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26 MARCH 2017 | ISSUE NO: 5038
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NO BOUNCE & NOTHING BOLD!
Johnny Blasts Barrow's Bogus Budget Thursday, 23 March 2017 In his presentation which launched the debate scheduled for Thursday and Friday, PUP leader John Briceño surgically decimated the bogus budget presented to the nation on March 13th. The Prime Minister, with a trademark rhetorical flourish, gave his lame duck presentation the ostentatious title – “Bouncing Back – a Bold Belizean Recovery. Briceño was having none of that, and responded that there is no bounce and nothing bold in the Budget, asking what many Belizeans routinely ask – in what country is Mr. Barrow living?
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‘GUNMAN’
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CAYO POLICE HUNT FOR HEAD OF MURDER VICTIM
BELIZEANS ARE SQUATTERS, DECLARES SEDI!
Juliane Burke
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“No ordinary Belizean will benefit from anything contained in this budget,” stated Briceño. In fact, said Briceño, “the Prime Minster with little passion introduced a budget that is once again void of imagination and lacking of any plan to rescue a nation that he and his UDP Administration have driven to the verge of bankruptcy and is bordering on a depression.” As Belizeans will be able to attest, the Prime Minister and his UDP administration have run the country into the ground, recording ever widening budget deficits and racking up an unsustainable level of debt which grows every year. In those years when he had access to oil revenues, revenues from industries and hundreds of millions in Petrocaribe monies, the PM could not balance his budget and has the nation on the brink of an economic precipice. But now, with oil dried up, industries in turmoil, Petrocaribe money done and hundreds in millions owing this year, the Prime Minister is telling Belizeans that there will be a surplus for the first time in years. Briceño took aim squarely as his counterpart on the government side, stating that “this budget fails the test of fiscal responsibility, as once again this UDP Administration will collect over a billion dollars in taxes and income, and they will add another 100 million dollars to our already 3.1 billon dollar debt leaving every Belizean man, woman and child, owing over $10,000. Yet this budget will offer fewer jobs and low economic growth if any. The PUP leader also pointed out the truth about tourism, which the UDP has boasted is the only industry which is doing well. But, said Briceño, “the tourism industry is not doing as great as we would wish and he (the Prime Minister) would want us to believe. According to the BTB figures published for 2016, hotel occupancy, which is a key indicator on how the industry is performing, fell by a whopping 12 percent, from a country average of 42 percent to 37 percent for 2016 when compared to 2015.” Governance also occupied prominent attention in the leader’s presentation, as he pointed out that, rightly, that the UDP Administration spent 4 billion dollars from 2012 to 2016 and none of those 4 billion dollars has undergone the scrutiny of the Auditor General. Briceño received an ovation as he stated, “one of my very first acts as Prime Minister will be to bring legislation to the National Assembly, which calls for a full audit of every government ministry and I say it in this place on this day. Whomever is found to be involved in any illegal or corrupt act will be arrested and charged and if found guilty will go to jail. This is my solemn pledge to the Belizean people.” In closing, the PUP leader offered hope to Belizeans, stating that “a day is coming soon when the people of Belize will see this red cloud lifted and in its place, a clear blue sky. and the sun will shine ever so brightly. And there will be jobs again and our children will have better schools again, the private sector will get back to growth again, the productive sector will produce and NHI will be universal. Confidence will be restored and the Belizean spirit renewed.
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Thursday, 23 March 2017 As we go to press today, Thursday, Cayo Police are trying to identify the victim of a gruesome murder, allegedly in that jurisdiction. On Tuesday, two minors from Blackman Eddy, found a plastic bag near the river bank while hunting iguanas. That bag held a crocus sack containing neatly severed body parts. Sources in the Police Department told us that the first grisly discovery yielded two legs severed at the knees and two arms severed at the elbows. Police could not determine at
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on so far. Police told the Belize Times today that the search will continue. In the mean-time they are canvassing communities in the West to determine if anyone has been reported missing. In May 2015, the body of Edilberto Madrid was found floating in the Roaring Creek River. He had been decapitated and disembowelled, his limbs removed. The next day, Steven Hyde was found buried in a shallow grave in Camalote, brutally murdered in similar fashion.
‘GUNMAN’ SON OF UDP MINISTER CHARGED…
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 It only took two months, but finally, after sustained pressure, on Tuesday Kenzle Hulse, son of Minister Godwin Hulse, was charged. Very quietly, with no fanfare or Police disclosure until after the fact, Hulse was charged with Harm and arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s court, where he was granted bail of $1000 and the matter was adjourned to May 18, 2017. The fact is that the entire matter was handled very differently than it would have been if Hulse were just a
normal Belizean accused of the same act. On January 22, 2017, the young businessman allegedly pistol-whipped an elderly man, Alberto Santos Lopez. According to Lopez, without provocation Hulse hit him with the pistol, then choked him and threw him to the ground. Lopez reported the matter immediately, but we are reliably informed that from the very beginning political interference reared its ugly head. First of all, the matter was handed over to the National Crimes Investigation Branch, and then on to the Major
BELIZE CITY RESIDENT SAVAGELY ATTACKS AND MURDERS SISTER Monday, March 20, 2017 The quiet of the First Street vicinity in the King’s Park area of Belize City was broken early Sunday evening by the pained shrieks of 29-year-old Juliane Burke. She was being savagely attacked by her younger brother, 26-year-old Elijah Burke who had hidden waiting for her in the yard of her rented apartment. Neighbours say they saw him arrive at around 4 in the afternoon asking for his sister. When they informed him that she was not at home, he reportedly muttered that he had to “bring the Police for her because something di goh aan eena da yard.” He apparently stuck around until she got home accompanied by her six year old son. Elijah went after her as she was about to enter the house and when she fell in a drain, he began chopping her incessantly. Residents rushed to the scene and called on him to stop so he ran away. The Police responded quickly and took Juliane—still conscious— to the hospital. She had multiple chop wounds to the head and arms.
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that time if the body parts, determined to be those of a light skinned female, had floated to that location from upriver. On Wednesday, searchers made another discovery near the first site, the torso of a woman. She had been completely disembowelled. Based on their findings so far, investigators are still searching for the head of the victim, as well as the legs from thigh to knees, and arms from shoulders to elbows. Without all the pieces of that heinous puzzle, there is little that investigators have to go
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It was only after she was in the Police mobile that neighbours realized that the 6-year-old boy was nowhere around. He would be found running away crying near K-Park Supermarket. He murmured to the woman consoling him, “my uncle Lijah chopped up my ma.” Surveillance footage reportedly captured Elijah running after Juliane out on to the street. A wanted poster was issued and police detained him on the night of Monday, March 20th. According to neighbours, Juliane Burke moved into the area about a year ago with her common-law-husband, David Funes, who was not at home at the time of the incident. He was all the way in Valley of Peace working at the sugar mill. Neighbours gave him the bad news, but by the time he got to the hospital, the woman he had lived with for some four years was practically unresponsive. She died the following day. As to a possible motive, Funes thinks Elijah believed in “obeah” and thought Juliane was “obeahing” him. He revealed that on a prior occasion, the siblings had argued at an older sister’s house over personal documents Elijah had reportedly stolen from Juliane along with one of her purses. The neighbours described Juliane as a sweet and quiet individual who was never rowdy.
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Crimes Unit, when normally it would have been handled by Belmopan Police as a routine, if serious offence. First queries to the NCIB elicited the response that they were waiting ono Lopez to provide a proper statement since his first statement the day of the incident had been botched somehow. When days and weeks passed, officials at the NCIB stopped answering queries. Additionally, in any incident of this type, a normal Belizean would have been charged for Aggravated Assault with a firearm. He would then have been remanded automatically because of the firearm related offence and would have had to seek bail at the Supreme Court. But Kenzle Hulse was charged only for Harm and allowed bail at the Magistrate Court. The Belize Times is reliably informed that Minister of Immigration and father of the accused, Godwin Hulse, was at the Belmopan Police Station Tuesday morning when the young ‘gunman’ was charged, and it is far from a stretch to imagine the favours that must have been called in to protect him. We will continue following this story on the adjournment date, but like others cases which are politically influenced, we expect nothing in the way of real justice for the victim.
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Belizeans Are Squatters, Declares Sedi! “Diplomacy and Defence are not substitutes for one another. Either alone will fail” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1961 “A [diplomat] ought to have very quick parts, dexterity, cunning, wide knowledge, and, above all, discernment. And it is no wonder that men who engage in these pursuits for the sake of the title and the salary, without any idea of the duties involved, serve an apprenticeship most damaging to the affairs entrusted to them.” ~ François de Callières, 1716 It is unquestioned that Sedi Elrington has been Belize’s worst Foreign Minister! Sedi after almost 10 years of apprenticeship remains an amateur and a dangerous one at that! Since 2008, Belize’s formerly stout diplomatic position has been completely undone by Sedi and the UDP. The Guatemalans have danced circles around Sedi, and Dean Barrow seems too consumed with his own “legacy” to even care. Sedi clearly suffers from an acute superiority complex; he believes that because he is a lawyer that somehow he is superior to the rest of us. The level of his arrogance can be measured by his public pronouncements, especially those related to Guatemala. In the elevated sphere of international diplomacy words have meaning. Diplomats therefore ought to be crafty but careful with words since words are to diplomats what bombs are to generals. Well placed bombs can break the will and spirit of the enemy leading to strategic gains; as can well placed words solve a diplomatic conundrum. However, one single misplaced bomb can destroy all the strategic gains of an advancing army as can one misplaced word derail diplomacy. We have heard Sedi, incredibly, declare that our borders are “artificial.” We have heard him declare that the peoples of Guatema-
la and the peoples of Belize share the same dreams and aspirations. And only last week, we heard him declare that Belize does not “have internationally recognized borders.” He went on to insult the Belizean people by comparing us to squatters who must now seek legitimacy by going to the ICJ 36 years after our independence. I reject this foolish notion out of hand. Nations don’t become independent without recognized borders! On the contrary, the fact that the UN recognized our nationhood suggests that we have been internationally recognized as a state with all our territory intact. Sedi seem to have developed an appetite for his own foot! That must be why he keeps putting his foot in his mouth. How on earth can the foreign minister of any state make such reckless pronouncements and expect not to embolden the enemies of his state? Belize has very real and recognized borders, in fact Schedule 1 of the Belize Constitution sets out quite clearly what are Belize’s borders. In respect of its maritime borders, the
Maritime Areas Act, drawing upon the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, defines in no uncertain terms Belize’s maritime borders. The fact that Guatemala may or may not recognized our borders does not make them any less legitimate and for our own Foreign Minister to suggest such is truly harm-
03 3 ful to us as a people. When the US Coast Guard wishes to enter Belize’s southern territorial waters near Hunting Caye, or when the US military wishes to overfly our airspace, they send their diplomatic note to the Government of Belize not the Government of Guatemala. Does this not indicate recognition of our borders by none other than the most powerful nation on earth? So how can Sedi be telling the Belizean people such foolishness that our borders are not recognized internationally? Sedi’s behaviour should no longer be considered buffoonery; we must now begin to ask whether or not Sedi is in the employ of the Guatemalans? Sedi and the UDP have adopted a policy of appeasement toward Guatemala whilst the Guatemalans have adopted a policy of coercive diplomacy towards Belize. Together these two approaches to the unfounded Guatemala claim threaten the nation state called Belize. The late Philip Goldson warned us that the time to save our country is before we lose it. If ever there was a time to heed his advice, the time is now! The Constitution of Belize is the only law with which Sedi must concern himself. The fact that he has, in essence, thrown out the Constitutional definition of Belize, runs afoul of his oath of office that requires him to defend our Constitution. Sedi should be made to apologise to the Belizean people, at the very least.
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Questions to Ministers
Would the Member for Queen Square and Minister of Finance please say why, if BTL is a Belizean company, the Barrow-appointed Board of Directors has chosen to let go most of the Belizean management staff and has instead hired foreigners to those positions? Would the Member for Queen Square and Prime Minister please provide an update on the investigation into his friend the former Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, accused of rampant corruption in the Ministry of Natural Resources? Would the Member for Belize Rural North and Minister of NEMO, Transport and Hustling please say if he would be willing to allow auditors to check into the finances of that Ministry since he took over? And could he further say if he would be willing to provide a list of his personal assets before and after becoming a politician? Would the Member for Belize Rural North and Minister of NEMO, Transport and Hustling please say if he still has any interests in sugar cane in the north, or if he has diversified into the very lucrative golf cart business in San Pedro? Would the Member for Belize Rural South please say if he feels personally responsible for the death of a young resident of San Pedro since he has been unable to provide a hospital for the island even though he promised to do so since 2011? Would the Member for Corozal Bay and Minister of Health please explain why the UDP Chairman in Palmar closed the Community Health Center last week and forced health workers to treat residents on the verandah of the building? Would the unelected Senator and Minister of Immigration please confirm or deny reports that he visited the Belmopan Police this week after his son was arrested and intervened to get the charge changed from Aggravated Assault to the lesser charge of Harm? Would the Member for Orange Walk East and junior Minister of Police please say why the son of his colleague the unelected Senator was not remanded even though he was charged for a firearm offence?
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IF DAH NOH SOH!
Sick… What the hell is going on with people to be killing up other people and cutting throats and stabbing and shooting and slicing and burning? It ain’t no laughing matter. It’s scary as hell. Seems like we’ve been learning all the wrong things from our neighbours around us. Evil I tell you. Y’all need to go to Church and find God in your lives. Mr. Dean Sir, we need you to get serious on crime. Really now there’s too much happening and it appears that you and your ministers have your heads stuck firmly somewhere the sun don’t shine. Do you all even hear the cries of so many mothers who have to bury their children? Cha man wake up. Budget… As I write this Dean Oliver is probably standing in front of a mirror rehearsing his old tired spiel for this week’s Budget debate. Please Belizeans, don’t be fooled. We’ve all been fools long enough. There is nothing in this budget for us, besides taxes. There’s nothing for education, nothing for health, nothing to fight crime, nothing for the farmers, nothing for the productive sector, nothing for our business sector, nothing for the poor, nothing. Don’t be caught up in the hype. This Thursday and Friday pay attention, listen carefully and you’ll get the sense of this tired old man’s bogus budget. Darrell… Did you all notice Dean taking a serious shot at Mayor Darrell Bradley last week in the news? Pulling no punches, the pontificating PM threw Bradley under the bus for his close ties to Eric Chang, that worthless fellow who has still somehow managed to escape any prosecution for his part in the Immigration corruption. But there’s a method behind Dean Oliver’s madness. Word is that Bradley wants out from Caribbean Shores because he knows he doesn’t stand a chance against Kareem Musa this time around. And get this…Bradley has been feeling his way around Queen Square, which isn’t making Dean at all a happy camper. In fact, he’s been actively lending his support to the intellectually challenged, domestic-abuse inclined Oj Elrington, who has been heard to say that he plans to challenge Bradley for Mayor of the city. Interesting times ahead for the UDP which can only hope to stay afloat after Barrow leaves office this year. Godwin… Remember how the tri-polar Godwin Hulse went apopleptic when the media asked him about his trigger happy son who went nuts on an elderly citizen? Well he couldn’t stop it when word came from on high directing the Police to arrest and charge Kenzle Hulse. Not surprisingly, sources tell us that Godwin showed up at the Police Station breathing fire and threatening all kinds of repercussions, and in the end the decision was made to charge his son for Harm and not Aggravated Assault. Not only that, but despite the fact that a firearm was used in the offence, the accused was allowed to walk out with a measly bail of $1000 plus a surety of the same amount. See, earlier in my rant I mentioned the crime that is out of control…well these are the things that contribute to it, when youths see other privileged persons getting away with murder, so to speak…just saying. MIA… Has anybody seen Patrick Faber? He’s been missing in action lately, playing the good little boy for what he hopes will be his ascension to the leadership of the Party. He was at Romaine Virgo this past weekend with his significant other, and imagine, he wasn’t even drunk or punching her in the face. Really he’s changed, though there’s no way he’ll ever be the leader of the UDP, not while John Saldivar is around. The rotund fellow has been totally silent since his relationship with Mason made the big time. Last I heard he was busy opening up the Quality Poultry store in Belmopan. Look how the mighty have fallen… Anwar… So the other day news broke that Santander will be breaking into the beverage market as competition for Bowen & Bowen. No surprise there, considering that there are reliable reports that the First Son, the text-savvy spawn of Dean Oliver, is heading to Santander as CEO. Can only imagine what lucrative concessions will be given to that company. I swear this fellow somehow lands in all the right places, no doubt due to the influence of daddy Dean. Check out how he screwed up BTL. He left the company floundering, a dinosaur which can’t even keep up with the competition these days, but he managed to come out of the deal a multi-millionaire with buildings all over the place. We figure BTL had reached the end of his economic usefulness to the Barrow clan and so it was time to move on. Soon it’ll be time for the entire Barrow debacle to end…just wait for it.
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EDITORIAL
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he People’s United Party has taken the firm position that it will not support going to the International Court of Justice at this point in time. That is not to say that the PUP does not want a definitive answer where the unfounded and lately increasingly aggressive claim to a significant portion of Belize is concerned. But there is no way that Belizeans in general should support the ICJ move when a man like Wilfred Elrington is steering the diplomatic and territorial ship. Sedi Elrington has shown himself to be a very dangerous man where our nation’s interest is concerned. At times it seems that he is looking out for the interests of Guatemala over ours. That is an unacceptable thing. There is just too much at stake, too much that can be irretrievably lost. The fact of the matter is that any Court case can be lost if the attorney is incompetent and uncertain of the validity of his client’s claim. And Sedi is apparently far from certain about the sanctity and integrity of our nation’s borders. In fact, according to Elrington, "our maritime borders have never even been agreed upon. That has to be agreed upon. We don't have any maritime borders agreed upon in the sea. Boundaries have to be agreed upon by countries that are neighbouring countries. But we never did have with Guatemala any agreement with respect to the maritime boundaries, neither with Guatemala nor with Honduras, which is very close to us. These are the things that have to be done. We have to do it. It's just like you are on piece of land all your life but you are a squatter. You can't do anything with that land." Imagine that the man who will be charged with defending our territory is now referring to Belizeans as squatters. How ludicrous is that? According to Sedi, our insular border is artificial, and now according to Sedi, our maritime border does not even exist. It is important to note where we are today as regards that unfounded claim by Guatemala. Just a year or two ago half of the majestic Sarstoon River belonged to Belize, without question. Sarstoon Island belonged to Belize, without question. Now, suddenly, the Guatemalan military controls the Sarstoon and Sarstoon Island. Belizean civilians are no longer allowed to traverse the river. On at least two separate occasions SATIIM rangers have been turned back aggressively. On at least two separate occasion our military has been aggressively approached by the Guatemalan Armed Forces (GAF). On multiple occasions the media has been turned back and told to respect the protocol, though none of our officials including Sedi will admit the existence of any such protocol. Incredibly, after what seemed like an altogether too cozy relationship between Sedi Elrington and his counterpart Carlos Raul Morales, Belizeans are now being told that the Guatemalans have outrightly refused to hold any discussions about a protocol governing the use of the Sarstoon. Apparently Carlos Raul is not even taking calls from Sedi. How is it that we got to the point where Guatemala controls that river which we sing about in our National Anthem? How is it that we got to the point where our military must now occupy a small base on the mainland and Guatemala can boast that it is only at their whim. Very soon Belizeans will be asked to participate in a referendum which will be the deciding factor where the ICJ is concerned. Every right thinking Belizean would want the matter settled once and for all. Every right thinking Belizean should want Guatemala to back the hell away. The encroachments must stop. The raping of our natural resources must stop. The aggression at the Sarstoon must stop and our people must be allowed to live in peace within our 8867 square miles. But it is a scary and untenable proposition to go to the ICJ under a Foreign Minister who believes that Belizeans are squatters in our land and believes that we can’t do anything with this land because we have no rights to it. Meeting with OAS Secretary-General, H.E. Luis Almagro this week, PUP leader John Briceño quite correctly stated that “we had to address our concern with the antagonistic behaviour of Guatemala, that Guatemala has not been a good neighbour, that Guatemalan citizens continue to plunder our resources…we have all of these issues that need to be addressed, and we need to address them as soon as possible. We find it very difficult for us to move the process forward until Guatemala is prepared to address these issues head-on." The PUP will maintain its position where the ICJ is concerned, and will continue to push for the re-registration which is so critical to the holding of a proper referendum. It is way past time for Sedi Elrington and the Barrow administration to get the sense and to do right by Belizeans.
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l Partido Unido del Pueblo ha tomado la posición firme que no apoya ir a la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) en este momento. Es no quiere decir que el PUP no quiere una respuesta definitiva cuando se trata de la reclamación infundada y últimamente cada vez más agresiva a una porción importante de Belice. Pero no hay manera que los Beliceños en general apoyen el movimiento de CIJ cuando un hombre como Wilfred Elrington maneja la nave diplomática y territorial. SEDI Elrington ha demostrado ser un hombre muy peligroso cuando se trata del interés de nuestra nación. A veces parece estar velando por los intereses de Guatemala en vez de los nuestros. Es algo inaceptable. Hay demasiado en juego, demasiado que puede ser irremediablemente perdido. El hecho del asunto es que cualquier juicio puede perderse si el abogado es incompetente e inseguro de la validez de la reclamación de su cliente. Y Sedi, al parecer, está totalmente inseguro acerca de la santidad y la integridad de las fronteras de nuestra nación. De hecho, según Elrington, "nuestras fronteras marítimas ni siquiera han sido convenidas. Se tiene que llegar a un acuerdo. No tenemos fronteras marítimas pactadas en el mar. Los límites tienen que ser acordados por los países que son países vecinos. Pero nunca tuvimos con Guatemala un acuerdo con respecto a los límites marítimos, ni con Guatemala ni con Honduras, que está muy cerca de nosotros. Estas son las cosas que se tienen que hacer. Tenemos que hacerlo. Es así como cuando ocupas un terreno toda la vida pero eres un okupa. No se puede hacer nada con esa tierra." Imagínese que el hombre que está encargado con la defensa de nuestro territorio se refiere ahora a los Beliceños como ocupantes ilegales. ¿Qué absurdo es eso? Según Sedi, nuestra frontera insular es artificial, y ahora según Sedi, nuestra frontera marítima ni siquiera existe. Es importante tomar nota donde estamos hoy en cuanto a ese reclamo de Guatemala que carece de fundamento. Tan sólo hace un año o dos la mitad del majestuoso río Sarstoon le pertenecía a Belice, sin lugar a dudas. La Isla Sarstoon le pertenecía a Belice, sin lugar a dudas. Ahora, de repente, el ejército guatemalteco controla el Sarstoon y la Isla Sarstoon. La población civil de Belice ya no puede atravesar el río. En al menos dos ocasiones los guarda parqués de SATIIM han sido agresivamente obligados a regresar. En al menos dos ocasiones separadas nuestros militares han sido agresivamente abordados por las fuerzas armadas guatemaltecas (FAG). En muchas ocasiones a los medios de comunicación se les ha obligado a regresar y se les ha dicho que deben respetar el protocolo, aunque ninguno de nuestros funcionarios incluyendo Sedi admiten la existencia de dicho protocolo. Increíblemente, después de lo que parecía una relación muy acogedora entre Sedi Elrington y su homólogo Carlos Raúl Morales, a los Beliceños ahora se les ha dicho que los guatemaltecos se negaron totalmente a cualquier discusión con relación a un protocolo que habría de regir el uso del Sarstoon. Al parecer Carlos Raúl incluso no atiende llamadas de Sedi. ¿Cómo es que llegamos al punto donde Guatemala controla ese río al que le cantamos en nuestro himno nacional? Cómo es que llegamos al punto donde nuestro ejército debe ahora ocupar una pequeña base en la ribera y en Guatemala pueden presumir de que es sólo a su antojo. Muy pronto a los Beliceños se les pedirá participar en un referéndum que será el factor decisivo en lo que respecta a la CIJ. Todo Beliceño consciente querrá que este asunto se resuelva de una vez por todas. Todo Beliceño sano querrá que Guatemala desistiera en su empeño de una vez por todas. Las usurpaciones deben parar. La violación de nuestros recursos naturales debe parar. Debe cesar la agresión en el Sarstoon y a nuestro pueblo se le debe dejar vivir en paz dentro de nuestras 8867 millas cuadradas. Pero es una proposición insostenible y atemorizante ir a la CIJ bajo un Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores (Canciller) que considera que los Beliceños son ocupantes ilegales en nuestra tierra y que cree que no podemos hacer nada con esta tierra porque no tenemos ningún derecho sobre ella. En la reunión con el Secretario General de la OEA, el Excmo. Luis Almagro esta semana, el líder del PUP John Briceño acertadamente afirmó que "tenemos que abordar nuestra preocupación con el comportamiento antagónico de Guatemala, que Guatemala no ha sido un buen vecino, que los ciudadanos guatemaltecos siguen saqueando nuestros recursos... tenemos todos estos temas que deben abordarse, y tenemos que resolverlos tan pronto como sea posible. Nos resulta muy difícil avanzar el proceso hasta que Guatemala esté dispuesta a abordar estas cuestiones de manera directa." El PUP mantendrá su posición en lo que a la CIJ se refiere y seguirá presionando por el nuevo registro que es tan importante para la celebración de un referéndum correcto. Ya es hora de que Sedi Elrington y la administración de Barrow se den cuenta de nuestra situación y de que hagan lo correcto para los Beliceños.
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Tuesday, 07 March 2017 In one year, the UDP Belize City Council will go to the polls. It is likely that Darrell Bradley, shamed in Caribbean Shores, will again run for Mayor. The other names will probably remain the same. When they come to you asking for your vote, you should ask them to point out their achievements in this last term, since the drying up of the Petrocaribe monies and Central Government largesse. You should ask them to name one project the Thursday, 23 March 2017 Council accomplished well for the The ofSenate Selectin Committee, benefit the people the city – tasked with which investigating corruption one project was done well and has irregularities at the Immigraand held up, one project that tion Department, had a very has not deteriorated rapidly long or day listening to a current and up former somehow become screwed by immigration official give testimomismanagement, one project of ny filled with doubtful information. which the Belize City Council can While they had only more questions be proud. than answers, they did get one myspicture contained in this teryThe solved. The alleged immigration article is a fitting symbol of the agent, who reportedly got paid big Council’s inadequacy and inabil-at money for his wheeling and dealing ity get anything right. revealed Practithe to Department, was finally cally every street fixed with the to the Senate as Barton Middleton, proceeds of a $20M municipal a businessman from Orange Walk bond Town. is breaking up. Sidewalks are The breaking up.got Theconfirmation streets flood Senate on with slightest Barton the Middleton from downpour. Immigration Officer Inez Casanova who Downtown Belize City is testified filthy, that when the immigration with the homeless, mentallyofficers chalcame investigating the caseroaming of 8 stolenged and panhandlers len visa called with Middleton wild andfoils, free,she mingling the over the phone got him to show tourists to giveand them an idea of up andBelize speakCity withisthose officers. That what all about. meeting and those Did with you Middleton know that everyinvestigators led Middleton allegedly member of the Belize City Council explaining how he got his hand on is paid close to $4000 a month? 6 of those stolen visas. All of those 6 visas ended up on passports for Chinese Nationals, who had paid big money to get access to them. According to UDP insider Patrick Tillett, speaking under oath before the Committee, he was hired by persons acting on behalf of 6 Chinese persons who wanted to come to Belize. They paid him $6,000 per visa application, to a grand total of $36,000, and he was to ensure that their applications were approved by the Immigration Department. He even broke it down that out of that $6,000, $1,000 was his cut for ensuring that the application was properly put together. $2,000 was to be paid to the Government for the visa application fee, and $3,000 was to be paid to this “Mr. Middleton”, now identified as Barton Middleton. Tillett further testified that he handed over a total of $30,000 to this Mr. Middleton who brought back illegal visas in the passports for the Chinese nationals. Tillett said that he tried to get back the money from “Mr. Middleton”, who refused, and rather than report that he was allegedly jilted out of money, he remained quiet about the whole thing, wrote off $30,000 as though that was chump change. He told the Senate that he sacrificed $24,000 of his own money to refund these “Chinese clients”. So, the Senate wanted to know exactly how Inez Casanova managed to get Barton Middleton to show up and agree to speak to the immigration investigators. She has also been identified in the Senate a person as allegedly accompanying Middleton to another meeting with Patrick Tillett. She was supposedly a person who remained in a car while Middleton and Tillett spoke. She testified and
stalled at City Hall and THE BELIZE TIMES after being installed
at City Hall. They have done exceedingly well for themselves. Look at how they are living. Are you living that well? What has Dean Samuels done for you, the residents of Belize City lately? What has Phillip Willoughby done for you, the residents of Belize City lately? What has Michael Theus done for you, the residents of Belize City lately? Look around you. Has the quality of your life in the city been improved? Are your streets any better? You people in Southside BELIZE CITY…have you seen the Councillors from the Be-
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26area? MAR lize City Council in your Has your garbage been picked up? Do you have running water and electricity? Have your London Bridges vice completely. been replaced with properly orgaHe testified before the Senate, nized, well-constructed streets so swearing that he took a picture of a man that you can access your homes? claiming to be Won Hong Kim. From his Does the Belize City set Council even perspective, someone him up, perknow that you are there? formed a picture swap, placed Won Hong peoplepicture, of Belize need Kim’sThe passport andCity fooled the to think. They need to analyse. It immigration officers into printing a passis time to stop mindlessly. port of a man whovoting never entered Belize. It is time to stop voting for colour Under intense cross-examination, Robinbased on blind, rabid fanaticism and/or a handout. After consecutive terms in office, the Belize City Council has shown that it is all glitter and no substance, just like the UDP’s leader. Why would you vote for them when municipal elections roll around? THINK.
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What exactly do they do with that money? Can they show the works they have done to better Belize City? The truth is that there are metal grates over gaping holes in the street which have been missing for months, and the Council can’t even replace them. There are streets in Belize City where mounds of rotting garbage have piled up like mountains, and the Council can’t even deal with those. So what exactly has the Council done for the people of Belize City? It’s a valid question. Did you know that Mayor Darrell Bradley is a full time attorney and spends all his time in Court inWIN HOPE INTERNATIONAL LTD. #79, 302 stead of representing the city? Did (“the Company”) you know that he receives a very Casanova Barton Middleton Erwin Robinson large salaryInez to be the full-time Mayor? Did you know that the Mayor Pursuant to Section 102 (4) of the International Business Compauses his taxpayer funded vehicle to nies Act, Chapter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, completely denied having any com- picture of Won Hong Kim onto a Belize son conceded how unbelievable his story be driven all over this country reprenotice is herebyactually given that WINthe HOPE INTERNATIONAL LTD.:to conclude sounded, and that it is easier mon-law relationship with Middleton, passport without taking senting clients? Did you know that a) Is in dissolution as was alleged in the Auditor General’s picture of the South Korean fugitive, that he was the one who breached the daughter of that, Sedi however, Elringtonshe Alifah b) inCommenced dissolution on the 7th day of March, passport printing system2017; to getand this correport. After didn’t who was detention in Taiwan at the Elrington is a full time attorney, but c) CILTrust International Inc. whose address is 35 Barrack give the Senators straight answers to time. He faced a tribunal from the Pub- rupt process done. He maintained howalso salary Third Floor, Belize Belize thethat Liquidator ever he didn’tofdothe it, Company. and that he diltheir received questions her aboutmonthly how she got Mid- lic Road, Services Commission, afterCity, which he is from the Belize City Council? dleton to show up to meet with those was restored as a public officer. But he igently did his job. When he challenged And interestingly, investigators. She also residents went back of and was transferred the Immigration CIL Trust from International Limited on the difficulty of what he is suggesting, the city,categorically take a look denying at the Mayor forth, having Department to theAgent Western Regional he told the Senators that he believes that Registered and Councillors before being inchauffeured Middleton to that meeting Hospital until his exit from the public ser- computer hackers did it. in one instance, and in another she conceded that “maybe” she drove him there. Multiple Senators after hearing her testimony concluded that Brahma Blue Resort, located at San Pedro Ambergris Caye. Resort consist of 4.013 even though she was acres total along with a 14 three bedrooms units building with a pool and outdoor under oath, she knew bar area. Call 636-6245 or can be reached by email at gflreceivership@gmail.com for more than she was further information. willing to say. The Senate then moved on to Erwin Robinson, a former immigration data entry clerk, who had a tumultuous tumble out of the Immigration Department. It was suspected, but never conclusively proven, that he managed to get a
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GOB Screw-ups Costing Belizeans Millions… Monday, March 20, 2017 The Government is trying to get out of paying an $8.8 Million dollar award to Bahamians Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Police Department and the Financial Intelligence Unit were excessive when they cleaned out both men’s Titan International Securities Office in September of 2014. That raid was ruled to be unlawful and a breach of their constitutional rights, but the Government is attempting to convince the Court of Appeal that the judge was wrong and that they shouldn’t pay a single cent for their actions. In January of 2016 Justice Courtney Abel handed down the slap-down ruling against the Government. He had listened to evidence from both sides related to that raid conducted by the Anti-Drug Unit. Readers will
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remember that on September 9, 2014, that police unit conducted an 8-hour search and seizure operation. The Police was supporting the Financial Intelligence Unit, which was attempting to assist the US Government to investigate these men and their companies for criminal activities. The day before the raid, the US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Leach, Knowles, their company, Titan, and several other defendants. According to the US authorities, they worked together in concert to defraud the US Government of 500 million US dollars through tax evasion and money laundering, and a conspiracy to commit securities fraud. So, the US Government requested assistance through the mutual legal assistance treaty, and the Belize authorities obliged. The problem is that they didn’t distinguish against
SISTA B AND SONSHYNE: Barrow’s gift to the UDP? “"While it is not for me to decide, because more likely than not there will be a convention if there are other aspirants. As far as I am concerned I have publicly endorsed my sister who is really the one who has been running the constituency and who is really the one that certainly won the last two elections pretty much on her own. This last election I don't think I visited one home. I didn't have to go to one constituent. Sista B (of course I made sure that people were taken care of), in terms of the personal touch, it was all Sista B. That is her life and I don't see how I could ever endorse anybody other than Sista B. Now she and Michael Peyrefitte are extremely close. If she decides that she would want to give way for Mike, that's a matter for her. My position is that while I do think the world of Mike, Sista B absolutely deserves to be the next representative for Queen Square and I think it would be a tragedy if anything were to change that."” ~ Dean O. Barrow, March 13, 2017 “With respect to his [Shyne’s] political ambitions, he is perfectly free to have those. I certainly believe in public service and so to the extent that he would want to get involve in public at that level, I applaud him and encourage him.” ~ Dean O. Barrow, March 13, 2017 It appears that the war in the UDP is about to re-commence. On March 13, 2017 Dean Barrow boldly announced to the nation that he will anoint two of his immediate family members to assume leadership roles in the Queen Square and Mesopotamia divisions: Sista B and
Shyne SonShyne respectively. Were political leadership not such an important undertaking Barrow’s announcement would be hilarious. What does either of the royal Barrows have over other aspiring members of the UDP that Dean could just anoint his sister and his son? What qualification does Sista B and SonShyne hold that the good peoples of Queen Square and Mesopotamia would want them sitting in the House of Representatives? Dean Barrow claims to be one of Belize’s best minds and look at the mess he has made of the economy! We at the Times have been made to understand that John Saldivar is fuming at this revelation because these are two seats that will remain loyal to Dean Barrow which means that they will remain loyal to
what could possibly be evidence in Titan’s, and what could be legit business. They used trucks upon trucks to cart away all their documents and computer equipment, effectively closing down Titan. The principals of the company sued the Government and Justice Abel ruled that the raid was unlawful, excessive, and a breach of their constitutional rights. He awarded them compensation of almost 9 million dollars. On Monday, March 20, the Court of Appeal started hearing arguments from Government attorney Denys Barrow as why they should consider overturning the judgment and set aside the reward. From the Government’s perspective, the raid was the least of Titan’s problems. Barrow pointed out to the Court that shortly after the indictment
tunities created. But yet Finnegan and Dean believe that they have the right to say to the peoples of these divisions that they should be satisfied with Sista B and SonShyne? Sista B we are sure is a decent Belizean but what special skills does she have that we should have her leading this country. The next 10 years are going to be economically difficult for us because of the mess created by Dean Barrow and the UDP. How will Sista B contribute to getting us out of her brother’s mess? What is her forte? Economics? National security? Agriculture? Tourism? What Sista B? What Dean Barrow? Or her sole qualSista B ification is the fact that she is a Barrow? Sounds Patrick Faber. This “arrange- familiar right? Does the ment” it seems is the trade name Anwar ring a bell? off for the betrayal suffered The telecommunications by John at the leadership con- mogul who was installed vention. Patrick has no choice at the head of BTL and but to welcome into the fold whose sole qualification these two royal Barrows; if was being the “eyes and he wants to succeed Dean of ears” of his daddy! What about SonShycourse. Just think about this ne? We are all for second for a moment though. Dean chances but surely such Barrow gets to anoint not second chances can’t exone but two of his close rela- tend to the installation of tives in two divisions that the a royal son to the House UDP has held for more than of Representative. As one 30 years. And in those 30+ Facebook firebrand put it years the lives of the people “We want sitting politihave not improved much— cians to become felons, they have become a hotbed not felons to become sitof crime which has led to the ting politicians. This will loss of too many young black be a new LOW”. We tend men. The housing stock has to agree with him. We not improved much, people wish to point out the hyare still living in poor and dilap- pocrisy of Dean Barrow idated housing and there has to his loyal supporters in been no real economic oppor- Queen Square and Mes-
07 7 was unsealed, the International Financial Services Commission sent Titan’s principals an email informing them that their licenses to conduct securities trades was suspended. He told the Court that if Titan continued to trade in securities, they would be committing a criminal offense. That suspension is still in place, and Barrow reasoned that this and the bad publicity of being allegedly linked to criminal activities, caused Titan to suffer an irreversible shutdown. Barrow told the Court that the judge did not properly consider the context of the raid, and so he wrongly tied the shutdown of the company to the actions of the Belize authorities. Eamon Courtenay, one of the lead attorneys for the claimants, responded to the appeal asserting that the judge’s ruling was correct and proper. Courtenay submitted to the Appeal Court judges that Justice Abel’s ruling was that his client’s constitutional rights were breached. He also submitted that the judge’s award of 8.8 million dollars in favour of the claimants is compensation for the damage done, which is proper in such cases. Readers should also note that in this appeal, the Government has not attempted to challenge the finding that the raid was excessive and unlawful. The legal arguments have not concluded as yet in this case, and on Thursday, March 23, Courtenay will be allowed to finish up the case for the defense against this appeal. Barrow will be allowed to respond, and after that, the outcome will be determined by the court. opotamia. If you are a young black man and you are caught with a small quantity of marijuana and you are convicted, you get a police record that hinders your ability to earn an honest living even five years later. But now Dean Barrow comes and says that his son, a convicted felon (a firearm offence), can get to run this country? No harm no foul? If you accept such naked hypocrisy then we don’t know what else to say. Dean Barrow has run Belize like his personal family farm. His brother made almost $30 million in legal fees. His ex-wife has made millions also in legal fees as did his daughter. His son was installed at the head of BTL—our telecommunications company—a job for which he was not qualified. His nieces and nephews sat on Boards left right and center making decisions that will have long term consequences. His felon of a son was granted ambassadorial rank even though he fought tooth and nail not to have to remain in Belize. He even became a black Jew! Now Dean has the face of brass to tell us that we have to accept Sista B and SonShyne in the House of Representative? Fool the talk but thank God da noh fool gwine vote!
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OAS Pushes for Referendum on ICJ Tuesday, March 21, 2017 OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro Lemes was in Belize for a few days last week, mainly to urge Belize to step up efforts to hold the referendum on whether Belize should take Guatemala’s unfounded claim to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This was his second visit here since being elected to the helm of the hemispheric organization. Though Guatemala has been guiltier of foot-dragging on the referendum issue than Belize, and despite their acts of aggression against Belize in the last 2 years, the funds for the OAS Peace mission are starting to run out. The donor community, made of wealthy and friendly nations advocating for a peaceful resolution to the territorial claim, have been spending their money to fund the OAS Adjacency Zone Office at the Western Border. They’ve been patient with both countries for 11 years, and for all that investment, a referendum in both countries is not clearly mapped out to show value for money in this expenditure. So, the Secretary General came and met with very senior officials within the Barrow Government, including the Prime Minister, and also with the Opposition Leader John Briceño. The perception from onlookers is that the Secretary General was attempting to urge them to bring the nation closer to an ICJ referendum. Speaking to the media shortly after the meeting, Briceño said, “Certainly, we had to address our concern of the antagonistic behaviour of Guatemala, that Guatemala has not been a good neighbour, that Guatemalan citizens continue to plunder our resources, the issue of a Sarstoon protocol. So, we have all of these issues that needs to be addressed, and we need to address them as soon as possible. We find it very difficult for us to move the process forward until Guatemala is prepared to address these issues head-on." Belizeans know well how Guatemala has behaved in relation to the Sarstoon River, on which their military have often aggressed Belizeans in their attempt to assert control over the entire river, which is shared. Though it makes the very best efforts to be impartial, Belizeans have noticed that in certain instances the position of the OAS seems somewhat slanted in Guatemala’s favour. Opposition Leader Briceño told the media that he did bring it up to the Secretary General. He said, “they have assured that they want to continue to play - to be an objective partner. Although we did express the concerns that some Belizeans believe sometimes have that the OAS is not as objective as we would expect. We do believe
that they try to be as objective as they can, and they have given us that assurance that they want to continue to keep that objectivity, in the discussions and negotiations between Belize and Guatemala." Shortly after that meeting, Secretary General Luis Almagro hosted a very short press conference where he read from a prepared statement. He did not take any questions, but Foreign Affairs Minister Wilfred Elrington and Pat Andrews, Belize Ambassador to the OAS, did oblige the media with a few comments after. Of important note is that while he was in Belize, the
Secretary General accompanied the experts from the Friends for Conservation Development on a fly-over of the Chiquibul Forest and the Caracol Archaeological Reserve. Executive Director Rafael Manzanero acted as his aerial guide pointing out part of the forests that was carved and cut down to make room for slash and burn milpa farming, and even marijuana cultivation. He got a first-hand view of the situation as it has unfolded, instead only receiving reports from the Belize authorities. Ambassador Pat Andrews commented on his reaction, saying that the Sec. Gen. was “very saddened about what he saw.” At the press briefing, when the Sec. Gen. took his leave, the Foreign Affairs officials reported to the press that indications coming out of Guatemala are that they are the closest they’ve ever been to the ICJ referendum. Their info is that Guatemala may hold its referendum as early as September.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PUP APPALLED AT FOREIGN MINISTER’S COMMENTS
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People’s United Party is appalled and outraged at the public comments made recently by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington to the media. We find it unbelievable that the man who heads negotiations with Guatemala is seemingly unaware that our nation’s maritime borders are established. According to Elrington, "Our maritime borders have never even been agreed upon. That has to be agreed upon. We don't have any maritime borders agreed upon in the sea."
For the purpose of educating Elrington, we point out that not only does Belize have definite maritime borders as described in the Constitution of Belize and the Maritime Areas Act, but further, that those borders are recognized and respected by all nations, and even by Guatemala which refuses to relinquish its claim to Belize. What we do not have is a delimited Exclusive Economic Zone which must be worked out with Honduras and Guatemala in the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea. Elrington went on in outrageous fashion, disrespecting all Belizeans by stating, “It's just like you are on piece of land all your life, but you are a squatter. You can't do anything with that land." To describe Belizeans as squatters is not only despicable, but dangerous as the Minister’s words serve to give aid and comfort to those in our neighboring nation who have become increasingly aggressive as of late. We demand that the Prime Minister remove or reprimand the Foreign Minister who continues to mismanage the situation with Guatemala while our nation suffers incalculable damage and destruction. Willful ignorance of his shameful conduct is no excuse. Sedi must go. ---ENDS---
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A BOLD Vision…A REAL Belizean Recovery
PUP Leader John Briceño Today I want to share our vision with the Belizean people. It is rooted in a philosophy that goes back to the Father of our Nation the Right Hon. George Price. Mr. Price always believed ours was a work in progress; he led a revolution, one that is at its core peaceful, always constructive, progressive and uniquely Belizean. These values remain true today and form a part of our PUP Creed, one that seeks to achieve social economic and environmental justice. It is a commitment to the socio-economic improvement of all Belizeans. This is why last week when I spoke to a group of Junior College Students I told them that my plan is to rid Belize of poverty. To us poverty is an ugly scar on our nation’s collec-
tive conscience, and no amount of cosmetic surgery can paste over the suffering of close to half of our people who live on less than ten dollars per day, most of whom are women and children. This is not only a task for governments, we all have a stake in this enterprise, but government must lead and bold leaders must show that they truly care. For us the task ahead is clear, to build a Belize that works for everyone, so that every Belizean should come to expect five things, for the lack of a better term I will call it our Belizean Bill of Rights: First, every Belizean should have access to a piece of land. With land we immediately create opportunity for uplift and personal growth. Second that Belizeans are able to own a decent home. The 17th Century Jurist and politician Edward Coke in speaking on human rights said: “A man’s home is his castle.” Every Belizean in 2017 should expect such an entitlement whether they live on Bocotora Street or on Sea Shore Drive. Third is education, every Belizean should be given the chance to go to school from kindergarten to junior college. We have to make education free from pre kinder to Junior College. If we will give our young people a chance at success, it must start with a good education. Fourth, basic health care, which means every Belizean should be enrolled in the National Health Insurance Program. If we can invest 42 million dollars in a basketball stadium, then we should be able to pro-
BELIZEAN GUNNED DOWN IN MELCHOR
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Three children are at this time fatherless because their father was murdered in Guatemala near Champon, also known as No Man’s Land, on Friday night. Carlos Manzanero, 40, a bus driver for the Marlin Espadas Tour Agency was reportedly shot multiple times to the stomach area, right hand and right knee at around 8:30 p.m. He was rushed to the San Ignacio Community Hospital where he died shortly after 9 p.m. while receiving treatment. According to police report, on Friday night the victim, his wife and his brother were all having drinks at Larios Bar when a man, a suspected Guatemalan national, exited a vehicle with a gun in hand. He fired a barrage of shots hitting Manzanero who was seated in a chair. Afterwards the gunman entered his vehicle and drove off in the direction of Melchor. Friends and family of the deceased do not know why anyone would want him dead as he was a friendly and helpful person.
Carlos Manzanero Manzanero is the second Belizean national to be killed at the border in one month. Ten days before Manzanero was killed, Amadeos Teck, 23, was also shot multiple times and left for dead outside a bar in Melchor.
vide basic health services to all. Fifth and most important, the driving force behind it all is jobs. Good jobs that can lead to meaningful careers; jobs that will give Belizeans a chance for personal growth and prosperity and provide a hand up for those at the very bottom of the economic ladder. If we do these things, if we create a fair and just society, if we build on these principles we will then be able to change people’s lives and together we will rid our shores from the scourge that is poverty. I want us to start the work from now and for this reason I am once again saying to those on the Government side that we in the PUP stand ready to work with you to: 1. Reduce the national debt, let us work smart and pay down the debt and only borrow for development. 2. We will support the Prime Minister in efforts to strengthen our democracy and will support legislation for the conduct of re-registration in this budget cycle. If we can pay $20 million in fees for the Superbond renegotiation, then we should be able to fine the money to strengthen our democracy with a re registration exercise in 2017. Let’s get it done PM. 3. Although we are not convinced that the UDP is fully committed to seriously helping the poor, we support all the initiatives that fund the Food Panty and Boost programs, and would
support a supplementary that would see us reduce spending on office equipment and new vehicles across the board and use those funds to at least return the Food Pantry to last year’s levels of spending, we are only talking about 385,275 dollars. Also while you are at it, can we please take another million from office furniture and sundries and put it towards the violence prevention program. Last year you spent over 600,000 dollars on violence prevention and this year you plan to spend zero. 4. We will support any plan that would offer much needed support for our struggling productive sector. All of us were hurt to see Belizean farmers standing amidst thousands of dollars’ worth of rotting potatoes. It brought back the painful memory from last year when our onions could not be sold and were left in the field while imported onions flooded the market. We have to help our Belizean producers. 5. I say again, the PUP stands ready to work with the government in a bi national effort to enhance confidence-building measures with our neighbour Guatemala and to find a lasting solution to Guatemala’s unfounded claim to Belizean territory. We look forward to working to finalize an agreement on the Sarstoon that will see Belizeans able to safely and freely traverse the Sarstoon River. 6. It is time for us to stop locking up our young people for a stick of weed. The time has come for us decriminalize marijuana smoking and prepare the necessary research to move to legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes and in small quantities. We will only build this nation if we see one Belize, where we are judged more for who we are than who we voted for. I am sure I speak for all on this side when I say we stand ready to work with any Belizean committed to these just objectives.
Prayer To The Holy Spirit O Holy Spirit, You who are the Fountainhead of all knowledge, Who Illuminate the path way which enables me to reach my goal. You Who shares 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. Publish prayer as soon as request has been Granted .) Thank You Holy Spirit. C.J.W..
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Dissecting Barrow’s Budget 2017/2018 Industries in Crisis…GOB Clueless! The budget presented and the expected results are not in alignment. The expected result, according to the PM, is a 3% to 3.5% growth in GDP, a 2% primary surplus and an economy that has recovered from the grip of recession. Although these goals are not ordinarily lofty, the present economic climate that prevails in Belize is not favourable for their achievement. If an objective observer were to scan the Belizean economic landscape, he or she would see an ailing economy. To compound this situation, the budget proposes a virtual
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freeze on government spending and additional tax measure affecting tourism and international trade. So where does the PM expect this growth and rebound to miraculously appear from? The Prime Minister using his usual flashy rhetoric that is very short on substance has painted a picture of panacea that awaits the Belizean people in upcoming fiscal year, but the truth is when the veil is lifted there is precious little to look forward to. For the 2016-2017 fiscal year, the economy contracted by 0.8%. The fundamentals of the Belizean economy remain pretty much the same, so how can the PM come to the Belizean people and speak of a recovery, and a 3.5% growth in GDP? The truth is that agro-productive sector in Belize has been taking a battering for some years now. We have the shrimp, citrus and banana industries that are struggling to stay afloat under the immense pressures of disease and changing market conditions. These industries contribute significantly to GDP growth, while injecting vital foreign exchange earnings into the economy. The PM failed to provide the nation with any details of how this growth will be accomplished; I believe it is necessary to present the Belizean public with a real perspective of the challenges being faced by our productive sector. Shrimp The export of farmed shrimp has nosedived from over $90 million in 2014 to $9.8 million in 2016. Considering the gravity of the situation, one would believe that GOB would be very involved in assisting the industry in its recovery. Not so! GOB has played the role of observer, leaving the industry stakeholders to “paddle deh own dorey.” No technical assistance, no financial assistance other than authorizing financial institutions to capitalize interest, which will still be payable at the end of the day. Certainly the shrimp farmers are not expecting any hand outs; however they expect a higher level of engagement by GOB and related entities. BAHA is still charging regular fees for water quality and shrimp disease testing as if everything was on the up and up. While in the larger scheme of things these fees would be manageable for farms if production was normal, the current situation calls
for GOB via BAHA to show that they are truly interested in the recovery of this key industry. As it stands at the moment there is basically only one farm that has undertaken commercial level stocking, the others have stocked a few ponds for trial purposes. So the PM’s proclamation (for the third budget in a row) that shrimp farming will rebound this year is not likely to come to fruition. Instead of coming to this house to grandiose statements about this industry, the PM should come to the house and state what measures have been put in place to facilitate this long awaited recover. We are proposing the opening of a special low interest credit line through the DFC to assist interested farms with the restocking efforts. It is obvious that this industry needs a jump start; Belize cannot afford a third consecutive year of subpar performance in this industry. This industry is not about the farm owners; it’s about the many Belizean men and women in the south who do not have a job because of cut backs at the farms and processing plants, it’s about the loss of critical foreign exchange that we are losing. Citrus Citrus Greening or Hong Long Bing (HLB) was detected in Belize in 2009, and again the government has been playing the role of cheerleaders instead of rolling up their sleeves and getting into the trenches with the industry stakeholders. A few years ago the government via SSB invested $10 million into CPBL and had a media field day complete with advertisements that they saved the citrus indus-
try. Again they demonstrated their lack of foresight and incompetence when they invested in the factory side of the industry and totally neglected the agricultural side of the equation. Citrus production has fallen from 6.6 million boxes in 2009 to 3.6 million boxes in 2016; that is an alarming decrease of 45% in this seven year span. How can you save the industry if production keeps falling due to the Citrus Greening phenomenon? If the factories have less and less fruit to process, eventually there will be a point where the limited fruit throughput will make the business unsustainable. A more prudent approach to get this industry to its full capacity would be to encourage the planting of new groves with disease resistant varieties. We need to incentivize farmers to undertake this process, incentives can include tax concessions on land preparation and inputs for new groves, access to low interest financing for grove expansion and replanting. I know the government is broke and is seeking to scrape up as much revenue as possible, however by foregoing these small, short term tax gains will result in greater industry productivity, employment, and foreign exchange earnings in medium and long term. If a more aggressive stance was taken by GOB to partner with the industry stakeholders at the onset of this greening disease, Belize would be enjoying a significant increase in foreign exchange earnings today, as the price for our high quality Belizean citrus juices continue to be favourable on the world market. Unfortunately the government has been a bystander in this process, as was highlighted earlier fruit production has dropped drastically, causing an equivalent drop in juice production and a tremendous opportunity lost for all stakeholders. There is an African proverb that says “the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, the second best time is now”. We need to get the growers planting now Mr. Prime Minister.
YEAR
ORANGE
GRAPEFRUIT
TOTAL
2009
5,519,620
1,124,231
6,643,851
2010
3,851,429
1,389,753
5,241,182
2011
4,447,496
673,043,
5,120,539
2012
5,754,092
880,489
6,634,581
2013
4,051,659
678,178
4,729,806
2014
4,158,870
576,234
4,735,104
2015
3,963,779
722,104
4,685,883
2016
3,247,752
370,964
3,618,716
26 MAR
THE BELIZE TIMES
2017
ON THE
Saying Farewell to Louise Berry
MOVE
Meeting with OAS Sec. Gen. Luis Almagro
Swearing in of BRC Executive
Saying Farewell to Phillip Palacio
Swearing in of BRN Executive
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E.P. Yorke High Girls Win NSSSA Softball Championship Belize City, March 18, 2017 The Edward P. Yorke High School girls won the National Secondary Schools Sports Association (NSSSA) softball championship at the Rogers Stadium over the weekend. In Game 1 Friday afternoon, the Western champs the Belmopan Comprehensive girls outlasted the Northern champs, the Belize Rural High School girls: 10-9; as pitcher Renisha Richards struck out 13 batters, while the Compre girls got 6 hits off pitcher Keena Pott who also walked 3 batters. In Game 2 Friday evening, the Central Zone champs, the E.P. Yorke girls edged out the Southern champs, the Independence High School girls; led by pitcher Jasany Westby who struck out 7 batters, while the E. P. Yorke girls got 12 hits off IHS’ pitchers Shelby Linarez and Tahni Garbutt, who also walked 15 batters. In Game 3, the consolation game for 3rd place Saturday morning, the IHS girls dominated the Belize Rural girls 124; as pitcher Shelby Linarez struck out 4
batters and the IHS diamond made only 2 errors, forcing the Belize rural girls to leave 7 runners on base. The IHS girls got 9 hits off Keena Pott, who walked 2 batters. In Game 4, the championship final Saturday afternoon, E.P. Yorke won 8-6 against the Compre girls; as Westby struck out 7 batters, walked 9, and gave up 2 hits. The E.P. Yorke girls got 3 hits off Renisha Richards, who also walked 7 batters, though she struck out 10. SOL Belize representative Lydia Cacho presented team trophies and medals to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners at the awards ceremony. Individual awards: Most Valuable Player - Charisse Quiros - E.P. Yorke Most Wins - Pitcher Jasany Westby - E.P. Yorke Most Strikeouts - Compre's Renisha Richards - 23 Best Batting Average - Charisse Quiros Most Runs Batted In (RBIs) - Darcielee White
San Pedro Boys Win 4x NSSSA Softball Championship
San Pedro boys Belize City, March 18, 2017 The San Pedro High School boys won their 4th National Secondary Schools Sports Association (NSSSA) softball championship at the Rogers Stadium over the weekend. San Pedro High School has now won 4 national championships this school year: boys’ volleyball, girls’ basketball and football, and now softball! In Game 1 Friday afternoon, Northern champs San Pedro High School boys hammered the Western champs, the Sacred Heart College boys, to a 13-3 win by mercy rule in 3 innings. SPHS pitcher Lester Gamez struck out 8 batters, walked 3, and gave up 1 hit; while the SPHS boys got 8 hits off SHC pitcher Kever Smith, who walked 5 batters. In Game 2 Friday night, the Central Zone champs Edward P. Yorke High School boys eliminated the Southern champs, the Independence High School boys: 17-7 by mercy rule in 3 innings. Pitcher Kristan Tillett struck out 4 batters, walked 3, and
gave up 2 hits; while his teammates got 8 hits off IHS pitcher Jeffton Apolonio, who also walked 6 batters, and the IHS diamond made 7 errors. In Game 3, the consolation game for 3rd place on Saturday morning, the IHS boys walloped the Sacred Heart boys: 17-0 by mercy rule in 3 innings as pitcher Vince Garbutt struck out 7 batters and walked one. The IHS boys got 6 hits off Kever Smith’s pitching, he also walked 6 batters, and the SHC diamond made 2 errors. In Game 4, the championship final Saturday evening, the San Pedro boys won 9-2 over E.P. Yorke boys; as MVP pitcher Christian Orellano struck out 9 batters. The SPHS boys got 3 hits off pitcher Kristan Tillett, who also walked 10 batters and struck out 3. San Pedro High School has now won 4 national championships this school year: boys’ volleyball, girls’ basketball and football, and now
Champs E.P. Yorke girls
2nd place, BMP Compre girls
Orange Walk Girls Win National Primary Schools Football Championship
Belize City, March 17, 2017 The Progresso RC Primary School girls from the Orange Walk District won the national football championship which the National Sports Council softball! SOL Belize representative Lydia Cacho presented team trophies and medals to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners at the awards ceremony. Individual awards: Most Valuable Player Christian Orellano - San Pedro High Most Wins – 3-way tie between Lester Gamez SPHS, Kristan Tillett - E.P. Yorke & Christian Orellano – SPHS (No trophy given) Most Strike outs - Lester Gamez of San Pedro High - 10 Best Batting Average - Jonathan Louriano - E.P. Yorke Most Runs Batted In (RBIs) - Isaul Coba - San Pedro High
held at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex grounds last Friday. In Game 1, Progresso RC won 2-0 over the Belize district champs, the Wesley Upper girls, when MVP Britney Zuniga scored a goal in each half. In Game 2, the Cayo champs – the St. Francis Xavier RC girls of Esperanza drew 0-0 with the Corozal champs, the Caledonia RC girls. In Game 3 Wesley Upper won 1-0 over the Toledo champs, the Forest Home Methodist girls, with a goal by Karin Eagen. In Game 4 the Stann Creek champs, the Independence Primary girls drew 1-1 with the Ranza girls, as Keosha Garbutt scored first for Independence in the 1st half and Ranza’s Allyishia Bowman equalized in the 2nd half. In Game 5 the Progresso RC girls bombed the Toledo girls: 4-0, with Keille Guerra and Bernadine Zuniga scoring in the 1st half, and Britney Zuniga and Keille Guerra scoring a goal apiece in the 2nd half. In Game 6, the Independence girls drilled the Caledonia RC girls: 2-0 with Continued on page 13
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Kent Gabourel Wins Weekend Warriors Sean Duncan Birthday Race Belize City, March 19, 2017 Team Kulture Megabytes’ Kent “Bob” Gabourel won the A category of the Weekend Warriors Cycling Club’s “Sean Duncan” birthday race sponsored by Belize Natural Energy on the Philip Goldson and George Price Highways to Belize City on Sunday; while SMART Zoom’s Sean Duncan won the B Category and SMART’s Andrew Bennett won the C category. A Category rode 60 miles From the Sand Hill junction with the old Northern Highway to Altun Ha and back to the Philip Goldson Highway, via the Burrell Boom bypass to Hattieville on the George Price Highway, to finish at Leslie’s Imports 1st Kent Gabourel - Kulture Megabytes - 2:21:12 2nd George Abraham – Team Bel-Cal team - 2:21:45 3rd Warren Coye – Team Santino’s - 2:22:56 4th Barney Brown – Team Sco-
Top 3 - A Category
Orange Walk Girls Win National Primary Schools Football Championship Continued from page 12 goals by Aaliyah Godoy and Melanie Garcia. In Game 7 – the semi-finals, the Independence girls eliminated the Wesley girls: 1-0 with a goal by Rozelia Parham. In Game 8, the Progresso girls eliminated the Ranza girls: 2-0 with the Zuniga sisters: Bernadine and Britney, scoring a goal apiece. In Game 9 the consolation game for 3rd place, the Ranza girls won 1-0 over the Wesley girls, with a goal by
tiabank 5th Fitzgerald “Palas” Joseph Team Lampaz 6th Kenroy “Smokes” Gladden Kulture Megabytes B Category 1st Sean Duncan – Team SMART Zoom 2nd Santino “Chief” Castillo – Team Santino’s 3rd Ruthford Cunningham - Team Spinnaz C Category rode 45 miles from the Sand Hill Junction to Leslie’s Imports 1st Andrew Bennett – Team SMART Zoom - 2:08:00 2nd Steve Gill - Team SMART 3rd Louis Usher – Team F.T. Williams - 2:08:37 4th Enrique Morales – Team Valvoline - 2:10:46 5th Siyah Swasey - BSFC El Pescador 6th Judith Williamson - Team SMART - 2:08:00
Edith Miranda. In Game 10 the championship final, the Progresso girls won 1-0 over Independence, when Bernadine Zuniga scored the winning goal in the 29th minute. The National Sports Council’s acting director Charles Slusher presented team trophies and medals to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners at the closing ceremony. Most Valuable Player - Britney Zuniga, who scored 4 goals for Progresso.
2nd place - Independence Primary
3rd place - St. Francis Xavier girls
Orange Walk Boys Win National Primary Schools Football Championship
Top 3 - B Category
Champs St. Michael's RC of San Felipe
2nd place - Independence Primary
3rd place - Hattieville Gov't boys
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26 MAR
THE BELIZE TIMES
MY PERSPECTIVE By Dolores Balderamos Garcia
RE-REGISTRATION IS A MUST Much is being said these days about the Re-Registration process that must take place and that should have been done long ago. The Electoral Roll of any democratic country is plainly the lifeblood of a properly functioning democracy. We have to know who the eligible voters are whenever an election comes around, and the lists need to be complete, accurate and easily accessible. I believe that on the present lists for the thirty-one electoral divisions there are over 190,000 voters registered, close to 200,000. At the moment I get the sense that not too much activity is taking place regarding voter registration, since the issue of re-registration is very much alive. However, already we are within a year of municipal elections. Things are bound to heat up. There should be a scrapping of the Electoral Roll after ten years, according to law. Both governments have put off the re-registration exercise, but this is the longest that we have gone without re-registration. The lists are over twenty years old now, and surely in desperate need of updating. I recall that in 1997 the then government undertook the re-registration exercise. This leads me to say that really it is the Election and Boundaries Commission which carries out the process, and there is need for a truly independent body as opposed to one controlled by the government of the day. That discussion also must be had, but right now I focus on re-registration. I had been elected as standard bearer for the PUP for the Port Loyola Division in a contested convention in September 1995. Immediately I started registering voters. My little red Jeep Cherokee constantly crossed Yarborough Bridge on the way to the Registration office on Racecourse Street. So when it was decided that there should be a completely new list, so much work had already been done. It was a pain, but we had to start all over again!! I credit my win in Port Loyola in 1998 to the fact of re-registration, as I was able then to campaign personally to just about everyone. On the old list, for example, some 30% of the voters in Neal Pen Road no longer lived there. These “ghost” voters
as they are called could never be found, but still they were entitled to come and vote at any election. Their names were on the list. With re-registration all the ghost voters were gone, and the fresh list was clean and truly reflected the voting population of the then largest Belize City constituency. Likewise in the Belize Rural Central constituency we could not find close to 35% of registered voters in the Vista del Mar area. They had simply moved out to other divisions or had gone abroad, yet they were very much on the list. This is not good. It skews the entire process of campaigning, and it favours the participation in the voting process of persons who do not live where they are registered. Of course, I think it is necessary also to tighten up the Representation of the People Act to prevent persons from registering where they do not live. There simply has been too much fraud. Many politicians have found ways to manipulate voter registration and transfers, and they have managed to bribe and unduly influence registration officials at the Elections and Boundaries Department. Very many persons who did not live in Belize Rural Central were transferred into the division just before the last election, of course with the collusion of personnel from the registration office in Ladyville. And this was a major factor in the outcome of the poll. I could, and will later, say more, but suffice it to say at this time that the law has to be strengthened. It is a free-for-all for fraudsters as things stand now. But we have to start with re-registration, which will throw out the entire old and tainted Electoral Roll, all 200,000 names, and start anew so that persons who actually live in constituencies will go to register where they reside. A twenty year old Electoral Roll is ancient and has to be scrapped. It is right for the Opposition, social partners, and civil society to insist on re-registration. The government naturally does not want it. The old, tainted Roll favours them. They know this. We know this. I say it is high time to level the playing field and fix what is broken in our democratic processes. Re-registration now is a must!!!
2017
NOTICE 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 14th day of July 2014, between SHENY AZUCENA YUMAN of Lot No. 265 Santa Cruz Village, Stann Creek District, Belize (hereinafter called “the Borrower”) of the one part and SCOTIABANK (BELIZE) LIMITED (hereinafter called “the Mortgagee”) of the other part, and recorded as Instrument Number LTU-201401262, the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of two 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 piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 265 comprising 832.181 square meters situate in Santa Cruz Village, Stann Creek District, bounded and described as shown by Plan No. 240 of 2014 attached to Minister’s Fiat Grant No. 240 of 2014 and also delineated on Entry No. 8166 Register No. 29, TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. DATED this 8th day of March, 2017. MUSA & BALDERAMOS LLP 91 North Front Street Belize City Attorneys-at-Law for Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.
NOTICE 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 1st day of March 2013, between VARLENE ENID ARZU #35 Pen Road, Dangriga Town, Stann Creek District, Belize (hereinafter called “the Borrower”) of the one part and SCOTIABANK (BELIZE) LIMITED (hereinafter called “the Mortgagee”) of the other part, and recorded as Instrument Number LTU-201300375, the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of two 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 piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 2 situate in Sarawee Village, Stann Creek District, forming part of a subdivision and more particularly described and shown on a sub-division plan drawn by Licensed Surveyor J.H. Hertular dated 24th February, 2010 and shown on Entry No. 12566 Register No. 7 and lodged at the Office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, Belmopan and attached hereto, TOGETHER with all buildings, erections and developments standing and being thereon. DATED this 7th day of March, 2017. MUSA & BALDERAMOS LLP 91 North Front Street Belize City Attorneys-at-Law for Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.
26 MAR
THE BELIZE TIMES
2017
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THINKING OUT LOUD BY: KEVIN BERNARD
I was pleasantly surprised recently by the words of my brother Mayor Darrell Bradley who recognized the scope of works which have been taking place in our municipality. Sometimes I fear that we have become so divided over politics that we will never unite as a people. I always wonder why. Politicians should serve the people always, so if we all have the same mandate why is it that we should not get along. So I express my appreciation to Mayor Bradley for his kind words. I also take the opportunity to congratulate and express my appreciation for the hard working, committed team at the Orange Walk Town Council. While as Mayor much of the praise is given to me, the truth is that this is always a team effort, and our team is second to none. Currently the work around town is progressing even better than we anticipated. By this end of this week Palmetto and Pineapple Streets will be primed and ready for paving, even as we work on Progress Street, Tate Street, Rio Bravo and Cabbage Streets. Really it is a wonderful thing to be a part of and I can assure the people of this municipality that it will continue. Later this week Belizeans will be glued to the media as the government and Opposition debate the Budget for the fiscal year 2017/2018. Many people will have great difficulty deciphering the figures, but what won’t be hard to understand is that Belizeans will be asked to dig deeper into their pockets to raise at least $80M more for government. According to the Prime Minister, they selected taxes which were least burdensome to the poor and the productive sector. Don’t believe that. Any tax will hurt the poor and the productive sector because those taxes will be passed on. For example, currently Belizeans pay 50% tax on fuel and the PM says that will go even higher. There are many Belizeans who don’t drive so they may
not feel the cost at the pump, but that increase will be passed on. When the farmer has to pay higher fuel costs to produce his crops, we all feel it. I would not be at all surprised to find bus fares going up as well. What the Budget does not provide is any cost-cutting measures for those who are living the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Our Ministers drive vehicles which cost between $150,000 and $200,000. They and their family members drive those vehicles even outside of work, like to Chetumal to shop on weekends or to go bar-hopping. The Prime Minister hasn’t said anything about cost-cutting measures there. When Ministers travel, they do so firstclass. Perhaps we could cut costs there. Perhaps we could also cut some of those political cronies who sit in offices doing absolutely nothing. Perhaps we could try to retrieve some of the monies which made its way out of the Ministry of Natural Resources and into the pockets of well-connected persons. Perhaps we could revisit some of those outrageously bloated contracts, or try to find out where exactly the Petrocaribe monies went. What hurts me, and what will hurt many Belizeans, is the level of corruption, mismanagement and abuse which has resulted in our public coffers running dry. That is why we will have to pay more taxes. Here in Orange Walk we have demonstrated what can be done with prudent and responsible fiscal management. I know there is a lot more that needs to be done, but I feel confident in saying that this is one of the municipalities which has seen the most work done. And we have been able to do it without any bond and without any loans or grants from Central Government. Imagine what a good government could have done with the hundreds of millions in Petrocaribe money. I commit to continue the work here in town, and to do so in a transparent and accountable manner. You deserve no less from us.
Monsters Among Us...
Last night I was shown a picture of some human parts found in a crocus sack – two legs and two arms, neatly cut off, discarded like just so many pieces of garbage. Police have been unable or unwilling at this time to reveal the identity of the victim of this especially heinous crime. It comes on the heels of another vicious murder of a teenage girl, Keona Ara. From all accounts she was killed inside the bathtub of a home in Belmopan. She was stabbed to death, her throat sliced. She was then taken to the dump outside the municipality where her killers set her body on fire. The other day a man stood in Court, his statement revealing that he had cut a woman’s throat with a utility knife. Apparently she did not die from her injuries, so he decided to stab her thirty-two times with a screwdriver. Then there were the murders of two men from Roaring Creek. One was disembowelled and decapitated before being thrown in the river, his limbs detached. The other was sliced to pieces so his remains could fit in a shallow grave. I’m old enough that I remember a time when murders in Belize were few and far between. There was a time when those murders were mostly the result of drunken bar fights. There are still far too many of those, but now they are joined by the most sickening and violent crimes. Hell, I like to think that I’ve become somewhat callous after two decades in the media, but I’ve also learned that there are monsters among us who reek of evil and have no soul to speak of. One glimpse of that evil a couple years back has stayed with me, and will for a long time. A young mother was robbed of her life because another woman apparently wanted her child. She was taken into the bushes of Roaring Creek and her head was cut off with a small knife
in an attempt to hide her identity. Her killers were all freed on what I will call technicalities, but I will never forget the moments I spent face to face with the woman who was allegedly the mastermind of that terrible crime. Maybe my writer’s imagination ran rampant. Maybe the days of sitting in the Courtroom or hearing about how that young woman was killed got to me. But I saw evil. I looked at her and knew without a doubt that she was evil and that she had played a horrific role in that murder. To me, she had no soul. There are many such stories now. How have we as a people become so cold and heartless? How is it that we can tear another human body limb from limb without any semblance of remorse? When is it that we lost our humanity, our conscience, our compassion and sense of good and evil? We see it in the city more and more. Young men are able to walk calmly up to other young men and shoot them in the head, and then walk away. It has become almost a daily occurrence, with brief episodes of respite from the bloodshed. I don’t know that evil can be cured. But it can be shackled. I am not and have never been a stupid political animal who would blame the government for these gruesome murders. But there is so much more that could be done to ensure that those who perpetrate these crimes spend the rest of their lives in prison, locked away from the society which they have wronged. Our government has come across as uncaring and apathetic where crime is concerned. There has been no real move to enhance the investigative techniques of our Police. There has been no real move to equip our officers with the proper equipment, including a DNA testing and forensic lab. There has been no move to properly resource the Office of the DPP. There has been no real move to address so many problems in the Judiciary. Imagine that accused murderers routinely sit on remand for five years or more awaiting justice. And then, they just as routinely walk free on some technicality or the other. So for those things I will blame the government, and point out that those few who make the decisions in our country have not yet been touched by the cold breath of evil. When that happens, perhaps we will see the change that we so desperately need.
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THE BELIZE TIMES
HARD TIME BUDGET By Gilroy Usher, Sr. Government is in a financial pickle. It is broke. To get out of this financial jam the 2017- 2018 Budget outlines plans to collect $80 million more in taxes than last year and reduce spending by $30 million less than that of the previous year. This is serious business. If this financial situation becomes worse, it could lead to the devaluation of the Belize dollar which would mean huge suffering for us countrywide. The government intends to raise the additional millions it needs with new taxes on cement, soft-drinks, beer,
stout, fuel, cigarettes, aerated (purified) water and an increase in the environmental and departure taxes. There will also be an increase in the tax for foreign exchange. For the first time all statutory bodies including Belize Water Services (BWS) must give government 10% of their income to help finance the Budget and for further Budget support G.S.T. will now be applied to light bills over $100.00 instead of the previous $200.00 threshold. To reduce spending by a whopping $30 million there will be a drastic reduction in utilities, supplies, and materials
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for all government department and ministries. This will translate into practically no assistance from Belmopan with housing, land, education, medical care and the upkeep of roads among other community needs. The poor will feel this lack of service most. With the tremendous increase in taxes on items that affect everyday life nearly everything that poor people have to purchase in the shops and stores will be increased significantly. And to remain in business with such steep increase in numerous taxes a number of establishments will fire some of their employees to cut costs. The ordinary people will bear the brunt of the coming hardship. How did the UDP run this country broke? For the last eight years they had 8 consecutive budgets of over a billion dollars; during that same period the UDP also increased the national debt by over a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000.) ; this administration also got almost $400 million from Petro-Caribe and millions of dollars from the export of oil by Belize Natural Energy (BNE). But there is nothing to show for those huge amount of funds. Those funds were not used to make life better for the poor. The number of Belizeans living in poverty today is significantly higher that when the UDP was elected to office eight years ago in 2008 and the
UDP did not use any of those millions to make the necessary payments on the bond, which is a bundle of all foreign debts owed by the government including loans made by previous administrations. Belize is broke today because the UDP squandered millions and millions of dollars on bloated contracts, corrupt land compensation schemes, overnight projects to win three consecutive general elections and unending legal fees for BTL and other companies that it confiscated without paying compensation to the owners. As a result of mismanagement and corruption this UDP administration is largely responsible for the financial mess in which this country finds itself, but its leaders will not bear any of the burden to rescue the national ship that is heading towards the reef. The Budget guarantees ministers their fat monthly salaries, exorbitant globe-trotting allowances and other perks and new fancy rides which in most cases cost the overburden tax payers of this country over $175,000.00 each. The 2017- 2018 Budget offers Belizeans no hope of a better life. It is a hard time Budget - its brings only pain and suffering for the poor and businesses disguised in fancy prose and poetry by the UDP administration.
PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: CHATTELS
NOTICE Karna Group Ltd. # 120, 476 (“the Company”) Pursuant to Section 102 (8) of the International Business Companies Act, Chapter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, notice is hereby given that Karna Group Ltd. has been dissolved as at 17th March, 2017 and has been struck off the Register of International Business Companies. CIL Trust International Limited Registered Agent
Belmopan Civic Center Bliss Parade, Belmopan, Cayo District
BY ORDER of the Embassy of the United States of America, Licensed Auctioneer Kevin A. Castillo will sell the following chattels at Belmopan Civic Center, Bliss Parade, Belmopan, Cayo District on SATURDAY 1st April 2017 at 9:00 a.m. sharp.
Household furniture Office furniture TVs Printer supplies Tables Copiers Shredder Scanners Printers
Dehumidifiers Dryers Washers Freezers Lamps Computer Parts Laptops Hospitality Supplies Spare parts
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NOTICE VALMER HOLDINGS LIMITED # 99, 564 (“the Company”) Pursuant to Section 102 (8) of the International Business Companies Act, Chapter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, notice is hereby given that VALMER HOLDINGS LIMITED has been dissolved as at 15th March, 2017 and has been struck off the Register of International Business Companies. CIL Trust International Limited Registered Agent
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17 THE GOV’T’S BUDGET 2017/18:
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By Norris Hall SLASH & BURN & LIES The government’s budget for the next fiscal year that begins in April is a hodge-podge jumble of figures made to look like economics but far removed from the reality of good governance. It is slash and burn economics short of a rational national development strategy. The Prime Minister’s Budget speech, which he delivered as the Minister of Finance about two weeks ago to the House of Representatives, is the narrative, or executive summary, about how the government intends to earn and spend money in the next twelve months. But the PM’s rhetoric just does not jive with a breakdown of how the government will manage this budget. It is based on speculation and scalping of the productive sector and consumers. The budget - the numbers on how the government will earn and spend money - called revenue and expenditure, reflects a slash and burn approach to budgeting, with irrational cuts, a lack of forward thinking and a political slush fund masqueraded as legitimate expenditure. What the Prime Minister has described as “a modest economic contraction” is one of a continuous negative growth in the economy. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or what is a measure of the level of goods and services produced by the country, began to flat line about three years ago and continues, even as the Prime Minister ignores or continues to lie about this reality. The GDP for the last year was minus eight percent as the national economy continues to contract because of major shortfalls in production and outputs. The country has an increasing national debt that continues to grow because of financial mismanagement, reckless spending and corruption. It is a dismal picture of economic stagnation, despite the PM’s political spin. REALITY AND PERCEPTION The reality is just the opposite of the PM’s perception created from his rose-coloured lens. The reality is that Belize’s negative GDP growth and the unstoppable contraction in the economy, is one of the worst in the regions of Central America and the Caribbean, with the exception of perhaps Haiti. A review of Belize’s economic outlook shows that the economy shrank in 2016 for a third consecutive quarter. This was mainly driven by a 30 percent massive fall in exports and exacerbated by the Barrow Administration reneging on its commitment to meet its debt repayment on a $1.1 billion bond it had re-negotiated with bond holders. The original debt was the consolidation of two loans negotiated
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by the Musa Administration. It is a combination of debts by both the previous UDP Esquivel Administration of $700 million left behind and inherited by the Musa Administration, and the PUP’s $400million debt. The Prime Minister continues to use this as a political red herring as he lies pathologically about the Bond, to distract from his own mismanagement of the national economy driving the country deeper and deeper into debt with the outrageous price paid for the nationalization of the public utilities, especially what he agreed to pay for the national telephone company. Other major snafus were created by his Administration because of his arrogant approach in dealing with government’s commitments and his failure to respect and uphold the sanctity of contracts. His government has also been reckless in spending over $400 million from the Venezuelan Petro Caribe fund. He ignored the Petro Caribe agreement signed by the Musa Administration with the Venezuela government to use a delayed debt to Venezuela and to use a portion of the oil revenues to boost the productive sector and the related infrastructure to stimulate growth and boost production. This money was wasted and misappropriated to “buy” a re-election. A LEFELINE AND A FRIEND The only economic lifelines left, as the national economy continues to hang by a thread, are sugar production and tourism. The latter is topping out. The government of Taiwan continues to prop-up a failed national economy. But time is up for the Belize Sugar Industry and cane farmers as a result of the European Union’s reform on world sugar prices and the cancellation of preferential rates on sugar. There has to be reform in the local sugar industry where production cost is high. Cane farmers are now, like never before, under more pressure to compete with other sugar producers. The country has become too dependent on sugar exports. Some farmers have attempted to diversify by cultivating other crops such as onions and potatoes. But they have become frustrated losing $millions because of the lack of oversight and market outlooks and lack of a defined agricultural policy and marketing strategy by the Ministry of Agriculture. Desperate for revenue, the government intends to shave off ten percent of its allocation to Statutory Boards and make drastic cuts in its budget allocation to most of the Ministries, with a few exceptions. There are major cuts, for instance, in the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Home Affairs, including the Police as well cuts in budget allocation for the Attorney General’s Ministry for the Judiciary and the administration of justice. NO RHYME - NO REASON
Another clear indication that there are no rhyme and reason to budgeting, is the imbalance in the excessive increase in the budget allocation to, for instance, the Ministry of Housing. During its eight years in government, there has been no definitive housing programme. It is believed that this Ministry is a political slush fund. The budget increase to this Ministry, (no doubt a “planned” coincidence), has come at a time when it has been announced that one of the Prime Minister’s sons, a New York ex-con, will be ordained by the ruling Party as the political standard bearer to replace the current area representative and current Minister of Housing. The government has slammed an excessive departure tax and a new tax on the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT), in a further desperate attempt to raise a million dollars in more revenue, from these sources, much to the chagrin of the Belize Tourism Industry Association (BTIA) and PACT. This move will certainly have a negative impact on the tourism industry as it did when it was tried in Costa Rica, said the Executive Director of the BTIA. “It is like we are neglecting who is feeding the nation,” he said. This is one of many examples in a slash and burn approach to this year’s budget that lacks vision and planning. REWARDING REDUNDANCY The decision by the PM, as the Minister of Finance, not to cut the public service wage bill but to increase it, is another clear indication that politics trumps a serious approach to better governance and budget management for greater efficiency. The Public Service must be streamlined for greater efficiency to replace a culture of incompetence. Public Officers will be getting an undeserved pay hike. In effect, rewarding incompetence and redundancy. This move alone will be another contributing factor in the further decline in GDP. The government’s wages and salaries bill rounds off to about $409 million. This does not include an additional $76 million
for pensions. This is almost double what the government has budgeted for its Capital expenditure. It is a significant bite out of the recurrent revenue derived from taxes. It appears that despite the dismal fall in production and exports, there will be no reprieve on the productive sector which forms the basis for the national economy. Almost half of the government’s anticipated revenue will come from taxes on goods and services as the government continues to hammer the most productive contributors to the economy. The Prime Minister made reference to a growth and development strategy that his government, he said, launched last year. Never heard of it! He expects this to yield a 3 percent growth in GDP within the next year. He gave no indications about how this miraculous recovery will happen given the drastic drop in production and other negative indicators that will continue, in the near future, to inhibit any growth in the economy and the dismal economic forecast. This year’s budget speech was just another rhetorical performance full of noise and fury signifying nothing. It is far removed from the economic reality that has, for the very first time, gripped this country in its post-independence era. Apart from the serious budget cuts, the budget speech was cut and paste from last year’s, except that this year’s contains more sugar-coated opiates to ease the pain of rising poverty and unemployment. NO BRO’! We suspect that the Prime Minister will be resorting to obeah, hoping that his highfalutin rhetoric will become reality before it gets lost in the translation. Speaking from his bully pulpit, he still believes that he can continue to fool most of the people all the time. Bro! You are wrong!
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THE WONDERER AND THE BELIZEAN SPLIT
You must be wondering if it’s the Belizean Split at Belmopan House of Representatives or the Belize – Guatemala Split at the Sarstoon….. it’s the CAYE CAULKER SPLIT! Yes, Belizeans, friends and tourist “The Caye Caulker Island split has its story.” Have you ever wondered if it is natural? Well it was initially caused by the old fishermen who once dug a small channel for their canoes, then their sailing boats through the wetlands and mangroves. Finally Hurricane Hattie came and really made a mess and it’s getting larger ever since. Hurricanes play a large role in changing the coastal shape but its worse when the human touch has been there first. Do you remember when Hurricane Mitch chased us all to Belmopan! Thanks to God it did not come this side, but we felt the effects of it. The entire coastlines of Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker were affected. All piers and beaches were gone. Beach areas were washed away up to the wall of homes. Thank God the government of the day realized it could affect the tourism industry and hurriedly sent dredging equipment to replenish the beaches. Caye Caulker got more beach than they originally had, but recently it had to be replenished again. This process of replenishment will be forever. San Pedro Town also needs some urgent replenishment. Have you wandered along the east coast of Ambergris Caye, north and south of the town? The owners are basically removing all the vegetation and erosion is rampant and seawalls of different methods, material type and shapes are being experimented with. Some may work at the end, but most don’t. North and south of Caye Caulker Town and the entire Placencia peninsula is no different. The whole country’s coastline in fact. We are losing it through nature, just like those in Belmopan are losing it! Through hustling! Hurricane EARL came last year and hurt us again and the split did not escape. Lately as I wandered around Caye Caulker I saw works taking place at the Split. A major overhaul is taking place. A new sea wall is being built around the entire southern tip of the split. It’s looking great and I wondered who was responsible for this investment that will come and benefit the entire community. When I arrived beautiful sand was just dredged from the west side of Caye Caulker. Apparently the entire Split will be a big sand box. A new cabaña was built and I understand a new restaurant and bar will also be built. Belizeans have you ever swam at the Split? It’s beautiful to swim in fresh clean clear salty water. The water at the split has a stiff current so you better be a good swimmer. I also understand a section is being built for kids and non-swimmers. That’s great! I found out that M & M are
the designers and contractors for the project. Kudos to them…..Great thinking and excellent work! I continued wandering around the Split and wondered who was the owner and who conceived such a wonderful idea of this project especially after Hurricane Earl had done so much damage to the entire island. I found out a gentleman named “Jim” was responsible for the development. I found out that the members of his staff at the restaurant named “THE LAZY LIZARD” were very efficient and the food was also great. All Belizean workers! Mr. Jim, your staff is happy to have you as their Boss…they say only good things about you.
Keep it up and thanks for conceiving such a project as it will benefit the entire island. I read lately about a study that the government will undertake in regards to Caye Caulker’s coastal problems due to hurricanes, erosion, development, mangrove destruction, etc. We hope such a study is quickly completed and implemented as we were wondering if Caye Caulker was the forgotten child of Belize. Caye Caulker reminds me of San Pedro 30 years ago. Low key, no huge hotels…sand on the streets… hope it remains that way! This study is important to make sure proper measures are implemented while development is taking place on the
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entire island, because as I wandered north of the split you can see land being cleared, dredging taking place and of course erosion is rampant especially on the east coastline. Well, Belizeans please start wandering to the Caye Caulker Split and get Lazy by the Split while you dip inside the Caribbean Sea. Stop wondering about the devastating Belizean budget that will soon cripple our economy and our nation and wander to one of the spots that was created by man and nature - “THE SPLIT”. Go and spend your last available $$$$ and cool your mind, body and soul because soon we will have to wonder how to make a new living! THE WONDERER………..thewondererbz@gmail.com
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Los británicos comienzan la separación de la Unión Europea. Protesta en contra de medida en Londres.
Adiós británico a la UE comienza el 29 de marzo Londres notificará oficialmente el 29 de marzo su salida de la Unión Europea, la primera en los 60 años de historia del bloque regional Por AFP / Madrid 20 de Marzo de 2017 El Reino Unido activará ese día el Artículo 50 del Tratado europeo de Lisboa mediante una carta de la primera ministra Theresa May al presidente del Consejo Europeo, Donald Tusk, anunció el gobierno el lunes. Además, May se dirigirá al Parlamento para anunciar la salida de la Unión europea (UE), bloque construido sobre las cenizas de la Segunda Guerra Mundia El 23 de junio de 2016, “el pueblo británico tomó la decisión histórica de abandonar la UE. El próximo miércoles, el gobierno dará curso a esta decisión e iniciará formalmente el proceso” de salida, dijo en un comunicado el ministro a cargo del Brexit, David Davis. Londres y Bruselas tendrán dos años para sellar un acuerdo de divorcio que se espera que aclare, entre otras cosas, si los europeos en el Reino Unido conservarán la libertad de trabajar y residir en el país, la factura que Londres tendrá que pagar por sus compromisos presupuestarios hasta 2020 y la nueva relación comercial. Pic Biline: Theresa May, primera ministra de Inglaterra, país que se separará del bloque de la Unión Europea. (AFP) Según el comunicado británico, el embajador ante la UE, Tim Barrow, informó ya al presidente del Consejo Europeo, Donald Tusk, de la fecha en que el Gobierno invocará el artículo. La UE, lista para la ruptura “Todo está listo por nuestra parte”, respondió el portavoz de la Comisión Europea, el ejecutivo comunitario, Margaritis Schinas. “Estamos listos para comenzar las negociaciones”, agregó. Tras la activación del artícu-
lo Tusk presentará “en 48 horas” un borrador con las grandes líneas de negociación, anunció en un tuit. Los 27 deberán aprobar estas líneas en una cumbre extraordinaria, que podría celebrarse a principios de mayo. A continuación, la Comisión Europea presentará su propuesta formal para el inicio de las negociaciones. Las negociaciones podrían comenzar formalmente entre seis y ocho semanas después del 29 de marzo, indicaron fuentes europeas. “Estamos en el umbral de la negociación más importante para este país en una generación”, añadió Davis. “El gobierno es muy claro en sus objetivos: un acuerdo bueno para todas las naciones y regiones del Reino Unido y para Europa; una alianza nueva, positiva, entre el Reino Unido y nuestros aliados y amigos de la UE”, sentenció el ministro. El fin de una relación complicada El Reino Unido fue la última potencia europea en ingresar en el bloque, en 1973, y tras dos negativas del entonces presidente francés Charles de Gaulle, que veía en los británicos un Caballo de Troya de Estados Unidos. En 1975, dos años después del ingreso en lo que entonces se llamaba Comunidad Económica Europea, el Reino Unido ya celebró el primero de los dos referendos sobre la pertenencia al bloque, mostrando los primeros síntomas de incomodidad: donde Londres veía simplemente un mercado, sus socios europeos veían un proyecto político. En sus 44 años en el club, los británicos prefirieron quedar al margen de los grandes avances de la integración europea, como la moneda única, el euro, y el espacio Schengen, que eliminó los controles fronterizos. Desde el momento del acceso británico, se estableció “una relación utilitarista con el acento puesto en la dimensión
económica”, explicó Pauline Schnapper, profesora de estudios de la civilización británica en la Universidad de la Sorbona de París. “La dimensión sentimental era casi inexistente”, añadió. “Fue una relación transaccional”, estimó, en la misma línea, Anand Menon, profesor británico de política europea del Kings College de Londres. “En consecuencia, el divorcio es bastante lógico”. Descontento escocés y norirlandés Los británicos aprobaron la salida por 52% a 48%, pero lejos de zanjar el debate, el tiempo transcurrido desde junio ha agriado las relaciones entre europeístas y euroescépticos y amenaza con desintegrar el país. Así, el gobierno regional escocés, en manos de los nacionalistas, iniciará el miércoles los trámites para celebrar un segundo referendo de independencia, después de que sus habitantes se desmarcaran de la tendencia nacional votando abrumadoramente a favor de seguir en la Unión Europea. En Irlanda del Norte, la única nación británica con frontera terrestre con la UE, el Brexit también crea desosiego por el impacto que tendrá el regreso de los controles aduaneros en la frágil economía local, y por el más que posible fin de los fondos europeos de ayuda al proceso de paz entre protestantes unionistas y católicos republicanos. En los próximos días, antes de activar el Artículo 50, May visitará ambas regiones, informó Downing Street.
Juez avala medidas para evitar inflitraciones en jucio al Chapo Guzman Un juez de Nueva York aprobó la imposición de medidas extraordinarias para impedir que aliados de narcotraficante se infiltren en el juicio en EE. UU. Por AFP y EFE / New York 22 de Marzo de 2017 Estas medidas, detalló el juez encargado del caso, Brian Cogan, suponen el análisis y la aprobación previa de cualquier ciudadano extranjero que quiera pasar a formar parte del equipo de defensa del Chapo. “El Gobierno ha establecido que hay buenas razones para la necesidad de aprobación previa de ciudadanos extranjeros que se unan al equipo de defensa”, apunta Cogan en su decisión. Según el magistrado, esto se debe al historial del Chapo en el uso “de individuos, entre ellos individuos profesionales, para promover su supuesto negocio, ya sea abogados, investigadores u otros que podrían ser miembros o estar asociados con el Cartel de Sinaloa”. Sin embargo, Cogan apuntó que “no es apropiado” que quienes lleven a cabo este análisis y aprobación de los posibles defensores del Chapo sean los propios fiscales del caso, ya que con ello el Gobierno podría “conocer información privilegiada sobre la estrategia de defensa”. 17 delitos enfrenta el Chapo en EE. UU. Por ello, la corte apunta que dado la complejidad del caso presentado contra el Chapo, esta labor podría llevarla a cabo alguien que esté familiarizado con el mismo, como ayudantes de fiscales de estados en los que el narcotraficante mexicano tiene otras causas abiertas. “Por ejemplo, el Distrito Sur de California o el Distrito Occidental de Texas”, señaló Cogan, que dio 14 días a la Fiscalía para nombrar a la persona escogida para llevar a cabo el análisis y aprobación de los extranjeros que pidan formar parte del equipo de defensa del Chapo. Joaquín Guzmán, quien se declaró inocente de todos los cargos, fue extraditado desde México a Estados Unidos para ser juzgado en la corte del distrito este de Nueva York el pasado 19 de enero, pocas horas antes de que el entonces presidente, Barack Obama (2009-2017), cediera el poder a Donald Trump. El que fue enemigo público número uno para Estados Unidos tras la muerte de Osama Bin Laden podría enfrentarse a una condena de cadena perpetúa si el juez de Nueva York lo considera culpable de 17 delitos, entre los que destaca narcotráfico y lavado de dinero.
Actriz teme acciones judiciales La actriz Kate del Castillo, quien acaparó la atención internacional en 2016 por facilitar una entrevista entre el cineasta estadounidense Sean Penn y el narco mexicano Guzmán, no piensa viajar a México de momento por temor a acciones judiciales. “No voy”, aseguró la mexicano-estadounidense en una entrevista desde su residencia en Los Ángeles con el canal mexicano Imagen Televisión en vísperas del estreno de Ingobernable, la serie que protagoniza. Del Castillo, de 44 años, a quien la fiscalía mexicana citó a declarar durante el 2016 por sus nexos con el Chapo, explicó que judicialmente “todavía no está aclarada toda la situación”. “Todavía no se cierra bien la investigación. Mis abogados no me han dado luz verde para ir a México sin ningún problema”, precisó. La intérprete dijo también que no ha abandonado la idea de hacer una película sobre la vida del narcotraficante, que en julio del 2015 huyó de forma espectacular de una cárcel de máxima seguridad en México para volver a ser capturado en enero de 2016 y posteriormente extraditado a Estados Unidos. “Siempre ha sido mi idea, por eso me metí en todo este lío”, afirmó la también protagonista de La Reina del Sur, una telenovela basada en el libro homónimo del escritor español Arturo Pérez Reverte. “Eso no ha cambiado. Lo que ha cambiado ha sido la manera de poderme mover con los problemas legales que tengo en México”, añadió. Una vez solucionados sus problemas legales empezará a realizar el proyecto de la película, aseguró. Según las autoridades mexicanas, el interés de Joaquín Guzmán por llevar su biografía a la gran pantalla fue una de las razones que llevaron a su captura en enero del 2016, pocos días antes de que Penn publicara la “entrevista secreta al hombre más buscado del mundo” en la revista Rolling Stone. En “Ingobernable”, serie producida por Netflix que se estrenará a escala mundial el 24 de marzo, Del Castillo interpreta a Emilia Urquiza, una ficticia primera dama de México que se da a la fuga tras verse acusada de la muerte del presidente.
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Guatemala intercepta dos lanchas con 180 kilos de supuesta cocaína
Ciento ochenta kilos de supuesta cocaína (unas 397 libras) fueron decomisados en dos lanchas tipo tiburonera que fueron interceptadas en aguas del Pacífico, informó el Ministerio Público. Por Redacción / Escuintla 20 de Marzo de 2017 Dos lanchas tipo tiburonero que transportaban seis bultos que se sospecha que contienen paquetes de droga fueron interceptadas, el viernes por la noche,
Pastor evangélico es condenado a 136 años de cárcel por violar a 4 niños Les decía que Dios le había revelado que algo malo le iba suceder a la familia de ellos.
La Prensa, Honduras 21 Marzo 2017 El pastor de la Iglesia Evangélica “Resurrección de Cristo” Franklin Geovanny Cabrera Sierra, de 48 años de edad, fue condenado a una pena de 136 años de reclusión como autor de ocho delitos de violación especial. El líder religioso actuó en perjuicio de cuatro niños que al momento de los hechos eran menores de 14 años, hechos sucedidos en la colonia la Independencia de Comayagüela. La Sala I del Tribunal de Sentencia le impuso a Cabrera Sierra una pena de 17 años por cada uno de los delitos cometidos los que sumados hacen un total de 136 años de reclusión que el imputado deberá cumplir en concurso real, es decir una en pos de otra. Los delitos, según lo refieren las investigaciones, sucedieron durante 2004, 2005, 2009 y 2012, hechos que el imputado cometía tanto en la iglesia, donde se congregaban los niños como en su casa de habitación aprovechándose de su condición de líder. Usaba el mismo patrón con los niños diciéndoles que Dios le había revelado que algo malo le iba suceder a la familia de ellos y que para evitarlo tenían que tener un acercamiento del cuerpo a través de relaciones sexuales con él, a lo que los niños accedieron para evitarles, según la inocencia de ellos, desgracias y males mayores a sus familias. Una vez que los niños relataron a sus padres lo sucedido el encausado fue detenido y remitido a la Fiscalía del menor, donde le fue incoada una acción penal por ocho delitos de violación especial.
El expresidente Porfirio Lobo dijo que ya se puso a disposición de las autoridades del Ministerio Publico.
"Pepe" Lobo reacciona ante acusaciones de cachiro: “¿En qué cabeza cabe que un Presidente va a recibir soborno?” Negó que haya un requerimiento de EE UU, pero no descarta que lo llamen. Las fotos en que se le ve con algunos de los cachiros existen porque ellos se “colaron”en su casa, dice. Tegucigalpa Honduras: 21 Marzo 2017 El expresidente de la República, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, reiteró el lunes que está dispuesto a someterse a cualquier investigación por parte del Ministerio Público, tras los señalamientos que le ha hecho Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, cabecilla de la banda de Los Cachiros. Rivera Maradiaga está preso en Estados Unidos y ha servido como testigo en una causa que le sigue la justicia estadounidense a Fabio Lobo, hijo del expresidente Lobo Sosa. En la entrevista concedida a Radio Globo aseguró que no existe alguna acusación en su
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a 110 millas náuticas (203.7 kilómetros) en aguas del océano Pacífico, por efectivos de la Fuerza Especial Naval, informaron las autoridades. En el operativo fueron capturados los guatemaltecos Éver Ernesto Ruiz González, de 20 años; Luis Ernesto Hurtado García, 47; y Julio Nery Gómez Cermeño, 49, quienes fueron puestos a disposición del tribunal respectivo. Las embarcaciones La Maravilla y La Ostra fueron interceptadas como parte del operativo que mantiene la Fuerza Especial Naval en el Pacífico para contrarrestar el trasiego de drogas. Según las autoridades, cuando los tripulantes de las embarcaciones vieron a los guardacostas intentaron escapar, pero fueron copados y luego de una inspección notaron que en cada embarcación transportaba tres bultos que contenían paquetes, y debido
contra de parte de Estados Unidos. Aquí lo más destacado de la entrevista: Usted es mencionado en un juicio en Estados Unidos, ¿ha generado cambio en un Porfirio Lobo que fue presidente de Honduras? A raíz de lo que ha pasado con mi hijo Fabio, y como lo dije en una oportunidad que no deseo que ningún padre pase por lo que uno ha vivido y es un tipo de desgracia en la familia, pero cada quien es responsable de sus actos y bajo aquel principio de que nadie está por encima de la ley. El hecho es real y de lo que declare un delincuente allá me ha dejado impresionado haber aceptado que asesinó a 78 personas importantes en la lucha contra el narcotráfico, como el general Arístides González, Alfredo Landaverde y hasta periodistas como Aníbal Barrow y otros más; le está mintiendo a la justicia norteamericana y no he sido ni soy ni seré jamás socio, colaborador de ningún delincuente. Voy a la campaña electoral de 2009, gano la presidencia y leí de lo que él es que entre noviembre de ese año y enero de 2010 me hizo un soborno, ¿en qué cabeza cabe que un presidente va recibir un soborno? mucho menos pensar que lo que ha sido toda mi vida, vaya a transar con un delincuente siendo presidente electo. Además: Fabio Lobo cayó en la trampa de los Cachiros y la DEA ¿Por qué entonces aparece involucrado Porfirio Lobo y lo buscan incluir como un buen colaborador de este grupo criminal? Hay que entender bien ese tema. Hay documentos que han generado mucho alboroto, que si pone en secuencia los documentos, uno que fue publicado el fin de semana es uno que entregó al tribunal la fiscalía el 28 de febrero, antes de la audiencia del 6 de marzo, porque según las leyes de allá, pues tienen un sistema transparente, y la fiscalía tiene la obligación de entregar el documento al tribunal, en que basará sus preguntas. Esa es la posición de la fiscalía, no es una audiencia para saber si mi hijo es culpable o Cont’do pagina 21
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que no informaron sobre el contenido fueron remolcados a la costa. Los guardacostas con dos lanchas y sus tripulantes llegaron hasta la Base Naval del Pacífico en horas de la madrugada de este sábado y para la revisión se coordinó el apoyo de la Subdirección General de Análisis e Información Antinarcótica de la Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) para hacer la prueba de campo y otras diligenciasen junto con fiscales del Ministerio Público para determinar de qué
tipo de ilícito se trata. Hasta el momento se han ha contabilizado 180 paquetes de droga y un paracaídas.
"Pepe" Lobo reacciona ante acusaciones de cachiro: “¿En qué cabeza cabe que un Presidente va a recibir soborno?” Cont’do de pagina 20 no, él ya se declaró culpable, pero la fiscalía no está de acuerdo en que él se declare culpable a ese nivel y le quiere subir el grado de responsabilidad para aumentar la pena. Eso es básicamente. Hubo otra audiencia del 6 de marzo donde preguntó el fiscal y ya pasó la del 16, donde preguntó la defensa. El abogado de la defensa, según lo que se deja ver, es el criterio del juez y en la audiencia del 6 de marzo él (Devis Rivera) miente, miente y miente. ¿Qué podemos esperar de un tipo que asesina a 78 personas de forma fría? No va en ninguna relación con mi acción como funcionario de lo que él declara. También: Revelan nombres de las víctimas de Los Cachiros ¿Se reunió Porfirio Lobo alguna vez con esta gente? ¿Fue buscado Porfirio Lobo en realidad para entrar en este tipo de relaciones? Pasa lo siguiente: andan circulando fotos, ¿qué hará uno?, o ahí viene gente que uno no lo conocía, mucho menos en Colón, y antes de 2010 había mucho pleito de la droga y nosotros comenzamos con ese pleito en 2010 y va en contra de todo lo que han dicho. No puede ser. Hay una foto por ahí, pero no es que ellos me van a pedir una cita, si viene un grupo, ¿cómo le digo que se vaya de mi casa? ¿Ellos vinieron a su casa? Aparentemente sí, por una foto que hay ahí. ¿Cuándo fue ese momento? Fue una vez que vinieron con una gente de un banco de Malasia, no sé de dónde era la cosa; no recuerdo quién pidió la cita, pero no la pidieron ellos. ¿O sea que fue una forma de acceder a usted? Pero no fue para negociar nada. Llegó un grupo de gente y ahí se cuela
gente, ¿qué va a hacer uno? +Salen a la luz fotos que proporcionó cabecilla de Los Cachiros con Fabio Lobo, políticos y oficiales ¿Habrá interés particular de Estados Unidos para tener declarando allá a Porfirio Lobo? No sé. Lo que hice después de la audiencia (de Devis Rivera en Estados Unidos) del 6 de marzo, hice mi apersonamiento a la fiscalía (de Honduras) en una nota dirigida al fiscal general, para ponerme a sus órdenes, aquí estoy a la orden para que pregunten lo que quieran porque no tengo nada que esconder. Se habla de unos contratos de infraestructura suscrito con instituciones estatales, que hubo una colusión para que estas empresas llegaran a lavar dinero a través de estos contratos. Con relación a los contratos, hay un procedimiento a seguir; no es que el presidente diga dele un contrato a este, hay mecanismos y sería mentiroso decir si sé de contratos que se suscriben en las secretarías de Estado y en el caso de Soptravi, donde se firman muchos contratos, ¿cómo sabrá uno cuáles son o qué empresas participan? Vea: Atic busca busca contratos que Los Cachiros habrían suscrito con instituciones del gobierno de Honduras ¿Y acerca de los contratos de Miguel Pastor, que era funcionario en ese momento? Jamás de la vida. Nunca. Jamás. Es un tema que nunca se abordó de las empresas particulares. En las conversaciones que se publican en las que aparece su hijo Fabio Lobo supuestamente platicando con el jefe del cartel, se indica que hubo un acercamiento a usted por ser el padre y, asimismo, con el general Julián Pa-
checo para acceder a la inteligencia estatal a fin de movilizar cargamentos de droga... Es falso. ¿Qué podría hacer una relación que hubiese? Hemos visto en otros países cómo buscan a parientes cercanos del gobernante para influenciar. Es una cosa que no solo se da en Honduras y asumen que esta persona les abrirá las puertas a las cosas que quieren. Si usted mira el tema de las trazas aéreas, cuando vino William Brownfield en representación del Departamento de Estado a la toma de posesión del presidente Hernández, decía que en mi gobierno habían disminuido las trazas aéreas en un 80 por ciento. Cuando asumo la presidencia el 71 por ciento de los vuelos a la región llegaban a Honduras. Cuando salgo de la presidencia llegaba un 20 por ciento. Recuerdo las publicaciones del primer año de gobierno en las que se decía que el secretario de Seguridad Óscar Álvarez era un problema. Si decían que era un problema, entonces ¿por qué se los puse de funcionario? ¿Dónde está el acuerdo? +Declaración textual donde excabecilla de Los Cachiros confiesa el asesinato de 78 personas Pero usted lo sacó posteriormente del cargo. ¿Fue por otras razones? El hombre colaboró en todo y puede dar fe de que jamás le dije ayude a nadie. En el primer año de gobierno, la Secretaría de Seguridad confiscó 14.1 millones de dólares, contrastado con 2009, que fueron 600 mil dólares. ¿Podrían ir detrás de Juan Orlando Hernández? De eso no sé. No podría decir nada. Lo que sé es que estos grupos mienten para tratar de reducir sus penas y vuelven a mentir. Lo más importante es el testimonio de vida que uno pueda dar e insisto en que la desgracia de mi familia es mi hijo, porque haya cometido un error no
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significa que sea cómplice en ese error que él haya cometido. Qué padre dirá voy a poner mi hijo de representante para protegerlo. Las cosas no funcionan así. Uno cuida la familia y si uno pudiera evitar que los hijos se equivocaran, lo haría. ¿Usted recibió coimas de estos grupos? Jamás. ¿Ni antes de las elecciones? Nada. También: Miguel Pastor niega vínculos con Los Cachiros ¿Le aportaron a la campaña? Le voy a contar una cosa: si me llegan unos agricultores porque hay que recordar que ellos eran empresarios, de lo que decían en la zona, y me llegan con una maleta de dólares, ¿qué voy a pensar? ¿Y no soy yo productor del campo? ¿qué dólares habrá ahí? No tiene lógica y mucho menos que voy a transar tonteras para atentar contra mi vida y mi lucha. ¿No tiene intenciones de entregarse? No hay ningún proceso contra mí. Soy mencionado en una audiencia para ver si elevan la pena de mi hijo. No tengo ningún requerimiento y no puedo adelantarme a los hechos. ¿Usted viajaría a Estados Unidos? No me puedo anticipar a los hechos. Lo que sí garantizo es que tiene que ver de las mentiras de un delincuente, algunos hechos de la conducta que él señala. ¿Cómo le ha afectado este problema en su vida familiar y laboral? Mi vida sigue normal y no tiene por qué cambiar. Lo peor que podría hacer son cosas que no debo hacer y que den credibilidad a lo que dijo un delincuente de esta magnitud, olvídese, aquí estoy. Cronología de la relación de Fabio Lobo con Devis Leonel Maradiaga: -Diciembre 2013 Fabio Lobo, hijo del expresidente Porfirio Lobo Sosa, comienza acercamientos con el narcotraficante confeso Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga. Luego de estos acercamientos ambos inician una serie de negocios ligados al tráfico de drogas a EE UU. -Marzo 2014 El narcotraficante Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga hace que Fabio Lobo caiga en una trampa que le tendió junto a agentes de la DEA que se hicieron pasar como traficantes de drogas pertenecientes al cartel de “El Chapo” Guzmán, según consta en declaraciones. Mayo de 2014 A punta de engaños, Devis Rivera hace que Fabio Lobo viaje hasta Haití para cerrar un negocio de venta de drogas en que el primero le debía una fuerte suma de dinero al segundo. Sin embargo, el hijo de “Pepe” Lobo fue capturado por las autoridades. Enero de 2015 De manera voluntaria, el cabecilla de la banda de Los Cachiros se entrega ante las autoridades estadounidenses y confiesa estar ligado al tráfico de drogas del país. Este traficante ya había colaborados antes con Estados Unidos.
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PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: PROPERTIES Renaissance Tower, Belize City PUBLIC AUCTION SALES: PROPERTIES Renaissance Tower, Belize City
BY ORDER the Mortgagees, Messrs. The Belize Bank Limited, Licensed KevinA. A.Castillo Castillowill willsell sell the folBY of ORDER of the Mortgagees, Messrs. The Belize Bank Limited, LicensedAuctioneer Auctioneer Kevin th lowing ON SITE [No. 8 Newtown Barracks, Belize City City on Wednesday 29th at 1:30 1:30 pm: March 2017 2017 at the properties following properties ON SITE [No. 8 Newtown Barracks, Belize on Wednesday 29 March pm:
RENAISSANCE TOWER, NO. 8 NEWTOWN BARRACKS, BELIZE CITY
REGISTRATION SECTION Kings Park
BLOCK 45
PARCELS 946 - H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7 H8, H9, H10, H11, H12, H13 H14, H15, H16, H17, H18, H19, REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCELS H20, H21, H22, H23, H24, H25, H26, H28 & H33 Kings Park 45 946 - H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7 REGISTRATION SECTION H8, H9, BLOCK PARCEL H10, H11, H12, H13 Kings Park 45 945 H14, H15, H16, H17, H19,Barracks, Belize City (Being all remaining strata title units situate within Renaissance Tower No. 8H18, Newtown H20, H21, H22, H23, H25, consisting of 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living/dining/kitchen [1072 sq. ft. toH24, 1154 sq. ft.] units + access to upper levels provided by an elevator and internal stairs + adequate, secure parking + some wonderful seafront views as we H26, H28 & H33 as views of Belize City, the freehold properties of Messrs. Renaissance Tower Management Company Limited)
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Kings 45 945 By Appointment Only Viewing: REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK Park PARCELS Kings Park 45 946 - H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7 (Being all remaining strata title units situate H8, H9, H10, H11,within H12, H13 Renaissance Tower No. 8 Newtown Barracks, Belize City ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - www.belizebank.com (foreclosure listing) H14, H15, H16, H17, H18, H19, consisting of 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, [1072 sq. ft. to 1154 sq. ft.] units + access to upper H20, H21,living/dining/kitchen H22, H23, H24, H25, TERMS: STRICTLY CASH H26, H28 & H33 levels provided by an elevator and internal stairs + adequate, secure parking + some wonderful seafront views as well KEVIN A. CASTILLO REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Kings Park 45 945 TELEPHONE 223-4488 Limited) as views of Belize City, the freehold properties of Messrs. Renaissance Tower Management Company (Being all remaining strata title units situate within Renaissance Tower No. 8 Newtown Barracks, Belize City
consisting of 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living/dining/kitchen [1072 sq. ft. to 1154 sq. ft.] units + access to upper levels provided by an elevator and internal stairs + adequate, secure parking + some wonderful seafront views as well as views of Belize City, the freehold properties of Messrs. Renaissance Tower Management Company Limited)
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Dissecting Barrow’s Budget 2017/2018 Less Spending…Less Growth! Concurrent with the struggles of our export industries, the PM has proposed in his budget to cut capital expenditure to $149.7 million from the $243.5 that was allocated in the last financial year. This means that there will be $93.8 million less in government spending on projects that will find its way into the Belizean economy. This reduction in the government’s capital expenditure once again demonstrates the smoke and mirror game being played by the PM. Less investment cannot translate into increased growth! While we are on the topic of capital expenditure, I note with curiosity the recurring theme of the rehabilitation of the Hummingbird Highway, and George Price Highway between Belmopan and San Ignacio. There were funds allocated for these projects in last year’s budget on page 19 and 20, and in 2015 on page 18. Are funds indicated in the last three budgets actually allocated to these projects, or is again a game being played on the Belizean people? Based on the fact that these same projects show up year after year, the answer is obvious! Another area of concern is the $12 million being allocated for the “completion” of the Belize City Sports Center. While we have no objection to the improvement of sporting facilities, there needs to be proper accounting for the public funds used on these projects. $30 million was earmarked to the Belize Infrastructure Limited (BIL) for the construction of this facility from Petro Caribe funds. Now there is a request for an additional $12 million? Has the construction gone over the projected 30 million? If so where is the explanation for the cost overrun? Was a portion of the initial $30 million used for another purpose? Madam Speaker there is a need for a thorough forensic audit of the Petro Caribe fund. There are several examples of these nebulous transactions without detailed accounting for the use of the funds. Miscellaneous Another item that seems to have found its way into the last two budgets is the upgrading of the San Pedro Health Center into a full service 24-hour facility. It appeared on Page 16 in the 2015 budget, and page 18 in the 2016 budget. However looking at the 2017 budget it is conspicuously absent. Is this because the task has been accomplished? Well the obvious answer to that is a big NO! San Pedranos can attest to the fact that they are still grappling with a sub-standard facility, as was highlighted recently with the unfortunate passing of young Ms. Olivera. This sad state of affairs is despite the fact that San Pedro is one of the fastest growing municipalities, and contributes handsomely to the government coffers through Hotel tax, GST and other taxes. However it seems that the fair people of San Pedro do not even deserve a promise for 2017/2018! The Prime Minister characterizes the health of the financial system as “the best it has been in over a decade non-performing loans fell to below 5%; and correspondent banking arrangements are the steadiest since this challenge arose.” This is a reflection of the health of the financial institutions and not
the system on a whole. On a weekly basis the readers of the local newspapers can see the many pages of properties that have been foreclosed upon by the commercial financial institutions. This is in indicator of a limping economy, is a crisis that is visiting the doorsteps of more and more Belizeans. Additionally over the past six or seven years a prominent feature of the Belizean banking system has been excess liquidity. This liquidity issue continues to plague the banking system despite the reduction of interest rates. Again this is tell-tale sign of an economy that is struggling to get some traction. For nine years we have seen a steady regression in the economic climate of the country, this is despite the approximately $8.5 billion GOB has spent. Over this period the government has done nothing to address the fundamental issues causing the poor economic performance, the signs have always been present, but the PM instead chose to use hocus-pocus economics as a part of his lifelong dream to win three consecutive terms in government. The Petro Caribe wave that was floating the UDP’s ship, and helping to propagate the illusion of economic prosperity has come and gone, now the true economic picture is clear for all Belizeans to see, and it’s not pretty. There is no more magic, it is time to truly build this economy through innovative ideas, and hard work. However judging by this 2017/2018 budget it is obvious that this UDP administration is not up to the task. The budget is not only unimaginative in its approach to moving this country forward, but it places the burden of financing these fiscal adjustments caused by UDP mismanagement squarely on the shoulders of the Belizean tax payers. No matter how flashy or emotive the language that the PM uses to describe HIS budget, the cold hard fact is that we Belizeans are paying for the myopic economic vision and electioneering of the UDP. Every month you pay that additional $12.00 to $24.00 in electricity bill, you are paying for the UDP third term, every time we pay extra for a soft drink, a beer, a sack of cement or a gallon of fuel we are paying for the UDP third term, when the cost of imported goods go up due to the 1% increase in Environmental Tax, we my fellow Belizeans are paying for the UDP third term.
GOB EXPENDITURE 2008 TO 2016
NOTICE FOSTER FINANCE LTD. #119, 519 (“the Company”) Pursuant to Section 102 (4) of the International Business Companies Act, Chapter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, notice is hereby given that FOSTER FINANCE LTD.: a) Is in dissolution b) Commenced dissolution on the 15th day of March, 2017; and c) MARTINA SANCHEZ DE RIVERA whose address is Panama City, Republic of Panama is the Liquidator of the Company. CIL Trust International Limited Registered Agent
VACANCY FOR Driver/Office Messsenger Qualifications and Experience: • Minimum qualification of a High School certificate • Possession of a Police Record • Minimum 1 year experience in a similar job • Possession of a valid drivers license • Quick learner Basic Skills And Requirements • Must be able to handle a motorcycle. • Must be organized, reliable and punctual. • Have a mature working attitude.
Salary:
Negotiable and dependent on experience and qualifications
Interested candidates must be a highly motivated team player with initiative, flexibility and excellent communication skills. Must have the ability to organize their workload with particular attention to detail. Should be able to operate in a busy environment and meet deadlines.
Closing Date: March 31, 2017 Please send your resume and the names of at least two (2) sources of reference to the below: Manager P. O. Box 80 Belize City, BELIZE or Email: managerlaw2014@gmail.com
YEAR
EXPENDITURE
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
$825M $859M $876M 889.9M 937.8M 934.3M 1.01B 1.06B 1.15B
O Holy Spirit, You who are the Fountainhead of all knowledge, Who Illuminate the path way which enables me to reach my goal. You Who shares 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. Publish prayer as soon as request has been Granted .)
$8.54B
Thank You Holy Spirit. C.A.B.
TOTAL
Prayer To The Holy Spirit
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PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: PROPERTY Stann Creek & Toledo Districts BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Licensed Auctioneer Kevin A. Castillo will sell the following PUBLIC AUCTION SALES: PROPERTIES Stann Creek & Toledo Districts at the locations, dates and times below listed: properties BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Licensed Auctioneer Kevin A. Castillo will sell the following properties at the locations, dates and times below listed: 1. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Dangriga North 31 657 (Being a two storey concrete dwelling house [2,220 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor - 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + covered verandah; First Floor 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + laundry + balcony and lot [754.546 S.M.] situate near the Melinda Road, Dangriga, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Ms. Carol Aranda) 2. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Dangriga South 31 24/1 (Being a elevated concrete dwelling house [1,524 sq. ft.] containing 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [371.463 S.M.] situate in Dangriga North Area, Dangriga, Stann Creek District, the leasehold property of Ms. Delsia Aranda) 3. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 761.590 Square Meters being Lot No. 246 situate in Silk Grass Village Extension, Stann Creek District, Belize TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a elevated timber dwelling house [625 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + verandah and lot [761.590 S.M.] situate in Silk Grass Village Extension, Stann Creek District, the leasehold property of Mr. Felix Galeana Jr. & Ms. Sarita Bol) 4. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 766.202 S.M. being Lot No. 109 situate in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [1,680 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [766.202 S.M.] situate in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. David Saravia) 5. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Dangriga South 31 2071 (Being a elevated timber dwelling house [775 sq. ft.] containing 5 bedrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot situate on Poots Flores Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Ms. Denia Martinez & Mr. Germaine Martinez) 6. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 547.000 S.M. being Lot No. 252 situate in Independence Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [864 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dinind/kitchen and lot [547.000 S.M.], the freehold property of Mr. Guillermo Pinseau) 7. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT LEASEHOLD PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND being Block No. 85 situate in the Commerce Bight Agricultural Layout, Commerce Bight Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all building and erections standing and being thereon. (Being vacant land situate ½ mile west of the Southern Highway between Miles 3 and 4, Stann Creek District, the leasehold property of Ms. Maria Martinez and Mr. Roque Martinez) 8. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lots Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 all situate near Mile 10 south of Stann Creek Valley Road, Hoffman Estate, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being 5 vacant lots [No. 6 - 1003.042 S.M.; No. 7 1006.585 S.M.; No. 8 1003.042 S.M.; No. 9 - 1002.538 S.M. and No. 10 - 998.387 S.M.] situate in Hoffman Estate, near Mile 10 Stann Creek Valley Road, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Ms. Cynthia Yorke)
9. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 771.893 square meters being Lot No. 5 situate south of the Stann Creek Valley Road, Hoffman Estate, Pomona, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [964 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [771.893 S.M.] situate south of the Stann Creek Valley Road, Hoffman Estate, Pomona, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Santiago Acosta and Ms. Nelia Acosta) 10. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Dangriga South 31 1262 (Being a elevated concrete dwelling house [1,600 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen + laundry and lot [571.980 S.M.] situate at Corner Salmwood Road and Pine Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Leron Cayetano) 11. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Dangriga South 31 278 (Being a two storey concrete building [4,992 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: 2 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen; First Floor: 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [807.959 S.M.] situate on Carrie Flo Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Ms. Ruti Palacio) 12. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2016 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 785.259 square meters being Lot No. 54 situate in the Hummingbird Community Village, near Mile 25 Hummingbird Highway, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being an elevated timber dwelling house [1,024 sq. ft.] and lot [785.259 S.M.] situate in the Hummingbird Community Village, Mile 25 Hummingbird Highway, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Armando Coye) 13. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2016 at 11:00 am:
ALL THOSE two pieces or parcels of land together containing 809.10 square yards being Lots Nos. 163 & 164 situate in Sarawee Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all building and erections standing and being thereon. (Being an 8 ft. elevated concrete dwelling house [432 sq. ft.] and 2 lots [163 & 164 -total 809.10 S.Y] situate in Sarawee Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Justo Reyes] 14. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lots Nos. 644 & 649 Independence Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being three Buildings: Building 1: an unfinished structure 40 % completed 400 sq. ft.; Building 2: Office + bathroom 64 sq. ft.; Building 3 Shed 264 sq. ft. and lots [1415.518 S.M.] fenced compound , the freehold property of Mr. Elvis Cabral.) 15. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 928.135 square metres being Lot No. 38 situate in Sarawee Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all building and erections standing and being thereon. (Being Lot No. 38 Sarawee Village, Stann Creek District [928.135 S.M.], the freehold property of Mr. Nicholi Fernandez [Photo taken June 2012] 16. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
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Continued from page 24 REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Dangriga South 31 940 (Being a split level dwelling house [1214 sq. ft.] containing 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen + sitting area and covered porch and lot [555.02 S.Y.] situate on Sarah Gonguez Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Anthony Marin) 17. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Dangriga North 31 1148/1 (Being an elevated timber house [30 ft. X 31.5 ft.] three bedroom + Bathroom + Living/Dining/Kitchen and lot [833.34 sq. yds.] situate on Shack Avenue, Wagierale Area, Dangriga, Stann Creek District, the leasehold property of Mr. Archibal Smith) 18. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 835.844 S.M. being Lot No. 13 Pomona Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot situate in Pomona Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Coronado L. Villafranco) 24. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 766.202 S.M. being Lot No. 132 situate in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a 2 storey dwelling house [1,160 sq. ft.] containing 4 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [766.202 S.M.] situate in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Eduardo Saravia) 25. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 967.680 square metres being Lots Nos. 157 & 158 situate in Sarawee Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all building and erections standing and being thereon. (Being Lot No. 38 Sarawee Village, Stann Creek District [928.135 S.M.], the freehold property of Mr. Isidro Membreno) 19. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 802.713 S.M. being Lot No. 203 in Pomona Village Extension, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a bungalow residential dwelling house containing 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms and lot 802.713 S.M. situate in Pomona Village Extension, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Luis A. Perez) 20. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THOSE PIECES OR PARCELS OF LAND CONTAINING 8 ACRES BEING BLOCK 548 situated on the Southside of the Stann Creek Valley Road near Mile 9 1/2 Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections thereon (Being a concrete two-storey building [5496 square feet] containing 3 bedrooms + 2 full/2 half bathrooms + living + dining + kitchen + laundry + garage and 8 acres of citrus land, the freehold property of Mr. John McDougal and Ms. Jennifer McDougal) [Photo taken Apr 2012] 26. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THOSE PIECES OR PARCELS OF LAND CONTAINING 8 ACRES BEING BLOCK BLOCK 553 situate in the North Stann Creek area near Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections thereon (Being 8 acres of citrus land situate beside Block 548, the freehold properties of Mr. John McDougal and Ms. Jennifer McDougal) ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 2 and comprising of 835.844 square meters situate in Pomona Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being an elevated timber dwelling house [616 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [835.844 S.M.] situate in Pomona Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Ms. Regina Baide) 21. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
All leasehold interest in all that piece or parcel of land being lot No. 53 situate in Hummingbird Community Village, Stann Creek District and bounded as follow:- on the Northeast for 62.397 metres by a street; 0n the Southwest for 47.851 metres by lot No. 54 and lot No. 55 on the West for 5.833 metres by portion of lot No. 52 Northwest for 33.571 metres by portion of lot No. 5; containing 1191.04 Square Yards as shown on Entry 3713 Register 12 at the office of the Commissioner of lands and surveys TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete/timber dwelling house and lot situate in the Hummingbird Community Village, Stann Creek District, the leasehold property of Mr. Pedro Guerra) 22. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 831.304 S.M. being Lot No. 28 in Pomona Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a 1 ½ storey dwelling house [1,401 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + car port; First Floor: master bedroom + bathroom + balcony and lot [831.304 S.M.] situate in Pomona Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Alexander Romero) 23. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
27. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 509.34 square yards being Lot No. 1533 situate along the Stann Creek Valley Road, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being 2 storey composite dwelling house [1,862 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom; First Floor: 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen + sitting room + covered verandah and lot [509.34 S.Y.] situate along the Stann Creek Valley Road, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Ms. Angela Lammey) 28. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Placencia North 36 2307 (Being: Building (1) a 2 storey structure of mixed construction [2,184 sq. ft.] containing 8 apartments each 1 bedroom + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen; Building (2) no habitable: Building (3) not habitable and lot [670.279 S.M.] situate south of the peninsula, Placencia Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Richard Trethewey and Ms. Yolanda Trethewey) 29. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT LEASEHOLD INTEREST in all that piece of parcel of land being Lot No. 143 situate in Maya Mopan Village, Stann Creek District and bounded as follows on the north for 22.858 meters by a street on the south by 22.858 Meters by a lot No. 148 on the east for 30.478 meters by a lot No. 142 on the west for 30.478 meters by a lot No. 144 containing 689.982 S. M. of land as shown on entry No. 3798 Register No. 2 at the office of the Commissioner of Lands and Survey TOGETHER with all building and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete building [1,040 sq. ft.], the freehold property of Mr. Narciso Tush) 30. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
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ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 311.778 S.M. being Lot No. 66B Independence Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being an elevated dwelling house [1,006 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dinind/kitchen + study and lot [311.778 S.M.], the freehold property of Mr. Ray C. Ogaldez) 31. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
[Picture taken Aug 2012] ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 66 containing 1137.57 Square Yards situate in San Roman Village, Stann Creek District, Belize TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being two bedroom timber house [400 Sq. Ft.] and lot 1137.57 Sq. Ft. situate in San Roman Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Amos Velasquez & Ms. Deborah Velasquez) 39. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THOSE TWO pieces or parcels of land containing 929.09 S.M. being Lots Nos. 125 & 64 situate in Independence Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a 2 storey structure of mixed construction (1,920 sq. ft.) containing 5 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + 2 kitchens + 2 living rooms and 2 dining areas and lots [929.09 S.M.] situate in Independence Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Michael Hobbs) 32. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2016 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 526.205 S.M. being Lot No. 28 Independence Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a 2 storey concrete structure [1,680 sq. ft.] containing: Ground Floor 2 bedrooms + living/dining/kitchen; First Floor 3 bedrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [526.205 S.M.], the freehold property of Mr. Nelson Rivas.) 40. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Valley Community/Alta Vista 31 326 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot 1053.770 S.M. situate in the Valley Community/Alta Vista Area, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Alburn Trapp) 33. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 0.64 acre situate along San Antonio/Punta Gorda Road, Jacintoville, Toledo District, Belize TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being two storey concrete dwelling house [4,240 sq. ft.] comprising 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen on each floor and lot [0.64 acre] situate in Jacintoville, Toledo District, the freehold property of Messrs. Pete & NJ’s Trucking) 41. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 18 comprising 1183.51 Square Yards situate along the Southern Highway, Santa Rosa Village, Stann Creek District, Belize TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a lot containing 1183.51 square yards situate in Santa Rosa Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Estevan Choc) 34. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2016 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 722.193 S.M. being Lot No. 66 situate in Pomona Village Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being an elevated timber bungalow residential dwelling house [1,832 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen + car port and lot [722.193 S.M.] situate in Pomona Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Gerald Peters) 35. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 461.849 S.M. being Lot No. 63 situate in Pomona Village (Del Oro Site), Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being an elevated concrete residential dwelling house [832 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + car port and lot [461.849 S.M.] situate in Del Oro Site, Pomona Village, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Roy Tillett) 36. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Dangriga South 31 3342 (Being a three storey concrete commercial/residential building [3,330 sq. ft.] containing 4 bedrooms + 4 bathrooms + (2) living/dining/kitchen and lot [177.000 S.M.] situate at Corner Cedar and Moho Streets, Dangriga, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Ms. Vanessa Chaplin) 37. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2016 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 615.270 S.M. being Lot No. 713 situate in Independence Village, Stann Creek District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [945 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [615.270 S.M.], the freehold property of Ms. Sherrett Muschamp) 38. In front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., No. 10 St. Vincent Street, Dangriga, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 11:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel containing 1695.99 Square Yards being lot 4 situate at Big Falls Village Toledo District, Belize TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [686 sq. ft.] comprising 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [1695.99 S.Y.] situate in Big Falls Village, Toledo District, the leasehold property of Mr. Juan De Dios Poom) 42. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 548 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [840 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen + covered porch and lot [646.116 S.M.] situate on West Street, Punta Gorda, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Glen Enriquez & Mr. Lloyd Enriquez) 43. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 0.563 acre situate along San Antonio-Chiquibul Road, San Antonio Village, Toledo District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being three buildings: A concrete bungalow structure [1,092 sq. ft.] 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + storage + verandah; A two storey concrete house [1825 sq. ft.] Ground floorliving/dining/kitchen + 1 bathroom + storage + shed + verandah; An elevated timber structure [375 sq. ft.] 2 bedrooms + bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [0.563 acre] situate along San Antonio-Chiquibul Road, San Antonio Village, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Ruben Dario Lopez) 44. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 756.56 square meters being Lot No. 169 Forest Home Village, Toledo District, Belize TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [825 sq. ft.] comprising 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [756.56 S.M.] situate in Forest Home Village, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Randolph Williams) 45. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 389 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [936 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [533.33 S.Y.] situate on Gertrude Caliz Street, Punta Gorda, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Steve Enendu and Ms. Keisha Zuniga) 46. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
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54. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 254 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house containing 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [450.00 S.Y.] situate on Sour Sap Street, Punta Gorda, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Pastor Reyes) 47. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 1041.51square meters situate in San Antonio Village, Toledo District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house and lot [1,041.51 S.M.] situate in San Antonio Village, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Juan Ich and Mr. Jesus Ich) 48. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 657.24 square yards being Lot No. 100 comprising 549.538 sq. meters situate in Hopeville Village, Toledo District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [1,052 sq. ft.] being one of the original starter units in the Hopeville Housing Scheme Project comprising 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + study + utility + living/dining/kitchen and lot [657.24 S.Y.] situate in Hopeville Village, Toledo District, the freehold property of Ms. Maria Roches) 49. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 991/2 (Being a two storey multifamily dwelling house [1920 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: 4 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + verandah; First Floor: Rental Units 4 bedrooms (2 of which equipped with private bathrooms) other 2 shared bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot situate corner West & Kiskadee Streets, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the leasehold property of Ms. Nora Garay and Mr. Oliver Garay) 50. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 12.447 acres being Block 41 Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being four built forms on 12.447 acres of land, the primary structure being a single family concrete bungalow dwelling house [1,200 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and landt [12.447 acres] situate on the main road leading to Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Marcel Jacobs) 51. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 31 situate west of Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District containing 464.576 S.M. TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete two storey building [2,720 sq. ft.] designed as a 3 family residential complex: Ground Floor 2 Units each 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen; First Floor 2 bedrooms + 1 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [464.576 S.M.] situate west of Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Ms. Cupertina Teul) 52. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 1287 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [1,504 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [479.020 S.M.] situate on Panpana Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Dennis Williams and Ms. Deborah Westby) 53. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 926 (Being and elevated dwelling house [932 sq. ft.] + Shed [449 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [533.33 S.Y.] situate on Far West Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Rene Pennell) 55. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 30 situate in Hopeville near Cattle Landing Village Settlement, Toledo District containing 546.33 square yards TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [443 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [546.33 S.Y.] situate Hopeville near Cattle Landing Village Settlement, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Alberto Coleman) 56. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing of land containing 977.04 squrare meters being Lot No. 157 situate in Forest Home Village (extension) in the Toledo District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a single family dwelling house [1,882 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + Living/dining/kitchen + Entry Verandah + Covered Carport + Second Floor: Game Room + Covered Patio and lot 977.04 S.M. situate in the Forest Home Village Extension, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. David Duncan) 57. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 1557.81 square yards being Lot 24 situate in the Big Falls Village, Toledo District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being: Building #1 Concrete bungalow dwelling house containing 3 bedrooms + ½ bathroom + Living area; Building #2 Composite Structure with thatched roof used as kitchen/dining; Building #3 timber outhouse and lot [1,557.81 S. Y.] situate in Big Falls Village, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Alberto Shal) 58. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Big Falls/Golden Stream 42 577 (Being a two storey concrete building [2,200 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: Preparation & Storge Facility; First Floor: 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + Living/Dining/Kitchen + Small timber & thatch Kitchen and lot 2,642.62 S.Y. situate in San Miguel Village in the Big Falls/Golden Stream Area, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Mariano Kus) 59. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 677 (Being a two storey concrete building [2,932 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: Commercial Office; First Floor: 4 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + Kitchen and lot 857.23 S.Y. situate No. 11 Front Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Lincoln Pascascio) 60. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 990 (Being a two storey concrete dwelling house [2027 sq. ft.] containing 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [767.000 S.M.] situate Kiskadee Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Ms. Ana Arzu)
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REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 737 (Being a 2 storey concrete/timber commercial/residential building containing business space on the ground floor [1,721 sq. ft.] and single family residence on the first floor: 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen [1338 sq. ft.] and lot 713.33 S.Y. situate on Alejandro Vernon Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Giovani Foster) 62. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
(Being a commercial/residential building [2,126 sq. ft.] and lot 311.62 S.Y. situate at the corner 6th Street/Lucille Melendez Blvd. and a Street, Punta Gorda, Toledo District, the freehold property of Ms. Elizabeth Borland) 67. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 486 (Being: Building (1) 2 storey structure [1,376 sq. ft.] containing 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms; Building (2) [1,109 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [467.984 S.M.] situate off Far West Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Rodolfo Gamboa/Gamboa & Son’s Gas Service) 68. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 50.00 acres of land (Block 11) situate on the North side of the Punta Gorda/San Antonio Road near Rice Reserve, Toledo District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being 50.00 acres of land situate near Rice Reserve, Punta Gorda/San Antonio Road, Toledo District, the freehold property of Ms. Priscilla Graham and Mr. Dennis Moore) 69. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am: REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 793 (Being a two storey concrete building [5,640 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: 5 bedrooms + 3 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen; First Floor 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [668.896 S.M.] situate on West Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Aurelio Oliva) 63. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 450 (Being three buildings (1) concrete single family bungalow dwelling house (415 sq. ft.) containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen; (2) a timber dwelling house (502 sq. ft.) and an outhouse/laundry (120 sq.ft.) situate on Filaya Street, Punta Gorda, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Ernesto Canelo and Mr. Herman Canelo) 64. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 100.026 acres situate along the Amado Road, Toledo District, Belize as shown and described on plan of Survey attached to the Minister’s Fiat Grant No. 1208 of 2007 lodged at the Land Titles Unit and dated December 12, 2007 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being 100.026 acres of land situate along the Amado Road, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Gerald Williams Sr.) 70. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate in Jacinto Village, Toledo District, Belize containing 4,743.16 square yards TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a two storey structure and lot containing 4743.16 square yards, the freehold property of Mr. Gerald Williams Sr.) 71. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 2 acres situate along San Marcos Area, Toledo District, Belize as shown and describe don the Registry Index Map at the office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys Belmopan, Cayo District, TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being two acres of land situate in the San Marcos Area, Toledo District, the freehold property of Mr. Elvis Cabral) REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 614 (Being a two storey concete commercial/residential building used as a restaurant on the ground floor and a residence containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and a another two storey concrete commercial building containing commercial space on the ground floor and 4 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + open space and a timber structure used as a store together with lot [824.79 S.Y.] situate on Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, the freehold property of Messrs. Galvez Taxi & Tours (Mr. Carlos Glavez and Ms. Florence Galvez) [Photos taken July 14 2013] 65. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Punta Gorda 42 1789/1 (Being an incomplete 2 storey concrete dwelling house, Ground floor 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen; First Floor 30% completed and lot [464.576 S.M.] situate on Santa Maria Street, Indianville Area, Punta Gorda, Toledo District, the leasehold property of Mr. Antonio Teul) 66. In Front Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., Corner Prince & Main Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo District on Thursday 6th April 2017 at 10:00 am:
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PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: PROPERTY Belize City & Belize District BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Licensed Auctioneer Kevin A. Castillo will sell the following properties PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: PROPERTIES at No. 170 Beltex Avenue, Belama Phase 1, Belize City on Tuesday 4th April 2017 at 6:00 pm: Belize City & Belize District
BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Licensed Auctioneer Kevin A. Castillo will sell the following properties at No. 170 Beltex Avenue, Belama Phase 1, Belize City on Tuesday 4th April 2017 at 6:00 pm: 1. Lot No. 137 Corner West & Basra Streets, Belize City:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Albert/Mesop 45 436 (Being a two storey concrete building [4,675 sq. ft.] 25% residential - 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dinind/kitchen & 75% commercial/warehouse - glass windows + tiled floors + office spaces + ½ bathroom + kitchenette; remaining portion - warehouse and lot [346.900 S.M.] situate at Lot No. 137 Corner West and Basra Streets, Belize City, the freehold property of Messrs. Tenchtronics Communications Limited)
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Queen Square West 45 1406 (Being a two storey concrete house [2430 sq. ft.] (each floor) 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [301.016 S.M.] situate at No. 164 Neal Pen Road, Belize City, the freehold property of Ms. Sharon Burgess) 9. Lot No. 138 Hattieville, Belize District:
2. Lot No. 61 Amara Avenue, Belize City:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Albert/Mesop 45 206 (Being a two storey timber/concrete building [2,076 sq. ft.] commercial ground floor + residential first floor and lot [415.100 S.M.] situate at No. 48 Regent Street, Belize City, the freehold property of Messrs. Tenchtronics Communications Limited)
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land situate in Hattieville in the Belize District being lot No. 138 containing 1,451.80 square yards TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [1,152 sq. ft.] 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + covered porch situate in Hattieville, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Anna Mejia) 10. Lot No. 187 BDF Housing Site, Lord’s Bank Village, Belize District:
3. Lot No. 45 Usher Street, Lord’s Bank Village, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 45 Usher Lane Lord's Bank, Ladyville Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [628 sq. ft.] 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + porch situate on Usher Street, Lord’s Bank Village, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Glenn Garcia) 4. Lot No. 323 Maxbora, Sandhill, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece of land containing 956.733 square meters, being Lot #323 situate in Sandhill (Maxboro Area) Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. The subject property has a single family raised bungalow concrete structure designed as a two bedroom, one bathroom, laundry and open plan facilitating the standard kitchen, living & Dining areas, and an entry verandah and a porch. The structure has a gross area of 676 sq ft. There is an incomplete addition to the residence with an area of 374 sq ft. he timber structure has an area of 259 sq ft.piece or parcel of land situate in Hattieville in the Belize District being lot No. 138 containing 1,451.80 square yards. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [676 sq. ft.] 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + laundry + entry verandah + porch situate + incomplete addition [374 sq. ft.] and lot [956.733 S.M.] situate in Maxboro, Sandhill, Belize District, the leasehold property of Ms. Judith Cruz & Mr. Cedric Cruz) 5. Parcel No. 1398 Rosalind Bradley Street, St. Martin de Porres, Belize City:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL St. Martin de Porres West 45 1398 (Being two structures: First - a single family dwelling [544 sq. ft.] 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen; Second - an incomplete 2 storey concrete building [500 sq. ft.] situate on Rosalind Bradley Street, (beside Haulover Creek), St. Martin de Porres, Belize City, the freehold property of Mr. Emerson Welch) 6. Lot No. 318 Quail Street, Vista Del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District:
ALL THAT all that piece of land containing 1041.321 square yards being lot 187 situate in the BDF Housing Site, Lord's Bank Village, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [654 sq. ft.] 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + small entry porch situate in BDF Housing Site, Lord’s Bank Village, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Albert Cassanova) 11. Parcel No. 8295 Miller Street, St. Martin de Porres, Belize City:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL St. Martin de Porres 45 8295 (Being a concrete two storey single family dwelling house [890 sq. ft.] Groung floor living/dining/kitchen + rear deck + covered entry porch; First Floor 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom and lot [416.67 S.M.] situate on Miller’s Street, St. Martin de Porres, Belize City, the freehold property of Ms. Shari D. Williams Cadle and Mr. Phillip Cadle) 12. Parcel No. 4982 Sylvia Flores Street, Belama Phase 4, Belize City:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Caribbean Shores/Belize 16 4982 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [816 sq. ft.] 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + verandah on Sylvia Flores Street, Belama Phase 4, Belize City, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Dale Bowen) 13. Lot No. 316 Maxboro Estates, Sandhill Village Extension, Mile 17 Phillip Goldson Highway, Belize District:
ALL THAT LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 316 situate in Sandhill Development Project, near Mile 16 Northern Highway, Belize District and bounded as follows: On the North for 30.476 metres by Lot No. 313; on the South for 30.476 metres by 40 feet wide road reserve; on the East for 31.393 metres by Lot No. 315; on the West for 31.393 metres by Lot No. 317 containing 956.733 square metres as shown on Entry No. 5146 Register 21 at the Office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house and Lot situate in Maxboro Estates, Sandhill Village Extension, Belize District, the leasehold property of Mr. Lionel Jones & Ms. Sylvia Staine.) 14. Lot No. 48 Regent Street, Belize City:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Vista del Mar 16 681/1 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [1,348 sq. ft.] 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [513.000 S.M.] situate on Quail Street, Vista del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District, the leasehold property of Ms. Dorette Perez & Mr. Donovan Perez) 7. Parcel No. 246 Maskall Village Road, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Albert/Mesop 45 1494 (Being a two storey timber structure and lot [238.800 S.M.] situate at No. 48 Regent Street, Belize City, the freehold property of Messrs. Drug Wholesale Depot) 15. Parcel No. 1203 Corner Barrack Road & Hyde’s Lane, Belize City:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Belize Rural North 11 246/1 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [1,401 sq. ft.] 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + covered entry porch and lot situate on Maskall Village Road, Belize District, the leasehold property of Ms. Sherett Brackett & Mr. Ammon Brackett) 8. Lot No. 164 Neal Pen Road, Belize City:
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Fort George/Pickstock 45 1203 (Being a two storey concrete/timber structure and lot [151.150 S.M.] situate at Corner Barrack Road and Hyde’s Lane, Belize City, the freehold property of Messrs. Drug Wholesale Depot) 16. Lot No. 39 Fresh Pond Area, Burrell Boom Pine Ridge, Boom/Hattieville Road, Belize District: REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Queen’s Square West 45 1271/1 (Being a two storey concrete structure [2,880 sq. ft.] containing 5 bedrooms + 1 ½ bathrooms and lot [322.956 SM] situate on MacKenzie Lane near Central American Boulevard (one block south of Neal Pen Road) Belize City, the leasehold property of Ms. Neri Wade) 24. Lot No. 7507 Mangrove Street, Faber’s Road Extension, Belize City, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 1,144.70 Square Yards being Lot No. 39 situate in Boom Pine Ridge Area on the Boom-Hattieville Road, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [854 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and Lot [1,144.70 SY] situate in Fresh Pond, Burrell Boom Pine Ridge, Boom-Hattieville Road, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Letricia Lamb and Ms. Ian Phillips) 17. Parcel No. 873 Vernon Street, Belize City:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Queen’s Square West 45 1056/1 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [1,116 sq. ft.] containing 4 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + Living/Dining/Kitchen and lot [394.700 S.M.] situate on Mangrove Steet, Faber’s Road Extension, Belize City, the freehold property of Mr. Wilhem Miguel and Ms. Sandra Mahler) 25. Parcel No. 79 Mitchell Estate Area, Ladyville, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Lake Independence 45 873 (Being two storey multifamily concrete/stone residential structure [3,214 sq. ft.] containing Four (4) Units each having 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + Living/Dining/Kitchen (2 units per floor) + storage facility adjoining structure on ground floor and lot situate on Vernon Street, Belize City, the freehold property of Mr. Cleveland Davis) 18. Lot No. 11 Lord’s Bank Village, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Vista del Mar 16 79/1 (Being an elevated metal/plycem building [1,539 sq. ft.] containing 5 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + Living/Dining/Kitchen and second structure 320 sq. ft. concrete building used as a restaurant and lot [818.542 S.M.] situate in the Mitchell Estate Area, Ladyville, the leasehold property of Mr. Kenroy Cattouse) 26. Lot No. 290 Vista del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 888.89 square yards being Lot No. 11 situate in Lord’s Bank Village, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being theron. (Being a concrete bunglow dwelling house [1,330 sq. ft.] containing 3 Bedrooms + 1 Bathroom + Living/Dining/Kitchen + utility room + 2 covered porches and lot [888.89 S.Y.], the freehold property of Ms. Carol Young) 19. Lot No. 85 Fresh Pond Area, Burrell Boom Pine Ridge, Boom/Hattieville Road, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Vista del Mar 16 290 (Being an elevated timber/plycem building [912 Sq. Ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [582.000 S.M. (75 ft. X 80 ft.)] situate in Vista del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Shermodean Bainton) 27. Parcel No. 466 West Canal Street, Belize City:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 899.72 SM being Lot No. 85 situate in Boom Pine Ridge Area on the Boom Hattieville Road, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [915 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + covered entry porch and Lot [899.720 SM] situate in Fresh Pond, Burrell Boom Pine Ridge, Boom-Hattieville Road, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Antuanetta Gillett) 20. Lot No. 128 Lords Bank Village, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Albert/Mesop 45 466 (Being three storey concrete structure [5,400 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: Warehouse; First Floor: 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + Living/Dining/Kitchen; Second Floor: 4 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [291.246 S.M.] situate on West Canal Street, Belize City, the freehold property of Messrs. Perez Hardware Store/Mr. Orlando Perez) 28. Parcel No. 857 Vista del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District:
ALL THOSE freehold interest in all that piece or parcel of land being Lot 128 containing 465.064 square meters situate in Lords Bank Village, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections. (Being a vacant lot containing 465.064 square meters, the freehold property of Mr. Edward Young) 21. Lot No. 75 Western Paradise Village, Mile 8 George Price Highway, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 430.636 S.M. being Lot 75 situate on the south side of the George Price Highway, Mile 8, Western Paradise, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being theron. (Being a concrete two storey mix use building [6,362 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: 2 commercial units + bathroom and bedroom + storage; First Floor: 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + roof patio and lot [430.636 S.M.] situate in Western Paradise Village, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Ms. Eloisa Delcid and Mr. Julio Delcid) 22. Parcel No. 963 Vista del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Vista del Mar 16 857 (Being a vandalized concrete bungalow dwelling house and lot [348.26 S.M.] situate in Vista del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Wilfred Pascascio) 29. Lot No. 100 Hattieville, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 833.33 square yards being Lot 100 situate near Mile 17 George Price Highway, Hattieville, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [892 sq. ft.] containing: 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen + 2 covered porches, the freehold property of Ms. Eglah Arnold) 30. Lot No. 152 Belize American Site, Hattieville, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Vista del Mar 16 963 (Being a two storey concrete building [1,850 Sq. Ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 3 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen and lot [464.250 S.M.] situate in Vista del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Vivian Chamas) 23. Lot No. 7299 in an Alley off MacKenzie Lane, near Central American Boulevard, Belize City, Belize District:
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ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 827.78 square yards being Lot 152 situate near Mile 17 George Price Highway, Hattieville, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections. (Being a two storey concrete multi family structure [3,943 sq. ft.] containing: Ground Floor - 2 bedrooms + 1 bath + open living area + covered entry verandah + rear covered porch: First Floor - Incomplete including 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + open living area, the freehold property of Mr. Crispin Jeffries) 31. Parcel No. 456 Church Street, Belize City:
ALL THAT lot piece or parcel of land containing 692.123 S. M. being Lot No. 25 situate 17.5 Miles, George Price Highway, Belize District, Belize TOGETHER with all buildings and erections thereon. (Being vacant land situate near Mile 17 ½ George Price Highway, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Jose Perera) 39. Approx. ½ acre in Betson/Block Creek Area, Mile 22 ½ Phillip Goldson Highway, Coral Cresent, Gardenia Village, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Albert/Mesop 45 456 (Being two storey timber/concrete structure [3,328 sq. ft.] containing Ground Floor: Storage; First Floor: 3 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + Living/Dining/Kitchen and lot situate on Church Street, Belize City, the freehold property of Mr. Luis Munoz) 32. Lot No. 259 Maxboro, Sandhill Village, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 259 situate in Sandhill Development Project, near Mile 16 Northern Highway, Belize District containing 952.087 square meters TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [2865 sq. ft.] and Lot [100 x 100] containing 4 Bedrooms + 2 ½ Bathrooms + Living/Dining/Kitchen situate in Maxboro Estates, Sandhill Village Extension, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Rodolfo Gutierrez) 33. Lots Nos. 89 & 93 1500 yards off the Northern Highway and just South of Los Lagos Development, Ladyville, Belize District
All that piece or parcel of land being Lots Nos. 89 & 93 situate in Ladyville, Belize District containing 924.044 s.m. TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being two vacant lots located approximately 1500 yards off the Northern Highway and just South of Los Lagos Development, Ladyville, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Patricia Mendoza) 34. Lot No. 353, Hattieville, Belize District
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing half acre or thereabout situated in the Betson/Block Creek Area, Located at 22 ½ Miles Phillip Goldson Highway, Coral Crecent, Gardenia Village Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [672 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and ½ acre lot approximately, the freehold property of Mr. Vincent Thomas) 40. Lot No. 153 Bristle Cone Street, Western Pines, Western Paradise Village, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 574.573 S.M. being Lot No. 153 Western Pine, Belize District situate on Bristle Cone Street, Western Paradise Village, Mile 8 ½ George Price Highway, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being theron. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [840 sq. ft.] containing 2 bedrooms + 1 bathroom + living/dining/kitchen and lot [574.573 S.M.] situate on Bristle Cone Street Western Pines, Western Paradise Village, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Sherlene Martinez & Mr. Albert Martinez) 41. Lot No. 319 Mile 8 ½ George Price Highway, Belize District:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 580.635 S.M./694.44 S.Y. being Lot No. 319 situate north of the George Price Highway, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a vacant parcel of land situate near Mile 8 ½ George Price Highway, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Marciana McKoy) 42. Vehicles:
ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 353 situate in Hattieville Village, Belize District, TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a vacant lot [831.242 S.M.] situate in the Village of Hattieville, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Patricia Terry) 35. Lot No 5 Mile 23 ¼ Phillip Goldson Highway, Biscayne Village, Belize District:
2008 Chrysler Aspen ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No 5 situate 23 1/4 Miles Phillip Goldson Highway, Biscayne Village, Belize District TOGETHER with all buildings and erections thereon. (Being a two storey concrete dwelling house [2958 Sq. Ft.] containing Ground Floor: 1 Bedroom + Living/Dining/Kitchen + Utility Room + Entry Porch + Incomplete Storage Room & Single Car Port; First Floor: 3 Bedrooms + 2 Bathrooms + Enclosed Verandah and lot situate near Mile 23 ¼ Phillip Goldson Highway, Biscayne Village, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Clyde Phillip Waight & Ms. Dana Waight) 36. 1.084 Acres situate near Mile 11 ½ Phillip Goldson Highway, Belize District:
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https://www.facebook.com/Belize-Auctions-160585754138204/ ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being containing 1.084 acres situate along the Phillip Goldson Highway, Belize District being more particularly delineated and described as shown on Plan No. 103 of 2001 attached to Minister’s Fiat Grant No. 103 of 2001 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon. (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [2821 Sq. Ft.] consisting of 4 bedrooms + 3 bathrooms + kitchen/living/dining, family room, laundry, porch, car port and detached store room and lot 1.084 acres situate near Mile 11 ½ Phillip Goldson Highway, Belize District, the freehold property of Mr. Bertrand Faux and Mrs. Shirlene Faux) 37. Parcel No. 854 Vista del Mar, Belize District:
REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Vista del Mar 16 854 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [1577 sq. ft.] containing 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms + living/dining/kitchen & laundry rooms and lot [348.26 S.M.] situate in Vista del Mar, Belize District, the freehold property of Ms. Shawn Molina) 38. Lot No. 25 Mile 17 ½ George Price Highway, Belize District:
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