Sunday, November 20, 2011
SUNDAY November 20, 2011
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THE BELIZE TIMES
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Issue No. 4772
Invasion of Chiquibul “As Belizeans we get the impression that we need to do something, in our case we are saying we need to do something urgently” - Rafael Manzanero – Exec. Dir., Friends for Conservation
FCD Executive Director, Rafael Manzanero, raises the alarm over plundering in the Chiquibul
The Record Doesn’t Lie
Port Loyola is a Living Hell with Boots
Boots lives like a King, while Port residents suffer in poverty Belize City, November 15, 2011 There is a very interesting situation in the Port Loyola Division. It is the most neglected division in the entire city but it has the second largest number of voters. This is interesting because one of the most influential Ministers, Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez, is the Area Representative and also the Minister of Works under the Bar-
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BELIZE CITY, Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 By Alton Humes It is no secret that Belize’s national security is under extreme threat. The break-in at the Belize Defense Force armory from where 42 high-powered weapons were stolen reflected how vulnerable our nation’s
security has become. The increased presence of drug traffickers is more evidence, and so is the heightened and rampant criminal activity. But nowhere is there microcosm of the serious and almost unabated threat than in the area of the Chiquibul Forest in the Cayo District, which
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Rigoberto Gutierrez, a Guatemalan, has his home and milpa deep inside Belizean territory
Belize’s Human Development
ranking worsens
Belize City, November 16, 2011 Annually, the United Nations conducts an analysis of countries efforts to make life better for its citizens. The study is called the Human Development Report, and it evaluates developments in health, education, and
basic living standards that would improve conditions. Over the last ten years, Belize has been making gradual improvements as the former PUP administration invested widely on priority areas: access to health, access to
Senior Citizen accuses UDP CitCo of cruelty Belize City, November 14, 2011 We have heard the many horror stories from inside the wicked UDP walls at City Hall under Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers, her legal advisor Darrel Bradley and the motley crew who have been getting away with big salaries for 6 years. They have fired single mothers, secretly raised their
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education and expansion of basic services in rural communities. In 2000, Belize ranked a healthy 58th
out of 187. That positioned Belize just at the margins of being high-development and
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PUP Leader Meets with Mennonite Community See page 6
Knox Cumberbatch acquitted of Murder See page 8
Economy has no muscle for Mr. Belize 2011 See page 27