Belize Times 100523

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

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Belize Times The Truth Shall Make You Free

Operation Jaguar Kicks Off… SUNDAY MAY 23, 2010

Issue No. 4694

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Carlos Kicked Out?

Money Still Missing at CitCo!

The mess at City Hall seems to be going from bad to worse as for yet another week the Council is trying but without much success to be able to account for monies which market stall vendors have been paying in towards their arrears. Only last week we heard from City Councillor Kevin Singh, who alleged that the Council's financial records do not reflect any deductions from what market vendors at the Queen's Square Market are claiming to have paid in towards their outstanding balance for stalls. The amount the Council records show for arrears is $174,000 among the 55 vendors. But the angry vendors say they have been doubling up their payments towards their debts,

only to discover that the figure in the books remains the same. Singh said last week that the Council could not immediately say what had happened. Well the Council issued a press release this week saying that all the monies have been accounted for. But Singh is still not so sure about that because he says he has not been shown any records to corroborate that statement. This week Singh came out publicly on Channel 5 News, stating - "When I went in and I asked them that question (what happened to the monies) they had no answer for it. They were trying to find out, going through different things. Now this is what they came up with, that everything is accounted for...we need (Continued on page 35)

The Belize Times has received very credible reports that embattled and battered Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo will be relieved of his portfolio in the very near future. Those reports have been made even more credible by the very conspicuous absence of Perdomo in Operation Jaguar, which was launched on Monday, May 17. An official release stated that the operation was launched at the direction of the Chairman of the National Security Council, Prime Minister Dean Barrow. There was no mention of Minister of National Security Minister Carlos Perdomo. According to the release, "the Operation, which will be conducted for a sustained period of time, will (Continued on page 35)

Belizeans Tell GOB

HOLD ON!

As crude oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, no one seems willing to take responsibility. In the mean time the destruction and the economic cost to the states in the US Gulf Coast could mean billions of dollars in losses to the economies of Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. While British Petroleum, the mega oil corporation refuses to accept responsibility for this disaster, the events in the Gulf of Mexico have created an interesting debate here in Belize and has resulted in environmental activists as well as other NGOs going so far as to write the Prime Minister to call for a complete halt on any oil exploration off shore. In one of its weekly e-polls, Channel 5

asked Belizeans for their views on offshore exploration. The result of the e-poll showed that 86 percent of all Belizeans are against off shore oil exploration. In an interview on Channel 5, Marc Patry, programme specialist in UNESCO’s Special Projects Unit of the World Heritage Center, said that UNESCO was concerned by the fact that Government had issued licenses for oil exploration in areas that are a part of the Belize Barrier Reef Heritage Site. He said, “There is a policy within the World Heritage convention that World Heritage sites should be off limit to mining and hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation. In that sense we don’t want to see oil exploration or drilling in the water (Continued on page 35)

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