Sunday, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
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Belize Times The Truth Shall Make You Free
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2010
Issue No. 4679
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The Casualties of WAR! Barrow Cold & Clueless
Janay Moguel - Wounded
Glenstine Martinez - Dead Dorrell Williams - Dead Neville Thomas - Dead Gavin Zuniga - Wounded The Prime Minister of Belize Dean reality.’ He said that he has now been “The child, the young girl painful sense of having to deal in who I believe is 7 years old, is the a fairly immediate way with this Oliver Barrow was interviewed this week made aware that he will have to deal ‘in stepdaughter of my driver and so terrible depressing reality.” – Hon. by Keith Swift from Channel 7. This a fairly immediate way’ with the issue of is the first time in recent memory that crime. His words appeared meaningless it certainly produced for me a very Dean Barrow the PM has deigned to speak on critical and lacking in any discernible emotion. issues like crime and oil. It was not a good What will surely stick in the mind of interview for the leader of this nation. He Belizeans, though, is that it is just now, came across like a cold fish, uncaring and as we enter year two of unchecked and unfeeling. He seems to have lost sight of unprecedented violence and bloodshed the real issues plaguing his people. He in the city, that our Prime Minister came across as a man with little regard claims he now realizes that he has to do for the intelligence of the Belizean people something. The comments of the Prime and utterly comfortable in the belief that any and all of his utterances will be Minister were an insult to all those families left grieving for their loved received as the gospel truth. As a seven year old child, the ones, victims of the violence which innocent casualty of yet another shooting has overtaken the nation. Last year the in the city, faces the prospect of paralysis Economist named Belize the #1 murder for life, Dean Barrow in his interview hotspot in the world. Residents are could not even mention her by name. It paralyzed by fear, afraid to walk streets appears that to this robotic PM, young which have become dangerous and afraid Janay Moguel is just a statistic, and an to stay in their homes because even there unimportant one at that. His quote it is not safe. There have been thirteen reproduced above is ghoulish, insensitive shootings in the past week, with four and absurd. According to Barrow, it is victims dead. And that’s just in the city. Hon. Sedi Elrington Libyan leader only now that he is a little more familiar Gang warfare has erupted on our streets, Col. Muammar Gaddafi with the victim through his driver, that with the new weapon of choice a grenade. (Continued on page 35) he realizes a little more the ‘depressing
Why is Foreign Affairs Minister Sedi Elrington in Libya?
FIRE PERDOMO!
The government’s response to the latest surge of street violence has been as expected – absolutely nothing from the Police Minister Carlos Perdomo and meaningless words of cold comfort from his boss, Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Residents of Belize City have nowhere to turn, as the Prime Minister refuses to heed calls for the removal of Perdomo, and claims that he, Perdomo and the Police Department can do nothing more to provide any sense of security or safety to fearful citizens. The recent spate of violence, mayhem and murder reads like a lowbudget shoot ‘em up movie and the casualties of this war on the streets keep piling up. On Monday night, at around 6:30 guns blazed out death and terror
along Central American Boulevard. When it was over, a youth lay critically injured in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. (Continued on page 35)
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Remembering A Fallen Brother
On Tuesday, February 2nd, PUP Leader John Briceño and members of the Northern Caucus visited the widow and children of cane farmer Atanacio Felix Gutierrez who was killed by the police one year ago.
It's Time For The PUP!