Belize Times October 18, 2020- Land In Your Hands

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The Belize Times

18 OCT

THE BELIZE TIMES

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2020

Established 1957

18 OCTOBER 2020 | ISSUE NO: 5220

The Truth Shall Make You Free

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TRIANGLE OF

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ERWIN, PABLO, DANINI

In the Belize Times of January 10, 2020, in the Belly of the Beast column, funny business the “exploits of electrician Minister Pablo Marin and his wife Danini, the daughter of Pablo’s cabinet colleague Erwin” was dubbed as “one hell of a triangle...”

On March 4, 2014 Danini Contreras was appointed to a high-level post within the Ministry of Health as Director of Drug Inspectorate. Seemingly, this position was created for the soon to be wife of Minister Pablo Marin sending a shockwave throughout the healthcare system.

In our 2020 Pandemic age, a letter has now surfaced awarding Danini Marin nee Contreras a huge jump on the salary pay scale. This has met the ire of many including public servants who were ridiculed by the out-

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Continued from page 1 going Prime Minister Dean Barrow for not wanting to agree to pay cut unless waste in other areas was considered by the Barrow administration. The PSU was cognizant and empathise with the unfolding of the pandemic crisis and refused to be taken for a ride. Interestingly, the UDP Government was ready to give an increase to Danini to the tune of $42,259 per annum from pay scale

18-23. This was a slap in the face to the dedicated officers of GOB forced to a salary deduction in these dire times whilst the Barrow and vying to be Leader Elect Patrick Faber continued to sip on the powerful cocktail of corruption.

This hellish affair is rank with nepotism/corruption. In his book, The Pathology of Politics, Carl J Friedric defines corruption as “a kind of behaviour which deviates from the norm actually prevalent or believed to prevail in a given context, such as the political. It is deviant behaviour associated with a particular motivation, namely that of private gain at public expense.

But whether this was the motivation or not, it is the fact that private gain was secured at public expense that matters. “Importantly, he proffered that notwithstanding such private gain may be monetary, it also translates to other forms.” It may be a rapid promotion, an order, decorations, and the like, and the gain may not be personal, but benefitting a family or other group. The pattern of corruption may therefore be said to exist whenever a power holder who is charged with doing certain things, that is a responsible functionary or officeholder, is by monetary or other rewards, such as expectation of a job in the future, induced to take actions which favour whoever provides the reward and thereby damage the group or organisation to which the functionary belongs more specifically the government.”

So in 2014, she held a Bachelor of Science degree she did not meet the requirements for the lofty office. At the time Ms. Contreras lacked the supervisory qualification to lead the Drug Inspectorate. Additionally, this post creation and the appointment violated appropriate public service procedure. Danini was handsomely paid on a higher scale than the Chief Pharmacist a career worker for most of fifteen years. To many this was a prime example of fragrant nepotism. Rumours floated in a flurry that with daughter/wife at the helm of the Drug Inspectorate a partnership between the trio to control the pharmaceutical market could be realised. However, a merger of the Drug Inspectorate and the pharmacy unit was needed. Danini would not solely be responsible for inspecting and monitoring the pharmaceuticals but would be empowered to source and engage procurement. CEO Dr. Peter Allen was called upon to seal the deal. A deadly conflict of interest erupting.

The time of UDP departure is nigh. This red regime will feel the rod of correction from an angry and frustrated electorate on November 11, 2020. Dehn got to go!! Hasta la Victoria!!

FIRESALE: FROM PIGS TO CATTLE

A recent Belize Times Headline pointed to the UDP firesale beginning. We know the United Democratic Party and the voraciousness of their greed. Just like in 1998, the UDP is intent of draining the Belizean purse and resources for as much as they can. In that year, the Esquivel puppet maneuvered by no other than 1.5 Billion dollar man himself left Belize at zero without grieving at all. They were poised to invest and they cared less about the people. In that year, we saw UDP radio stations, lawfirms and other businesses taking hold with ill-acquired taxpayer monies.

Fast forward to 2020, our Belizean coffers are being indecently dried up. Public servants are willing to give us the info. Photographers and videographers are more ubiquitous than in 1998. The evidence will be ready for the courts.

In a few pictures on site at Central Farm in the Cayo District do we see cattle being moved? Is it true that prices were conveniently reduced from 2 to 1.5 dollars just in time for this corrupt transaction? What stake does caretaker Minister Montero and family have in this? Is Godwin Hulse helping out his predecessor?

When Barrow and William’s rents to the Ministry of National Security... Barrow benefits and all his old cadre and successor envy.

So Faber auto-accommodates in open secrecy to fill a promise to our children to procure tablets IF the parents vote UDP. Initially the promise was that they will get the tablet. But now, it is called blackmail and bribery. Many of our children are still not signed up to their online studies due to the Faber distasteful lie...I mean utter incompetent misinformation.

As the UDP rummages through Belizean resources they feel insecure. We can now see UDP caretaker Ministers slithering around Belize with a Police detail. Of course, the overworked policeman is getting paid NO extra wages for putting their lives on the line, especially in the times of the coronavirus.

The ONLY extra, promised to frontline workers, being received is Covid-19. There are UDP ex-Ministers and former representatives that keep their police detail way pass dissolution of the House. Why? For example, Vega should use his 400,000 to pay his own security.

So from rentals, to the Haulover, to fire station, to Tax writeoffs, and now to cattle., the UDP is preparing for life after November 11. But do not worry Belize, they are leaving a long trail. Their incompetence does not allow them to see the crumbs falling along the way. The UDP will pay!!

UDP SANCTIONING PLANE LANDINGS

Aragon’s Tranches?

Belize has seen the pictures of Caretaker Ministers Contreras and Aragon waiting at the PGIA in areas that were reportedly off-limits to family and friends of those arriving or departing. Nevertheless in an interview on the subject, Aragon confessed to have been waiting in this restricted area for two hours. Many RED flags suddenly fluttered and gave rise to the questions, ‘Who is that important to Aragon?’, also, ‘What were these “investors” bringing for him?’

Aragon spelled that anyone can take his picture as he has nothing to hide(except in the boxes). Too bad brain scans are not technology of today. He stammered to the nation that he had been offered some masks. But then he slipped into Saldivar-like echoes and said the people need as much help as possible. Are there Aragon/ Contreras tranches?

The mystery persists... Aragon is in a catch up race with Kevin Bernard for Orange Walk East. He nonetheless he had some 5 hours to spare with some unknown(to us), special people.

What was Contreras doing there? Aragon says that is for Contreras to explain.

Of note: After the Aragon drive to the airport, the 2 hours wait and chat with Erwin and CIB officers, all coincidentally there according to Aragon, he took the newly arrived men to the Radisson. Official escort for these Asians from Private Jets.

Orange Walk East voters are trying to recall when they have been VIPs for Aragon.

Read the PUP Release on UDP Sanctioning Plane Landing.

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NO WORD FROM THE UDP CARETAKERS AFTER RECORD ESCAPE On October 12 Belizeans discovered that 28 prisoners at the Kolbe facility had taken advantage of brewing internal weaknesses to make good on a rudimentary escape plan. The following day what was called a riot happened but of course this is behind bars so who really knows what happened? Were policemen of the scene during the tremor event?

To back pedal a couple weeks, the coronavirus had finally invaded the 7-month Covid-free prison and transformed their pet scare to reality. The prison management decided to finally lockup the prisoners or so it sounded to a sceptical public. Another set that was surprised were the prisoners, how dare Kolbe decides to lock them up? The nerve of Kolbe management to treat them like prisoners. Was Kolbe mistreating their prisoners beyond human rights?

Pardon the initial sarcasm...

The basic story had prisoners taking advantage of a point in time when a prisoner faked being ill in an area with no cameras. Next thing, a hostage is taken and incarceration is breached as many scurry out. Most likely, twenty eight did not plan the escape but some took advantage to place their lives in danger.

Once you escape, all bets are off as you will be sought, hunted and returned.

Returning alive was a no-no for the duo that has stolen guard firearms.

As we would expect the prisoners are being captured one by one but that does not calm the fears of the populace especially residents in the Kolbe/Hattieville area.

With all the lives at stake one would think that the ‘caretaker government’ would call their quickie press conferences. No can do… they are busy picking up tranches and doing their best to mask Covid relief, Pantry, Imer, and anything that would get them another penny. You know the UDP is just collecting for their retirement. This 2020 election is all about castigating the UDP and they do not care.

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EDITORIAL

Just Bounce!

2008 was the fateful year that Belizeans decided to take a risk and vote for the UDP. They had promised to do better, to wipe out poverty, crime, corruption, to lower the cost of living and better living conditions. Twelve years later the cost of living has sky rocketed, social security contributions have been increased while benefits have decreased. Even the NHI services have been curtailed precisely when they are most needed. Pre pandemic poverty had already affected almost half our population and now it has extended to catastrophic proportions. Inflation is high because the taxes on fuel have been excessive and transportation costs are high. The monopolization of the LPG importation has led to several increases already in the short time that the company has been in operation. The retail price for LGP has become prohibitive and the living conditions of countless Belizean families has regressed fifty years to the times of fire hearth cooking.

This has been particularly difficult for the Belizean families in the urban areas. The UDP’s battle cry then was the nationalization of the utilities, the false promise they made was that rates for electricity, water and telecommunications would be lowered making them more affordable to the public. The litigation for those utility companies have cost Belize and her people hundreds of millions, far more than the actual worth of the companies. Yet, rates have increased steadily and reported profits have dwindled rapidly. These now public utilities far from lowering rates instead have become the cash cow for a privileged few including members and close friends of the Barrow family.

Corruption has been the only thing to truly thrive under the shadow of the UDP. It has enveloped and permeated the entire country these last dozen years. The infection has spread and has caused permanent damage and an ingrained culture of corruption. The Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture has not been without its fair share of controversy either. There have multiple reports coming out of the Julian Cho High School that allege misappropriation of funds and preferential contracts given to well-connected teachers who moonlight as contractors and hustle on the side. We must not forget the audit at National Sports Council which uncovered redirection of funds to the tune of more than one million dollars. The then Minister of State Herman Longsworth had funneled close to forty five thousand dollars into his private and political account, he was fired as the Counsel General at the Embassy in New York for his involvement in the debacle. This happened under the nose of the new leader of the UDP, and since he has not come out to speak against it should we assume that silence means consent?

The Honorable Member for Collet likes to pretend that the stench of corruption does not come from him, but the fact is that he is neck deep in the mire. He has been part and parcel of every decision made in Cabinet, whether by deed or omission the New Party Leader of the UDP bears the collective responsibility for the chaos Belizeans must now face. He must assume the responsibility of the pillage at Lands and even Hon Omar Figueroa’s looting of the Hol Chan Marine coffers to provide political propaganda for his constituents. Hol Chan is now forced to ask for donations through a Go Fund me page online in order to pay their employees and remain afloat. The entire UDP Cabinet is smeared with the same filth, none of them can shake the culpability. The electorate has already decided, on November 11th the UDP must be ready to bounce!

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EDITORIAL

18 OCT

2020

en Español

!Lárguense!

2008 fue el año fatídico en que los beliceños decidieron arriesgarse y votar por el UDP. Habían prometido hacer algo mejor, erradicar la pobreza, el crimen, la corrupción, bajar el costo de la vida y mejorar las condiciones de vida. Doce años después, el costo de la vida se ha disparado, las contribuciones a la seguridad social han aumentado y las prestaciones han disminuido. Incluso los servicios de la NHI se han reducido precisamente cuando más se necesitan. La pobreza pre pandémica ya había afectado a casi la mitad de nuestra población y ahora se ha extendido a proporciones catastróficas. La inflación es alta porque los impuestos sobre el combustible han sido excesivos y los costos de transporte son altos. El monopolio de la importación de GLP ha llevado a varios aumentos ya en el corto tiempo que la empresa ha estado en funcionamiento. El precio de venta al público del GLP se ha vuelto prohibitivo y las condiciones de vida de innumerables familias beliceñas han retrocedido cincuenta años a los tiempos de cocinar en fogón.

Esto ha sido particularmente difícil para las familias beliceñas en las áreas urbanas. El grito de batalla del UDP entonces fue la nacionalización de los servicios públicos, la falsa promesa que hicieron fue que las tarifas de electricidad, el agua y telecomunicaciones se reducirían haciéndolas más asequibles para el público. Los litigios de esas empresas de servicios públicos han costado a Belice y a su pueblo cientos de millones, mucho más que el valor real de las empresas. Sin embargo, las tarifas han aumentado de manera constante y las ganancias declaradas han disminuido rápidamente. Estas empresas de servicios públicos, lejos de reducir las tarifas, se han convertido en la vaca lechera de unos pocos privilegiados, incluidos los miembros y amigos cercanos de la familia Barrow.

La corrupción ha sido lo único que realmente ha prosperado bajo la sombra del UDP. Ha envuelto e impregnado todo el país estos últimos doce años. La infección se ha extendido y ha causado daños permanentes y una cultura de corrupción arraigada. El Ministerio de Educación, Deportes y Cultura tampoco ha estado exento de controversia. Hay múltiples informes procedentes de la Escuela Secundaria Julian Cho que alegan apropiación indebida de fondos y contratos preferenciales dados a profesores bien conectados pluriempleados que trabajan como contratistas y haciendo sus chanchullos a escondidas. No debemos olvidar la auditoría del Consejo Nacional de Deportes que descubrió una desviación de fondos de más de un millón de dólares. El entonces Ministro de Estado Herman Longsworth había destinado cerca de 45.000 dólares a su cuenta privada y política, fue despedido como Consejero General de la Embajada en Nueva York por su participación en la debacle. Esto ocurrió bajo las narices del nuevo líder del UDP, y ya que no ha salido a hablar en contra, ¿debemos asumir que el silencio significa consentimiento?

Al honorable miembro de Collet le gusta fingir que el hedor de la corrupción no viene de él, pero el hecho es que está hasta el cuello en el fango. Él ha sido parte de cada decisión tomada en el gabinete, ya sea por acción u omisión el nuevo líder del partido del UDP tiene la responsabilidad colectiva del caos que los beliceños deben enfrentar ahora. Debe asumir la responsabilidad del saqueo de las tierras e incluso el saqueo de las arcas de la marina de Hol Chan por parte del honorable Omar Figueroa para proporcionar propaganda política a sus electores. Hol Chan se ve ahora obligado a pedir donaciones a través de una página web de Go Fund me para pagar a sus empleados y mantenerse a flote. Todo el gabinete de la UDP está manchado con la misma suciedad, ninguno de ellos puede sacudirse la culpa. El electorado ya ha decidido que el 11 de noviembre la UDP debe estar lista para largarse.

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Minister’s Wife At first, we were willing to give Danini Contreras a pass. We figured it was the least we could do because being married to Pablo Marin had to be punishment enough. So we didn’t make a fuss when she was given a high up position in the Ministry of Health, even though she wasn’t qualified. We didn’t make noise about what was an obvious conflict of interest, her working for her husband in the Ministry. We didn’t laugh when the list of registered pharmacists was released recently and her name wasn’t on it. Imagine, Danini is the Director of the Drug Inspectorate which monitors pharmaceuticals, and she isn’t even a pharmacist. We left it alone. But this is past the mark. In March of this year, Danini, who is also the daughter of Erwin Contreras, was promoted from payscale 18 to payscale 23 in the public service. If March of this year sounds familiar, it was the same exact time when the country-s economy tanked because of Covid-19. The same time when public officers across this country were told that they would have to take one for the team and defer increments. It was the same time when thousands of Belizeans lost their jobs and the UDP started mumbling about retrenchment. But see, Danini is a special public officer. Not special in terms of her abilities, or her intelligence. But ‘special’ because she is the daughter of one Minister and is married to her boss, the Minister of Health. So apparently this qualifies her for a massive pay raise and promotion when every other public officer had to take a pay-cut. The UDP never changes. They never will.

El Odio The man with the Superman curl, El Odio, is hilarious. Did anybody catch his interview on Channel 7 this week? Jules asked him what he was doing at the PGIA on Friday because it sure as hell looked like he was there to escort some Chinese VIPs and cargo through normal Immigration and Customs procedures. So Aragon says that he was there just to say hi, cause whoever was coming in was the friend of a friend.

Then Aragon goes on to say that he was there cause the Chinese VIPS (he thinks they were investors but he’s not sure) were bringing face

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masks for him. So Jules says, well tell us about those masks. And Aragon says, well see – I didn’t actually get the masks. I just dropped them off at the Radisson, because I think that’s where they were staying. What an absolute doofus! So Jules asks…well what was Minister Contreras doing there? And El Odio says well em…I don’t know. He might have been meeting the same people I was meeting.

But you’d have to ask him. Good lerd. The thing is that it’s hard to be angry at El Odio. He’s not acting a fool. It’s not an act. He really isn’t bright at all. But then again, maybe his skill lies in other areas, like may be looking the other way when drug planes land. A lil bird told the Belize Times that Aragon’s ministerial salary all this time hasn’t been touched – just banked every month. So something else must be paying, and paying big. Things that make you go hmmmm!

Poor Patsy Cousin Patsy made much ado about the handing over of the UDP mantle the other day. He claims he is now the UDP leader, as opposed to the leader-elect. He claims he’s in charge. Poor guy. The thing is that nobody trusts him to lead the UDP, much less lead the country. If the UDP had all this confidence in him, then why is Grampa Dean holding onto power until elections are called? If the UDP has all this confidence in him, then how come Grampa Dean didn’t hand over power the moment cousin Pats won the convention by the skin of his teeth? Guess who’s called a press conference for this week to update the nation on the Covid-19 situation. It’s not Patrick, who is in his mind the leader of the UDP and presumably the leader of the country at this point. The man holding the press conference in Grampa Dean, who absolutely refuses to hand over any sort of responsibility to Pats. We listened to that drivel being spewed at the virtual launch when Gramps said he had all confidence in Pats. Awww!! it’s all the usual crap we hear every time he opens his mouth. Pats is persona non-grata within his own party, and we’re putting him on notice that he’ll get the shock of his life in Collet very soon.

M.I.A. It’s a hell of a thing. The last time Jamal bin-Laden Barrow was missing so long, it was because he was dropping soap and playing doctor in prison. If there’s one thing we can say about Jamal, it’s that he never misses a photo op. But since the report that he kicked his wife in her back, the washed-up has-been rapper has gone missing.

It’s like he vanished in thin air. Guess he can’t be showing his face and talking crap bout how he’s a family man when everybody knows he’s nothing but a lowdown woman beater. He’ll get what’s coming to him though. Best believe that.

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NOTICE

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Thursday, September 17, 2020 Contact: Secretary-General Linsford Castillo

PUP Secretariat - #677-9168 VASQUEZ MUST GO October 13, 2020

For Immediate Release

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company of a Chinese national, as numerous unopened boxes were loaded onto a truck.

Vasquez’s arrogant, frivolous as Chairman of BTL makes clear Thesources People’s United Party that isresignation appalled, as all rightnj–Š‹Â?Â?‹Â?‰ ‡Ž‹œ‡ƒÂ?• Credible have indicated allbeen standard at Immigration, Customs, that he has at having caughtprotocols using™Š‹…Š company’s •Š‘—Ž† „‡ǥ no ƒ– remorse –Š‡ ƒ’’ƒ”‡Â?– Â?‘Â?…ŠƒŽƒÂ?…‡ ™‹–Š –Š‡ monies Â?‹–‡† as well as the new COVID-19 protocols at the PGIA were bypassed, as the two UDP Minisˆ‘” Š‹• ‘™Â? ’”‹˜ƒ–‡ ‡Â?–‡”–ƒ‹Â?Â?‡Â?–ǥ ƒŽŽ‡‰‡†Ž› –‘ –Š‡ –—Â?‡ ‘ˆ ƒŽÂ?‘•– ŠƒŽˆ ƒ ‡Â?‘…”ƒ–‹… ƒ”–› ‹• –”‡ƒ–‹Â?‰ ‘—–”ƒ‰‡‘—• ƒŽŽ‡‰ƒ–‹‘Â?• ‘ˆ Â?‹•ƒ’’”‘’”‹ƒ–‹‘Â? ters provided personal escort to passengers. Â?‹ŽŽ‹‘Â? †‘ŽŽƒ”•Ǥ Šƒ– ‹• ƒŽ•‘ …Ž‡ar from Government’s inaction to this ‘ˆ „› ‘Â?‡ ‘ˆ –Š‡‹” ‘™Â?Ǥ ‡•–‘” ƒ•“—‡œ Šƒ• „‡‡Â? ƒ ˜‡”› •‡Â?‹‘” ˆ‹Â?ƒÂ?…‹ƒŽ The People’s United Party calls on the Prime Minister, who is the Minister with re’‘‹Â?– ‹• –Šƒ– –Š‡”‡ ™‹ŽŽ „‡ ƒŽŽ ƒ––‡Â?’–• –‘ •™‡‡’ –Š‡ Â?ƒ––‡” —Â?†‡” –Š‡ ”—‰ ƒ†˜‹•‘” –‘ –Š‡ ”‹Â?‡ ‹Â?‹•–‡”ǥ ƒÂ?† Šƒ• ‡Â?Œ‘›‡† –Š‡ ’‡”Â?• ‘ˆ –Šƒ– ’‘•‹–‹‘Â? sponsibility–‘ ’”‘–‡…– ƒ•“—‡œǤ forÂ?ƒÂ?› Customs and Beverly Minister Immigration, to ˆ‘” ›‡ƒ”•Ǥ ‘” Š‹Â? –‘ Williams, „‡ …‘††Ž‡† „› –Š‡ responsible ‰‘˜‡”Â?Â?‡Â?– for ‡˜‡Â? ĥ ‡˜‹†‡Â?…‡ Šƒ• ƒ’’‡ƒ”‡† –‘ •Š‘™ ”ƒÂ?’ƒÂ?– Â?‹•—•‡ ‘ˆ Â?‘Â?‹‡• ‹• ƒ •Žƒ’ explain why protocols were breached at the PGIA to allow for the entry of the ten member using BTL’s money hisquarantine own, is alsomeasures? ‹Â? –Š‡ ˆƒ…‡ ‘ˆ –Š‡ ‡Ž‹œ‡ƒÂ? ’‡‘’Ž‡Ǥ delegation Š‹• ‹Â?Â†Â‹Â˜Â‹Â†Â—ÂƒÂŽÇĄ …ƒ—‰Š– ”‡†njhanded and cargo. Why were these persons exempted fromasthe the UDP’s representative on the Integrity Commiss‹‘Â?ÇĄ Â?‘ Ž‡•• –ŠƒÂ? ƒ •‹…Â? the What was in boxes and was customs duties collected? joke.

He arrogant, serves asfrivolous the UDP’s Chairman on the of SSB’s Investment Vasquez’s resignation aswere Chairman BTL clear The PUP has learnt that these special visitors escorted by makes the Ministers, in their ‘Â?Â?‹––‡‡ ĥ ‹…‡nj Šƒ‹”Â?ƒÂ? ‘ˆ –Š‡ ‡Â?–”ƒŽ ƒÂ?Â?ÇĄ ’‘•‹–‹‘Â?• ™Š‹…Š that he has ƒÂ?† no remorse at having been caught using company’s monies official vehicles, to the Radisson, and on Saturday they reportedly went to a casino opera‰‹˜‡ Š‹Â? ƒ……‡•• –‘ –Š‡ Â?‘˜‡Â?‡Â?– ‘ˆ –ƒš’ƒ›‡” †‘ŽŽƒ”•Ǥ •‹Â?’Ž‡ ˆ‘” Š‹• ‘™Â? ’”‹˜ƒ–‡ ‡Â?–‡”–ƒ‹Â?Â?‡Â?–ǥ ƒŽŽ‡‰‡†Ž› –‘ –Š‡ –—Â?‡ ‘ˆ ƒŽÂ?‘•– ŠƒŽˆ ƒ tion in Placencia theĥ company and Aragon.

The inaction PUP recalls with concern ”‡•‹‰Â?ƒ–‹‘Â? Šƒ‹”Â?ƒÂ? ‘ˆ Contreras ÇĄ ™‹–Š ƒ …ƒ•—ƒŽ ”‡Â?‹Â?†‡” –Šƒ– Š‡ to ™‘—Ž† Â?‹ŽŽ‹‘Â? in †‘ŽŽƒ”•Ǥ Šƒ– ‹• of ƒŽ•‘ …Ž‡ar from Government’s this that the first major spread in San Pedro started when protocols were bypassed. Šƒ˜‡ ”‡–‹”‡† ƒÂ?›™ƒ› ‹Â? …–‘„‡”ǥ ‹• ˆƒ” ˆ”‘Â? ‡Â?‘—‰ŠǤ ’‘‹Â?– ‹• –Šƒ– –Š‡”‡ ™‹ŽŽ „‡ ƒŽŽ ƒ––‡Â?’–• –‘ •™‡‡’ –Š‡ Â?ƒ––‡” —Â?†‡” –Š‡ ”—‰ And while planes are landing at the PGIA with Ministerial facilitation, Belizeans are –‘ ’”‘–‡…– ƒ•“—‡œǤ wondering if the same is not the case for the narco-planes landing around the country. By Š‹• ‹Â?Â†Â‹Â˜Â‹Â†Â—ÂƒÂŽÇĄ …ƒ—‰Š– ”‡†njhanded using BTL’s money his own, is also unofficial count, at least two dozen planes--MORE-carrying drugs haveas landed in the country since the UDP’s on the Integrity Commiss‹‘Â?ÇĄ Â?‘ Ž‡•• –ŠƒÂ? ƒ •‹…Â?

2018, the latest just representative days ago. Incredibly, narco-traffickers had the time to dismantle and joke. six Hefeet serves as the UDP’s on the Investment bury the plane underground, long Chairman before Police evenSSB’s showed up at the scene. It ‘Â?Â?‹––‡‡ ƒÂ?† ĥ ‹…‡nj Šƒ‹”Â?ƒÂ? ‘ˆ –Š‡ ‡Â?–”ƒŽ ƒÂ?Â?ÇĄ ’‘•‹–‹‘Â?• ™Š‹…Š seems that‰‹˜‡ despite intelligence being provided by our counterparts, our law enforcement Š‹Â? ƒ……‡•• –‘ –Š‡ Â?‘˜‡Â?‡Â?– ‘ˆ –ƒš’ƒ›‡” †‘ŽŽƒ”•Ǥ •‹Â?’Ž‡ officers always show up after the cargo is gone, and”‡Â?‹Â?†‡” –Šƒ– the few arrests ”‡•‹‰Â?ƒ–‹‘Â? ĥ long Šƒ‹”Â?ƒÂ? ‘ˆ ÇĄ ™‹–Š ƒ …ƒ•—ƒŽ Š‡ made ™‘—Ž† never seem to stick. Šƒ˜‡ ”‡–‹”‡† ƒÂ?›™ƒ› ‹Â? …–‘„‡”ǥ ‹• ˆƒ” ˆ”‘Â? ‡Â?‘—‰ŠǤ

Under the UDP, Belize is on the verge of becoming a narco-state; a lawless nation where political favours can be bought for less than 30 pieces of silver and corruption is the order of the day. It is time for the return of--MORE-law and order, good-governance and a new government of the People’s United Party that will respect the rule of law and serve the people.

CARTOON

Notice is hereby given that the below company has been dissolved and struck off the International Business Companies Register with effect from the date indicated: BILLION VALUE CO., LTD. – 24th September, 2020 GenPro Consulting (Belize) Limited Registered Agent

NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given to all interested parties that the company Ethos Universal Ltd. (“the Companyâ€?) incorporated under the IBC Act of Belize commenced dissolution on the 23rd day of September, 2020; and Ms. MarĂ­a De Lourdes Muitim of Rua Dr. Rafael de Barros 174, Apartment 32, Paraiso 04003-041, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil is the Liquidator of the Company, and any claims against the company should be forwarded to the Liquidator within 30 days from commencement.

GCC Corporate Consultants Group Limited Registered Agent

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Party Leader John Briceño’s Address at the PlanBelize 7th Virtual Rollout October 16, 2020

LAND in Your Hands Our Plan Belize on Land is first and foremost to put Belizean land in the hands of our citizens who for too long have been denied this right. We are convinced that our people deserve access to land so they can build their lives and raise strong Belizean families. We say this time it has to be different.

Different for the young married couple with the dream of owning a home of their own.

Different for the young farmer graduating from UB’s school of agriculture and who wants to start a small farm.

Different for the developer who has a great plan for a boutique style hotel along our ample coast or one who dreams of turning a small area on the beach or a few acres in the jungle into something special.

All this being said, we know that Land is a finite resource.

While Belize is comprised of about 8,867 square miles or more than 5 million acres of land on the mainland and another 5 million acres of what we call marine surface area, acquiring a piece of land in Belize is no easy task. Land in Belize, as in all other countries, is subject to all kinds of influences and pressures, all of which must be used or balanced in such a way that it can preserve and increase in value over time.

The experts call this sustainable management of this natural resource. They say if we get this right, if we manage our land resource properly, it can be that which changes the way societies in Belize prosper.

I agree.

The proper use and management of our natural resources will help us to reduce poverty, protect and preserve the environment. Of course, what Belizeans want most from their government is land for them to build a home. They want land for nice parks and safe playgrounds for their children. They want to know that we as leaders have the plan as well as the ability to meet the demand for the expansion of cities, towns and villages.

Not the kinds of expansion we seen happening now; expansion that is occurring in a haphazard, inefficient and unsustainable manner. The kind that is causing squatting and the building of plywood structures in the swamps. They want a properly managed system free from politicization,

corruption and bureaucratic nonsense.

Our farmers and agro producers and entrepreneurs want a government that will make available land for manufacturing, agriculture and increased food and feed production, land for tourism and real estate development, and most important they want us to protect the abundant terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity that will ensure that all the plants and animals that make up this rich ecosystem is protected and preserved for generations.

As you just heard, Cordel laid out for you how we can accomplish these goals. He along with our standard bearers and consultants provided you with our blueprint from which we can take away six key elements.

The next PUP government then will do the following: 1) Ensure that every Belizean over 18 years of age who desires to own a piece of land for housing, urban and rural farming or business gets the opportunity to do so. We will make it a priority to start with first time landowners, women and young people.

2) Partner with city, towns, and village councils and alcaldes to project land needs for population growth. We will do this by carving out land for planned and phased urban expansion. This means making land available for housing, education, recreation, commercial activities and so on. We want to do this so that we can have planned, orderly, transparent and progressive development of our communities, always in a way that respects the rights and traditions of all our people.

3) Simplify, make safe and modernize the process of applying for land and receiving titles. We will modernize the land registry to allow for online access. We will be transparent and accountable because Belizeans deserve a process in Lands that is non-partisan, friendly, seamless and convenient. This is our land and we must treat it with respect.

4) We will reestablish the survey unit at the lands department to fast track the surveying and delivery of land for housing, urban and rural farming, business, commerce and industry.

5) Align our national development goals with a National Sustainable Land Use Plan which maintain the ecological integrity of the biophysical environment and the cultural landscapes, and which identifies and demarcates land for urban expansion, tourism, agriculture and other development activities based on a criterion of best use.

6) Mobilize resources for climate smart development aligned to the national development and sustainable land use plan through incentivizing green and climate smart urban and rural development and ecosystem services.

En muchos países, aun en los países hermanos de Centro América, ser dueño de una parcela o lote para construir una casa o sembrar granos o vegetales para sobrevivir solo puede ser un sueño.

En Belice todavía hacer eso una realidad. El PUP reconoce los beneficios de la tierra como factor de producción y se compromete a cambiar el modo en que se distribuye la tierra hasta hoy. El PUP reconoce que la posesión de tierra como propiedad le ofrece muchas oportunidades y beneficios a una familia. El norte de Belice (los distritos de Orange Walk y Corozal) son ejemplos típicos y reales de como la posesión de tierra permite la creación de riqueza.

La industria cañera nunca fue de beneficio para los pueblos norteños hasta que George Price les puso estas tierras en las manos a los cañeros. Ese fue el momento bíblico para un pueblo norteño Hoy me comprometo a que el PUP siga el ejemplo de George Price y hacer que cada ciudadano tenga y ejerza su derecho de ser dueño de un pedazo de este su país. Solo de esta forma podremos ayudar a nuestras familias a sobrevivir y luchar contra la escoria que es la pobreza.

Solo repartiendo la tierra con equidad podremos salir de esta cultura de dependencia que hemos creado…solo de esa manera podremos cumplir nuestra promesa de mantener las tierras en manos de los beliceños para el bien de todos los beliceños.

Fellow citizens the intangible benefit of land ownership and home ownership cannot be overstated. Land in Belizean hands is about lifting people out of poverty in a way that is inclusive and demonstrative. For when we put land in Belizean hands, we ensure that future generations will have it as their inheritance.

In so doing the next generation will be able to look back and say that our generation of leaders dared to be different, dared to stand up for those among us who were traditionally left behind, that we sought to level the playing field, that we sought to make us all equal as we are in the eyes of our Creator.

For us in the PUP, there is nothing false about hope. This policy inspires hope and dreams and aspirations beyond anything we have ever seen. It not impossible to achieve and it is in partial fulfillment of our promise to build a Belize that works for Everyone, where Everybody Fi Win. Please remember, wash your hands often. Wear your facemask in public. Keep practicing physical distancing and be kind to one another.

Thanks, God bless and have a safe and restful weekend.

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Faber the Unfortunate one “Unfortunate” is the choice word for one very incompetent and clearly under qualified Patrick J. Faber. Unfortunate is another way of saying that he has no plan nor anyway he can do to solve a problem. Name the political problem the UDP has endured and Faber is standing right beside Barrow as inert as bitter salt.

Two of the BIG ones were his lack of comprehension and knowledge of the Joshua Perdomo 40 thousand student loan writeoff.

It seemed back then and now that Faber was content to be in the dark. It was so much easier to turn a blind eye to a wrong in the Education realm. Just as now he is ignoring that High School students have not received the promised devices for them to join the ongoing online classes.

The next one is really hypocritical of Faber who has found himself in a similar domestic dispute to Shyne Barrow’s meltdown. All lowly Faber can say is that the Barrow report isn’t, in so many words, really a cause for concern.

What else can Faber say when he has been embroiled in the same issue? Again, Faber is powerless because he has no moral authority.

All of the United Democratic Party is severely compromised. The very Red that rep-

resents the UDP has been corrupted by the unethical to illegal acts of the UDP during 13 years of a maladministration that has placed us in three economic recessions including the current one.

Patrick Jason Faber is complicit

and guilty of being a part of any and all infamy that can be attributed to the UDP. As Barrow passed the baton to Faber on October 8, we did not hear any rejection of the old UDP. It was UDP business as usual.

Fortunate for Belize, Faber will

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not even get a whisk of Prime Ministerial office. Dean Barrow made sure to call elections FIRST then he reluctantly handed the deteriorated corrupt UDP remains to a Faber that showed disappointment as he knows that castigation is the only reward he will get.

MEGA PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: PROPERTY Ladyville, Belize District

BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Licensed Auctioneers Kevin A. Castillo & Christiana R. Castillo will sell the following property at No. 170 Beltex Avenue, Belama Phase 1, Belize City on Monday 19th October 2020 at 1:30 pm: Lots Nos. 31 & 32 near Mile 12 Phillip Goldson Highway, Ladyville, Belize District:

REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCELS 5130/5131 Ladyville/Lords Bank 16 5130 & 5130 (Being a concrete two storey dwelling house [4,418 sq. ft.] containing [5 Bedrooms + 5 Bathrooms + Living/Dining/Kitchen/Family Rooms] and lots together [1,813.762 S.M.] situate near Mile 12 Phillip Goldson Highway, Ladyville, Belize District, the freehold properties of Ms. Shirlee Cornejo).

TERMS: STRICTLY CASH KEVIN A. CASTILLO TELEPHONE 223-4488 E-mail: belizeauctionsales@gmail.com Face Book: Belize Auctions

G. A. Roe & Sons Limited Is seeking the services of a CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER (COO); Applicants must meet the following the services of requirements: a CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER (COO); Applicants must meet the following requirements:

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT TION REQUIREMENT MINIMUM REQUIRMENTS: Advanced degree in business administration, finance, or inNIMUM • REQUIRMENTS: Advanced degree in business administration, finance, or industry specialty is dustry specialty is preferred with a minimum of ten (10) years experience working in a Senior eferred with a minimum of tenexperience (10) years experienceRoles. working in a Senior Managerial Role and extensive Managerial Role and extensive in Leadership perience in Leadership Roles.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide leadership to the organization that aligns with the organization’s business plan and RESPONSIBILITIES overall strategic ovide leadership tovision. the organization that aligns with the organization’s business plan and overall strategic People’s United Party • Spearhead the development, communication and implementation of effective growth on.strategies and processes. earhead •the development, of effective growthworking strategies and processes.

Drive organization communication results from bothand an implementation operational and financial perspective closely with the CEO, from CFO and other managementand teamfinancial members.

FOR MARISELA GONZALEZ ve organization results both an operational perspective working closely with the CEO, JUSTICE CFO • Interacts with General Managers of subsidiaries on a regular basis in order to monitor JUSTICE FOR MARISELA GONZALEZ d other management team members. proper operations of subsidiary companies. Leads coordination and integration of efforts among eracts with General Managers of subsidiaries on a regular basis in and order to monitor ofOctober 15th, 2020 – The partially nude body of twenty-eight-year-old operations, technology, customer service, marketing, administration other functions proper to pro- operations Peoat poflethe ’twenty-eight-year-old s Udump nited Psite artyin San Pedro th October 15 , 2020 – The partiallywas nudefound body Marisela Gonzales was fo Marisela Gonzales Town.

By all acbsidiary companies.

Leads coordination and integration of efforts among operations, technology, customer duce smoother workflow and more cost-effective business processes. counts, she was violently shotshe to the and dumped • Developadministration and manage theand groups Information Technology (IT) strategy thatworkflow meetsthe theand orgadump in San Pedro Town.

By allbeaten, accounts, washead violently beaten, like shotgarbage. to the he vice, marketing, other functions to produce smoother moresite cost-effective nization’s business needs, delivers optimal return on investment, and maintains utmostdumped security. like garbage.

Marisela was every woman.

She was a wife, daughter, siness processes.

Marisela wasBelizean every Belizean woman.

She wasaamother, wife, aamother, a adaug JUSTICE FOR MARISELA GONZALEZ Collaborates with members of the executive team to identify ways IT can assist the organization sister, a friend and the latest victim of the heinous brutality of domestic viovelop and manage the groups Information organization’s sister, a friend business and the latest victiminof the heinous brutality of domestic violence.

The manner in in achieving business and financial goals. Technology (IT) strategy that meets the OctoberThe 15th,manner 2020 – The partially of treated twenty-eight-year-old Gonzalesdisregard was found atfor lence. whichnude shebody was suggestsMarisela a complete eds, delivers optimal return on investment, and maintains utmost security.

Collaborates with members of the • Ensures that IT and network infrastructure adequately support the organization’sshe computwas treated suggests a complete disregard for her as a human being.

She was stripped the dump site in San Pedro Town.

By all accounts, she was violently beaten, shot to the head and her as a human being. She was stripped of her dignity in death. ing, team data processing, communications needs. ecutive to identifyand ways IT can assist the organization in achieving business and financial goals.dumped garbage.

Marisela was every Belizean She condemns was a wife, a mother, a dignity in death.

Thelike United Women’s Group (UWG) woman. strongly this acta daughter, of violence • Develop and manage the groups Marketing strategy that meets the organization’s busisister, a friend and the latest victim of the heinous brutality of domestic violence. The manner in which sures that IT and network infrastructure adequately support the organization’s computing, data processing, which has led to the loss of another special woman, allegedly at the hands of ness needs and delivers optimal return on investment. she was treated suggests a complete disregard for her as a human being. She was stripped of her d communications needs. her spouse.

We cannot continue giving lip service to the fight against domestic • Works with other c-level executives on budgeting, forecasting and resource The allocation dignity in death.

United Women’s Group (UWG) strongly condemns this act of violence which has led to the velop and manage the groups Marketing strategy that meets the organization’s business needs andviolence delivers and expect that our women will feel safe in their homes. Recently a programs. another special woman, allegedly at the hands ofofher spouse.

We cannot continue giving lip ser • Oversees the ongoing operations of the Administration, I.T., HR, Marketing, and Internal The United Women’s Groupwas (UWG) strongly condemns this act violence of violence which to the loss of prominent politician accused domestic after has hisledwife’s injuries timal return on investment. the fight againstwere domestic violence and expect that our women will feel safe in their homes. another special woman, allegedly at the hands of her spouse.

We cannot continue giving lip service to Audit Group Departments. medically classified as harm. Nothing was done about the situation except Rec orks with other c-level executives on budgeting, forecasting and resource allocation programs. thejustify fight against andbe expect that our womenhis willwife’s feelthis safeinjuries in theirofhomes. a prominent politician was accused ofviolence domestic violence after wereRecently medically cl to whydomestic nothing could done.

Undoubtedly, lack action emboldersees the ongoing operations of the Administration, I.T., HR, Marketing, and Internal Audit Group prominent politician was accused of domestic violence after his wife’s injuries were medically classified KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS ens abusers and affirms women’s fears that the system will not be there for Nothing was Nothing done was about justify why nothing could be as harm. done the about situation the situationexcept except totojustify why nothing could be done.

• Excellent managerial and financial skills and the ability to take leadership overas anyharm. busipartments. them when they cry out.emboldens Undoubtedly, this lackemboldens of action abusers and affirms affirms women’s fears that the system will not Undoubtedly, this lack of action abusers and women’s fears that the system ness operations area.

GE AND SKILLS Wefor call onwhen the they authorities be there them cry out. to ensure that a proper investigation is carried out • Superlative communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate as a leader. be there for them when they cry out. ellent managerial and financial skills and the ability to take leadership over any business operationsand area. that the perpetrator is charged for this despicable crime. We want justice for • Thorough understanding of management and financial practices in all areas and phases of We call on the authorities to ensure that of a proper investigation is carriedWe out will and that perpetrator is perlative communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate as a leader.

Marisela and all other victims domestic violence. nothe longer tolerate business operations. charged for this despicable crime.

We want justice for Marisela all other of domestic • Dedication to building and growing a strong andpractices stable workforce. inaction and responses to crimes against our women!

We of callbusiness on theoperations. authorities to sloppy ensure that a proper investigation is and carried outvictims and that the perpet orough understanding of management and financial in all areas and phases We will no longer tolerate inaction and sloppy responses to crimes against our women! organizational leadership abilities, including the ability to recognize and for this violence.

Domesticcrime. violence is widespread Belize and it has be other tackledvictims head-on. charged despicable We want justicein for Marisela andtoall of do dication•toOutstanding building and growing a and strong and stable workforce. cultivate rising talent.

A Zero Tolerance Policy must be employed across the board!

It does not matter Domestic violence is widespread in Belize and it has to be tackled head-on.

A Zero Tolerance Policy tstanding organizational and leadership abilities, including the ability to recognize and cultivate rising talent. violence.

We will no longer tolerate inaction and sloppy responses to crimes against our women!

• Aptitude in sound decision-making and problem-solving in pressure situations. your income bracket, race,It religion, position political affiliation: you are must age, be employed across the board! does not matter your or age, income bracket, race, ifreligion, titude in sound decision-making and problem-solving in pressure situations. position or political affiliation: you are an abuser must stop now or face themust consequences! an abuser you must stopifnow or face the you consequences!

Women feel con-

KEY COMPETENCIES & ATTITUDES Domestic violence is widespread in Belize to be beanswered. tackled head-on.

Atobe Zero Tolerance Women must their feel confident that help theirand cries for help will the laws needto be changed, fident that cries for willit behas answered.

If the Iflaws need changed, • Must be a strong leader and communicator, team player, analytical, flexible, researcher, then change thethe laws!laws!

If thereIfneeds to needs be better then enforce the laws!

Do whatever itrace, ETENCIES & ATTITUDES then change the there be better enforcement, then enforce the r must be employed across board!

It does nottoenforcement, matter your age, income bracket, dependable, honest and mature, sound work ethics, action oriented, strategic. takes to keep our women safe and ALIVE! Stop sweeping the dirt under the rug!

ust be a strong leader and communicator, team player, analytical, flexible, researcher, honest laws!

Do whatever it takes our women safestop and now ALIVE! position dependable, or political affiliation: if you are to ankeep abuser you must or Stop face sweeping the consequ Salary sound is negotiable based on qualifications andstrategic. experience. Interested persons can send their d mature, work ethics, action oriented, the dirt the rug!

We extendunder our heartfelt condolences to the family of Marisela Gonzales and we expect that her killer

Women must feel confident that their cries for help will be answered. If the laws need to be ch

applications along with two professional letters of reference (preferably one from a most recent We extend our heartfelt to law, the and family ofand Marisela and will be charged and prosecuted to thecondolences fullest extent of the that he Marisela Gonzales get the justice then change thewe laws! there needs to will be better enforcement, then enforce the laws!

Doofwha employer) with copy of a Police Record/Receipt to: send their applications they bothIfdeserve. expect that her killer be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent is negotiable based on qualifications andaexperience.

Interested persons can along with two

keep ourthe women safe andheALIVE! Stop sweeping the dirtthey under the rug! law, and that and Marisela get the justice both deserve. sional letters of reference (preferably one from a most recent employer) with a copy of atakes Police to Record/Receipt to: Human Resource Department --ENDS-END Human Resource G.A. Roe & SonsDepartment Ltd. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the family of Marisela Gonzales and we expect that he G.A. RoeHouse & Sons Ltd. Gordon _____________________________________________________________________________________ will be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and that he and Marisela get the One Gordon Coney Drive House The UWG is the women’s arm of the People’s United Party. Established since 1959, the UWG remains committed to Belize City One Coney Drive they both deserve. promoting gender equality, economic empowerment and greater access to basic rights for a better quality of life OR email to: hr@roesons.comBelize No later Citythan 27th October 2020 for women and young girls in Belize.

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HENRY CHARLES USHER for

NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given to all interested parties that the company TOULA S.A. (“the Company”) incorporated under the IBC Act of Belize commenced dissolution on the 07th day of October, 2020; and Mr. Jean-Francois Ballif of 1405 Pomy, Switzerland is the Liquidator of the Company, and any claims against the company should be forwarded to the Liquidator within 30 days from commencement.

FORT GEORGE

Icaza Belize Trust Corporation Limited Registered Agent

PUBLIC AUCTION SALES: BOATS & PROPERTY Belize City, Belize District & Cristo Rey Village, Cayo District

BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Messrs. The Belize Bank Limited, Licensed Auctioneers Kevin A. Castillo & Christiana R. Castillo will sell the following boats and property at the following locations, dates and times:

PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: BOATS PUBLIC AUCTION SALE: BOATS 170 Beltex Avenue, Belama Phase 1, Belize Belize A.170 BELIZE CITY: Beltex Avenue, Belama Phase 1, Belize City,City, Belize BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Messrs.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - www.belizebank.com (foreclosure listing) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - www.belizebank.com B. CRISTO REY VILLAGE, CAYO DISTRICT: (foreclosure listing) TERMS: STRICTLY CASH STRICTLY 1. On Site atTERMS: Lot No. 54 Cristo Rey CASH Village, Cayo District on MonKEVIN A. CASTILLO KEVIN day 26th October 2020 A. at CASTILLO 11:30 am: TELEPHONE 223-4488 TELEPHONE 223-4488 E-mail: belizeauctionsales@gmail.com E-mail: belizeauctionsales@gmail.com Facebook: Belize Auctions Facebook: Belize Auctions

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LA TIERRA BELICEÑA EN TUS MANOS

This time must be different

There are some historical wrongs that we do not like to discuss in this country. But nearly half a century ago, in 1974, 3% of landowners owned 95% of the privately owned land in this country, while 91% of the landowners owned a mere 1%. In that year foreigners, mostly US citizens, owned 90% of the privately owned land in Belize. There is a good chance it has not gotten better over time. In fact, some would say it has gotten worse. All over Central America, land concentration in the hands of a few has been the cause of bloody civil wars and mass casualties. That has not been the case in Belize.

What we need to do at this point in our nation’s history, as we seek to make the promise of Independence real, is correct those historical wrongs. We do so not by expropriating land or violent land grabs. We do so by ensuring that all those who do not have land get a piece of the Jewel. We do so by empowering the massively underprivileged and landless in our society. We do so by ensuring that we change the ethos and character and attitude and values of our fellow Belizeans. And in so doing, we avert ever reaching the point of civil war. We ensure that the demand for land does not crescendo into a violent demand. We ensure that our people become independent rather than dependent - that they become landowners rather than land-watchers. We make the Belizean dream real!

The solution

We believe the solution is doable. In fact, we dare say it is easy. All we need to have is the political will…the commitment…the social justice and fire of the George Price PUP. We do that by ensuring that those who do not have - get. And those who need our help the most obtain the help they deserve. We look after the needy among us. The jobless. The landless. The houseless. The listless. The hopeless. We transform their lives materially and ensure that their descendants are removed from poverty forever. To do otherwise would mean that we are condemning their descendants to uninterrupted generations of poverty. The task at hand is nation building by the many, not the few – for the many, not the few. Under a PUP government, everybody fi win! That is the George Price way! That will be the John Briceño way!

LOOKING FORWARD

We won’t look back. We won’t bother to retell the horror stories of the past. It’s about the future and how we go from the dark ages to an enlightened era. About ensuring that the youth in our midst become landowners. That sixth form students and teachers and soldiers and police officers and nurses and construction workers and day workers and artists and athletes and bank tellers and women can finally

Esta Vez Debe Ser Diferente

Hay algunas injusticias históricas que no nos gusta discutir en este país. Pero hace casi medio siglo, en 1974, el 3 por ciento de los propietarios de tierras poseían el 95 por ciento de las tierras de propiedad privada en este país, mientras que el 91% de los propietarios de tierras poseían nada más el uno por ciento. En ese año, los extranjeros, en su mayoría ciudadanos estadounidenses, poseían El 90 por ciento de las tierras de propiedad privada en Belice. Es muy probable que eso no haya mejorado progresivamente. De hecho, algunos dirían que ha empeorado. El asunto es que es que en toda América Central ese tipo de concentración de tierras en las manos de unos pocos fueron la causa de guerras civiles sangrientas y el gran número de víctimas consiguientes. Porqué no ocurrió en Belice es un tema que debería ser estudiado por los académicos.

Pero lo que necesitamos hacer en este punto de la historia de nuestra nación, al buscar hacer realidad la promesa de la Independencia es corregir esas injusticias históricas. No lo hacemos expropiando ni con acaparamientos de tierras violentos.

Lo hacemos asegurándonos de que todos aquellos que no tienen tierra reciban un pedazo de la Joya. Lo hacemos empoderando a los masivamente desfavorecidos y sin tierra de nuestra sociedad. Lo hacemos asegurándonos de que cambiamos el espíritu y el carácter, la actitud y los valores de nuestros compatriotas beliceños. Y al hacerlo, evitamos llegar al punto de una guerra civil. Aseguramos que la demanda de tierra no vaya en crescendo hacia una demanda violenta. Nos aseguramos de que nuestra gente se convierta independiente en lugar de dependiente. Que se conviertan en terratenientes en lugar de observadores de la tierra. ¡Hacemos que el sueño beliceño sea una realidad!

La SOLUCIÓN

Creemos que la solución es factible. De hecho, nos atrevemos a decir que es fácil.

Todo lo que necesitamos es la voluntad política. El compromiso. El fuego de la justicia social del PUP de George Price. Lo hacemos asegurándonos de que Los que no tienen, consigan. Y de que los que más necesitan nuestra ayuda obtengan la ayuda que merecen. Cuidamos de los necesitados entre nosotros. Los desempleados. Los sin tierra. Los sin hogar. Los decaídos. Los sin esperanza. Transformamos sus vidas materialmente, y nos aseguramos de que sus descendientes sean librados de la pobreza para siempre. Hacer lo contrario significaría que estamos condenando a sus descendientes a generaciones ininterrumpidas de pobreza. La tarea que tenemos entre manos es la construcción de la nación, por parte de todos, no de unos pocos - para todos, no para los pocos. Bajo un gobierno PUP, ¡todo el mundo gana! Eso es el buen camino de George Price. ¡Esa será la dirección de John Briceño!

MIRANDO HACIA ADELANTE

No miraremos atrás. No nos molestaremos en volver a contar las historias del horror del pasado. Se trata del futuro y de cómo pasamos de la edad oscura a una era

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declare that they own a piece of the Jewel! That the minimum wage earners can finally breathe with a living wage and a piece of land.

THE CURE

We will ensure that every Belizean who doesn’t own a piece of land, gets a piece of land. Every Belizean. It is doable. In the last 12 years we have seen select families get thousands of acres of lands. With the acres granted to just a few of those families, we could have ensured that every single Belizean who doesn’t own a piece of land gets a piece of land, whether house lot or farmland. That is the charge of the next PUP administration. That is the call to arms. That will be the giant but noble task of the Lands Department which became disreputable under the UDP but will be re-energized. That will be our core ideology manifested - our reason for existing.

THE NUMBERS

We have approximately 40,000 minimum wage earners - 7,000 teachers.

2,000 Police Officers, 1,500 soldiers, 5,000 sixth form students, less than 1,000 nurses, hundreds of athletes and artists, thousands of construction workers and bank tellers. It can be done. The PUP with John Briceño as Minister of Natural Resources issued more than 60,000 land leases during our 1998-2008 administration. It can be done!

NATIONAL URBAN GARDEN

The immediate benefits of providing this fundamental Belizean right to first time landowners are obvious and plenty - an opportunity at a dignified, better standard of living…the upliftment of the more than 50% of our people drowning under the poverty line in our country. But what it also offers us is a unique opportunity to ensure that our people – all our people – eat what they produce and produce what they eat. It is about ensuring that our people in the urban centres have access to a decent sized house lot so they can begin to have backyard gardens of substance.

It is time that our people start producing what we eat and eating what we produce. It is about planting our own food, all about food, about eating healthy. That is what COVID-19 has taught us; that food is like gold.

We must embark on a National Urban Garden program. And we don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

Our Cuban friends have a wonderfully efficient and productive model of urban gardens and organic food production. We do this: we live longer; we boost our economy. Save foreign exchange. We become truly independent!

EMPOWERING THE RURAL

Everywhere in the world there is a movement of people from rural to urban. All the experts predict that in the decades to come the movement will only intensify as rural lands are gobbled up by big agri-business. In Belize, we will reverse that urban march. We will honour the rural way of life; we will empower our people.

We will ensure they have family farmland, access to the best lands - the most fertile and accessible land.

There will be land for first time landowners, and land for agriculture production and village expansion.

We will respect the village councils and their lots committees.

We will ensure there is land tenure, so no future government can reverse the land reform we are undertaking.

We will ensure that our rural folks and our urban folks who are respectively into farming and urban gardening get the requisite support from our agriculture extension officers. Just giving the land is not enough. We must support the new landowners with capacity building and targeted support. We must help small farmers to succeed. Small farms mean development, less poverty and more food security.

THE PROCESS

The process for applying for and receiving land must be simple, transparent and uniform. It must be non-partisan, friendly and convenient. No more letters from Ministers to apply for land. The criteria will be simple: if you are a first-time landowner you can apply. There will be no more partisan distribution of land. Land distribution will be based on need.

What is good for the landless is good for the party; it cannot be that what is good for the party is bad for the landless.

There will be no more middlemen at the Lands Department; no more paying for a public service you have already paid for.

There will be no more up and down to Belmopan for rural and even town and city folks. We are living in a modern era; central government should be going to the people, not the other way around.

The digitization of the Lands Department should mean more transparent management of national lands, but also more convenient and friendly service to our people wherever they are in the country.

iluminada. Acerca de asegurando que los jóvenes entre nosotros se conviertan en propietarios de tierras. ¡Que los estudiantes de sixth form y los profesores y soldados y policías y enfermeras y trabajadores de la construcción y jornaleros y artistas y los atletas y los cajeros de los bancos y las mujeres finalmente puedendeclarar que son dueños de un pedazo de La Joya! Que los que ganan salario mínimo puedan finalmente respirar con un salario digno y un pedazo de tierra

LA CURA

Nos aseguraremos de que cada beliceño que no sea dueño de un pedazo de tierra obtenga un pedazo de tierra. Todo beliceño. Es factible. En los últimos 12 años hemos visto a familias selectas obtener miles de acres de tierras. Con los acres concedidos a un poco de esas familias hubiéramos podido haber asegurado de que cada beliceño que no sea dueño de un pedazo de tierra obtenga un un pedazo de tierra ya sea un terreno para una casa o para una granja. Eso es el cargo de la próxima administración PUP. Eso es el llamado a las armas. Esa será la gigantesca pero noble tarea del hasta ahora desacreditado Departamento de Tierras. Esa será nuestra ideología central manifestada. Nuestra razón de existir.

LOS NUMEROS

Tenemos algo así como 40.000 asalariados con salario mínimo. 7.000 maestros. 2.000 policías. 1.500 soldados. 5.000 estudiantes de sexto grado.

Menos de 1.000 enfermeras. Cientos de atletas y artistas. Miles de constructores trabajadores y cajeros de banco. Se puede hacer. El PUP con John Briceño como El Ministro de Recursos Naturales emitió más de 60.000 arrendamientos de tierras durante nuestra administración de 1998-2008. ¡Se puede hacer!

Jardinería Urbana Nacional

Los beneficios inmediatos de proporcionar este derecho beliceño fundamental a los propietarios de tierras por primera vez son obvios y abundantes. Una oportunidad de tener un nivel de vida digna y mejor. Sacar de la pobreza a más del 50 por ciento de nuestra gente que se ahoga debajo del umbral de la pobreza en nuestro país. Pero lo que también nos ofrece es una oportunidad única para asegurar que nuestra gente - toda nuestra gente - coma lo que produce y produzca lo que come.

Se trata de asegurar que nuestra gente en los centros urbanos tenga acceso a un lote de vivienda de tamaño decente para que puedan empezar a tener jardines sustanciosos de traspatio.

Es hora de que nuestra gente empiece a producir lo que comemos y a comer lo que producimos. Se trata de plantar nuestros propios alimentos. Se trata de alimentos, de comer sano. Eso es lo que COVID-19 nos ha enseñado; que la comida es como el oro.

Debemos embarcarnos en un programa de Jardinería Urbana Nacional. No necesitamos reinventar la rueda. Nuestros amigos cubanos tienen un modelo maravillosamente eficiente y productivo de huertos urbanos y producción de alimentos orgánicos. Hacemos esto: vivimos más tiempo; impulsamos nuestra economía. Ahorramos divisas. ¡Nos volvemos verdaderamente independientes!

EMPODERAMIENTO RURAL

En todas partes del mundo hay un movimiento de personas de las zonas rurales a las urbanas. Todos los expertos predicen que en las décadas venideras el movimiento sólo se intensificará a medida que las tierras rurales sean engullidas por las grandes empresas agrícolas. En Belice, revertiremos esa marcha urbana.

Honraremos a la gente del campo; empoderaremos a nuestra gente.

Nos aseguraremos de que tengan tierras de cultivo familiares, acceso a las mejores tierras, las más fértiles y accesibles.

Habrá tierras para los propietarios de primera vez, y tierras para la producción agrícola y la expansión de las aldeas.

Respetaremos los consejos de las aldeas y sus comités de lotes.

Nos aseguraremos de que haya tenencia de la tierra, para que ningún futuro gobierno pueda revertir la reforma agraria que estamos llevando a cabo.

Nos aseguraremos de que nuestra gente del campo y de la ciudad que se dedican respectivamente a la agricultura y a la jardinería urbana reciban el apoyo necesario de nuestros funcionarios de extensión agrícola.

Dar la tierra no es suficiente. Debemos apoyar a los recién llegados con la creación de capacidad y el apoyo específico. Debemos apoyar a los pequeños agricultores para que tengan éxito.

Las pequeñas granjas significan desarrollo, menos pobreza y más seguridad alimentaria.

EL PROCESO

El proceso de solicitud y recibir la tierra debe ser simple, transparente y uniforme. Debe ser no partidista, amigable y conveniente.

No más cartas de los ministros para solicitar la tierra. Los criterios serán simple: siempre y cuando sea tu primera solicitud paraser terrateniente puedes solicitar.

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BACK TO BASICS We must hire a cadre of surveyors at the Lands Department. It is about making land available to the needy at the lowest cost. It’s been 25 years of acknowledging that an egregious mistake was made with the retrenchment of surveyors yet we’ve done nothing to correct it. We must reduce the cost of land distribution.

Right land, right start We must ensure we do a comprehensive survey of all available national lands in this country and prioritize national development.

Our small farmers will be top priority.

We cannot be subdividing the best agriculture land for non-agriculture purposes, or trying to plant on land more suitable for houses, or allocating the worst agriculture land to the poorest persons.

We must ensure that our first-time landowners get the right land! That is, that the poor get land that is appropriately sited, arable, and easy to access.

We must make sure that the landless get land that needs the least investment to produce. We cannot set up our people to fail; we must put them in a position to succeed.

Conserving while producing Land is a finite resource, so it must be managed in a sustainable, accountable and equitable way.

Our land use must be environmentally sound and socially responsible, especially in this age of climate change and runaway weather conditions.

This land was not given to us by our ancestors; it was loaned to us by our children.

We must ensure we tend it in a way that ensures it lasts for many generations to come.

We must practice climate smart agriculture ala Ya’axche Conservation Trust. They conserve while producing and produce while conserving.

We must make the resources work for the people in the surrounding communities. You cannot have people looking at Christmas but not being able to enjoy it, while poachers and plunderers come from afar and reap.

Conservation management has to include people and not just be about nature.

The Forestry Department has to be properly staffed and funded to properly protect the reserves, the bountiful natural resources of this country – both from within and without.

More government presence is needed to thwart the encroachers.

Statutory protected areas and forest reserves are not to be de-reserved unless clear and unequivocal public benefit is established.

MAINTAINING FOREST COVER

We can and must practice smart agriculture that maintains our forest cover. We cannot continue to indiscriminately scrape off hundreds of acres of land, leaving ourselves vulnerable to flooding and droughts and deterioration of soils and land productivity. We can learn from our farmers in the far south.

We should have more model farms in the South to dissuade farmers from the terribly debilitating slash and burn techniques.

Loss of natural vegetation cover is due to ill-sited land use and can have a severe impact on wildlife and landscape values.

We must promote an aggressive reforestation program, complete with mangrove replanting.

Proper land use is critical to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change; it is essential for life.

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No más distribución partidista de la tierra. La distribución de la tierra se basará en necesidad.

Lo que es bueno para los sin tierra es bueno para el partido; no puede ser que lo que es bueno para el partido es malo para los sin tierra.

No más intermediar ios en el Departamento Tierras; no más pagos por un servicio público que ya has pagado.

No hay más idas y vueltas para Belmopan para nuestra gente del campo e incluso la gente de los pueblos y de la ciudad. Estamos viviendo en una era moderna; el gobierno central debería ir a la gente, no al revés.

La digitalización del departamento de tierras debería significar más gestión transparente de tierras nacionales, pero también servicio más conveniente y amigable a nuestra gente dondequiera que estén el país.

VOLVIENDO A LO BASICO Debemos contratar a un grupo de agrimensores en el Departamento de tierras. Se trata de poner la tierra a disposición de los necesitados al menor costo. Han sido 25 años reconociendo que se ha cometido un error grave con la reducción de los agrimensores, pero no hemos hecho nada para corregirlo. debemos reducir el costo de la distribución de la tierra.

Tierra correcta buen comienzo Al principio debemos asegurarnos de hacer un amplio estudio de todas las tierras nacionales disponibles en este país, y priorizar el desarrollo nacional. Nuestros pequeños agricultores tendrán la máxima prioridad.

No podemos subdividir las mejores tierras agrícolas con fines no agrícolas, ni tratar de plantar en terrenos más adecuados para viviendas, ni asignar las peores tierras agrícolas para las personas más pobres.

Debemos asegurarnos de que los propietarios de tierras con primera solicitud obtengan ¡la Tierra correcta! Es decir que los pob res consigan tierra que sea convenientemente situada, cultivable y de fácil acceso.

Debemos asegurarnos de que los sin tierra consigan tierras que necesiten la menor inversión para producir. No podemos establecer a nuestro pueblo para que fracase; debemos ponerlos en una posición para tener éxito.

Conservando mientras producimos La tierra es un recurso finito, por lo que debe ser gestionada de forma sostenible, responsable y equitativa.

Nuestro uso de la tierra debe ser ambientalmente racional y socialmente responsable, especialmente en esta era de cambios de clima y las condiciones climáticas desbocadas.

Esta tierra no nos la dieron nuestros antepasados, nos la prestaron nuestros hijos.

Debemos asegurarnos de que la cuidamos de manera que dure por muchas generaciones. Debemos practicar una agricultura inteligente con relación al clima como la de Ya’axche Conservation Trust. Ellos conservan mientras, producen, y producen mientras conservan.

Debemos hacer que los recursos funcionen para la gente de las comunidades vecinas. No se puede tener gente mirando la Navidad sin poder disfrutarla, mientras que los cazadores furtivos y saqueadores vienen de lejos y cosechan.

La gestión de la conservación tiene que incluir a la gente y no sólo ser sobre la naturaleza. Pero el Departamento Forestal debe tener el personal y los fondos adecuados para proteger las reservas, los abundantes recursos naturales de este país, tanto de dentro como fuera. Más presencia del gobierno se necesita para frustrar a los invasores.

Y las áreas protegidas estatutarias y las reservas forestales no deben ser de reservadas a menos que se establezca de manera clara e inequívoca el beneficio público.

MANTENIMIENTO DE LA CUBIERTA FORESTAL Podemos y debemos practicar una agricultura inteligente que mantenga nuestra cubierta forestal. No podemos seguir rozando indiscriminadamente cientos de acres de tierra dejándonos vulnerables a las inundaciones y sequías, y al deterioro de los suelos y la productividad de la tierra. Podemos aprender de nuestros agricultores en el extremo sur. Deberíamos tener más granjas modelo en el Sur para disuadir a los agricultores de las técnicas de tala y quema terriblemente debilitantes.

La pérdida de la cubierta vegetal natural se debe al mal uso de la tierra y puede tener graves repercusiones en los valores de la fauna y el paisaje.

Debemos promover un programa de reforestación agresivo, completo con replantación de manglares.

El uso adecuado de la tierra es fundamental para mitigar los impactos potenciales del cambio climático; es esencial para la vida.

No podemos divorciar el medioambiente y el desarrollo; deben estar casados y permanecer casados.

Debemos proteger la tierra con “alto valor intrínseco”, es decir, las tierras que proporcionan protección a las cuencas hidrográficas, a importantes hábitats botánicos y de vida silvestre, una enorme biodiversidad y una gran importancia cultural.

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We cannot divorce the environment and development; they must be married and remain married.

We must protect land with “high intrinsic value,” those lands that provide watershed protection, important botanic and wildlife habitat, tremendous biodiversity and cultural significance.

WATER IS WEALTH

We must do all to protect our waterways and watersheds. Water is an increasingly scarce commodity all over the world and region. We must be maniacal about our water. Water is a human right. The reservation of critical water catchment areas is a must.

GO GREEN

Our economy has traditionally been underpinned by our natural resources; with tourism, agriculture, aquaculture and fisheries, energy, electricity and water being largely natural resources based.

And while that alone demands that we do all we can to equitably, transparently and sustainably manage our bountiful blessings, there are options to further capitalize our natural resource stock.

We should aggressively pursue debt for nature swaps that would ease debt service obligations and allow us to use those monies to meet our social and environmental targets.

We should also look more carefully at accessing Green Climate Funds via partnerships with institutions like The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (5Cs). We can potentially access millions of dollars to address our social and environmental needs in reducing vulnerability to climate change and other disturbances.

We have approximately 40% of our land and 23% of our national territory under protected status. We can take advantage of carbon offsets and biodiversity offset programs internationally which traditionally have only been accessed by those in the conservation community.

Consultation, consultation, consultation

We will consult on land use across the country. We will not seek to impose our will on communities with no regard for what the communities think are best for them.

Consultation, consultation, consultation

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EL AGUA ES RIQUEZA

Debemos hacer todo lo posible para proteger nuestras vías fluviales y cuencas hidrográficas. El agua es cada vez más un bien escaso en todo el mundo y la región. Debemos ser maníacos con nuestra agua. El agua es un derecho humano. La reserva de áreas críticas de captación de agua es imprescindible.

VERDE

Nuestra economía se ha sustentado tradicionalmente en nuestros recursos naturales; con el turismo, la agricultura, la acuicultura y la pesca, la energía, la electricidad y el agua que se basan en gran medida en los recursos naturales.

Y mientras esto exige que hagamos todo lo posible para gestionar de forma equitativa, transparente y sostenible nuestras abundantes bendiciones, hay opciones para capitalizar aún más nuestras reservas de recursos naturales.

Deberíamos buscar agresivamente el canje de deuda por naturaleza que nos facilitaría las obligaciones del servicio de la deuda y nos permitiría usar esos fondos para cumplir con nuestros objetivos sociales y ambientales.

También deberíamos considerar más cuidadosamente el acceso a los Fondos Verdes para el Clima a través de asociaciones con instituciones como Centro Comunitario del Cambio Climático del Caribe (5Cs). Podemos acceder potencialmente a millones de dólares para hacer frente a nuestras necesidades ambientales en la reducción de la vulnerabilidad al cambio climático y otras perturbaciones.

Tenemos aproximadamente el 40 por ciento de nuestra tierra y el 23 por ciento de nuestro territorio nacional bajo protección. Podemos tomar ventaja de las compensaciones de carbono y los programas de compensación de la biodiversidad a nivel internacional, a los que hasta ahora sólo han tenido acceso los de la comunidad conservacionista.

CONSULTA, CONSULTA, CONSULTA Consultaremos sobre los usos de la tierra en todo el país. No buscaremos imponer nuestra voluntad sobre las comunidades sin tener en cuenta lo que las comunidades piensan que es lo mejor para ellos.

Consultaremos sobre los usos de la tierra en todo el país. No buscaremos imponer Fomentaremos un espíritu de respeto mutuo mientras dialogamos nuestra voluntad sobre las comunidades sin tener en cuenta lo que las comunidades piensan para laspara mejores prácticas en y alrededor de nuestro país. quelograr es lo mejor ellos.

Reconocemos que los derechos sobre las tierras comunales aseguFomentaremos un espíritu de respeto mutuo mientras dialogamos para lograr las mejores rarán queenlas tierrasdeancestrales nunca sean enajenadas en las manos de prácticas y alrededor nuestro país. unos pocos.

Reconocemos que los derechos sobre las tierras comunales asegurarán que las tierras Nuestra interacción con los activistas de las tierras comunales se ancestrales nunca sean enajenadas en las manos de unos pocos. basará en la confianza y respeto.

Nuestra interacción con los activistas de las tierras comunales se basará en la confianza Debemos vernos como una parte integral de Belice, y como socios y respeto. iguales, en este impulso para elevar la dignidad y los derechos de todos vernos como una parte integral de Belice, y como socios iguales, en este impulso los Debemos beliceños.

CONSULTA, CONSULTA, CONSULTA

PATRIA

para elevar la dignidad y los derechos de todos los beliceños.

Conclusion Conclusion Me atrevo a decir que proveer de tierras a los pobres es casi ser bondadoso.

Conclusion Conclusion

The intangible benefit of land ownership and home ownership cannot be overstated. It is The intangible benefit land andand home ownership cannot about the transformation of a of people outownership of the wilderness into the promised land envisioned by ourItfounding fathers. overstated. is about the transformation of a people out of the wilder-

be ness and into the promised land envisioned by our founding fathers.

It is about lifting people out of poverty in a way that is inclusive and demonstrative.

It is about lifting people out of poverty in a way that is inclusive and It is about future generations being able to look back and say that this generation of demonstrative. leaders dared to be different, dared to stand up for those among us who were traditionally It isbehind, about future generations being able look back and that left that we sought to level the playing field, that to we sought to make us allsay equal as this we are in theof eyes of God. dared to be different, dared to stand up for those generation leaders among who were traditionally leftinspire behind, sought to level the There us is nothing false about hope. This will hopesthat and we dreams and aspirations beyondfield, anything we we havesought ever seen.to make us all equal as we are in the eyes of playing that God. There is nothing false about saying we are fast reaching a point of no return.

Some willis say it is impossible we should not try.

Butwill we cannot afford not toand try. I say There nothing falseand about hope.

This inspire hopes dreams is nothing impossible about this when the Belizean people in one voice all over this andthere aspirations beyond anything we have ever seen. land say this is what they want!

There is nothing false about saying we are fast reaching a point of no return. Some will say it is impossible and we should not try. But we cannot afford not to try. I say there is nothing impossible about this when the Belizean people in one voice all over this land say this is what they want!

Everybody fi win!

Everybody fi win!

Me atrevo a decir que proveer de tierras a los pobres es casi ser bonPero poniendo los pies en la tierra: el beneficio tangible de la propiedad de la tierra y de la casa no dadoso. puede exagerarse. Se trata de la transformación de un pueblo de la tierra desierta a la tierra prometida previstaponiendo por nuestros padres Pero los fundadores. pies en la tierra: el beneficio tangible de la propiedad Se detrata ladetierra y de la casa no puede exagerarse. Se trata de la transforsacar a la gente de la pobreza de una manera que sea inclusiva y demostrativa. mación de un pueblo de la tierra desierta a la tierra prometida prevista por Se trata de que las generaciones futuras puedan mirar atrás y decir que esta generación de líderes se nuestros padres fundadores. atrevió a ser diferente, se atrevió a defender a aquellos de nosotros que tradicionalmente fuimos dejados atrás, buscábamos el campo juego y quede buscábamos hacernos que a todossea inSe trata dequesacar a la nivelar gente de ladepobreza una manera iguales como somos a los ojos de Dios. clusiva y demostrativa.

No hay nada de de falso en la esperanza.

Esto inspirará esperanzas y aspiraciones allá de Se trata que las generaciones futurasy sueños puedan mirar más atrás y decir cosa que hayamos visto. que cualquier esta generación de líderes se atrevió a ser diferente, se atrevió a deNo hay de falso en que estamosque llegando rápidamente a un punto sin retorno. dejados atrás, fender a nada aquellos dedecir nosotros tradicionalmente fuimos dirán que es imposible y que no deberíamos intentarlo. Yo digo que no podemos permitirnos que Algunos buscábamos nivelar el campo de juego y que buscábamos hacernos no intentarlo. ¡Digo que no hay nada imposible cuando la gente beliceña en una dulce voz que suena por toda esta tierracomo dice que esto es lo que a todos iguales somos a quiere! los ojos de Dios.

No hay nada de falso en la esperanza. Esto inspirará esperanzas y TODOS GANAMOS! sueños y aspiraciones más allá de cualquier cosa que hayamos visto.

No hay nada de falso en decir que estamos llegando rápidamente a un punto sin retorno.

Algunos dirán que es imposible y que no deberíamos intentarlo. Yo digo que no podemos permitirnos no intentarlo. ¡Digo que no hay nada imposible cuando la gente beliceña en una dulce voz que suena por toda esta tierra dice que esto es lo que quiere!

TODOS GANAMOS!

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KEY PLEDGES

- Asegurarse de que cada beliceño que no sea dueño de un pedazo de tierra obtenga un un pedazo de tierra. Todo beliceño.

⇒ Prioritize the right of first-time landownership for women and young families

- Priorizar el derecho de propiedad de la tierra de primera solicitud para las mujeres y familias jóvenes

⇒ Ensure Belizeans have access to fertile farmland the most fertile and accessible

- Asegurarse de que los beliceños tengan acceso a las tierras agrícolas más fértiles - las más fértiles y accesible

⇒ Embark on a National Urban Garden program so that people in the urban centres get decent sized house lots to have backyard gardens

- Embarcar un programa de Jardín Urbano Nacional para que la gente en los centros urbanos tenga un lote de casas de tamaño decente para tener jardines en el patio trasero

⇒ Underscore our land policy with a philosophy that there will be land for first time landowners, and land for agriculture production and village expansion

- Subrayar nuestra política de tierra con la filosofía de que habrá tierra para los propietarios de tierras de primera vez, y tierra para la producción agrícola y expansión de las aldeas

⇒ Respect the village councils and their lots committees

- Respetar los consejos de las aldeas y sus comités de lotes

⇒ Guarantee land tenure, so no future government can reverse the land reform we implement

⇒ Recognize that just giving the land is not enough. We must support the new landowners with capacity building and targeted support. We must help small farmers to succeed. Small farms mean development, less poverty and more food security ⇒ Simplify the process of applying for and receiving land titles, and ensure transparency, ⇒ Digitize the Lands Department to ensure n o n - p a r t i s a n , e f f i c i e n t a n d c o n ve n i e n t distribution of lands and other services ⇒

- Garantizar la tenencia de la tierra, para que ningún gobierno futuro pueda revertir la reforma agraria que implementaremos

Respect communal land rights to ancestral lands

⇒ Facilitate support from our agriculture extension officers for rural and urban farming and urban gardening

Re-establish the survey department

⇒ Promote land use that is environmentally sound and socially responsible especially in this age of climate change and unprecedented weather conditions ⇒ Promote an aggressive reforestation program including mangrove replanting ⇒ Protect land with “high intrinsic value,” lands that provide watershed protection, important botanic and wildlife habitat, t r e m e n d o u s b i o d i ve r s i t y a n d c u l t u r a l significance

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⇒ Ensure that every Belizean who doesn’t own a piece of land, gets a piece of land. Every Belizean.

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- Respetar los derechos de las tierras comunales a las tierras ancestrales

- Facilitar el apoyo de nuestros oficiales de extensión agrícola para la agricultura y la jardinería urbanas - Hay que reconocer que dar la tierra no es suficiente. Debemos apoyar a los recién llegados con la creación de capacidad y apoyo orientado - Debemos apoyar a los pequeños agricultores para que tengan éxito. Las pequeñas granjas significan desarrollo, menos pobreza y más seguridad alimentaria - Simplificar el proceso de solicitud y recepción de títulos de propiedad de la tierra, y asegurar la transparencia - Digitalizar el Departamento de Tierras para asegurar de que no sea partidista, sea amigable y haya distribución conveniente de las tierras y otros servicios - Reestablecer el departamento de agrimensores -

Promover un uso de la tierra ambientalmente racional y socialmente responsable especialmente en esta era de cambio climático y condiciones climáticas sin precedentes

- Proteger la tierra con "alto valor intrínseco", es decir, las tierras que proporcionan protección a las cuencas hidrográficas, un hábitat botánico y de vida silvestre importante, una enorme biodiversidad y un gran significado cultural

⇒ Strategically access Green Climate Funds via partnerships with institutions like The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (5Cs) to secure millions to address our social and environmental needs, reduce vulnerability to climate change and other risks

- Acceder estratégicamente a los Fondos Verdes para el Clima a través de asociaciones con instituciones como el Centro de Cambio Climático de la Comunidad del Caribe (5C) para obtener millones de dólares para atender nuestras necesidades sociales y ambientales, reducir la vulnerabilidad al cambio climático y otros riesgos

a publication of The People’s United Party Belize, Central America October 2020

a publication of The People’s United Party Belize, Central America October 2020

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STANDARD BEARERS

Pickstock: Anthony Mahler

ON THE MOVE

Queen’s Square: Allan Pollard OW North: Ramon ‘Monchi’ Cervantes

Cayo South: Julius Espat

EVERYBODY FI WIN!

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STANDARD BEARERS

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Orange Walk East: Kevin Bernard

ON THE MOVE

Fort George: Henry Usher

Orange Walk Central: John Briceño

Stann Creek West: Rodwell Ferguson

Belize Rural South: Andre Perez

Cayo Northwest: Landy Habet

EVERYBODY FI WIN!

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STANDARD BEARERS

Belmopan: Oscar Mira

ON THE MOVE

Toledo East: Mike Espat Toledo West: Oscar Requena

Orange Walk South: Jose Mai

GEORGE PRICE

Sebastian Cus Toledo West

Service to the People

AWARD

EVERYBODY FI WIN!

Virginio Carrillo Orange Walk South

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STANDARD BEARERS

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Mesopotamia: Candice Pitts

ON THE MOVE

Belize Rural North: Marconi Leal

Cayo Central: Alex Balona Port Loyola: Gilroy Usher

Belize Rural Central: Dolores Balderamos Garcia

Corozal Southeast: Florencio Marin Jr.

EVERYBODY FI WIN!

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TODOS GANAMOS!

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Solid Commitments

By Gilroy Usher, Sr. “Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the right stuff to turn our dream into reality.” – James Womack With the fully support of the blue machine my team and I are fighting for a better life and a better community for all the residents of the Port Loyola and Belizeans countrywide.

This is a just cause because while the last twelve years have been the best time of prosperity for UDP Ministers, their relatives, and their cronies, the same period has been a disaster for ordinary Belizeans including red and blue supporters with worsening poverty, no land, no jobs, inadequate housing, poor access to quality education, and rampant corruption among other disservices.

People need help. I therefore confidently say that as the next Area Representative for Port Loyola there will be no victimization. Red or blue, Usher will help you.

Land will not be taken away from anyone in the area. In addressing the people’s need for land, the next PUP government will compensate private land owners for large tracks of undeveloped land between Belize City and Mile 23 on the George Price Highway.

The land will then be filled, surveyed and distributed to Belizeans with priority for first time land owners as the party of George Price has a long and proud history of doing. We will also assist the people in getting leases and titles for their land.

Safety net programs such as the Boost and Pantry will be expanded to ensure deserving families are included in them. No one will be taken off either of those undertakings.

The shameful and heartless policy in which taxpayer’s money is used to build mansions for those with political connections but weak plycem houses without partition, electrical

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wiring, bathroom facilities, and ceilings for the people will be a thing of the past.

Those who want mansions will finance such buildings with their own funds and no longer with taxpayer’s money. We will build low income two and three bedroom concrete houses for the people complete with all the amenities presently not included, because they deserve nothing less.

In is a fact that jobs enable people to be independent, and in control of their own destiny. That’s one of the dreams of all Belizeans.

Jobs creation in the Port Loyola Division will include a) a one-time $500.00 grant for all small business in the area to assist with the paying of a bill or the acquiring of necessary supplies. b) a free day care for single mothers who are gainfully employed on the minimum wage, and c) a special loan program for taxi operators, who are renting vehicles. With this initiative taxi operators in the area will be required to pay a maximum of $20.00 daily towards owning their own vehicles instead of $40.00 to $50.00 per day for rental of a taxi—the present situation.

In one of scores of bogus land compensations that amounted to over $100 million with this red government, Pitts and Vega were gifted $400,000.00 each for themselves alone in a bogus land deal which definitely involved the Minister, the dad.

With a maximum of 200 small business in the Port Loyola Division, that’s enough money to give each small business in the area a one-time grant of $4,000.00.

Corruption clearly deprives the country of resources that are necessary to address the needs of the populace. In waging a true fight against this vice, as the next Area Representative of Port Loyola and John Briceño as Prime Minister of Belize, the administration will give up control of the Public Accounts Committee, the Integrity Commission, and the Senate to enable those three watchdog bodies to do their jobs in ensuring that the funds and other resources of the nation are not used to enrich crooked politicians but are instead used to improve the lives all Belizeans and their communities.

With an end to the massive corruption in government, underpinned with economic growth and proper management of the resources of the country,

our team and a John Briceño led administration will keep those and commitments to residents of Port

Loyola and Belizeans on a whole from the Rio Hondo to the Sarstoon River and from Benque to the cayes.

NOTICE OF COMMENCED DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given DB INVESTMENT LIMITED and VIBRANT CAPITAL INVESTMENTS LIMITED both commenced dissolution on 22nd September, 2020; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the companies.

Notice is hereby given KARIMCA GROUP CORP., ROSELLE ALLIANCE LTD. and JON PROPERTIES INC. all commenced dissolution on 25th September, 2020; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Notice is hereby given TAREK FINANCIAL CORP. commenced dissolution on 28th September, 2020; and International Liquidator Services Ltd. whose registered office is at Withfield Tower, 3rd Floor, 4792 Coney Drive, Belize City, Belize, is the Liquidator of the company.

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Limited

NOTICE OF COMMENCED DISSOLUTION

Notice is hereby given OLYMPUS PROCEDURES S.A. commenced dissolution on 28th September, 2020; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Notice is hereby given ALBA OVERSEAS LTD. and AROSA INVESTMENTS INC. both commenced dissolution on 30th September, 2020; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the companies.

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Limited

NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Companies listed below have been dissolved and duly struck off the IBC Register as follows: NAME OF COMPANY

BONA CONSULTING CORP. DOVER GROUP LTD. VALVERDE DEVELOPMENT CORP. CAPIRINHA SHIPPING LTD. CROYDON ASSOCIATED LTD. C.F. LTD. THORBEN HOLDING S.A. AC CAPITAL LTD. DECCAN INVESTMENTS INC.

Date of Dissolution

2nd September, 2020 7th September, 2020 9th September, 2020 19th September, 2020 23rd September, 2020 26th September, 2020 29th September, 2020 30th September, 2020 30th September, 2020

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Ltd.

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THINK ABOUT IT

THERE IS NO PRIME MINISTER Dean Barrow is no longer Prime Minister and Patrick Faber has not been appointed as Prime Minister for the remaining three weeks of the government.

It’s incredible but those are facts and the law.

The constitution at section 37 is clear. Whoever is leader of the party with a majority of elected members must be the Prime Minister.

Dean Barrow gave up leadership of the UDP on Thursday 8th October to Patrick Faber. Dean Barrow can no longer be Prime Minister because he is no longer the leader of the UDP. Patrick Faber is the new leader of the UDP, he should have been sworn in as Prime Minister on Friday 9th October by the Governor General as the constitution requires.

Barrow is pretending to be the Prime Minister. What he is doing is breaking the law, the highest law of the nation-the constitution. Anything he does or signs between 9th October and 11th November when the UDP government is voted out of office is illegal, and as the Judges would say, is null and void, of no effect.

It is unbelievable that Patrick Faber does not know and has no one to advise him that when he was handed the leadership of the UDP he must be sworn in as Prime Minister. Even when the National Assembly is dissolved. The constitution also provides for him to be appointed during a dissolution.

Boy oh boy! In government so long and does not know the country is being illegally run by Barrow. Neither does anyone else in the caretaker government.

BIGGEST PRISON BREAK FOLLOWED BY DEATHS AND RIOT The worst prisoner escapes in the history of Belize took place on Monday 12th October when 28 prisoners got out of the only jail in the country.

The official report of how this happened arise more questions than answers. That one or two guards were overpowered from about 1:00pm in the afternoon and held hostage for five hours before the prisoners used the keys to release dozens of other inmates.

How guards become hostage all afternoon with no other guards or supervisors having the slightest idea, is manifest negligence and incompetence.

We have said it before, there is no functioning Ministry with respect to the prison. No checks and balances over such a serious government department. Kolbe Foundation may have a private contract but government is still responsible.

The media needs to ask more serious questions and they need to confront the Minister and his CEO over their slackness.

We need to also say this. The inmates are locked away from society as punishment by the law for committing various offences many of them are bad, indiscipline persons. None of them are animals. The widespread, arbitrary and inhumane punishments inflicted on these wretched human beings at the administrative segregation building is a clear violation of the United Nations charter on prisoners, the Mandela Rules and the Fundamentals Rights of Belize constitution. It is outright cruel, and inhumane and unusual punishment.

The people of Belize will be shocked by what is being done, “adseg” is a place not fit for dogs.

THE MENNONITE WAS TORTURED On the 21st September a drug plane landed in Northern Belize on the old highway near Santa Martha Village. The police detained four farm workers, the farm owner and a Mennonite.

The farm workers were released, the farm owner was detained for an incredible FIVE days and the Mennonite for THREE days in blatant violation of the law.

But worse, the Mennonite was disappeared on his third day of lock up. He went missing

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from the Orange Walk Police station from 8:30 am until 3:30 pm.

He told his family and his attorney that he was sneaked out of the station through a back exit and taken to Corozal Police station where he was threatened, beaten and tortured with an electrical device.

Upon release he told his family and the Mennonite community of his ordeal. He was taken to doctor and has a medical report. His lawyer got a Justice of the Peace to sign on a detailed written report and photographs.

It is a most disturbing responsible episode in the ongoing unlawful behavior of the police department which cuddles and condones abuse against citizens.

We pray to Almighty God to help the voters of Belize to remove this government from office. We do so in the hopes we will get better country including a police department which fully respects the rights of citizens and scrupulously functions within the law.

An independent inquiry must be held into what happened and how it came about that a Mennonite is smuggled from Orange Walk police station and tortured in Corozal police station.

What is our country coming to?

We are informed documentation has been forwarded to the U.S.A Embassy in Belmopan, to Human Rights Watch in America, and Amnesty International.

AND IN SAN VICTOR Because of space constraints we will just scribble this at this time. How do police officers visit a home in San Victor Village to check on uncustomed good, and end up badly beating everyone, including parents, daughter-in-law and sons, shooting one son in the belly and another in the back?

The family say they asked to be shown a search warrant and that pissed off the brutal officers.

The police say the family was trying to disarm them and keep them hostages. They called in back-up officers.

The commissioner told the media the family is lucky to be alive. This incident requires independent investigation, but none will take place. The Minister, the CEO and even the Prime Minster couldn’t give a darn about these matters.

We wish to call out the Human Rights Commission of Belize, if such a group still exists, you guys are the next biggest disappointment since Dean Barrow exposed himself as the worst and past worthless Prime Minister.

Four government Ministers turned up at the government house on Regent Street for inauguration ceremonies after ten years of holding millions of Taiwan-donated dollars to renovate the old government house, a private wooden house belonging to Mr. Greenwood, and other wasteful ‘tourist’ sites that no tourist will come to Belize to see.

Four Ministers, including Faber, Boots, Tracy Panton and Heredia “the covid plane man” from San Pedro.

All desperate for publicity- Taiwan money.

TACKLING POVERTY Johnny, Cordell and the BLU team has scored big with the Belizeans with their public commitment to seriously tackle poverty in Belize.

Under disgraced Prime Minister Barrow wannabe Faber and their Ali Babba gang, poverty has sky rocketed to more than fifty percent of the population. Totally unacceptable.

Johnny has publicity committed to bringing the sorry statistic down to half. Most commendable, most commendable…

This commitment alone is sufficient reason to vote in a new government.

We must also commend the dynamic BLU team for its progressive programs and policy initiative. Education for all young people, quality healthcare for all, fighting crime and the root causes of crime, making women issues a top priority, making Belizeans safer and more prosperous, development zones for griga, Toledo and southside Belize City. …and National Health Insurance for all needy citizens.

Who would ever believe the UDP refused to improve or expand the NHI for needy Belizeans?

They even cut back on the medication’s assistance.

Them wah lose bad.

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PUP Standard Bearers

to their Constituents Excerpts of FB Posts and other Jose Mai, Orange Walk South PUP MOTORCADE on Wednesday, 21 October starting in San Felipe at 8:15 am!!

Atención !!! Únase a la Caravana de Nominación de nuestro Candidato PUP OW SUR José Abelardo Mai el miércoles 21 de Octubre

Henry Usher, Fort George

The people’s area rep for Fort George, Henry Charles Usher kicked off the long weekend by visiting Area 7 and the residents of the Pickstock Apartments.

To say he was well-received would be an understatement! The people of Area 7, just like those throughout the entire division welcomed Henry Charles with open arms

and they are ready to vote #Blu on Election Day! After visiting with the residents Henry Charles hosted a neighborhood bbq with free food and drinks for all the residents. There were also three $70 giveaways, commemorating PUP’s 70th birthday!

BLAZE YUH FIRE! Fort George going #Blu! Vote Henry Charles Usher for Fort George!

Vote PUP! Andre Perez, Belize Rural South

iniciando a las 8:30 am en San Felipe!!

Asi es !! La Caravana de vehículos saldrá a las 8:30 am de San Felipe pasando por todas las aldeas y acompañando a nuestro candidato con las banderas de Victoria azul y blanco!!! Después de la nominación nos unimos con las otras caravanas del PUP para un gran desfile en las calles de OW!! Venga y sienta la Victoria de PUP! Que viva el Partido Unido del Pueblo!Yo Creek is getting there too. Thanks to the Pech and Rice family for offering location on their property. En estas Elecciones Generales votemos PUP. La Esperanza de un Futuro Mejor May God bless our bountiful Natural Resources and protect our people from this Pandemic and from any other Natural Disaster!!!

Spent a wonderful day in OWS!! Love the feeling. Indeed it is clear that the frustration level is at the maximum!

Con Jose Abelardo Mai estamos en buenas manos.

Jorge ‘Milin’ Espat, Cayo West

El pueblo espera con ansiedad el cambio que tanto necesita Cayo Oeste.

Ya estamos listos para hacer ese sueño una reali-

dad y ver y sentir los cambios que Jorge ‘Milin’ Espat traerá para todos.

Milin sera un representante quien estará accesible cuando el pueblo lo quiera ver. El escuchará y actuará para ayudar a quien realmente lo necesite.

Necesitamos urgentemente a uno que sea para el pueblo, y no solo para algunos.

Necesitamos un representante que abogue por su gente en la casa de representantes y no quedarse con la boca callada.

Por eso, esta vez el pueblo se unirá y votara para la persona más adecuada para representarnos, porque el poder lo tenemos nosotros y con nuestro voto veremos el resultado.

Vota Jorge ‘Milin’ Espat en estas elecciones venideras. (Milin 2020) Landy Habet, Cayo Southeast

Mr Andre Perez, his wife, daughters and his team, express their most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Maricela Gonzales. We stand in solidarity with our community clamoring for justice to be served in the untimely death of this young mother.

The conditions in which her body was found are indicators that her killer has ZERO regard for women.

As a society, we are quick to accept emotional abuse/ physical and sexual abuse as a norm.

We often blame the victim. It is time that we start holding these perpetrators responsible for their actions. Regardless of their rank in politics and our society. Our healthcare workers, police officers, social workers and society on a whole need to be sensitized on the statistics and cycle of abuse in order for them to effectively do their job.

As a society, we must do better and support women in abusive relationships. We cannot continue to fail domestic violence victims. We condemn the actions of Maricela’s murderer and we call on the authorities to do their due diligence with this case.

May they not fail Maricela and her family and bring the perpetrator to justice.

Oscar Arnold, Collet EVERYBODY FI WIN ON NOVEMBER 11TH VOTE OSCAR ARNOLD VOTE PUP.... Everybody in Collet should be able to own a decent home. COLLET DAH FI WE TIME!// If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery.

It wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.― Michelangelo.

Still in disbelieving, from the time I first met you in Caye Caulker grinding and pushing your CD’s I had mad respect for your work and work ethic. Rest In Peace Program. We will forward your dreams and aspirations. #nuffaweseeyourise/// “A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”

COLLET IT’S OUR TIME, OUR TIME TO RISE UP! TIME FI TEK BACK COLLET! VOTE OSCAR ARNOLD #TeamPolo

It’s a privilege to be the Area Representative for Cayo Northeast.

For the past 5 years I have listened to your concerns, received your feedback, and took your ideas and input to the House of Representatives. Every meeting I sit in, I remember why I’m there; to be the frontman for the residents of Cayo Northeast. #TodosGanamosConLandy #WeAllWinLandy/// The PUP and its members have always put people’s interests first. With the same ideals, and in the same fashion that we achieved Independence, in November when we form the new government, we will take up the challenge to rebuild Belize.

All Belizeans will enjoy quality education, quality healthcare and the bounty of this land. #planBelize #planificarBelize #TodosGanamosConLandy #WeAllWinWithLandy// Access to proper housing is a basic right for every single Belizean. We can ensure that living conditions are improved so you can live a safe and comfortable life. Having your own place to call home can be achieved as a top priority under a new PUP Government./// Exercising your right to vote lets you voice your opinions. Voting lets you decide how we are governed and how we can move forward as a nation.

Come November, let us all head to the polls. Vote because your voice counts. #TodosGanamosConLandy #WeAllWinWithLandy Ramiro Ramirez, Corozal Southwest

Con el P.U.P Todos Ganamos El Cambio lo Hacemos Juntos We will deliver V o t e P.U.P 2020

Francis Fonseca, Freetown On October 12 and every day we must acknowledge and pay respect to the indigenous people of our nation. Our respect must be in the form not only of words but our

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Your vote matters. #francis4freetown #TheWorkContinues Anthony Mahler, Pickstock

policies to uplift them and their communities particularly in the areas of education, health, economic opportunities, and the environment.// WORLD TEACHERS DAY 2020!

On 5th of October and always, thank you to all our teachers for their service to our communities and country.//

“My vision for Pickstock is for it to be a thriving division where our people can participate in their own development and have meaningful input in the decisions that affect their lives.”

Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Belize Rural Central For the PUP Anniversary BRC Standard Bearer Dolores presented the George Price Service To The People Award 2020 to Ms. Mary Rivera of Gracie Rock. Ms. Mary is a senior member of the Gracie Rock community and a lifelong supporter of the PUP. She has served her community and Belize with dedication. We wish Ms. Mary, her husband, and her very large extended family All Best Wishes. We are so proud of you Ms. Mary !!

David ‘Dido’ Vega, Corozal Bay

Dido is committed to helping not only the people of Corozal Bay, but all the people of the district. There was a time when Corozal boasted the lowest unemployment of the country, a time when industries were vibrant, and the Corozal Free Zone was thriving. The Zone is now almost dead, and the industries have dried up. Dido will work to revitalize those industries and create employment

opportunities for residents.

No matter when the general elections are called! The BAY is ready!

Our people deserve better! Dido is ready to empower all Corozaleños.

Candice Pitts, Mesopotamia

In its policy on Housing, the PUP has committed to build 10,000 low income houses during its first 5 years in office.

In addition to the other 30 constituencies, Mesopotamia will receive, at the minimum, 300 of those houses!

Our team, with the strong and competent leadership of Dr Candice Pitts, will ensure the residents of Mesopotamia receive what they deserve and that Mesopotamia wins this time!

Her younger brother and pastor, Derrick Pitts, joined her on the campaign trail to lend his support.

Together, they have always been about service and the glory of God. Our candidate is the very example of what hard work, determination, and the grace of God can do. She was raised on the south side of Belize City. Her mother was a single mother and a food vendor.

In spite of her humble upbringing, she was able to attend some of the best schools and benefitted from every stage of an education, from a preschool program to a doctoral program. She received no scholarship from GOB nor from a politician. Instead, her tuition was either paid for by her mother, or she received merit-based scholarships from her academic institutions! *Howard University, Ph.D. | *The Ohio State University, Master’s Degree | *Albany State University, Bachelor’s Degree (summa cum laude) | *St. John’s College Junior College, Associate’s Degree (Honors) | *Pallotti High School, Diploma | *St. John Vianney Primary School, Certificate | *Port Loyola Pre School, Certificate Our candidate has great work ethics and knows about beating odds in order to accomplish her goals.

With this same determination, passion, and courage, she will fight for residents of

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Mesopotamia to receive the opportunities they also need to do great and to be great!

The Choice is Clear! On Election Day, Vote Candice Pitts!

Allan Pollard, Queen’s Square S AT U R DAY 17th OCTOBER Don’t be shy, make sure to stop by! We’re giving back to the people of Queen Square Clothing Drive this Saturday at my office 90 Euphrates street. Everything FREE! Light refreshments will

also be available. #AllanPollardforQueenSquare #PollardforProgress #planBelize #TheTimeisNow “Alone we can do so little; together, we can do so much” Community Development and Safety is undoubtedly a top priority when given the opportunity to lead and represent the people of Queen Square.

With me as your new and youthful leader, together we will make Queen Square a safe and developed place to raise our children!

The people are speaking and I’m here to listen!

I had the privilege of presenting Ms. Dorla Dawson with the George Price Service Award on behalf of the Queen’s Square Committee. Ms. Dorla is a long standing supporter and campaigner for the PUP. Thank you for your hard work, commitment and continued service to our beloved People’s United Party. Congratulations! #AllanPollardForQueenSquare #planBelize #BLUisComing Mike Espat, Toledo East

So who got our foreign debt to 4 billion dollars?

Who spent 12 Billion dollars set in our 12 year budget?

Who got over 650 million dollars in oil revenues?

Who got over 700 million dollars in Petro Caribe money?

Who spent 640 million dollars from our reserves to buy BTL, BEL and BWS which has not been beneficial to the Belizean public?

Whose housing program started with trailer houses, then Nada, nada claiming that they gave 10,000 houses to the people by forgiving a few debts to their cronies?

Who squandered millions upon millions on road projects fleecing the national purse and delivering broke up roads and roundabouts?

Which government made all his ministers and area reps millionaires?

Which Prime minister promised that there was enough to feed and aid the Belizean public for years and years to come and then renege on his promise?

Which deputy prime minister had the gall to give $400,000.00 to his son as a freebie?

Which party has had convicted criminals running in their midst?

NOW YOU WILL ASK ME TO VOTE UDP? Cho man, then deh da really thief.

So Adios UDP!!! The time is here! Make a change! Vote the UDP out! Vote BLU Victory hour is approaching a massive BLU Victory.

Raise your FLAGS - play the music!!!! “From Czl to Toledo...” #PlanBelize The choice is clear. The people across this country had enough of the UDP. Oscar Requena, Toledo West

Dear constituents of Toledo West The long awaited date for General Election is officially set for November 11, 2020.

We are visiting every single village and we will be visiting your village on a date to be announced. Due to Covid 19 restrictions, we cannot have public meetings and rallies. This is a new norm for elections in Belize. However, rest assured of our intention to reach as many persons in Toledo West within the limited time we have. I ask all our PUP supporters to help us in spreading our message of hope for Belize.

Speak to your friends, your family, your neighbour, and please encourage them to vote for Oscar Requena.

This election, is a very important decision for all Belizeans to make. We cannot continue to have our country run by the most corrupt, incompetent and dictatorial UDP. The PUP offers a bold and innovative plan that puts all Belizeans at the center of development.

Our Plan Belize, offers bold opportunities for all, it will make life better and our people can be assured that we will be held accountable and deliver on our plans.

I humbly ask you to vote for Oscar Requena.

Rest assured, I will work diligently with John Briceño as Prime Minister and a PUP government to make lives better for all Belizeans. Belizeans across Belize, please vote for

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a PUP candidate in your area.

I invite you, join us and let us work together for a better and brighter Belize.

I thank you.

A Supporter: PUP in Toledo west is always alive and Strong. Thank you supporters of Toledo West. Oscar will deliver victory on November 11, Oscar will bring changes for you the Good people of Toledo west.

Oscar is man with a plan | Oscar is man with vision | Oscar is man for people | Oscar will make things happen Toledo west can’t wait to vote for Oscar Requena! UDP got to GoT to Go...

Marconi Leal, Belize Rural North

work continues To GOD be the Glory Good Day Belize Rural North Good Day Belize

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On November 11, Vote for Marconi Leal! A man with vision, dedication and love for the People of BRN! Vote for the change we desperately need! Come up and Vote BLU. Marconi Leal and the PUP Team meeting and listening to the residence of Fresh Pond, Burrell Boom Village! The

David J. Castillo, Corozal North

Hugo Patt in an act of desperation is TAKING away people’s land in Patchakan! Even though these people have property titles!

Enough is Enough! It is tie to take out this bully and all the UDP!11th NOVEMBER 2020 GENERAL ELECTIONS ARE CALLED! WE ARE READY! VAMOS ADELANTE CON EL PUP!!! Supporter: Take the land that Patt give you because it belongs to you... But dont feel committed to him for it... REMEMBER ALL THIS TIME THAT HE HAD U ABANDONED... WE NEED JOBS JOBS JOBS. Bajo un nuevo Gobierno PUP, el candidato DAVID CASTILLO se compremete a crear mas oportunidades de empleo para su gente de Corozal Norte y Corozal!gobierno. Ya es tiempo para un cambio! Ya es tiempo para sacar el UDP! Ya es tiempo de votar para el PUP! #daveforcorozalnorth #planbelize #changeiscoming Florencio Marin Jr., Corozal Southeast

Greetings everyone! I want to express my best wishes to my opponent Mr. Antonio Herrera and his family in this difficult time. We wish them a safe and speedy recovery. To everyone, let us use this as a reminder that we ALL still need to be careful as it seems that the infection rate is spreading daily and no one, absolutely no one is immune.

Please, everyone, I urge you all to follow all the safety guidelines from the Ministry of Health. Together, we can survive these challenges in this time of Covid. Take care.

God bless you.

Muy buenos dias a todos. Quiero expresar mis sinceros deseos de pronta recuperacion a mi oponente el Sr. Antonio Herrera y su familia en estos momentos dificiles que atraviesan. A todos les recuerde que debemos tener cuidado ya que esta enfermedad se esta propagando cada dia y nadie esta exento de no conseguirlo.

Por favor pido sigan las recomendaciones que otorga el Departamento de Salud. Todos unidos podemos salir adelante ante estos retos del Coronavirus. Dios bendiga.

Rodwell Ferguson, Stann Creek West

Well the day of reckoning is finally announced. I get it second hand while on the campaign trail. The liberation of Belize from 12 years of bondage now begins. What a relief that will be.

I am going into this election with 9895 voters spread across several miles. You have to be a giant to take on such a tremendous task with limited resources. It’s fun for me to walk and meet people especially in their homes. They allow me to lie down in their hammocks and we have a conversation.

I was in Santa Rosa earlier thank you all for accepting me in your homes. I can feel the

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love of the people once again. I want to thank the entire campaign teams out in the villages.

I feel the love for sure victory is in the air.

Belizeans now you will see what a Government can do for its people under the leadership of the Hon. John Briceño. It’s long overdue. Let’s get ready to rumble. My people let me hear you.

Money can’t buy love and we cannot live off promises. UDP, you are the government for more than 12 years now. You should be telling the people what you have accomplished over the years. Do not promise what you will deliver after election when you will not be there. Hog wash! The people are no fools. They know you will not pay no school fees, they are still waiting for a proper pantry program.

Ramon ‘Monchi’ Cervantes, Orange Walk North TEAM MONCHI campaigning here in the beautiful Orange Walk North. The people are very excited to meet the future leader of the North, Ramon Cervantes Monchi is ready to listen to the concerns of the norteños. He is taking notes on how to better our beautiful jewel. He is a man with a good heart and he is ready to serve the people.¡ Que viva Monchi, Que viva el PUP! Alex Balona, Cayo Central

Let’s do this, come out and vote. #BLU2020 #VOTEALEXBALONA # A L E X B A L O N A R E A LCHANGEFORCAYOCENTRAL Julius Espat, Cayo South

Julius Espat is losing no time whatsoever in activating his campaign mode. We met on the ground and he said he has never deactivated his campaign mode that he has permanently been on the ground living amongst his people is normal for him. People consider him as one of their own no matter the ethnicity, religion or language. Julius is all about Cayo South.

Oscar Mira, Belmopan BARROW AND THE UDP HAVE MADE US LESS SECURE When the PUP left office in early 2008, Belize’s homicide rate was 29 person for every 100,000 persons. This rate has gone up under the UDP for their last three terms to 35 person for every 100,000 persons. In none of their three terms they managed to bring it down. If you feel insecure and unsafe, you are not imagining it, the statistics from the World Bank support what you feel with cold facts. The UDP have failed us in every way you can imagine. They don’t know how to keep us safe from harm. IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO GO! VOTE PUP! VOTE OSCAR MIRA FOR BELMOPAN! #abetterBelmopan #prosperityandsecurityforall #freshstart THE UDP AND BARROW HAVE MADE US POORER There is a popular saying among grassroots Belizeans when the PUP is in power, everybody eats. This might be anecdotal and sentimental but the people are right. They know what they see and feel. They might not have the numbers or the statistics but the World Bank does. So we analyzed the annual growth of GDP per capita since Independence and every time the UDP is in power the people have less spending power.

They have less, not more, money in their pockets. As a matter of fact for the last 3 terms of the UDP, the growth of income per person has been negative! This simply means that you have less money in your pocket now than when Dean Barrow came to office. We are poorer, much more than when he started. But you know what we have a lot of? DEBT. We owe billions and we can’t say we have benefited. The UDP and Barrow have made us poorer and we have the numbers to prove it. You can get the World Bank figures here and do your own calculations.

Kevin Bernard, Orange Walk East

The people of Carmelita are getting their roads and drainage issues repaired after their plea have been falling to deaf ears of the Orange Walk East UDP Representative. An Area that has been abandoned for over the past 5 years is just a mere image of the failure of the UDP representative.

People living in swamps and bushes.

With efforts from the Chairman Mr. Victor Polanco, Mayor Kevin Bernard and community members works is underway to repair some very degraded and unattended streets. The People of Orange Walk East Deserve Better.

Ed. Note: Please be mindful that these are excerpts. For other pictures, comment, releases, and posts of our PUP leaders visit, LIKE and FOLLOW their FB profiles and pages. Also be a fan of the Whip Show at 7:15 on Vibes FBLive, Cable, and Radio.

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LIQUOR LICENSE NOTICES

Notice is hereby given that Hong Bin He is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “Cooking Master” located at # 1374 St. Thomas Street, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Hong Bin He is applying for a Malt & Cider Liquor License to be operated at “JM 1 Restaurant” located at # 60 Cemetery Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Caisu Li applying for a Convenience Store Liquor License to be operated at “Li & Lee Grocery & Fast Food” located at # 25 West Collet Canal, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Feng Wen Sun is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “Bolo’s Fast Food” located at # 29 Patridge Street, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Xiaoli Tang Ke is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “Sam’s Saloon” located on Mahogany Street Ext., Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Canzhu Xu is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Ladyville Boutique” located in Ladyville Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Xiao Cong Zhang is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Ming’s Happy Store” located in Lord’s Bank Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Canzhen Xu is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Smile Shop” located in Ladyville Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Xin Yu Huang is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Los Lagos Shop” located in Los Lagos, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Wen Hao Huang is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “19 Mile Shopping Center ” located in Sandhill Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Jian Rong Chen is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “Amy Restaurant” located in Ladyville Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Gloria Reyes is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Liony Grocery Shop” located on Norma L. Young Street, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Ximei Liu is applying for a Convenience Store Liquor License to be operated at “New Way Shop” located at # 3B Neal’s Pen Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Guomao Su is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “Caye Caulker Yummy Yummy Restaurant” located on Front Street, Caye Caulker, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Yue Ling Huang Wong is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Highway Store” located at # 271 Philip Goldson Highway, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

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Notice is hereby given that Kevin Chan is applying for a Beer Liquor License to be operated at “Golden Dragon Fast Food” located at # 1 New Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Mirna Portillo is applying for a Night Club Liquor License to be operated at “Club Eruption” located in Ladyville Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Yanfeng Liang is applying for a Convenience Store Liquor License to be operated at “Yin Kee Fast Food & Grocery” located at # 64 Freetown Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Sonia Cruz is applying for a Restaurant Liquor License to be operated at “Happy Cevichela’s House” located in Ladyville Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Chaowen Wu is applying for a Convenience Store Liquor License to be operated at “Good Friend Shop” located at # 162 Freetown Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Huerta Ramirez is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “Mexican TacosEl Chapito” located in Ladyville Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Jiaxi Yu is applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “Wong Gok Restaurant” located at # 11 6th Street, King’s Park, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Yanling Liang is applying for a Convenience Store Liquor License to be operated at “Qiang Kee Restaurant” located at # 106 Freetown Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Xinchan Su & You Wei Tang are applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “New Glory” located at # 19 New Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Genyuan Xiao is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Tan Liang Shop” located at # 35 Faber’s Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Gen Wan Liu is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “New Road Supermarket” located at # 84 New Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Yahui Chen is applying for a Convenience Store Liquor License to be operated at “Ra Shop” located at # 275 Apollo Street, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Yaoqiang Tang is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “New Hope” located at # 35 Baymen Avenue, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Dayhry Marquez is applying for a Night Club Liquor License to be operated at “Manhattan Night Club” located in Ladyville Village, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Ximei Liu is applying for a Convenience Store Liquor License to be operated at “New Way Shop” located at # 3B Neal’s Pen Road, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Nilda Velasquez is applying for a Night Club Liquor License to be operated at “The Lion King Night Club” located at # 32 King Street, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

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SIX STEPS TO MAKE GOVERNMENT MORE ACCOUNTABLE First, we will ensure an Independent Public Accounts Committee. One that is strengthened so that substantive ministers cannot be members of the PAC. As well, all House Committee meetings, including PAC meetings will be open to the public and streamed live.

Second, the Integrity Commission must do its job effectively. To do so it should no longer be controlled by the Party in Government. Likewise, we will put in place a mechanism to ensure the financial independence of the Integrity Commission with a budget to be approved by the National Assembly. They need the tools and personnel to get the job done!

Third, the recent cases of misappropriation of government funds is a clear indication that we need a strong and independent office of the Auditor General.

• The next PUP Government will ensure that the Auditor General’s Office has unrestricted access to information and with full powers of investigation, including subpoena powers to ensure that requests for information and documentation are complied with expeditiously.

• The Auditor General’s office will be permitted to submit their budget directly to the National Assembly for approval.

• Most important, we will ensure that the Auditor General is allowed to present reports directly to the National Assembly and not only to the Prime Minister.

Fourth, the PUP will not only implement UNCAC, but we will also enact Campaign Finance Legislation.

• In the first 100 days, the new PUP government will direct the Office of the Attorney General to draft Campaign Finance legislation which will be subject to national consultations and review before a final bill is tabled and passed into law.

Fifth we must make the National Assembly function as the centerpiece of our government, complete with all requisite checks and balances.

• That means that the next PUP Government will ensure a minimum of one House Sitting per month.

And sixth now that Senator Aldo Salazar has finally released the findings of the Senate Select Committee on the hustle at the Department of Immigration.

• We demand follow up action including criminal investigation and prosecution as deemed necessary.

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ELECTIONS AND BOUNDARIES DEPARTMENT

Addendums for the Returning Officers and Election Clerks Elections & Boundaries Commission Belize City 13th October 2020

ADDENDUM GENERAL ELECTION 2020 CHANGES IN APPOINTMENTS It is notified for the general information that the Elections and Boundaries Commission, along with the Chief Elections Officer acting pursuant to section 13 (1) (2) Part III of the Representation of the People Act (CAP. 9) have rescinded the following appointments and appointed replacements for the below Returning Officers and Election Clerks:

RETURNING OFFICERS ELECTORAL DIVISION 1. Pickstock

2. Belize Rural South

3. Collet

RESCINDED APPOINTMENTS

NEW APPOINTMENTS

Allison McKenzie Director Department of Youth Services Belize City

Lincoln Blake Director Gaming & Investment Ministry of Economic Development Belmopan City

Martin Alegria Chief Environmental Officer Department of Environment Belmopan City

Geneva James Belize Tax Manager Belize Tax Services Department San Pedro Town

Michelle Alvarez Mines Inspector Ministry of Natural Resources Belmopan City

Rodolfo Gutierrez Consumer Protection & Liaison Officer Bureau of Standards Belmopan City

ELECTION CLERKS ELECTORAL DIVISION 1. Pickstock

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RESCINDED APPOINTMENTS

NEW APPOINTMENTS

Michelle Barber Finance Officer Ministry of Education, Science & Technology, Culture, Youth & Sports Belize City

Kim Burgess Supervisor Belize Tax Services Belize City

2. Collet

Rodolfo Gutierrez Consumer Protection & Liaison Officer Bureau of Standards Belmopan City

Melanie Miguel Administrative Assistant II Department of Forensic Services Ladyville Belize District

3. Belize Rural South

Geneva James Belize Tax Manager Belize Tax Services Department San Pedro Town

Leodan Torres Finance Officer II Accountant General’s Department San Pedro Town

ELECTIONS AND BOUNDARIES DEPARTMENT

Notice and Time of Nomination REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT CHAPTER 9

S.20 (1)

ADDENDUM NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF NOMINATION Notice of Election for a Member of the Electoral Division of PICKSTOCK. His Excellency the Governor-General, having issued his writ for the election of a member of the House of Representatives for the electoral division of PICKSTOCK, the Returning Officer of the said division will on Wednesday, the 21st day of October, 2020 now next ensuing between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the Saint Luke Methodist School, Mahogany St., Belize City, proceed to the nomination of candidates, and if there is no opposition, to the election of a member for the electoral division of PICKSTOCK. Forms of nomination papers may be obtained at the Elections and Boundaries Department Office, Charles Bartlett Hyde Building, Mahogany Street Extension, Belize City, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily Monday to Friday.

Every nomination paper must be signed by six persons whose names appear on the register of electors and be handed to the Returning Officer between the said hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Every candidate for election shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Returning Officer the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00), as required by Rule 6 of the Election Rules.

In the event of the election being contested, the poll will take place between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, 11th NOVEMBER 2020.

The office of the Returning Officer for the electoral division of PICKSTOCK is situated at the Ministry of Economic Development, Belmopan City.

DATED the 13th day of October 2020 (LINCOLN BLAKE)

Returning Officer for the Pickstock Division

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT CHAPTER 9

S.20 (1)

ADDENDUM

Odelia Caliz Education Officer II Education Department San Pedro Town 4. Port Loyola

5. Orange Walk South

Domingo Pau Labour Officer Labour Department Belize City

Elmer Torres Customs & Excise Officer III Customs and Excise Department Belize City

Elmer Torres Customs & Excise Officer III Customs and Excise Department Belize City

Hector Morales Education Officer I Education Department Orange Walk Town

(JOSEPHINE TAMAI) Chief Elections Officer

NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF NOMINATION

Notice of Election for a Member of the Electoral Division of COLLET. His Excellency the Governor-General, having issued his writ for the election of a member of the House of Representatives for the electoral division of COLLET, the Returning Officer of the said division will on Wednesday, the 21st day of October, 2020 now next ensuing between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the Gwen Lizarraga High School, Antelope, Belize City, proceed to the nomination of candidates, and if there is no opposition, to the election of a member for the electoral division of COLLET. Forms of nomination papers may be obtained at the Elections and Boundaries Department Office, Charles Bartlett Hyde Building, Mahogany Street Extension, Belize City, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily Monday to Friday.

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FREE OUR HISTORY

By Ricardo Moguel Rosado The 12th of October is a very significant day in the annals of world civilization. This is a turning point in history that ushered in the age of Industrialization, the Age of Reason, the first major globalization era that turned the world upside down, the year that began the demise of the original people of the Americas and vacated 12 million Africans to the new world. It was the biggest movement of people anytime anywhere.

This day raises passions with arguments that defy solutions. Those who came claimed they brought civilization and salvation to the Americas. Those already here witnessed the greatest genocide ever, 90 million dead as a result of the nefarious day.

Massive enslavement and land acquisition at the point of a cross and musket.

Some would like to call it day of resistance, Pan American Day, whatever this may mean, Dia de la Raza but only a few are intellectually brave to dare call it Columbus Day. A man praised as a fearless explorer a generation ago is now looked down with disdain all over the world. As kids we were thought his biography with detail and wrongly credited him with discovering America. How can one discover land populated by over 90 million people? The biggest and cleanest city in the world with a population of 400,000 was the Mixteca capital, Tenochtitlan, capital of the centralized Aztec empire. A city with vast tropical gardens populated by most native fauna and flora of the empire and with indoor running water.

Then 528 years after the nefarious accidental stumbling on San Salvador Island, Bahama, by the confused sailor named Cristobal Colon, we are almost forced to honor him forgetting all that he did. What we were not taught in school is Colon’s reign of terror. In a single day Colon and his men killed 3,000 Arawaks. Upon arrival to the Island of Hispaniola, there were 3 million Arawaks, 20 years later there were only 60,000 and 50 years after first arrival there were none.

Since gold eluded him he engaged into sale of girls 8 to 10 year

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old. In one of his reports he wrote “A hundred castles are as easy to get for a woman as for a farm, and this is very general and there are many smugglers looking for girls; nine to ten year olds are now in demand.”

Catholic law prohibited slavery of Christians so Colon refused to convert them to Catholicism. Other atrocious acts were cutting off the hands of the Arawak natives if they did not deliver their daily quota of gold from Colon’s mines. This was to show the others that they must produce. A work incentive of the time. If a slave tried to escape they were burned alive. If they refused to be slaves he would cut off their nose or ear. If they ran out of food for dogs he would feed them human babies. Slavery was so cruel that at one time 100 Arawak’s committed suicide en masse.

Colon’s acts of cruelty were so cruel and unspeakable that Governor Francisco de Bobadilla arrested Colon and his two brothers, bound them in chains and sent them to Spain. Grateful for his contribution to Ferdinand and Isabel’s coffers, he was released.

Colon earned most of his income from slavery. He was the first slave trader in the Americas. In 1505 he became the first African slave trader.

One of Colon’s men, Bartolome de las Casas wrote most of this description. He wrote “My eyes have seen these acts so strange to human nature that now I tremble as I write.” This book is easily available. Todorov’s book, The Conquest of America is another good source of information.

Instead of honoring Colon we should remember the terror our ancestors suffered. They did not allow themselves to be enslaved by the violence of oppressive empires and resisted until 1697 in our Belizean jungle. After 1697, they seemingly merged into the jungles and kept resisting. They wanted to subdue us as a people but we kept resisting. Our culture and identity refused to disappear. We must decolonize our history from all elements that stain our history and our country. It is impossible to deny our true history much longer, mother earth cannot be silenced.

There is equality in diversity. October 12th, nothing to celebrate just a lot to remember. Decolonize your mind.

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Notice and Time of Nomination Continued from page 27

appear on the register of electors and be handed to the Returning Officer between the said hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Every candidate for election shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Returning Officer the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00), as required by Rule 6 of the Election Rules.

In the event of the election being contested, the poll will take place between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, 11th NOVEMBER, 2020.

The office of the Returning Officer for the electoral division of COLLET is situated at the Bureau of Standard, Belmopan City.

DATED the 13th day of October 2020 (RODOLFO GUTIERREZ)

Returning Officer for the Collet Division

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT CHAPTER 9

S.20 (1)

ADDENDUM NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF NOMINATION

Notice of Election for a Member of the Electoral Division of BELIZE RURAL SOUTH. His Excellency the Governor-General, having issued his writ for the election of a member of the House of Representatives for the electoral division of BELIZE RURAL SOUTH, the Returning Officer of the said division will on Wednesday, the 21st day of October, 2020 now next ensuing between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the San Pedro Town Council, 54 Barrier Reef Dr., Belize District, proceed to the nomination of candidates, and if there is no opposition, to the election of a member for the electoral division of BELIZE RURAL SOUTH. Forms of nomination papers may be obtained at the Elections and Boundaries Department Office, 21 Pescador Drive, San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize District, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily Monday to Friday.

Every nomination paper must be signed by six persons whose names appear on the register of electors and be handed to the Returning Officer between the said hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Every candidate for election shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Returning Officer the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00), as required by Rule 6 of the Election Rules.

In the event of the election being contested, the poll will take place between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, 11th NOVEMBER, 2020.

The office of the Returning Officer for the electoral division of BELIZE RURAL SOUTH is situated at the Belize Tax Services Department, San Pedro Town.

DATED the 13th day of October, 2020 (GENEVA JAMES)

Returning Officer for the Belize Rural South Division

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Revision Notices R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: DEBORAH ROGERS Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of COROZAL NORTH ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Corozal Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

Signed: DEBORAH ROGERS Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of COROZAL SOUTH EAST ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Corozal Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

Signed: DEBORAH ROGERS Revising Officer

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of COROZAL SOUTH WEST ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Corozal Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: DEBORAH ROGERS Revising Officer

R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of ORANGE WALK SOUTH ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Orange Walk Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: MERLENE MOODY

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of ORANGE WALK EAST ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Orange Walk Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

Signed: MERLENE MOODY

Revising Officer

R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of ORANGE WALK CENTRAL ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Orange Walk Town.

Signed: MERLENE MOODY

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of FREETOWN ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of ORANGE WALK NORTH ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Orange Walk Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

Signed: MERLENE MOODY Revising Offier

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 R.P.R.R. 49(1)

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of COROZAL BAY ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Corozal Town.

Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer

R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of CARIBBEAN SHORES ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day

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Revision Notices Belize City.

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of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of PICKSTOCK ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17h day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of FORT GEORGE ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court1, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REVISION NOTICE R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of MESOPOTAMIA ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

REVISION NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of ALBERT ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE

Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REVI-

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of QUEEN’S SQUARE ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of LAKE INDEPENDENCE ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

SION NOTICE

Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer

REVISION NOTICE

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer

Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of COLLET ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

REVISION NOTICE

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of PORT LOYOLA ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building,

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of BELIZE RURAL NORTH ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of BELIZE RURAL CENTRAL ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belize City.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1)

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Revision Notices

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REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

VISION NOTICE

Belmopan City.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 RE-

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of BELIZE RURAL SOUTH ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, San Pedro Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: SHARON FRASER

Revising Officer

REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of CAYO NORTH ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, San Ignacio Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: ARETHA ELINOR FORD

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of CAYO NORTH EAST ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, San Ignacio Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: ARETHA ELINOR FORD

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of CAYO CENTRAL ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, San Ignacio Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: ARETHA ELINOR FORD

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1)

R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE

R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

Signed: JANELL VILLANUEVA-PENNIL

Revising Officer

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of CAYO WEST ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Benque Viejo Del Carmen Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: EDD USHER

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of BELMOPAN ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building,

TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of CAYO SOUTH ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17h day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Belmopan City.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: JANELL VILLANUEVA-PENNIL

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of DANGRIGA ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Dangriga Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: MANNON DENNISON

Revising Officer R.P.R.R. 49(1) REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16 REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of STANN CREEK WEST ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Dangriga Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: MANNON DENNISON

Revising Officer REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of TOLEDO EAST ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Punta Gorda Town..

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020 Signed: Tricia Pitts Anderson

Revising Officer REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REGISTRATION RULES (CAP. 9) Form No. 16

R.P.R.R. 49(1)

REVISION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE that the list of electors for the Electoral Division of TOLEDO WEST ELECTORAL DIVISION will be revised by me, the undersigned, on the 17th day of November, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (forenoon) at Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate’s Court Building, Punta Gorda Town.

DATED this 14th day of October, 2020

Signed: Tricia Pitts Anderson Revising Officer

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