Belize Times September 9, 2018- Blood Bath In The City

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The Belize Times

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Triggers a State of Emergency!

Wed. Sept. 5, 2018 The administration of Prime Minister Dean Barrow has lost the war on crime and violence and pushing the country into a state of anarchy. Over the weekend, there was yet another blood bath in the jewel. Seven persons were murdered countrywide but five were killed in Belize City as a direct result of intensified gang rivalry. This brings the total number of slayings to 115 murders since the year began and over 50 in Belize City alone.

Months prior to the 2012 elections, Barrow’s UDP government use to pay gang members to keep the peace in the City. However,

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BLOOD BATH IN THE CITY

What happened to Daniel Alford?

Continued from page 1 six years later, Petro-Caribe $450M fund and BNE’s Trust’s $600M dollars have dried up and there are no imminent elections, so, the administration has opted for brute force as a response to crime.

This new brute force was evident on Tuesday when the Governor General, Sir Colville Young signed a Statutory Instrument (SI) # 49 declaring a “State of Emergency,” of Emergency”, making certain areas of Belize City emergency zones.

Those areas include gang territory controlled by the George Street and Ghost Town Gangs. Coincidentally, these gangs are housed in the constituencies belonging to none other than the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

This Statutory Instrument is considered, barbaric, draconian and unconstitutional in nature because it allows the Belize Police Department unrestraint authority to incarcerate residents from these “emergency zones” for up to thirty days at the Hattieville prison without charge.

Already, trained lawyers are hinting that the Government of Belize will face a plethora of legal challenges as a consequence of this SI. Already, there is a hundred persons, including minors that have been rounded up and detained in police operation’s hours before the state of emergency was declared for these emergency zones.

According to Acting Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, seventy-five of these persons will be incarcerated and housed at the Hattieville prison for thirty days without charge nor trial.

“If at the expiration of that one-month period, they have shown no signs of improvement, or that they want to behave themselves, then we intend to take it further,” Williams said.

However, Minister of National Security, John Saldivar, said that in order to extend the period of incarceration, support would need to come via the House of Representatives.

“I as Minister, I intend to do so if the circumstances so warrant,” he informed.

Following the declaration of the State of Emergency, Opposition Leader, Hon. John Briceño, held a press conference expressing his disappointment on the position government took.

Briceño agrees that something needs to be done but disagrees with the method undertaken by the Barrow administration.

Firstly, he pointed out his dissatisfaction stating that this proclamation was issued without any consultations with Mayor of Belize City, Bernard Wagner.

“It is disrespectful to the Mayor to take such actions, which will affect thousands of Belizeans in the south side Belize City without consulting with their duly elected Mayor,” he said.

Hon. Briceño continued his presentation by asserting that this recent SI, is a clear admission that the Barrow administration is unable to handle the crime situation.

He explained, “Locking up gang members will not do anything to address the poverty and inequality on the south side of Belize City.”

“It will not address the number of young people who are on the streets instead of being in school. We need to look at this problem from a holistic point of view. We need to do more,” he continued.

According to Hon. Briceño, the government is reaping what they have sown.

“The government has abandoned and neglected southside Belize City, and today we are seeing the price of that abandonment, of using the south side just for politics and not making the necessary changes to transform the lives of the people in south-side Belize City,” he said.

He pointed to figures, which suggested that there were 115 murders so far for this year with a whopping 15 in the

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San Ignacio: Wednesday 5th September 2018 Daniel Alford, fortytwo-year-old resident of Georgeville village, Cayo District died last Monday evening after he suffered gunshot wound to his abdomen. However, there are conflicting reports as to how the incident unfolded that evening because according to police, Alford went hunting with a shotgun, slipped and accidentally shot himself, but Alford’s family is disputing the police’s version of how the incident occurred. The family believes that someone shot Alford since he owned no gun and did not leave the house to go out hunting.

Prior to his untimely death, Alford was employed as a security guard and according to his wife, Sandra Rodriguez, he had been trying for a long time to secure a gun license so that he could have a

personal licensed firearm for personal safety and security on the job. She further stated that Alford would go out daily to reel in his cattle nearer to their house before he left for his job, that was his routine. Rodriguez said that she regularly accompanied Alford to get his cattle as she used the opportunity to converse more with him since they didn’t see much of each other because of their jobs.

That evening however, she said, she could not accompany him but she is certain that he did not go out hunting because he was already preparing to go to his job since his shift is from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am. When he left, “he took off his helmet and kissed me good bye like he always did and I am certain my husband did not leave home with any gun. “I do not know where the police got that about him having a gun. Maybe someone shot him and threw the shotgun near him.” Rodriguez also revealed that following the incident, the San Ignacio police interrogated a minor, one

month of August alone.

He went on to call for the removal of the Commissioner of Police, Allen Whylie, who is currently on holiday.

Additionally, he called for a by-partisan commission to address crime. According to him, the People’s United Party wants to be a part of a comprehensive, long-term and effective plan to foster citizen security.

He said, “We will always be on the side of the Belizean people. We believe that we have to be there to protect and defend the Belizean people at all times. We accept that there is a massive, serious problem in this country when it comes to crime. We have been calling out the government for a very long time that we need to take a holistic approach. This heavy-handedness is not working.”

According to Briceño, if the shoe were on the other foot and the People’s United Party (PUP) led government, things would not have escalated to this point as his government would have brought meaningful improvements to the lives of its Belize City residents.

He added that he would not have declared a state of emergency on the citizens but employ other measures to tackle crime.

He emphasized, “For those who are giving trouble, we need to deal with them with the full extent of the law, and if you are caught breaking the law you have to answer to that. There is no shortcut.”

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of Alford’s children without an adult present. Rodriguez told us that the police were pressuring the minor to confess what had happened even after the minor told them he didn’t know or saw anything, “The police took the minor from 6:00 pm that evening to the police station and interrogated him until 1:00 am the following day.

Though police reports indicate that Alford was hunting and had a shotgun with him, relatives highly suspecting that Alford was shot and killed by someone when he went for his cattle. A post mortem examination is yet to be conducted.

Alford’s family will remember him as a hard-working man and a loving father.

He was a father of five children.

GAS GAWN UP AGAIN

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 The government of Belize through the Bureau of Standards raised price of Regular gasoline that went into effect at midnight.

Regular gas has increased from $10.99 to $11.04 per gallon, which is – a 5 cent increase per gallon. You may recall that a few weeks ago they reduced the cost of Regular gasoline per gallon at the pump by a few cents while they raised the prices of the other fuels. Today they are gradually raising the price of Regular back to where it was.

All other prices remain the same with Premium at $11.70, Diesel at $10.47 and Kerosene at $8.34

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BILLY WHITE RESIDENTS SAY DECOMPOSED CATTLE MAY CONTAMINATE THEIR WATER San Ignacio/Santa Elena: Wednesday 5th September 2018 Residents of Billy White village, Cayo District, are requesting the assistance of the relevant health authorities to take action on a situation that has been affecting their village. According to the residents, they have found three cows suspected to have been the carrier of some disease decomposing in an area that is in close proximity to the Billy White pump station water reservoir that provides portable water to the entire village. Villagers are extremely concerned about the situation since the decomposing cattles were found in the immediate proximity of the water shed and could contaminate their water, which could result in serious health risks for the villagers. A villager told this newspaper that it is suspected that one of the cattle died from a mysterious disease and was dumped in an area & left to decay.

It is believed that the dead cattle was from a nearby farm belonging to a UDP Minister from Cayo Central . The informant explained that

the Minister had been informed of the situation but has done nothing to get the decomposed animals removed or buried elsewhere. The source said that there were a total of three decaying animals found in the close proximity of the pump station which is the source of portable water for the entire village. It is a very serious situation because the cows are already in a rotten stage, and if they were sick, then there is the possibility of contamination..

The person responsible for the nearby farm says that he had no where to dump the dead cows, so they took them to that area.

Villagers are upset and worried that there could be more dead animals left out in the open to decay near the water pump station. The person responsible for the water reservoir in the village, Mr. Omar Gomez said that he had documented his concerns with the village chairman and other higher authorities. He believes that the foul smell and decaying animals so close to the reservoir could contaminate the water and cause serious health problems for villagers.

On Tuesday morning, officials

from Belize Agricultural Health Authorities (BAHA) were in Billy White visiting the area but left without any actions. The villagers are awaiting the Department of the Environment to come in to investigate and share some kind of information with them to ease their concerns and frustration. Furthermore, villagers are calling out the Minister to deal with the situation since he is the owner of the farm.

Message from Hon. John Briceño, Leader of the Opposition

Remembering September 6th. 2017 Hi everybody, My how time flies; it seems like just weeks ago that we were in Orange Walk for our massive demonstration.

As you will recall, it was a warm September day when thousands of us decided that enough was enough.

What started out as a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday 6th September ended up with the police turning on citizens exercising their right to protest. We were pushed and shoved and tear gassed and to some extent, that was ok, what was not ok however was the way certain elements of the police department treated the media.

The news described the events on that day as frightening images of the way the police attacked Marisol Amaya from Krem Radio and TV and the way they threw tear gas at the feet of the press while conducting an interview. We can all remember the ban against Channel 5 by the Prime Minister and the police’s abusive man handing of Channel 7 news director Jules Vasquez in the National Assembly to name a few.

I chose to speak about this in this week’s message because I believe we must never forget occasions like these for they are an important part of our democracy. Recall that this all started because of people’s outrage over the attempted forgery of land documents in a scam involving then Minister Gaspar Vega and his son Andre who was paid $400,000 in tax payers money for a parcel of land in Belize City that he never legally owned. Belizeans are still waiting to collect back that money, which we know was received fraudulently.

It was because of the wanton corruption in the Ministry of Lands that thousands of Belizeans joined the PUP in a peaceful demonstration to stand up against corruption. Let us not forget what the UDP instructed the police to do on the 6th September, they were instructed to tear gas peaceful protesters, rough up and manhandle a female journalist, intimidate the press and terrorize the villagers in that peaceful community of Tower Hill.

It’s been a year and we find ourselves at a time when our nation is fatigued by stories of corruption and incompetence by this government.

The cost of living is going up and people are suffering the hardships of life.

It is so widespread.

And while all this is happening our streets remain unsafe, the Southside of Belize City is under a state of emergency and the violence continues to spread.

Yet in the midst of it all we must not give up.

We in the PUP will continue to hold the UDP accountable for their actions. We will continue to stand up for freedom of the press and we will always strive to do what is right for Belize. As we continue to enjoy the celebrations let us remember freedom is one of the bedrocks upon which we must build a Belize that works for everyone.

Thanks, God Bless and have a safe week.

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QUESTIONS TO THE MINISTERS

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Will the acting Prime Minister and acting Minister of Finance please inform Belizeans when the government will collect the $800,000 from Andre Vega and Sharon Pitts for the Land hustle involving the land near the Haulover Bridge?

2. Will the Minister of Health and his CEO please inform the Belizean people what happened to all that equipment that has gone missing from the hospitals and clinics in Orange Walk, Corozal and in the south?

3. Can the Minister of Culture please inform the nation if the acting Head of NICH is on suspension or is Sapna still at her desk?

4. Will the Minister of Tourism please inform the nation and especially those in the tourism sector what plans he and his government have to address the sargassum problem with in places like Placencia where it has spread to 150 feet from the beach?

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2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Belize Nature Conservation Foundation (BNCF) provides grants to registered management organizations of terrestrial protected areas including, non-governmental organizations and community based organizations that are involved in conservation and management for sustainable use of Belize’s natural resources and terrestrial protected areas. The BNCF is now accepting project applications for its 2018 grants cycle.

Only projects which fit the following three priority areas for funding will be considered: 1. General park management - protection, environmental education and equipment; 2. Training; and, 3. Research.

Some project activities that are eligible for funding include but are not limited to: a) The establishment, restoration, protection and maintenance of protected areas and reserves; b) The development and implementation of scientifically sound systems of natural resource management, including land and ecosystem management practices; c) Training programs to increase the scientific, technical and managerial capacities of individuals and organizations involved in conservation efforts; d) The restoration, protection, or sustainable use of diverse animal and plant species; or e) Research and identification of medicinal uses of tropical forest plant life to treat human diseases, illnesses, and health-related concerns.

Maximum Grant: BZ$38,000.00 for one year Past recipients may apply For application forms and more information contact PACT’s Conservation Investment Manager or email cimanager@pactbelize.org. Submit complete applications and supporting documents no later than September 28th, 2018 to: Submit Completed Application package to: Conservation Investment Manager, PACT #3 Mango Street/P.O. Box 443 Belmopan, Cayo District Re: BNCF Grant Application

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EDITORIAL

SEDI’S AUTO GOAL

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s usual Sedi had more than a mouthful to say and we agree with much of what he had to impart.

Granny used to say “that it is much better to be quiet and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and to be known a fool.” We are guessing that Sedi’s granny did not share that one with him. In his magniloquence he asserted that, in the last ten years precisely, he has lost two dear friends and coworkers to diabetes complications because they could not afford dialysis. We agree that the cost of dialysis is unaffordable and we are waiting for the Minister of Health to get back to us on the deals he was working on to get the cost lowered from the service providers. This would mean that more people would have access to the subsidized care. While we are on the subject we take the opportunity to gently remind the Minister that he has yet to give the people of Belize an explanation as to why the KHMH provides dialysis at a much higher price than other private medical service providers. Also needed is an explanation as to why we continue to buy the dialysis service from KHMH at those exorbitant rates.

Minster Sedi continued his lamentations by proclaiming that the “cost of education is prohibitive and that the quality leaves much to be desired.” Those pop shots found their target, DPM Faber. He continued his diatribe confirming that it is easy to manipulate an uneducated people, “because we can tell them all kinda lies and lead them into evil ways while we stay in office.” He also explained that his government seems to be “having problems with the drug flow and the planes that are landing.” We would relish some comment from Minster Elodio Aragon Jr on his inefficient and ineffective curtailing of these events.

Minster Sedi “foresaw and foretold” of the many things that could be, should be and never would be done with the 95M that they refuse to use to settle the court order. It is a wonder Sedi failed to remember all these wonderful ideas that could have been done with 95M when Petro Caribe was rolling. He told of the theater that we could have, the sports scholarships and the canning facilities. He spoke of the transformative powers the 95M could have on the destitute, the neglected and the abandoned. Minster Sedi spoke eloquently about the “young indigenous and black men” whom in his own words “we give them platitudes…we give them rum and we give them drugs… but no hope or future.”

It is a bleak picture he paints and not entirely unfounded. All the news reports this week speak of a troubled nation, of youth in crisis. Crime is out of control because poverty is widespread and our economy is a barren wasteland where all hope comes to die. Order and rule of law seem nonexistent as robberies, murders and home invasions are even more frequent.

Perhaps Minister Sedi had but one lucid moment, and in that moment of serendipity he chose to say what was truly in his conscience and in his heart. He should not be judged harshly. It is said that confession purges the soul, so we must applaud and cheer Sedi on.

His criticism and harsh words for his own administration and fellow Cabinet members will go down as perhaps one of the best auto goals in Belizean political history.

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EL AUTO-GOL DE SEDI

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omo de costumbre Sedi tuvo bocanadas que decir en la sesión especial del Parlamento de esta semana y estamos de acuerdo con mucho de lo que impartió. La abuelita solía decir “que es mucho mejor estar callado y que te piensen un tonto que abrir la boca y ser conocido como un tonto”. Estamos adivinando que la abuelita de Sedi no compartió eso con él. En su grandilocuencia afirmó que precisamente, en los últimos diez años, ha perdido a dos queridos amigos y compañeros de trabajo a las complicaciones de la diabetes porque no podían costear la diálisis. Estamos de acuerdo en que el costo de la diálisis es inasequible y estamos esperando que el Ministro de Salud nos informe sobre los acuerdos en los que estaba trabajando para obtener el costo reducido de los proveedores de servicios. Esto significaría que más personas tendrían acceso a la atención subsidiada. Mientras estamos en el tema, aprovechamos la oportunidad para recordarle gentilmente al Ministro que todavía le debe a la gente de Belice una explicación del porque el KHMH proporciona diálisis a un precio mucho más alto que otros proveedores de servicios médicos privados. También se necesita una explicación del porque seguimos comprando el servicio de diálisis de KHMH a esos precios exorbitantes.

El ministro Sedi continuó sus lamentaciones proclamando que el “costo de la educación es prohibitiva y que la calidad deja mucho que desear”. Esos disparos de popshot encontraron su objetivo, el DPM Faber. Continuó su diatriba asegurando que es fácil manipular a una gente sin educación, “porque podemos decirles toda clase de mentiras de y conducirlos por mal camino mientras que permanecemos en el cargo”. También explicó que su gobierno parece estar “teniendo problemas con el flujo de drogas y los aviones que aterrizan”. Nos gustaría algún comentario del Ministro Elodio Aragón Jr sobre su ineficiente e ineficaz restricción de estos acontecimientos.

El ministro Sedi “previó y predijo” las muchas cosas que podrían ser, deberían ser y los que nunca se harían con los $95M que se niegan a utilizar para resolver la orden judicial. Es una maravilla que Sedi no recordó todas esas maravillosas ideas que se podrían haber hecho con $95M cuando tuvieron la abundancia del Petro Caribe.

Nos contó del teatro que podíamos tener, las becas deportivas y las empresas de enlatados. Habló del poder transformativo que los 95M podrían tener sobre los indigentes, los desamparados y los abandonados. El Ministro SEDI habló elocuentemente acerca de los “jóvenes indígenas y negros” a quienes en sus propias palabras “les damos perogrulladas... les damos Ron y les damos drogas... pero sin esperanza ni futuro”.

Es un cuadro sombrío que pinta y no completamente infundado.

Todos los informes noticiosos de esta semana hablan de una nación problemática, de jóvenes en crisis. El crimen está fuera de control porque la pobreza es generalizada y nuestra economía es un páramo estéril donde toda esperanza viene a morir. El orden y el estado de derecho parecen inexistentes y los robos, asesinatos e invasiones en el hogar son aun más frecuentes. Tal vez el Ministro Sedi tuvo un momento de lucidez, y en ese momento de serendipia eligió decir lo que verdaderamente estaba en su conciencia y en su corazón.

No debe ser juzgado duramente. Se dice que la confesión purga el alma, así que debemos aplaudir y animar a Sedi. Sus críticas y duras palabras para su propia administración y compañeros miembros del Gabinete pasarán como quizás uno de los mejores auto-goles en la historia de la política de Belice.

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2018 Mr. Queen Of the Bay 2018-2019

An institution of glaring Financial Irregularities and Incompetence?

Wed. Sept. 5, 2018 A former employee of the National Bank of Belize is accusing the institution of glaring financial irregularities and incompetence.

In a press conference yesterday, Katrina Young told the press that she had been employed by the bank since August 2013.

During her tenure, she secured a student and an auto loan.

However, in 2015 she resigned from the bank to pursue her graduate studies in Jamaica. While in Jamaica, she claims that she continued to wire payments to the bank.

However, when she returned to Belize in December 2016, the bank informed her that her account was thousands of dollars in arrears.

That prompted Young to question the nature of those arrears as, she had been servicing the loans in a timely fashion.

Firstly, when she approached the bank, she learned that the bank had no records of her payments for January 2015 to July 2015.

This is although at the time she was still an employee and payments were being deducted from her monthly salary.

Additionally, she learnt that the bank took the payments she made from February 2018 to June 2018 and applied it to the six-month period for which the bank had no record of payments.

Young also learnt that her student loan was being treated as a commercial loan with an interest rate of fourteen per cent instead of the three per cent allowed to employees of the bank.

This is although she has documentary evidence revealing that the institution confirmed the rate of the loan at three per cent.

Young who received a $45,000 student loan is questioning why the balance on her principal is in excess of $30,000 when her amortization schedule puts the balance at less than $20,000.

She is also questioning as to the principal on her auto loan of $40,000 stands at over twenty thousand dollars when it should be an estimated $17,000.

According to Young, the bank statements are being produced manually, and so it is prone to human error.

She told the press that she had spent the last three and a half years to right the situation but has not made any progress and has resorted to air the matter in the media.

She said if the bank can make these mistakes with a former employee, one could only imagine what it was doing with ordinary citizens.

Coincidentally, in our last edition of the Belize Times, we pointed that just like the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH), the National Bank was also plagued with fiscal incompetence, mismanagement and corruption.

The National Bank cannot get its act right because it is merely a piggy bank for cronies and special friends of the ruling government.

With an initial investment of $40 million from the Petro-Caribe initiative, the bank has already recorded losses in excess of $10 million.

These losses continue to accumulate and there will be many more like Ms. Young, who will have to pressure the bank to do better.

Now we know who stole the Crown!

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2018 LIQUOR LICENSE NOTICES

Notice is hereby given that Jian Hong Yan is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Wingan Shop” located at # 144 East Collet Canal, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Nelson Garcia is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Garcia’s Shop” located in Sarteneja Village, Cayo District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that Tameka S. Juarez & Rudolph Jacobs are applying for a Publican Special Liquor License to be operated at “Bingo Bag Lounge” located at #79 Hyde’s Lane, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

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NOTICE International Business Companies Act (Chapter 270)

TAKE NOTICE that CEDAR DIRECTORS LIMITED has been dissolved And has been struck off the Register Dated this 05th day of September, 2018 EMANUEL RIVERA LIMITED LIQUIDATOR FINAL NOTICE

PUP NOTICE The People’s United Party hereby announces its conventions to elect Standard Bearers in the following Constituencies: Cayo West Cayo Central Queen’s Square Collet Mesopotamia Freetown Fort George Orange Walk Central Closing date for applications is Friday September 14, 2018 at 4:00 p.m.

For further information please contact the PUP Secretariat at 677-9168.

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Excerpts from Hon. Francis Fonseca’s Presentation at the House last Friday

Madam Speaker The Bill presented to this Honorable House today is a fraud, it is a sick joke Madam Speaker. It is a continuation of a decade long campaign of lies and deception in furtherance of a UDP political agenda.

Because it is grounded in lies, fraud and deception it is not worth the paper it is written on Madam Speaker.

You know I listened to the long passionate fairy tail spun by the Honorable Prime Minister, Member for Queen’s Square and he conveniently left out the ending. You know why he conveniently left out the ending because he does not fit in with his campaign of lies and deception. It does not fit in with his political agenda. The ending is very clear…the London Court of International Arbitration, the Privy Council, the US Supreme Court and the Caribbean Court of Justice have all said this is absolute nonsense, this fairytale that they are spinning here again.

You know they have taken this nonsense all over the world which the Leader of the Opposition pointed out, spending millions of dollars on Legal Fees.

Every single time they have gotten in front of a credible court, the court has said get out of here with that political nonsense. Do not bring your campaign fairytale to court, bring evidence and they have had no evidence Madam Speaker. That is the real conclusion of this fairytale. Parade and circus of lies that is exactly what the courts have said to this UDP government every single time.

Madam Speaker, everything the member of Queen Square and his minions have said in this House is based on lies. Every single falsehood they have expound has been heard and rejected by all of these courts.

Madam Speaker do you think these courts heard this matter and there was corruption and this and that and these courts ignored all of that. Absolute nonsense. If there was any corruption involved in this deal those courts would never have sanction the deal and said clearly that it was legal and the Prime Minister was authorized to do the agreement. That is the nonsense they are bringing to the Belizean people and it has been too long. We can understand all that rhetoric during campaign time but let’s get real and stop lying to the Belizean people about this matter. This is serious business.

Madam Speaker, at the Privy Council the hearing lasted maybe fifteen or twenty minutes. The court looked at the terms of the Loan Note, acknowledged that the document spoke for itself and found that the documents in accordance with the terms did not provide for a loan so that no house approval was required in accordance with the Finance and Audit Reform Act. The Loan note itself contained an acknowledgement of an existing debt and a promise to pay and was not affected by Section 7.2 of the Finance and Audit Reform Act, and was not illegal. That is the ruling of the Privy Council. The bill was $36.8 Million, still a lot of money even then.

Arrogance, incompetence, pettiness won the day and the UDP Government ignores the award of the London Court of International Arbitration. That was 5 years ago Madam Speaker, and during the past 5 years that has been well documented interest that has grown and on November 22nd, 2017 the Caribbean Court of Justice gave its final decision ordering the government to pay the debt.

At that time the bill stood at 90 million dollars, so for 10 long years Madam Speaker, the Prime Minister and his UDP Government have said “debt be damn, and to hell

with the debt, interest be damn, rule of law be damn, BELIZE be damn”. Their position is that we are not going to give up this political golden goose as they see it; we got into office on a campaign of lies and deception about this issue and were going down with those lies and deception.

And you know Madam Speaker, this matter has been discussed quite a bit and there are many cynics among us. Am not yet too cynical am still a young man so am not too cynical but there are cynics who argue that all of what is going on, this big campaign of lies all of this arrogance, pettiness is the incompetence we are seeing on the part of the great master and Minister of Finance.

They are very cynical about it, they point out quite convincingly that the only one who seem to be benefiting from this incompetence and phony nationalism are Ashcroft and lawyers closely associated with the Prime Minister. So they ask and think they are justified in asking; could this whole campaign of lies and deception really be all about personal enrichment of family and friends, and of course for evidence pointing to the glaring precedence of BTL? Madam Speaker, the Belizean people must not allow this corrupt incompetent UDP Government to continue playing them for fools. The lies and deceptions have been exposed and must be rejected; the facts and laws in this matter are crystal clear and have been validated by the most prestigious courts in the world.

The Prime Minister knows that everything the member for Fort George did as Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in this matter was legal and in fulfillment of the PUP mandate at the time. You may disagree with the policies but it was the policy of the government of the day. I remind this Honorable House and the Belizean people, Madam Speaker, because they like to talk saying that the Prime Minister at the time was not open about what he was doing. And the Prime Minister at the time did addresses the nation on May 9th 2007. See, I realized that one of the burning questions out there is why I signed a Government Guarantee for a private company.

First of all remember that in our last manifesto we promised to encourage the expansion of the National Health Insurance scheme countrywide. The Development Finance Corporation therefore had this in mind when it made a commitment to finance the Universal Health Services project.

The DFC felt that with the government projected roll out of NHI, UHS would be able to meet its repayments. The hospital became operational providing quality healthcare services to countless Belizean, and then the DFC ran into its own problems and could not continue to finance the project.

They turned to the Belize Bank for bridge financing, the Belize bank agreed and took a guarantee from the DFC. Eventually after continual request from the DFC to finance the project the Belize Bank asked for a standard Sovereign Guarantee. Prime Minister Musa at the time said “I sign the Sovereign Guarantee because the alternative would have been the collapse of a high quality hospital that had been saving hundreds of Belizean lives. Some people might not agree with that decision.

But I made that decision in good faith, believing that no value can be put on the saving of Belizean lives.’

Madam Speaker, the bottom line is as follows, if you want to say that Prime Minister Musa created a problem, he created a problem but he solved that problem before he left office. Prime Minister Barrow, the Honorable Member for Queen’s Square created a new problem in 2008 for his own political advan-

tage and now he refuses to solve that problem and he refuses at the expense of the rule of law and he refuses at the expense of our national economic security.

So, Prime Minister Barrow gave birth to his $95 million debt. There is no question about that, when he entered office the debt was non-existent, there was no debt. Because of his actions and decisions he created this, He created this 95 million debt. He nurtured and fed that debt all these long 10 years.

He owns that debt of $95 million. He must accept it as his and take responsibility for it. “Do not be a coward and be running behind your colleagues to vote no, accept that you made the wrong decision and take responsibility for it and most of all stop the lies and deception”.

Madam speaker, the very highly respected Senior Counsel, Andrew Marshalleck, wrote an article on this matter, which is from the law firm of Barrow and Company.

The article entitled “THE UHS OBLIGATION, WHEN CONVENTIONAL TRUTH IS EXPOSED TO BE FALSE.” The article is both relevant and instructive to this debate we are having today and I want to quickly refer to some segments of the article and I quote, Senior Counsel Marshalleck says, “Belizeans have been told for many years that the government guarantee of the UHS Depth and Loan Note given in satisfaction of it were illegal. Statements to this effect were repeated with such regularity and emphasis that they became common perception and conventional truths.

The notion that the transaction were illegal were indeed introduced by the Opposition at the time led by now Prime Minister Dean Barrow, he continues after a number of legal challenges. The claim eventually reached the Privy Council. The Privy Council of course was completely unaffected by the politics and the conventional truth. The hearing as I said, did not lost very long, the court looks upon the terms of the note, acknowledge that the document spoke for itself and what others thought or said about it was irrelevant and found that the document in accordance with its term did not provide for a loan, so that no House approval was required in accordance with the Finance and Audit Reform Act. The Loan Note contain an acknowledgement of an existing debt and promise to pay and was not affected by Section 7.2 of the Finance and Audit Reform Act and was not illegal. The Prime Minister maintain that the government would not pay the UHS debt created by the Loan Note and the Bank which had already initiated arbitration proceedings in London against the government continued to prosecute its claim for the full amount owed, eventually after the arbitration claim was settled by the Musa Government and the settlement effectively reversed by the Barrow Government, an award was made by the London Court of International Arbitration in the Bank’s favor for the amount of the debt giving due credit for partial amounts paid pursuant to the then abandoned settlement.

The bank in its effort to collect the debt had entered into a settlement agreement with owners of UHS, the government under the terms of which the government and partner would pay to the bank the amount of debt and then the owners of UHS would transfer its interest and assets of the company to the government and its partner in certain agreed shares. The bank further agreed to make further sums available for the hospital under its new management.

Madam speaker, so when they talk about not having anything, it’s because they chose not to have anything in furtherance of their political campaign of deceptions and lies. 49% of the shares belonged to the government of Belize.

Marshalleck continues in his article, “One half of the monies paid to the Bank by the government under the arrangement was retrieved by the government through the exercise by, Central Bank having regulatory control over the bank. So that in the end the government only partly paid for interest in assets of UHS it had agreed to acquire under that ar-

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The Prime Minister persisted in refusing to honor the arbitral award and the bank applied for leave to enforce the international arbitral award in Belize. The government insisted notwithstanding the Privy Council decision, that permission should be refused for the award to be enforced on the basis of public policy because to do so would be to require the government to pay monies not appropriated by the National Assembly. Things again changed when the case reached our final court of appeal which had by then become the Caribbean Court of Justice. The CCJ found that in light of the Privy Council decision there was really no basis for refusing permission to enforce the award on the ground of public policy or otherwise. The Caribbean court of Justice ordered that the bank should have permission to enforce the arbitral award making clear that the government should seek the appropriate approvals to make the required payment including the required appropriation inquired by the National Assembly. This marked the end of the road for the legal position that the award should not be enforced against the Government of Belize, the legal arguments having once again been rejected

by Belize final Court of Appeal. The arguments now made in support of the refusal to pay have apparently shifted to a moral one, Prime Minister expressed extreme disappointment with the CCJ decision and maintain that the court was wrong. He now insists that it would be morally wrong to pay the debt. Coming to the end of SC Marshalleck article, Madam Speaker, he goes on to say, “Few have stop to consider the possibility that common perception and those who propagate it may simply be wrong and that the CCJ is plainly right, acceptance that the court is right would of course require acceptance of a change unconventional truth. A very difficult process because this particular truth goes to undermine the very justification given by the current administration for the ousting of former Prime Minister Said Musa from power, a position that some within his own party has also found useful. He ends in the final analysis we are all well served by remembering that our leaders are politicians concerned more with perception than with truth. Legal as well as moral principles are employed to sway perception and votes rather than to discover truth or to be outstanding in the eyes of God.” Madam Speaker ten years of failed litigation of providing a thorough comprehensive accounting and explanation of this entire matter and that explanation has not been kind to the Honorable Prime Minister and his campaign of lies and deception. What the Prime Minister and his UDP gang should be concern with is providing an accounting for the 400 million dollars of Petro Caribe money they have spent without an audit, the millions of dollar of corrupt contracts given out at BTL, the agreement reached in secrecy in a hotel room in Miami which costed the Belizean people $557 million dollars, the millions of dollars in corrupt land deals by your ministers, the thousands of fraudulent illegally registered voters used to win elections, the hundreds of young men dying every year in your Southside constituencies; account for and explain all the visa and passport hustling that has been taking place under your watch.

Account for and explain the growing poverty and the sense of desperation and the hopelessness that haunts the Belizean landscape under your watch. I see the members of Pickstock getting ready, I hope when you get up to talk you will account to the Belizean people for losing the Sarstoon under your watch, that is what they want to hear from you, that is what they want to hear nothing else from you. Madam speaker but the truth is the Prime Minister and his UDP ministers just don’t give a damn anymore, it’s all about hustling and grabbing before the ship sinks.

Madam speaker it is time for this corrupt UDP government to go!

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OUT Corozal residents terrorized by rising crimes

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04 August, 2018.

Dear Editor As a resident of Corozal I want to let everyone know of the situation we are living. Life in Corozal before was great, filled with sea breeze and sun shine. Today I am filled with terror. There have been a series of violent home invasions and robberies. Our tiny town was not like this before.

The police are powerless to do anything. When called they do not have money for gas or vehicle to come to your rescue. It is not their fault if they are not given what they need to do their job. Since then they have gone on raids but all they do is catch the poor people that are trying to feed their family by bringing things across the border to sell. The bad reputation we are getting is causing the expats to relocate to other countries like Mexico and stopping others to come and live here.

Things are already bad in my sweet Coro and they just keep getting worse.

Yesterday I was cooking beans on my fyah haat because my butane tank was empty. I went inside to check on my baby and when I came back out my pot was gone. Somebody came in my yard and stole my pot of beans from the fire. This is really the limit and something must be done. Please let everyone know what it has come to in Coro.

Frustrated Corozaleña Sylvia Rancharan

Remarks by: Hon. John Briceño

In Response to the Proclamation to Declare a State of Public Emergency on the Remarks by: Hon. John Briceño South Side of Belize City

In Response to the Proclamation to Declare a State of Public Emergency on the South Side ofand Belize Good afternoon thankCity you all for coming. invited Mayor Wagner to join us for this briefing, which is in response to the action taken by the Minister Today I have of National Security to ask the Governor General to issue a proclamation to declare a state of public emergency on the south

side of Belize City.

Ǥ First of all let me express my dissatisfaction with the fact that this proclamation was issued without any consultation with the mayor of Belize City, who only found out about it after it was announced to the press.

ǡ It is disrespectful to the mayor to take such actions, which will affect thousands of Belizeans in South Side Belize City

without consulting with their duly elected mayor. Ǥ The fact that the government has taken the drastic step to declare a state of public emergency on the South Side of Be admission of their inability to handle the crime situation. lize City is a clear Indeed the Acting commissioner stated in this morning’s press conference that the situation is “getting out of control.”

No sir the ǡ situation is out of hand!

According Ǥ to sources in the independent media, to date there have been 106 murders, 15 in the month of August alone.

This past ǡ weekend was among the most deadly and violent in recent months and the police have reported that innocent persons may have been shot and killed in south side Belize City just for being in the area while on the job. Ǥ To be completely honest with you, we are tired of calling press conferences to say the same thing over and over. of saying that something drastic must be done.

We are tired We know that the Belizean people are on edge and they need urgent and decisive action by Government.

At my last press conference I said that we couldn’t solve the problem of crime and violence in south side Belize City by a heavy-handed approach alone. Ǥ I also saidIndeed yet again the PUP is prepared to workin with the government and conference the social partners to help find lasting thethat Acting commissioner stated this morning’s press that solutions to the crime problem. situation is “getting out of control.”

Locking up gang members for a month will not do anything to address the poverty and inequality on the south side of Ǩ Belize City.

It will not address the number of young people who are on the streets instead of being in school. ǡ ͳͲ͸ ǡ ͳͷ We need to look at this problem from a holistic point of view. Ǥ We repeat our call for the removal of the commissioner of police; reiterate our call for a bipartisan commission to

include civil society to look at a comprehensive, long term and effective plan to deal with gun violence, home invasion and murders.

And for the efforts to begin to turn the Southside of Belize City into a special development zone where financial and Ǥ human capital can immediately be made available to bring about meaningful social transformation to these communities.

I say again, rising crime is a product of social, moral and economic failures and the government is now reaping what ǡ they have sowed, which is the long term neglect of the people of South Side Belize City. Ǥ We will be closely watching and monitoring this state of public emergency to ensure that there are no abuses and no Ǥ violations of human rights and constitutional rights of Belizeans.

Ǥ Charter House Belize City

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US Embassy issues Security Warning Bulletin to citizens in Belize Wednesday, September 5, 2018 The United States Embassy in Belize today issued a security warning to all American citizens in Belize.

The warning comes almost immediately after a state of emergency was declared for the Southside area of Belize City earlier by the Governor General, Sir Colville Young which will be in effect for 30 days in the first instance.

According to the Embassy’s release, the security forces will enforce checkpoints throughout the southern area of the City and have increased authorities to detain individuals.

The US Embassy advises their citizens to take the necessary precautions and exercise increased

caution when visiting Southside, Belize City.

It further recommend U.S. citizens to keep a low profile, avoid crowds and monitor local media for updates. The security warning urges its citizens to always be aware of their surroundings and be extra cautious when walking or driving at night especially when visiting banks or ATM’s.

It concludes by appealing not to attempt to physically resist any robbery attempt and to always notify friends and family of their safety.

The Belize Police department held a press conference earlier to inform the general public of the “ state of public emergency” imposed in the Southside area of Belize City.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on 20th August 2018 Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garcia, (Ret’d) psc. OBE was appointed Receiver of Messrs. Robert’s Grove Limited of Point Placencia, Stann Creek District.

Any person having a claim upon ROBERT’S GROVE LIMITED is asked to send in the particulars to: Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garcia, (Ret’d) psc.

OBE, Receiver, Robert’s Grove Limited, P.O Box 2649, Belize City, Belize.

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Team Lampaz’ Fitzgerald Joseph wins Chief’s Boom Circuit race 2x champs Unitedville Rebels

Unitedville Rebels win back-to-back national champs Belize City, September 2, 2018 The Unitedville Rebels United won their 2nd back to back national softball championship, organized by the Belize Softball Federation at the home of softball, the Rogers Stadium over the weekend.

In Game 1 on Friday night, the Unitedville Rebels won 17-1 vs Burrell Boom Orchid Girls.

In Game 2, the Belize Bank Bulldogs won 11-0 vs the Silk Grass Royale Girlz, led by pitcher Renisha Richards, who pitched an 11-0 no-hitter by mercy rule in 3 innings; as Silk Grass’ pitcher Tanisha Molina gave up 11 hits.

On Saturday, in Game 3, DigiCell won 4-0 Belmopan Bandits, as Bandits’ pitcher Kenisha Sutherland gave up 5 hits and struck out 5 batters, while the diamond made 8 errors.

In Game 4, pitcher Shalini Zabaneh led Independence United to a 4-2 win vs Double Head Cabbage Unity.

In Game 5, the Burrell Boom Orchid Girls gave the Silk Grass Royale Girls their ticket home: 10-7.

In Game 6, the Belmopan Bandits sent home DHC Unity: 8-5 In Game 7, the Unitedville Rebels upset the 3-times national champs, the Belize Bank Bulldogs: 3-2, as Bulldogs pitcher Renisha Richards gave up 3 hits, walked 6 batters and struck out 4 batters.

In Game 8, DigiCell gave Independence United their first loss: 7-5; as Shalini Zabaneh gave up 10 hits, walked 3 batters and struck out 2.

Mayu Fukada gave up 4 hits and walked 6 batters; while the BTL diamond made 8 errors, On Sunday in Game 9, the Belize Bank Bulldogs sent home the Burrell Boom Orchid Girls: 16-2; as Boom’s pitcher Valerie Vernon gave up 14 hits, walked 5 batters and struck out 3, while the diamond made 6 errors.

In Game 10, the Bandits fought their way out of the losers’ circle, as they gave Independence United their ticket home: 3-1.

In Game 11, the Unitedville Rebels won 5-1 vs DigiCell; as DigiCell’s pitcher Mayu Fukada gave up 4 hits, walked 2 batters and struck out 9.

In Game 12, the Bulldogs fought their way out of the losers’ bracket to enter the semifinals, sending home the Bandits: 7-0 by mercy rule in the 5th inning.

In Game 13, DigiCell relegated the Bulldogs to 3rd place: 8-1 by mercy rule in 5th inning, as Bulldogs’ pitcher Renisha Richards gave up 7 hits, walked 4 batters and struck out 2, and the diamond made 3 errors, In Game 14 the Final, the Unitedville Rebels shut out DigiCell: 7-0 by mercy rule in 6th inning, led by MVP pitcher Francine Salazar striking out 2 batters. They collected 9 hits off Mayu Fukada, who walked 5 batters and struck out 2, while the BTL diamond also made 9 errors.

In the awards ceremony, the BSF presented the championship trophy to Rebels captain Lisa Jones, her 5th back-to-back-to-back national title. DigiCell’s veteran hitter Lydia Cacho received the 2nd place trophy, and Bulldogs’ Cindy Joseph accepted the 3rd place trophy.

Individual awards: Most Strike Outs - Mayu Fukada of DigiCell - 23!

Most Stolen Bases: Karisha Coe of Independence United – 5.

Most Runs Batted In: Patricia Spain - Unitedville Rebels - 8.

Best Batting Average: Jolene Davis - Bulldogs - 0.615.

Most Wins - Francine Salazar – Unitedville Rebels.

Most Valuable Player - Francine Salazar also pitched Most Wins: 4!

Rebels’ granny pitcher Francine Salazar won MVP. MVP Francine Salazar also pitched Most Wins: 4!

Top 5: Symns, Martinez, Joseph, Hamilton and Castillo

Old Belize, September 2, 2018 Team Lampaz’ Fitzgerald “Palas” Joseph won the Weekend Warriors Cycling Club’s Chief Boom circuit 40-mile race on the George Price Highway and Boom bypass on Sunday morning.

1st Fitzgerald Joseph – Team Lampaz - 1:35:15 $100 prize 2nd Preston Martinez – Team M&M Engineering 3rd Quinton Hamilton – (unattached) - 1:35:17.

4th Vallan Symns – Team Kulture Megabytes - 1:37:11.

5th Santino “Chief” Castillo – Team Santinos 6th Leroy Cassasola – Team Santinos 7th Dwayne Wade - Belize Boyz 8th Daniel Cano – Team Santinos - 1:37:18.

9th Gilberto Acosta – Team Santinos 10th Halton Ritchie – Team Kulture Megabytes 11th Rutherford Cunningham - Team SMART Zoom 12th Marvin Hyde - Team SMART Zoom 13th Kenroy “Smokes” Gladden – Team Kulture Megabytes - 1:37:40.

14th Warren Coye – Team Santino’s 15th Derrick Smith – Team BSFC El Pescador 16th Ernest “Bird” Olivera - F.T.Williams 17th Wayne Moses – Team Kulture Megabytes 18th Stephen Moses – Team CDS Gas 19th Philton Butler 20th Jack Sutherland – Team DigiCell 4G.

1st Fitzgerald Joseph

2nd Preston Martinez

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Ladyville FC, Lake I. & FC Elite win CYDP football openers Belize City, September 1, 2018 Ladyville FC, Lake I. FC and last year’s CYDP sub-champs FC Elite all posed big wins in the Conscious Youth Development Programme (CYDP) Peace Cup football competition which kicked off at the MCC garden last Saturday.

In Game 1, Lake I. FC ran over Ebony Lake FC, with Marshall Nunez Jr scoring the 1st goal, Hubert Baptist scored the 2nd and 5th goals, Shawn Roches added a 3rd goal, Francis Arana scored the 4th goal, and Elmer Hernandez delivered a 6th goal. Ebony Lake’s Kevin Najera and Herman Gentle scored a goal apiece.

In Game 2, Ladyville FC schooled Caesar Ridge FC: 2-0 with a goal apiece from the Parchue brothers: Tyrell and Tyrone. Kenny Linares tried to get Caesar Ridge on the scoreboard, but only succeeded in earning a red card ejection, so he will have to sit out Caesar Ridge’s next fixture.

In Game 3, the FFB’s 2018 national

First Division champs - FC Elite stomped Fort George FC: 7-0, with Tyrique “Hammer” Ciego scoring the 1st goal. Marlon Gutierrez delivered the 2nd and 4th goals, Whitfield Fisher added a 3rd goal, and Quince Briceño scored a 5th goal. Naim “Nemo” Wilson booted in the 6th goal, and Misael Muñoz drilled home the 7th goal.

FC Elite’s goalkeeper Keron Miguel got help from the woodwork, which stopped Kevin Lino’s attempt to convert a penalty for Fort George.

Upcoming games on Saturday, September 15: Fort George FC vs Tut Bay FC BDF FC vs Lake I. FC FC Elite vs Vernon Street FC Barrack Road FC vs Coast Guard.

Yabra FC wins FFB national Over-40 football champs Belize City, September 1, 2018 Yabra FC won the Football Federation of Belize (FFB) national over-40 football championship at the MCC garden on Saturday.

Yabra won Game 2 of the Finals: 2-1 over San Pedro veterans with 2 goals scored by Steve Young and Cnarlie Slusher in the 26th and 45th minutes to lead 2-0 at the half. Yabra lost their top striker Kevin Rowland to a red card, but the Yabra 10 held San Pedro scoreless, until Abdon Sanchez came off the bench to score the island boys’ consolation goal in the 67th minute.

In Game 1 of the Finals at Ambergris Stadium the week before Yabra had won 3-2 with Rudolph “Bolo” Mckoy, playoffs MVP Albert Thurton, and Albert “Chicken” Arnold. Oliver Hendricks had scored San Pedro’s 1st goal, and Jarvin Velasquez scored a late penalty.

FFB president Sergio Chuc presented team trophies and individual medals to the 1st and 2nd place winners.

Individual awards: Best Goalkeeper – Anthony Bernard – Yabra FC Best Defense – Jarvin Velasquez – San Pedro Best Midfielder – Robert Muschamp – Mango Creek Most Goals - Kevin Rowland – Yabra FC Regular season MVP – Robert Muschamp Most Valuable Player of Finals - Albert Thurton– Yabra FC.

FC Elite Carlos Castro shoots vs Carlos Lino

Alex No. 7Saldivar Tyriquescored Ciego KHMH 2 goals scored FC Elite 1st goal

Champs Yabra FC Yabra FC - Rueben Crawford wins header

Steve Young scored Yabra 1st goal

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SARGASSUM OR MAR-RASS? (SAMETHING) Sargassum has been travelling like the WONDERER

By: the WONDERER!

The WONDERER went missing for a few months but the Marrass is here to stay!

It originates in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda and it travels on the ocean’s surface populating areas throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, including our Belize as well. Seaweed or sargassum or marrass dates back as far as Columbus time, but SPIKES were first recorded around 2011-2012. It seems it has become the new normal!

Each year during the spring and summer months, beaches experience a sargassum algae migration. This vine like seaweed has begun washing up onto beaches in record breaking amounts causing economic problems for our tourism dependent communities such as Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker, Placencia, etc.

There are several different theories that explain the increase in Sargasso seaweed.

The most popular explanations fault new weather patterns, such as higher temperatures and changing water currents, for the influx. Typically, cooler weather slows down the algae’s growth, but as water temperatures rise the seaweed is more and more likely to flourish and deluge shores. Other theories suggest that an increase in sewage wastes being washed into the ocean are fueling the algae blooms.

The seaweed is not harmful to humans, but large quantities as per the photos below can pose several threats to coastal communities and ecosystems. Perhaps most significant is the decline of tourism industries as the news spreads and continues to dis-

courage travelers who are expecting pristine beaches. Many beaches are left with mounds of rotting, pungent seaweed since it piles up faster than anyone can clean it.

Additionally, the heavy buildup on the water makes it almost impossible for fisherman to fish, and accumulation on beaches is harming sea turtles, preventing nesting and, in some cases, causing coastal dead zones.

Off-gassing of decomposing Sargassum can affect breathing, cause headaches and pose serious threats to health. It also corrodes electronics, appliances and other equipment.

Many methods have been used in Belize to try to remedy the situation. Men and boys at work are hired by the Town Council.

Backhoes and trucks and even lately a machine that is not effective. OUR REMOVAL METHODS ARE INNEFICIENT. A proper solution must be found, a national solution by professionals that is “bueno, bonito, barato”. A solution that will make the BELIZEAN beaches usable again, but also we must make good use of the Sargasso being harvested. How to dispose of it adequately.

The Wonderer has been wandering when will the GOB take the bull by the horn and do something to solve the problem.

I don’t hear nothing from the NGO’s after they fought against seismic exploration.

This is worse than that issue. Does APEB exist? Does Ministry of Tourism exist? How BTIA, Ministry of Works! Donde estan? This is not politics, this is about all ah we!

BELIZEANS! LET’S FIND A SOLUTION! Send comments to thewondererbz@ gmail.com

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STATURORY NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE ESTATE OF EDWARD WALTER LACHENDRO SR. Deceased of # 33 All Pines Road, Sittee River, Stann Creek District, Belize

By Dolores Balderamos Garcia

THE BLOW-BY-BLOW Last Sunday was a day of awful weather. It rained almost incessantly, and the lightening and thunder storm that accompanied all the rain was fierce. I was fortunate in that Ms. Ayuso from Love FM had called earlier to say that my Jazz program was pre-empted due to coverage of the opening of the September celebrations. So it was an excellent day to start a good book. I picked up one that I had been meaning to get to for a long time – Assad Shoman’s “Belize’s Independence and Decolonization in Latin America; Guatemala, Britain and The UN.” It is a neat, hard-cover volume published in the series Studies of the Americas by Palgrave Macmillan, and it was copyrighted in 2010. In the Preface Assad explained that the book is based on a thesis he did for his Ph.D. degree at the University of London in 2008.

The book is only 200 pages, but the print is fine, and the reading was intense. I spent more than twelve hours over a five day period to get through it, of course having been able to cover a good portion of it on Sunday. And what a read !! It gives the real blow-by-blow account of how Belize was able to acquire its Independence with all of its territory intact despite Guatemala’s intractable and interminable claim. I knew the broad strokes of this crucial period of our history, but I had never before seen such a detailed and excellent account of all that happened. Within the first two chapters I was able to gain a keen appreciation of the uniqueness of the story of our quest for Independence. What is amazing is that it is really almost a miracle that our right to self determination and territorial integrity ended up prevailing against all odds. Assad tells us that Belize, a non-state actor, was able to take on three powerful countries – Great Britain, the United States and Guatemala – and finally to succeed in gaining our Independence with ALL our territory intact.

Rich in detail, the book traces the entire chronology of our Independence struggle, from internal self-government in 1963 all the way, some eighteen long years later, to September 21, 1981. It set the stage by describing the era of decolonization and the power realities in the latter part of the twentieth century, and then defined the most important tool which Belize employed in taking on the three powers, this being “internationalization.” Usefully, Assad evens provided a succinct definition of this term: “the use of international norms, and the moral authority of international organizations, to achieve

the Independence and security of Belize.” From the account of the early days after self-government, through the time of the infamous Bethuel Webster Proposals, the Guatemala saber-rattling years of the 1970s, and the reason for the inordinate delay in our attaining Independence, readers are treated to this comprehensive rendering of our history by someone who was one of the main players, and therefore a person who had intimate knowledge of all the goings-on.

Things could have gone terribly wrong so many times. Guatemala could have gone crazy and invaded.

We could have so very many times buckled under the severe pressure applied by Britain and the United States to cede territory. Philip Goldson enjoyed what I would call his finest hour when he “one-upped” the indomitable George Price at the time of the Webster proposals. At least one of Price’s ministers was apparently willing to consider ceding territory. The story of Price and his team’s massive charm offensive and the incredible good fortune of the Price/ Omar Torrijos friendship and partnership. There is so much to learn and to digest. With the help of CARICOM, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the rest of the international community we triumphed eventually over British perfidy, US pressure, and Guatemalan belligerence.

But I believe that this story in its totality is the story of one man’s undying dream and how he stuck to it with almost superhuman singleness of purpose. Hundreds of times the protagonists pressured Belize to give up land and to settle the dispute before proceeding to Independence. And hundreds of times George Price and his team said “NO.” It might never have happened. But why and how it did occur is the subject of this work

by Assad. Assad has called it “the Power of the Conjuncture,” meaning how the coming together of all the positive forces resulted in an independent Belize with all our territory, not an inch less. We could have lost from Monkey River down, from the Moho River down, or even from the Temash down, or the Sapodilla and Ranguana Cayes. It didn’t happen.

My feeling is that this text is absolutely essential reading, especially at this time when we must understand our history and our present reality as we educate ourselves before next April’s referendum on whether we should submit Guatemala’s unfounded claim to the International Court of Justice for final determination. Happy reading !!

NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to Section 36 of the Administration of Estates Act, Chapter 197 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2011, that all creditors and other persons having any claims or demands upon or against the Estate of EDWARD WALTER LACHENDRO SR., Deceased of # 33 All Pines Road, Sittee River, Stann Creek District, Belize who died on the 21st day of April, 2018 and in whose Estate Grant of Probate has been granted to DEAN MOLINA, the lawful Executor of 5570 Princess Margaret Drive, Belize City, Belize, on or before the expiration of three (3) months from the first publication hereof AND NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that at the expiration of the said three (3) months the said DEAN MOLINA shall proceed to distribute the assets of the said EDWARD WALTER LACHENDRO Sr., deceased, amongst the beneficiaries entitled thereto, having regard only to claims and demands of which he shall then have had notice.

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El país centroamericano rompió sus relaciones diplomáticas con Taiwán, la semana pasada.

El Nuevo Diario 2 de Septiembre 2018 Las exportaciones de El Salvador a China se dispararon más del 197% entre enero y julio de este año, en comparación con el mismo de lapso de tiempo en 2017, informó el Banco Central de Reserva (BCR).

Detalló que El Salvador exportó productos por US$83.1 millones, frente a los US$27.9 millones en los siete meses del año pasado, lo que indica un aumento de un 197.8%.

China ocupó la sexta posición como socio estratégico comercial de El Salvador en términos de exportaciones, superando a México, Panamá, Dominicana, España e Italia, entre otros, al participar con un 2.3% del total de exportaciones del país.

Mientras, las importaciones alcanzaron un valor de US$873.5 millones y las mercancías que más demandó El Salvador a China fueron teléfonos móviles, computadoras, poliésteres resinas, diodos emisores de luz (LED), productos laminados de hierro, tejidos de punto teñidos, sulfato de amonio y motocicletas, entre otros.

China es el segundo mayor proveedor de bienes de El Salvador, desde donde se origina el 13% de las importaciones salvadoreñas.

El Salvador rompió la semana pasada las relaciones diplomáticas con Taiwán para establecerlas con China, y se unió así a una tendencia iniciada por otros países como República Dominicana, que lo hizo en mayo pasado; Panamá, en junio de 2017; y Santo Tomé y

Príncipe, en diciembre de 2016.

Crecimiento general de 3.6% Las exportaciones en general de El Salvador crecieron un 3.6% entre enero y julio de 2018 en comparación con el mismo lapso de 2017, lo que representó un ingreso adicional de US$124.5 millones, informó el BCR. La entidad financiera detalló que en dicho período el país centroamericano exportó productos por US$3,559.6 millones, frente a los US$3,435.1 millones de los siete meses del año pasado.

Los países que más productos salvadoreños recibieron entre enero y julio pasados fueron Estados Unidos, principal socio

Ministerio Público requiere informes a ministerios por uso de jeep en la sede de la Cicig El caso está en reserva y las pesquisas están a cargo de la Fiscalía de Derechos Humanos, cuyo personal verifica si se incurrió en abuso de autoridad.

Prensa Libre: Guatemala 3 de Septiembre de 2018 El viernes pasado una caravana de jepp J8 con soldados estuvo frente a la sede de la Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala (Cicig).

Los militares estuvieron frente al ente de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) horas antes de que el presidente Jimmy Morales anunciara su decisión de no renovar el mandato de la Cicig, que termina el 3 de septiembre de 2019.

La Fiscalía de Derechos Humanos solicitó informes a los ministerios de la Defensa Nacional (MDN) y de Gobernación por lo sucedido, indicó Hilda Pineda, quien lidera las pesquisas y dirige la fiscalía.

El caso está en reserva, aunque una fuente confirmó que el expediente es por abuso de autoridad.

El viernes acudió a la sede de la Cicig en la zona 14 la fiscal Sonia Montes, quien solicitó copias de los videos de vigilancia para documentar las veces en que los soldados circularon por el sector y el tiempo

comercial del país, con un total de US$1,558.6 millones, y Centroamérica, incluyendo a Panamá, con US$1,492.6 millones.

Por su parte, las importaciones salvadoreñas alcanzaron los US$6,734.5 millones entre enero a julio del año en curso, con lo que superaron en un 12.2% a las compras al exterior en el mismo período de 2017, cuando sumaron US$6,000.4 millones.

La fuente agregó que con estas cifras el déficit comercial salvadoreño marcó los US$3,174.9 millones, un 23.8% más con relación a los US$2,565.3 millones alcanzados durante los siete meses de 2017.

Nicaragua recibió más de US$840 millones en remesas en 7 meses

Entre enero y julio de 2016 y el mismo período de 2017, el flujo de remesas aumentó 11.2%, al pasar de US$707.4 millones a US$786.4 millones.

Los jeep J8 estuvieron frente a la sede de la Cicig la semana pasada cuando el gobernante anunció la no renovación de la entidad. de permanencia cuando estuvieron estacionados.

La imagen de los jepp J8 que donó el gobierno de Estados Unidos para tareas contra el narcotráfico y los patrullajes fronterizos fue compartida inmediatamente en las redes sociales.

Verificación La Embajada de Estados Unidos compartió un comunicado en donde se refiere a que verifica el uso de los vehículos militares.

“Desde 2013, el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos ha donado 148 vehículos Jeep J8 al Gobierno de

Guatemala. Estos vehículos fueron donados para que las Fuerzas de Tarea Interinstitucionales Tecún Umán, Chortí, y Xinca combatan la actividad criminal y el narcotráfico en las fronteras de Guatemala.

Varios de estos vehículos fueron observados recientemente en la Ciudad de Guatemala, incluso cerca de la sede de la CICIG y de la Embajada de los Estados Unidos. Estados Unidos está vigilando de cerca que todo el equipo donado para la aplicación de la ley en Guatemala sea usado de manera apropiada y según los acuerdos bajo los cuales fueron donados”.

El Nuevo Diario: Nicaragua 4 de Septiembre 2018 El ingreso de las remesas familiares en Nicaragua totalizó US$849 millones entre enero y junio de este año, de acuerdo a las estadísticas publicadas por el Banco Central de Nicaragua.

Solo en el mes de julio, el país registró el ingreso de US$124.4 millones en remesas, esta cifra supera ligeramente a la del mismo mes de 2017, cuando alcanzó los US$122.4 millones.

“De acuerdo con los datos mensuales publicados, las remesas sumaron 124.4 millones de dólares en julio (US$122.4 millones en julio 2017), lo cual significó una variación interanual de 1.6%”, señala la nota de prensa de la entidad que acompaña a las estadísticas.

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THE THEBELIZE BELIZETIMES TIMES 2015 2018 ONU está “muy preocupada” por rechazo de Guatemala a renovar el mandato de Cicig La Oficina del Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (OACDH) mostró hoy su preocupación por el hecho de que el Gobierno de Guatemala haya decidido no renovar el mandato de la Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad (Cicig).

Por EFE: 4 de Septiembre de 2018 “Estamos preocupados por que la decisión de no renovar el mandato de la Cicig, apoyada por la ONU, represente un significativo retroceso en el todavía necesario trabajo de investigar, perseguir y desmantelar las redes criminales que continúan operando en Guatemala”, afirmó en conferencia de prensa la portavoz del organismo, Liz Throssell.

La portavoz recordó que durante la última década la Cicig ha trabajado “mano a mano” con el sistema judicial y ha logrado avanzar de forma importante en la lucha contra la impunidad y la corrupción en el país.

“Urgimos al Gobierno que asegure que la anunciada transferencia de los poderes de la Cicig a instituciones nacionales no tenga como resultado que se debiliten las actuales o futuras investigaciones sobre corrupción”, subrayó Throssell.

Además, denunció que en los últimos días ha habido acusaciones de que la Policía habría interrogado a defensores de los derechos humanos, “lo que ha hecho encender las alarmas de posibles tácticas intimidatorias contra las voces disidentes”.

Throssell agregó que la Oficina

Sede de la Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala espera que la Cicig pueda proseguir con su tarea hasta el final de su mandato, que expira en septiembre de 2019.

El alto comisionado tiene una oficina en el país y Throssell advirtió que el organismo seguirá de cerca lo que suceda allí.

El presidente de Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, anunció el viernes que no renovaría el mandato de la Comisión por supuestamente sembrar el terror

judicial, llevar a cabo investigaciones sesgadas y partidarias y violar las leyes locales e internacionales.

Este anuncio se produce en medio de una solicitud de desafuero presentada contra el mandatario por la Cicig y la Fiscalía, que piden retirarle la inmunidad para que pueda ser investigado por la posible comisión de un delito de financiación electoral ilícita en la campaña electoral que lo llevó al poder en el año 2015.

Queman vivos a dos presuntos secuestradores en Puebla, México Alrededor de 150 habitantes de una comunidad del estado mexicano de Puebla lincharon y quemaron vivos a dos presuntos secuestradores que sacaron de la cárcel, informó la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública estatal.

Por EFE 4 de Septiembre 2018 Los presuntos criminales, dos hombres de 53 y 22 años, fueron señalados como secuestradores de niños por pobladores, que los detuvieron y entregaron a las autoridades de la comunidad de San Vicente Boquerón, municipio de Acatlán de Osorio.

Posteriormente, alrededor de 150 pobladores “enardecidos” sacaron de la prisión a estas personas, “los ataron y les rociaron gasolina para luego prenderles fuego en la plaza central de la localidad”, informó la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública de Puebla.

“De manera preliminar se descarta que los occisos hubieran participa-

do en algún delito, presuntamente se dedicaban a labores del campo”, dijo la Fiscalía General del Estado de Puebla en un comunicado en el que confirmó que enviaron personal para recoger los cadáveres.

En un comunicado el Gobierno de Puebla lamentó la muerte de estas personas a manos de la muchedumbre y la gobernadora electa del estado, Martha Erika Alonso, se sumó a la condena del linchamiento al lamentar que las autoridades se vean rebasadas en la demanda de dar seguridad.

“Las autoridades municipales de Acatlán de Osorio están rebasadas para brindar seguridad. Condeno enérgicamente los linchamientos suscitados, es inadmisible hacer justicia por propia mano”, señaló la gobernadora electa.

Decenas de personas que estaban presentes optaron por tomar vídeo con sus teléfonos móviles para subirlos a las redes sociales, donde el linchamiento se ha convertido en una tendencia en México.

La Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del estado de Puebla informó que se investigará el linchamiento y también la razón por la cual la presidencia municipal de Acatlán de Osorio “no informó en tiempo para activar el protocolo” de seguridad.

Un antecedente de este linchamiento sucedió en octubre de 2015 en la comunidad de Ajalpan, donde los pobladores lincharon y quemaron vivos a dos hombres que hacían encuestas tras acusarlos de secuestro.

Familiares de los dos linchados acudieron al lugar pocos minutos después de los hechos, rechazaron los cargos de secuestro y aseguraron que solo eran unos campesinos.

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Nicaragua recibió más de US$840 millones en remesas en 7 meses

Cont’do de pagina 20 El ingreso de remesas entre enero y julio 2018 creció 8%, en relación con el mismo periodo de 2017, cuando las cifras alcanzaron US$786.4 millones, esta tasa de crecimiento es inferior a la registrada en el período analizado 2017 (enero- julio).

Entre enero y julio de 2016 y el mismo período de 2017, el flujo de remesas aumentó 11.2%, al pasar de US$707.4 millones a US$786.4 millones.

Más de la mitad de las remesas recibidas (55.6%) hasta julio provinieron de Estados Unidos, en términos monetarios esta proporción representa US$262.45 millones. Del vecino del sur, provinieron unos US$165.5 millones.

“Del total de remesas recibidas a julio (acumulado), el 55.6% provino de Estados Unidos, seguido de Costa Rica (19.5%) y España (11.0%)”, añade el BCN. El número de transacciones totales registradas al mes de julio creció 9% con respecto al mismo período de 2017.

Entre enero y julio de 2018 Guatemala y El Salvador, los más grandes receptores de remesa en la región acapararon US$5,217.4 millones y US$3,152.6 millones, respectivamente. Honduras en ese mismo período de tiempo recibió US$2,785.6 millones.

Solo en julio, a la economía guatemalteca ingresaron US$818.3 millones, siendo una cifra histórica, el Banco Central de ese país indicó que la expectativa es que en este segundo semestre continúen aumentando, por lo que podría superar los US$8,192.21 millones recibidos a lo largo del año pasado.

El origen de las remesas que se dirigen a El Salvador es amplio, aunque están altamente concentradas en Estados Unidos.

En los primeros siete meses del año, recibió remesas procedentes de 149 países, destacándose Estados Unidos con US$2,943.2 millones, que equivalen al 93.4% del total.

Otros orígenes importantes son la Unión Europea con US$29.2 millones (0.9%) y Canadá con US$27.5 millones (0.9%).

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2018 Belize, 20 August 2018

B E L I Z E:

NOTICE To: Depositors, Creditors and Lessees of Choice Bank Limited INTERNATIONAL BANKING ACT, CHAPTER 267 AND DOMESTIC BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ACT, NO. 11 OF 2012

Appointment of Liquidator – Choice Bank Limited IT IS NOTIFIED, for general information that in accordance with section 26 of the International Banking Act, Chapter 267 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2011 (“the Act), the Central Bank of Belize has appointed a liquidator in respect of Choice Bank Limited with effect from 29 June, 2018.

IT IS FURTHER NOTIFIED, for general information that: 1. In accordance with sections 25, 26 and 27 of the Act, the Unrestricted “A” Class International Banking Licence of Choice Bank Limited has been revoked with effect from 29 June, 2018; 2. The rights, powers, responsibilities and authorisations of shareholders, directors, officers responsible for management of Choice Bank Limited and any other person previously authorised to act or give instructions on behalf of Choice Bank Limited have been cancelled and such persons are no longer so authorised with effect from 29 June 2018; 3. The liquidator, succeeds to all the rights, powers and authorisations of shareholders, directors, officers responsible for management of Choice Bank Limited and any other person previously authorised to act or give instructions on behalf of Choice Bank Limited with effect from 29 June 2018.

4. Mr. Henry J Hazel was appointed as liquidator of Choice Bank Limited with effect from 29 June 2018 to 3 July 2018 and Mr. Cedric Flowers was appointed to replace Mr. Henry J Hazel as liquidator for Choice Bank Limited with effect from 4 July 2018.

NOTICE FOR FILING CLAIM Depositors, Creditors and Lessees of Choice Bank Limited In accordance with section 107(4) of the Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 2012 which applies to an international bank by virtue of section 38 of the International Banking Act and section 10 of the Interpretation Act, notice is hereby given that depositors, creditors and lessees of Choice Bank Limited may file claims with the Liquidator for Choice Bank Limited by – (a)

downloading and completing the appropriate Claim Form

(b)

attaching the applicable supporting documents to substantiate your claim, and

(c)

submitting your completed Claim Form and supporting documents by 29 October 2018 to the Liquidator for Choice Bank Limited:

By e-mail:

By registered mail:

cblliquidator.claims@gmail.com

Choice Bank Limited Paradise Point Building

Corner Hudson Street and Marine Parade Boulevard Ground Floor, P.O. Box #2494, Belize City, BELIZE Notice is also given that – 1. A depositor, creditor and lessee of Choice Bank Limited must complete and submit a Claim Form in order to receive any distribution which may be made by the Liquidator for Choice Bank Limited.

2. The above-mentioned method, within the stated deadline for filing a claim, is – (a) the only acceptable method for commencing a claim against Choice Bank Limited with the Liquidator; and (b) required even if you had previously submitted a statement of your account balance or requested payment to Choice Bank Limited or the Liquidator for Choice Bank Limited.

3. The Liquidator may request additional information from a depositor, creditor or lessee of Choice Bank Limited in order to allow or determine a claim under section 112 of the Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 2012 4. A “creditor” of Choice Bank includes any individual or legal entity to whom any amount is owed and payable by Choice Bank Limited including: (a) a secured or unsecured creditor; (b) a financial institution or entity; (c) an officer, employee, former officer or former employee of Choice Bank Limited; (d) the Government of Belize or a statutory body; (e) Central Bank of Belize; or (f)

a financial entity.

5. Claims Forms are available and may be downloaded from Choice Bank Limited’s website www.choicebankltd.com

or

www.choicebanklimitedinliquidation.com .

DATED this 20th day of August, 2018.

CEDRIC FLOWERS Liquidator, Choice Bank Limited

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2018 Guatemalan Leader Bars Re-entry of Corruption Prosecutor

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Iván Velásquez, above, the head of a United Nations-backed anticorruption commission, was barred from re-entering Guatemala by President Jimmy Morales Sept. 4, 2018 MEXICO CITY — President Jimmy Morales of Guatemala said Tuesday that the head of a United Nations-backed anticorruption commission would not be allowed back into the country, a move that pushes the country’s fragile institutions closer to a full-blown constitutional crisis.

The order, just the latest attempt by the president to halt graft investigations that threaten his presidency, came four days after Mr. Morales announced that he would not renew the panel’s mandate when it expires in 12 months.

While that decision was within his authority as president, the order to block the entry of the Colombian prosecutor, Iván Velásquez, puts Mr. Morales in direct conflict with Guatemala’s highest court.

Mr. Velásquez, who has led the anticorruption panel since 2013, left Guatemala on Monday for meetings in Washington and New York. The government’s refusal to permit his return raises the stakes in a standoff between the prosecutor and the president over allegations that Mr. Morales broke campaign finance laws.

The conflict also threatens to overturn one of the most successful anticorruption efforts in Latin America, where citizens fed up with entrenched graft have demanded an end to impunity for politicians who siphon money from public accounts and cut deals with favored businesses in return for government contracts.

The president has made no secret of his desire to remove Mr. Velásquez, whose investigations have swept up a large part of Guatemala’s political elite. Mr. Morales’s predecessor has been jailed since 2015 on charges relating to a customs fraud scheme.

A year ago, Mr. Morales tried to expel Mr. Velásquez but was blocked by Guatemala’s highest court, which ruled that the prosecutor was not subject to Guatemala’s immigration laws. Instead, the court said, his status is determined by the agreement Guatemala signed with the United Nations to establish the anticorruption panel 11 years ago.

Over the past year, Guatemalan lobbyists have attempted to end United States

What Was Lost in Brazil’s Devastating Museum Fire Two hundred years of work—and millions of priceless specimens—have been destroyed in a preventable tragedy.

New York Times: Tuesday 4th September 2018 In 1784, a Brazilian boy who was looking for a lost cow found a gigantic meteorite instead. The 11,600-pound rock was so cumbersome to transport that it took people almost a century to get it to the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, where it has since been on proud display. And having once survived the heat of falling through the atmosphere, the Bendegó meteorite also seems to have survived the fire that tore through the museum on Sunday evening, destroying an as-yet-unquantified proportion of its 20 million specimens.

Looking at pictures of the meteorite, as it stands intact on its pedestal amid the surrounding wreckage, I’m reminded of the final lines of Ozymandias: Nothing beside remains.

Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Just as Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem was about the consequences of hubris, the museum’s ruins could be seen as a testament to neglect. The burned building was the largest natural-history museum in Latin America, but it had never been completely renovated in its 200-year history. It had long suffered from obvious infrastructure problems including leaks, termite infestations, and—crucially—no working sprinkler system.

Recognizing these problems in the 1990s, museum staff began planning to move the collection into a different site, but without stable funding, those plans proceeded in fits and starts.

Over the past five years, the museum faced severe cuts and didn’t even receive its

full allotted funds from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. It was recently forced to crowdfund money to repair the termite-damaged base of one of its grandest mounted dinosaurs. “For many years, we fought with different governments to get adequate resources to preserve what is now completely destroyed,” Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, the museum’s deputy director, has said.

“This was an announced tragedy,” added Ana Lucia Araujo, a Brazilian-born historian at Howard University, on Twitter. “Other tragedies like this can happen any time in numerous museums, libraries, and archives in Brazil.”

The losses are “incalculable to Brazil,” said Michel Temer, the country’s president, on Twitter. “Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge have been lost.”

Marina Silva, a candidate in Brazil’s upcoming elections, described the fire as “a lobotomy in Brazilian memory.”

The museum’s herbarium, its main library, and some of its vertebrates were housed in a different building that was untouched by the fire. But together, these reportedly account for just 10 percent of the museum’s collection. For comparison, the remaining 90 percent includes twice as many specimens as the entire British Museum. Museum staff carried out whatever they could by hand, including parts of the mollusk collection. Time will tell what else survived, and some losses are already clear: The floor beneath the entomology collection collapsed, for example, and the 5 million butterflies and other arthropods within were likely lost.

The museum’s archeological collection had frescoes from Pompeii, and hundreds of Egyptian artifacts, including a 2,700-year-old painted sarcophagus. It housed art and ceramics from indigenous Brazilian cultures, some of whose

funding for the commission, while government officials have tried to persuade Secretary General António Guterres of the United Nations to replace Mr. Velásquez.

On Tuesday, Mr. Morales repeated his demand that Mr. Guterres appoint somebody else to head the panel, called the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala.

The commission works alongside the attorney general’s office to uncover corruption networks.

Among its investigations, the commission has been steadily un-

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covering schemes of illegal campaign finance, including some $1 million in anonymous contributions to Mr. Morales’s presidential campaign.

Last month, Mr. Velásquez and Attorney General María Consuelo Porras asked the nation’s Congress to cancel Mr. Morales’s immunity from prosecution.

Mr. Morales’s efforts to remove Mr. Velásquez have now taken on a more threatening cast, as the president appears to be willing to back up his efforts with a show of force.

Last Friday, Mr. Morales was flanked by more than two dozen police and military officers as he announced that the commission’s mandate would not be renewed. In the hours before, a line of vehicles with machine-gun turrets took up a position outside the commission’s walled Guatemala City headquarters.

On Tuesday, military trucks rolled into Guatemala City’s central plaza, the site of giant protests three years ago that forced former President Otto Pérez Molina to resign after he was implicated in the customs fraud scheme. They left as evening fell.

In a country that spent most of the past century under brutal military rule, the symbolism of the military presence was unmistakable.

The Trump administration has supported the commission, and the United States Embassy in Guatemala said last week that the commission “is an important and effective partner to fight against impunity, improve governance and hold the corrupt accountable.” But there was no immediate response to the announcement on Tuesday.

On Tuesday in Washington, Democrats threatened to cut aid to Guatemala if Mr. Velásquez was not allowed to return.

“We urge President Morales to reverse his ill-advised decision,” Representatives Eliot L. Engel of New York and Albio Sires of New Jersey said in a statement. “If he is unwilling to do so, Congress must do everything in our power to appropriately adjust U.S. assistance to the Guatemalan government.”

populations number only in their thousands.

It contained audio recordings of indigenous languages, some of which are no longer spoken; entire tongues went up in flames. It carried about 1,800 South American artifacts that dated back to precolonial times, including urns, statues, weapons, and a Chilean mummy that was at least 3,500 years old.

Older still was the museum’s rich trove of fossils, from crocodile relatives like Pepesuchus to one of the oldest relatives of today’s scorpions. It harbored some of the oldest human remains in the Americas: the 11,500-year-old skull and pelvis of a woman who was unearthed in 1975 and nicknamed Luzia. “The skull is very fragile,” the artist Maurilio Oliveira told The New York Times. “The only thing that could have saved it is if a piece of wood or something fell and protected it.”

One might think that fossils, being rock, would be immune to fire. But as Mariana Di Giacomo, a paleontologist from the University of Delaware, described in a Twitter thread, fires can reach temperatures that are high enough to crack stone. It destroys buildings, causing walls and ceilings to fall on fragile specimens. It burns the labels attached to fossils and the numbers that are painted onto them, turning something that’s part of the scientific record into uninformative rock. “Without data, we only have old bones/shells/logs,” wrote Di Giacomo. Even the water that’s used to quench the flames can make things worse, causing fossils to swell and crack, dissolving adhesives, ruining labels even further, and stimulating the growth of mold.

The burned building housed skeletons of several dinosaurs, including Maxakalisaurus, a 44-foot-long, armor-backed, long-necked titan, and Santanaraptor, a lithe predator that contained beautifully preserved soft tissues in its legs, down to individual muscle fibers. “That really stabs me in the heart as a scientist,” said John Hutchinson from the Royal Veterinary College. “I always wanted to go study that specimen. It could have been revelatory. Now that probably will be impossible for anyone.”

The museum was also home to an irreplaceable collection of pterosaurs—flying reptiles that soared over the dinosaurs’ heads. Brazil was something of a “heaven for pterosaurs,” and the discovery of spectacular creatures such as Tapejara, Tupandactylus, and Tupuxuara, with their marvelously complete skeletons and improbably ornate crests, helped to reshape our understanding of these animals. “We may have lost dozens of the best preserved pterosaurs in the world,” said the paleontologist Mark Witton.

“There really is no collection comparable … We find them elsewhere in the world, but the quality of the Brazilian material is remarkable.”

Many of these presumably lost specimens were holotypes—the first, best, and most important examples of their kind.

Every specimen is arguably irreplaceable, but holotypes are especially so. Losing them is like losing the avatar of an entire species.

Some of these specimens have been drawn and described in the scientific literature, but that information is often patchy, which is why scientists frequently return to holotypes to study them with their own eyes.

“In theory, I am accustomed to the loss and incompleteness of scientific knowledge,” tweeted Gabi Sobral, a Brazilian paleontologist who now works at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany. Paleontologists know that they’re dealing with just the thinnest sliver of ancient life, preserved through the fortuitous circumstances that turn certain individuals into fossils. And yet it’s precisely the rarity of such specimens that makes it that much harder to cope with their loss, and the newfound holes in our knowledge inflicted by the fire. “Those holes are man-made,” Sobral told me through tears. “They were the result of bad infrastructure that we knew was there. We failed the collection.”

Officials are still searching for what specifically sparked the fire, but the answer won’t change the fact that lives will be affected, too. “I keep thinking about my friend who just took office as a professor of malacology,” Sobral wrote. “How do you conduct your research? What material do you give to the new student? How do you rebuild an institution this size from scratch?”

“The Museu Nacional has educated or contributed to the education of most Brazilian biodiversity scientists,” added Ana Carnaval, a Brazilian biologist who works at the City College of New York. “A part of us burns today still.”

“This is not the only museum, not the only home of irreplaceable and invaluable history and heritage, that has been gutted by short-sighted neglect and the consequential preventable tragedy,” wrote the paleontologist Lisa Buckley from the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre. Just two years ago, the Natural History Museum in New Delhi lost much of its collection to a fire. Its fire-suppression system wasn’t working. In 2010, flames tore through the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo, destroying its precious hoard of venomous snakes, spiders, and scorpions that had been used for medical research. Its fire-suppression system was nonexistent.

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Family unity comes before individual prosperity “In family life, love is the oil that relieves friction, the cement that unites, and music that brings harmony.” Eva Burrown By: osilbz@np The Belizean family over time has changed in the manner of its composition and dimension. Its essence though should remain unchanged. It used to be that a Belizean family meant both parents and two or three children. These days that is the exception rather than the rule. The single parent home is now much more proliferate as are the families where a grandparent or other family member is the head of the household. Belizeans have learned how to adapt and to survive. All families even the non-traditional ones must be counted and valued the same, because they provide the same function. Families in any shape or form allow us to be united and become a harmonious society above all things.

Many factors affect and have shaped what is now known as the modern Belizean Family. One of the most important is that of economic stability. In the 1980’s there was an en masse immigration, to the USA especially, of Belizeans seeking better opportunities. The immigration has abated some but it is due in large part to rather increasingly hostile immigration laws abroad and not to a better economic panorama at home. This caused many children to grow up in the care of aging grandparents all the while receiving supplementary income from the parents working abroad.

This is the root of many social ills according to various studies. Absentee parents led to a decay in the established social

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Television, social media and communication on a whole is instantaneous in the current day and age. The internet, gadgets and devices and uses of telephones as a means of receiving and transmitting information means that we are bombarded constantly by different cultures and values. This has had a profound impact on how we live and see our lives in Belize. It has definitely been an important catalyst for change in societal values and family relations. The media sells the idea that success is measured and defined by the accumulation of wealth and not knowledge. That the fulfilment of goals no matter the cost is more important than the hard work and effort put in to achieve said goals.

Chasing financial security and affluence cause many parents to spend less and less time at home. Increasingly children and teenagers are left to spend time alone to the point when the home ends up being just another place where family members take shelter but do not interrelate. If we really want to assimilate an authentic culture of prosperity, let us understand that we must be a family that has unity, that is looking for ideals that are common and that the goals and aspirations are so shared that each member has the same interest and the same goal.

The family unit must achieve the common goal they have, but because each of them is part of the project, they get involved in it and do it together.

A family that lives with its own consistent values never falls into the trap of comparative criteria.

The principle is established by what they are and where they want to go not of how it works for others. There are countless stories of those who have achieved the impossible simply because their family believed and supported them until they reached it. We can also become an integrated family working together for our common good and it is never too late to start.

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ENDING CORRUPTION BEGINS AT THE POLLS

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” Kurt Kobain

By: Angeles Itzab This however, becomes difficult when there are old age thinkers at the helm who refuse to give the youth the chance to express their concerns. “Are we really listening to the kids who were eating tide pods like a month ago?”

Several months ago there was a viral “trend/challenge” that involved the consumption of tide pods which are used for dish washers. Tide had to revamp their entire marketing campaign to involve clear and distinct warnings that the pods were not for consumption after many cases ended up in the medical emergency room.

Does the fact that sometimes some young people do stupid things means that they are incapable of participating in decisions that may impact their future? No. And you know why?

Because the youth of today know when to grow up and get serious.

The youth are the ones that are starting rallies, writing to area representatives, calling out politicians when words do not match actions. Not looking too far back when the young man Kelvin Usher went missing it was young leaders from the various junior colleges and universities that got together and organized a rally to demand answers from the police department. The Youth are making sure their voices are heard, despite some not being old enough to vote.

The youth are the ones standing united and are willing to have actual conversations, not only about gang violence, but politically taboo topics like abortion, LGBT+ rights, racial inequality, gender equality, healthcare, education reform, global warming, and so on.

The youth aren’t stubborn or stuck in their ways. They are willing to change, they are willing to help, and they are willing to listen. If you want to change the world, you must educate the youth.

By educating the youth in rural communities of the country, more is done than just allowing the youth the ability to form their own opinions: they are given the opportunity to challenge and change the opinions of their parents.

It might be the same young people that ate tide pods a month ago, but un-

like adults, they know when it’s time to grow up and actually do something. It is these young people who are actually standing up to do something because adults have failed us. But it doesn’t stop there. Young people must truly make a difference where it counts.

At the polls.

People are very willing to blame young voters for being apathetic, yet are unwilling to consider that the majority of our politicians, and the system they operate in, aren’t often deserving of votes.

Young people especially get criticized for low voter turnout, perhaps, they’re just better at seeing through the facade.

In her book “Daring Greatly”, Brene Brown stated that “Politicians on both sides of the aisle are making laws that they’re not required to follow or don’t affect them… And just watching them shame and blame each other is degrading for us. They’re not living up to their side of the social contract and voter turnout statistics show that we’re disengaging.”

It doesn’t take critical analysts to figure out that the current administration is an epitome of corruption and nobody is trying to have another 5yrs of this UDP administration controlling the House Chamber and Senate, but this does not give way for an automatic #BlueWave. Especially not with all the UDP dirty tricks, voter suppression and gerrymandering that so many people are still going to have to overcome.

The fear is a repeat of 2015 - not where “Guatemalans took over the voter’s list”, but where complacent voters sit home on Election Day because they’ve been convinced of some “Blue Wave” coming to do all the hard work. Catchy slogans don’t win elections, energized voters who show up at the polls and vote does.

So let’s keep it 100 percent real: defeating the UDP in 2020 is going to require an almost unprecedented voter turnout among PUP supporters, people who haven’t voted recently and young people who are just turning 18.

It’s time to send a message. Get registered and when election time comes, VOTE!

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THINKING OUT LOUD BY: KEVIN BERNARD

I find it unfortunate that as we prepare to celebrate the most significant days in our nation’s history, we do so with a State of Emergency imposed on the Southside of Belize City. That is not how we want to remember this September for sure. This is a month in which all Belizeans should be proud and focused on unity. Instead we are afraid because it seems that open warfare has broken out on our streets.

I know fully well how residents in those areas must be feeling.

Just recently the entire Orange Walk community was shocked by a double murder which took place in broad daylight in a crowded area in front of the Louisiana Football field. I was there when it happened, and my first feeling was intense fear and concern. There were so many people around, so many children. A lot of innocent lives could have been lost that day.

That is what is happening in Belize City. We have heard the stories about children being killed, women…grandmothers. It’s gotten crazy. That is not how we should live.

That is not how we want to live.

It is difficult to comprehend that as we prepare to celebrate 37 years as an Independent nation, we do it this way. We say that as a people we are free, but how free are we really when so many of us are afraid to come out of our homes? How free are we when we have to operate our shops and businesses like jail cells, serving people through bars? How free are we when we can’t sleep soundly at night because we are afraid that we will wake up to attackers inside our homes? It is a reality. That is the reality of Belize at 37.

We can do better and we MUST do better. We must demand better from our Government, because they bear some of the blame for where we are today. They are the policy-makers, the decision makers, the legislators. Crime didn’t start when a person pulled a trigger. It started when the Government did not do enough to address the social factors that plague our disadvantaged community. It started because of neglect. And it was fos-

tered because our legislation is not strict enough. And our Police and prosecution arms and Judiciary are under-resourced.

How many times over the years have we all heard about accused murderers walking free – not because they aren’t guilty, but because of a technicality? Government has paid no attention to this at all.

We must demand better from our Police Department.

We hear way too many stories of our Police Officers doing the wrong things. I will be the first to say that there are many good men and women in the Department. But there are many, at all levels, who do the wrong things. That has to stop. The Police need to be a good example. They need to do the right things. They need to enforce law and order while respecting the rights of all citizens. It is not easy. I know that. But nobody ever said policing was easy.

And we need to demand better from ourselves. We need to take care of our families. We need to raise good children.

As fathers and mothers, we need to be there for our children, being good examples for them. We need to teach them manners and respect for authority. We need to teach them what is right and what is wrong. We need to push them to get educated.

We need to get our young men, and in many cases our young women, off the street. We need to be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.

Let us stand together to make this a good September.

I know the crime situation hangs over all our heads. I have heard many people express concern about attending the festivities which have become tradition during this month. But let us go out and take back our country. Let us unite and be proud of our nationhood. And even more importantly, let us come together to determine that we will do better for our people and for our country.

THE SARGASSUM CHALLENGE For several years now Belize has seen its share of sargassum; however, this year it seems it is the worst it has been since the first significant sightings in our seas in 2012. Since then, the last major outbreak was reported in 2015.

That outbreak was so much so that government authorities met to discuss how to address the situation.

There has been no reporting since then on what measures or solutions to the problem could be considered to mitigate the impact to coastal communities and businesses.

Now in 2018, the sargassum has returned but in even more abundance than before. Last week the media reported, “large threads of it flowed past the swing bridge heading down –river floating into the mouth of the Haulover Creek”.

Sargassum is a seaweed which is a natural part of the marine environment but the amount of sargassum and its blooms are becoming a lot more common and in much larger amounts than witnessed before. Marine experts have attributed this to climate change and shifting ocean currents. Belize this year has not been spared.

This year it is particularly alarming. Resorts and beach locations along the coast in San Pedro, Placencia and Caye Caulker have been actively involved in raising the public awareness of this issue and in trying to clean up as much of it as they can. In some instances, community members have come out to assist. This is considered a more responsible, although labour intensive, way to address the issue since heavy machinery used to rake up the quantities of sargassum may create an additional problem of erosion of the beach areas.

Many persons have expressed that while it is an issue, the seaweed can be used beneficially as fertilizers, in the making of compressed wood, land fill and other possible uses. While this may be the case, the fact is that there is no official solution or report on the discussions and recommendations on how to address and mitigate this problem. There has been no official report on how or if Belize could turn what is an unsightly image into something that can be of

benefit through some other use.

For tourist beach destinations, it is an eyesore in addition to the stench and odor of decaying sargassum. Additionally, the quantity this year has been cited as the possible cause of at least 2 fish kills due to the loss in oxygen in water created by the amount of sargassum.

There have also been reports by tourism operators that guests do complain about it and the foul smell along with the unsightly look of it have frustrated visitors, residents and business owners.

Indeed, sargassum is not only a Belize problem but a phenomenon which the wider Caribbean and Yucatan Peninsula has been grapping with. However, since 2015 those in authority are not giving this issue the sense of urgency and emergency it requires so that we can be better prepared the next time when this presents itself again. The government agencies for tourism, the environment, and fisheries along with the private sector who are impacted need to discuss practical, feasible action plans or measures to be taken to mitigate the effects that result from this natural phenomenon. In other parts of the Caribbean, many tourism establishments have lost bookings or have had early cancellations during their guests’ stay because of it. It is also important to hear from tourism establishments here if they have had any financial losses or loss in bookings because of it. This too is important for the discussions with the government authorities to help in identifying ways to mitigate this.

Responsible governance of our industries and communities require planning and working with both the public and private sector on what some have dubbed a national emergency for coastal communities and businesses. In Belize, there seem to be an overwhelming sense of apathy or lack of urgency in addressing situations overall that impact our communities. Let’s not wait for another year to pass and not have meaningful discussions.

Let’s be better prepared as we try to be each year for the hurricane season. Let’s be prepared for the next “sargassum season”

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THINK ABOUT IT‌ These are the most powerful ministers in the United Democratic Party.

Yet their constituencies are the poorest, most neglected and disadvantaged in the entire country.

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THE BELIZE TIMES PUBLIC AUCTION SALES: PROPERTIES PUBLIC AUCTION SALES: PROPERTIES Placencia Peninsula; Stann Creek District Placencia Peninsula; Stann Creek District

BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Messrs. The Belize Bank International Limited, Licensed Auctioneer Kevin A. Castillo will sell the following properties in International front Messrs.

The Belize Bank Limited, Main

BY ORDER of the Mortgagees, Messrs.

The Belize Bank Limited, Licensed Auctioneer Street, Placencia Village, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 19th September 2018 at 10:30 am: Kevin A. Castillo will sell the following properties in front Messrs. The Belize Bank Limited, Main Street, Placencia Village, Stann Creek District on Wednesday 19th September 2018 at 10:30 am: 1.

Parcel No. 2115 Placencia Residences, Placencia Peninsula, Stann Creek

REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Placencia North 36 2115 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house [43 ft. X 54 ft. inclusive of a 9 ft. X 30 ft. back porch] + garage [20 ft X 22 ft.] containing master bedroom with bathroom/jacuzzi + guest room with bathroom + kitchen + dining room + large open living room + office + laundry room and lagoon side lot [876.25 square meters (1048.00 square yards)] situate in the sub-division known as The Placencia Residences near Mile 13 Placencia Road, Placencia Peninsula, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Dario Del Valle). ******* NB. Restrictions on use of Property is available upon request ********* 2.

Parcel No. 2109 Placencia Residences, Placencia Peninsula, Stann Creek:

REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Placencia North 36 2109 (Being a concrete bungalow dwelling house elevated 3 ft. above grade [32 ft. X 46 ft.] + side porches [5 ft X 20 ft. each side] + back porch [5ft X 42ft] containing 2 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms (1 with jacuzzi) + kitchen + laundry + dining room + large open living room and lagoon side lot [902.31 square meters (1079.16 square yards)] situate in the sub-division known as The Placencia Residences near Mile 13 Placencia Road, Placencia Peninsula, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Giuseppe Asti). ******* NB. Restrictions on use of Property is available upon request ********* 3.

Parcel No. 2159 Placencia Residences, Placencia Peninsula, Stann Creek:

REGISTRATION SECTION BLOCK PARCEL Placencia North 36 2159 (Being a canal side vacant lot situate in the sub-division known as The Placencia Residences near Mile 13 Placencia Road, Placencia Peninsula, Stann Creek District, the freehold property of Mr. Ryan Pott). *******NB. Restrictions on use of Property is available upon request*********

ADDITIONAL- www.belizebank.com INFORMATION ADDITIONAL INFORMATION www.belizebank.com (foreclosure listing) (foreclosure listing) TERMS: STRICTLY CASH KEVIN A. CASTILLO TERMS: STRICTLY CASH TELEPHONE 223-4488 KEVIN A. CASTILLO E-mail: kevinacas@yahoo.com TELEPHONE: 223 4488 Face Book: Belize Auctions Email: kevinacas@yahoo.com Face Book: Belize Auctions

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