Belize Times January 9, 2011

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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Belizeans Shafted AGAIN! SUNDAY JANUARY 9, 2011

Issue No. 4726

During a time when cruise tourism stakeholders should be working and bulking up for the dreaded “dead season” Belizean investors and workers are instead fighting for their jobs and livelihoods.

As one tender owner said, “If I lose my job, I lose my house and my ability to feed my family.”

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People’s United Party

For Immediate Release

PUP Demands Real Intervention from GOB The People’s United Party calls on the Government of Belize to immediately engage in constructive and ‘real’ intervention on behalf of local Belizean tender operators who are in danger of losing their sizable investments and the security offered by their critical roles in the cruise tourism industry. GOB must act decisively to ensure that the livelihoods of these local operators be protected and that Belizeans not be victimized in order to benefit a foreign interest allegedly working in collaboration with a well-placed UDP insider.

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jobs and a means to earn a decent living.

Information gathered by this newspaper is that a foreigner by the name of Rick O’Shea along with Belizean counterparts has made a deal with a few of the cruise lines that call on Belize to take over all tendering operations. In fact we have confirmed that two tender boats were shipped Says he knew nothing about it. from Hawaii and tender operations here in Belize. If are now at the port in Big Creek. The this plot was not uncovered, many tenders were imported under the name Belizeans would be out of their (Continued on pg. 3)

TO HELL WITH THEM… says PM Barrow!

At a meeting held with the Leader of the Opposition Hon. John Briceño, local operators confirmed that over the past 22 years they have offered safe and reliable servicing of all cruise ships entering Belizean waters with an impeccable and unimpeachable record. Through continued investment, these local operators have managed to keep pace with the demands of the industry and their contributions to that industry cannot be overstated.

It is ludicrous that these important local tourism stakeholders, who employ over a hundred Belizeans, were given just a few days notice that they had been replaced and their services would no longer be needed. It defies credibility that the government and tourism authorities claim that they were completely unaware of the impending crisis.

The People’s United Party maintains its position that the roles of Belizeans in the tourism industry be protected, fostered and enhanced at all costs. The Party will follow with interest the promised negotiations between tourism stakeholders, the Prime Minister and cruise company representatives. If the outcome of those negotiations is not favourable to our established Belizean tender operators, the PUP stands ready to join forces with these tourism stakeholders to do whatever is necessary to protect local interests.

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‘To Hell with Them’ was how Prime Minister Dean Oliver Barrow in an interview on Wednesday dismissed all those who have opposed certain aspects of several new amendments to the Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act. The PM appears comfortable in his assertion that any appearance of action by his government in the fight against crime, no matter how draconian or misguided or simpleminded or ludicrous, should be lauded and embraced with almost religious

fervor.

But Mr. Barrow’s comfort zone aside, there are sections of the amendments which appear to be the brainstorms of a kindergarten student with no knowledge of the law, either its application or ramifications and certainly no knowledge of basic human rights. Under the amended law, for example, if an illegal firearm or even a single round of ammunition is found on the compound of a house, business or other establishment, each (Continued on pg. 3)

WE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL TENDER OPERATORS…

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Bailing Out Mr. Barrow Prime Minister Dean Oliver Barrow will never admit it. In fact, it is very likely that he is so mired in the comfy phobia of megalomania that he would deny it under pain of torture. But Mr. Barrow’s love of self and delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, the fact is that the current leader of the nation’s bacon was saved in the nick of time when a certain local media house chose to follow the path of mediation. Quite simply, when the prime minister chose to declare war on one media house in Belize and in extension on the freedom of the press, his ego wrote a check which his abilities and political credibility would never have been able to cash.

The media house in question without a doubt had its own reasons to seek conciliation, but that is neither here nor there. What matters in this context is that Mr. Barrow was inadvertently provided with a back door through which he could scurry. He was able to save face which he would certainly have lost if the impasse had remained in effect just a little longer. In trademark fashion, the prime minister has claimed nobility and largesse as his own, mercilessly blowing his own horn for taking the high road and deigning to restore relations with said media house. Also in trademark fashion, the prime minister has continued, both in his New Year ’s address and in an appearance on Love FM’s morning show this week, to hurl derogatory comments and petty taunts at the media house. Our learned leader for a time would tear out his own tongue before admitting the truth - that he should be effusive in his gratitude to that media house for allowing him to maintain his posture on his high horse.

Listening to Mr. Barrow pontificate and operate in the realm of high drama, it is an acceptable knee-jerk reaction to believe that the fellow is an intellectual giant. Listening to him quote philosophical giants at every turn and display great oratorical wizardry, it is perhaps another knee-jerk reaction to expect actions of consequence from the prime minister. But experience has also taught us that expecting great things from Dean Oliver Barrow is akin to squeezing the teats of a dead cow and expecting gushing rivulets of fresh milk. Pushing all the hype of brains and brilliance aside and looking at what is laid bare before us, it is no stretch to say that the prime minister has been weighed and measured, and has been found wanting.

Is it possible that when political pundits jokingly made reference to vague similarities between Dean Barrow and US President Barack Obama, the prime minister took it seriously and as an insinuation of his own greatness? Not only is it possible, but evident. It doesn’t take an investigative genius to discover that President Obama attempted to suspend relations between his administration and the giant Fox Network.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to discover the similarities between Obama’s actions and Dean Barrow’s sanction against Channel 5. In the end Obama was forced to retreat from his position. Belizeans never got a chance to enjoy Mr. Barrow’s retreat, but there can be no doubt that he would have been forced to do so.

Credible entities both local and foreign had already registered dismay at the high-handed actions of the Barrow administration, decrying what was regarded as an attack on democracy and the freedom of the press. A renowned national media organization had made its criticism clear, and even the Embassy of the United States of America felt compelled to weigh in on the matter. Public opinion was firmly on the side of freedom of the press and the absolute sanctity of an independent media protected from manipulation by and threats from the Executive.

It is regrettable that the prime minister was allowed to escape the quandary of his own making. Perhaps in the dead of night he lies in bed and composes wonderful odes to that particular media house for bailing him out of an impossible situation. And well he should. But if he doesn’t, and publicly he remains as cocky and arrogant as ever, very little of serious consequence will have been gained by the impasse. The prime minister has shown that he is perfectly willing to overstep his bounds as far as the media is concerned, freedom of the press be damned. If he remains convinced of his own righteousness and might and has not learned a lesson from this episode, there are dark days ahead. Woe be to those in the media who dare to question this UDP administration and its leader. Woe be to those in the media who dare to investigate this administration and reveal truths which are distasteful and damaging.

In today’s Belize, in this time, it is Mr. Barrow’s way or the highway indicated by the glowing red neon sign stating – suspension of normal relations.

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Belizeans Shafted Again!!!

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American Pride and Bitalco. For those of you who might not know, Bitalco is owned by the new man in charge of Beltraide, Mr. Mike Singh.

Is it a coincidence that the former CEO of Tourism, and now “investment dada” Mike Singh could be involved in a plot to destroy the lives of many Belizeans? First his plot to build a dock in Placencia even when the residents said no, and now this new move to control the tendering business! Mr. Singh, who has the full support of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues, seems determined to control the entire tourism industry that grew by leaps and bounds during the 10 years the PUP was in government. Like one operator said “under the PUP

we never had to worry about things like this.”

According to the feedback we have received, there was a meeting held late Thursday evening between stakeholders, the Minister of Tourism and the hierarchy of the Belize Tourism Board (BTB). According to reports, the Minister of Tourism and the folks at the BTB say that they did not know anything about this situation.

It comes as no surprise that the people heading the tourism industry may be clueless about the situation since they seem to be in a perpetual daydream. But then again they may be playing the fool since there is a process that was implemented by the PUP administration that requires a recommendation from the BTB for any fiscal incentive granted or any

investment in the tourism industry.

Cabinet should also have known about this deal since the importation of tender boats requires a special permit.

To quell the brewing firestorm that is the local tender operators, the Minister of Tourism asked for time in order for a delegation led by the Prime Minister to visit Miami to discuss the issue with the cruise lines.

Image, our Prime Minister has to go and do the job of his incompetent Minister of Tourism. That explains why the Prime Minister suffers from a chronic back pain. He has to constantly be carrying the bunch of dodo-birds that sit around the Cabinet table. It will be interesting to see what they bring back from Miami but if it is not to the liking of the tender operators, there will be hell to pay in Belize City. Our guess is that the deal

will be shelved for the high season and then repackage in some form or the other. Only time will tell!

Everyone who has some knowledge of the cruise business here in Belize knows that tendering is the lifeblood of the industry due to the fact that there is no docking facility. Today, there are about 12 major local tender operators employing over 100 Belizeans who have helped to build the cruise industry to what it is today. It is estimated that these Belizeans have over 20 million dollars invested in boats and other equipment. It would be a travesty if we as Belizeans were to stand around and allow the greed of a few to snatch away the livelihood of so many Belizeans. It is time…indeed it is past time that we stand up against all the injustices taking place in our country.

gun, which is a device used to send off distress signals at sea, in his possession.

So a fisherman or sailor who is found to have a flare gun can now be locked up for the device, simply because the law makes it illegal.

After an especially violent 2010 in which the only crime-fighting initiative came in the form of a song, the Barrow administration has come under focused and widespread condemnation for its inaction.

Speculation is that the amendments have thus been engineered by the Prime Minister to give the impression of bold and decisive action when

nothing could be further from the truth. The creation of much glitter and glamour to disguise the lack of substance is par for the course of this UDP government, as is Mr. Barrow’s careless derision of all those who dare to disagree with him – ‘criticism that we get for it we will have to accept... whatever criticisms they want to make, that’s fine.’

Belize ended the New Year with an appalling and horrifying 132 murders, for a rate of 40 murders per 100,000. Our once peaceful nation has now earned its place on the distinctive but hardly distinguished top ten listing of countries with the highest murder rates. Yet in his New Year’s Message,

the Prime Minister quite remarkably and with absolutely no justification or rationalization patted himself on the back for what he claimed was a slowdown in crime thanks to the resolve of the UDP administration.

The only resolve Belizeans have seen from this UDP is the resolve to ignore, disregard and downplay the crisis which faces us. A set of draconian and completely ridiculous amendments which will do absolutely nothing to curtail violent crime is now the second item on the Barrow list of crime fighting initiatives in 2010 – the first being a song called ‘I Am Belize’ which is the only thing which has come out of Operation Restore Belize.

associates himself as being by saying: “"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites…for you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!" Matthew 23:23-24 Jesus is repeatedly quoted as

saying - “do not be like the scribes and Pharisees”, yet this is who Barrow patterns his thoughts from?

In fact, Jesus’ entire campaign against the Pharisees' example is that self -righteousness is not righteousness, and that God's true people are to live according to all of God's Word, not just certain parts that are most convenient or to one's own liking. Seems familiar?

Here at The Belize Times we go on record to say that for the first time we agree with Barrow. You “are” a

Pharisee, boss.

The wicked ways befall them.

Barrow would be advised to read his Bible and change his heroes.

Matthew Chapter 23 verse 27 o f t h e N e w L i v i n g Tr a n s l a t i o n Bible puts the writing on the wall best: "What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs--beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity.”

TO HELL WITH THEM…

(Continued from pg. 1) and every person (minors included) on those premises will be taken off and locked up. The detainees will be unable to access any kind of bail at the Magistrate's Courts and will be required to hire the services of an attorney to apply to the Supreme Court to apply for bail. The timeframe for that process has now been doubled to 14 days, which means one may now be remanded to the Hattieville Prison for up to 14 days before an application for bail is heard.

Another ridiculous amendment to the law prohibits anyone, fishermen and seafarers included, from having a flare

Barrow the Pharisee

In answer to a question about a very popular billboard depicting the Royal Barrow family who continue to watch the people of Belize suffer, King Barrow took off his crown, exposed his naked baldness and said “…. I don't want to sound like a Pharisee but we are different, we don't sink that low."

Did you hear that? That is what it is. Barrow in his own self absorbed bubble has finally done a better job than Hubert “Crazy Glue” Elrington in describing himself.

The Belize Times received an email from a church leader that asked us to “take a double take at how the Prime Minister described himself.”

The Elringtons have described the Barrows as “all glitter and no substance” but this takes the fruit cake. No matter how multi-syllabic and assured Barrow’s tone is, we are informed that being a Pharisee is not a good thing to which to be compared. What Barrow equated himself to was in essence the “antichrist” another church leader told us. Those were the people who basically murdered Jesus Christ.

The name Pharisee in its Hebrew form means separatists, or the separated ones. The teachings of the Pharisees and Sadducees were divisive, separating Jews from Gentiles, clean from unclean, law from grace, people from God. According to the Mark’s Gospel, these were the people who allowed temple to be turned “into a den of thieves.”

Ironically, another religious leader reminded us that in Matthew 23:13, the Pharisees are equated and classed with hypocrites, “But woe to you, scribes [lawyers of that era] and Pharisees, hypocrites!” He reminded that further down Jesus scolds these people that Barrow

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A Cry for Justice REF: OH/CNE/SF/10 (03) December 6, 2010 Hon. Gaspar Vega Minister of Natural Resources Ministry of Natural Resources Belmopan

The Year That Was...

A t N e w Ye a r s B e l i z e a n s u s u a l l y l o o k f o r w a r d t o t h e e v e n t s o f t h e c o m i n g y e a r. M o s t o f u s s t a r t t h e N e w Ye a r h o p i n g f o r b e t t e r, o t h e r s a l s o f e a r t h e w o r s t . We m a k e resolutions which we believe will improve our lives in s o m e w a y o r t h e o t h e r.

We a l s o l o o k a t t h e y e a r t h a t w a s , a n d t h i s y e a r o u r thoughts are focused on what has happened to our nation in 2010 - from the devastation caused by Hurricane Richard to the record crime wave which swept across our nation, from the rising cost of living to the economic slowdown.

It has been a costly year for Belizeans.

As a result of all this, our schools and hospitals have not seen any improvements, clinics in the South of the country have been left without staff and less has been provided to assist with the day to day social needs.

A s w e l o o k f o r w a r d t o 2 0 11 , o u r h o p e i s f o r a b e t t e r year for Belize and for Belizeans. As a Party we in the PUP will begin the work of preparing for municipal and national elections. Over the next six months, we will be holding conventions to select credible candidates who will o ff e r t h e m s e l v e s i n t h e s e r v i c e o f B e l i z e .

In addition, we will continue to consult with Belizeans, listening to their challenges as well as presenting them with some of our plans and programmes that we believe will move Belize forward.

My vision has and always will be to help build a c o u n t r y w h e r e e v e r y B e l i z e a n c a n l i v e a l i f e o f d i g n i t y, where they can use their God given abilities and talents to the fullest so that through hard work and dedication we can have a better life.

In a nation with so much wealth, too many Belizeans a r e u n e m p l o y e d . We m u s t w o r k h a r d e r t o c r e a t e m o r e j o b s , s o t h a t B e l i z e a n s c a n w o r k t o e a r n a d e c e n t l i v i n g . We c a n d o t h i s i f w e u s e o u r r e s o u r c e s m o r e w i s e l y, f o c u s i n g our human resources in the right direction while getting more value from our natural resources.

In our schools our children must learn the skills that a r e r e l e v a n t t o t o d a y ’s w o r l d a n d t o d a y ’s e c o n o m y a n d w e must work with their parents to do what we can to help them live healthier lives.

Our ambition as a Party is to show you that we have the vision and the ideas to move this nation forward, that we have learnt from our past and that we possess the talent to b r i n g a b o u t t h e k i n d o f c h a n g e t h a t w i l l m a k e B e l i z e b e t t e r.

S o m y N e w Ye a r m e s s a g e i s s i m p l e : B e l i z e a n s m u s t always be optimistic about the future.

We n e v e r q u i t .

A n d w i t h t h e b l e s s i n g s o f o u r C r e a t o r w e w i l l p r o s p e r.

The day will soon come when we can get back to building the kind of society where all of us can work and p r o v i d e s e c u r i t y, o p p o r t u n i t y, a n d b u i l d a b e a u t i f u l B e l i z e .

F r o m a l l o f u s i n t h e P e o p l e ’s U n i t e d P a r t y, H a p p y N e w Ye a r ! F e l i z P r o s p e r o A ñ o N u e v o .

Dear Minister Vega, I w r i t e t o y o u o n b e h a l f o f M r. G e l a c i o T h o m a s Quewell. Mr. Quewell has been occupying a parcel of 80 acres of land for the past 35 years in the Santa Familia a r e a w h i c h b o r d e r s t h e Vi l l a g e o f B i l l y W h i t e . T h i s land he farmed with his father Francisco Quewell who died some 12 years ago and which he also farmed for an additional 30 years. Gelacio has a standing lease of 40 acres. However, his survey done 25 years ago by one Mr. Johnston shows a parcel of 80 acres. He did not obtain a lease for the previously un-leased 40 acres until October of 2007. However, he had occupied by clearing, working and establishing his farm on the 40 acres. Apparently, the surveyor for the leased 40 acres included the second forty acres in the plan and so Mr. Quewell while occupying 80 acres was paying for only 40 acres, albeit the fact that he was using the entire 80 acres.

On October 14, 2010, the Hon. Elvin Penner wrote you a letter which was signed by both Hon. Penner and Mr. Gelacio Thomas Quewell. In this letter, it stated that Mr. Quewell was giving up the rights of 20 acres of the 40 for which Hon. Penner states Mr. Quewell never had a valid lease. This land is according to Hon. Penner to be used for village expansion. He further states that Mr. Quewell is surrendering any claim to the 20 acres.

Firstly, Mr. Quewell is not able to read or write and thus this letter clearly illustrates acquisition by deception on the part of Hon. Penner. In my view, no sane person would give up compensation for hard work invested for more than 35 years, especially Mr. Quewell who is the father of 11 children and whose wife is frail and recovering from Cancer. Secondly, the land in question is in the Santa Familia territory and not in Billy White village even though it borders with Billy White. Thirdly, there are other vacant lands in Billy White proper that can be acquired by government for public purposes.

Fourthly, if land is to be acquired within the Santa Familia boundaries then these lands should be designated as Santa Familia lots and not Billy White lots. If the acquisition is indeed for Billy White then legal measures must be taken to first acquire the Santa Familia lands, redo the boundaries and then assign the lands to Billy White.

Fifth, there are unused and abandoned lands immediately adjacent to the Quewell lands which on the contrary to Quewell’s lands which are productive are being used for speculation purposes by foreign and Belizean owners.

Sixth, before acquiring lands in Santa Familia boundaries for Billy White, unused lands in Billy White should first be acquired for public purposes and these lands are indeed available within the confines of Billy White village.

Lastly, let me reiterate that Mr. Quewell received a lease for the said forty acres in question (CYO 483/2007) from the lands department on October 26, 2007. If this lease is not considered valid for whatever reasons, then Mr. Quewell is indeed entitled to such lands as you know, by reason of “Squatters rights’ (40+ years) as stipulated by Belize law for illegal occupation of 12 + years without ever being asked to do otherwise by the competent authorities.

Hon. Minister, I trust that in your good and learned judgment, the un r e f e r e n c e d l e t t e r f r o m M r. P e n n e r i s disregarded and that Mr. Quewell retains his lands which he is entitled to as a born Belizean Mayan descendant and productive citizen of this country of ours. In addition, this type of deception and coercion is in violation of a citizen’s rights, is a violation of human rights and is ‘unbecoming’ of a Minister of Government. It might even be punishable in Court!

Respectfully, Orlando Habet Chairman Western Caucus People’s United Party

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The great pretender…

Baldy must be so proud…there’s even a song written about him…lol!

Check out this latest tourism mess where local tender operators are being given the shaft. After investing millions of dollars they were told this week that their services would no longer be needed, effective almost immediately. Apparently our highlevel, high-profile, high-dollar tourism team at the BTB, led by the ‘barefoot bobo’ and no less than the great

pretender, is now trying to convince local tender operators that they had no idea what was going on. Yeah right!

After an outcry which promised to get out of control, the tired team is claiming that they will personally head to Miami to meet with representatives of the major cruise lines (yay, Kim, another shopping trip). How much do you wanna bet that the great pretender and crew will come traipsing back to Belize with their best dejected faces in full effect to inform local tender operators that they tried their best but it is out of their hands? I sure hope Mr. Barrow can handle the fallout from that one because it ain’t going to be pretty…If Da Noh Soh! Not that Singh guy again…

And while he’s preparing for that war, maybe baldy could take some time to clear up this little rumour circulating that one of his favourite people recently of tourism infamy is up to his neck in this brand-spanking new tender company set to take the bread out of the mouths of our locals.

Word from a very credible source is that the former CEO of the Ministry of Tourism is the local beef behind

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true this is a banquet and sumptuous feast of epic proportions…If Da Noh Soh! In poor taste…lol!

I was driving behind baldy and the first lady second wife on Coney Drive a few days ago when they passed that infamous billboard depicting the

royal family which some anonymous but visionary soul has created. Well thank God for the suspension on that quarter million dollar luxury SUV we taxpayers bought for baldy, or when he sped up and jumped the speedbump his bad back would surely have been thrown out of whack. Wrinkling his patrician nose which certainly did nothing to improve his looks (actually nothing could do that), the fellow snorted and sniffed prettily before stating that he feels that the ad is in poor taste. And then he did it… with no trace of shame baldy said – ‘You can't get less royal than I at least in terms of behavior, in terms of interaction, in terms of my grounding with the masses.’ I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I want me some of those pain meds baldy is quaffing, cause that is some good shit…If Da Noh Soh! Just a lil slip…

But like everything else there is good and bad. Those pain meds are great for hallucinations and creating a false sense of reality but even baldy’s big brilliant brain gets muddled from time to time. During his concert/ glamour fest yesterday…oops, sorry, I meant media tour, baldy was quizzed

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he revealed that GOB’s take on fuel right now is actually $3.34 on every gallon of regular fuel. He didn’t get into government’s take on every gallon of premium fuel, but we can all safely assume that it is even higher.

Oops! Hmmm…maybe the $1 flat tax was just a figment of the imagination caused by those absolutely wonderful pain meds… If Da Noh Soh! What a mess…

Tensions are running high in Corozal right now and hormones are completely out of control as the electrician turned ministerial moron has lifted his skirts high and is preparing to stomp all over the mayor turned casino queen with those fancy cowboy boots. The first round of the catfight was on Tuesday when queenie put up tents on the convention site and the ministerial moron drove

past. Within hours orders had been handed out by Naco to take down the tents, but when he checked to make sure that the tents had gone down, queenie was on the site and told him to come take down the tents himself if he thought he was man enough. As the story goes, guns were drawn and nasty words were thrown but in the end none of the ‘men’ could gather up enough cojones to get it on…If Da Noh Soh! Nasty, nasty…

And talk about lifting up his skirts…that damned Naco is spreading some nasty rumours about his former colleague turned bitter enemy. In a flyer being circulated by Naco’s crew, the mayor turned casino queen is bitchslapped by some serious allegations and insinuations. According to the flyer, queenie is misappropriating funds from the Town Council for his own purposes (read to finance his

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this new tender company. Word also is that one of his good friends who seems to have problems with unregistered boats breaking down near the airstrip will be running the company for him. Not enough… well this former tourism CEO is now sitting pretty at Beltraide, so he is in a position to approve a development concession and duty free status to this new company - talk about tangled but very lucrative webs. You do the math.

Damn, I’ve heard about Singh-ing for your supper, but if the rumours are

mercilessly about the price of fuel which has gone through the roof.

Forgetting that he had made and broken the exact same commitment back in 2008, the great pretender stated with all conviction that he would likely revisit the government’s $1 flat tax on fuel in his next budget. After this pronouncement we were all carried away on the tides of euphoria for like, say, two seconds before we realized that we had heard this all before. And then to make it even worse, baldy had one of those medication-induced fugues where one moment he was talking about revisiting the $1 flat tax on fuel and then in the next moment

campaign). Not only that, but the flyer makes a very pointed allegation that the Mayor’s vehicle is very possibly being used to traffic drugs, especially since one of his drivers was reportedly busted with a lot of cannabis. Damn, this is worse than those female mudwrestling matches at the local men’s club…If Da Noh Soh! Crossing the line…

A couple slaps here and there, some pulling of the hair and tearing at clothes is fine by me, but I will absolutely not allow my column to be used to flaunt the sexual preferences of my UDP friends (maybe I should watch how I call them friends LOL).

Just the other day my anonymous source who I will absolutely not reveal is the Mayor was claiming that Naco is a little or a whole lot on the other side, if you know what I mean. That confidential source even pointed to one male employee at the Corozal Hospital who had received an immediate promotion the day after giving Naco what must have been an exceptional back rub behind closed doors. Damn! Yuck. And now another source who is absolutely not Naco (wink wink) wants to use me to throw pink stones at the mayor. According to what this secret informant is saying, the mayor is desperate to win the convention because if he doesn’t his fiancé has threatened to leave

him. Okay, nothing wrong with that, but then my source who also does electrician work on the side claims that if the fiancé walks out the door, Oscar will be more than happy. So I said, okay, also nothing wrong with that either…so the fiancé has another interest on the side. But I was told nope, Oscar isn’t interested in the fiancé…(wink wink yuck). Okay that’s it…no more dealing with you guys who wanna be gals from Corozal LOL…If Da Noh Soh!

It’s been days since the Kendall Bridge was washed away. How much longer must we wait for a new bridge, Mr. Prime Minister?

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Belizean Tender Operators have played a vital role in Belize's Tourism Industry since 1988.

When cruise tourism boomed from 1998 to 2008, Belizean Tender Operators made the necessary investments and contined to provide quality reliable service.

- Why are the jobs of these local tourism stakeholders now being threatened under this UDP Administration?

- What is UDP crony Mike Singh's involvment in this plot to take the bread and butter out of the mouths of our Belizean Tender Operators?

Mr. Barrow - What is more important?

"Special" interests or our Belizean people?

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

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UDP Politics as usual

Belizeans shafted again…

Our tourism gurus in authority would have us believe that there has been this dramatic facelift in the Belize Tourism Board; a new vision; a new agenda of development; new purpose and new life. It seemed like a good idea, especially since under the UDP tourism figures had showed repeated decline.

But something’s very, very wrong. According to what is being reported, owners of large tenders who service cruise ships have been informed just this week that effective Thursday their services will no longer be required. They have apparently been told that a foreign interest working in collaboration with a very highly placed local interest will take over tendering services. The thing is that the tourism season is just at its high points and these local tender operators have invested millions of dollars in order to provide adequate service, only to be told that in a couple days they can take a long walk off a short pier, so to speak. Somehow there is this very credible perception that Belizeans who have sacrificed so much for this once vibrant industry are being shafted in favor of well-connected persons in the UDP and foreign interests. The Belize Tourism Board should not be allowed to dodge this one…they are supposed to be safeguarding the interests of our local stakeholders, ensuring that our people are able to get their fair share of this tourism pie. Under this UDP, Belizeans always seem to come out last.

Revisiting Again…

In an appearance on Love FM’s morning show on Wednesday current leader of the nation Dean Oliver Barrow made a firm commitment to revisit the fuel situation in April 2011 with a view to reducing government’s take so that taxpayers do not bear the brunt of rising acquisition costs. Currently the cost of fuel at the pumps has soared way past $10 per gallon, the highest it has ever been. In the normal course of things that would be extremely welcome news as high fuel prices results in the rising cost of goods across the board. But coming from this prime minister and this government, that commitment is worth less than a farthing. In his 2008 budget presentation, Mr. Barrow made a similar commitment to revisit the fuel situation with a view to reducing government’s take if the cost per gallon at the pumps rose to more than $7. Back then when the price rose past $8 and the prime minister was questioned as to his commitment, he adroitly sidestepped and dodged the issue by claiming that he had promised only to revisit as opposed to actually doing anything.

Trend vs. Blip…

Mr. Barrow also said that he is looking at the fuel situation closely because it is very complicated and will require all his genius and brilliance to resolve. He won’t do anything yet, he said, till he has had the time to analyze the issue and ensure that the increase in fuel cost is ‘a trend as opposed to just a blip.’ Yes, he really did say that.

Apparently he is not convinced that fuel rising from $5 per gallon to over $10 per gallon under the UDP is a trend. Yes, the fact is that pump prices have risen steadily and markedly over the past two and a half years, but that could still be just a blip, says Mr. Barrow. Judging from past experience, it is doubtful whether the prime minister’s careful analysis of the situation will be complete before the end of his term… but then he’s not serious about reducing the burden on taxpayers anyway, so it really doesn’t matter. The PM can be assured of one fact – his term as leader of this nation is certainly a blip with no danger of becoming a trend.

Well said…

A caller to Love FM shortly before the prime minister’s scheduled appearance on Wednesday said it best. He implored the hosts of the

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show to ask Dean Oliver the hard questions as opposed to powdering and pampering the current leader as is so often the case. That caller referred to the prime minister’s New Year’s message, stating that Mr. Barrow spoke about many, many good things happening and great times ahead. The picture painted by Mr. Barrow, he said, was a far cry from the reality being faced by Belizeans each and everyday. That is not a view held simply by that caller, as Mr. Barrow’s message to end 2010 has received very critical reviews. When the prime minister spoke about great things in the year past and greater things to come, nobody can relate to what he is saying. Even common UDP supporters (as opposed to highly placed UDP cronies with perks) know that this is the worst things have ever been in Belize. I’m not sure which country Mr. Barrow was referring to in his message, but it surely was not the Belize we have come to know under this UDP administration. Maybe the prime minister’s address wasn’t really intended for the wider public, but was aimed at members of his family, UDP ministers and their families and highly placed cronies only. That must be it.

Funny man…

I am convinced that all that book knowledge is wasted on the prime minister. Even with the surfeit of brains and brilliance of which he is only too happy to boast, Dean Oliver is the poster child for common sense not being very common. Not only that, but the fellow is damned disingenuous. At the last sitting of the House of Representatives, he was being his usual self, blasting the previous administration for what he called fake growth. According to Mr. Barrow, while there was massive development under the PUP it doesn’t count because they had to borrow to stimulate the economy. So it wasn’t like the economy was really being stimulated, Dean Oliver claimed. And then, without losing a moment’s poise, the current leader of the nation started boasting about all this economic growth and development which he says will be coming our way in 2011, and he reels off a list of loans which his administration has secured, amounting to almost $300million dollars. In his appearance on Love FM, Mr. Barrow said that no country can survive without borrowing. So according to the prime minister, when the PUP borrowed and pumped money into the economy it was false growth and development, but when the UDP does the exact same thing, it is real growth and development. And we’re supposed to swallow that one just because Dean Oliver Barrow says it is so.

Top 10…

At the end of 2010, there were a recorded 132 murders in our small nation. That translates to something like 40 murders for every 100,000 which means that our once peaceful jewel can now boast one of the highest murder rates in the world…in the whole world. In fact, Belize now has the distinction of being in the Top 10 for murders in the world. Who would ever have believed it? This is a crisis by any definition of the word. Belizeans are living in fear, real fear – terrified of being on our streets and afraid of being in their own homes. It is like open season on law-abiding citizens. Criminals have been allowed to prey on us with impunity. While that in and of itself is appalling, what is much, much worse is that the prime minister seems either blissfully unaware of the crisis or eminently able to ignore the crisis. In fact, the prime minister chose no less than his national New Year’s message to pat himself on the back for the crime situation. Somehow he has taken credit for the misery visited on Belizeans. The only bits of affirmative action out of this prime minister and this government are a great song and a new public relations officer. That is it.

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The Belize Times

Sunday, January 9, 2011

A Murderous Year’s End - No Christ in Christmas

There were two murders on Christmas Eve in what was known as ‘Rambo Town’ two decades ago.

One occurred in San Jose Village and claimed the life of an elderly man and the other happened in Carmelita Village and claimed the life of a father of two small children.

They happened on the northern and southern approaches of the town itself and dealt a devastating blow to the families and friends of those who died.

In the first case, trouble went looking for Reginald Rowley, a 72-year-old snow-cones and fruit vendor, all the way inside his newly constructed home and his alleged killer was someone he knew well -

his own stepson, Amir Dominguez, 21, a youth described as an outlaw when he is intoxicated or worse.

That proved true between three and four on Christmas Eve evening when Dominguez, driven irate by Rowley who chided him on domestic matters, sought to put an end to the scolding and Rowley's life. How it came was one of the cruelest ways that one can meet death - beaten almost into a pulp with a crowbar and a table stool inside Rowley's house.

What was also surprising was that no one heard the beating that Dominguez was administering to his "old man". Rowley was discovered by his wife, Mirsa, around five that same evening, barely alive. She

FOR SALE

By Order of the Mortgagee Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition, 2000, and having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Mortgage made the 8th day of November, 2003, between FERNANDO BAEZA of #19 Staine’s Alley, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District, Belize of the one part, and Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., of the other part, and recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds Book Vol. 42 of 2003 at Folios 593 – 620, and the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of three months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the Schedule hereto.

All offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing and full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

SCHEDULE ALL THAT lot, piece or parcel of land situate on Staine Lane in Orange Walk Town being more particularly described and delineated on a Plan of Survey by H.C. Fairweather, Chartered Land Surveyor attached hereto and forming a part hereof dated the 1st June, 1982 and recorded at the New Land Registry at Belmopan in Register No. 1 Entry No. 265 whereon the same is shown with its abuttals and boundaries and designated Lot No. 10 and colored red TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Property now declared under the Registration Section of Orange Walk Town – Parcel 2155) DATED this 3rd day of January, 2011.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS 91 North Front Street Belize City Attorney-at-Law for Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

O'Campo, 27, on a street in the village.

What the "beef" was over is a subject of great speculation, according to the villagers, who themselves are at a loss over how it transpired. They say that Bul and O'Campo got engaged in a heated argument sometime after eight on Christmas Eve night and that it turned into a brief fist exchange.

It evolved into an ugly bloodbath when Bul, feeling aggrieved, left the scene, only to return minutes later on a bicycle and armed with a machete.

He did not have much to say and started to inflict chops to the head and arms of O'Campo. O'Campo's brother, who witnessed the assault, decided to defend his brother, but he did not stop until Bul was almost Gregorio Bul dead, with severe chop wounds all rushed him to the Northern Regional over his upper body. The attack Hospital, but doctors' efforts to ended all the way up the other side resuscitate him were futile because of the street, about 500 yards from he died before Christmas set in that Bul's house, where his wife, Inecia, TREASURY night.GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE and their two children BILLS waited on him NO.to2/2011 On Tuesday Orange ISSUE Walk Police return home. It was not to be. Bul formally arrested and charged Amir was rushed to the Northern Regional Domiguez with murder he was Hospital where he died that night.

Tenders are invited forand an issue of Government of Belize Treasury remanded to the Hattieville Prison Inecia says he had just finished Bills. The amount of the issue will be $75,000,000.00. pending trial.

The incident has baking Christmas cakes for his raised the ire of many people in quiet daughter, aged ten and his son, aged TheJose Bills Village will be issued in denominations of $200, San because everyone four, and he$1,000, told her$10,000, that he was going $20,000, $5,000,000, who knew$50,000, Rowley$100,000, says he $200,000, was a $500,000, to the shop$1,000,000, for a little while.

He took $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 and will be repayable at par 91 days aftershortly. pleasant man who loved children. $2 and promised to return issue. willlast be issued 19th January, 2011 because and will he be got He wasThey buried week on in Wednesday, Orange That never happened redeemed on Wednesday, 20th April, 2011.

Walk Town. involved in the dispute and his return The second murder to strike home was only to get a machete to go Each tender musthappened be for $200on or athe multiple of out. $200 His and family must specify fivehim Orange Walk back never to saw decimal places the amount, which is offered for each one hundred dollars opposite approach, over in Carmelita. alive again. face time, value of the Billsinvolve sought. a fullThis it would Fidel O'Campo has been fledged machete fight between two remanded to the Hattieville Prison, men, Gregorioforms Bul, 44, and Anastacio also awaiting trialCentral for murder.

Application are available at the Treasury and at the Bank of Belize in Belize City and at the Ministry of Finance in Belmopan; and when completed they must be forwarded in sealed envelopes addressed to:

NOTICE

Notorious street figure, Patrick Kerr, TREASURY BILL TENDER slain

on Christmas CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE Eve night.

Kerr had a colourful past with P.O. BOX 852 the law.

September of 2008 he GABOUREL LANE, BELIZEInCITY and a partner in crime, Leo Palacio, were shot outside Lee's Shopping Tenders must reach the Central BankCity, of Belize not later than 12:00 on popularly known as Archie's noon on Friday, 14th January, 2011.

Central American Boulevard when they tried to pull off a robbery on the of a vehicle that had2011 stopped Successful tenders will be notified bydriver Tuesday, 18th January, in front of the business.

But they and will be expected to pay for and pick up Bills allotted them on got Wednesday, 19th January, 2011. a rude awakening when the driver produced a gun and shot them. Kerr was shot to his upper right leg, knee The Government of Belize reserves the accept orPalacio reject any and right lowerto back while was hit and/or all tenders in whole or in part. in the lower back and right arm.

On December 16th, 2003, Kerr CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE and Herman 'Yagga' Morris, also now deceased, were set free of the charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit robbery when Patrick Kerr the DPP's office withdrew the charges Another man was murdered against them for the June 30th killing over the Christmas season, justthat hours of gas station attendant, Robert Lino.

Notice is hereby given the company named before the start of the day. Patrick But Kerr's rap sheet extends Kerr, 32, a construction worker of much further than the last decade.

Lavender Street in Belize City, met In April of 1998, then only 19 years “ESMERALDA INVESTMENTS LTD.” his fate while he sat and talked to a of age, Kerr and another man were friend on the porch of a takeout food jointly charged with armed robbery stand the Special Education Unit off upon a money changer atBusithe junction Hason been dissolved and struck the International campus on Freetown Road. Police of Libertad Village and the Northern ness Companies Register with effect from the 29th day of say Kerr's killer approached him Highway. The two boldly parked a December, 2010. a white T-shirt car across the road and stole over from behind, wearing and blue jeans pants. Kerr's friend $3,000 in cash and fled. But the was unharmed in the hail of bullets Orange Walk Police responded and ran to safety but Kerr, who was quickly and nabbed the two with the ARIAS, FABREGA (BELIZE) LIMITED struck in theFABREGA chest and legs,&died an loot trying to hire a taxi to drive them hour and a half later, at around 10:30 to Belize City that same night.

Registered Agent

NOTICE

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Belize Times

Two More Murders

Ontario Village at mile 55 on the Western Highway has been known in the recent past for outbreaks in gang activity and mayhem. One of those incidents caused Justin Jones, 22 to relocate to Belize City in order to avoid further trouble with fellow village youths. That move, however, only spared his life for a while because Jones, a father of a 14 month old child, was killed last week when he returned to Ontario for a family wake.

The incident happened around midnight on December 23, just as Jones, his girlfriend, Lisa Sutherland, and her mother, Joan Sutherland, were all getting ready to return to Belize City after the event. Outside, however, tempers were brewing when one of Jones' nemeses, Godwin Santos, a 39 year old labourer from the village, accosted him, perhaps

FOR SALE Before the New Year

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already prepared to carry out the act because he had a knife which he used to shove in Jones' neck back without

FOR SALE

By Order of the Mortgagee Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, and having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Assignment and Transfer of Mortgage made the 1st March, 2005, registered in Land Charges Register (Assignment) Vol. 3 at Folio 10, between The Belize Bank Limited (the Assignor), Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., and JENNIFER JANE USHER (the Mortgagor), which said property was mortgaged by the said JENNIFER JANE USHER to the said Belize Bank Limited on the 29th day of January, 2002, registered in the Land Charges Register (Legal Charge) Vol. 28 at Folio 34; and the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the properties described in the Schedule hereto.

All offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing and full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

SCHEDULE ALL THOSE pieces or parcels of land situate at Ladyville, Belize District being Lot Nos. 1, 2 and 3 shown and delineated on a Plan of Survey drawn by Licensed Surveyor, Kenneth Gillett dated 1st February, 2001 and recorded at the Lands and Surveys Department in Belmopan at Entry No. 5566 Register 16 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon.

Dated the 16th day of December, 2010.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS 91 North Front Street Belize City Attorney-at-Law for Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

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the Belmopan hospital.

Thedulyall-too-familiar Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company registered un- scene came like déjà vu for not only der the Companies Act, ChapterJoan 250 Sutherland of the Laws of Belize, who witnessed the Revised Edition, 2000, and having its incident. registeredShe office whole lostather son, Allen Sutherland in 2006 Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, herebyover a confrontation over his videogame. It gives notice of its intention to exercise sale ofasevents also cameitsaspower a horridof replay Mortgagee under a Deed of Mortgage made the 8th day ofYoung, for Jones' mother, Gladys who lost another son last year to a November, 2003, between FERNANDO BAEZA of #19 stabbing incident as well.

Staine’s Alley, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk before District,it was Two nights Anthony "Breakdance" Belize of the one part, and Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., McDonald, of the 46, who was gunned down as he rode other part, and recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds near the corner of Dean Street and Book Vol. 42 of 2003 at Folios 593 – 620, andshortly the said Sco-nine Amara Avenue before that night.

McDonald was reportedly tiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of three months delivering food for a friend when Anthony "Breakdance" from the date of McDonald the first publication of this notice him selland theopened someone approached even an exchange of words.

It didn't property described in the Schedule fire hereto. at close range. The fatal bullet take long for Jones to die. He lost penetrated his forehead and he died so much blood that he was dead even the same night at the KHMH.

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Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the ALL THAT lot,Chapter piece or250 parcel ofLaws land situate on Revised Staine Companies Act, of the of Belize, Lane in2000, Orange Town being more particularly deEdition andWalk having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Belize Belize, hereby scribed andStreets, delineated on City, a Plan of Survey bygives H.C.notice Fair- of its intention to exercise its Surveyor power of sale as Mortgagee under weather, Chartered Land attached hereto and aforming Charge amade 15thdated day of between ELpart the hereof theDecember, 1st June, 2007, 1982 and recorded LEN andRegistry ANDRESITA SMITHinboth of Teakettle at theREYES New Land at Belmopan Register No. 1 Village, Cayo District, Belize (Chargors), of the one part, Entry No. 265 whereon the same is shown with its abuttals MARCELINA VANEGAS of Teakettle Village, Cayo and boundaries and designated Lot No. 10 and coloredDisred trict, Belize (Borrower) of the second part, and Scotiabank TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and (Belize) Ltd., of the third part, registered as Instrument No. being thereon. (Property now declared under the RegisLRS-200801685, and the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at tration Section of Orange Walk Town – Parcel 2155) the expiration of three months fromJermaine the date ofFoot" hereof sell the Egbert "Eggie" Daly-Carr "Bow Zuniga property Society – Registration Block In the being wee hours of Hall Boxing that blastedSection Chuwku's skull24 in his Parcel 3832. before three in the taxi. He was found about an hour Day, sometime

DATED thiscorner 3rd day of January, morning at the of Antelope later2011. crouched over in his car and Street Extension and Pitter Street crashed into a fence. His killers did All offers to purchase the said property must madeand in writing near the Lord Ridge Cemetery, not take his be wallet Police are and full taxi particulars of to sale mayout be the obtained Nigerian driver and andconditions single yet figure motivefrom for the MUSA & BALDERAMOS father of three little boys, Francis killing. They have charged three the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. Chukwu, 36, was shot dead inside Front persons with the murder: Jermaine 91 North Street his car. Chukwu had only returned "Bow Foot" Zuniga, 31, Egbert Belize City "Eggie" Daly-Carr, 19, and a 17 home close to 11 on Christmas night with his the children after a family year Dated 16th day ofAttorney-at-Law December, 2010.old. for All have claimed that outing at the BTL Park on Christmas cops beat them up in order to secure Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. night. He left home on Neal's Pen confessions from them. They have Road that same night to do more been remanded until February third. & BALDERAMOS taxi runs and one such job, the MUSA last Chukwu, who had been in he would do, took him to the area Belize for the past two years, was not 91 North Front Street where he was murdered. known to be involved in underworld Belizeactivities.

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Construction Worker Fined $10,000 for 2 Cannabis Plants

Brandon Smith and Edwin “Drive” Flowers on Trial for Murder

FOR SALE

By Order of the Mortgagee

NOTICE

BELIZE CITY, Wed. Jan. 5, 2011 Edwardo Mauricio Guillen, 20, one of two persons charged with cultivation of two cannabis plants, each of them measuring 6 centimetres, was fined $10,000 today in the #6 Magistrate’s Court after he pled guilty to the charge. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers, who imposed the fine, gave Guillen until June 30 to pay. If he defaults on payment he will serve 3 years. The charge against the s e c o n d d e f e n d a n t , G u i l l e n ’s Edwardo Mauricio Guillen mother Maria Granados, 46 was withdrawn.

CHECK OUT Police found the cannabis plants at around 4:30unp.m. on Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered OUR WEBSITE when they der Companies Act, Chapter Tuesday, 250 of theJanuary Laws of4,Belize, at the www.belizetimes.bz w e n t t o G u i l l e n ’s h o u s e a t Edition, 2000, and having registered office at Street ~Revised POST YOUR COMMENTS #29itscorner Racecourse Albert Bishop Streets, Belize a n d E City, a s t CBelize, a n a l Shereby treet, and ~Cor. VOTE ONand ARTICLES conducted a search.

Theas plants notice of A itsPDF intention to exercise its power of sale ~gives CHECK OUT w e r e i n a m e t a l p a n Mortgagee a Deed made the 8th day ofo n a VERSION under OF THE PAPERof Mortgage s h e l f i n G u i l l e n ’s r o o m . M s .

November, 2003, between FERNANDO G r a n a d o sBAEZA w a s a t of h o #19 me when We are the most visited Staine’s Alley, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District, the Police searched the house. newspaper website in Belize

Belize of the one part, and Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., of the other part, and recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds Book Vol. 42 of 2003 at Folios 593 – 620, and the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of three months from theORDER date of the first of this notice sell the BY OFpublication THE MORTGAGEE property described in the Schedule hereto.

FOR SALE

All offers to purchase the said property must be made in

Scotiabank Ltd., a and company duly registered under writing and (Belize) full particulars conditions of sale may be the Companies Act,the Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, obtained from said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. Revised Edition 2000, and having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Charge made the 15th day of December, 2007, between ELLEN andpiece ANDRESITA SMITH both of ALLREYES THAT lot, or parcel of land situate onTeakettle Staine Village, Cayo District, Belize (Chargors), of the one part, Lane in Orange Walk Town being more particularly deMARCELINA VANEGAS Teakettle Village, Cayo Disscribed and delineated on aof Plan of Survey

by H.C. Fairweather, Chartered LandofSurveyor attached hereto and trict, Belize (Borrower) the second part, and Scotiabank formingLtd., a partofhereof dated 1st June,as1982 and recorded (Belize) the third part,theregistered Instrument No. at the New Land and Registry at Belmopan RegisterLtd. No.will 1 at LRS-200801685, the said Scotiabankin(Belize) Entry No. 265ofwhereon the same shown with its abuttals the expiration three months fromisthe date of hereof sell the and boundaries and designated Lot No. 10 and colored property being Society Hall – Registration Section Blockred24 TOGETHER Parcel 3832. with all buildings and erections standing and

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being thereon. (Property now declared under the Registration Section of Orange Walk Town – Parcel 2155)

All offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing and full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. 2011.

DATED this 3rd day of January, Dated the 16th day ofMUSA December, 2010. & BALDERAMOS

91 North Front Street Belize City MUSA & BALDERAMOS Attorney-at-Law for Scotiabank (Belize) 91 North FrontLtd. Street

Belize City Attorney-at-Law for Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

GOVERNMENT Edwin "Drive" Flowers

OF BELIZE TREASURY BILLS Brandon Smith ISSUE NO. 2/2011 Smith and Flowers were BELIZE CITY, Wed. Jan. 5, 2011

Two men, Edwin “Drive” c o m m i t t e d t o s t a n d t r i a l f o r t h e m u r dof e rBelize o f RTreasury andy Coye Flowers, 27 and Brandon Smith, Tenders are invited for an issue of Government after Justice Troadio Gonzalez 23, who were freed of a charge Bills. The amount of the issue will ber e$75,000,000.00. v i e w e d t h e c a s e a nd ruled of murder when it was struck that there was enough evidence out at a preliminary inquiry that The Bills will be issued in denominations of $200, $1,000, $10,000, a g a i n s t t h e m .

T h e y a n d three was held in August last year in $20,000, $50,000, $100,000, $200,000, $500,000, $1,000,000, $5,000,000, others will now go on trial for the #1 Magistrate’s Court, have Coye’s murder.

The other three $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 andthe will be repayable at par 91 days after been committed for trial in are19th Deshawn 23;will Kenroy January session the on Supreme issue. They will beofissued Wednesday, January,Mena, 2011 and be Humes, 20 and Leon Gray, 21.

Court.

Buton soWednesday, far only Smith has 2011. redeemed 20th April,

Coye was bludgeoned to been re-arrested and remanded death in Lord’s Ridge Cemetery into Flowers is still at Eachcustody. tender must be for $200 or a multiple of $200 and must specify to five in October 2009. large. decimal places the amount, which is offered for each one hundred dollars face value of the Bills sought.

Charges Dismissed For Application forms are available at the Treasury and at the Central Bank Guatemalan National

of Belize in Belize City and at the Ministry Finance in Belmopan; and were freedofof both charges when they when completed they must be forwardeddismissed in sealed today envelopes to: in theaddressed #1 Magistrate’s Court. The charges were dismissed by the Chief Magistrate, Margaret TREASURY BILL TENDER McKenzie, CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZEon a directive from the Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl P.O. BOX 852 Lyn Vidal because there was not enough GABOUREL LANE,evidence BELIZE CITY to substantiate them.

But Lopez has two other use of Tenders must reach the Central Bankcharges, of Belizegrievous not laterharm than and 12:00 deadly means of harm, which are in noon on Friday, 14th January, 2011. relation to the same incident. He will be tried summarily for those charges.

Successful tenders will be notified byHeTuesday, 18th January, 2011 27. is to return to Court on January and will be expected to pay for and pick up Bills stabbing allotted them on The occurred on the night of September 19, 2009, on Wednesday, 19th January, 2011.

North Front Street, near to the Swing Manuel de Jesus Lopez Bridge. The complainant, Clive Hyde, The Government of Belize reserves the right to accept or reject any BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 5, 2011 reported to the Police that he had a and/or all tenders in whole or in misunderstanding with Gomez and Guatemalan national Manuel Depart.

Jesus Lopez, charged with attempted Gomez stabbed him in his abdomen murder and dangerous harm in with a knife. During the incident Gomez CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE connection with a stabbing incident, was received a cut wound on his hand.

NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the company named

“ESMERALDA INVESTMENTS LTD.” Has been dissolved and struck off the International Business Companies Register with effect from the 29th day of December, 2010.

ARIAS, FABREGA & FABREGA (BELIZE) LIMITED Registered Agent

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Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Former MS-13 Member Fined Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised $2,000 For 22 Gramsoffice Of atCannabis Edition 2000, and having its registered Cor. Albert BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 5, 2011 and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby givesGilberto notice of Taxi driver Ruiz, 23, a former member of MS-13 its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company c h a r g eduly d w i registered t h p o s s e s sunn of a a Charge made the 15th day of December, 2007, betweeni oELdisplaying der the Companies Act, Chapter controlled 250 of the drug Lawsand of Belize, LEN REYES and ANDRESITAoSMITH both ofi a Teakettle f g a n g i n s i g n , p l Revised Edition, 2000, and having its registered officee dat g u i l t y t o p o s s e s s of i o nthe o fone t h epart, drug, 22 Village, Cayo District, Belize (Chargors), Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize,when hereby grams of cannabis, he was MARCELINA VANEGAS Village, Cayo Disgives notice of its intention of to Teakettle exercise its power of sale as arraigned yesterday in the #3 trict, Belizeunder (Borrower) second M a g i spart, t r a t eand C o Scotiabank u8th r t . day M a gof istrate Mortgagee a Deedof ofthe Mortgage made the (Belize) Ltd., of the third part, registered as Instrument No. Kayla Teck fined him $2,000 November, 2003, between FERNANDO BAEZA of #19 and gave him until February to at pay, LRS-200801685, and the saidTown, Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.28 will Staine’s Alley, Orange Walk Orange Walk District, in default 6 months imprisonment. the expiration of three from date ofRuiz hereof sell Belize of the one part,months and Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., ofa the the Butthe because owed fine of property being Society Hall – Registration Section Block $455 for a previous conviction other part, and recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds 24 and –could not pay he was ParcelVol. 3832.

Book 42 of 2003 at Folios 593 620, and the said Sco-kept in custody until today when he tiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at themanaged expiration of three months to pay the fine.

Gilberto Ruiz from the date of the first this charge notice sell the All offers to purchase the publication said property be made indisplaying writing ofmust The of of gang insignia was dismissed property described and in the Scheduleofhereto. and full particulars conditions sale may be obtained from CHECK OUT OUR because Ruiz was in his house at the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.#76 Vernon Street when he was All offers purchase the said property must made in alleged NEWtoWEBSITE busted and wasbe displaying writing and full particulars and conditions of tattoos sale may be chest. gang insignia on his at www.belizetimes.bz Ruiz said he used from said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. to be a member Dated 16th the day of December, 2010. ~obtained POSTthe YOUR COMMENTS

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of MS-13 but he quit 5 years ago.

~ VOTE ON ARTICLES Ruiz’s common law wife, Maria Caliz; 20, was also charged with ~ VIEW OUR PHOTO possession of the controlled drug MUSA & BALDERAMOS GALLERY but the charge against her was 91 North Frontafter Street Ruiz’s guilty plea ~ALL CHECK OUTlot, A piece PDF or parcel withdrawn THAT of land situate on Staine Belizewas City accepted.

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BY ORDER THE being thereon. (Property now declared under the Registration Section of Orange Walk Town – Parcel 2155)

FOR SALE

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised DATED this 3rd of January, 2011.

Edition 2000, and day having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a MUSA & BALDERAMOS Transfer of Charge made the 24th day of May, 2005, between 91 North Front Street Development Finance Corporation and Scotiabank (BeBelize City lize) Limited, registered as Instrument No. Attorney-at-Law for 3746/2005, which said property was mortgaged

by Roy Rogers Alfaro of No. 51 Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. Church Street, Benque Viejo Del Carmen, Cayo District, Belize to the said Development Finance Corporation on the 21st August, 2003, registered as Instrument No. 6284/2003; and the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of three months from the date hereof sell the property being Santa Elena/Cayo – Registration Section Block 23 Parcel 3242.

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Hunter’s Lane Resident Charged NOT CE with Theft of IMotorcycle with theft when he appeared

GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE TREASURY yesterday in the #6 BILLS Magistrate’s Court.

Hamilton pled not guilty to ISSUE NO. 2/2011

the charges. He said he was knocked unconscious and when he regained Tenders are invited for an issue of Government of Belize Treasury consciousness he found that he was Bills. The amount of the issue will beat$75,000,000.00. the Police Station. Hamilton was offered bail of $1,500 and his case was adjourned until February 25.

The Bills will be issued in denominations of $200, $1,000, $10,000,

The incident occurred on $20,000, $50,000, $100,000, $200,000, $500,000, $1,000,000, $5,000,000, Monday, January 2.

Leroy Lauriano, $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 and will be repayable at par 91 days after an employee of Belize Cable issue. They will be issued on Wednesday, 19th January, 2011 and willVision, be reported to the Police that he was redeemed on Wednesday, 20th April, 2011. alerted by his neighbors that a person of brown complexion had stolen his Each tender must be for $200 or a multiple $200 motorcycle and must specify to five redofLifan which has a decimal places the amount, which is offered for each one hundred dollars value of $2,500. Lauriano said that Lionel Hamilton face value of the Bills sought. with the assistance of his neighbors BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 5, 2011 he pursued the culprit and caught Lionel Hamilton, 23,at an him. Again the assistance of Application forms are available the Treasury and atwith the Central Bank unemployed man of #13 Hunter’s his neighbors Lauriano subdued the of Belize in Belize City and at the Ministry of Finance in Belmopan; and Lane allegedly stolebea forwarded Lifan culprit andenvelopes called the Police. to: whenwho completed they must in sealed addressed brand motorcycle that belonged to The motorcycle was Belize Cable Vision, was charged recovered.

TREASURY BILL TENDER CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE P.O. BOX 852 GABOUREL LANE, BELIZE CITY

Three Charged With Murder of Nigerian Taxi Driver Tenders must reach the Central Bank of Belize not later than 12:00 noon on Friday, 14th January, 2011.

Successful tenders will be notified by Tuesday, 18th January, 2011 and will be expected to pay for and pick up Bills allotted them on Wednesday, 19th January, 2011.

The Government of Belize reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all tenders in whole or in part.

CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE

NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the company named Egbert "Eggie" Daly-Carr Jermaine "Bow Foot" Zuniga BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 5, 2011 until February 3.

Two adults and a 17 year old Chukwu, who resided on INVESTMENTS boy“ESMERALDA were charged with the murder Neal Pen Road, wasLTD.” found dead by of Nigerian taxi driver Francis Police in his blue Ford Escort taxi Chukwu, 37, when they appeared on Pitter Street around 2:50 a.m.

Has been dissolved and struck off the International Busiyesterday in the #2 Magistrate’s Sunday, December 26, 2010. He ness Companies with effect from theright 29th day of head Court.

The adults Register are Jermaine was shot in the side of his Zuniga, 31, a.k.a “Bowfot” and and he was sitting in the driver’s December, 2010.

Egbert Daly, 19, a.k.a “Eggie”. seat. Apparently, he was shot and Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser killed by one of his passengers. It explained to them that she would was not a case of robbery because not take a plea because the offence nothing was reported stolen.

ARIAS, FABREGA & FABREGA (BELIZE) LIMITED is indictable.

It is believed that Chukwu’s Registered Agent to them that killer hired his taxi at the taxi stand She also explained the Court could not offer them bail on Mahogany Street, near to its because of the nature of the offence. junction with Central American She remanded them into custody Boulevard.

NOTICE

All offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing Notice hereby given that the following companies have and fullisparticulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from been dissolved and struck offLtd. the International Business the said Scotiabank (Belize) Companies Register with effect from

Notice is hereby given that the following companies have been dissolved and struck off the International Business Companies Register with effect from the dates indicated:

BULTRAN LIMITED - December 22nd, 2010 Dated the 16th day of December, 2010.

NORWILL HOLDINGS LIMITED - December 22nd, 2010 CAPRIM OVERSEAS LIMITED - December 22nd, 2010 ROYFORD INTERNATIONAL LTD. - December 26th, MUSA & BALDERAMOS 2010

EGINA INVESTMENTS LIMITED - December 25th, 2010 IOS HOLDINGS LIMITED - December 25th, 2010 MOONGLOW HOLDINGS LIMITED - December 29th, 2010

91 North Front Street Belize City Aleman, Cordero, Galindo & Lee Trust (BVI) Limited Attorney-at-Law for Registered Agent Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

The Belize Bank Limited

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Wish-washy, namby-pamby ‘poco-tiempo’ GOB…

By: Mike Rudon Jr. When I checked my email this morning there was a release from the ministry of police and public safety informing me that they had hired a new public relations officer.

Immediately I was overwhelmed by a warm sensation of well-being. I was immediately uplifted, comforted and invigorated by this bit of knowledge.

Gosh, I thought, finally we have been rescued from this dreadful scourge of crime; finally we can walk our streets in safety and peace; we will no longer be prisoners in our own homes, FINALLY; finally we will cease to be victims of the cold, callous, vicious criminals who prey on us and spill our blood with apparent impunity; finally we can stop grieving for our children and loved ones whose lives are wrested away each and every day.

Glory hallelujah, praise the Lord, deliverance has been brought onto us by our saviors at the ministry of police and public safety. They have hired a public relations officer.

There’s this song which keeps playing over and over in my head.

It’s an oldie but a goodie from this weird looking guy called Meatloaf.

In it he claims most emphatically that he will do anything for love, but he won’t do THAT. Nobody knows what exactly he would do for love because apart from the promise there are no specifics. And nobody knows what is this monumental, prohibited ‘that’ which he won’t do. Again, there are no specifics. It’s like Mr. Barrow and the UDP, who promised that they would do anything for us. Three years after, we’re still left with only the promise; we’re still imagining the possibilities of them doing anything for us. And as for that elusive ‘that’ which they would not do? Well, all we know for sure is that the UDP absolutely will not be a competent, efficient, responsible, honest and transparent government. ‘That’ they will not do.

The other day I was listening to a news story about crime in Barbados.

In 2009 the small island nation had something like 79 murders. In 2010 the murder statistic rose to 84. It was big news for the country, with a massive outcry by the populace for dramatic resolve and action while the government scurried to find answers.

Here in Belize we have roughly the same population as Barbados. Last year 2009 we broke the record for murders with an appalling 103 for the year. This year we left that figure in the dirt and rose to new heights, or sunk to new depths, with 132 murders.

Cause for alarm? Sure, in the normal scheme of things! And it was important enough that the prime minister made mention of it in his New Year’s message to the nation.

Only he didn’t make mention of any new initiatives, any crack-downs, any visionary plans, nothing. There was no acknowledgement of a crisis; no explanation of or resolve to address the problem; no commitment to the nation to fight crime tooth and nail in the New Year. Nope! In a strange turn of events, Dean Oliver patted himself on the back over the crime situation, claiming - ‘crime appears, albeit slowly, to be giving way to our now resumed, now unstoppable march of progress.’ Okay then buddy. Like it did me, I am reasonably sure that caught a lot of people by surprise.

See, what we’re stuck with is a wishy-washy, namby-pamby, poco-

tiempo government – the genuine article. The biggest mistake is to expect anything real from Mr. Barrow and crew. If you’re looking for bold vision or innovation, you’re looking

in all the wrong places. And this police thing is just one glaring example in a string of glaring examples.

Long after first minister of police Carlos Perdomo had proven

to everyone’s satisfaction and dismay that he was a dud of the first order and a hopeless case, the prime minister finally acted. He replaced a dud with another dud, a figurehead, a monumental and very expensive waste of time. Under spent shell #2, Doug Singh, crime spiraled completely out of control to where it is now. We got Operation Jaguar which did nothing at all. We got Operation Restore Belize which gave us a nifty song. But that’s it…end of story.

And now as we enter 2011, Mr. Barrow and the UDP have done it again. They have offered us their answer to the unspeakable violence which holds us in chains. After much thought and brainstorming we have been gifted with their idea of a solution to the record-breaking murders, and that bold innovation is (insert drum-roll, ticking clock and anxious gasp from the audience)…a new public relations officer.

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rod says: January 5, 2011 at 7:18 am not only is this a farse we also need to get rid of this pm once and for all he is a desgrace to the nation and the belizean people out barrow outttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt ttttttttttttt.

Hardworking Belizean says: January 5, 2011 at 9:06 am Most definitely he should keep his word of bringing down fuel prices!!! The poor Belizean people are already going through rough economical times to be burdened now with a hike in the price of fuel. Barrow & his administration & cronies don’t feel the pinch because all they do is sign vouchers at the gas stations which is then billed to GOB and at the end of the day who pays it? Us the poor tax payers who apart from our already sky high fnancial expenses have to additionally curtail their fuel expenses!!! As Edward said ” why do we remain silent?” Are we going to continue enduring everything and anything being pushed down our throat? What happened with the freedom of speech and democratic rights we always use to brag so much of? Are we all so extremely afraid of this PM & his administration? Food for thought.

O. Walk resident says: January 5, 2011 at 9:34 am The present fuel prices are just outrageous, there is no way that government can justify them. If you check the internet, the prices would be arround $3.00 U.S and the price for crude oil at around $90.00 U.S. DOLLARS. When the cost of crude reached $147.00 dollars before the world recesion, the cost of gas was around $10.00 and people were crying like crazy; what about now?? Check the difference in crude oil prices, there is no way that the present gas prices can be justified, period!

Proud Belizean says: January 5, 2011 at 11:09 am “Promise is a comfort to a fool”. These politicians always take the people for “fools”.

PM promised that if the price of gas goes beyond 8/gallon, he would remove the dollar tax. It is in black and white so I believe that he should be held accountable and if he fails to do so, the people should demonstrate and demand that he drops the tax on fuel.

Kaylyn says: January 5, 2011 at 2:41 pm When the PM speaks it reminds me of the comic strip/cartoon character Charlie Brown…can’t do or say anything right. His words start sounding like mombo jombo after a while…”baffle you with brilliance and dazzle you with bs” common sens says: January 5, 2011 at 2:23 pm With the quantitative easing techniques currently employed by the USA – the price of oil will continually rise. US dollar is slowly depreciating, making oil more expensive on any country that is tied to the US dollar.

We are tied to the US dollar, as such, oil prices will continue to rise.

Mr. PM – lets provide some relief. Remove taxation from fuel imported. Go through your budget and account for every cent that your government is spending. Look at the wages you are paying your Ministers, representatives and yourself first.

The Government is representing me, and I certainly don’t see why you should be paying yourselves more than $200Bze a week.

We are a small country – what is wrong with a small Government?

Take a look at OUR oil fields that are currently producing or scheduled to produce in the near future. Learn how Chavez managed to control his countries oil sources.

Just a few ideas!

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Mexican drug cartel Woman arrested for Guatemalan bus bombing says it extends truce

A female gang member was arrested in connection with the bombing of a bus in Guatemala City that left seven dead, authorities said.

Sonia Veliz, a member of the Mara 18 street gang, was identified through a composite sketch police made based on statements from a witness, said Ronnie Lopez, prosecutor for organized crime.

Witnesses had said that a woman had boarded the bus, left

her bag on the luggage rack, and exited before the blast on Monday.

Lopez said Tuesday that Veliz was the main perpetrator of the bombing. He said the attack was carried out at the request of the leader of the gang, who ordered the act from prison.

The gang controls the area where the bus operated, and allegedly attacked it because the bus drivers refused to pay extortion money to the gang.

Teachers protested for a second day Tuesday and bus drivers staged a partial strike as the general Bolivian population expressed indignation at a sharp spike in gasoline and diesel prices.

Over the weekend, the government announced the end to gas subsidies that kept the price at Bolivian pumps artificially low. The end of the subsidies resulted in an increase of up to 73% for gas and more than 80% for diesel.

Regular gas, which cost the equivalent of $1.97 per gallon, now costs $3.42 per gallon. Diesel prices rose from about $1.90 per gallon to $3.61 per gallon.

The government said the move would save the country $380 million and was necessary to make pump prices comparable to neighboring countries, thus putting an end to fuel smuggling out of the country.

"That money belonging to Bolivians that was exiting abroad without benefiting the country, that's why the government has decided to use those resources to implement social development programs that truly help the development of the nation," said Ivan Canales, a government spokesman.

Canales accused right-wing interests of trying to foment unrest to get the subsidies reinstated, but the negative reaction came from all socio-economic levels.

"I wish I could go to the market with one of the government ministers so that they could see how much we can buy with the money we make," said Mary Ortuno.

Another La Paz resident, Nestor Yujra, said, "This is completely sad.

Now, we don't know how we are going to handle the situation."

The local media have dubbed the new policy as the "Gasolinazo," or "The Big Gasoline Hit." In some instances, protesters clashed with police in riot gear, though there were no reports of major injuries.

A strike by bus and other public transportation drivers went as planned, though some remained on the job. Those who remained, however, raised their prices, too.

"We regret that some drivers have increased their (prices) by as much as 100%," Canales said.

The government will not back down from its decision, he said.

"We subsidize the rich, and we subsidize the poor. We subsidize those who don't need it, and we subsidize those who do. That is not right," Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera said.

The subsidy made for bad economics, he said.

Bolivia's confederation of drivers was to meet Tuesday to discuss new strategies to protest the price increase, as well as how they would handle how much they will charge for tickets.

President Evo Morales, who was out of the country on an official visit to Venezuela when the end of the subsidies was announced, has been in communication with various sectors of Bolivian society and will address the nation on the issue Wednesday, the state-run ABI news agency reported.

The increase was the largest for gas prices in 30 years.

Bolivians protest fuel price increases

A statement purportedly released by a violent Mexican drug cartel promises a one-month extension to a truce it called for in December.

The Familia Michoacana cartel, which takes its name from the central-coastal state where it operates, signed the statement, which was circulated by e-mail on Sunday and published in its entirety on a blog dedicated to covering the drug wars.

Mexican authorities were not immediately available to comment on the authenticity of the communication.

The cartel accuses the federal police of committing abuses in the region and blaming them. The authorities have attacked the cartel and any person caught in its path, be it civilians, women or children, the cartel alleges. It also wishes the residents of Michoacan a happy new year.

The Familia Michoacana "separates itself from any criminal act that occurred in the month of December 2010 that the federal authorities want to make us responsible for," the statement says.

A similar letter circulated last

month offered a truce for the month of December, though that didn't mean the the month was without violence. The Mexican government continued its operations against the cartel, killing one of its leaders, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, after two days of armed confrontations.

Five federal police officers and three civilians, including two minors, were killed in the operation, a national security spokesman said at the time. Three members of La Familia Michoacana were killed and three others captured. Authorities described a scene of heavy gunfire where cartel members set trucks and buses on fire on highways to block police from arriving.

Another cartel leader, Francisco Lopez Villanueva, alias "El Bigote," was captured at the end of the month.

The truce will be extended another month "to continue demonstrating to the authorities, federal government and above all the Michoacan residents that the Familia Michoacana is not guilty of all of the criminal acts that the authorities and federal government make public through the media," the statement says.

Cuba is releasing two more political prisoners who will be sent straight from prison to exile in Spain, the Roman Catholic Church said Friday.

The two men are not part of a group of 52 prisoners President Raul Castro pledged to free in an agreement brokered last July. Eleven of those dissidents, jailed during a government crackdown in March 2003, remain behind bars.

Miguel Angel Vidal Guadarrama and Hector Larroque Rego will be released soon, said a statement from the

archbishop of Havana.

Both men's names appear on an online list of prisoners complied by the independent Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation based in Havana.

Vidal was sentenced to 15 years in jail on charges of terrorism and Larroque received 22 years for burglary, illegal possession of weapons, piracy and attempted illegal exit from Cuba, according to the commission.

The Cuban government has often labeled jailed dissidents as "mercenaries" in the pay of foreign governments including the United States.

But Human Rights Watch has documented a systemic pattern of repression in Cuba and said in a report that the communist nation's "laws empower the state to criminalize virtually all forms of dissent."

Cuba to free 2 more political prisoners

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‘We feel especially good about the year that's ending, and even better about the one that's beginning…we can greet this New Year in a rhapsody of celebration.’

- 43% of Belizeans living in abject poverty - 30% of school-age children with no access to education - Murder rate one of the highest in the world - Unemployment at 14% and rising

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- Sugar industry on the brink of collapse - Citrus industry in chaos - Tourism industry in decline - Economy in depression

A rhapsody of celebration?

More like a rhapsody of sorrow, Mr. Barrow!

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Ready now? Christmas In the Kingdom A few days ago practically the whole world celebrated Christmas! It is a special time for many; a time to rejoice in the birth of Jesus Christ, a time for making a little extra business, a time for drinking and merry-making.

We decorated our houses, repainted, re-varnished, laid down new floor coverings, purchased soft drinks, and prepared the turkey and ham, while someone wrapped special gifts and toys.

Little children were on their best behavior hoping that they would not make the “Naughty List”! We saw beautiful lights and scenes being set up and it was fun just to drive around and soak in the beautiful, extravagant decorations.

The part of the celebration that I love the most is the togetherness of families! We laughed and talked together, ate together and enjoyed the holiday given by the school and work places.

Of course as a child I looked forward to the opening of my gift! This Christmas made me remember one in particular. We didn’t have plenty but were well taken care of by our parents. One sister would wrap up old, torn books in beautiful Christmas gift paper, and we would end up disappointed on Christmas day as we open that particular gift with great anticipation, only to find a book that was “older than our uncles” in there.

I remember getting a “b.b. gun” from Sikafi and while target practicing, my little brother chose to run across the area where my target stood. He was hit somewhere around the upper part of the leg and in pain for a couple of days!

My aim today is to clarify how important Christmas is to the Kingdom of God! I must distinguish immediately that there are two Christmases. One is the true birth of Christ that occurred over two thousand years ago, and the other is a celebration of this birth designed for partying, making money, and the gratifying of the human desires! If a child knows more about Santa Clause than Jesus Christ, then we have missed the ball big time with this celebration!

To properly celebrate this event we must look deeper than a birthday party. Most people love celebrating a little baby rather than a King. It is very hard to look at Jesus as a king that makes demands on our very lifestyle! If he is a baby we can put him in our yards on the 25th of December, and on our roof tops with lights all around him, throw parties on his behalf, doing things in those parties that he has spoken of saying we should not do.

See, a baby makes no demands. He goes where ever you want him to and allows you to do whatever you like, whenever you like. He may require a little milk and diaper change now and again but not really much more than that. Well I’m sorry to say that Jesus no longer wears pampers!

Indirectly, by celebrating his birth we are admitting His existence. Jesus grew up to be a man 33 years of age. He is both God and man (God in the Flesh) 100 percent God 100 percent man. It is called the mystery of the Godhead!

To prove to you that he is a King and not just a man even from birth, lets look at Matthew chapter 2. In verse two he is called king of the Jews; verse 8, king Herod, the most powerful man (king) on the earth at that time, wanted to worship baby Jesus. To worship, by the way, means to kiss towards, like a dog licking his master’s hand, to crouch, prostrate oneself in homage; in verse 11 three big grown men fell down and worshipped him giving him gifts!!!!!; and finally in verse 16 king Herod having the same problem we are having now ordered for all young male children two years and under to be killed.

See he had no problem with a baby, but a baby that was King of the Jews and all mankind offered Herod great competition and insecurity. It is a very sad thing when we choose to celebrate the birth of Jesus but refuse to have Jesus the King of kings as the Lord of our lives.

His birth was to redeem mankind from destruction as we all know from the popular verse (John 3:16).“ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

So from this year forward, as you enjoyably celebrate the birth of Christ, the most Important question is why, and for what purpose, was he born in the first place!

As we find the right answer to this question, we can then begin to make the right choices in our lives and live prosperously with abundance of life!!!

Let us have a great year!

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Reflections A Rhapsody of Celebration… better about the one that's beginning.’

In fact, caught up in the orgasmic euphoria of his own eloquence, Dean Oliver stated that ‘we can greet this New Year in a rhapsody of celebration.’

Oh wait, I get it. The speeches got mixed up. Those quotes were actually supposed to be read out at the Royal Family’s New Year’s Banquet, when

By: Mike Rudon Jr. Being that this is the first issue of the Belize Times for 2011, I take this opportunity to wish all Belizeans the very best that this new year can bring.

I’ll content myself with sending wishes for peace and love and some measure of happiness, since I sure as hell can’t wish for prosperity under this myopic bunch of morons. By decree of the king, all prosperity has been declared off-limits to common Belizeans like you and me. Just like the deer in Nottingham Forest, the royal family has dibs on any and all prosperity which rears its head.

I will be the first to admit that I suck at resolutions. I’m still fat, I still love to sip that intoxicating brew and I have yet to turn down a lap dance offered in one of those well-loved dens of iniquity and ill-repute…and that’s all I need to say about that. So when I was filled with the ‘spirits’ of the Christmas season and resolved to tone down my literary and verbal hostility toward the prime minister, I figured it was a resolution which I would break sooner rather than later. But damned if I didn’t break that there New Year’s resolution even before the New Year made an appearance. Yup, I had some choice words for that smart fool right about the first time I saw his New Year’s message. It was awful, wasn’t it?

You know what? I wish Dean Oliver was a stupid man. Then I could get away with an off-colour comment like – ‘your prime minister’s so stupid, he thought fruit punch was a gay boxer.’

But he’s not a stupid man, not really.

He’s a very, very smart man who does and says very, very stupid things.

He’s an intellectual wunderkind who thinks that all the rest of us are getting by on the dregs and crumbs left after he gobbled up all the brains and brilliance being offered. That must be it. I can’t imagine why else he would have thought Belizeans would greet with rapture his new year’s offering of unadulterated rubbish and just plain bullshit. Because that’s all it was…about 10 minutes of beautifully packaged, directed, choreographed and produced bullshit.

Let me just say that by now I am quite sure that he has been made aware that we do not believe the words that are coming out of his mouth. I won’t go into detail on the drivel he tried to feed us, but he sure was happy as a clam, stating that ‘we feel especially good about the year that's ending, and even

King Dean got up to toast his family past and present…somewhere between the hors d’oeuvres and canapés and Moet. Now I understand. All those fancy words about the good times of plenty in 2010 and the riches and prosperity to be had in 2011 were not for us. They were for the prime minister’s loved ones.

After I saw Dean Oliver’s New Year’s address I went outside the room and asked a friend if he thought the prime minister actually believed the nonsense he was spouting in such grand fashion. I mean jeez, I look around and I sure don’t see what the hell he is referring to. I’ve heard about political spin and propagandizing, but this is much more than that, much bigger than that…this is a whole other country cause the prime minister was not talking about Belize – not this Belize under the UDP. You want to reach a clearer understanding as to why we are where we are? You don’t have to look much further than Dean Oliver’s ludicrous

19 New Year’s message. See, in Barbados there were 79 murders in 2009 and 84 in 2010. The slight increase was enough to create a groundswell of protest and clamour for answers and solutions, including hanging. In Belize, we had 103 murders in 2009 and 132 in 2010 and our prime minister quite proudly boasts in his address that ‘crime appears, albeit slowly, to be giving way to our now resumed, now unstoppable march of progress.’

See what I mean? Makes absolutely no sense at all.

So there goes my resolution to be nice to Dean Oliver. Better that I had resolved to be a thorn in his side as much as I can and as often as I can. That one I can keep. If the prime minister knows that I think he’s a brilliant megalomaniac fool who is full in equal parts of himself and shit, then so be it.

If he doesn’t waste one random thought on me in the course of his day, then that’s okay too. I’ll just call it catharsis of my soul. And that’s all I’m gonna say about that…at least till next week.

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2011…It Must be the Year of the Rebirth!

Carolyn Trench-Sandiford Deputy Party Leader They say that time waits for no one…it simply moves on. Today is January 7th. This marks 3 years that the United Democratic Party has been in office. It is a time they have spent squandering the confidence and hope the Belizean people so trustingly gave to them…a time they have spent pushing Belize closer and closer to political, economic and societal disintegration and oblivion, and inevitably to the grave.

Belize is slowly dying. This is sad.

This is tragic. This is heartbreaking, as 2011 is also the year that we celebrate 30 years of political independence, and 61 years of the peaceful constructive revolution, which was birthed to bring to all Belizeans a better quality of life, and a just share of the wealth of this nation.

The stark reality in 2011 is that Belize has the highest poverty rate in the Caribbean. 143,276 persons or 43% in Belize are now poor, and cannot find $5.30 a day to eat, and an additional 14%, or 46,648 persons are vulnerable

to becoming poor. This totals 189,924 persons or 53% and more than half of the population of Belize.

Unemployment is at a staggering 55% in many communities, particularly among youth and women, and the only available options are to sell drugs and be engaged in other criminal activities.

Any new investments are certain to be casinos and pawn shops.

Over 60% of all families are living in unacceptable conditions, and approximately 25% of that, in inhumane and deplorable conditions.

The National Health Insurance [NHI], the only health care safety net for the marginalized, which is the first stage for preventative health care, and the noncontributory pension for the elderly, are being insidiously withdrawn.

31,000 children or 30.2 % of primary and secondary age are excluded from schools, with sixth form and university out of the reach of over 95% of our population.

In many of these communities, frustration and fear of life has led to increase in domestic and sexual exploitation of children. Marijuana use is on the rise, as a means of removing one’s mind from what confronts them blatantly, each and every day, over and over again, but reality returns, when the high is gone, as the horizon is still ominous. As Bob Marley reminds us in one of his classic songs – ‘Excuse me while I light my spliff…Oh God, I have to take a whiff…but from reality I just can’t drift.’

We enter 2011 with one of the highest murder rates in the world, and the fifth in the region, with preliminary tally by Amandala reporter Aaron Humes at 39.62 per 100,000, well above the internationally accepted benchmark of 30 per 100,000 in average nations. According to Humes, more than half the murder victims in 2010 were under the age of 30, and

9 were children. What does this say about our future, particularly for our young black men?

We have witnessed the gradual re-colonization of our country, with our country mortgaged to international financial institutions, foreign countries and companies for over 2 billion dollars, and tourism, a dependency industry, controlled by foreign entities, being our number one foreign exchange earner.

We continue to be beggars internationally, yet shake our heads in incomprehension when Kim Simples Barrow, the wife of the Prime Minister of Belize, went with hat in hand to BNE’s Board in Ireland, to solicit money for the building of a resource center for southside Belize City, while out of $821.7 million dollars generated from oil exports, BNE’s take is $647.6 million or 79% and the people of Belize receive a paltry $174.1 million or 21%. They must have been laughing at us unlearned natives. Where is the just share of the wealth? Is 2011 any different today from when the logwood and mahogany and sugar were being shipped out of Belize to enrich mother England?

Our government says our border is artificial. But maybe in the true sense it is, as we now have an adjacency zone instead of a border, with Guatemalans crossing freely and raping our resources daily, despite the herculean efforts of our under resourced and overworked security forces and natural resource managers, and planes are landing with impunity on our highways and in our faces at our international airport. Is territorial integrity and national sovereignty the cry anymore?

Our national heroes can be counted on two fingers, and national honours are pulled out of a closet each year by a select few. The Belizean

dollar still has the Queen on it, and becoming a member of the British Empire is still something to aspire for, but the British is saying hasta la vista, and as we lament their departure, we are looking to the United States to save us. Is national pride and unity an impossible dream? Will the CCJ be any different from the Privy Council in delivering justice?

The reality is that we have regressed. We have not fulfilled the dreams and hopes of those who fought for independence, and the right to charter our own destiny. Where is the better quality of life for all? How is it that a few still have so much, and the masses are still suffering in a country that is so rich with wealth untold? Has anything really changed? Decision making is still in the hands of a few, but maybe now taking place in Belmopan, Washington and other capitals, instead of London, and legitimized by our parliament. Are the remnants of the British political parliamentary system of governance serving all of us or just a few?

Yet, I am the proverbial optimist.

As did the Rt. Hon. George Price and the architects believe in the people of Belize in 1950, so do I in 2011. I am hopeful that we will understand, sooner or later, that the revolution that we are engaged in may no longer be peaceful. It must now transition to an all out war to radically transform our nation. As Belize lies on its deathbed, it is incumbent upon all of us as Belizeans, to confront the truth of the sordid state of affairs of our country.

We must be prepared to break the cycle of perpetual subjection of our people, of creating a new political, economic and social order, for only so can the revolution continue, and only so will a NEW BELIZE be born, which will bring to all Belizeans a better life and a just share of the national wealth…

NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 10th December 2010 Mr. Kevin A. Castillo was appointed The Receiver/Manager of the following companies:

The General public is hereby notified that the People’s United Party will be holding Standard Bearer Convention in the following constituencies:

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National Transport Services Limited

Cayo South

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Bel-Bus Company Limited

Stann Creek West

Any person having a claim upon any or both of the above companies is asked to send in the particulars to: Mr. Kevin A. Castillo, Receiver/Manager NTSL/BBCL, P.O. Box 160, No. 1876 Hutson Street, Belize City, Belize.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 10th December 2010 Mr. Kevin A. Castillo was appointed The Receiver/Manager of the following companies:

As who should say “I am Sir Oracle, And when I open my lips no dog bark!”

That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing; when, I am very sure, If they should speak, would almost damn those ears, Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.”

It is rare quality of a man, indeed, to have such extreme conceit to believe that whatever he says or does should not be questioned or criticized; that everyone should know their place (animals included); that he is the most brilliant of all and just about everyone else is a fool.

But while it is a rare quality of other men, such is the trademark, the brand, the singular defining quality of our Prime Minister.

We have seen him in his element displaying this quality in the House of Representatives time and time again calling representatives of the people

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National Transport Services Limited

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Bel-Bus Company Limited

Any person having a claim upon any or both ofBythe above companies is asked to send in anthony sylvestre Gratiano, in Act 1to: Scene 1 the particulars of William Shakespeare’s play Merchant of Venice, warns against men who have an excess of ego.

He captures it better than I could: “There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress’d in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,

Mr. Kevin A. Castillo, Receiver/Manager NTSL/BBCL, P.O. Box 160, No. 1876 Hutson Street, Belize City, Belize.

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fools. that last year when the issue of We have seen how he has the appointment of a new Chief treated his fellow UDPs when Justice had become a hot topic, they dare to have differences of the Prime Minister, screaming opinion with him or if he doesn’t and all, refused to accept the Bar like them- ask Zenaida, Cardona, Association’s recommendation to Castro, Peyrefitte et al. have an Advisory Committee be We have seen how he set up to vet applicants for the condemns and vilifies ordinary post. He went on to say very nasty citizens; how he becomes judge, things about the Bar in the House. jury and executioner when The Bar in turn had to chastise it is convenient to him, but the Prime Minister for this. But, conveniently becomes ignorant the Prime Minister, never to be when it suits him. outdone, reminded everyone, lest We have seen how he they forgot, that he is Sir Oracle: disrespects men and women in the “You see, if I had just gone judiciary. and acted on my own we might We have seen how he tries to have saved the 8th, tax payers Cayo South Saturday, January 2011some bully the press to silence. money”His way, of course, was We have seen how he breaks to appoint whomever he wanted campaign promises with impunity. as Chief Justice without any Stann Creek West Saturday, January We have seen how his opinion consultation from 22nd, stakeholders and his actions must always 2011 be like the Bar Association. right, because he is Sir Oracle.

Common sense nuetralises an We saw it again this week. excess of ego. The Prime Minister We saw this in his response doesn’t seem to know this- it’s Belize Rural North Sunday, January 23rd, to a question from Channel 5’s either his way or the highway.

Marion Ali. In an attempt to get 2011 some clarity on what he as Prime Minister regarded as breaches of journalistic Collet ethics, Marion asked Wednesday, January 26th, him: “Who decides, who judges what is impartiality? Both sides 2011 at www.belizetimes.bz have made their positions known.”

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The General Public is hereby notified that the People’s United Party will be holding a Standard Bearer Convention in the Dangriga Constituency on Sunday, February 13th, 2011.

The General Public is hereby notified that the People’s United Party will be holding a Standard Bearer Convention in the Orange Walk East Constituency, on Sunday, February 27th, 2011.

All aspiring candidates are asked to send in their applications in triplicate to the PUP Secretariat, Independence Hall by Thursday, January 13th, 2011.

All aspiring candidates are asked to send in their applications in triplicate to the PUP Secretariat, Independence Hall by Thursday, January 27th, 2011.

NOTICE The General Public is hereby notified that the People’s United Party will be holding a Standard Bearer Convention in the Corozal North Constituency, on Sunday, February 20th, 2011.

All aspiring candidates are asked to send in their applications in triplicate to the PUP Secretariat, Independence Hall by Thursday, January 20th, 2011.

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Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment/Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries/UNDP- Belize Strengthening National Capacities for the Operationalization, Consolidation, and Sustainability of Belize’s Protected Areas System Project Market Square, Belmopan 822-2711/2249 (Ext: 80495) Email: snc.projectmanager@ mnrei.gov.bz Celebrating Conservation Work in Belize

Call for Proposals JamesLegislation A. Waight Award for Protected Consultancy to Develop and Regulations Areas Management in Belize

1.) Introduction

Call for Nominations

The Government of Belize has received funding from the Global Environment Facility via the United Nations Development Programme to finance the project entitled “Strengthening National Capacities for the Operationalization, Consolidation, and Sustainability of Belize’s Protected Areas System”. The project is being implemented by the National Protected Areas Secretariat and is aimed at ensuring that The Audubon Society (BAS) invites nominations from the general BelizeBelize effectively develops legal, financial, and institutional capacities to ensure the sustainability of the existing National System (NPAS). public for theProtected JamesAreas A. Waight Award. This award is presented annually in A major expected outcome of the project is for NPAS to be supported by legal and instituhonour of one of BAS’ member, of James A. Waight, toaccomplished individuals tional reforms furthering efforts founding in attaining sustainability the system.

This will be in partorganizations by the developmentinofrecognition a National Protected Areas Systemcontribution Act (NPASA), amending existing or of significant nationally orlegislalotions toto ensure withand the NPASA and to provide increased financing to the cally theharmonization conservation enhancement of mechanism Belize’s for environment.

NPAS.

The award nominees must meet the following criteria: 1) be a Belizean or 2.) Objective The overall of objective of this is to develop relevant legislation/s aimed furthering efforts in resident Belize.

2)consultancy be involved in work directly related to atthe conservaattaining sustainability of the NPAS. tion and The protection the environment. be this involved in one or moretoof the legislation/sofdeveloped and/or amended3) under consultancy will contribute removal of the barriers areas: identifiedecosystem under the ‘justification’ and provide safeguards against the threats faced by the following conservation such as forest, reef, coastal zone system. conservation, pollution control, waste management, ecotourism promotion and the socio-economic environment, indigenous rights, and socio-cultural 3.) Deliverables protection.

The efforts thebe nominees must haveAreas a people dimension, and The final delivery of this exerciseofwill a draft National Protected System Act along with the various other new and/or amended legislations and regulations. Other deliverables shall include: be innovative or non-traditional. a. b.

An Inception Report, inclusive of a Work Plan at the start of the contract period.

A report outlining legislative and management gaps as well as existing conflicts/potential barriers between or among any legislation with regards to the development of thehow NPASA. In submission of nominees, please provide information describing your c.

Progress at the end of each component. nominee(s) fill Reports the criteria above.

Nominations should be forwarded to the d.

Final Report.

Belize Audubon Society’s office no later than Monday, February 7th, 2011.

4.) Type: Team

Forward nominations to: 5.) Bidding James A. Waight Award Interested consultants/teams may obtain proposal packages via email from: snc.projectmanager@ Belize Audubon Society mnrei.gov.bz.

12 Fort Street Completed proposals should be submitted by Monday, January 3, 2011 to: P.O. Box 1001 Project Manager Belize City Strengthening National Protected Areas Capacities Project

Sunday, January 9, 2011

BY ORDER OF MORTGAGEE NOTICE 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 intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under and by virtue of a Deed of Mortgage registered at the Land Titles Register between Lionel Jones 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 LIMITED from whom full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained.

SCHEDULE ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 190 comprising 926.52 Square Metres, situate in the Boom Pine Ridge Area on the Boom Hattieville Road, Belize District and bounded as follows: North

by Lot 189, South by Lot 191, East by Lot 195 and West by a Street as shown on a plan of Subdivision prepared by K. A. Gillett, Licensed Land Surveyor and registered at the Lands and Surveys Department in Belmopan City, Cayo District in Register No. 16 Entry No. 7252 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of Lionel Jones

National Protected Areas Secretariat, Market Square, Belmopan

BELIZE LIONS HURRICANE RICHARD RELIEF EFFORTS Under the leadership of Lion Baldemar Graniel, Zone Chairman of Belize Lions Zone 59, Lions Club members from all over Belize have been providing assistance to many families affected by Hurricane Richard.

The Lions Club of Belize received a Hurricane Emergency Grant of $20,000 Bze from Lions Clubs International Headquarters in Chicago, U.S.A. and through this Grant, some 400 families affected by Hurricane Richard were assisted. The families were provided with food hampers of up to $50 each, or with Food Vouchers of $50 to $100. The Food Vouchers allowed the hurricane victims to secure food items which were not being provided in the food rations that they have been receiving from different Organizations.

The Lions have also been providing used clothing to the hurricane victims.

Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization with more than 1.3 million members in 45,000 Lions Clubs in more than 200 countries and geographic areas.

Lion President Vinod Bhojwani and Lion members distributing food vouchers

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KARL HEUSNER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

KARL HEUSNER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

VACANT POSITION

VACANT POSITION

Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority’s Dialysis Unit invites applications from suitable qualified and motivated individuals for the following vacant positions:

Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority’s Dialysis Unit invites applications from suitable qualified and motivated individuals for the following vacant position:

POSITION: (1) DIALYSIS SOCIAL WORKER

POSITION: (1) DIALYSIS NUTRITIONIST

Job Summary:

Job Summary:

The Social Worker for the dialysis program has overall responsibilities for providing psychosocial services to all patients admitted to the dialysis program. Primary responsibility for this position is to provide patient assessment, prepare care plans, conducts counseling sessions, and organizes patient education on psychosocial impact of end-stage renal disease.

This position conducts initial and ongoing social assessment for patients who are admitted to the program with the aim of establishing baseline and other data that would facilitate provision of Hemodialysis treatment; as well as, for providing patients, families and staff with information, education and support in understanding the psychological and behavioral impacts of end-stage renal diseases and Hemodialysis dialysis treatment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Nutritionist for the Hemodialysis program is primarily responsible for providing nutrition care for all patients under the Hemodialysis program in addition to other secondary responsibilities to patient’s outside of the dialysis program. This position’s overall responsibilities include comprehensive nutrition assessment, including short and long term care plan within one month of admission to the dialysis unit as well as, recommend appropriate feeding methods/formula or meal patterns. This position will be responsible for developing and/or reviewing patient nutrition education materials, counsel family members and/or significant care providers on prescribed diet; monitor adherence and response to nutrition therapy; conducts nutrition training with other nursing and medical staff; review monthly laboratory work on an individual basis and intervene as appropriate in collaboration with attending physician.

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Knowledgeable of, and upholds, established hospital and section policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance programs, safety, environmental and infection control standards.

Conducts initial psychosocial assessment on each Hemodialysis patient admitted to the dialysis program and conducts ongoing assessment of each patient’s psychosocial status and develops an individual care plan for each dialysis patient.

Conducts case work (counseling and conferences with patients, families and social networks) to ensure psychosocial issues are identified and acted upon in a timely manner.

Conducts in-house and external referral for patients to primary care physician or other community services as required.

Provide education and counseling to patients with end-stage renal dialysis and their families to maximize the patient’s response to dialysis treatment.

Evaluates patients for placement in vocational rehabilitation services.

Assesses patient’s socio-economic status to facilitate ability to contribute to the dialysis treatment.

Actively participates in the dialysis center’s quality assurance and continuing quality improvement processes.

Reports to the Dialysis Unit Manager, all untoward events during performance of patient care in accordance with the Hospital’s Incident Reporting Policy.

Documents psychosocial assessment and interventions performed on each dialysis patient using approved clinical forms and medical records.

Enters real time patient’s health data using the BHIS. Attends staff monthly meeting.

Participate in in-service education sessions organized by the Unit Manager or Hospital’s Human Resource Department.

Organizes with external social networks and attending physicians scheduled appointments for patients to ensure continuity of care.

Establishes and maintains courteous, cooperative service-oriented relationship with patients, the public and other associates of the health care team.

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GOB Payscale 14 - $23,220 x $960 - $41, 460

Experience: Minimum of one (1) year work experience in clinical settings. Experience in the care of end-stage renal disease will be an asset.

Associates degree trained social worker must have at least two (2) years working experience in a clinical setting.

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Ability to work as a team Record keeping skills Decision making skills Customer Service skills

Completed applications accompanied by two letters of reference and a police record must be submitted to the Director Human Resources at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on or before 21st January, 2011.

Knowledgeable of, and upholds, established hospital and section policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance programs, safety, environmental and infection control standards.

Conducts initial nutrition assessment on each Hemodialysis patient admitted to the dialysis program and conducts ongoing assessment of each patient’s nutritional status and develops an individual diet for each dialysis patient.

Recommends therapeutic diets in keeping with patient’s cultural and/or religious preferences, and makes changes in treatment based on the patient’s nutritional needs in consultation with the patient’s physician.

Provide education and counseling to patients with end-stage renal dialysis and their families to maximize the patient’s nutritional functioning.

Works with a team of clinicians in developing and monitoring short and long-term nutrition care plans.

Provides individualized nutrition education and counseling.

Monitor nutritional status, laboratory values, dialysis kinetics, and response to diet.

Evaluates patient outcome to diet and make necessary modifications/ recommedations after consultation with attending physician.

Actively participates in the dialysis center’s quality assurance and continuing quality improvement processes.

Reports to the Dialysis Unit Manager, all untoward events during performance of patient care in accordance with the Hospital’s Incident Reporting Policy.

Documents nutrition care on approved clinical forms and medical records.

Enters real time patient’s health data using the BHIS. Attends staff monthly meeting.

Participate in in-service education sessions organized by the Unit Manager or Hospital’s Human Resource Department.

Organizes for scheduled appointments for patients to ensure continuity of care.

Establishes and maintains courteous, cooperative service-oriented relationship with patients, the public and other associates of the health care team.

Educational and other requirement: 1.

Baccalaureate degree with Major studies in Food and Nutrition or dietetics

Salary:

GOB Payscale 14 - $23,220 x $960 - $41, 460

Experience: Minimum of one (1) year work experience in clinical nutrition. Experience in the care of end-stage renal disease will be an asset.

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Completed applications accompanied by two letters of reference and a police record must be submitted to the Director Human Resources at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on or before 21st January, 2011.

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Marcos Salas Arias wins 21st annual KREM “Sugar & Cream” New Year’s cycling classic

Team Benny’s Megabytes’ Costa Rican import Marcos Salas Arias won the 21st edition of the annual KREM “Sugar & Cream” New Year’s Day cycling classic. Salas Arias clocked 3:59:55 on his 90 mile ride from the Corozal border to the finish line at the Mahogany Street junction with the Central American boulevard in Belize City to win the $2,000 first prize, a round trip ticket to the continental USA from American Airlines and the winners’ trophy. Salas and his teammate, Juan Carlos Rojas, had dominated the second half of the race after leaving Orange Walk Town. They crossed the finish line with hands raised together in a V-for-victory salute, and Salas front wheel was only slightly ahead of Rojas, who claimed the $1,500 2nd prize and trophy. Salas’ time was nowhere near the record of 3:29:00, but the Radio KREM outside broadcast crew had time to interview both riders before the 2006 Cross Country champion, Team Western Spirits’ Shane Vasquez, the first Belizean, crossed the finish line 16 minutes later to win the $1,000 3rd prize. Team Zamir ’s Allen Castillo took the $500.00 4th prize and Team Santino’s Hernan Ochaeta won the $350 5th prize.

Henry Moreira, riding unattached, won the $275.00 6th prize and Team Zamir’s Venezuelan import Gil Cordoves pulled in 7th to win a $200 prize, edging out Team C-Ray’s Brandon Cattouse who claimed the $175.00 8th prize.

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Choto outsprinted Team Indeco’s David Henderson of Belmopan to take the $150.00 9th prize, while Henderson took the $100.00 10th prize. Some 84 riders, 73 Belizeans and 11 foreigners, began the race which saw only 46 finish. A 5-man breakaway soon established a half mile lead on the main group with Christian McNish taking the first $100 prize sponsored by Vista Auto Rental at Hotel Maya in Corozal, and he was still leading at San Joaquin where he also won one night’s accommodation with lunch at the Cahal Pech Village Resort. Team Western Spirits’ Jose Choto was in the breakaway along with his teammate Angel, Allen C a s t i l l o , a n d Te a m Ty p h o o n ’s Nissan Arana of Orange Walk.

Choto won a $300 prize sponsored

by St. Anthony's Trading Co. at Mile 75, then Allen Castillo won a DVD player sponsored by CD Plus at Mile 55 in the Louisville Village, where Tzib got dropped from the lead group which was down to 4 riders. Salas, Rojas and Team Sugar City’s Guatemalan import Luis Santizo were chasing the lead four, and they caught them at San Pablo, but it was Team Typhoon’s Nissan Arana of Orange Walk who won the sprint for the biggest station prize, $1,000, sponsored by Hon. Johnny Briceno and Jaime Briceno at the Shell One Stop gas station in Orange Walk Town. Arana, Castillo and McNish got dropped from the lead group leaving Orange Walk Town and only Salas, Rojas, Santizo and

Belizean Jose Choto remained.

By mile 45, Salas and Rojas had opened up a 5 minute lead on their nearest rivals. Rojas took the $100 prize sponsored by Brothers Habet at Mile 35, and he and Salas would share all the remaining prizes on their breakaway ride to the city, claiming the $200 prize offered

by Eustest Dawson Auto Sales at the Crooked Tree Junction and a $50 offered by All Upholstery. He would also claim a case of Campari Premium Wines & Spirits at the mile 30 marker. Salas was still on the pace to win two computerized eye exams and a 20% discount on eyeglass frames offered by Dr. Amin Hegar and Belize Vision Center, as they passed through Biscayne Village. Belizeans Giovanni Choto, Hernan Ochaeta and Shane Vasquez were mounting a chase, but they were 7 minutes behind the lead duo.

Rojas took over the pace to win a $100 gift certificate sponsored by Celebrity Restaurant & Bar at the mile 20 marker; then Salas won a $922.50 gift certificate for a full body treatment, use of jungle waterfall pool and the Japanese mineral bath at the Maruba Resort & Jungle Spa. Salas and Rojas took time out to rehydrate with Red Bull as they passed the junction with the old Maskall Road at mile 19, and Salas claimed a $100 sheep sponsored by Belize Rural North area representative Hon. Edmond Castro. Salas won another sheep from Castro at the junction with the Burrell Boom bypass road, where they were leading the chase group

by 10 minutes. Rojas took over the pace to win a $100 sheep sponsored Mark Velasquez and family at Mile 13 ½, also winning a $100 prize sponsored by Dr. Joel Cervantes and Neurosurgical Spinal Services at Mile 13, and a $400 prize offered

by Allen Thurton and his family Salas won the $50 prize sponsored

by Belize Optical Service at Mile 11 ¼. Then Rojas took over the pace to win the $150 prize offered by Jaime Price Piling at the Lords Bank Junction, and another $50 of Internet access from Zitro International and Western Union at mile 9. He also won $50 free cable from Centaur Cable Network at Mile 8 ¾. He also won a $300 prize offered

by Delmart Hardware & Lumber Yard at the Airport junction. Rojas was still on the pace passing the Haulover Bridge, where he won two $100 prizes each from Rosado's Hardware and Freetown Drugstore.

Salas took over the pace passing the Maheia's United Compound to claim a $100 prize from Maheia’s United Concrete Supplies, and Rojas won a Large BBQ grill from Bilal Welding at mile 3. Salas took over the pace at the first roundabout at mile two and a half to win two months’ weightlifting and toning at Neal & Gordon’s Gym, then Rojas won a bottle of tequila offered

by Royal Wholesale and Retail as they entered the city, as well as a $75 prize offered by Santos Diaz & Sons in memory of 1981 Cross Country champion Alpheus Williams.

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Shalini Zabaneh & Johnny Quintal win 21st KREM Sugar & Cream New Year’s female & junior cycling classic Te a m S a g i t u n ’s S h a l i n i Zabaneh of the Sagitun cycling team won the 21st annual KREM New Year ’s Day female cycling classic, while Johnny Quintal of Mexico’s Depredadores team of Quintana Roo clocked 2:49:16 to win the junior race. Both had ridden 50 miles from Orange Walk Town to the finish line in front of the Mahogany Street junction with Central American boulevard in Belize City. Shalini clocked 2:54:43 to win a $500 first prize and a Digicell phone p a c k a g e a n d a t r o p h y, w h i l e Quintal claimed the same prizes as the 1st junior. Shalini finished 24 minutes ahead of Patricia Chavarria, riding unattached, who clocked 3:18:27 to win the $300 2nd prize. Former women’s Cross Country champion Anthea Sutherland, riding for the Truckers Posse, clocked 3:20:09 to win the $200 3rd prize. Kira Eiley and Telemedia Swoosh’s Fiona Humes clocked 3:41:09 as they finished 4th and 5th respectively. Humes’ teammate Carmita Gabb clocked 3:55:11 as the 6th female. Shalini Zabaneh had completely dominated the field of 7 women who began the race in Orange Walk, and Shalini

claimed all station prizes along t h e w a y, i n c l u d i n g $ 5 0 w o r t h of Internet access from Zitro International & Western Union at the Lord’s Bank junction, a $50 prize from the Ladyville Community Store at mile 9 ¼; $50 worth of cable from Centaur Cable Network at the mile 8 ¾ mark, a $100 prize from Vista Auto Rental at the Airport Junction, as well as two computerized eye exams and a 20% discount on eyeglass frames from Dr. Amin Hegar and t h e B e l i z e Vi s i o n C e n t e r a n d a bottle of tequila from Royal Wholesale and Retail; a $100 prize from Rosado's Hardware at the Haulover Bridge; a $100 prize from Maheia’s United Concrete Supplies at the Maheia's United Compound, a barbeque grill f r o m B i l a l We l d i n g a t M i l e 3 and a $100 prize from the Ramos family. Team Indeco’s Giovanni Lovell was the first Belizean in the junior race; he won the $300 2nd prize, while the Twin To w n C y c l i n g t e a m ’s A u s t i n Armstrong led the sprint for the $2000 3rd prize and trophy.

C a y o H i g h R o a d ’s K y l e Gentle was 4th, Team Indeco’s Joel Borland was 5th and

Adrian Linarez of the Clear the L a n d t e a m w a s 6 t h . G e n t l e ’s teammate Aiden Juan was 7th, Te a m D e p r e d a d o r e s ’ C h r i s t i a n Cambranes of Quintana Roo was 8th and Juan Umana of the Cayo High Road team was 9th. The Mexicans also dominated the Masters’ Category 4/5 race with Depredadores’ Freddy Ramos and David Balam taking 1st and 2nd place; Ramos clocking 2:48:49 t o w i n t h e f i r s t p l a c e t r o p h y.

Belizean rider Barney Brown

o f t h e F T Wi l l i a m s t e a m t o o k 3rd while Depredadores’ Omar G o m e z w a s 4 t h a n d Tr u c k e r s Posse’s Amir Gonzalez was 5th.

Manuel Antonio Baas of the Merida team was 6th and Brown’s teammate Mark Gentle was 7th.

Kenneth Butler, riding u n a t t a c h e d , w a s 8 t h . Te a m Ty p h o o n ’s A l b e r t C o n o r q u i e o f O r a n g e Wa l k w a s 9 t h a n d his teammate Charles Slusher completed the top 10.

Toledo Ambassadors & San Felipe Barcelona enter 2010 Caribbean Cup football semifinals T h e To l e d o A m b a s s a d o r s and San Felipe Barcelona have qualified to the semifinals of the Caribbean Motors Cup football competition after both teams posted big wins in the quarterfinals on Sunday, January 2. The Toledo Ambassadors had to go to a penalty shoot-out to e l i m i n a t e H a n k o o k Ve r d e s 4 - 2 a t t h e To l e d o U n i o n f i e l d i n P u n t a G o r d a To w n , w h i l e S a n Felipe eliminated Griga United 3-2 at the Carl Ramos Stadium in Dangriga. The end of 90 minutes regulation time saw the Toledo Ambassadors struggling in a nil-zip stalemate with the Hankook Verdes and 30 minutes of overtime produced no goals, sending the game into a penalty shootout.

Wilmer Garcia converted for the Ambassadors’ first penalty, but Marlon Meza converted for Verdes to tie the ball game at 1-1.

To l e d o ’s Ta r r e l F l o r e s m i s s e d h i s p e n a l t y, b u t A m b a s s a d o r s ’ goalie Frank Lopez made a big s a v e t o s t o p A m i n C a n o ’s t r y.

Robert Muschamp converted his penalty to lead 2-1, and L o p e z s t o p p e d P e d r o G u e r r a ’s try. Dalton Eiley converted his

penalty f o r t h e 3 - 1 l e a d , t h e n Jose Monroy pulled one back for Verdes when he converted his penalty. The Ambassadors were still up 3-2 when Elio Ramirez converted his kick for the 4-2 w i n , r e n d e r i n g Ve r d e s ’ 5 t h try unneces s ary. G riga U nited had every opportunity to win when they hosted San Felipe Barcelona at the Carl Ramos Stadium. Griga dang fans roared their approval when Dennis Serano blasted in the first goal in the 32nd minute of play, and the Griga defense anchored by Karim Peters, Allan Flores and Harrison Tasher frustrated the best efforts of San Felipe’s strikers Oscar Acevedo, Harvey Cruz and Deris Benavides to hold on to their 1-0 lead up to the half time break. Something had to give and Deris Benavides tied the score at 1-1 when he scored the visitors’ first goal in the 55th minute of play.

Griga United regained the lead 2-1 when Alexander Peters scored their 2nd goal in the 63rd minute of play, and they led 2-1, until Harvey Cruz penetrated the defense to score

the visitors’ 2nd goal in the 72nd minute of play. Both sides now strived for the game-winner, and it seemed the game might have to go into overtime, until Oscar Acevedo scored San Felipe’s 3rd winning goal in the 90th minute of regulation time. The national team is competing in the Central American championships in Panama on January 14-18, so

the competition will be on hold for 2 weeks until their return.

The semifinals are scheduled to begin with F.C. Belize hosting the To l e d o A m b a s s a d o r s a t t h e M C C g r o u n d s o n S u n d a y, January 23, while the Belize Defence Force will host San Felipe Barcelona at the Norman Broaster Stadium.

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HANGOVER HELPERS - WHERE SCIENCE MEETS CUISINE

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s almost a natural law: people will imbibe on the occasion of the arrival of a New Year.

We talk science here not anthropology so we cannot get into the origin of the social practice. Suffice to say, the first day of the New Year is usually the occasion for a hangover of global, pandemic proportions!

Not to fear, the researchers from Australia to Alaska have been looking for ways to ease the global fuzziness and queasiness of the world population on “the morning after last night's drinking spree”. My apologies for not getting this to you before the Holiday season but I trust you will clip and save this page for the next time...where there is alcohol, there will be hangovers.

So the only question for the groggy biochemistry of “goma”. Alcohol is abreveler is how to handle that fuzzy, sorbed by the stomach and metabolized icky feeling the next day. Hangover by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase cures are the stuff of myth and leg- in the liver. A toxic organic compound end, including the tried-and-true (but called acetaldehyde is released by the medically inadvisable) hair-of-the- breaking down process but is immedidog method, locally known as “quita ately pounced upon by two other liver goma” whereby you trick your body enzymes acetaldehyde dehydrogenase into thinking its buzzed state is a natu- and glutathione - which contain large ral one by imbibing more of what you amounts of cysteine that attracts the drank last night. But medical science offending toxic acetaldehyde forming does provide some practical advice a neutral, harmless vinegar like liquid when it comes to eating and drinking that is then excreted. Trouble is, the the next day—and the good news is liver does not have that much GLUTAthat it involves some delectable foods THIONE so as its supply runs out, the that rarely get the official nod from the amount of the toxic ACETALDEHYDE medical establishment. builds up and you feel sick. Trick is to When was the last time the medical get the glutathione levels back up so it profession prescribed chocolate and can neutralize the acetaldehyde ASAP. bacon? Sounds too good to be true, but So if it's a little too late to practice prethose are just two of the yummy foods vention techniques, then here are five thatScotiabank Reem Sharaiha, MD, a Ltd., gastroenfoods that areregistered delicious and (Belize) a company duly un-have a terologist at New York–Presbyterian proven scientific basis for their use in der thesays Companies 250 ofwith theaLaws of Belize, Hospital, are helpful Act, to theChapter body dealing hangover.

Always add in Revised recoveringEdition, from a hangover, based water and Gatorade-like sports 2000, and having its registered office at drinks on Cor. the surprisingly few studies Streets, on this to the intake of these or other foods you Albert and Bishop Belize City, Belize, hereby topic. None are magical cures, just eat while working through a “goma.” givestonotice its intention to exercise boosters nudgeof things along in the Eggs its power of sale as right direction.

Like so many health "Eggsmade are really says Mortgagee under a Deed of Mortgage the good," 8th day ofSharaconditions, hangover cures are largely iha—they would also be her personal November, 2003, between FERNANDO BAEZA of #19 a matter of prevention. “Laying down hangover-easing dish of choice. Full of Staine’s Alley, Walk Town, Walkhelp District, a base of fatty foodsOrange before drinking aminoOrange acids, which the liver dehelps to slow the stomach's absorption toxify, eggs are high in cysteine, which Belize of the one part, and Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., of the of the alcohol,” says the researcher. goes to work on the toxin acetaldehyde, other part, and recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds Drinking a glass of water between enemy number one of the hearty drinkBook 42 of effective 2003 atinFolios – 620, andsimple the said Sco- egg drinks hasVol. also proven pre- 593 er. Make a super scrambled venting hangovers. and chorizo breakfast and wrap it in a tiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of three months Let's do a quick dissection of the flour or corn tortilla. Gone clear!

FOR SALE

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from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the Schedule hereto.

NOTICE All offers to purchase the said property must be made in International Capital Solutions Limited writing and full particulars and conditions of sale may be (“the Company”) obtained from the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

Notice is hereby given that International Capital Solutions Limited, a company incorporated under the Belize IBC Act (Chapter 270), commenced dissolution on December 29, 2010.

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ALLMr. THAT piece parcelRoad, of land situate on Staine Renan lot, Castillo of 9or Barrack Belize City, Belize is the Lane in Orange Walk Town being more particularly liquidator of the company, and any claims against the companydeshould be forwarded to the liquidator by 30 days from the commencement. scribed and delineated on a Plan of Survey by H.C. Fairweather, Chartered Land Surveyor attached hereto and forming a part hereof dated the 1st June, 1982 and recorded Summit Corporate ServicesinLimited at the New Land Registry at Belmopan Register No. 1 Registered Agent Entry No. 265 whereon the same is shown with its abuttals and boundaries and designated Lot No. 10 and colored red TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Property now declared under the Regis-

Pancakes It's hard to think of a food more comforting than pancakes, but these sweet treats also do you another kind of favor: Complex carbs help maintain a steady level of sugar in your bloodstream, balancing out the fact that as your liver detoxes, your blood sugar drops. It allows you to champion over a hangover.

Bananas Hangover help is packed in this yellow fruit, which replaces the potassium lost in the detox process. (Don't forget, alcohol is a diuretic, so it causes you

to flush out key nutrients faster than usual.) Plus, bananas boost your electrolytes, just as sports drinks do.

Bacon Bacon is everywhere these days because it's soooo tasty, and lucky for us, the amino acids in bacon are a hangover's best friend. However, too much of a very fatty food may irritate the stomach further, so just a couple of strips on, say, a lean burger makes a good dose, especially if you're getting up late and breakfast is no longer an option. A study in Britain showed that bacon also boasts the benefits of the Maillard reaction, a fancy term that translates into a very basic pleasure principle: "Bacon just makes you feel better, confirms the researcher.”

Chocolate Like bananas, chocolate is full of the potassium that you lose during recovery, so your sorry state is a good excuse to indulge in an ultra chocolate brownie or cake. Have it for breakfast on one of those Saturday mornings after an extended Friday Happy Hour.

Better yet, have a cup of our local, heart healthy all-natural GOSS chocolate powder, or kick goma by turning two bananas and some GOSS chocolate with some milk into a hangover helper on steroids. I'll join you in a glass of that drink! Salud!

NOTICE GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE TREASURY BILLS ISSUE NO. 2/2011 Tenders are invited for an issue of Government of Belize Treasury Bills. The amount of the issue will be $75,000,000.00.

The Bills will be issued in denominations of $200, $1,000, $10,000, $20,000, $50,000, $100,000, $200,000, $500,000, $1,000,000, $5,000,000, $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 and will be repayable at par 91 days after issue. They will be issued on Wednesday, 19th January, 2011 and will be redeemed on Wednesday, 20th April, 2011.

Each tender must be for $200 or a multiple of $200 and must specify to five decimal places the amount, which is offered for each one hundred dollars face value of the Bills sought.

Application forms are available at the Treasury and at the Central Bank of Belize in Belize City and at the Ministry of Finance in Belmopan; and when completed they must be forwarded in sealed envelopes addressed to:

TREASURY BILL TENDER CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE P.O. BOX 852 GABOUREL LANE, BELIZE CITY

Celebrating Work Belize Tenders must reach the Conservation Central Bank of Belize not in later than 12:00 noon on Friday, 14th January, 2011.

James A. Waight Award

Successful tenders will be notified by Tuesday, 18th January, 2011 and will be expected to pay for and pick up Bills allotted them on Call for Nominations Wednesday, 19th January, 2011.

The Government of Belize reserves the right to accept or reject any The Belize Society and/or allAudubon tenders in whole(BAS) or in invites part. nominations from the general public for the James A. Waight Award. This award is presented annually in honour of one of BAS’ founding member, James A. Waight, to individuals CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE or organizations in recognition of significant contribution nationally or locally to the conservation and enhancement of Belize’s environment.

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Contra la espada y la pared se encuentra Lopez Shuttle debido a decision tomada por CITCO

Todo el mundo conoce a Carlos López, uno de los pioneros en el negocio de shuttle bus de la ciudad que los residentes ultilizan para llegar al trabajo, la escuela o el centro de la ciudad. Sin embargo, durante las últimas dos semanas, López dice que ha sido víctima y excluido por el departamento de tráfico del Consejo de la ciudad.

López, cuya carrera en la industria de autobuses inicio en la década de 1980, decidió desarrollar su propio servicio de transporte cuando cerraron la franquicia de los hermanos Batty, para quienes el trabajaba. Y desde hace varios años él ha atravesado el puente Belcan, realizando la transición de personas desde y hacia el trabajo y la escuela. Dos semanas atrás cuando el departamento de tráfico del Consejo se reunió y decidió en su Junta cómo se ocupará de los crecientes problemas entre los operadores de autobuses en la ciudad, se asigno a cada compañía una nueva ruta. Ahora López dice que el Departamento le ha quitado la ruta del puerto, Boulevard, West Landivar y centro de la ciu-

dad. Ruta que él diseñó en 2006 y consiguió la aprobación para que se ejecute. Poco después de que comenzó a operar, sin embargo, López recibió la competencia de los autobuses de Metro, una buena cosa para la competencia en Belice, y acogio con beneplácito el desafío. Cuando la competencia se convirtió en incidentes con

Asesinan a Notoria figura, Patrick Kerr

Patrick Kerr

Otro hombre fue asesinado durante la Navidad, apenas unas horas antes del inicio del día. Patrick Kerr, 32, un trabajador de la construcción de la calle de lavanda en ciudad de Belice, se reunió a su suerte mientras él se sentaba y hablaba con un amigo en el porche de un stand de alimentos takeout en el campus de la unidad de educación especial en la carretera de Freetown. La policía dice que el asesino de Kerr le acercó por detrás, vestido con una camiseta blanca y pantalones vaqueros azules. El Amigo de Kerr se salvo de la lluvia de las balas pero Kerr, fue baleado en el pecho y las piernas, falleciendo una hora y media más tarde, alrededor de las 10: 30 de la noche de la víspera de Navidad.

Kerr

tuvo un colorido pasado con la ley.

En septiembre de 2008 él y un compañero en la delincuencia, Leo Palacio, fueron baleados fuera de Archies en la ciudad de Belice cuando intentaban as altar al conductor de un auto que se habia estacionado frente al local.

Pero consiguieron un rudo despertar cuando el chofer del vehiculo produjo una pistola y les disparó.

Kerr fue herido a su pierna derecha superior, la rodilla y la espalda baja, mientras que Palacio fue golpeado en la espalda baja y el brazo derecho. El 16 de diciembre de 2003, Kerr y Herman 'yagga' Morris, también ahora fallecido, fueron puestos en libertad de los cargos de conspiración para cometer asesinato y conspiración para cometer robo cuando la Oficina del DPP retiró los cargos contra ellos por el asesinato de un operador de estación de gasolina, Robert Lino. La hoja delictiva de Kerr se extiende mucho más allá de la última década. En abril de 1998, a continuación, con sólo 19 años de edad, Kerr y otro hombre fueron conjuntamente acusados de robo a mano armada a un cambiador de dinero en el cruce de la aldea de Libertad y de la autopista del Norte. Los dos con audacia estacionaron un coche en la carretera y robaron más de 3.000 dólares en efectivo y huyeron. Pero la policía de Orange Walk respondió rápidamente atrapando a los dos con el botín tratando de contratar un taxi para conducirlos a la ciudad de Belice esa misma noche.

choferes individuales, se convirtió en un problema constante para el servicio.

No hay nada malo que el departamento de tráfico trate de resolver el asunto cuidadosamente revisando las rutas y asignando rutas apropiadas para todos poder sobrevivir. Lo que hicieron, sin embargo, fue quitarle la ruta de

Lopez por completo y le asignaron la ruta de Lake Independance, lo que le sitúa en una posición negativa para que su negocio prospere pues solo en Lake Independance hay unos 30 taxis que cobran un dolar. ¿Por qué lo pusieron allí? ¿Y quién obtuvo la ruta de López, la zona de West Landivar ahora?

López ha dicho no lo dejara asi y desde que él decidió rebelarse y continuar su ruta, ha recibido tickets de tráfico y advertencies.

Sus autobuses también han sido consignados y siente que esta siendo victimizado. Cuando los medios de comunicación saltaron sobre la historia, al darse cuenta de lo desconsiderado y flagrante del caso, el concejal responsable de tráfico, Dean Samuels, dijo que ahora invitaría a Lopez a volver para que junto con la Junta y el resto de los operadores de autobuses, puedan trabajar en algunas soluciónes amistosas y para ver si de alguna manera podría permitirse a López compartir la ruta occidental Landivar con otra compañía.

Sólo el tiempo determinará como concluira este asunto.

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UNA RAPSODIA DE CELEBRACION…

Por: Mike Rudon Jr. Siendo esta la primera edicion de Belize Times para este 2011, aprovecho esta oportunidad para desearle a todos los beliceños lo mejor que este nuevo año puede aportar. Me conformo con envíarles deseos de paz, amor y cierto grado de felicidad, ya que la verdad de las cosas es que no puedo desearles prosperidad bajo este montón de miopes imbéciles. Por decreto del rey, toda prosperidad ha sido declarada fuera del alcance de los beliceños comúnes como tú y yo.

Al igual que el cuento en Nottingham Forest, la familia real tiene dibs en todo lo que es prosperidad y nadie mas que ellos Seré el primero en admitir que soy pesimo para las resoluciones. Todavía estoy gordo, todavía amo saborear ese brebaje intoxicante y me hace falta fuerza de voluntad para rechazar una danza erotica de esas que ofrecen en esos antros del vicio, la iniquidad y de mala reputacion and eso es todo lo que tengo que decir al respecto. Así que cuando me lleno de los "espíritus' de la temporada de Navidad y derepente decido reducir mi hostilidad literaria y verbal contra el primer ministro, pensé que era una resolución que iba a romper mas tarde que temprano. Pero algo si les puedo decir, mi resolucion de fin año no pude resistir romperla incluso antes de que el nuevo año hiciera su aparición. Al ver las palabras de ese tonto jugando a ser inteligente se me occurrieron algunas palabras de no muy buen gusta para el la primera vez que vi su mensaje de año Nuevo.

Fue terrible, ¿verdad? ¿Saben que? Desearia que Dean Oliver fuera un hombre estúpido.

Entonces yo podría hacer un comentario como: 'nuestro primer ministro es tan estúpido, que cree que el ponche de frutas es un boxeador gay'. Pero él no es un hombre estúpido, no realmente. Es un hombre muy, muy inteligente, que dice y hace cosas muy, muy estúpidas. Es un niño prodigio intelectual que piensa que el resto de nosotros recibimos solo las migajas de inteligencia y brilliantez luego que se le diera todo a el. No puedo imaginar por qué más hubiera pensado que los beliceños debieran recibir con gozoso rapto su oferta de basura no adulterada sobre el ano Nuevo.

Porque eso es todo lo que fue … 10 minutos de bellamente empaquetado, dirigido, coreografíado y producido excremento! Permítanme simplemente

decir que por ahora estoy bastante seguro de que él esta consciente de que no creemos las palabras que vienen de su boca. No quiero entrar en detalles sobre las tonterías con las que trató de alimentarnos, pero seguro que estaba feliz como una almeja, afirmando que "nos sentimos especialmente bien sobre el año que está finalizando e incluso mejor acerca del que está comenzando.' De hecho, atrapado en la euforia orgásmica de su elocuencia, Dean Barrow afirmó que ' podemos saludar a este año nuevo en una Rapsodia de celebración.'

Pero esperen, ya lo tengo! Hay una confusion. El discurso que leyo el Primer Ministro se suponía que realmente será leída en el banquete de año Nuevo con su familia, cuando el Rey Dean se levantara para brindar con su familia el pasado y el presente entre los aperitivos, canapés y Moet de la familia real. Ahora entiendo.

Todas esas palabras cursis acerca de los buenos tiempos de abundancia en 2010 y la riqueza y la prosperidad en 2011 no eran para nosotros. Eran para los seres queridos del primer ministro.

Después que mire el discurso de año nuevo de Dean Oliver fui fuera de la habitación y pregunta a un amigo si piensa que el primer ministro sabe a ciencia cierta lo que esta diciendo. Quiero decir, Sres., miren a su alrededor y diganme que es lo que ven? He oído sobre propaganda politica pero esto es mucho más que eso, mucho más grande que eso, este caballero no esta hablando de Belice! No de nuestro Belice debajo de la administracion UDP. ¿Desea llegar a una comprensión más clara del porque estamos donde estamos?

No tienes que buscar mucho más allá del ridículo mensaje de año Nuevo de Dean Oliver.

Véase, en Barbados hubieron 79 asesinatos en 2009 y 84 en el 2010.

El ligero aumento fue suficiente para crear una oleada de protesta y el clamor por respuestas y soluciones, incluyendo la pena de muerte por ahorcamiento. En Belice, teníamos 103 asesinatos en 2009 y 132 en 2010 y nuestro primer ministro dice con orgullo en su discurso que el 'crimen aparece, aunque lentamente, a estar dando a nuestra marcha hacia el progreso. ¿Ven lo que quiero decir? No tiene absolutamente ningún sentido en absoluto. Así que ahí va mi resolución para ser un poco agradable con Dean.

Mejor que yo haya resuelto ser una espina en su costado tanto como pueda y tan a menudo como pueda. Ha! Esa resolucion si puedo mantener. Si el primer ministro sabe que creo que es un brillante megalomaníaco y un tonto completo pues que asi sea. Y si no me dedica un pensamiento durante el curso de su dia, pues esta bien tambien. Le llamare catarsis de mi alma. Y es todo lo que dire por ahora hasta la próxima semana.

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SACANDO A FLOTE AL SR. BARROW…..

El Sr. Dean Barrow jamas lo admitiria, de hecho, es muy probable que él esta tan sumido en la fobia confortable de megalomanía que él lo negaría todo aun bajo pena de tortura. Pero con todo el amor de Barrow a sí mismo y sus delirios de grandeza, no obstante, el hecho es que el actual líder de la nacion salvo su pellejo real a tiempo cuando una casa de ciertos medios de comunicación locales decidieron seguir el camino de la mediación. Sencillamente, cuando el primer ministro decidió declarar la guerra a una casa de medios de communicacion en Belice y en extensión a la libertad de prensa, su ego escribió una comprobación de la cual su capacidad y credibilidad política nunca han sido capaces de comprobar. La casa de medios de comunicación en cuestión sin duda tenía sus propias razones para buscar la conciliación, Lo importante en este contexto es que al Sr. Barrow sin darse cuenta se le proporcionó una puerta trasera a través del cual él podría salir huyendo. Fue capaz de salvar la cara la que sin duda habría perdido si se hubiera mantenido en vigor sólo un poco más la situación de estancamiento. Para no perder la costumbre el primer ministro ha afirmado nobleza y generosidad y intentado hipocritamente restaurar las relaciones con los medios de comunicación de dicha casa. Pero tambien como es su costumbre el primer ministro ha seguido, tanto en el discurso de año nuevo como en una aparición en la mañana en el programa de Love FM esta semana, lanzar comentarios despectivos y proferir pequeñas indirectas a esta misma casa de medios de comunicación. Nuestro líder prefiriera arrancaser su propia lengua antes de admitir la verdad - que debe estar agradecido a esa casa de medios de comunicación por lo que le permitio mantener su postura en su las nubes donde se encuentra.

Escuchando el Sr. Barrow pontificar y operar en el ámbito del drama, es una reacción instintiva y aceptable creer que el becario es un gigante intelectual. Escucharlo citar gigantes filosóficos a cada paso y mostrar gran hechicería oratoria, tal vez es otra reacción instintiva a esperar las acciones de consecuencia del primer ministro.

Pero la experiencia también nos ha enseñado que esperar grandes cosas de Dean Oliver Barrow es similar a apretar las tetas de una vaca muerta esperando riachuelos de leche fresca. Dejando todo lo referente a cerebros brillantez, veamos lo que en realidad tenemos frente a nosotros, lo cierto es que el primer ministro ha sido pesado y evaluado y se le ha encontrado carente de todo!!! ¿Es posible que cuando expertos políticos bromeando hicieron referencia a las vagas similitudes entre Dean Barrow y Barack Obama, el primer ministro lo tomó en serio y como una insinuación de su propia grandeza? No sólo es posible, pero es evidente. No toma un genio para descubrir que el Presidente Obama intento suspender las relaciones entre su administración y la cadena Fox gigante. No toma un científico espacial para descubrir las similitudes entre las acciones de Obama y Dean Barrow contra canal 5. Al final Obama se vio obligado a retirarse de su postura. Los Beliceños nunca tuvieron la oportunidad de disfrutar la retirada del Sr. Barrow, pero puede usted estar seguro que se le hubiese obligado hacerlo!

Entidades creíbles tanto locales como extranjeras ya habían registrado consternación por las acciones arbitrarias de la administración de Barrow, denunciando lo que fue considerado como un ataque a la democracia y la libertad de prensa. Una organización de reconocidos medios de comunicación nacionales emitio su crítica clara y aún la Embajada de los Estados Unidos de América se vio obligada a pesar la materia. La opinión pública estaba firmemente en el lado de la libertad de prensa y la absoluta inviolabilidad de medios de comunicación independiente protegida de manipulación por parte de y amenazas del Ejecutivo. Es lamentable que el primer ministro se le permitió escapar el dilema de su propia haciendo. Tal vez en la oscuridad de la noche se encuentra en la cama y compone maravillosas odas a esa casa particular de medios de comunicación por ayudarle a salir a flote lo que hubiera sido una situación imposible.

Y bien debería. Públicamente sigue tan arrogante como siempre, El primer ministro ha demostrado que está perfectamente dispuesto a sobrepasar sus límites en cuanto a los medios de comunicación y la libertad de prensa. Si sigue convencido de su propia justicia y no ha aprendido una lección de este episodio, hay oscuros días de antelación. ¡ Ay de los medios de comunicación que se atreven a cuestionar esta administración del UDP y su líder. ¡ Ay de los medios de comunicación que se atreven a investigar esta administración y revelar verdades que son desagradables y perjudiciales. En Belice de hoy, en este tiempo, es la forma del Sr. Barrow o la carretera indicada por el brillante signo rojo neón afirmando: suspensión de relaciones normales.

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Wish-washy, namby-pamby ‘poco-tiempo’ GOB…

Por : Mike Rudon Jr. Cuando revisé mi correo esta mañana hubia un comunicado del Ministerio de policía y seguridad pública informándome de que habían contratado a un nuevo oficial de relaciones públicas. Inmediatamente me senti abrumado por una sensación de bienestar. Caramba, pensé, por fin hemos sido rescatados de este terrible flagelo de la delincuencia; Finalmente podemos caminar nuestras calles en la seguridad y la paz; ya no estaremos presos en nuestros propios hogares, finalmente! Por último dejaremos de ser víctimas de los delincuentes fríos, crueles, viciosos que nos acechan y derraman nuestra sangre con aparente impunidad; Finalmente dejaremos la aflicción por nuestros hijos y seres queridos cuyas vidas son arrebatados en las calles cada día. Gloria hallelujah, alabado al Señor, liberación ha sido puesta en nosotros por nuestros salvadores del Ministerio de seguridad pública y policía. Han contratado a un oficial de relaciones públicas.

Hay una canción que juega en mi cabeza una y otra vez. Es una cancion vieja pero muy buena de este hombre de aspecto extraño llamado Meatloaf.

En ella afirma con mucho énfasis que hará cualquier cosa por amor, pero eso no. Nadie sabe lo que exactamente se haría por amor porque aparte de la promesa, no hay ninguna información específica. Y nadie sabe lo que es este monumental, prohibido '' que no haria ni por amor. Una vez más, no hay ninguna información específica. Es como el Sr. Barrow y el UDP, quien

prometió que haría cualquier cosa para nosotros. Tres años después, estamos todavía sólo con la promesa; todavía nos estamos imaginando las posibilidades de ellos haciendo cualquier cosa por nosotros. Bueno, todo lo que sabemos con certeza es que el UDP absolutamente no sera ni es un gobierno competente, eficaz, responsable, honesto y transparente. El otro día estaba escuchando una historia sobre el crimen en Barbados. En 2009 esta nación pequeña contaba con 79 asesinatos. En 2010, la estadística de asesinato aumentó a 84. Fue gran noticia para el país, con una masiva protesta por la población para resolver esta situacion, el GOB tomo decisions dramaticas para encontrar respuestas.

Aquí en Belice tenemos más o menos la misma población como Barbados.

El año pasado 2009 rompió el récord de asesinatos con un terrible 103 para

el año.

Este año las cifras de la delinquencia aunmentaron llevandonos a nuevas profundidades, con 132 asesinatos. ¿Motivo de alarma? Claro que si es motivo de alarmarse! Y es lo suficientemente importante como para que el primer Ministro hiciera mención de la misma en su mensaje a la nación.

Pero desafortunadamente él no hizo mención de nuevas iniciativas, algun plan visionario, nada. No hubo ningún reconocimiento de una crisis; ninguna explicación de o la voluntad de abordar el problema; no se comprometio con la nación a luchar contra el crimen con uñas y dientes en el nuevo año. ! En un extraño giro de los acontecimientos, Dean Oliver se dio palmaditas a sí mismo en la parte posterior por la situación de la delincuencia, alegando que el - 'crimen, aunque lentamente, esta dando paso a nuestra marcha

hacia el progreso Muy bien Sr Primer ministro, a mi como a toda la poblacion de Belice sus palabras sin sentido nos tomo por sorpresa! Aver, lo que pasa es que estamos atascados con un Gobierno namby-pamby, poco-tiempo o sea de juguete! – esa es la verdad de las cosas. El mayor error es esperar algo real del Sr. Barrow y su equipo. Si estás buscando visión audaz o la innovación, buscas en el lugar equivocado con este GOB UDP. Y esta cosa de la policía es sólo un ejemplo flagrante en una cadena de ejemplos evidentes.

Mucho después de que el primer ministro de policía Carlos Perdomo probo a todos que él era un fallo de primer orden y un caso sin esperanza, el primer ministro finalmente actuó.

Reemplazó a un incompetente por otro incompetente. Una perdida de tiempo que por cierto fue muy costosa. Bajo Doug Singh, la delincuencia aumentó completamente fuera de control a donde esta ahora. Obtuvimos Operacion Jaguar que no hizo nada en absoluto.

Tuvimos a Restauracion Belice que nos dio una canción ingeniosa. Pero eso fue todo… final de historia! Y ahora al entrar al 2011, el Sr. Barrow y el UDP han cumplido una vez más. Nos han ofrecido su respuesta a la violencia indecible que nos mantiene en cadenas.

Después de mucha reflexión y el intercambio de ideas nos han dotados con su idea de una solución a los asesinatos sin precedentes, (Insertar tambor-roll, paso de las manecillas del reloj y jadeo ansioso por parte de la audiencia) …un nuevo official de relaciones publicas!.

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Supera Maya Air meta de Poderes de Chávez son transporte de pasajeros "medida antidemocrática"

Aún cuando muchas empresas no confiaban que el puente aéreo entre Cancún y Cozumel tendría un buen futuro, la empresa Maya Air demuestra lo contrario al anunciar el incrementó de casi 65% de su afluencia de pasajeros durante 2010, al grado de movilizar a más de 28 mil personas por las 18 mil que tuvieron en 2009.

Jaime Valenzuela Tamariz, vicepresidente de dicha empresa aérea, comentó que el secreto estuvo en mantener sus precios de Cancún a Cozumel, cuyo costo es de 399 pesos con todos los impuestos incluidos, debido a la crisis economía en el país.

Es por eso, dijo, que durante 2011 mantendrán estos precios y que la duración del viaje es de apenas 15 minutos, con 12 operaciones diarias y aviones con una capacidad de 19 plazas, aunado a que sirven de enlace para los vuelos provenientes de la Ciudad de México hacia Cozumel.

Valenzuela Tamariz explicó que los vuelos hacia la Isla de las Golondrinas son cada dos horas y que la tarifa se aplica a todos los residentes en la entidad, lo que les ayudó también a incrementar sus ventas.

Respecto al proyecto de ampliación de rutas, el vicepresidente de Maya Air mencionó que también comunican a Quintana

Roo con Mérida desde Cozumel y Cancún, por 999 pesos todo incluido, con 10 frecuencias a la semana y debido a la demanda ampliarán hasta 14 operaciones.

Además, también vuelan a Villahermosa con un costo de mil 800 pesos, a Campeche, por mil 200 pesos, y a Ciudad del Carmen, por mil 500 pesos.

Asimismo, reveló que están en pláticas con el gobierno del estado para reiniciar vuelos a Chetumal, solo que sería con conexión desde San Pedro Belice, Cancún y Cozumel.

Recordó que hace poco más de un mes decidieron retirar el servicio en la capital del estado, debido a que no tenían mucha demanda, pero que con las reuniones que han sostenido con funcionarios estatales se decidió intentar la reactivación de los vuelos hacia Chetumal.

Valenzuela Tamariz refirió que la empresa Maya Air cuenta actualmente con tres aviones de 19 plazas, aunque tienen otros más pequeños como un servicio de taxi aéreo.

Por último, dijo que para este año tienen contemplado realizar vuelos hacia Veracruz, Minatitlán y Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, ya que las pláticas que sostienen con cámaras empresariales están muy avanzadas.

Paquetes expulsan humo en edificios gubernamentales de Maryland

Dos paquetes recibidos en edificios gubernamentales separados expulsaron repentinamente humo y olores extraños el jueves, pero no causaron heridos, informaron las autoridades estatales.

El portavoz de la Policía estatal Greg Shipley dijo que se ordenó una cuarentena en las oficinas de recepción de correo en las oficinas gubernamentales de todo el estado hasta que se determine si no recibieron paquetes similares.

Las autoridades dijeron inicialmente que los paquetes estallaron, pero luego dijeron que sólo

arrojaron humo y olores.

Los incidentes ocurrieron por la tarde en el Edificio Jeffrey, en el centro de Annapolis, y en el Departamento de Transporte de Maryland, en Hannover. Las dos ciudades están a unos 32 kilómetros (20 millas) de distancia entre sí.

Un funcionario del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional dijo que el departamento está al tanto de los incidentes y que les está dando seguimiento. Las autoridades de Maryland y el FBI están coordinándose.

Los poderes extraordinarios concedidos por el parlamento saliente venezolano al presidente Hugo Chávez suponen una "medida antidemocrática" que viola la Carta Interamericana de la OEA, declaró este jueves el subsecretario adjunto para América Latina, Arturo Valenzuela.

Estados Unidos está dispuesto a mantener un "diálogo franco" con Venezuela, y por ello "lamenta" que el gobierno de Caracas retirara su beneplácito al embajador nominado, Larry Palmer, añadió Valenzuela en una intervención sobre la política estadounidense respecto a América Latina en 2011.

"Los acontecimientos en Venezuela plantean serias preocupaciones", declaró Valenzuela en un discurso en el Instituto Brookings en Washington.

"Es particularmente preocupante la reciente delegación de autoridad legislativa al Ejecutivo", dijo.

"Esta medida antidemocrática viola los valores inscritos en la Carta Democrática Interamericana" de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), que cumple este año su décimo aniversario, añadió Valenzuela.

Estados Unidos busca formas "de implementar de manera más efectiva la Carta como salvaguarda de principios democráticos fundamentales" en la región, dijo.

La nueva Asamblea Nacional venezolana inició sus trabajos el miércoles con una amplia minoría opositora (40% de los 165 escaños), pero Chávez se aseguró que los diputados de la anterior legislatura le concedieran poderes excepcionales durante 18 meses.

Ese nuevo contexto político, que promete agudizar la tensión interna en Venezuela de aquí a las elecciones presidenciales de 2012, coincide con el pulso diplomático que mantienen Caracas y Washington.

"Desde el principio le dejamos claro a los venezolanos que queríamos mantener unas fuertes relaciones sólo si las conversaciones eran francas", añadió Valenzuela a preguntas de periodistas.

El presidente Barack Obama propuso a Larry Palmer, un ex embajador en Honduras, como representante ante el gobierno de Chávez, el líder latinoamericano más crítico con Washington.

Unas declaraciones de Palmer en el Senado provocaron la retirada del beneplácito por parte de Chávez, y tras meses de pulso, Washington decidió a su vez retirarle la visa diplomática al legado venezolano, Bernardo Álvarez.

Palmer sigue contando con todo el apoyo de su gobierno, aseguró el miércoles el portavoz del Departamento de Estado, Philip Crowley.

La presidenta Laura Chinchilla consideró esta mañana previsible la confirmación hecha por el diputado oficialista Guillermo Zúñiga de su renuncia a la curul.

"No es algo nuevo", dijo la mandataria en una de las escuetas respuestas que ofreció a la prensa sobre la renuncia de quien fue su principal candidato legislativo en la campaña política.

Aunque dijo lamentar la salida del exministro de Hacienda (2006-2010), sí advirtió que la coyuntura política y el proyecto de reforma tributaria requiere una "gran convicción" de quienes estarán a su cargo en el Congreso.

En semanas recientes Zúñiga manifestó divergencias con algunos de los ejes del proyecto fiscal con el cual Chinchilla pretende enfrentar este

periodo de difícil situación económica.

La presidenta admitió haber conversado con Zúñiga sobre su renuncia pero declinó dar más detalles sobre la conversación. Sí informó de que no le pidió reconsiderar la dimisión, a diferencia de lo que manifestó anoche el ministro de la Presidencia Marco Vargas.

Chinchilla también reconoció que se mencionó la salida de Guillermo Zúñiga durante una reunión que tuvo ella, en su casa, con Rodrigo Arias, exministro de la Presidencia del gobierno de su hermano Óscar (2006-2010) y aspirante a la candidatura presidencial del Partido Liberación Nacional para 2014.

La cita entre Chinchilla y Arias fue a mediados de diciembre.

Chinchilla: renuncia de Zúñiga ‘no es algo nuevo’

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FOR SALE High, solid land (75’ x 75’ ) ready for construction.Conveniently located on Dr. W. S. George Estate in Orange Walk Town. Serious enquiries can call 671-7077 anytime.

LIQUOR LICENSE NOTICES Notice is hereby given that Michelle Vaccaro is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “The Road House”, 17 1/4 Miles, Sandhill Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Chana Fal Wong is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at Julio’s Supermart”, #253 Belama Extension, Phase II, Belize City under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Jose Nelson Mejia is applying for a Night Club Liquor License to be operated at “Island Berries Bar”, #84 Barrack Road, Belize City under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Allan Jones Jr. is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “Country Style Kitchen”, Lucky Strike Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Ramon Reyes Jr. is applying for a Malt and Cider Liquor License to be operated at “Tropic’s Hotel”, Caye Caulker Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Edward Solis is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “Double Deuce”, Maskall Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that ChiuFang Lu is applying for a Malt and Cider Liquor License to be operated at “Global Village Hotel”, Ladyville, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Charlie Hinds is applying for a Beer Liquor License to be operated at “St. Matthew’s Snack Shop”, St. Matthew’s Village, Cayo District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Irma Nicholas is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Irma’s One Stop Shop”, Burrell Boom Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Russell Moody is applying for a Restaurant and Bar Liquor License to be operated at “M & M Restaurant and Bar”, 15 ¾ miles Northern Highway, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Femi Reyes Blanco is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “Femi’s Café and Lounge”, Palapa’s Garden, Caye Caulker, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Yin Man Cheung is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “”Jim’s Restaurant”, 9 miles Northern Highway, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Fakhrul Salim is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Tropicool Belize Gift Center”, Fort Street, Belize City under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Carlos Romero and Laura Thompson are applying for a Restaurant and Bar Liquor License to be operated at “Wet Lizard”, #1 Fort Street, Belize City under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Carlos Romero and Laura Thompson are applying for a Beer Liquor License to be operated at “The Wet Lizard”, #1 Fort Street, Belize City under the intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Esia Slusher is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated in Gales Point Manatee, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Ianthe Gentle is applying for a Malt and Cider Liquor License to be operated in Gales Point Manatee, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Luciano Canul is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “”Pirates Sports Bar and Steak House”, Middle Street, Caye Caulker, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor

Notice is hereby given that Rodrigo Escarraga is applying for a Malt and Cider Liquor License to be operated at “Los Piños”, San Jose Village, Orange Walk District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Margaret Nunez is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “Tropicolada Cocktail Hut”, #7 Fort Street, Belize City under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Tomasa Novelo is applying for a Beer Liquor License to be operated at “HDL’s Snack Shop”, San Felipe Village, Orange Walk District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Betty Monima is applying for a Beer Liquor License to be operated at “B & Z”, #48 Mahogany Street, Corozal Town under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Ian Glory is applying for a Malt and Cider Liquor License to be operated at “2nd Street South and Fifth Avenue”, Corozal Town under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that William Bellerjeau is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “Cerro’s Beach Resort”, Copper Bank Village, Corozal District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Rubisela Montalvo is applying for a Malt and Cider Liquor License to be operated at “Ruby’s Cool Spot”, Chan Chen Village, Corozal District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Roque Marin is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at 1st Avenue, Corozal Town under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Gabriela Chuc is applying for a Beer Liquor License to be operated at “Diana’s Grocery”, Chan Chen Village, Corozal District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Ada Luz Gongora is applying for a Beer Liquor License to be operated at “AG’s Shop”, #3 4th Avenue, Corozal Town under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Marco Antonio Gongora is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “Adolfo’s Pool and Bar”, Concepcion Village, Corozal District under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that David Gwyn Lawrence is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “”Hotel Sea Breeze”, 23 1st Avenue,

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NOTICE Kishure Kumar is hereby applying to the Corozal Magistrate’s Court for a License for Money Lender’s Certificate for Manju Pawn Shop, 4th Avenue South, Corozal Town for the year 2011.

Prayer To The Holy Spirit O Holy spirit, you who are the fountainhead of all knowledge, who illuminate the pathway which enables me to reach my goal. You who share your divine gift permitting me to forgive and forget past insults and injustices, and who are always at my side within reaching distance. I desire in this short supplication to thank you for all that you have done for me, and to assure you once more that I never want to be separated from you under any circumstances, no matter what the incentive. I want to be with you, I along with my loved ones, cradled in your unending love. Thank you for your never failing kindness towards me and those I call my own.

(Prayer to be offered for three consecutive days; faith in the Holy Spirit will cause him to respond to your request no matter how difficult the problem might be.)

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F.M.Z. ST. JUDE NOVENA May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

St. Jude worker of miracles, pray for us.

St. Jude helper of the helpless, pray for us.

Say this prayer nine times a day for nine days. It has never been known to fail.

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