. As a result, it seems that Mr. Barrow has failed to feel the pressure from the people to do something about the alarming crime situation. Clearly, his decision to split the Ministry of National Security in two will do nothing to curb crime. It will only bloat further the Cabinet of incompetent individuals. Come to think of it, at least it will be cuter.


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Sunday, June 6, 2010 THE BELIZE TIMES 11ontheWALLWritings

Hernan says: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 16:25Your president’s image reminds us of a vulture . Come to think of it, his hegemonistic manipu-lation of governmental processes too, are reminiscent of a vulture.

Comments posted on Belize Times Facebook, www.belizetimes.bz, www.channel5belize.com, Party Leader John Briceño Facebook

King says: Friday, May 21 at 1:48pmIF PRESERVING THE BEAUTY OF OUR SEAS IS A PRIORTY, WE OUGHT NOT TO DRILL! FORGET THAT DUMB IDEA!

Cayo says: Sunday, May 23 at 10:16pmNo Drilling please... This nonsense has got to be stopped before it can see the light of day. We must protect our country.

Maddyvandijk says: June 2, 2010 at 7:03 amIf Perdomo wasn’t doing any good at his last post, why would he do any better in this new post? Now all we have to do now is to sit and wait for Doug Singh and the other guy to do a good job, don’t hold your breath though.

mbrad says: June 2, 2010 at 9:19 amThe PM and the UDPs are a bunch of jokers…..

Maddyvandijk says: June 2, 2010 at 6:48 amI think now most of the politicians are awake and aware that no one is an exception to the Con-stant violence in Belize.I personally believe that something should have been done a long time ago; many lives could have been saved.

BB says: May 29, 2010 at 11:27 amAs they say..birds of a feather! Finnegan obviously has not seen the many interviews of late where Moya keeps blaming everybody else except herself for all the corruption at city hall. On KREM she kept saying it was political interference that has hampered her..yeah right..fool di talk but da no fool di listen! Why Finnegan no inquire into over paying of herself, the mansion that she built , the nepotism etc; kicked to the curb, let her stay there…get rid of them one by one!

RedBwai says: May 31, 2010 at 7:15 amIt seems as though the UDPs are becoming cannibalistic nowadays. All the UDP ministers side with the PM on every issue…not one of them dare go against the PM. Hmm… i wonder why? unless all of them are a bunch of puppets who can’t think and stand up for what they truely be-lieve in.daveyt says: May 31, 2010 at 1:50 pmSo, G.O.B. spent thousands of OUR hard earned taxpayers to hire an ‘Expert’ from a country with probably the most corrupt Government and Police Force in the region, to report on how corrupt our Police are (No mention of the corruption in the corridors of power inBelize), none of which have been acted on, and now he is on remand for child molesting?

Real says: May 27, 2010 at 4:43 amI care less out their political bu!!$#!t…I WANT TO KNOW WHEN ZENAIDA WILL PAY-BACK THE SALARIES THAT SHE PAID HERSELF???? When?Belize needs a law that could allow government to confiscate accused and convicted politicians of their assets like cars or mansions if their is sufficient evidence that they thief public monies or misused public monies like in the KHMH


The latest victims of murder are not victims of violence on city streets, but victims of the re-lationships they were involved in. Both were slain brutally by multi-ple stab wounds. The first victim was Thomas Logan, 48, a resident of Santa Elena, Cayo, and father of six.

Logan left home on Friday afternoon saying he was going to his job in Central Farm. But he apparently ended up travelling in the next direction, towards San Ig-nacio, at least 8 miles from where he was supposed to go. That eve-ning Logan was spotted in town near Sacred Heart College, which is about 300 yards from the home of his new love, a 33 year old ta-males vendor. In fact, he was leaving the same woman's house at around 5:00 on Saturday morn-ing when his killer waylaid him in an orange orchard in the narrow street behind Sacred Heart Col-

lege and accosted him before he reached the main street. He never made it out alive.

Police believe the killer used a machete to hack Logan in the head and then used the tool's edge to stab him repeatedly in the throat, face and abdomen. Resi-dents did not see the attack but heard the dying Logan's groans as

he lay in the grass about 100 feet from their house that morning. Their dogs alerted them first that something was awfully wrong and when they peeked out, they saw a helpless Logan. Their call for help to the Police was swift, but Police response, they say, came about an hour later when finally they located a vehicle to respond to the scene. By that time, it was too late.

The woman with whom Logan had been living for 20 odd years, and who shares six children with him, Maria Esquivel, claims she knew of the love affair because he had told her about it 3 weeks ear-lier. She did not like the news but she decided, for the sake of the

children, who ranged in ages from 19 to 6 that she would remain with Logan. She said he came home Friday morning after he had col-lected his pay and gave her some of it. She said that the whole while, the other lady was with him. (She knew her because the wom-an had told her that prior to that, that she and Logan were indeed involved but that she meant no physical harm to Esquivel nor her family.) The two left that after-noon and Esquivel never saw her common-law husband alive again. She found out on Saturday morn-ing that he had been killed when someone who knew him went to tell their son at his work.

According to Officer Com-manding the San Ignacio Police Station, while Police feel that the investigation is an open and shut case, their task now is to locate their prime suspect, forty nine year old Jesus Lobos, who is the estranged common-law husband of the 33 year old tamales vendor. She had broken up with Lobos just 10 days earlier because he had grown violent with her.

ACP Wade says police are working with their Guatemalan counterparts in Melchor because they suspect that Lobos has fled across the western border.

Love Gone Wrong Leads to Murder

Thomas Logan - Deceased Jesus Lobos - Wanted

The second victim to fall prey to a love gone sour over the week-end happened to be only 21 years old. Elena Amador lived with James Jackson, 37, in their apart-ment on 3rd Street North, Coro-zal Town where the killing also occurred during a lovers’ quarrel on Sunday morning. When Police arrived at the couple's dwelling that morning, they saw a broken kitchen knife on the floor. Jack-son reportedly admitted to them

that he had just killed Amador. Inside, cops found her motion-less body on the floor in a pool of blood.

Jackson, it is alleged, was jeal-ous of Amador's friends because of their sexual choices, and the night before, she had gone out with them for a night of enter-tainment at Naito's. The interest-ing twist is that although Jackson had a major problem with the life-style, he was also at the event with his friends. After the event, Jack-son and Amador went to a nearby nightclub.

Amador's family believes that Jackson also attempted to take his life after he killed her because he had a cut wound on his hand. They contend that she was not the cheating type; she just liked to party.

James Jackson is remanded to the Hattieville Prison on a murder charge. Police believe that be-cause he had confessed to killing Amador, the case will be an easy to score a conviction.

Jealous lover's rage leaves common-law wife

dead; husband jailed!

Elena Amador - Deceased James Jackson - Detained

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Carlos Perdomo was the mostINCOMPETENT and INEFFECTIVE

Minister of National Security EVER!He FAILED the Belizean People and Turned Our Jewel

into a Criminal Hotspot and Murder Capital.

Now Mr. Barrow Has Rewarded Him With LESS WORK for the SAME BIG SALARY.

Belizeans Demand An Explanation Mr. Barrow!


Another Drug Trafficking Charge for Alwyn Gonzalez

BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 2, 2010 Alwyn Gonzalez, 30 , a boat

captain and car dealer who was charged last week with 3 counts of drug trafficking and having 35 rounds of ammunition, was charged with another drug traff icking offence when he was taken to the #2 Magistrate’s Court today. The charge is for 2.4 kilograms of

cocaine which was found at 5436 K Street, King’s Park, on Wednesday, May 19. The Police alleged that they found two parcels, each containing 1.2 kilograms of cocaine in the yard.

According to the Police only Thasha Herrera, 28, the mother of Gonzalez’s baby, was at the premises at the time but they found documents belonging to Gonzalez in the house. Herrera was charged with drug trafficking when she appeared in the #2 Magistrate’s Court on May 21. Because of her medical condition she was released in the custody of a Community Rehabilitation officer until today.

When she appeared in Court today her release into the custody of a Community Rehabilitation officer was extended until her attorney Dickie Bradley can secure bail for her at the Supreme Court.

She and Gonzalez are to return to Court on July 29.

BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 2, 2010 Lionel Baizar, 23, a self-

proclaimed land surveyor of Faber’s Road who was chopped with a machete because he allegedly beat and robbed taxi driver Hugh Meighan, 60, was charged with robbery, wounding and damage to property. Baizar was arraigned on the charges when he appeared in the #2 Magistrate’s Court on Monday, May 31. He pled not guilty to the charges. The prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that robbery of taxi drivers has become prevalent. Magistrate Sharon Fraser upheld the objection and remanded Baizar until July 16.

The incident occurred at around 10:26 p.m. on Friday, May 28. Meighan reported to the Police that he was driving his green 1996 Toyota Camry car on

Land Surveyor Remanded To Prison Mopan Street when he was stopped by a young man of brown complexion with long braided hair. Meighan said he was hired by the man to go to the area of the Complex Building on Mahogany Street. Meighan said when he reached the Complex Building the man directed to go to a back street leading to the Western Highway. Meighan said when he reached the junction of the street and Western Highway the man punched him in his face and bit him on his right cheek, then stole $100 from the pocket of his pants.

Meighan said he grabbed his machete and got out of the car. As the man was driving off in his car he chopped the man on his left hand and nose, he said. Meighan reported the incident to the Police and he was given a medico-legal form and taken to the KHMH. While he was at the hospital Meighan saw Baizar and identified him to the Police as the person who beat and robbed him.

Baizar was detained at the hospital by the Police but he escaped behind the Social Security Building. The Police pursued him and caught him shortly afterwards hiding behind a building. Meighan’s car was located on Krooman Road. It had crashed into a tree. There were damages to the bonnet, left front fender, front bumper and front park-light. Meighan told Police that the value of the car is $7,000 and he estimated the damages at $4,500.

Lionel Baizar

Alwyn Gonzalez

20 Year Old Convicted Of Murder Sentenced To Life Imprisonment

BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 2, 2010 Clarence Hemmans Jr. ,

20 , convic ted of the murder of Kevin Arnold, 26, about 2 weeks ag o, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday by Justice Troadio Gonzalez. The prosecution, represented by Senior

Crown Counsel Yohhanseh Cave, did not seek the death penalty. Hemmans was represented by attorney Phillip Palacio.

Arnold was shot and killed between 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. on May 27, 2007. Hemmans’ conviction was for the most part due to the testimony of Arnold’s girlfriend Shana White. White, the only eyewitness, testified that she was waiting for Arnold near to Los Cocos Bar on Armadillo Street when as Kevin was coming, wa lk ing , Hemmans rode up behind him on a bicycle and shot him several times.

White said Kevin tried to stay on his feet but he could not and he fell to the ground. All that time Hemmans was firing shots, she said. Arnold was shot 10 times. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.

Clarence Hemmans Jr.


18 Year Old Sentenced To 2 Years for Firearm without a Gun License

BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 2, 2010 Devon Bailey, 18, an employee

of the Eradication Department of the Ministry of Health, one of 5 persons charged with keeping a firearm without a gun license, pled guilty to the charge when he appeared in the #1 Magistrate’s Court. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie

gave him the mandatory sentence of 2 years imprisonment.

The charge against the others was withdrawn. The others included Bailey’s mother, Alice Bailey, 51; his brother, Rondale Bailey, 20; his sisters Jenika Bailey, 25 and a 16 year old high school student.

The incident occurred at around 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 1. The Police on the strength of a search warrant went to a house located at 10 Raccoon Street Extension and executed a search. The Police reported that when they searched the speaker box in one of the rooms they found a black plastic bag which contained a black 9mm pistol with no ammunition in its magazine.

At the time the 5 persons who were in the house were charged. None of then had a license for the firearm which was labeled as exhibits.

Devon Bailey

Charge of Unlawful Possession of Passport Struck Out For Ghanian National

BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 2, 2010 Lester Wugah, 36, a Ghanian

national employed as a supervisor at Belize Western Energy Limited in Hattieville, was freed of a charge of unlawful possession of a passport when it was struck out today in the #1 Magistrate’s Court. Chief Magistrate

Margaret McKenzie struck out the charge because the prosecution did not offer any evidence. The prosecution did not offer any evidence because there was none to substantiate the charge.

Wugah was charged with the offence on February 1, 2010, after Police and Immigration officers searched his residence and reported that they found an Ethiopian passport in the name of Alvar Demissie Dibaba. When Wugah was arraigned in the #1 Magistrate’s Court on February 2, he pled guilty to the charge because he apparently did not understand the charge. He changed his plea to not guilty, however, when Chief Magistrate McKenzie explained the charge to him.

Wugah was denied bail in the first instance because of his nationality but he was later granted bail. Wugah was represented by attorney Dickie Bradley

Lester Wugah

21 Year Old Man Remanded To

Prison

BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 2, 2010 Sheldon Sosa, 21, who resides

at 56 Albert Street, was remanded to prison today when he appeared in the #6 Magistrate’s Court and was charged with aggravated burglary. Sosa pled not guilty to the charge. The prosecution objected to bail on the g round tha t i f g r an ted bail Sosa might interfere with the complainant, Francelia Taylor, who is his ex-girlfriend. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers upheld the objection and remanded Sosa into custody until June 28.

The inc ident occur red at around 12:05a.m. today. Der rick Joseph, 20, a BDF soldier, reported to the Police that while he was at the house of his girlfriend, Francelia Taylor, Sosa kicked open the door and entered, armed with a screw driver and attacked him. Joseph told Police that Sosa stole his LG cell phone and $175. As a result of the report, the Police detained Sosa and charged him.

Court records revealed that Sosa has charges of theft and handling

Sheldon Sosa


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By: Mike Rudon Jr.On Tuesday Prime Minister Dean

Barrow announced changes in his Cabinet, and as expected Carlos Per-domo was the big loser. The Minis-try of National Security will be split into the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Police & Public Security. Perdomo will head the defense sec-tion, an appointment which is really nothing more than a token gesture to assuage his battered ego and ease the pain of his loss. The big shocker in the whole deal was Mr. Barrow’s choice to take up the very power-ful new Ministry of Police & Public Security. The leader of the nation reached into his bag of illusions and glittery nothings and came up with Senator Doug Singh, and the aura of disbelief and discontent in the packed room was palpable. There is no doubt that a change needed to be made. A change was long overdue, in fact. But who could have imagined that the Prime Minister would select the Chairman of his Party as his solu-tion to the ills of crime in society.

On close reflection, perhaps no-body should be really surprised by Mr. Barrow’s decisions. After all, he appointed his brother to the Court of Appeal, his wife and son to the BTL board, a rabid UDP crony to the Elec-tions and Boundaries Commission and another UDP crony to head the Financial Intelligence Unit. Hell, just the other day I was thinking about the Marilyn Williams appointment and chuckling because I thought that

Doug Singh’s name has also come up more than once in discussions about money laundering.

Seriously, though, it’s no laugh-ing matter. The decisions made by Mr. Barrow will without a doubt have repercussions. The other day in an interview our learned leader claimed that he stays far away from even a whiff of impropriety. I’m surprised that Jules managed to keep a straight face. I am absolutely certain that cer-tain entities in the region are watch-ing us in disbelief as Mr. Barrow per-forms his version of political drama 101 and the country goes down the drain. Some of the things Mr. Bar-row does are downright astonishing considering that he comes across as a supremely intellectual individual. But then I guess the gentleman is living proof that the ability to string words together in eloquent fashion does not a leader make.

But back to Mr. Singh and his re-

cent appointment – I am certain that this is one of those decisions which will come back to haunt the country. It for sure will not haunt Mr. Barrow because he possesses the ability to shed criticism and negative critique like water off the proverbial duck’s back. Our Prime Minister, since fi-nally realizing that crime has reached crisis proportions, now apparently wants to be seen as a man of action. He wants to be seen as the consum-mate leader wading into battle outfit-ted with a new general and a new plan. But the reality is that his new general prefers a cheerleader outfit to battle gear and nobody has any confidence whatsoever with any plan hatched by Mr. Barrow because of the pain-ful experience gained in the past two years. The new general also has seri-ous skeletons in his closet, includ-ing a money laundering investigation not so long ago. Besides these dubi-ous ‘qualifications’ Mr. Singh brings absolutely nothing to the table. His only experience with the law has been on the wrong side of the equation. It does not take a mathematical ge-nius to figure out that if the elements in any equation are flawed from the onset, the wrong answer will be pro-duced in the end.

For now, both the Police and criminals must be laughing their heads off at the Prime Minister’s choice. In a Cabinet shuffle which seems to be little more than a super-ficial makeover, the big losers will be the Belizean people for sure.

You’ve Got to Be Joking!

sure as hell a member of the UDP ethics committee wouldn’t be in any hurry to investigate the Chairman of the UDP on money laundering alle-gations. But the last laugh was on me, it seems, since said person is now the Minister of Police.

And while I was thinking about money laundering and stuff my mind also wandered on to the Chief Ex-ecutive Officer in the Tourism Minis-try. The other day a certain company was closed down because of a money laundering charge. That UDP CEO sat, or sits on the board of one of the companies that was named in the investigation, but he somehow man-aged to stay on the periphery of said investigation. So did the daughter of UDP Senior Advisor Manuel Esquiv-el, who also sat or sits as a director in the same company. If they escaped scrutiny back then imagine now that the big man in Police is the brother of said CEO. But wait, I almost forgot –


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Yes or No?

Answer the following question with a simple "yes" or "no":If the day before the day after the day before today was hotter than the day after the day before today, was the day before today hotter than today?

Yes

The day before the day after the day before today was yesterday. The day after the day before today is today. And the day before today was yes-terday. So yes, yesterday was hotter than today.

Math Teaser

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The United Workers Party has taken to new heights, its issues with a decision to make two of its seats in parliament vacant.

Almost one month after Speaker of the House of Assembly Alix Boyd Knights declared the seats of Edison James, the U.W.P candidate for Marigot, and Hector John the U.W.P’s representative for Salisbury, vacant, James has led a three member delegation to the President Nicholas Liverpool.

James had been expressing concerns with the move saying Knights acted out of her powers when she made the move, and that she had a “personal battle” with the opposition.

“Very strong submissions were made by the three members to the president pointing out the main issues involved, including among others, the constitutional recognition of members who have not taken their seats, the abuse by the speaker of parliamentary conduct and procedures, the speaker’s

claim to powers she does not possess, the speaker’s flawed attempt to terminate the membership of Honourable James and John.” James disclosed after meeting with President Liverpool Tuesday.

He said the issues were discussed at length, and the matter may be going to court.

“The president also expressed his views and position on the current situation and the way forward. It was agreed that the matter was of major constitutional importance for the entire nation and as such, it is in the interest of the state, that a definitive clarification by the court should be sought for, and on behalf of, the citizens of the state.

“A mechanism and procedure for pursuing this was agreed upon, and in this regard, his Excellency undertook to engage the prime minister at the earliest opportunity in order to put that mechanism in place to achieve the desired objective,” James noted.

National Security Minister Dwight Nelson has vowed that the Government will use the recent incursion into Tivoli Gardens by the security forces as the tem-plate to break the back of Jamaica's gangs.

"Tivoli is not all about finding Coke (alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Du-dus' Coke). Tivoli is about the start of this gang-dismantling process, so we are going into all the communities where criminality and criminal empires exist," Nelson told a Gleaner Editors' Forum yesterday.

Hundreds of police and soldiers en-tered Tivoli Gardens and neigh-bouring communities last Monday in a coordinated bid to capture Coke and to destroy the criminal gang he reportedly operated from the confines of the heavily fortified com-munity.

Coke and some of his key supporters escaped but the security forces have since taken charge of the community and seized 47 firearms - 26 handguns and 21 rifles - and nearly 10,700 rounds of ammunition.

Seventy-three civilians and one mem-ber of the Jamaica Defence Force were killed in three-day urban warfare. Two cops were killed in a related ambush hours before the Tivoli incursion began.

Since then, the Government has an-nounced that other criminal networks are to be targeted and the police have request-ed that almost 50 suspected gang leaders turn themselves in.

More than half of that group have complied and Nelson said other gangs were now in the cross hairs of the armed forces.

Nelson declared that the security forc-es will be initially targeting the parishes of

Clarendon, St James, Kingston and St An-drew, which account for the majority of the country's gangs.

According to Nelson, political affilia-tion - whether to his ruling Jamaica Labour Party or the Opposition People's National Party - would have no bearing.

"Whether the stumbling block is painted green, orange or blue, we are go-ing to move forward with the dismantling process," said a tough-talking Nelson.

Gangs very organisedHe said police intelligence indicated

that more than 200 gangs with 4,000 mem-bers were operating across the island.

"These gangs are not the little groups of guys standing on the street corner ... . We are talking about gangs that are organ-ised, that have command structures, with international connections that engage in gun- and drug-running from which they acquire their wealth."

Nelson argued that these gangs hold communities and law-abiding residents to ransom because they distribute largesse, thus buying loyalty and establishing quasi-legitimacy.

"Our task now is to dismantle and de-stroy these gangs. Our task is to separate them from their communities. Our task is to separate them from their wealth," said Nelson.

He said the Government would be taking two approaches - hard-core policing and ensuring that there is legislative sup-port for the security forces.

The Cabinet has already approved anti-gang legislation which is now being drafted and should be ready for parliamen-tary debate shortly.

The Government last night defeated a no-confidence motion tabled in the House by the parliamentary Opposition against Prime Minister Bruce Golding.

The motion was defeated 30-28, even without the vote of House Speaker Delroy Chuck and that of Shahine Robinson, who learnt earlier in the day that her North East St Ann seat was declared vacant Monday by the Supreme Court in a default judgement.

GOLDING... described as careless, ar-guments that he caused the deaths last week by indicating in a national broadcast that an arrest warrant for Coke was on the way.

Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller categorised as “barefaced contempt”, the prime minister’s statements to Parlia-ment on the issue.

Robinson had been the subject of an election petition filed by the People's Na-tional Party's Manley Bowen that claimed she was a United States citizen at the time of her election in 2007.

Yesterday's motion, which denounced the prime minister's leadership based on his handling of the extradition matter involv-ing former West Kingston don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, had called for, among other things, the condemnation of Golding for suppressing the truth, that he be censured, and the rejection of his leadership as prime minister.

Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller categorised as "barefaced contempt",

the prime minister's statements to Parlia-ment on the issue.

"We have a devalued prime minister in a devalued nation. There is only one rem-edy. It must be met by the sanction of re-moval by a vote," she said.

Meanwhile, Opposition spokesman on national security Peter Bunting said the "long-running pantomime" and loss of lives last week in West Kingston could have been avoided if Golding and Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne had allowed the law to take its course.

He said the Government, by announc-ing its intention to sign the authorisation to proceed on the Coke extradition case, gave the then Tivoli Gardens don a "heads up", leading to barricades mounted at the en-trances to Tivoli and the eventual gun bat-tles between members of the security forces and thugs in the community.

He said the prime minister's "spin doc-tors were desperately trying to reinvent him, presenting him as the man to now lead the fight against crime".

Opposition member Dr Peter Phillips said every "contortion" was now being used to prevent Golding from paying the political price he said he'd gladly pay over his han-dling of the extradition matter.

Golding, in his response, said his direc-tives for the matter to be kept separate from the Government were not adhered to. In apologising to the Parliament, he described as careless, arguments that he caused the deaths last week by indicating in a national broadcast that an arrest warrant for Coke was on the way.

According to Golding, each time the security forces went into the community unannounced it resulted in the deaths of women and children.

This time, he said, no children were killed.

Following the vote, there were loud cheers from the Government benches.

Ousted parliamentarians take their case to the PresidentPM defeats no-confidence motion

Tivoli Gardens blueprint for attack on gangs

POLICE Commissioner Owen Elling-ton Monday said 25 of the men the police asked to turn themselves in last week are now in custody and that the strategy to keep them off the streets has so far proven successful in terms of public safety.

However Ellington, who was speaking at the Observer's weekly Monday Exchange held at his office on Old Hope Road in Kingston, said none of the men have so far been charged.

ELLINGTON... their absence from the streets has proven to be very helpful in some respects

"We have some limited yet extraordinary powers under the State of Emergency which enables us to take into custody individuals who we consider to be a threat to public safe-ty and peace," he said.

"By way of their actions and association we thought it prudent to have in our custody some of these individuals, and their absence from the streets has proven to be very helpful in some respects," he added.

The police, following last week's op-eration aimed at capturing West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and restoring stability to Tivoli Gardens, released the names 34 men, who they identified as persons of interest.

The measure was taken after the Gov-ernment imposed a limited State of Public Emergency on Kingston and St Andrew in the wake of unprovoked attacks on police pa-trols and police stations across the city.

Among those who turned themselves in are:

* Michealous Phipps, also called 'Zeekie', the son of incarcerated Matthews Lane don, Donald 'Zeeks' Phipps. He reportedly took over the leadership of the Matthews Lane gang after the imprisonment of his father.

* Rohan Hope, brother of slain One Order don, Andrew 'Bun Man' Hope. He was handed over to Assistant Commissioner of Police Leon Rose at the Mobile Reserve by attorney Peter Champagnie.

* Mark Walters, also called Mark II, who is said to be a member of a gang based in Allman Town in Central Kingston. He was also handed over by Champagnie.

* Cleveland 'Cassie' Downer, the leader of a gang based in a community known as 'Common' off Red Hills Road.

* Kareem Allen, the son of slain South Side don, Franklyn 'Chubby Dread' Allen.

* Horace Ramsay, also called 'Pugu' of South Side.

* Kevin Myers, also called 'Forehead'.* Kevin Elliott, otherwise called 'Killer'

of Fletcher's Land.* Andre Buchanan, also called 'Mills' of

Anderson Road in Woodford Park.Meanwhile, police said they were still

seeking Harry Mcleod, also called 'Harry Dog'; Prince Bucket, also called 'Tugman'; Paul Kirkpatrick, otherwise called 'Teddy Paul'; three members of the notorious Span-ish Town-based Klansman gang -- Jermaine Morrison also called 'Speedy', Nevardo Hodges and Michael Maragh.

They are also seeking Michael Pasley, also called 'Tony', and Calvin Harris, popu-larly known as 'Collie' from the Rat Bat gang.

25 of 34 men called in by police now


TEMAS DE seguridad regional, migración y el acuerdo militar entre Washington y Bogotá serán analizados por el presidente ecuatoriano, Rafael Correa, con la secretaria de Estado norteamericano, Hillary Clinton, en su visita a Quito del próximo 8 de junio.

“Hay grandes expectativas (...); es la visita de mayor nivel en muchos años que ratifica las cordiales relaciones que tenemos con Estados Unidos”, dijo Correa, quien también es presidente pro témpore de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur).

Agregó que “tenemos una importante agenda que tratar” con Clinton, como seguridad, cuando “a toda la región le preocupa las siete bases norteamericanas en Colombia” para la lucha contra las drogas y el terrorismo.

Los gobiernos de Ecuador, Bolivia y Venezuela consideran que ese acuerdo podría ser utilizado para realizar operaciones de espionaje a otras naciones y un factor de desestabilización en la región.

“No quisiéramos que la región se convierta en un nuevo Medio Oriente. Entonces vamos a hablar muy claro de eso”, indicó Correa y anotó que además

será tratada la “criminalización de la migración” en Estados Unidos.

Clinton, tras su visita a Quito viajará a Bogotá para entrevistarse con el presidente Álvaro Uribe.

La visita de Clinton a Colombia se realizará en un momento muy particular, pocos días después de la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales que se celebraron el pasado domingo.

En los últimos 10 años, Estados Unidos ha destinado más de 6.000 millones de dólares al Plan Colombia. Washington ha enviado señales de que desea mantener el mismo nivel de relaciones con el nuevo presidente.

De otro lado, el presidente Correa, dijo que quiere tener las mejores relaciones con Colombia.

“Nosotros también con Colombia, con un respeto mutuo”, dijo Correa, un día después de que el ganador de la primera vuelta, Juan Manuel Santos afirmara estar “interesado en tener las mejores relaciones, porque eso es lo que le conviene al pueblo colombiano”.

“Pero no puede haber doctrina guerrerista como guerra preventiva, como perseguir a los terroristas en cualquier parte del mundo, como sentirse orgulloso de un bombardeo traicionero a un país hermano”, dijo Correa.

“Si se respeta el derecho internacional (...) por supuesto que podemos marchar en un marco de absoluta cordialidad”, apuntó Correa.

“Estamos haciendo” esfuerzos para la reanudación plena de los nexos, aunque “no se han acabado de restablecer porque Colombia no ha cumplido lo que ellos se comprometieron” como la entrega de información sobre el bombardeo y la que contenían computadoras del abatido jefe de las Farc Raúl Reyes, agregó.

El Gobierno cubano no ha cump-lido el compromiso anunciado de trasladar a partir del pasado día 24 de mayo a los presos políticos a cárceles más cercanas a sus lugares de origen, ni tampoco ha mejorado las condicio-nes de estos reclusos ni ha liberado a ninguno, denunció este domingo el grupo opositor 'Las Damas de Blanco', formado por mujeres y familiares de los presos anticastristas. En su tradi-cional marcha dominical por una de las principales avenidas de La Habana tras la salida de misa para reclamar la liber-tad de los presos políticos, la líder de 'Las Damas de Blanco', Laura Pollán, afirmó que no le consta que se halla producido ningún cambio de los anun-ciados por el Gobierno hace casi dos semanas.

"Aquí nadie sabe nada. Todo es un secreto de Estado", lamentó Pol-lán, cuyo marido, Héctor Maseda, está en prisión con una condena de veinte años por sus actividades anticastristas.

El pasado día 19 se produjo una reunión al más alto nivel entre el Go-bierno cubano y los representantes de la Iglesia católica en la isla, tras el que se informó de que el Ejecutivo había accedido a trasladar a partir del día 24 de mayo a algunos presos políticos a cárceles más cercanas a sus lugares de origen para facilitar la visita de sus familiares, que en la actualidad tienen

que recorrer en algunos casos más de 500 kilómetros para ver a sus parien-tes presos.

Tras este anuncio, que precedió a la visita a la isla del secretario de Ex-teriores vaticano, Dominique Mam-berti, se llegó incluso a afirmar en ciertos medios que algunos presos políticos podrían ser liberados.

Sin embargo, Pollán fue tajante al afirmar que no les consta ningún acercamiento de presos ni tampoco ninguna liberación.

Según asociaciones anticastristas y de Derechos Humanos, existen en Cuba en torno a 190 presos políticos, de los cuáles al menos 26 estarían gravemente enfermos. El Gobierno cubano, sin embargo, no considera a estas personas presos políticos, y los considera mercenarios o terroristas que conspiran contra el Estado y es-tán a sueldo de potencias extranjeras.

San José (Redacción).El Fondo Mon-etario Internacional (FMI) advirtió al Banco Central que debe prepararse para ajustar su política si las expectativas de inflación siguen por encima de la meta establecida por la entidad para este año.

“Las expectativas de inflación se mantienen por encima de la meta de in-flación para fin de año fijada por el Ban-co Central, en parte debido a las sólidas perspectivas de la demanda interna. Es importante que el Banco Central esté preparado a ajustar su política monetaria si esta situación persiste” señaló el organ-ismo en un comunicado difundido ayer en su página web.

Desde agosto del 2009 el promedio de las expectativas de inflación para los próximos 12 meses, según una encuesta que realiza el Banco Central, se han man-tenido cerca del 7,5%. La meta de la au-toridad monetaria es una inflación que oscile entre 4% y 6% para este año.

En el comunicado el FMI informó que el Directorio concluyó el 28 de Mayo del 2010 la tercera y última revisión del programa económico de Costa Rica en el marco del Acuerdo Stand-By a 15 meses, aprobado el 10 de abril del 2009.

Detalló que con la conclusión de la tercera y última revisión del programa, Costa Rica está habilitada a acceder a un desembolso adicional de aproximada-mente $60,5 millones.

Con este aumento los recursos to-tales que se encuentran actualmente a dis-

posición de Costa Rica en el marco del acuerdo ascienden a aproximadamente $725,8 millones.

No obsante, el Banco Central ha se-ñalado que el acuerdo es precautorio y por eso no ha utilizado los recursos.

El subdirector gerente y presidente interino del Directorio, Murilo Portugal, señaló que “la recuperación económica de Costa Rica está tomando impulso, re-spaldada por un aumento en la confianza de los consumidores y empresarios”.

Además, que “las medidas integrales implementadas por las autoridades como respuesta a la crisis mundial, apoyada por el programa del FMI, sentaron una base sólida para la recuperación. La situación de la balanza de pagos se ha fortalecido, y el tipo de cambio ha fluctuado en la parte inferior de la banda. Las sólidas per-spectivas de la demanda interna generan riesgos al alza para el crecimiento y sub-rayan la necesidad de reequilibrar la com-binación de políticas macroeconómicas”, añadió.

El FMI también destacó la solidez del sector bancario y comentó que el “modesto” deterioro en los indicadores prudenciales que se registró en el 2009 han comenzado a revertirse.

El organismo señaló que los proyec-tos de ley para reforzar la red de protec-ción del sector financiero, recapitalizar el Banco Central y permitir una supervisión consolidada, contribuirán a aumentar la capacidad de resistencia del sistema.

Correa y Clinton analizarán acuerdo militar Colombia-EU

FMI advierte al Costa Rica por alta expectativa de inflación

Las 'Damas de Blanco' Denuncian que se ha Incumplido la Promesa

La aldea Saquipacaj, en Poaquil, Chimaltenango, se encuentra incomunicada desde el sábado 29 de mayo, cuando inició la tormenta Agatha, manifestó una pobladora de esa localidad, quien asegura que no han recibido ninguna ayuda.

Comunidades incomunicadas aún están a la espera de ayuda

"Pedimos ayuda desde el sábado, pero nadie vino a ayudarnos y hasta el momento estamos incomunicados en la aldea Saquipacaj", comenta Rosa Mejía, pobladora de esa localidad, quien asegura que ninguna entidad del Estado ni de salvamento han llegado por esas áreas a llevar alimentos, ropa, y sobre todo que instalen la luz eléctrica.

"Se vino un deslave sobre la casa de cinco familias; gracias a Dios salieron bien y se están albergando con otros pobladores, y otros se encuentran en la escuela de la localidad", manifiesta.

"La verdad, aquí se vive con mucha tristeza y miedo, porque pensamos que ya no estábamos en esta tierra, porque fue difícil de creer cómo se destruyó

todo en un rato, ver cómo fallecían las personas que estaban soterradas, cómo quedaban sus pertenencias llenas de lodo e inundadas; es triste, porque está desolado y no hay dada por hacer", se lamenta.

Mejía aseguró que se encuentran niños huérfanos, asustados y sobre todo que las cinco personas que fallecieron ya fueron enterradas porque no llegó a tiempo la ayuda.

"Si hubieran llegado a tiempo los cuerpos de socorro talvez hubieran podido salvar la vida de los pobladores, pero no fue así, entonces lo que estamos haciendo es velar por la misma población y estamos ya organizados para cualquier cosa que suceda hasta que regrese la electricidad o suceda algo nuevamente".

Según la estudiante, a las seis de la mañana sucedió el deslave y hasta la medianoche pudieron rescatar los cuerpos de las personas fallecidas. "Estamos viviendo algo lamentable y esperamos que nos vengan ayudar, por favor (...)".

Comunidades incomunicadas aún están a la espera de ayuda


Last week we reflected on God’s eternal promises and the guarantee that God’s word will provide inspiration, assurance and direction in times of stress and crisis. But we have a responsibility too. Salvation is a free gift but we must claim it. God’s never ending love for us makes that is an easy task. If you do not have the peace of Christ’s redemption, here are a few pointers as to how to accept that promise.

The Scripture guides us in the basic way to have a personal relationship with our Saviour. STEP 1: We must first see and agree that God is the only truth and his view on our condition is the only way out. “…Let God be true , but every man a liar…” Romans 3:4

First we must know and appreciate from where God is taking us. We must give thanks that he has taken us from the lowly mire into the place of glory when we walk in obedience to his word. But how far were we from God’s grace?

The Bible says: For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (2) For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (3) Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you (4) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (5) there is none righteous, not one.

Step 2: Recognize that God has ordained the manner in which to deal with our situation and get us out: “ …the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye and believe the gospel” Mark 1:15

Our Bible teaches: There is one mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus (2) Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice and open the door , I will come in and sup with him and he with me (3) But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.

Step 3: Every day live for God, as the hymn goes “in every way try to please him, at home at school, at play…” We should find joy in living a life that is pleasing and acceptable to God. Romans 12:1-2

In the Bible God advises: Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance (2) Finally, brethren , whatsoever things are true, …honest, …just,..pure,..lovely,… of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8

So then all that would remain is for you to accept this happiness in your life and declare to everyone who doubts: “And if it seem evil unto to you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; …but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15

Challenge: Call an old friend and remind him/her that God loves them and has good things in store for them if they walk in obedience to his word. Let us also pray for all those who may feel lost and hopeless in Belize at this time.

AmazinGraceGuaranteed Happiness


The NORTHERN TOUR GUIDES ASSOCIATION based in Orange Walk Town wishes to express to the general public its SERIOUS CON-CERN about some suspected oil pros-pecting activities expected to happen in the New River Lagoon area. For many months we have noticed that the Men-nonites of Shipyard have been build-ing boats and barges. We have enquired from them what they were doing and they have replied that it’s for oil explora-tion.

On Thursday afternoon, May 31st 2010, we noticed for the first time the presence of a huge boat in the New River by Orange Walk Town, bear-ing registration “HORIZON, BELL FLORIDA”. It is our understanding that this boat will be prospecting for oil in the New River Lagoon area, south of Lamanai Maya Archaeological site. We are seriously concerned about this development, especially in view of the ecological tragedy caused by British Pe-troleum in the Gulf of Mexico. Should something like that happen in the New River Lagoon, it would be a disaster for all the people of Belize, including those Belizeans yet to be born.

The New River Lagoon is the larg-est freshwater lake we have in Belize. Unlike other rivers of Belize that are mountain-fed and their waters get very murky during the rainy season (check the Belize Old River) the New River is spring-fed. That is why its waters are very clear all year round. The New River flows from south to north, thereby defy-ing gravity.

The New River is one of the most historic rivers of Belize and one of the most strategic of the Maya world. For

documentary.For thousands of years the New

River served as the livelihood of the Maya. For thousands of years is has re-mained clear, clean and beautiful. Since 1986 when Lamanai was opened to the public, at least two million tourists have been awed by its beauty and splendor when they go to visit this very impor-tant Maya archaeological site. The New River has the potential of continuing to be the livelihood of the Belizean people for thousands of years if we preserve it and keep it clean, safe and beautiful free of any oil contamination.

At a time when countries are going to war to secure freshwater sources, es-pecially in the Middle East, here in Be-lize we have a secure freshwater source that we will be able to enjoy for thou-sands of years. The time to preserve and protect our New River is before we lose it. We call on the Government of Be-lize to immediately impose a perpetual moratorium on any oil prospecting in the New River Lagoon. Let us not be the black eye of the world community because of OIL GREED that in the long term will end up being a CURSE on the Belizean people.

The tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico that threatens the coastline of three US states, which when over, if it is ever over, will cover an area larger than the territory of Belize. This should teach us a lesson and serve us as a warning. An oil spill in the New River Lagoon will KILL AN ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM: the ancestral fishing grounds of our people will be destroyed when fishes get poi-soned with hydrocarbons; crocodiles, manatees, river otters, water fowls like cormorants and anhingas will go extinct

when their food sources are destroyed. Our guides report that they have spotted jaguars and deer drinking water on the banks of the New River. Tapirs swim in the river also. Iguanas have been seen diving in the river. A dead river killed with oil will be of no good or use for the Belizean people.

The people and the Government of Belize stand to lose with a dead New River. Our world admired credibility as an environmental powerhouse will be shattered forever. We will never ever be respected or appreciated as “mother na-ture’s best kept secret”. No tourists will want to visit Lamanai because their ex-perience has been ruined even before it ever started. Tourism revenues will dis-appear and the livelihood of hundreds of Belizeans who depend on Lamanai will cease to exist. The oil corporations will be swimming in oceans of money, their CEOs will be laughing all the way to the banks jet setting around the world enjoying the best the world has to of-fer while Belizeans will be living in need, poverty, suffering and squalor.

We call on the Belizean people to support us in our efforts to protect the New River, a vital and strategic natural resource. We call on our Hon. Gaspar Vega, Minister of Natural Resources, to immediately step up the efforts to en-act legislation to declare the entire New river, from its beginnings in Hillbank to Corozal Bay where it empties into the Caribbean Sea, as a protected natural monument. THE PEOPLE OF BE-LIZE DESERVE IT, HISTORY DE-MANDS IT!

HOWARD NICHOLSON, Presi-dent

ANTONIO NOVELO, Treasurer

Northern Tour Guides Associationthousands of years before the birth of Christ, it served as a very important trad-ing route for the Maya linking the trade that was coming from the highlands in what are the present day countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, to the lowlands in the Yucatan and be-yond, and vice versa.

This is the reason why Lamanai had a continuous, unbroken occupa-tion spanning about 33 centuries, from 1500 BC to the AD 1800s. Because of their strategic control of the New River, the Maya of Lamanai never abandoned their city and they superseded the most important Maya kingdoms like Tikal in Guatemala or Caracol in Belize by about 900 years until malaria, an exotic disease that arrived in the Maya world with the arrival of the European invaders, wiped them out in the 1800s.

In the time of the Maya, the New River was named Dzuilhuinicob, which means River of Strange People, or River of Foreigners. Perhaps the historic des-tiny of the New River is to continue be-ing a river of foreigners, because daily, people from all over the world use it when they go to Lamanai to admire our ancient history. It’s estimated that more than 100,000, foreigners visit Lamanai yearly. This number is growing.

The New River is definitely one of the most beautiful, unique and pristine rivers of Central America. An organiza-tion named “Rivers of the World”, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, documented it to be shown simulcast to thousand of schools in the USA, Can-ada, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. We are proud to say that one of our members, Mr. Wilfrido Novelo, was the guide who had the honor of participating in such


ContributedWe refer and quote “From

the Publisher” of the Amandala newspaper of Sunday May 23, 2010 “When we elect our lead-ers in general elections every five years or so, we expect these elec-torally empowered Belizeans to look out for our humble inter-ests at all material times. It re-ally doesn’t work that way these days. In the time of Mr. Price, it seemed different. Whatever the criticisms having to do with Mr. Price’s policies and politics, we, the Belizean people, did not feel that our everyday way of life was endangered.”

Ms. Carla Barnett stated, “Gov-ernments need to think long term and to plan for the future instead of only five years” when named as head of a planning committee to guide, and produce a future de-velopmental plan for Belize up to the year 2030.

In sight of the above two state-ments, the following information is brought to the attention of the entire nation. There are two se-rious land deal situations among others presenting in the Capital, Belmopan that undermines the capital’s future development.

1. Land (35 acres in parcels) allocated for the NEMO and the Belize Defense Force Base (NEMO/BDF/GOB) that would allow direct access to the Hector Silva Airstrip by BDF servicing aircrafts, and which would fa-cilitate in the event of an emer-gency the landing of Boeing 747 aircrafts. The land has now been cleared and subdivided into house lots. NEMO has applied to the Ministry of Natural Re-sources to combine “MUTATE” parcels 5848, 5849, 5851,5852, 5853, 5854 and 5855 into two parcels (8461 and parcel 8462) and further more was granted approval by the Land Utilization Authority (LUA) to subdivide these two parcels into house lots. Remember the land was entrust-ed to NEMO/BDF/GOB for the people of Belize to have access and storage for emergencies dur-ing disasters. These lots are be-ing issued and sold to ‘NEMO employees’ and UDP associates/stalwarts.

The agreement by the BDF and NEMO to have the land allot-ted for future emergency landing space and expansion of the air-strip in future years to 2030 was convened by Commandant Gil-lett, RECONDEV and the Bel-mopan City Council at that time. The land was acquired at a cost of ONE BELIZE DOLLAR ($1.00) per acre, and was enough to hold the warehouses NEMO needs to store goods for the entire coun-try, during disasters. Likewise a portion of the 35 acres would be to facilitate the storage of ser-vicing aircrafts during the disas-ter. Remember hurricane Mitch and imagine what would be if the Western and Hummingbird High-way was cut off from the rest of

could have been a state of the art hospital in the Capital City will be no more. The land space could have been the locality of a com-plete primary care facility that is much needed in the Capital.

This is not politics we are talk-ing outright corruption and it has to be stopped, we need to save what is for the benefit of the people and belongs to the people. These lands were assigned years ago for ALL (Not a few) the peo-ple of Belize, with a vision and good intentions to contributing to the development of the Capital City. We need to ensure that these properties are RETURNED to their rightful owners, THE PEO-PLE.

Remember ‘the promise’, to stop the corruption even if there is a smell of such, we will act and do the wrongs to right.

TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT. We appeal to all members of the House of Representatives, especially the Prime Minister, and all other or-ganizations and entities such as the Churches, Municipalities: Mayors, Councilors; all Unions: Teachers, Congress; University of Belize, Students Bodies, all political parties, and to all who

have Belize and Belizeans at heart to demand that these sub-divi-sions be halted, properties be de-surveyed and returned to NEMO and the Western Regional Hospi-tal for the purpose it was meant.

These are only two issues, there are more! It is time to stand and save what belongs to us; this is the time to stop the wanton sale of properties that are in the name of GOB for the people of Belize. The Hector Silva Airstrip, NEMO storage area and West-ern Regional Hospital will be forced to remain as is for when the land is gone it is gone! We call to all public officers to stand up against corruption. The Belmo-pan City Council Act gives the Mayor absolute authority to stop these corrupt land deals, the Act states that all sub-divisions to be carried out in the City must be sanctioned by the Mayor; we then make a special call on the Mayor to do whatever it takes to end the land corruption in the Capital.

WHERE THERE IS NO VISION A PEOPLE PERISHthe country! During a hurricane Belmopan becomes home to peo-ple from Belize City, Dangriga and other, and the Western Re-gional Hospital transforms into the country’s major hospital. This was the basis that prompted this land assignment.

Take a drive behind the US res-idential area in the Orchid Gar-den Extension area and you will see a metal shed where the BDF presently stores emergency ma-terials and look on the East and West side of this property you will see the Cement Pillars already in place. Was the public consulted or informed of the decision to subdivide into house lots? What about transparency and an end to corruption as promised?

2. The other land deal is the parcel of land assigned to the Western Regional Hospital (WRH) parcels number 796 and 4211. Parcel 796 is where the WRH facility is situate and par-cel 4211 is the reserved parcel for future expansion to the hospital in a few years to come. The City of Belmopan is rapidly growing making the Cayo district nearly as populated as the Belize dis-trict, and as can be observed in the outpatient clinics that it is be-coming too congested. Definitely in no doubt there is or will soon be the need for expansion. The Western Regional Hospital is a re-gional referring institution receiv-ing patients from the West and South and also patients from the KHMH during hurricane threats. Well, well, this expansion may not happen since parcel #4211has been sub-divided “MUTATED” into three portions, now par-cels # 8059, 8060 and 8061. The question is who owns or will own these properties? Parcel # 8059 and 8061 is for well known L. Ar-nold, and parcel # 8060 is still in the name of GOB/Ministry of Health for the people. Does this portion remain for the people? NOT SO! The thing is that this parcel (#8060) was granted an approval from LUA to further be sub-divided into portions.

Parcel # 8060 has been sub-di-vided into parcels # 8443, #8444, # 8445, # 8446, # 8447, # 8448, # 8449 and # 8450. After days of trying at the Land Registry in the Ministry of Natural Resources it was unable to get a legitimate response as to whom the parcels were issued but UNOFFICIAL word is that these properties, from parcel # 8443 to parcel # 8450 have been air marked for two ministers from the north, and their families. Imagine if this goes through, the WRH will have no more space for expansion and will have to relocate and what


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BY ORDER OF MORTGAGEENOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL

HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIMITED a statutory body formed and registered under the Credit Union Act, Chapter 314 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, and whose registered office is situated at No. 1 Hyde’s Lane, Belize City, Belize District hereby gives notice of its in-tention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under and by virtue of a Deed of Mortgage registered at the Land Titles Register between Glenford Villanueva and HRCU.

HRCU will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the Schedule below.

ALL offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing to HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIM-ITED from whom full particulars and conditions of sale my be obtained.

SCHEDULE

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 3451, con-taining 416.497 Square Yards situate along Allan Pitts Cres-cent, Loyolaville, Belize City, Belize District, being a portion of land comprised in MINISTER’S FIAT GRANT No. 273 of 1991 dated the 31st day of July, 1991 and more particu-larly shown and delineated on a Plan of Survey No. 273 of 1991 dated the 31st day of July, 1991 by G.V. Bautista, Li-censed Land Surveyor, recorded at the office of the Commis-sioner of Lands and Surveys, Belmopan City, Cayo District in Register Plan No. 1703 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of Glenford Villanueva


Thursday,Independence Hall

at 7:30pm


While our Economy is in Recession,Mr. Barrow’s Answer for the incompetence of his administration is to expand his Cabinet.

Now TAXPAYERS will NEED TO PAY

A NewMinister

A NewAttorney-General

New Office SpaceNew Vehicles w/ Drivers

New Staff

The Economy is inRecession, Mr. Barrow.No More Abuse of Taxpayer Funds


The Belize Defense Force repeat as the Belize Premier Football League champs by a 2-0 win against Georgetown Ibayani in Game 2 of the Caribbean Motors Cup football championship finals at the M.C.C. swamp on Sunday.

Torrential rains of Tropical Storm Agatha drenched the MCC garden turning the turf into a muddy swamp, but the military soldiered on in the rain. Many fans elected to watch instead Channel 5’s live broadcast at home, but that too had to be cancelled because of the weather.

Georgetown Ibayani sought to avenge their 2-1 humiliation in Game 1 on their home turf, and Alexander Peters’ first shot tested BDF goalie Woodrow West’s reflexes under wet conditions.

BDF wins 2nd back to back Caribbean Motors Cup championship

BDF’s Orlando Jimenez countered with a cross to center which Lisbey Castillo could not quite finish with the header. Jimenez tried again, setting table for Kareem Haylock, who centered to Gilbert Swaso, but again the header went wide.

Bernard Linarez tested Woodrow West with his execution of a free kick, but West was up to the challenge. Darwin Castillo tried again and almost put the visitors on the scoreboard with a shot that had West beat until the ball rebounded off the goal post.

Orlando Jimenez set table again for Kareem Haylock and Ibayani’s Elias Pelayo came out of his goal to forestall the play, which put him out of position when Jimenez recovered the ball and blasted it into the empty net to give BDF a 1-zip lead at the

The Surprise Cricket Club won a stunning defeat of Wicked Eleven on their home ground (Wicked Eleven’s) in the playoffs of the Smart Speednet Harrison Parks cr icket compet i t ion in Flowers Bank on Saturday.

H e r b e r t B a n n e r , w h o i s a batsman for the Under 19 National Cricket Team, led. The Under 19 cricketer scored 50 runs of the total score of 180 runs scored by Surprise in their innings. At the end, Surprise had 7 wickets to spare and 180 runs. The captain, Lawrence Banner, Jr.

Surprise stuns Wicked Eleven 180-179 in Smart Harrison Parks cricket playoffs

took 4 wickets for Surprise.Wicked Eleven scored 179

runs, all out. Steve Robinson scored 75 runs for the loser.

Game two in this three game series of the semi-finals of the SMART Harrison Parks National Cr icket Compet i t ion wi l l be played in Lemonal on Saturday, June 5, 2010. The match which was scheduled between Brilliant and Excellence was postponed due to the wet condit ion of the g rounds. This match wil l be played in Crooked Tree on Saturday, June 5, 2010.

43rd minute, going into the half time break.

In the 2nd half, Orlando Jimenez looked to increase the lead with another shot that screamed over the crossbar. David Trapp tried a low cruise missile which also went wide. Ibayani’s Kenroy tried to reduce the deficit with a left foot shot, but West came up with a save to keep the visitors scoreless.

BDF coach Jose Palmiro Sals decided David Trapp had done enough and reca l led him, to introduce Dennis Serano to the ball game. Orlando Jimenez now set table for Dennis Serano, who blasted home a 2nd goal past Pelayo, and the BDF were now up 4-1 on goal aggregate, and the visitors need 3 goals to get back into the ball game.

Never mind the rain, the BDF

players slid and dived into the muddy waters on the side of the pitch in celebration. When Gilbert Swazo got sent off with a red card, he took a cooling slide into the large pond at the side of the pitch.

In the award ceremony after the game, Bernard Linarez of Georgetown Ibayani c la imed the best midfielder award. Kent Gabourel of San Pedro Sea Dogs won the Best Defense Award. BDF’s Woodrow West was voted Best Goalkeeper. The Coach of the Year award went to Palmiro Salas who was celebrating his 5th semipro championship. Orlando Jimenez captured the MVP title for the playoffs, and Daniel Jimenez of Hankook Verdes won the MVP award for the regular season; as well as Most Goals and Best Forward.


The defending sub-champions San Felipe Barcelona had a blast celebrating a 4-2 victory over Belize United FC in the eighth week of the Belize Bank Superleague Football competition, at the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk on Saturday night.

Harvey Cruz scored the first goal for the Orange Walk squad in the 4th minute and added a second goal in the 30th minute. Mark ‘Kelo” Leslie answered with a goal for the city boys in the 40th minute, but San Felipe’s Francisco Bardalez scored a 3rd goal as the Orange Walk squad led 3-1 at the half time break.

Chris Hendricks scored San Felipe’s

the 79th minute to make it 4-zip and Mervin Leslie completed the slaughter with a 5th goal in the 89th minute of play.

Santa Elena hosted the City Boys for a 2-1 serving of humble pie at the Santa Elena field on Sunday. City Boys’ defender Anthony Williams’ attempts to clear the ball beat his own goalie as he sent the ball crashing into the net to give the Cayo squad a 1-zip lead in the 26th minute. The home squad held on to the 1-0 lead up to the half time break. Tony Gonzalez iced the win with a 2nd goal for Santa Elena in the 57th minute.

The Cayo squad led 2-0 almost to the end of the game. Tyrone “T-bone”

San Felipe Barcelona burns City Boys FC 4-2 to lead Super League football

4th goal in the 50th minute and the San Felipe was securing a 4-1 win until Luis Acevedo goofed in trying to clear the ball and sent it instead into the San Felipe goal; the final whistle announced a 4-2 win for San Felipe.

The Placencia Assassins lived up to their name as they slaughtered a helpless Cayo South United 5-0 at the Placencia field on Sunday. Ashley Torres drove in the 1st winning goal to lead 1-zip at the half time break.

After the break, Lyndon Brooks soon made it 2-0 in the 63rd minute, and Leonard Valdez delivered a 3rd goal in the 74th minute. Ashley Torres scored his second goal of the match in

Muschamp scored a consolation goal for the City Boys in the 82nd minute. The final whistle sounded to a 2-1 win for Santa Elena.

Hattieville FC shut down Nizhee Corozal until Floyd Jones delivered the winning goal in the 71st minute for the 1-0 Hattieville win.

The competition continues with the Placencia Assassins taking on the City Boys at the MCC garden on Sunday, Belize United visits Hattieville FC in the village, Cayo South United hosts Nizhee Corozal at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium and San Felipe Barcelona awaits Santa Elena Synergy at the People’s Stadium on Saturday night.

D e f e n d i n g c h a m p s B e l i z e Telemedia continue to lead the Belize City interoffice volleyball competition in games at the Belize C i ty Center l a s t Thursday and Saturday nights

Saturday night's games had the battle of the undefeated Telemedia

BATSUB and won in 2 straight sets, 25-20, 25-21.

F i r s t C a r i b b e a n , u s u a l l y a powerhouse, cont inued in their struggles this year as they lost in a hard fought battle with Brodies Milo - 29-27, 25-23, 15-5.

In the final match of the night,

Telemedia, SanCas & Brodies win in Interoffice volleyball

and BATSUB teams. Belize Telemedia maintained their 1st place ranking by coming back after a slow start against Atlantic Bank, 20-25, 25-12, 15-06.

In the second match of the night in a battle of who would remain in 1st place with Telemedia, San Cas Seven Seas had their revenge against

Atlantic Bank trying to fight for a playoff spot lost to San Cas Seven Seas in 2 straight sets, 25-15, 25-11.

Last Thursday, First Caribbean suffered a heartbreaker loss to San Cas Seven Seas after wining the 1st set 25-19. San Cas Seven Seas took it away 25-16 and 15-7.

Brodies Milo also looked to upset Belize Telemedia when they won the opening set 25-21, but Telemedia rallied to win the next 2 sets 25-8 and 15-7.

In the third match last Thursday night, Atlantic Bank looked to get payback from BATSUB who won the 1st set 25-11.

Atlantic Bank recovered to win the 2nd set 25-23, but the BATSUB crew outlasted them 15-12 in the 3rd set.

Games continue this Thursday night with San Cas Seven Seas vs. Brodies Milo. Brodies is fighting to remain in the top 4 to make it to playoffs. BATSUB takes on Belize Telemedia as BATSUB tries to work itself back into a tie for 1st place, and Atlantic Bank faces off with First Caribbean in a battle of the banks.


The St. Martin de Porres School girls and the Ebenezer Methodist School boys lead the Belize City Primary Schools football competition with 5 wins each as the tournament continued at the M.C.C. garden on Tuesday.

Last Thursday t h e Q u e e n Square School girls and the Muslim Community School girls battled to a 0-0 draw.

The Muslim Community School boys did better, winning 2-0 over the Holy Redeemer School boys. Raheem Matute and Gary Young scored 1 goal each for Muslim Community School.

On Monday, Kedidra Tun had 2 goals as she led the St. Martin de Porres School girls to their 4th win 2-0 over the Muslim Community School girls.

The Wesley Upper School girls posted back to back wins on Monday. Elisha Bernardez scored 2 goals to lead the Wesley girls to a 2-0 win over the St. Ignatius School girls.

The St. Martin de Porres School boys also won 1-0 over the Muslim Community Schoolboys on a strike by Ashton Pitts.

The Ebenezer School boys held on to

Primary School girls, their 5th win. Again Kedidra Tunn scored 2 goals for St Martin’s while Kishay Bevans scored a goal for St. John’s Primary.

The Belize Elementary School and Holy Redeemer School girls struggled to a 0-0 draw, and Wesley Upper School and Queen Square School girls also battled to a 0-0 draw.

The Wesley Upper School boys won 2-1 over the Muslim Community

St Martin’s girls & Ebenezer boys lead in primary schools football

a 2-2 draw with the Queen Square School boys. Allan Contreras scored 2 goals for Ebenezer School while Queen Square equalized with goals by Kent Brooks and Devaugn Zuniga.

The St. John’s Primary School girls won 1-0 over the Holy Redeemer School girls on a strike by Dayna Miguel.

Wesley Upper School posted their 2nd win of the day 2-0 over the up to then undefeated Ebenezer School girls. Lloydia Ricketts scored the 1st goal and Elisha Bernardez iced the win with a 2nd goal.

The St. Martin de Porres School boys also posted a 4-0 win, their 2nd of the day, over the Stella Maris School boys. Isise Leslie led the attack with 2 goals while Denroy Flowers scored the 2nd goal, and Clency added a 4th goal in the 2nd half.

The Ebenezer School boys ran over the Holy Redeemer School boys 2-1 on Monday as Jovannie Broaster scored 1 goal and Allan Contreras added a 2nd goal. Charles Foreman converted a penalty kick for Holy Redeemer.

On Tuesday St. Martin de Porres School girls won 2-1 over the St. John’s

School boys when Fredrick Williams and Dwayne Williams scored 1 goal each for Wesley while only Gary Young scored 1 goal for Muslim Community.

The Belize Elementary School boys also won 3-1 over the Holy Redeemer School boys. BES’ Sebastian Gomez scored 2 goals and Jared Marin added a 3rd goal while only Francis Arana scored 1 goal for Holy Redeemer School.

Hector Lopez won the Non-elite Veterans over-45 table tennis championship in the tournament held by the Belize Table Tennis Association at "the home of table tennis”, the Belize Elementary School auditorium on Sunday, May 30.

Wi th the ma in in ten t ion to encourage the Veteran players of the BTTA to compete in their respective category, some 15 players over the age of 45 participated in a one-day DOUBLE ELIMINATION style competition to determine the true CHAMPION of this Non-El i te division.

Kicking of at around 9:30 AM on a slightly rainy Sunday morning, these 15 participants competed for about 4

to also introduce a "2010 - OPEN VETERAN CHAMPIONSHIP" that would cater to ALL players over 45 years of age who wish to participate. Both events would cont inue as separate events in order to encourage participation at all levels.

With the original registration to this event over 25 participants another event of this type will definitely encourage more participation. We classify this "first run" as the "ice breaker" for our veteran players who are still interested in competing.

We are encouraged by the success of this event, and will cer tainly cont inue to g ive p layers of a l l categories and skill the opportunity to compete and have fun in doing so.

Hector Lopez wins BTTA Over-45 Non-elite table tennis championship

hours to determine the winners.At the end the resu l t s were

a s f o l l ow s : 2 0 1 0 - N o n - E l i t e VETERANS CHAMPIONSHIP: 1st - HECTOR LOPEZ 2nd - DAVIS HUANG 3rd - HOLLIS PARHAM 4th - SAMUEL SUKHNANDAN

Trophies were awarded to all 4 finalists by Mr. Rodwell Williams, a BTTA Director, a participant in the tournament, as well as the sponsor of this event.

This event was classified as a Non-Elite division, since it eliminated all players over 45 years who are rated 1100 and above on the BTTA Rating System. This allowed the participants to be competitive among their own class. It is the intention of the BTTA

In its style of development, the BTTA stands committed to provide competit ion at al l levels of our membership and players. We do encourage our junior players, as well as our Veteran players to remain interested and to participate in the overall development of the sport of Table Tennis in Belize.

BTTA thanks the tournament sponsor, Mr. Rodwel l Wil l iams, as well as all the participants and spectators who came out on a "rainy" Sunday morning to support and make this first Veteran Championship a success! More photos and details of the tournament can be seen at the BTTA web site at "http://belizetabletennis.webs.com/"


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By: Mike Rudon Jr.Everybody in the UDP seems ei-

ther dumbfounded as to a solution for the City Hall crisis or content to pretend that it doesn’t exist. Mr. Barrow falls firmly into the second category and seems to believe that if he gives Mayor Moya a wide berth he won’t be tainted with the stink. But I get the feeling that the glim-mer man won’t be able to feign com-plete and utter moral distance for too much longer. This morning I lis-tened to one of the talk show hosts who seems most hard pressed to criticize the UDP refer to the mess at City Hall with distaste and even disgust, and that’s saying something. He seemed unwilling to make any connection between the UDP and City Hall, but I believe that the rest of the country won’t be that tolerant or willing to grant Mr. Barrow the distance he desires. See, this scourge that has been visited upon us, so to speak, was once Mr. Barrow’s golden girl, his protégée, his political wun-derkind, his ‘gift’ to the Belizean people.

I’ve watched Mr. Barrow keenly every time he deigns to speak on any topic for any length of time. I don’t listen so much to what he says because that to me is nothing more than pretty little bits of rubbish pre-sented by a master orator with the gift of gab. But I study his demean-or, and I believe that the gentleman’s veneer of respectability and integrity and honor and decency is wearing pretty thin. His ‘you can trust me’ confidence is shot to pieces. His ‘I have things under control’ façade is becoming a joke. A couple days ago Mr. Barrow told Jules in an interview – well you know me, Jules, I stay far away from any hint or whiff of im-propriety. And in my mind’s ear I could hear a collective sigh of dis-belief and distrust and even frustra-tion that Mr. Barrow is still ‘facey’ enough to pass that old tired spiel by us.

But yeah, back to City Hall. Ze-naida Moya is Mr. Barrow’s baby, no matter how much she hurt his feel-ings by challenging his manhood or lack thereof. He, our learned leader, is to blame for every cent that has

gone missing from City Hall. He is to blame for every single bloated contract, every sweetheart deal, the mismanagement of funds, misap-propriation of funds and under-de-positing…you name it. Mr. Barrow is to blame for every overgrown park and every broken and rutted street and every clogged drain and ev-

City Hall NeedsOperation Jaguar

ery pile of stinking, rotting garbage which covers the city. He is to blame for workers not receiving their sala-ries, for every crisis and every scam and scandal in City Hall which pops up with stunning regularity. He is to blame for City Hall being bankrupt and unable to provide any services to Belizeans. You get my point.

See, Mr. Barrow had the op-portunity to put his foot down way back at the very beginning when evidence started to surface implicat-ing the Mayor is some very serious financial ‘situations.’ As the leader of the UDP and Zenaida Moya’s po-litical boss, Mr. Barrow should have dealt with her a long time ago. As the leader of the nation, Mr. Barrow had a responsibility to intercede in the affairs of City Hall to ensure that taxpayer monies was being spent properly and that Belizeans were getting the representation for which they voted. Way back then, when Mr. Barrow should have done the right thing, he did nothing and our peo-ple have paid and are still paying the price for his reticence.

Like a talk show host said just this morning…the situation at City Hall has passed from the realm of

the ridiculous into the arena of the sublime. The Mayor is apparently not a UDP anymore since she has been kicked out and three of the most senior managers at City Hall have resigned claiming that the situ-ation there is untenable. But even now Mr. Barrow has said nothing. I fully expect that the people will say something sooner rather than later though.

Mr. Torres called in to one of the talk shows with a good idea this morning. He said that Operation Jaguar needs to be deployed into City Hall to root out the corruption and crime. Hell, if it works I’m all for it, Mr. T.


I have learned over the years that those promoting and heading the United Democratic Party are a set of vindictive and malicious people. They are willing to do anything and whatever it costs to cling to power even if it means morally killing someone. I expect nothing less of these wealthy mogu l s who put themse lves, r i ches and power before the larger population. One just has to recall the unparliamentarily behavior of the Prime Minister on several occasions, spurring rude and foul languages. Their behavior comes as no surprise to many, but what is disgusting and unprofessional to the Belizean people are the continued personal attacks written in a section of the UDP Newspaper, El Guardian. Attacks on the Opposition from the ruling party and vice versa is no strange behavior in Belizean politics, but the foul language and the personal attacks is what is unacceptable.

You will find out that I don’t generally waste my time answering to newspapers op in ions and comments, especia l ly when i t comes from rags like the UDP newspaper. What I will not waste an opportunity to do, though, is to correct individuals who are quick to write the untrue, inventing lies to brand people without looking at themselves (both as individuals and as a group). Alfonso (the real ‘shim’ from the UDP newspaper) loves to continuously referring to private citizens as “sketels.” Alfonso goes on to pen weekly that the writer of this column has a gender crisis. I have no problem

if Fonso feels that way, but I am obliged to inform him that it is in fact the other way around; and in the process disappointing him for not belonging to his club. You see Alfonso, I have allowed you to write as you please because I don’t lack “dangling appendages” as compared to your PM; something the rejected Zenaida is paying dearly for revealing.

Alfonso claims that there are those of us who have an identity crisis. Well again, fortunately I am in my right mind and I know that I am a male, but how about him? And speaking about feminine behavior, it is advisable for you not to travel down that road. For those of us who have known about your sexual preferences for many years now, we have decided to keep it out of politics in an effort to support your ‘inner you,’ but may I remind you that it is not surprising to us. But if your intent was to hunt for another victim, like a real skettel in full heat, well again I am sorry to disappoint you Fonso. And about your suggestion about changing the name of my column to “bend over,” don’t wor r y because if anyone can execute those words perfectly well that person is you, and if you don’t believe it then just ask your long time ‘friend.’

You see Alfonso, when you pen things without thinking, they can come back to haunt you. The pictures you use off my facebook are insignificant. But if you really want to see men in dress then I can send you one from the barefoot minister and see if it fits your preference. You see I got pictures of that too, but I respect the

Fonso’s Identity Crisis

culture of San Pedro as compared to you. I know for a fact that I have no identity crisis but can you say the same? Can Belmopan John and Collet Patrick say the same? Can your female radio co-host and lady Singh say the same? One advice to you Alfonso is that if you give a licking, then I hope that you are prepared to take licking.

My intent is not to tear down Alfonso but to simple bring him back on track and save him some embarrassment that can come along in the future if he pushes for more. As a member of the Opposition and as a Belizean it is my obligation to keep issues of nat ional impor tance a l ive, point ing out the government shortfalls, analyzing things from a different perspective as well as giving suggestion as how to

improve the lives of the Belizean people. That is because I have r e cogn i z ed tha t we have no enemies, but opponents and our equal role is to combat the real enemies which includes poverty, hunger, equal opportunities and social justice and in the process making live better for all.

E d i t o r ’ s N o t e : W h i l e I personally find references to me in the Guardian as nothing more than entertainment value, Mr. Noble as Editor must realize that there will be persons who object to the increasingly personal nature of the attacks in his rag, and those persons are entitled to a forum to voice their opinions as well. And as this columnist rightly states, if the girly-man throws licks, he better be prepared to take a licking as well.


Games People Play

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“Oh the games people play nowEvery night and every day nowNever meaning what they say nowNever saying what they mean.”Lyrics by Joe SouthAs a child my uncle would sit all

his nieces and nephews in a golden circle flickering with only the glow of an experienced kerosene lamp. Mov-ing hypnotically and speaking in the entrancing whisper of a character from some ladybird book, he would awe our childish stares with magical card tricks. Even now as I think back, the elaborate Celtic patterns on the red underside of the stiff deck of cards would add to the entertaining deception and sleight of hand which would distract us from the fact that our parents were miles away.

But as the shadows bent and con-torted on the exposed wooden studs and we became older, each of the card tricks was exposed. It was almost as if the attention starved crickets busy in the cilantro patch spitefully celebrated that their encoded chirpings had finally been ciphered, tell-a-tale bastards!!.

But it did become old. As each summer passed, we became more fasci-nated with the uneven black soot on the rim of the glass chimney of the lamp and the final glimpses of odd shadows it would cast before we fell asleep on our sponges than the tricks.

The last card trick was one where he would shuffle the deck of cards poorly then give one of us the deck of cards to shuffle. This task was done with frantic thoroughness confident that it would disrupt the trickery which was lurking impishly somewhere in the mystical techniques. Next he would in-vite another child to pick a card from somewhere in the middle, while con-vincingly arguing that the end cards were too easy to track.

He would then ask my cousin to replace the card on one of the half decks he held in each hand, sternly warning not to let him see what it was and turning his head while admonish-ing him to look at his card carefully and protect it. The card once replaced and confidently tagged in the memory on my cousin would be shuffled by my uncle, after which he would flip over the cards until he miraculously pointed out the very same card my cousin had drawn earlier.

See what it was, was a simple game of misdirection, he knew we desper-ately wanted the thrill of being tricked and he knew we could be baited into a fixation on protecting the card he in-structed us to guard. But that was not his focus, the key in the trick was not the card we had but really it was the card before it, the “duppy card”, which he controlled and which he took note of while he was pressuring us to not be fooled or distracted from the security of the target card. He would identify the target card easily by singling out the card immediately following the duppy card improperly shuffled before it.

Beautiful misdirection it was, be-cause it sold the trick so well, we were engaged in the process so it had to be foolproof. Yes, subliminally we knew it was a trick and entertainment wise we almost wanted to be tricked but it had to be good somehow. We needed it to be or boredom would kill us.

But, boss, misdirection and tricks

are not games to be played when we have the Medusa of crime tapping our children on the shoulder. Di man di play games. If not cards, then his giveaway references to the newest pup-pet in the person of Bernard Quinton Augustus Pitts as a “backstop”, means that he di play baseball. You only have backstappa/katcha inna baseball, boss. My question then is, who di pitch?

Man, this whole thing is just bo-gus. This joker of a Prime Minister, af-ter taking off the Alice in Wonderland panty hose of the Queen of Hearts, where he was saying “off with her head” to Zenaida, tried on the Emper-or’s new clothes of a harebrained Cabi-net Shuffle and Operation Restore.

I know I had asked for the UDP to wheel and come back with better names for their operations but I did not mean to spend all your time coming up with the balderdash acronym and no time on the substance of the thirteen page document which is the largest pile of juvenilia ever. Stop play boss!

Even Irice Reyes, who was the winner of the ISCR research competi-tion which focused on finding solutions to the crime situation in Belize had a more comprehensive and credible sub-mission. I swear, we need to track down Irice of Ecumenical Junior College be-cause someone plagiarized or freeload-ed off her paper and watered it down to that environmental waste of fourteen sheets of paper. Right, Mr. Encalada?

Back to the Barrow card shuffle. What kind of funny business is this to put Doug Singh as Minister of National Security and Pitts as his catcher in an AG costume? No tell me bout how he is just Minister of Police and Public Security, because the BDF only have bout three hundred man and half a dat di hunt jaguars in Belize City. Perdomo perdido everything, and was told that he like it!!

Crime is no carnival you know and Dough is sure to be a pansy on crime.

Deano is just playing games. He is not serious. Look pan di maths. In our constitutional democracy, ideally and as a rule of thumb, elected officials from the House make up the Cabinet. In fact, from my ruffling through the constitu-tion only one ministerial post is spe-cifically named for someone outside the elected members, and that is a qualified lawyer to temporarily fill the post of AG under certain conditions. In all oth-er cases then where the appointment is via the Senate, that appointee must have some exceptional and specialized skill to justify short-circuiting the electoral process to bask on the beach enjoying Ministerial tanning.

Beg you a question boss…what credentials does Dougie have to justify his holding the hot potato portfolio of Police? Is he a known criminologist? A renowned social scientist? Retired Police Commissioner/Commandant? Nope. None of the above. He is just a UDP insider and Barrow “yes sah man”.

Where in his resume did it say ‘suitable to head police force?’ At least Carlito had been the ex-UDP CEO in that ministry and the qualified virtue of being an elected member of the House, he failed; now what does Dougie bring? This is a joke. What we have gotten is the superlative of bad!

But while we are unamused at Deano’s game of fifty-two card pick up, we realize that something is fishy. Why have a big ceremony to take the AG ministry from Sedi? After all the new AG is his roommate! Come to think of it, really, is it not the case that Sedi ballsed up Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade more so than he did AG? Re-member the Compromis, the Artificial border and the sleepovers with Israelis. What did he do in AG wrong?

Now if Deano mi serious, di bally mi wah appoint a well qualified foreign affairs specialist like Ambassador Al-fredo Martinez or the current advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Am-bassador David Gibson to be the Min-ister of Foreign Affairs. Tek your pick, bald eagle! Had he done so he could have left Sedi, who, is only for argument and comparative purposes better suited

for the AG portfolio. Nope not Deano.Look yah! Straight out of extreme

left field, or rather from the pits comes a verbose geriatric to be AG. Why? Why? Why? I read the transcript of the evening news over and over and then it hit me like the final scene of the 1995 blockbuster thriller “The Usual Sus-pects”.

This is what Deano says of BBQ: ”I think he will drive the process that will see us end up with a dedicated court for dealing with the violent crimes. I think he will drive the process that will see us get a more effective pros-ecution. I think he will drive …the judiciary about sentencing policies, I think he will drive the process… that will produce the legislative reform that is necessary to back stop what we want to do with the police department in particular.”

But what is more important, like the old card game trick is what he did not say. Now we all know that old boy Pitts is no legal luminary. Truth is no one has ever seen him go to the Court of Appeal or the Privy Council in all his donkey years as a lawyer. Come to think of it his appearances in the Su-preme Court are as frequent as Citco fixing the streets. One reporter noted that the last time this man did a civil case, his daughter could not even lift an egg to throw it.

Eureka. This is all about a woman. Do the maths… if you get an attorney who is virtually clueless in civil litiga-tion and who is primarily a criminal at-torney then you still have full control and full justification to continue to leach off to Lice, fat government re-tainers. The Pits is just the duppy card. The target card is Lice, by appointing the Pitts, Deano can continue to skim off million dollar cases to his ex-wife.

Put dat in your pipe and smoke it Belize!!!! As Deano spoke I remem-bered a monologue of Alice as she gazed through the looking glass: “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

We might simple but wi no fool.


June 8 is set aside as World Ocean’s Day and Oceana will be discussing the topic of Offshore Oil Drilling and its legal ramifica-tion for the people of Belize.

A public forum will be held to mark World Ocean Day on June 8, 2010 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Radisson Fort George Car-acol Room. The general public is invited to attend and participate in the discussion of off-shore drilling in Belize.

As part of the forum there will be a presentation on “The Belize Case for Offshore Drilling.” Pre-senters will speak about the legal

realities in Belize, the economic impact to existing sectors and the environmental implications for Belizeans.

The forum will also be the occasion at which the winners of the Essay competition will be announced and awarded their re-spective prizes. The competition held under the topic “Offshore Oil Exploration and Drilling – is it good for our People and Oceans?” has seen participation in all three categories:

CATERGORY I – individual/General. Participant must be at 16 years and older. Prize: - an all

expense paid trip for the winner and 9 friends to the Blue Hole (group limit applies) – sponsored by Hugh Parkey, Belize Audubon Society and Oceana

CATEGORY II - High School – (essay can be written and sub-mitted by an individual student or a group of students - but must be submitted through the school). Prize: an all day expense paid trip for 25 to snorkel at Hol Chan Marine Reserve – donated by Oceana, SEAduced by Belize & Elito Arceo;

CATEGORY III – Tertiary Institution - (could be written and

submitted by an individual stu-dent or a group of students – but must be submitted through the school). Prizes: Dive or snorkel for the winner and three friends at Whale Shark Zone – sponsored by AVADON Divers; SEA (Southern Environmental Association) and Oceana and one night stay for four at Laru Beya Resort in Pla-cencia donated by Ian McField for the winner and guests.

This forum is being co-spon-sored by OAK Foundation; APA-MO, COLA, Healthy Reefs for Healthy People and KREM RA-DIO & TV.

World Ocean Day Forum and Essay Competition Award Ceremony

MexicanGovernment

Begins Deliveryof 40 Tons of

HumanitarianAid to

GuatemalaThe aid will be given directly to the

affected communities in coordination with CONRED.

The aid comes from the Mexican government, the Chiapas state govern-ment and the Mexican Red Cross.

The Foreign Ministry of Mexico reports that in response to the request made by the government of Guatemala to assist with the emergency caused by the eruption of the Pacaya volcano and tropical storm Agatha, the Mexican gov-ernment has sent two helicopters from the Mexican Navy that, beginning today, will deliver humanitarian aid.

As previously reported, Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom and Mexican President Felipe Calderón spoke over the telephone during the early stages of the storm to discuss the aid that Mexico could provide.

The humanitarian aid consists of 40 tons of food that was collected in Mex-ico through contributions from the fed-eral government, the state government of Chiapas and the Mexican Red Cross.

The aid has been concentrated in the Tapachula airport in Chiapas and will be distributed to different parts of Guate-mala so that it goes directly to the af-fected communities, in accordance with the specific instructions of the Guate-malan National Coordinator for Disas-ter Reduction (CONRED). To this end, the two helicopters will make 22 flights.

The helicopters will make their de-liveries along a route that includes the departments of El Quiché, Sololá, Re-talhuleu, Quetzaltenango, Totonicapán, Huehuetenango and San Marcos. The deliveries will be made in coordination with the local CONRED and commu-nity officials.

The food aid includes, among oth-er products, corn flour, cookies, beans, sugar, instant soups and milk.

The first Navy flight arrived today at approximately 4:00 p.m. with three tons of food for the Sacapulas community in the Quiché Department. The aid was de-livered to the community in the presence of its mayor. This first installment was made in coordination with CONRED.

The government of Mexico reiter-ates its readiness to continue provid-ing aid and cooperation in order to as-sist our Guatemalan friends during this emergency situation.


Jamaican security forces have defended their actions following a four-day anti-drugs offensive in the capital, Kingston, which left 73 dead.

Maj Riccardo Blackwood from the Jamaican Defence Force said of-ficers had faced trained gunmen and found numerous explosive devices.

Jamaica has been criticised for its use of force in clashes with sup-porters of an alleged druglord.

Christopher "Dudus" Coke is wanted by the US on drug and gun-running charges.

His supporters have said they will protect him at any cost.

Mr Blackwood said the military had found "a number of things that were quite alarming", during the raids, pointing out what he described

as an improvised explosive device."Other forms of plastic explo-

sives which were used with electron-

ic trigger mechanisms and booby traps were strategically placed all around the community," he said.

The clashes - sparked by a gov-ernment announcement that it will extradite Mr Coke to the US - began on Sunday and left 70 civilians and 3 security personnel dead.

Residents of affected parts of Kingston say security forces were heavy-handed.

Human rights group Amnesty International has called for an inves-tigation into the unrest, saying that Jamaican police had a "dire" human rights track record.

The BBC's Nick Davis in Kings-ton said that some people in the country believe Mr Coke is wanted dead or alive.

But Jamaican police insist that Mr Coke will be arrested and brought to trial, our correspondent adds.

Jamaican forces defend deadly drug raids in Kingston Jamaican

IF THE green light to proceed with the process of extraditing Christopher Coke had commenced earlier, Jamaica might have found itself in more dire circumstances than it is in, Prime Min-ister Bruce Golding has hinted.

In a cameo defence to his position of prime minister during the debate on a no-confidence motion on Tuesday, Golding said the economy would have suffered a catastrophic collapse had police been sent to arrest Coke in 2009.

"Last year was a very challenging year, not just for this Government but for the country. We had to take some decisions last year and we had to do some things, otherwise we don't know where we would have been this year," Golding said.

He told Parliament that while his administration pursued the extradi-tion for Coke by taking advice from

eminent legal minds, "there were some serious issues that the country had to face that had to be protected.

"The position that we are in to-day, in terms of how we have managed to position the economy to give us a chance to survive the onslaught of the last two years, if we had taken deci-sions that we are being maligned for not taking, we would not have been there," Golding told Parliament.

The country was forced to enter into a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund last year after the world recession crippled Ja-maica's productive sector. The eco-nomic downturn had wiped out the bauxite sector, threatened the stability of tourism and stifled remittances.

Too problematicThe Golding administration was

also confronted by the request for

Earlier Dudus hunt may have hurt economyCoke's extradition and the prime minis-ter stopped just short of saying he was too problematic a man to target when the country was in a precarious posi-tion.

"Certain things that we did last year, you could not have done it on the heels, on the backside of civil distur-bance," Golding said.

Government had delayed signing an authority to proceed in the extradi-tion case against Coke for nine months. The US had requested that he be extra-dited for arms and drug trafficking, but Government cited contentious issues with the request and refused to sign.

Justice Minister Dorothy Light-bourne gave the authority to proceed against Coke after public outcry forced Golding to huddle with his Cabinet to discuss the issue.

Golding then told the nation in a

broadcast that the Government would move to arrest Coke, but some persons questioned the wisdom of allowing the alleged crime boss time to fortify his defences.

"He vacillated on giving the author-ity to proceed and then telegraphed the eventual issuing of the arrest warrant, which frustrated the normal extradi-tion process," Peter Bunting, the oppo-sition spokesman on national security, said in Parliament on Tuesday.

However, Golding said the execu-tion of that warrant for Coke would not have been a "simple matter". He said that he took advice from the secu-rity forces who told him of the enor-mity of the problem that might have resulted if they were to move to arrest Coke.

Seventy-three civilians and one sol-dier died in last week's push into Tivoli.


It does not get any stranger than this.

The Jamaica Observer reports this morning that police in Jamaica arrested a Carnival cruise passenger who jumped from Carnival's Liberty while the cruise ship was in port in Ocho Rios.

It turns out that this was no ordinary passenger. The police arrested Harold Crooks who was the former comman-dant in the Island Special Constabulary Force in Jamaica. He was a crime and se-curity expert who had made recommen-dations to combat crime in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Crooks was un-der investigation for sexually assaulted a minor. Earlier this year, he had fled Ja-maica to Canada. His Jamaican lawyer stated that Crooks would not return to Jamaica because he had no faith in the justice system there.

The Jamaica Observer reports that Crooks dared local cops to come get him in Canada if they "could stand the cold." Well, it turns out that it was Crooks who couldn't stand the cold in Canada by booking a cruise from the U.S. back to Jamaica! When he found out that the police were coming to get him, he put on a life preserver and jumped overboard.

Now he will get the face the heat.

Passenger Jumps From Cruise Ship

To Avoid Arrest For Sexual Assault

BP's financial prospects have been downgraded by two ratings agencies, de-spite "an important milestone" in its at-tempt to stem the Gulf of Mexico leak.

The move by both Fitch and Moody's is a sign that City analysts and rating agents are belatedly reacting to the pressures facing the oil giant, which on Thursday confirmed that it would give a presentation reassuring investors about its financial situation.

Mr Hayward told The Daily Tele-graph on Tuesday that the company could afford to maintain its $10bn (£6.8bn) dividend.

On Thursday night, the White House said it had sent a preliminary bill for $69m to BP and “other responsible parties” to cover oil spill costs.

In a sign that the BP's problems are becoming an increasingly political issue, BP executives met Charles Hendry, Brit-ain's new energy minister on Thursday. BP was the UK's biggest company be-fore it lost a third of its value follow-ing the accident that killed 11 men last month. It contributes one in every six pounds in dividend payments to pension funds.

BP's share price rose 2½, or almost 0.5pc, to 432¼p in London on Thurs-day, after robots cut a pipe leading from the well with a pair of shears. Technical teams were preparing to lower a cap over the pipe and source of the leak to reduce the flow.

Tony Hayward, BP's chief executive,

said the breakthrough was an "impor-tant milestone", with the results poten-tially known as early as Friday morning.

He also made an attempt to woo a hostile US public on Thursday through television advertisements playing a per-

Gulf of Mexico oil spill: BP downgraded as engineers make leak breakthrough

sonal message to viewers. He promises: "We will get this done. We will make this right."

Fitch said its downgrade to AA from AA+, with outlook negative, "reflects risks to both BP's business and finan-

cial profile", reversing an earlier view that the spill would have little impact. Moody's also cut the group's ratings to Aa2 from Aa1, while Standard & Poor's said it is reviewing ratings on 35 oil com-panies in the Gulf of Mexico.

In a separate blow to the oil giant, BP's Russian joint venture on Thursday gave up a 10-year struggle to develop one of world's biggest, most gas-rich fields.

TNK-BP, the Russian joint venture 50pc owned by BP, put one of its units into bankruptcy proceedings, meaning the giant Kovytka field will be sold off to the highest bidder. The sale will realise cash for TNK-BP – after its attempts at developing Kovytka were repeatedly sty-mied by the Russia government.

BP produces a quarter of its oil and gas from Russia and a quarter from the Gulf of Mexico.


THINK ‘BOUT ITISRAEL IS A FOOLISH NATION

On Friday 28 May the United Na-tions passed a resolution establishing a conference in 2012 to reach agreement that the Middle East be a Nuclear Free Zone. The Resolution also calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and open its facilities to interna-tional inspection.

Israel is furious over this Resolu-tion. Israel boycotted the UN conference when it became clear that Egypt and oth-er nations were going to call out Israel on its nuclear weapons. But Israel’s an-ger was much deeper. This was because the USA under Obama fully supports the UN Resolution and the Nuclear Free Zone objective. Under Bush, Reagan and other US Presidents, no such support would have been received for any UN Resolution passed “against” Israel.

Israel has been defying and getting away with ignoring UN Resolutions over its torture and treatment of Palestinians and the continued illegal occupation of the Palestinian people and their lands.

Obama is being cursed by the Is-rael newspapers over this historic move by the USA to be seen to be a bit more even handed and balanced regarding the Middle East and the issue of nuclear weapons. To date there has been much US, Western and Israel propaganda over Iran trying to get nuclear weapons while Israel got loads of nuclear weapons for years and nobody has been condemning them for it.

In the words of Tracy Chapman - “Finally the table has started to turn”. It is a huge blow to Israeli policy.

Even as Israel was been condemned over its backward behavior over the nu-clear weapons and perhaps to distract attention away from this fact the Israeli military committed a high-handed action. On Monday 31 May Israeli commanders attacked a group of ships in Interna-tional waters which were carrying hu-manitarian aid to Palestinian in Gaza. It turned into a minor bloodbath. Nine aid workers were shot by the Israeli forces, the ships were disabled and towed away and over 500 volunteers were imprisoned in various desert detention centers. Even the UK and the USA who for years have encouraged Israel in its illegal activi-ties and its defiance of United Nations Resolutions were forced to condemn the heavy-handed actions of the Israelis.

For those who do not know arising out of a 1967 war Israel has “stronged” several bits of territories from the Pal-estinian people. After being forced un-der International Law to return most of the captured lands Israel is holding on to the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. Gaza has a population of 1.5 mil-lion Palestinians in 2006 and internation-ally supervised elections resulted in the so-called radical group Hamas being democratically elected as the governing body. Hamas gets strong support from Iran and as a result Israel, USA and the UK have declared them a terrorist group. Israel has an embargo against Hamas which has created severe suffering and a humanitarian crisis for the people.

WORLD NO TOBACCO DAYTobacco is a destructive drug with

deadly effects.World Health Organization statistics

show that tobacco kills 5 ½ million peo-ple each year. This translates to a tobacco death every sixty seconds.

Tobacco is the NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF DEATH in the whole world.

Women and young girls have become the new target of the tobacco industry.

Nuff young people in Belize are smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol. Belize needs a vigorous sustained pro-gram against the twin evils of tobacco and alcohol, both of which are open and legal under the present system in which we are living.

In Belize, Monday, 31 May, 2010 was not World Tobacco Day. The evil of tobacco smoking was not brought to Belizeans. Instead the whole week is In-surance Week. Insurance in the humble opinion of this writer’s is an organized rip-off, but at least nobody could be ad-dicted to it.

WHO LEAD CREOLES?Who is the leader of the Creoles? Who are the leaders of the Creole

ethnic group in Belize? Hey, don’t feel no way. This is only an opinion. It is not even an opinion. It is just like poetry poorly written in poorly portrayed poor prose.

It is the Creoles who built Belize. Don’t study that foolishness ‘bout the Baymen’s glory. Dey gone live at St. George’s Caye. Dey make that the Capital of the territory. Dey make up a fairy tale story that a handful of them and some flunky slaves defeated dozens of Spanish battle ships carrying thousand of soldiers and sailors and this was done with a few cannons and some pokono boy sticks.

Never mind that Anansi story. Back here on the mainland in the forests and the jungles in the thick of the flies and insects it was we the rough and the tuff Kruffy who mi di do things. Da we mi the chop down the logwood and mahog-any trees, da we and the cattle drag these monster trees from the jungles to the rivers. White men can’t chop mahogany trees, they worst can’t do it in the heat of the jungles. This was no Tarzan movie. This was God awful, hard, brutal back breaking work, only the strong survive under these conditions. And when the mahogany camp rested it was bacchanal in Belize City. The masters forced us to make plenty pickney. It was cheaper to born and raise little pickney slaves than to import all the way through from Af-rica through Jamaica.

Back then we were Eboes, Ashantis, Mandingoes. Eventually we became Cre-oles. Before our Mestizo brothers and sisters came we had built this territory. When they arrived Belize was already a country. YEA! We been slaves, we been colonized. But check this, we survived. We had a kind of education, we had skills. Most of all we were strong and proud. We were sex and love. We min-gled and co-mingled. We hated no one, not even the lighter shades of pale who did us wrong.

As the years went by so came other peoples. But first our Garinagu broth-ers and sisters whom we have now come to love and cherish. They seem stronger than us. Their talents equal ours. They too are drummers, singers and dancers. They are speakers of tongues. And they thirst for education. They have preserved much of their culture.

There also came the East Indians and the so-called Turks, then Mennonites and the Asians, particularly the Chinese. And others.

There be none like the Creoles. We come along way. From slaves to

colonial subjects to second class citizens to top dog Belizeans.

We come a long way. From Number One with the biggest population in the land to the bottom of the ladder – social-ly, economically and otherwise. It’s quite a fall. Except for a handful of profes-

sionals, technocrats and beaurocrats. The majority of Creoles are suffering. They are demoralized. These once happy peo-ple so full of music, song and dance seem frightened. The future seems bleak. Of all the negatives the worst be lack of role models and the absence of leadership. In the words of another Creole from across the seas, from Jamaica – Bob Marley – “Send us another brother Moses”.

Who is the leader of the Creoles? Who are the leaders of these mighty people?

FEMALE GANGThere is talk that a girls’ gang has

formed on the Southside. They are call-ing themselves Garza.

In Jamaica there is a gang called Gar-za but it is not a really serious gang. It is more a rivalry between music groups. One called Gully and the other called Garza. We hope what we are hearing is a music group and not a violent gun gang.

CHANNEL FIVEAmalia Mai, Mary and the other

members of staff deserve a special award. They have taken local television to

a very high level. There is nothing in the history of local programs to rival Chan-nel Five’s shows in particular the award winning performances in Duets and the KTV Latino. These are a huge contribu-tion to developing and showcasing the talents of our people. The Bliss Institute has been overflowing with enthusiastic supporters who know a good thing when they see it. There is also a large television home audience who tune in weekly to watch these performances.

The morning show “Open Your Eyes” has potential but it has ways to go. It’s a bit too staid and laid back. There is no sparks much less fire although we should concede that getting guests every morning must be quite a challenge.

TONIGHT’S GONNA BE A GOOD NITE

CBC has out done itself. This is a catchy creative commercial. Are those people Belizeans?

It’s the kind of ads/commercials we like to see.

Makes you wanna switch to CBC if you don’t have it.


Belize property prices attract retireesThe latest "it" country for tropical

property could be Belize, according to Propertywire, which reported last month that the Central American nation's deci-mated property values are making it an appealing option for retirees from the U.S. and Canada seeking inexpensive beach-front property.

Asking prices for homes in some ar-eas of Belize have dropped by as much as 50 percent, according to David Cox, a director with international property invest-ment consulting firm Property Frontiers. "Although local agents claim only a slight fall in Belize real estate prices, the reality is different," Cox told Property Wire.

Beachfront condos with asking prices of $250,000 are not unheard of, according to the Vancouver Sun, which noted that relaxed residency laws also add to Belize's appeal among retirees.

Of course, there are some drawbacks for newcomers to Belize. Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced in March that the general sales tax was climbing to 12.5 percent in the coming fiscal year, a 25 per-cent increase, in order to help deal with rampant poverty.

China bank opens new offices as part of global expansion push

China Construction Bank Corp., the country's largest mortgage lender, is un-dertaking a global expansion plan, which includes new offices in New York and Ho Chi Minh City, and possible outposts in Australia, Latin America and the Middle East, according to MarketWatch.

One of China's so-called Big Four banks, the Beijing-based company has to-tal assets of about $1.27 trillion. The new 14,000-square-foot office in Manhattan is at 1095 6th Ave.

The expansion plans emerge during an inauspicious time for lenders and real estate companies in China. The govern-ment's decision last month to raise the minimum required downpayment on sec-ond homes caused stock prices in the real estate sector to slip, according to the As-sociated Press, and may slow speculative buying.

But average home prices are now about 40 percent above 2007 levels, ac-cording to the Wall Street Journal, which worries some industry experts that an-other housing bubble could be developing quickly.

"The scariest thing is that one simply can't find a reason for soaring prices for many building complexes," an unnamed industry insider told the Journal.

Belize attracts retirees

CHICAGO — Three men have been indicted on federal charges that accuse them of conning people in more than 60 countries into buying $100 million in bogus software by con-vincing them their computers were in-fected by malicious programs.

A federal grand jury in Chicago re-turned indictments Wednesday against 26-year-old James Reno of Amelia, Ohio, and Bjorn Daniel Sundin and Shaileshkumar Jain.

Sundin is a 31-year-old Swedish citizen believed to live in Sweden. Jain is a 40-year-old American authorities believe is in the Ukraine.

"These defendants allegedly preyed on innocent computer users, exploit-ing their fraudulently induced fears for personal gain," Robert D. Grant, the

special agent in charge of the FBI's Chicago office, said in a news release.

While authorities say they expect Reno to turn himself in at some point, none of the three are in custody. U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Randall Samborn declined to discuss when Reno will turn himself in or how authorities plan to pursue Sundin and Jain.

There was no immediate response to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday at a telephone number listed for James Reno in Ame-lia, Ohio.

Jain, Sundin and others used a company they incorporated in Belize called Innovative Marketing Inc. and a series of fictitious advertising agencies to place fake ads on legitimate Web

3 accused of conning $100M in software scheme

sites from December 2006 through October 2008, the indictment says.

The ads contained hidden comput-er codes that redirected browsers on any computer used to view the ads to Web sites that would display error mes-sages — known as scareware — telling users their computers were infected with malicious software. Computer us-ers were prompted to use their credit cards to buy Innovative Marketing software with names such as "Drive-Cleaner" and "ErrorSafe" for anywher from $30 to $70, authorities said.

The money, according to the in-dictment, was deposited in bank ac-counts around the world.

The indictment charges Sundin and Jain each with 24 counts of wire fraud, and Reno with 12 counts of wire

fraud. Each also was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit com-puter fraud and computer fraud.

Each wire fraud count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in pris-on and a $250,000 fine, plus restitution and further potential fines based on the money lost by victims.

The indictment also seeks the for-feiture of about $100 million and all money held in an account at Swedbank located in Kiev, Ukraine.


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the premature disclosure by the PM three months ago of his impending shuffle, the actual announcement fails to meet the high expectations of the vast majority of Belizeans citizens and stakeholders.’

In a short press conference on Tuesday, Mr. Barrow conceded to the media and the nation that things had gone wrong in his Cabinet and mistakes had been made. With that admission, Belizeans logically waited for the leader of the nat ion to announce changes which would deal severely or at least to some extent with those who had been failing in carrying out their responsibilities to

the nation and people. But nothing of the sort…with that admission Mr. Barrow moved on breezily to announce some cosmetic changes which, according to a local media house, are ‘neither sweeping nor inspiring.’ Rather, those changes have accomplished nothing more than to add a burden of hundreds of thousands of dollars to taxpayers already in the grips of an economic recession.

Those taxpayers will now have to find money to pay for a new Minister of Police and Public Security, a position which has been gifted to the UDP Chairman, Doug Singh. Despite being classified as a complete and

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abject failure by all and sundry, former Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo retains his minister status and will now head the born again Ministry of Defence. Taxpayers will also have to find money to pay for a new Attorney-General, a position granted to the law partner of Elrington, BQ Pitts. Elrington has also retained his Minister status, just with less work.

In its release, the PUP states that ‘both the new Minister of Police and the new Attorney General are nothing more than un-elected UDP party insiders. Neither crony brings any special skills to their high profile jobs.’ That sentiment has been widely expressed in the days s ince the appointments. Singh, by all accounts, brings absolutely nothing relevant

to the table in what is admittedly a challenging position at a supremely challenging time. The appointment of Pitts is another mystery, since he is not known to possess the skills in civil matters which would be demanded, and indeed is at ‘the twilight of his years,’ and certainly not seen as the legal bulldog and warrior which Mr. Barrow claims is what is needed in an Attorney-General at this time.

The Opposition concludes by stating - What Belizeans most want is a team and plan to reverse our economic recession, restore law and order and offer opportunity to the thousands of our citizens, including those who will enter the job market this summer. This reshuffle fails to address any of these concerns.

surgeries, doctors also retrieved the bullet that caused the damages, a .38 calibre slug, which was lodged very close to the right kidney.

General surgeon at the Karl Heusner Memoria l Hospita l , Dr Emerson Munguia , was one of five specialists who worked to save Williams' life. He told TV reporters on Wednesday that by the time they opened up the lawyer's abdomen, he had already bled four litres of blood.

Rodwell Williams Clinging to LifeBy the time doctors were through with the third surgery, Williams had bled another six litres of blood. The bullet entered just below the ribcage on the left hand side and caused damage to the duodenum where there are many arteries leading to other main arteries that transport blood flow to the intestines. The severity of the injury that Williams suffered, according to Munguia, is so grave that victims hardly ever live beyond three minutes of being shot. Munguia

added that this was the most severe injury of its kind that they have seen in the past six years where the patient did not die by the end of the surgery procedures.

The doctors cautioned that even though Williams pulled through the surgeries, one of their fears now is that infection might set in or that the blood transfusions he had to undergo so rapidly might cause complications with his lungs or kidneys.

And whi le cops are hav ing difficulty in establishing who wanted Williams dead, conspiracy theories run

abound on city streets like wildfire. Less than two months ago, on April 15, someone fired a projectile, either a bullet or a piece of board at the law firm which Williams shares with the PM. The missile entered through one of the windows on the second floor from the Regent Street West side and exited through another window on the Albert Street West side of the building. But the projectile was never found and no one was ever arrested.

Today PM Barrow flew out to Jackson Memorial to join Williams’ wife, Felice, at his bedside.

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because he has so much more time on his hands. Mr. Elrington who made gaffe after gaffe to raise the ire of the Belizean people also did fine. He has much less work to do now and will get the same big salary.

Pablo Marin who singlehandedly wrecked the public health system in Belize was left to do more damage. The Minister of NEMO was left right where he was to fall asleep at the wheel again in the event of a disaster. Gapi Vega was left at Natural Resources even though the wider public concurs that he has presided over the most corrupt period in that ministry.

Thanks to Mr. Barrow, with this new expansion Belize’s Cabinet is now larger than that of the United States and the United Kingdom. Thanks to the Prime Minister, Belizeans will have to find hundreds of thousands of dollars more (during a time of recession, no less) to pay for a new Minister of Police and for a new Attorney-General and for the many perks their new offices will bring.

There is no doubt that there were no big losers in the UDP as a result of Mr. Barrow’s Cabinet expansion. As always, under this administration, the Belizean people are the biggest losers in this latest move.

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possible 400 points. The news of his success quickly found this relatively shy young man being bombarded with messages on facebook, on his phone and from the many adult friends of his parents Juan Rancharan and Ambassador Amalia Mai. As if this were not enough, Siian had to do the dreaded television interview, the first of a series of interviews.

During one of his television inter views, S i ian spoke of the importance of his foundational work;

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he graciously thanked his teacher at Hummingbird Elementary School, his classmates and he thanked his parents, who he said ensured that he was always prepared for school, that he studied and provided the necessary support.

I n o n e o f h i s t e l e v i s i o n interviews Siian spoke about the work that went into preparing for the exam; he said that studying was a big part of the process: “Reading over notes was very important to me and making sure that I didn’t get too stressed out with it. Not studying before the PSE really calmed my

nerves because when you do that you just get pressured that you should know everything. And I feel that all the things that I’ve learned; my topics, my notes, all the lessons and life skills I’ve learned from my teacher so far have really helped me in the PSE.”

Siian Rancheran is the only child of Juan Rancharan and Amalia Mai. Currently a consultant in Sustainable Development Issues, his dad is the former Policy Advisor in the Ministry of Natural Resources. His mom, Amalia is the former High Commissioner to Canada and

current Chief Executive Officer at Great Belize Productions, the parent company of Channel 5.

The other nine students who rounded out the top 10 in the 2010 PSE are Deanna Gibson of Pancotto Primary, Kelsey Musa of Belize Elementary, Henry Fernandez of Santa Elena Primary, Lement Chun of Sa int Francis Xavier, Nadiya Sedasey of Saint Ignatius, Alexander King and Mishek Musa of Hummingbird Elementary, Kenya Castillo of United Evergreen and Ochaeta Sandrina from Sacred Heart.

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