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PUP’S VILLAGE COUNCIL WINS HAS UDP TREMBLING

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BARROW’S BULL COSTS BELIZE OVER HALF BILLION DOLLARS!!

Heart of San

Pedro Town

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398 DAYS SINCE BARROW LOST THE SARSTOON

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Belize City, June 29, 2016Just over a month ago, the BELIZE

TIMES sounded the alarm that the dark cloud of BTL’s compensation value and le-gal battles fomented by Barrow Administra-tion’s 2009 takeover of telecoms company, Belize Telemedia Limited, was preparing to shower down more pain and suffering on an already financially-limp Belize.

The matter of the BTL’s compensa-tion value has been before the Permanent

RYAN BARNETT REMANDED FOR

ALLEGEDLY KILLING HIS FRIEND

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National Deputy Leader Hon. Cordel Hyde addressing the people of Selena and congratulating the newly elected council.

Bondholders Beware!$200,000

missing from CitCo Sinking

Fund??

Pawpa Mena Disgraces

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!The suffering in using

Faber’s Road

How do you sleep at night, Mr. Minister?

OPINIONOUT

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Dear Editor,I personally

invite Belize City Mayor Darrell Brad-ley and Port Loyola

Area Representative “Boots” Martinez to visit Faber’s Road for about 500 yards beside the Muslim School and in front of the Police sub-station to see for themselves the terrible condi-tion of those two areas on that main street from two months after the 2015 general election.

Those two sections of Fa-ber’s Road are in such a horrible condition with large potholes filled with water that people feel like they will be flung out of their vehicles as they drive through the area. The terrible condition of those two sections of Faber’s Rd. is also costing motorists heavily due to wear and tear on their vehicles.

It’s time for the Mayor of Belize City and the Area Rep for Port Loyola to at least concrete those two areas of Faber’s Road and provide proper drains.

If we remain silent about this issue, the many persons, who have to use Faber’s Road daily, will suffer for years with its terrible condition until a month or two before the next general election in 2020.

Signed,Gilroy Usher Sr.

Dear Editor,Way too many of

us cannot afford to send our children to school. Something

has to be done about this situa-tion. I never thought I would ever have to resort to begging to send my children to school. Despera-tion, however, has no pride. The cost of books, uniforms, foot-wear and registration is no joking matter. It is expensive. When will Barrow realize that for too many of us trying to make ends meet and keeping up with our bills and the cost of living is like trying to fill a basket with water; it is mis-sion impossible? I am literally walking around the city asking kindhearted people to donate anything they can in an effort to come up with the money neces-sary to send my kids to school. I was travelling on the James bus recently and saw children at the speed bumps with placards up begging for money to be able to go back to school. What are we becoming as a society? We are being reduced to mere beg-

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Open Invitation to Minister

Elodio Aragon Jr.

OUT

Dear Sir,Please afford us

the undersigned newly elected Village Council Chairman and Council-

lors of Chan Pine Ridge Village some valuable space in your prestigious newspaper to formally and publicly invite the Area representative for Or-ange Walk East, Hon. Elodio Aragon Jr., to collectively work with us in the development of our young village as per his mandate as an Area Repre-sentative and Government Minister so dictates.

Our landslide victory this past Sunday speaks volumes of the change that our villagers were clamouring for and it is hence high time that party-politics not be given the priority that it is traditionally af-forded whenever teams and slates of the Opposition surge victorious in these rural political races. Our com-mitment to our people will remain re-silient and unbendable always having in mind that not only will we toil the soil to accomplish ALL our manifesto promises but to go the extra mile in cementing a closer bond with our elderly, the poor and our youth. The support of Hon. Aragon will certainly be welcomed in these areas; after all, the people of Chan Pine Ridge are deserving of a few dollars of the over $6,000.00 monthly subvention that Hon. Aragon gets for the upliftment of Orange Walk East which includes Chan Pine Ridge Village.

We would like to take this oppor-tunity to thank all those persons who trusted us with their votes this past Sunday. We will not disappoint you! May God continue to bless you and

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may our efforts as your new Village Council be very rewarding and envi-able ones that will develop, beautify and empower our beautiful Chan Pine Ridge.

Respectfully,Cornelio Torres, Chairman

(signed) Feliciano Torres (Vice-Chairman)

(signed) German Tzul (Councillor)

(signed)Jaime Carillo (Councillor)

(signed)Melissa Torres (Secretary)

(signed)Pedro Torres (Treasurer) (signed)

gars. My heart is saddened by what I am seeing and more so for those poor parents, some of whom I have spoken to, who have just given up all hope of coming up with the money necessary to send their children to school and have had to look these children in the eye and tell them they will not be going on to high school or going back to school.

Mr. Editor this is a serious so-cial crisis. It is an affair of the heart. Where and to whom do we turn for help? We on Southside Belize City and I am certain others across the country are taking a serious licking and quickly losing hope. Too many of us find ourselves living in inhuman conditions. I know I do not speak for myself only when I say we are just not making it. I have a full time job and it is not happening for me. Imagine those who are what we call ‘ketch and killing’ and worse yet those who are not working. How do they survive?

I appeal to Patrick Faber, the Edu-cation Minister, and Boots Martinez to get serious about the plight of so many of us Belizeans. How do these guys sleep at night knowing that so many children in Belize literally go to bed hungry coupled with so many who are out of school because of financial hardships at home. Come on Mr. Barrow, where is your heart? Where is your humanity? Where is your purported love for your people? It is simple compassion that we need in this country now. It has to be about the people especially the majority poor. Have a heart UDP government. Have a heart.

Signed:Concerned Citizen

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Belize City, Monday, June 27, 2016A Belize City man was remanded to prison

this morning after he was read a charge of murder in the Magistrate’s Court. The victim died in the early hours of Saturday morning, a few hours after he was shot on Friday night.

Ryan Barnett, 30, appeared before Magis-trate Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser who read the murder charge to him. He did not have to enter a plea because his case will eventually be transferred to the Supreme Court, after a prelimi-nary inquiry.

Barnett was remanded to prison until his next court appearance on August 16.

Barnett was charged with the murder of An-thony Gillett, 38. Gillett was seen along with Bar-nett in a yard on West Canal, where the deceased man usually frequent on weekends.

Police report that Gillett was in a sofa getting ready to smoke a marijuana joint when a single gunshot rang out.

Gillett was shot once to the bottom of the chin and the bullet exited through the top of his head. He was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memo-rial Hospital, where he pronounced dead at 1:24 a.m. on Saturday, June 25.

Gillett’s friend Barnett, a resident of George Street, was arrested and charged with his murder. Police did not provide a motive for the murder.

Gillett was employed as a porter at the Phillip Goldson International Airport where he was em-ployed for about two decades. He was a father of six children.

$200,000 missing from CitCo Sinking

Fund??Belize City, June 29, 2016

It seems that the financial management, or rather mismanagement, of the Belize City Council is meant to be a state secret and the reason for this is now becoming clear. In the dark and secret anything goes.

The BELIZE TIMES is investigating reports that an investigation was recently launched on the Be-lize City Council’s finances after an internal audit discovered that $200,000 could not be accounted for from its Sinking Fund held at the Central Bank.

Sources inside the Council have indicated to the BELIZE TIMES that the case of missing funds sent off loud alarm bells at City Hall, and the news travelled quickly to bondholders who are paid from the Sinking Fund. It has caused a scare.

Can someone from the Council explain to the public how $200,000 can go missing from its funds??

Belize City, June 29, 2016Since taking over Government in 2008, this

Dean Barrow led administration has become masters of manipulating and fudging important statistical data on the country. In fact there are many instances when the Government has failed to release information on the performance of key sectors of the Belizean economy. One such indi-cator that would give the Barrow administration serious cause for concern is the unemployment rate. It has been almost one year (September 2015) since the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB) has released any employment information.

According to the SIB, in 2015 the national unemployment rate for Belize stood at 10.2 per-cent. Now we know that for young people and women, the unemployment rate is closer to 40 percent. With the struggles that most of the important industries are experiencing, a deep-er analysis of labor slack will show that about 25 percent of available resources were unem-ployed, underemployed, or even discouraged from looking for a job. This estimate does not take into consideration the movement of labour across borders since many migrant workers have left the country as a result of the struggles the banana and citrus industries are currently expe-riencing.

The BELIZE TIMES and the People’s United Party are even more concerned about the large number of young people who have just gradu-ated from high school and tertiary level institu-tions, and many of whom will be unable to find meaningful work. In a short time, many of these

young people will be relegated to the group that is discouraged from looking for a job.

Like many of us already know, the Belizean economy is in serious trouble and this UDP gov-ernment has been incompetent and unable to put in place the programs, policies and legislations to ease the pain the Belizean people are feeling.

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BARROW’S BULL COSTS BELIZE

OVER HALF BILLION

DOLLARS!!Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands for seven years and this week, the final ruling was issued by the three-member arbitration panel. The result is head-throbbing, mind-aching news. The Barrow Administration must pay a total of BZE$453,474,257.34 for the forced takeover of majority shares held by Lord Ashcroft-related compa-nies in BTL.

That total is broken down in two main segments: award of total BTL share value at $255,592,219.47 and INTEREST charged at 8.34% per an-num compound quarterly, with a to-tal of $193,382,037.87. The remaining amount of $4.5m is for legal fees and court costs.

The news is not positive in any way for Belize. For a country that doesn’t have enough money for a new school, hospital or bridge, how will it cough up that amount to pay off interests related to Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s for-mer legal client, Lord Ashcroft?

Today, the spin master himself, Prime Minister Barrow, in an attempt to do major damage control one day af-ter the hefty ruling was released, held a press conference and spouted big numbers and six-digit figures with sus-picious ease, claiming that the “ben-efits” of his costly stubbornness, and unnecessarily long-drawn out delay to pay up outweighed the actual cost of his actions.

“Government has no regrets,” trumpeted PM Barrow while puffing out his chest.

Next to him sat the Financial Sec-retary Joseph Waight who promised that he could dress up like Houdini and work his “magic” with Belize’s financ-es to ensure that the Government’s li-abilities for BTL ordered to be paid by

the Arbitration Panel to the Ashcroft groups were fully covered.

But manipulating the financial sys-tem in a weakened economy is a very limited option. This is why the Prime Minister has turned to the Social Se-curity Board, where worker’s social security payments are secured, for $55 million in exchange for Govern-ment’s shares in BTL and Belize Elec-tricity Limited. This deal, proposed a week before the arbitration ruling was unveiled and approved by the Social Security Investment Committee, is meant to provide the cash-strapped Government with some financial oxy-gen.

The Opposition has raised alarm over the abuse of SSB funds by the Barrow Administration, and has op-posed the move.

Belize’s economy has remained tattered in pieces after seven eight years of the Barrow Administration. The arbitration award for BTL’s take-over could very well be the final blow to our economy.

Yet, the Prime Minister put on a smile and spoke glowingly of the re-sults of his BTL misadventure and the arbitration ruling. We wonder if his good mood had anything to do with the fact that the hefty pay-offs for his ex-wife and brother for their legal representation of the Government in the legal matters with BTL have been “worthy”. Of course, all at the expense of taxpayers.

Belizeans, wake up! This whop-ping $453 million plus another $97 million to be paid by BTL is a scandal of colossal proportions. It is the naked looting of our country for the benefit of the rich and well-off. It is Barrow’s Half Billion dollars bukut for the Beliz-ean people.

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By Hilaire Bennett, The Voice of the Common Man

Belize’s public debt stands at $3 billion. Public debt was first is-sued in Belize in 1863 under the colonial administration. The fund was primarily earmarked to make much needed improvements to then “Belize Town”. An important venture that was taken on with public financing was the building of a full scale railway, the whole length of the valley to the nearest sea port. The infrastructural devel-opment became necessary in the transporting of bananas that was purchased by United Fruit Compa-ny (UFCO) in the early 1900s. Pub-lic debt at that time remained at a very modest level. Today, the issu-ance of public debt has become reckless under the UDP with reck-less spending and insatiable bor-rowing.

Jacques Attali wrote that “the

EDITORIALOver Half a Billion Dollars to One Man

The arbitration award is finally out. This is the decision that determines how much the Gov-ernment has to pay to the Ashcroft group of companies and trusts. This is the final most critical piece of the settlement between Dean

Barrow and this UDP government and Lord Michael Ash-croft.

Now we finally know, when all is said and done, Dean Barrow signed a blank cheque to Ashcroft for acquiring BTL. This cheque by virtue of the arbitration award and the settlement agreement turned out to be for $453 million dollars and counting. When we add the $97 million dol-lars that Dean Barrow and this UDP Government also paid Ashcroft in September of last year for settling the BCB claim with Ashcroft, we end up that Dean Barrow has signed up and committed each and everyone of us to pay to one man – Lord Ashcroft – the harrowing and unprecedented sum of $550 million dollars – over half a billion dollars – for a company that is not even worth one-fifth of that sum.

There is nothing, nowhere in the history of this country that compares to this.

Now we know why he hurriedly called the elections last year – to hide this unholy truth from the people before elections. Rather than face the people with the truth and suffer the consequences, Dean Barrow and the incompetent UDP were so obsessed with and desperate

to hold onto power that they calculatedly disguised the monumental disaster the Prime Minister personally engi-neered, fooling the people into thinking that with the no small sum of $160 million dollars, Ashcroft was behind us. A victory for Dean Barrow and the UDP and, as he deceitfully professed, a victory for the people of Belize.

Now we know that this was no victory for the people of Belize. This was a massacre – a half billion dollar assault on the economy and people of Belize. Dean Barrow has written a cheque that we the people of Belize now have to cash – more than $1,500.00 from every man woman and child to go to one man – Lord Ashcroft – compliments of Dean Barrow.

Speculation is already running wild that this was planned all along between Dean Barrow and Lord Ash-croft – a devious plan to maximize the spoils for Lord Ashcroft at the behest of his loyal servant and attorney, Dean Barrow. There is much speculation on what share would he have in those spoils? We however would prefer not to believe that our Prime Minister was such an im-poster, a fraud to the Belizean people. We would prefer to believe that this was vile hubris and incompetence on the part of the Prime Minister and the UDP. Whichever it is, however, whatever he is – he has costed all of us more than half a billion dollars – money that we don’t have and can’t afford to pay.

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Political Piracy Exacerbates Public Debt

Compliments of Dean Barrow and the Shamefully Incompetent UDP

history of public debt is the very his-tory of national power: how it has been won and how it has been lost. Dreams and impatience have always driven man in power to draw on the resources of others – be it slaves, the inhabitants of occupied lands, or their children yet to be born – in order to carry out their schemes, to consolidate power, to grow their own fortunes”.

To consolidate power the UDP ad-ministration has vigorously engaged in deceitful propaganda and political campaign ads. They have and continue to draw on the people’s purse in their election buyouts. Most of the politi-cians on the red side have amassed their fortunes off the backs of the poor Belizeans. Boots Martinez rode into of-fice on a bicycle and now commands a sparkling, late-model SUV. John Saldi-var sits atop the hill in his grand man-sion being attended to by his personal chambermaid. These politicians are not afraid to espouse their accoutrements

of their elitist stature whilst throwing the crumbs to the disregarded sector of society – the poor.

In respect to the governance of the Jewel, the United Democratic Party government (three times) has failed in applying political pragmatism and insti-tuting sound fiscal and economic poli-cies that would engender growth. This spendthrift government has spiraled Belize into an era mirroring that of the early 1930s, the depression years.

During that time, Belize’s timber in-dustry was hit as international investors held onto their finances. Jobs were lost, the country’s economy was crushed, the result of severe financial jolt.

However, the crushing blow in the 1930s depression was dealt by the global forces whilst the 2016 situation is the result of the Minister of Finance Dean Barrow’s lack of “sound financial stewardship.”

In one of my articles entitled “The Budget – Much Ado About Nothing”, I

discussed the government’s need to parse unwise debt from intelli-gent debt.

Unwise debt can be described as dead debt such as inflated ad-ministrative costs that is allotted to running the country. Case in point is the huge allocations budgeted to the various ambassadorial of-fices. Oftentimes, these costs go toward appeasing party supporters who sit in luxurious offices with assigned penthouses and fat sala-ries at the Belizean taxpayer’s ex-penses. Also, the outrageous cycle of buying high-end government ve-hicles manipulated by government officials for their personal pleasure. The bloated wage bill must be con-sidered seriously as the public ser-vice has become top heavy with political appointees that are not qualified and who fail to deliver the service necessary for the improv-


Government continues to disrespect Maya rights

Santa Cruz 13 Finally Freed! Pawpa Mena Disgraces Belize!

Belize City, June 27, 2016In the face of Guatemala’s threats to our national sovereign-

ty and territorial integrity, it has become very important for Be-lizeans to know the facts and history of our country. This is why when UDP Minister Frank Pawpa Mena announced in a recent official televised address for Public Service Day that Belize was 3,367 square miles “in length and breadth”, we had to scratch our heads and wonder if the entire Cabinet was compromised to Guatemala.

Belizeans are all fully convinced that Sedi, who sees an ar-tificial border along the west and recognises no border along the maritime areas in south, is a true friend of Guatemala. Sedi recently indicated that Guatemala’s claim is over all of Belize, but Pawpa’s statements that Belize is only 3,367 square miles makes one wonder if the UDP Cabinet has given away more than half of the country. For him, the question would be which half since he represents the constituency of Dangriga which is part of the southern region claimed by Guatemala.

For the record Minister Mena, Belize is 8867.2 square miles and not a centimetre less. Shame on you and your UDP Govern-ment which has lost Belize territory which has never occurred in Belize’s history.

Punta Gorda Town, Toledo, Mon-day, June 27, 2016

After hauling a group of Beliz-eans from Santa Cruz Village in To-ledo District, including Maya Leader Cristina Coc, to Court for a number of adjournments during the past year, the persecution case led by the state was discontinued this morning when Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith read a letter from the Director of Pub-lic Prosecution (DPP).

But while the criminal charges that the state brought against them is over, and no further criminal charge can come out of the incident, the con-dition which led to the state bringing the charges still persists in Santa Cruz Village.

Rupert Myles, a Belizean of Cre-ole descent, who resides in Santa Cruz Village and who, without permis-sion, built his house on sacred Mayan lands is at the center of the contro-versy that erupted in Santa Cruz one year ago.

At the heart of the issue that erupted in Santa Cruz is the question of the Mayas use of their ancestral lands according to the customary rights that were affirmed by Belize’s highest court, the Caribbean Court of Justice.

If the Barrow Government had re-spected the CCJ’s ruling, there would have been no early morning police raid in Santa Cruz one year ago.

The Alcalde of Santa Cruz or-dered Myles to be arrested, after he allegedly issued threats against villag-ers. Myles was arrested and pictures of him in chains fueled a response from the government. One day after Prime Minister Barrow made remarks about the situation in Santa Cruz in-volving Myles, heavily armed Gang Suppression Unit (GUS) policemen along with officers from other police units, descended on Santa Cruz in an early morning show of force.

The Government’s early morning operation against the Mayas of that village resulted in the arrest of 13 per-sons, including Christina Coc. They were all charged with attempted kid-napping, common assault and aggra-vated assault against Rupert Myles.

The government’s early morning police operation against the villag-ers of Santa Cruz created a national spectacle, when the 13 accused Ma-yas were marched off to the Punta Gorda Magistrate’s court, some had to be loaned shirts, because they did not have enough time to dress them-selves, before they were hauled off to court by the police.

The DPP’s letter striking out the case from against the Santa Cruz Ma-yas said, “It would not be in the inter-est of justice to continue the case”.

So what was the case against the Santa Cruz Mayas based on then? Was it politically directed by the UDP

Government of Prime Minister Dean Barrow which has shown serious disrespect to the Mayas of the Toledo District? If the government had enough evi-dence to successfully prosecute the Mayas of San-ta Cruz, then why did they drop the case? Strange occurrence!

But because the issue of Myles still occupy-ing lands in Santa Cruz that the Mayas deemed to be sacred lands, they filed a civil claim against the government. One of the reliefs that they are seek-ing is the removal of Myles from the lands he now occupies, they will also seek to get, through the Supreme Court, an expert to evaluate the damages that Myles has done to Uxbenka, the site where he ill-advisedly built his structure.

The first hearing of the Mayas case against the government is set for July 18.

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Court gives GOB until June 27th

to respond to PUP’s

“Sarstoon Law” challenge

PUP’s Village Council Wins has UDP TremblingBelize City, June 27, 2016

The People’s United Party has performed so spectacularly in this year’s Village Council elections, now entering its fifth weekend of contests that the outgoing United Democratic Party is shaking in their boots.

The PUP has maintained wins in key strongholds such as San An-dres, Ranchito and San Joaquin Vil-lages in the Corozal District; Rock-stone Pond and Corozalito in the Belize District; Valley of Peace as well as Duckrun 1 thru 3 in the Cayo District; Pomona and Seine Bight in the Stann Creek District, and 22 of the 38 villages in the Toledo District. But what is most remarkable for the PUP’s rise are the major wins in communities which the UDP once considered their stumping ground.

These are, to name a few, San Antonio Village in the Corozal Dis-trict; Trial Farm, Chan Pine Ridge, August Pine Ridge and Yo Creek in the Orange Walk District; Sand-hill in the Belize District; La Gra-cia, Selena and Bullet Tree Village in Cayo District; and Alta Vista and Steadfast in the Stann Creek Dis-trict.

Several of the wins are key indicators that the UDP’s likeabil-ity has sunk to the lowest points recently due to their neglect and abandonment of the communities. For example, Trial Farm Village is former Deputy Prime Minister Gas-par Vega’s most-prized community. On Tuesday morning his minions on the UDP northern channel were heard screaming treason at the vot-ers and reminding them who gave them jobs and who helps them with school fees. This shameful attempt to intimidate voters for speaking their minds thru their votes should be condemned by all.

The people have awoken in Or-ange Walk North, and the writing on Vega’s demise is on the wall.

The wins in Bullet Tree Village, a community the UDP has claimed as theirs for the past 12 years, in the Cayo North area and Selena and La Gracia Villages in Cayo Central are clear signs that the UDP is no longer an option for the people.

The PUP’s full-slate victory in Sandhill is also noteworthy. We remind our readers that Sandhill residents nearly put a flogging on publicly-shamed UDP Edmond Cas-tro when he made an unwelcomed appearance at a PUP rally last year.

PUP Leader Hon. John Briceno is himself a major reason why PUPs are returning home. Hon. Briceño has maintained ground presence ever since he was elected as the Leader in January. Hon. Briceño has visited a number of these vil-lages and has taken the time to talk to the residents and share ideas on how progress is achievable. He is a leader who believes in people, and in return, as the village council elec-tions results are demonstrating, the people believe in him.

Party Leader and Corozal South East Area Rep., Hon. Florencio Jr. in village councils campaign

PUP Leader Hon. John Briceno congratulates newly elected chairman for Bullet Tree Village, Tai Wu for

the historic victory.

PUP Leader Hon. John Briceno and PUP Standard Bearer Monchie Cervantes meeting residents on the

campaign trail in Orange Walk North

National Deputy Leader Hon. Cordel Hyde ad-dressing the people of Selena and congratu-

lating the newly elected council.

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Heart of San Pedro Town Goes Up in FlamesSan Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Eleven buildings on a prime area of San Pedro Town, Pescador Drive, were totally destroyed, most of them buildings with businesses on the downstairs flat and homes above in the largest blaze ever to hit Am-bergris Caye.

A total of eighty-eight persons were affected, all of them now home-less and most of them losing all their possessions to the raging fire.

The fire got started sometime around midnight on Sunday. How did the blaze start is a question for arson investigators, and they’re not ruling out foul play.

The Fire Department personnel has also been taking heat because only one of the two trucks assigned to the island was operational and could not pump sufficient water to stop the fire from spreading. Victims of the fire told the BELIZE TIMES that were it not for the assistance of residents who formed a bucket bri-gade, the damage would have been significantly more widespread.

Many of those victims are still in shock. They were woken up at mid-night to see their homes burn down before their eyes. One person who lost everything said that “there was

an abandoned home at the back of my residence and that was burning. When I woke up and looked through the window I saw it was burning and

it crossed over to my building and the whole structure went down”.

The Police Department was also a primary component of the opera-

tion that Sunday night. According to Deputy Commander of San Pedro, ASP Henry Jemmott, “We managed

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Tourism Stakeholders say proposed hotel regulations are unreasonable

BTIA-CAYO CHALLENGES BTB

San Ignacio, Cayo DistrictMonday June 27, 2016

Approximately 45 accommoda-tion owners in the Cayo District met on Thursday June 23, 2016 at the Welcome Center in San Ignacio, Cayo to discuss new Minimum Standards for Accommo-dations proposed by the Belize Tourism Board (BTB). The Cayo Chapter of the Be-lize Tourism Industry Association (BTIA), a trade organization for local tourist market stakeholders, sponsored the event.

A broad cross section of stakehold-ers, including many from off-grid jungle lodges, attended the meeting. The large turnout was attributed to the widespread opposition to the BTB’s proposed legis-lative changes to existing laws govern-ing the industry. Changes that members unanimously feel would have an adverse ripple effect throughout the industry.

Judy duPlooy, President of the BTIA-Cayo Chapter stated, “No one is op-posed to regulations pertaining to health, safety and emergency measures. How-ever, the new proposed Minimum Stan-dards which total 532 items (for the hotel category) far exceed reasonable require-ments for an extremely diverse market-place. Furthermore, many of the items on the checklist are not relevant criteria for renewing or obtaining a license”.

“BTB has not yet looked at the cost of implementing the proposed Minimum Standards, the implication for competi-tiveness of the sector and more broadly the economy of Belize,” commented Dr. Ydahlia Metzgen, a BTIA-Cayo Board member.

She went on to say, “The impact of the current proposed Minimum Stan-dards not only will be felt by the hotel owners but also by their employees, tour operators and all businesses touched by the tourism industry, the #1 employer in Belize. The broader consequences of the standards should be examined”.

Steve Reichert, Owner/Operator of Benque Resort and Spa said, “Many of BTB’s proposed Minimum Standards do not deal with safety or health, but instead are a BTB wish list. No other country that I have seen has such a stringent list of requirements and directives that favor huge hotels”.

Miriam Khalil-Martinez, owner/opera-tor of Martz Farm Tree Houses & Cabanas said, “There are so many contradictions to the proposed rules. Our guests come to our remote location to see stars and fireflies, not lighted parking areas. Many jungle lodges have limited cell phone reception so why have a rule requiring a phone in every room? Our guests are staying in a tree house. They don’t expect hot water or blackout curtains”.

The BTIA-Cayo Chapter sent out a survey to members to evaluate the po-tential impact of BTB’s proposals. The survey seeks information on operations, staffing, existing compliance, and costs for meeting compliance. The survey also included possible opposition actions. Re-sults of the survey will be presented at the upcoming National BTIA meeting as

well as shared with members. It was suggested that the results of the sur-vey be used to frame an alternative set of updated standards to present to BTB prior to the final approval of their pro-posed Minimum Standards.

The deadline for public comments to BTB’s proposed Minimum Standards for Accommodations is believed to be by the end of July, with final proposal slated for approval by the BTB Board of Directors in August. The new Minimum Standards would then pass to legisla-tors for a vote to become law before year’s end.

All accommodation owners are en-couraged to get engaged in the process immediately and not ignore BTB’s pro-posal that could have a negative impact on the health of the entire tourist indus-try. The stakes are too great not to be heard. Please contact your local chapter of BTIA or BHA and let your concerns be known. Join BTIA now and enjoy a 50% reduction in membership fees.


Burglars caught by Police “cleaning out” home claim

they were set up

Elden Flowers

Elect Mckoy Jaime Williams

Belize City, Friday, June 24, 2016Three men found inside a

house carrying out a burglary were remanded to prison today for their own safety, according to Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser, after upholding the court prosecutor’s objection to bail.

The men are Jaime Williams, an eighteen-year-old who resides at #1080 Tibruce Street; Elden Flowers, an eighteen-year-old resi-dent of #10 Croton Lane, and Elect Mckoy, a twenty-five-year-old of #6756 Raccoon Street Extension. They were all charged with one count of burglary with intent to steal.

The three accused pleaded not guilty to the charge, and McKoy, who appeared to be the spokes-person for the others, told the court that they were on their way to work when police apprehended them and took them to a house lo-cated at #8028 Franklyn Street.

Mckoy told the court that once the police got them to the house, people who were at the house whom they believe are the relatives of the homeowner began to disrespect them. They were stoned and their pictures were taken. One individual told them that as soon as police frees them, they will be “dealt with”. Mckoy

also told the court that the police allowed the media to video them while they were inside the pan of the police pickup truck.

On Wednesday, June 22, some-time after 9:00 a.m., police were alerted by a concerned neighbor who saw the men enter the house belonging to Cheryl Slusher, 44. The lock on the front gate which secured the house had been pried open. When a team of police officer led by Sergeant Bradford Berry ar-rived at Slusher’s house, the men were caught inside, allegedly help-ing themselves to several items. The quick police response, howev-er, prevented the men from making off with any of Slusher’s properties.

Slusher was at work at the time of the incident. She said in media interviews that it was the second day in a row that burglars targeted her home. The day prior, the gate’s

lock had been messed with and a small pitbull dog had been stolen.

“It seems like they are watching. Every time you go to work cause I left minutes to sev-en, go to work and come back after six. So they have enough time to come into your house and do what they want. I went in, the door is completely destroyed, the TVs off the walls. Two TVs al-ready taken down and the police came in time so the third TV on a slant, almost to come down. The machete is on my son’s bed in the house. The rooms, the drawers ransacked. One of them, it seems like he likes expensive things, the Michael Kors watch on his hand and the earring in his pants. It seems like they don’t care and they don’t respect anyone. They don’t respect anyone. They will turn innocent people into crimi-nals. I work hard for what I have. I di work for twenty-five years; dah noh like everything just fall from the sky. I had to earn what-ever I want in life,” she remarked.

The court prosecutor objected to bail, telling the court that if the men are granted bail, they might interfere with prosecution witness-es, and that police has a strong case against them. The prosecutor also stressed on the prevalence of the offense of burglary in Belize City.

Magistrate Fraser agreed with the prosecutor and decided to re-mand the accused men to prison until their next court date on Au-gust 10.

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6 Mexican and 2 Belizeans fined $25,800 for $8,600 worth of contraband hammocks

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Belize City, Monday, June 27, 2016The Customs Department

dragged 7 persons, including 5 Mexi-can and two Belizeans from San Jose Village, Orange Walk District, to court for uncustomed goods, in respect of 215 hammocks that were found in their possession last Thursday, June 23, at a customs checkpoint at Mile 17 near Maxboro, on the Phillip Gold-son Highway.

The accused persons appeared before Magistrate Deborah Rogers in her Court #3.

Those charged in court were Mex-ican nationals David Tapea Domin-guez, 43; Arturo Moralez Matias, 21; Nicholas Ventura Ruiz, 23: Javier Ne-phtali Jacanipo; Silvano Ventura Ruiz, 22; and two Belizeans from San Jose Village, Oswaldo Mejia, a vendor and Joan Mejia, 28.

They were read a single charge of recklessly carrying uncustomed goods for having in their possession materials for which no duty receipt was presented. The 215 hammocks

are valued at $8,600.The Mexican national Domin-

guez took the rap for the hammocks and pleaded guilty. The others who had pleaded not guilty had the

charge withdrawn from them. Dominguez was fined $25,800,

which is three times the value of the hammocks. Magistrate Rogers ordered him to pay the fine forth-

with, or face two year in prison. He was unable to pay his fine by end of the court working hours, so he was held into custody by the Immigration Department until the payment was made. If he didn’t pay by tomorrow, he would be sent to the Belize Central Prison, where he will begin to serve the 2 year-sentence.

A Mexican minor, who was along with the men, was released after the men were arraigned early today in the Orange Walk Mag-istrate Court for an immigration offense relating to the illegal doc-uments they had in their posses-sion. They were fined $1,500.

The other 6 saw the charges withdrawn and they were free to go.

Customs Department also ap-plied for an order to the court for forfeiting the hammocks and the van in which they were found.

15 yr. old remanded for brazen shooting

downtownBelize City, Monday, June 20, 2015

Last Friday morning, June 17, sometime as pedestrian walked bus-ily on Queen Street shortly before 8:30, in front of the police station became a virtual war zone, as citi-zens who were heading to work and school ran for cover, when a shootout endued between a police officer and a gunman, who had gone to the area to carry out an apparent gang hit on an affiliate of the George Street Gang.

The shooter turned out to be a 15-year-old minor, whose wild shoot-ing injured four persons, including a police officer who had opened fire on him right outside the gate of the police station. That police officer, Cor-poral Alrick Arnold was shot in the chest and had to be rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was admitted in a critical condi-tion. Another man was also shot to the chest and had to be admitted to the hospital. The target of the shooter, Brandon “BT” Tillett escaped unhurt. Tillett, who is on Supreme Court bail had gone to sign in at the police sta-tion.

Late this afternoon, police es-corted the teenaged shooter who brazenly opened fire during the busy morning rush hour on Queen Street, to the Belize Family Court where sev-eral charges were read to him.

Police charged the teenager with four counts of attempted murder


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SMART Mundialito enters playoffs

Belize boxers dominate international fights

Atlantic Bank outmatches Belize Bank 68-66 in Firms

Basketball

San Ignacio, June 25, 2016Belizean boxers won 4 of

the 6 fights on an international boxing meet organized by the Cayo Boxing Association at the Sacred Heart College audito-rium on Saturday night.

In Fight 1, 19 year old Belizean Rony Aldana, 108lbs, won by judges’ decision against 17 year old Mexican Robert “El Cristalito” Canul Solis, 112lbs.

In Fight 2, 29 year old Belizean Max “Pain” Williams, 142.5lbs, toyed with 29 year old Mexican Eric “El Temerario” Ar-guelles, 136.8lbs, for 4 rounds

to win a unanimous judges’ deci-sion: 39-37.

In Fight 3, 38 year old veter-an Michael “Mad Dog” Sobera-nis, 151lbs, outboxed 24 year old Mexican Bernard “El Verdugo” Lopez Fonseca, 153 lbs, to win a split judges’ decision.

In Fight 4, 31 year Belizean Mohamed Harmouch, 169lbs, from San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, was game until he walked right into a straight right to the head from Mexican Luis Antonio Salzedo that floored him. Har-mouch stood up ready for more, and soon hit the canvas a 2nd

time! Referee Florentino Lopez Cruz stopped the fight in the 1st round in 2:23 minutes. Salzedo won by a Tech-nical Knock Out.

In Fight 5, 24 year old Honduran Jose “El Conejo” Fernando Duran, 132lbs, got in more punches to the body and landed some on the head of his taller 22 year old Nicaraguan opponent Freddy Oporto, 132lbs, in 6 rounds to win by judges’ decision.

In Fight 6, 25 year old, Belizean Eduardo Esquivel, 139lbs, fought 6 rounds to win by unanimous judges’ decision over 20 year old, Hondu-ran Eric “El Lobo” Samuel Herrera, 133lbs.

MEX Luis Salcedo floored BZE Mohamed Harmouch

Mike “Mad Dog” Soberanis HON Jose Duran win vs

NIC Freddy Oporto

Belize City, June 25, 2016Ladyville Rising Stars

scraped into the 4th spot of the playoffs by winning 1-0 over the Collet Strikers at the M.C.C. Grounds in Belize City on Satur-day, June 25. Levi Davis score the winning goal for the Stars.

The Young Warriors won 3-0 win against Heights FC, with goals by Kaylen McFoy, Anthony Usher and Jeffery Young.

Defending champs City Boys humbled the No. 2 seed, Hattieville Riverside Boys: 2-1 with Arkel Moguel scoring the 1st goal in the 1st half, and Ken Galvez adding a 2nd goal in the 2nd half to lead 2-0. Ruben Darius scored Hattieville’s con-solation goal with an assist from Jaheed “Rice” Baptist, after a corner kick by Enoch Rhaburn. The Riverside boys will meet the No.2 seed Brown Bombers in the playoffs.

The Brown Bombers won over Face of Belize 3-0; with 2 goals by Eldon “Tuncy” Byrd and 1 goal from Jonathan Casimiro.

The Ladyville Jaguars eliminated Carlston FC from the playoffs by a 1-0 win, with star striker D’jon “Didi” Canelo danc-ing the ball past 3 defenders and the goalie to score the winning goal.

Belize City, June 25, 2016The Belize District Bas-

ketball Association (BDBA) Firms competition contin-ued last week. Atlantic Bank came from behind to post their 3rd win, a nail-biting 68-66 over Heritage Bank. Herman Ramos hit 5 treys to lead Atlantic Bank with 19pts, while Ervin “Poty” Orosco added 16pts, 12 rebounds and veteran Cas-sian Flowers put up 14pts, 4 rebounds. Marshall Nunez Jr scored 6pts and Ron Nicholson – 7pts.

Heritage’s Kurt “Chen-go” Burgess had 24pts, 23 rebounds, while Felix Marti-nez hit 2 treys to add 16pts, and Devon Defour tossed in 6pts.

Other games:Bowen & Bowen vs.

Mayan Man Warriors - 79-68

Top scorer: Kadeem Olivera, 31pts; Winston “Air Jun” Pratt, 24pts

BTL vs. Central Health - 81-75

Top scorers: Jason Vasquez, 25pts; Neil Nichol-son, 21pts

Warriors Russel Humes 7 scored pts.

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Lake I Bombers stomp Fort George United 7-0

Belize District Football Association’s 1st Division

Cayo Football Association’s 1st Division

Belize Bank leads Firms Basketball

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Universal Hardware & Real Warriors defeat rivals

Belize City, June 24, 2016Defending champs Belize Bank Bulldogs posted

their 3rd win in 5 outings, clobbering Bowen & Bowen 79-69. The Bulldogs were led by Marcel Orosco with 21pts, while Rupert Brown added 16pts and Roscoe Rhys scored 15pts.

The Bulldogs were coming off their 2nd loss, against the BCC Dragons who defeated them 73-78 in overtime on Thursday. Dragons’ Cordell Gonzalez and Andrew Vasquez scored 16pts apiece while Sydney “Bucket” Bradley drained in 2 treys for 14pts; and Akeem Watters jammed home 2 dunks to add 12pts and 12 rebounds. Clayton Ogaldez had 7pts and Benedict Terry – 5pts.

Bulldogs’ Chris Mc-Gann box out

Dragons’ Andrew Vasquez scored 16 pts

Belize City, June 26, 2016In Week 7 of the 1st Division

competition at the MCC Garden, the Lake I Bombers stomped Fort George United 7-0. Whitfield Fisher scored a trick with goals in the 22nd and 37th minutes, and he added the 7th goal just before the long whistle. Fort George’s Kyle Humes beat his own keeper with a deflection into the net, and Delroy Flores, Keon Miguel and Floyd Jones scored a goal apiece.

The Stars Academy schooled Elite FC: 4-1 with Steven “Bredds” Baizar scoring a hat trick with goals in the 32nd, 51st and 58th minutes while Shemar “Minnie” Thompson scored in the 72nd minute. Sean mas had scored first for Elite FC in the 3rd minute.

The Ladyville Jaguars overpow-ered West Lake 2-1. Kevin Young scored Jaguars’ 1st goal in the 5th minute and Jael Ottley recovered the rebound off a shot from Sean Young that Westlake’s goalie Michael Marti-nez had stopped to drill the ball into the empty net. Ladyville led 2-0 at the half. West Lake changed goalies, and Leon Jones got a consolation goal in the 2nd half.

Michael Martinez stops Sean Young shot

Congrats Steven Baizar on hat trick

Stars Academy win 4-1

San Ignacio, June 25, 2016Universal Hardware, Real

Warriors, Duck Run II, Revo-lution FC and Billy White all posted big wins in the Cayo Football Association’s 1st Divi-sion tournament at the Nor-man Broaster Stadium over the weekend.

Match results:Revolution FC vs. Ramstein

FC – 2-1Goals by Allan Quinonez,

Elston Agustin (Rev), Luis Pinto Franco (Ram)

Billy White vs. Synergy - 3-0Goals by Elder Del La Cruz,

Alexander Bol Figueroa (2)Real Warriors vs. Hillview

FC - 4-2Goals by David Trapp (Real)

(2), Tremain Gentle (Real) (2), Ken-roy Pinelo (Hview), Tony Gonzalez (Hview)

Universal Hardware vs. Lower Dover - 7- 0

Goals by Danilo Martinez, Cervelio Godoy (2), Irbin Sando-val, Emmerson Orellana (2), Felix Miranda

Duck Run II vs. West Road Quintas - 4-2

Goals by Rosny Martinez (DR), Mario Sanchez (DR), Carlos Garcia (RQ), Cyril Simmons (RQ),

Marconi Obando (DR), Raul Leon-ardo (DR)

Upcoming Schedule:Duck Run II vs. Olympus,

FridayWest Road Quintas vs

Ramstein FC, Friday

Heartz vs. Olympus, SaturdayReal Warriors vs. Peniarol,

SaturdayRamstein vs. Hillview FC,

SundayLower Dover vs. West Road

Quintas, Sunday

Real Warriors 4-2 Hillview FC

Universal hardware 7-0 Lower Dover


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ELECTIONS AND BOUNDARIES DEPARTMENT VILLAGE COUNCIL ELECTIONS 26 JUNE 2016

OFFICIAL RESULTS


Election No. of Votes Total Votes Spoilt Rejected

Date Received Polled Votes Votes

1068 7

Elvis Emair Correa Chairperson 603 Elected

Humberto Juarez Chairperson 451

6162

Veronica Diamantina Ortega Member 571 Elected

Mariano Campos Member 589 Elected

Rogelio Sebastian Vega Member 578 Elected

Abner Armando Canul Member 588 Elected

Leydi Dayana Patt Member 595 Elected

Pablo Concepcion Gonzalez Member 578 Elected

Melisa Itsel Zetina Member 450

Luis Mark Barlona Member 443Luis Chan Member 442

Xiomara Marlen Patt Member 442

Adalia Amairamy Cob Member 433Maribel Pech Member 434



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VILLAGE COUNCIL ELECTIONS 26 JUNE 2016ELECTIONS AND BOUNDARIES DEPARTMENT

OFFICIAL RESULTS

COROZAL DISTRICT

Village Candidates Name

COROZAL DISTRICT

Village Candidates Name Position Remarks

Position

26/06/2016

Progresso

26/06/2016

San Narciso

Remarks

14

19

Josue Ken Chairperson 213 Elected

Tirso Duran Chairperson 101

1866

Philip Lamb Member 189 Elected

Miguel Lopez Member 211 Elected

Feliciana Sedacey Member 203 Elected

Reginaldo Osorio Member 204 Elected

Marcial Lino Jr. Member 212 Elected

Davis Valdez Member 203 Elected

Salvador Alamilla Member 106

Herodita Sedacey Member 105

Wilber Pasos Member 106

Hilmar Ken Member 118

Norma Soliz Member 101

Roque Sedacey Member 99



565 4

Omar Tun Chairperson 299 Elected

Israel Manzanilla Chairperson 245

3262

Elsner Manzanilla Member 280 Elected

Jacinto Castillo Member 302 Elected

Jairo Monterroso Member 303 Elected

Julio Rodriguez Member 300 Elected

Rafael Tun Member 305 Elected

Francisco Tun Member 303 Elected

Clement Barrera Member 250

Serafin Castillo Member 243

Elisa Chan Member 237

Jesus Vasquez Member 239

Marcos Vasquez Member 242

Daisy Mireya Velasquez Member 240

14

9

26/06/2016

Progresso

21

18

COROZAL DISTRICT

Village Position Remarks

26/06/2016

Paraiso



101

Rojer Escalante Chairperson 38

Christian Armand Loza Chairperson 61 Elected

596

Christian Jose Garrido Member 38

Shamir Ricardo Rivero Member 42

Jose Agustin Garrido Member 42

Maria Alicia Rivero Member 41

Richard Julio Zambito Member 36

Prudencio Rivero Jr. Member 43

Alicia Elidya Torres Member 61 Elected

Bryan Mauricio Herrera Member 58 Elected

Darvin Torres Member 57 Elected

Johnny Geovanni Arana Member 57 Elected

Ronnie Rigel Arana Member 61 Elected

Alexandra Arana Member 58 Elected

Election Village Candidates Name Position No. of Votes Remarks Total Votes Spoilt Rejected

Date Received Polled Votes VotesChunox

Jose Loise Reyes Chairperson Uncontested

Carlos Gabriel Cobb Member Uncontested

Marcio Gilbani Gonzalez Member Uncontested

Rene Ramon Tun Member Uncontested

Adinile Mesh Member Uncontested

26/06/2016

26/06/2016

Consejo

2

2

COROZAL DISTRICT


COROZAL DISTRICT



101

Rojer Escalante Chairperson 38

Christian Armand Loza Chairperson 61 Elected

596

Christian Jose Garrido Member 38

Shamir Ricardo Rivero Member 42

Jose Agustin Garrido Member 42

Maria Alicia Rivero Member 41

Richard Julio Zambito Member 36

Prudencio Rivero Jr. Member 43

Alicia Elidya Torres Member 61 Elected

Bryan Mauricio Herrera Member 58 Elected

Darvin Torres Member 57 Elected

Johnny Geovanni Arana Member 57 Elected

Ronnie Rigel Arana Member 61 Elected

Alexandra Arana Member 58 Elected

Election Village Candidates Name Position No. of Votes Remarks Total Votes Spoilt Rejected

Date Received Polled Votes VotesChunox

Jose Loise Reyes Chairperson Uncontested

Carlos Gabriel Cobb Member Uncontested

Marcio Gilbani Gonzalez Member Uncontested

Rene Ramon Tun Member Uncontested

Adinile Mesh Member Uncontested

26/06/2016

26/06/2016

Consejo

2

2

COROZAL DISTRICT


COROZAL DISTRICT

Edwin V. Tzul Member 128

Hilario R. Teck Member 141 Elected

Lloyd Flores Member 143 Elected

Samuel Manzanilla Member 143 Elected

Rene Gorosica Member 142 Elected

Perfecto Cobb Member 142 Elected

Amir N. Ake Member 142 Elected



273

Cornelio Antonio Torres Chairperson 143 Elected

Celio Celsito Cawich Chairperson 124

1539

Feliciano Torres Member 145 Elected

German Donicio Tzul Member 145 Elected

Pedro Josue Torres Member 147 Elected

Elsie Melissa Lopez Member 141 Elected

Terence Junior Chan Member 143 Elected

Jaime Rosendo Carillo Member 136 Elected

Martha Alejandra Grijalba Member 115

Rafael Jorge Torres Member 114

Jake Torres Member 109

Maria Jesusita Padron Member 97

Ricardo Torres Member 123

Ricky Milton Sosa Member 117

26/06/2016

Copper Bank

6

Remarks

26/06/2016

Chan Pine Ridge

6

7

ORANGE WALK DISTRICT

Village Candidates Name Position

Edibijes Beto Mesh Member Uncontested

Fernando Margarito Tun Member Uncontested



209

Carlos Cunil Jr. Chairperson 116 Elected

Rosbi E. Divas Chairperson 80

1115

Solangel R. Pech Member 114 Elected

Felipe L. Quetzal Member 99 Elected

Cinthia Y. Chan Member 99 Elected

Tomas U. Lino Member 99 Elected

Alfredo Rosalez Member 106 Elected

Yolanda A. Valencio Member 101 Elected

Amelio Chable Member 80

Maritza R. Ewan Member 81

Krizia Y. Cowo Member 83

Kinier Tun Member 80

Mainor M. Cortez Member 80

Gaudencio Pott Member 89



288

Ruben Ramiro Cobb Chairperson 139

Alberto G. Teck Chairperson 143 Elected

1650

Elder R. Olivera Member 136

Miguel Cobb Member 132

Rogel Tzul Member 136

Edney Cobb Member 130

Irbin L. Cobb Member 129

26/06/2016

26/06/2016

Buena Vista

13

4

26/06/2016

Copper Bank

6

6

COROZAL DISTRICT


COROZAL DISTRICT


Edibijes Beto Mesh Member Uncontested

Fernando Margarito Tun Member Uncontested



209

Carlos Cunil Jr. Chairperson 116 Elected

Rosbi E. Divas Chairperson 80

1115

Solangel R. Pech Member 114 Elected

Felipe L. Quetzal Member 99 Elected

Cinthia Y. Chan Member 99 Elected

Tomas U. Lino Member 99 Elected

Alfredo Rosalez Member 106 Elected

Yolanda A. Valencio Member 101 Elected

Amelio Chable Member 80

Maritza R. Ewan Member 81

Krizia Y. Cowo Member 83

Kinier Tun Member 80

Mainor M. Cortez Member 80

Gaudencio Pott Member 89



288

Ruben Ramiro Cobb Chairperson 139

Alberto G. Teck Chairperson 143 Elected

1650

Elder R. Olivera Member 136

Miguel Cobb Member 132

Rogel Tzul Member 136

Edney Cobb Member 130

Irbin L. Cobb Member 129

26/06/2016

26/06/2016

Buena Vista

13

4

26/06/2016

Copper Bank

6

6

COROZAL DISTRICT


COROZAL DISTRICT



Date Received Polled Votes VotesTrial 1222 2

Farm Carlos Antonio Carlos Chairperson 561

Maria R. Cocom Chairperson 576 Elected

6823

Carlos R. Coyock Member 518

Sandra E. Delgado Member 570 Elected

Lizett M. Martinez Member 572 Elected

Zaim A. Cawich Member 571 Elected

Tamara Bartley Member 574 Elected

Alberto R. Larios Member 568 Elected

Jantley Gercelli Grajalez Member 586 Elected

Ronald E. Mendoza Member 567

Ernesto O. Nas Member 562

Leopoldo F. Coyock Member 563

Mario E. Barrera Member 559

Walter A. Sosa Member 550


Date Received Polled Votes VotesAugust Pine

812 2

Ridge Angelica Castellanos Chairperson 376

Rafael Ramos Chairperson 421 Elected

4697

Laurelie Chan Member 362

Erica Eustaquia Tuz Member 375

Remarks



26/06/2016

15

19


Village Candidates Name Position

26/06/2016

85

63




Melvin Raul Balam Member 380

Betuel Eliezer Magana Member 380

Sergio A. Tillett Member 376

Raul Tillett Member 382

Erubiel de la Cruz Ku Member 407 Elected

Cindy Lizeth Ku Member 405 Elected

Marivel Balam Member 405 Elected

Edmir Godwin Soliz Member 406 Elected

Miguel Angel Briceno Member 401 Elected

Dariel Isair Torres Member 399 Elected

26/06/2016

19



423 3

Marconi Leal Chairperson 278 Elected

Damian Garbutt Chairperson 132

2322

Arthur Rosales Member 258 Elected

Lisa Gideon Member 254 Elected

Mervin Mckoy Member 253 Elected

Darlene Vaccaro Member 252 Elected

David McCulloch Member 241 Elected

Marilyn Young Member 256 Elected

Olivia Baradalez Member 130

Ladimar Villa Member 162

Andrew Ozaeta Member 130

Andrew Bethran Member 122

Murrin Leslie Member 130

Kristal Drysdale Member 118



530 2

Terry Gordon Chairperson 258 Elected

Sherlett Martinez Chairperson 240

2873

Carolee Swift Member 224

Samuel Lawson Member 238 Elected

Sylvestre Escobar Member 237

Ronald Engleton Member 232

32

22

BELIZE DISTRICT


26/06/2016

13

16

Sandhill


BELIZE DISTRICT

26/06/2016

Lord's Bank

Stannis Thomas Member 226

Alonzo Pineda Member 237

Beverly Jones Member 248 Elected

Delsie Martinez Member 244 Elected

Gilroy Middleton Member 248 Elected

Dion Gibson Member 244 Elected

Phillip Diaz Member 231

Sharlene Sankey Member 242 Elected

22

26/06/2016

Lord's Bank



342 1

Orlando Sanchez Chairperson 225 Elected

Yneido Salas Chairperson 102

1939

Hilario D. Guerra Member 206 Elected

David Pat Member 221 Elected

Lucio Ruiz Member 222 Elected

Jessica Pleytez Member 213 Elected

Armando Romero Member 218 Elected

Alexander Abraham Ramos Member 213 Elected

Efrain Martinez Member 104

Alex Ali Naj Member 108

Sonia Azucely Ruiz Member 109

Oscar Rene Sanchez Member 108

Elmer Junior Cunil Member 103

William Omar Salas Member 105



Jorge Mario Ramos Chairperson Uncontested

Julio E. Perez Member Uncontested

Amir Jesus Teck Member Uncontested

Noel M. Uck Member Uncontested

Luis H. Uk Member Uncontested

9

CAYO DISTRICT


26/06/2016

Arenal

15

CAYO DISTRICT


26/06/2016

Calla Creek

Oscar J. Carrio Member Uncontested

Amilcar A. Uck Member Uncontested



552 2

Oscar Otero Chairperson 222 Elected

Denzel Baizer Chairperson 188

Ruben Hernandez Chairperson 106

2944

Jorge Alvarado Member 195

Nery Salguero Member 199 Elected

Kimberly Jones Member 194

Brisieda Chan Member 200 Elected

Rigoberto Veron Member 173

Raul Zuleta Member 199 Elected

Rosa Blancaneauex Member 95

Daidy Avoche Member 94

Gustavo Caliz Member 89

Norma Gordon Member 92

Jessica Barrera Member 97

Gregorio Smith Member 87

Ryan Stephens Member 201 Elected

Beverly Hyde Member 200 Elected

Gerald Flowers Member 197

Ronaldo Alvarez Member 198

Slyvaria Cus Member 198

Helvin Gonzalez Member 200 Elected

Position Remarks

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Calla Creek

26/06/2016

Cotton Tree

36

36

CAYO DISTRICT


Oscar J. Carrio Member Uncontested

Amilcar A. Uck Member Uncontested



552 2

Oscar Otero Chairperson 222 Elected

Denzel Baizer Chairperson 188

Ruben Hernandez Chairperson 106

2944

Jorge Alvarado Member 195

Nery Salguero Member 199 Elected

Kimberly Jones Member 194

Brisieda Chan Member 200 Elected

Rigoberto Veron Member 173

Raul Zuleta Member 199 Elected

Rosa Blancaneauex Member 95

Daidy Avoche Member 94

Gustavo Caliz Member 89

Norma Gordon Member 92

Jessica Barrera Member 97

Gregorio Smith Member 87

Ryan Stephens Member 201 Elected

Beverly Hyde Member 200 Elected

Gerald Flowers Member 197

Ronaldo Alvarez Member 198

Slyvaria Cus Member 198

Helvin Gonzalez Member 200 Elected

Position Remarks

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Calla Creek

26/06/2016

Cotton Tree

36

36

CAYO DISTRICT




296 1

Egbert Anthony Vernon Chairperson 79

Patricia Valdez Chairperson 80

Denise Cedeno Chairperson 114 Elected

1530

Juan Martinez Member 137 Elected

Gabriel Guzman Member 149 Elected

Brenda Calderon Member 150 Elected

Hubert Goff Member 145 Elected

Gwenneth Flowers Member 144 Elected

Hector Arreaza Member 147 Elected

Linda Valdez Member 110

Veronica Tillett Member 112

Rudi Ibanez Member 115

Ruth Flores Member 109

Hector Monterrosa Member 97

Blanca Ramos Member 95



144 2

Rudy Escobar Chairperson 40

Alfredo Reyes Chairperson 77 Elected

Evelyn Campos Chairperson 24

722

Vilma Segura Member 33

Tito Estrada Member 34

Reina Corado Member 41

Oscar Guerra Member 51

Jeremiyas Polanco Member 100 Elected

Benjamin Franco Member 85 Elected

CAYO DISTRICT


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Saint Matthews

23

20

CAYO DISTRICT


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Franks Eddy

3

6Jose Guevara Member 77 Elected

Misael Lopez Member 72 Elected

Jose Dominguez Member 71 Elected

Martin Franco Member 72 Elected

Julie Seguro Member 28

Eldon Seguro Member 25

Esteban Cho Member 15

Maria Esther Salvaterria Member 12



Michael Herbert Myvett Chairperson Uncontested

Jose Ernesto Giron Member Uncontested

Johnny Cash Sutherland Member Uncontested

Ana Lucila Bautista Member Uncontested

Manuel De Jesus Barrera Member Uncontested

Alfonso Sutherland Member Uncontested

Tracey Yvonne Myvett Member Uncontested



Hugo Leonel Lima Chairperson Uncontested

Julio Cruz Member Uncontested

William A. Lopez Member Uncontested

Juan Antonio Moralez Member Uncontested

Francisco Maldonado Member Uncontested

San Marcos

CAYO DISTRICT


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Franks Eddy

6

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More Tomorrow

CAYO DISTRICT


Jose Guevara Member 77 Elected

Misael Lopez Member 72 Elected

Jose Dominguez Member 71 Elected

Martin Franco Member 72 Elected

Julie Seguro Member 28

Eldon Seguro Member 25

Esteban Cho Member 15

Maria Esther Salvaterria Member 12



Michael Herbert Myvett Chairperson Uncontested

Jose Ernesto Giron Member Uncontested

Johnny Cash Sutherland Member Uncontested

Ana Lucila Bautista Member Uncontested

Manuel De Jesus Barrera Member Uncontested

Alfonso Sutherland Member Uncontested

Tracey Yvonne Myvett Member Uncontested



Hugo Leonel Lima Chairperson Uncontested

Julio Cruz Member Uncontested

William A. Lopez Member Uncontested

Juan Antonio Moralez Member Uncontested

Francisco Maldonado Member Uncontested

San Marcos

CAYO DISTRICT


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Franks Eddy

6

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More Tomorrow

CAYO DISTRICT


Gregorio Lima Member Uncontested

Mardoqueo A. Quintanilla Member Uncontested



Carlos Jose Zuniga Chairperson Uncontested

Ana Eloisa Morales Member Uncontested

Flerida Carolina Medrano Member Uncontested

Fernando Montepeque Member Uncontested

Pablo Jacinto Lopez Member Uncontested

Marcos Tobar Member Uncontested

Greidy Zuniga Member Uncontested

San Marcos

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Selena

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CAYO DISTRICT


Gregorio Lima Member Uncontested

Mardoqueo A. Quintanilla Member Uncontested



Carlos Jose Zuniga Chairperson Uncontested

Ana Eloisa Morales Member Uncontested

Flerida Carolina Medrano Member Uncontested

Fernando Montepeque Member Uncontested

Pablo Jacinto Lopez Member Uncontested

Marcos Tobar Member Uncontested

Greidy Zuniga Member Uncontested

San Marcos

26/06/2016

Selena

26/06/2016

CAYO DISTRICT






129

Jose Chan Chairperson 59 Elected

Elcedia Awe Chairperson 58

663

Marlon Trujillo Member 64 Elected

Sandra Montes Member 69 Elected

Ronnie Zetina Member 62 Elected

Byron Sanchez Member 69 Elected

Jose L. Chan Jr. Member 64 Elected

Alburn Roches Member 63 Elected

Estevan Salas Member 58

Carlos Zetina Member 54

Julia Ramirez Member 51

Albert Cowo Member 52

Orpha Zetina Member 54



117

Baudilio Arevalo Chairperson 51

Bernardo Paquiul Chairperson 65 Elected

660

Florentino Chen Member 43

Enrique Barrera Member 46

Jose Turcios Member 45

Rudy Chen Member 45

Yolanda Orellana Member 46

STANN CREEK DISTRICT


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Alta Vista

12

3



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Hummingbird

1

5Eugenio Gonzalez Member 47

Marcus Coc Member 64 Elected

Lucio Tut Member 64 Elected

Adriano Bol Member 63 Elected

Juan Garcia Member 64 Elected

Alberto Sanchez Member 64 Elected

Juan Coc Member 64 Elected



121

Javier Ramirez Chairperson 67 Elected

Careena Robinson Chairperson 53

700

Rigoberto Requena Member 64 Elected

Leonardo Ack Member 73 Elected

Isidora Larios Member 65 Elected

Francisco Cho Member 62 Elected

Yolanda Requena Member 66 Elected

Jeffery Sosa Member 81 Elected

Veronica Cacho Member 52

Danielle Pineda Member 42

Rushawn Mayen Member 57

Colin Faux Member 49

Sharie Pineda Member 40

Obaldo Requena Member 49



47

Edward Flowers Chairperson 26 Elected



26/06/2016

Mullins River

7

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Hummingbird

5



26/06/2016

Steadfast

1

Eugenio Gonzalez Member 47

Marcus Coc Member 64 Elected

Lucio Tut Member 64 Elected

Adriano Bol Member 63 Elected

Juan Garcia Member 64 Elected

Alberto Sanchez Member 64 Elected

Juan Coc Member 64 Elected



121

Javier Ramirez Chairperson 67 Elected

Careena Robinson Chairperson 53

700

Rigoberto Requena Member 64 Elected

Leonardo Ack Member 73 Elected

Isidora Larios Member 65 Elected

Francisco Cho Member 62 Elected

Yolanda Requena Member 66 Elected

Jeffery Sosa Member 81 Elected

Veronica Cacho Member 52

Danielle Pineda Member 42

Rushawn Mayen Member 57

Colin Faux Member 49

Sharie Pineda Member 40

Obaldo Requena Member 49



47

Edward Flowers Chairperson 26 Elected



26/06/2016

Mullins River

7

26/06/2016

Hummingbird

5



26/06/2016

Steadfast

1

Lismour L. Flowers Sr. Chairperson 14

245

Keith F. Flowers Member 28 Elected

Sandra Flowers Member 27 Elected

Barbara Y. Bernard Member 26 Elected

Breni E. Rufino Member 25 Elected

Brian G. Pandy Member 26 Elected

Ernest O. Flowers Member 26 Elected

Harold L. Flowers Member 15

James G. Moreira Member 14

Ginelli S. McField Member 13

Bibiana E. Bol Member 14

Christal A. Flowers Member 14

Brandon L. Flowers Member 15



100

Chrispino Sho Chairperson 34

Hector De La Cruz Chairperson 62 Elected

539

Roberto Paquiul Member 31

Filomena Cho Member 58 Elected

Carmelita Sho Member 59 Elected

Flora Hernandez Member 60 Elected

Juan Sanchez Member 60 Elected

Selvano Cowo Member 61 Elected

Consuela Bol Member 59 Elected

Eunarda Caliz Member 30

Cristino Lopez Member 29

Carlos Reyes Member 28

Pio Cowo Member 29

Gregorio Cho Member 30

26/06/2016

Mullins River

7

2



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Middlesex

4

5


Lismour L. Flowers Sr. Chairperson 14

245

Keith F. Flowers Member 28 Elected

Sandra Flowers Member 27 Elected

Barbara Y. Bernard Member 26 Elected

Breni E. Rufino Member 25 Elected

Brian G. Pandy Member 26 Elected

Ernest O. Flowers Member 26 Elected

Harold L. Flowers Member 15

James G. Moreira Member 14

Ginelli S. McField Member 13

Bibiana E. Bol Member 14

Christal A. Flowers Member 14

Brandon L. Flowers Member 15



100

Chrispino Sho Chairperson 34

Hector De La Cruz Chairperson 62 Elected

539

Roberto Paquiul Member 31

Filomena Cho Member 58 Elected

Carmelita Sho Member 59 Elected

Flora Hernandez Member 60 Elected

Juan Sanchez Member 60 Elected

Selvano Cowo Member 61 Elected

Consuela Bol Member 59 Elected

Eunarda Caliz Member 30

Cristino Lopez Member 29

Carlos Reyes Member 28

Pio Cowo Member 29

Gregorio Cho Member 30

26/06/2016

Mullins River

7

2



26/06/2016

Middlesex

4

5




Ramon Mendez Chairperson Uncontested

Floridalma Gutierrez Member Uncontested

Mark Jacobs Member Uncontested

Hugo Rene Torres Member Uncontested

Wilberto Andres Daniels Member Uncontested

Minta Ritchie Member Uncontested

Tania Iris Banner Member Uncontested


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Valley Community



76

Jose Rash Chairperson 27

Jose Coc Chairperson 37 Elected

Alejandro Sho Member Uncontested

Ricardo Pec Member Uncontested

Edgar Cuc Member Uncontested

Nicolas Sho Member Uncontested

Genaro Sho Member Uncontested

Balbino Sho Member Uncontested



Paula Williams Chairperson Uncontested

Melice Elaine Jacobs Member Uncontested

David Santilli Member Uncontested

Consuela Lira Member Uncontested

Suzette jacobs Member Uncontested

Ray Jacobs Member Uncontested

Adrian Noralez Member Uncontested



TOLEDO DISTRICT


TOLEDO DISTRICT


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Punta Negra

TOLEDO DISTRICT


26/06/2016

Bladen

12

1179 4Marcelino Rodriguez Chairperson 124

Jose Flores Chairperson 147Juan Carlos Martinez Chairperson 494 Elected

Oneida Hernandez Chairperson 361

6318

Miguel Vasquez Member 115

Julio Caceres Jr. Member 126

Carlos Ferrera Member 131

Apolinario Che Member 132

Titus Caal Member 123

Michael Teul Member 126

Eunicer Ramirez Member 141

Jose Requena Member 124

Glenn Turcios Member 121

Marlon Valle Member 134

Lorenzo Logan Member 131

German Caceres Member 124

Jonathan Rodriguez Member 474 Elected

Philip Guy Sr. Member 457 Elected

Juan Chirinos Member 470 Elected

Sergio Dorado Member 489 Elected

Edwin Gomez Member 468 Elected

Zulma Ortega Member 469 Elected

Gloria Gonzales Member 317

Juan Mendoza Member 318

Alex Arias Member 322

Yosselin Franco Member 324

Juliana Garcia Member 319

Camelio Mas Member 314

26/06/2016

Bella Vista

53

49




Theus Strikers win Father’s Day

Volleyball in Port!

Political Piracy Exacerbates Public Debt

ing of the public service. Intelligent debt is purposeful

debt which finances forward-looking investment. The prime example is the first issuance of public debt in 1863 which financed the building of the railway in the South. Aside from public infrastructure areas that are considered as intelligent debt is the investment in transport, health care, education and the national security of the country. Curiously, in the Rt. Hon-orable Dean Barrow’s second term in office he called for fiscal discipline and expenditure restraint. Alarmingly, he made cuts in healthcare, education and national security, the very areas that lead to growth and development. Quite possibly this was to allow the allocation of more monies to areas of wasteful spending.

“Roll it, Roll It” became the trumpet call as the UDP wallowed in the $325 million in PetroCaribe Loan Funds. This Poco Time government satisfied their insatiable appetite, with the wanton pillaging of the poor people’s money. We should be mind-ful that the PetroCaribe Loan monies were earmarked specifically to allevi-ate the conditions of the poorer class of Belizean society. Importantly, it is those policies and practices that help narrow the financial divide between the haves and the haves-not that are not only ethically desirable but makes sound economic sense. Helping the poor can translate into the necessary human capital needed to grow the economy. This disregarded sector of society could become the linchpin in paying off the national debt.

The UDP’s failure to apply prudent

management of the country’s finances have plunged the country in the direct path of an economic firestorm. Belize’s public debt has ballooned to a cata-strophic level.

However, instead of admitting to the economic crisis created under Dean Barrow’s leadership the political piracy continues with the attempt to squeeze their self-saving booty out of Social Security Board, which safeguards the hardworking sweat and tears of the poor people of Belize. Heartless, worth-less good fu nothing UDP.

Mr. Barrow, there are eight text-book options that are available when an economic spiral begins: (1) higher tax-es, (2) less spending, (3) more growth, (4) more lenient interest rates, (5) worst inflation, (6) war, (7) external aid, or, (8) default. There is evidence that all eight have been used in the past, but only one of them is “both plausible and de-sirable today: growth. A growing econ-omy permits the absorption of debt and restores sustainable public finances”.

However, prior to any implementa-tion of the above the noble act of admit-ting to the errors committed should be engaged. The admittance to this man-made economic crisis would be the first step toward finding a meaningful solution.

Thereafter, is the recognition of the role as Belize’s only three-time Prime Minister “where a few swim in riches and the majority drowns in poverty, pol-lution and violence.” The conscience then becomes clear and the ability to chart “a course toward compassion, democracy and social justice for all” becomes a reality.

The time to save Belize is now! Say No to the ICJ!

15 yr. old remanded for brazen shooting downtownin respect of the four persons who suffered gunshot injuries during the shooting. He was also charged with four counts of use of deadly means of harm and two counts of danger-ous harm and two counts of harm, all together a total of 12 offences, all of which will be heard on indictment.

Elroy Saldano, 46, suffered a gun-shot wound to the left chest area and had to be hospitalized. Saldano re-portedly was walking out of the police station along with Brandon Tillett who was the target the gunman was wait-ing patiently on. The young gunman waited so patiently that he ended up making a purchase of tacos from a vendor at the corner of Queen Street

and New Road, before he took out his .9mm Glock pistol and began fir-ing at his target.

Apart for Corporal Arnold and Sal-dano who were shot in their chests, two women also received minor gun-shot injuries and were treated and re-leased at the KHMH. They are Kean Smith, who was shot in the elbow and Graciela Castillo who was shot on the calf.

The teenager was also charged for possession of unlicensed firearm and unlicensed ammunition

The minor was remanded to the Wagner Youth Facility, located on the compound of the Belize Central Pris-on. He will be brought back to court on August 23.

Sun. 19/6/16In Gilroy Usher, Sr. volleyball tournament in Port Loyola for Father’s Day

Theus’ Strikers took 1st place while Laru’s Bombers came in 2nd. 3rd place was captured by Tench Rangers. A total of six teams participated in the event.

Regular volleyball matches organised by Gilroy Usher, Sr. resume at the Jane Usher Basketball Court on Saturday June 25, 2016, and Saturday July 2, 2016 from 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.


History UntoldBy Hector Silva, Former PUP Minister

One of the many stories not yet told about the movement of Independence.

Why? Because those around us today were not there then. I was fortunate to be there active-ly, in the inner circles of the PUP. If there are any questions, refer them to me.

From the inception of the PUP, the Colonial Office made many at-tempts to destroy the PUP, by at-tacking the true maximum Leader. In 1952, they intimidated the first leader Mr. John Smith who even-

tually resigned, the same year. In 1956, they lured the second leader, Mr.Leigh Richardson and the

Assistant Secretary, Mr Phillip Goldson, who were expelled at a PUP convention, held at the Riverside Hall in 1956. Then followed other minor defections.

In view that the PUP was unstoppable, winning all elections by wide margins, the Colonial Office saw the opportunity to give the PUP fi-nal blow, by destroying George C. Price.

In 1957, the Colonial Office invited a Belizean Delegation to come to London for Economic Dis-cussions.

Attending the talks were: George Price, Albert Cattouse, Denbigh Jef-feries, Henry Bowman, the Colonial Financial Secretary and of Course the Colonial Governor Colin Thornley.

They travelled on Board the Lux-ury Ship HMS Queen Mary, which took five days to cross the Atlantic.

BOUT NUMBER ONE. On their arrival in London (which

was publicly known ), the Guatema-lan Ambassador, Don Jorge Garcia Granados, who knew George Price from the time when Mr. Turton and he, as his secretary, visited Guatemala to negotiate for Chicle contracts in Peten, invited the Belize delegation for a luncheon at their Hotel in London. All agreed to attend.

At the luncheon, Ambassador Granados told the delegation of a secret proposal that Guatemala had made to the British, in regards to the future of British Honduras.

The Proposals included such items.(1) Guatemala to be in charge of Belize’s defence.(2) Guatemala to share a common currency with Belize.(3) Guatemala to guarantee Finances for its Belize’s economic develop-

ment.(4) Guatemala to enjoy free passage through BelizeThe Colonial Office had not informed Belize of these secret negotiations

with Guatemala.Upon hearing of the meeting with the Guatemalan Ambassador and

upon being told of the contents of their discussions, by two Belize “whistle blowers”, the Colonial office, in a rage that they were caught in SECRET ne-gotiations with Guatemala, abruptly cancelled the London Talks and sent the Belize delegation back home to British Honduras on board the same Queen Mary Ship.

But Nadia Cattouse, Mr. Cattouse daughter, who worked with Dutch Shell Co. in London, bought two airplane tickets for them on the same plane as the Governor.

The plot was to destroy Mr. Price and the PUP.The idea was, that the Colonial Governor was going to blast Mr. Price

on their controlled radio station (the only one in those days) with the words “selling Belize lock stock and barrel”.

Well, Mr Price and Mr. Cattouse arrived at the same time as the Colonial Governor, - but to the cheers of hundreds of us who went to meet them at the airport and paraded with them on all the streets of Belize City.

And that night we had a massive public meeting attended by thousands of welcoming supporters and friends.

Keep this in your possession, for you will not get this from anyone else, my participant colleagues are all with St. Peter. I have all this documented for posterity.

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(“the Company”)

Pursuant to Section 102 (4) of the International Business Companies Act, Chap-ter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, notice is hereby given that InformFuture Ltd.:

a) is in dissolutionb) commenced dissolution on the 27th day of June, 2016; andc) Mrs. Charlotte Dorothy van Heerden whose ad-

dress is Meadow Star Place, Ou Wapad, Melody Ext. 22, Hartbeespoort, 0216, South Africa is the Liquidator of the Company.

PMC Group (Belize) Ltd.

Registered Agent

Verala Management Ltd. #55,151

(“the Company”)

Pursuant to Section 102 (4) of the International Business Companies Act, Chap-ter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, notice is hereby given that Verala Management Ltd.:




Registered Agent

LEKERT LTD. #30,348

(“the Company”)

Pursuant to Section 102 (4) of the International Business Companies Act, Chap-ter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, notice is hereby given that LEKERT LTD.:




Registered Agent

GARTEX INVEST LIMITED #147,547

(“the Company”)

Pursuant to Section 102 (4) of the International Business Companies Act, Chap-ter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, notice is hereby given that GARTEX INVEST LIMITED:

a) is in dissolutionb) commenced dissolution on the 27th day of June, 2016; andc) CILTrust International Inc. whose address is 35 Bar-

rack Road, Third Floor, Belize City, Belize is the Liquida-tor of the Company.


Registered Agent

THE BELIZE TIMES3 JUL 2016 23See them fighting for power…

but they know not the hour!By the Nationalist

By now everybody knows that the country is in a mess and we’re going downhill. Trust me even the UDPs know even if they won’t admit it. Only the very se-lect in the UDP have gotten so rich off politics that the price of fuel and basic necessities don’t matter to them. The rest of them are just like me and you – they feel the pinch and they know it’s going to get a lot worse.

While the country is going to hell because of the mismanage-ment of this Barrow administra-tion, the UDP has also started the long process of falling to pieces. The truth is that when Mr. Barrow announced that he would have to step down at the end of this term that was the beginning of the end.

Look at what happened lead-ing up to the UDP Convention between Patrick Faber and John Saldivar. The fight got so nasty and personal that the UDP won’t

recover from it for a long, long time. Big grown Ministers in Cabinet still aren’t speaking to each other. John won’t do anything to support or help Patrick because the message the UDPs sent to him at Convention still hasn’t sunk in. I hear even his own Mayor in Belmopan never voted for him. And Patrick knows that John is just waiting for the opportunity to sink him so he certainly won’t do anything to help John. Patrick also knows that the majority of Ministers in Cabinet supported John even if their people didn’t, so he won’t do anything to make them stronger.

And now there are new play-ers on the scene. I’m talking about Gaspar Vega, who’s actually a new old player. Vega got into a sulk be-cause the Prime Minister took the Ministry of Lands away from him. He thought he was so important that Barrow would fold and give him back that powerful portfolio. That didn’t happen. But suddenly now Vega is out in the cold. Nobody in the UDP looks up to him because

he has nothing to offer. He can’t get them and their families and friends deals on prime pieces of land sold for little or nothing. He can’t ap-prove land leases and titles just so they can get votes when elections come around. He’s a virtual nobody in the UDP. So now players in Or-ange Walk who are close to him have already begun to spread word that Vega is coming back. He’s not going back for Deputy Leader. He’s been there and done that. His peo-ple say that in a couple years when Dean Barrow steps down Vega will mount a challenge to become leader of the United Democratic Party.

He feels that he can do it be-cause he already beat Patrick once before. Plus he has millions and mil-lions at his disposal, since his family reaped tremendous benefit when he was Minister of Natural Resourc-es and Deputy Prime Minister.

There’s only one obstacle in the way – a relative newcomer who thinks that he will be the new pow-erhouse in Orange Walk. Elodio Ara-

gon Jr. has fooled himself into think-ing that he will be the next Minister of Lands and will use that position to take control of the UDP in the north. His own people have started sending out that message – a little difficult since Aragon is nothing but a junior minister with a very limited portfolio. But his people say that Patrick has already put in a request for Godwin to be ousted.

This thing is going to get nastier and nastier. And it’s funny. Even as they fight each other for power, the people are preparing a “chendazo” for them. For the UDP, the hour of reckoning is approaching.

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MY PERSPECTIVE

THREE STRIKES – YOU’RE OUT!!

By Dolores Balderamos Garcia

In baseball and softball, this is the main rule: three strikes and you’re out!! I believe that this third Dean Barrow administration has struck out, and is therefore not fit to continue governing Belize. In a tongue in cheek way, I say that I do not agree with Dickie Bradley on most things, but on the matter of the terrible failure of the Barrow administration on the paramount issue of Guatemala I am in fully ad idem with him. What horrendous missteps and total incompetence on their part. In this column, as in “Woman in the House” before it, I have expended too many words on Foreign Minister Sedi Elrington. I really hate to waste even more. The problem is that Sedi has a boss, and his boss’s name is Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow. It is Barrow’s abject failure and complete letting down of the Belizean people that must be our focus.

So, the first strike against Bar-row and his minions is their abomi-nable failure on the issue of the Chiquibul, the Sarstoon and our relations with our unfriendly neigh-bor Guatemala. When will they call a spade - a spade? Effectively we have lost control over our portion of our southernmost river and bound-ary between the two nations. And it did not happen just overnight. It is repeated diplomatic faux pas, otherwise called blunders. Yes, I agree with Dickie that there should as a matter of urgency be the pro-posal of a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly. Belizeans are tired of the lies, the mistakes, the cover-ups and the utter lack of basic competence in dealing with our wily and manipulative, not to mention aggressive and belliger-ent neighbor. I asked months ago in this very column – how are we going to extricate ourselves from this pickle we find ourselves in due to UDP ineptitude?

The second strike against the Barrow administration is their fail-ure where the Belizean economy is concerned. Party Leader Hon. Johnny Briceno has characterized it succinctly and very well. They are acting like crack addicts, try-ing by all means to get their hands on some cash. Of course we all know where all the cash went.

They have indeed mismanaged the economy, and things are dread and getting “dreader.” I do not have to go into great detail as everybody can feel it. “Haada Times Deh Yah” stated our Belize Times headline two weeks ago! This is another pickle that we are in, with Barrow making it abundantly clear that he is not equal to the chal-lenges at hand.

This severe headache for all Beliz-eans is Barrow administration inflict-ed. And the very hurtful part is that UDP ministers and cronies continue to ride around in their air conditioned SUVs, leaving the engines running. The other day I entered the Scotia-bank on the Philip Goldson highway. On exiting, I noticed a huge white Ford pickup. The engine was running, but no one was inside. Then I realized that I had caught a glimpse of Boots Martinez inside the bank. Indeed, Be-lizeans, this is where our hard earned dollars are going, with no end in sight in this recession and impending fur-ther gloom.

Strike three would have to be the Barrow administration failure con-cerning the social fabric of our coun-try. Crime is out of control. Look at the incredible shootout on Queen Street, where my office is located, two Fridays ago. Criminal youngsters have no respect for life and limb of anyone.

Next, we are seeing the frighten-ing state-within-a-state actions of the Special Branch against the extended Ahmad family of Hattieville. Talk about elements in our society being entirely out of control! This is happening on Barrow’s watch; he has to bear re-sponsibility. And of course we can-not forget the failures in our educa-tion system, the incompetence of the minister of Health, continuing corruption in various departments, and serious difficulties in the justice system. I could go on, and who feels it knows it.

Strike one – total failure on the existential and paramount issue of the Guatemala claim; strike two – a big fat zero on Belize’s economy; and strike three – the crumbling so-cial fabric of our nation while Barrow and his ministers fiddle and conduct themselves like drug addicts. Three strikes and you’re OUT, Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow. It is time for you to go!!!

BY ORDER OF CHARGEENOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL

HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIMITED a statutory body formed and registered under the Credit Union Act, Chapter 314 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, and whose registered office is situated at No. 1 Hyde’s Lane, Belize City, Belize District hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Chargee under and by virtue of a Charge registered at the Land Registry between LUIS MENDEZ of the one part and HRCU of the other part.

HRCU will at the expiration of three months from the date of the first publica-tion of this notice sell the property described in the Schedule below.

ALL offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing to Holy Redeemer Credit Union Limited from whom full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained.

SCHEDULE

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land comprising 448.47 square yards being Parcel 94, Block 45 in the King’s Park Registration Section situate at No. 5636 Lizarraga Avenue, Belize City, Belize District, TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of LUIS MENDEZ

DATED this 28th day of June 2016

HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIMITED1 HYDE’S LANE, BELIZE CITY, BELIZE

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NOTICENotice is hereby given that the Companies listed be-low have been dissolved and duly struck off the IBC Register as follows:

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By G. Michael Reid“We have our own dream and

our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Eu-rope and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.” ~ Winston Churchill

“It is not the European Union that is the problem here, it is the Conservative Government. Do we allow xenophobes to take over or do we instead occupy that politi-cal and intellectual territory of the idea that you can solve things to-gether? You’d better build those alliances working with people rather than isolating yourselves from them.”~ Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn

Depending on who you speak to, last Thursday’s referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) was either the best thing since slice bread or the worse thing since the American Rev-olution; for the British that is!

Fulfilling a manifesto promise made in 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron last week launched a ref-erendum that most people outside of the UK and many within felt could go only one way. It didn’t, and the results sent shock waves reverber-ating in financial markets around the globe. By Friday morning, stock mar-kets around the world were plunging sharply and the British pound had fallen to its lowest level in history. Despite the initial shock however, many experts are predicting that the UK will rebound, recover and hold its own. It will be left to be seen.

The referendum that has been described as a “seismic event” saw more than 30 million people casting votes. 72 percent of the UK’s 45 mil-lion registered voters turned up at the polls, surpassing the last gen-eral elections’ turnout of 66 percent. There was apparently high interest.

Interestingly enough, despite rabid campaigning and intense fer-vour in the UK, Belizeans were pay-ing very little attention to Brexit and most were unaware that this was happening. Our local news stations carried absolutely nothing about the event and it went under the radar of even the Saturday morning market gossip. The thing is that while there was a time when we got regular BBC reports, recently, our view of the world comes through the lens of CNN or Fox news. We are fully abreast of every move that Don-ald Trump makes but “news of the world” is no longer a part of our daily intake. That I believe is unfortunate.

us hope that the “leave” victory is not a harbinger of things to come in the US where Trump is campaigning on some of the very issues involved here.

The most interesting thing about the UK referendum, apart from the large number of voters who ex-pressed regret after learning the results, was the large degree of ig-norance to what the EU actually was or what it was about. A report from Google revealed that following the fact, many British were searching to find out what the European Union was. An opinion poll conducted in the wake of the decision found that over a million voters dubbed “Bre-gretters” actually wished that they had voted the other way. One voter actually tweeted on social media that, “Urm, I think I kind of regret my vote. I had no real reason to pick what I did!” A subsequent petition calling for a second referendum was circulated and garnered over 3 mil-lion signatures. Of course, it is dif-ficult to determine how many of those had actually voted “remain” to

begin with and how likely it would be to achieve such a redux.

Another interesting statistic coming out of the referendum is the breakdown of who actually voted and why. The key issues seemed to be immigration, the economy and the high cost of membership in the EU. High on the list were concerns of the high number of immigrants entering the UK from other Euro-pean countries; considered by some nationalism and by others, xenopho-bia. EU citizens can freely travel be-tween member states and immigra-tion to the UK has risen dramatically

Lessons from

BrexitDean Barrow and Sedi Elrington can jump high or jump low, but no decision in the

ICJ can be made without first get-ting approval from the people. The time to educate ourselves on this issue is not after the votes are tabu-lated but now.

The referendum, dubbed Brexit (a portmanteau combining Britain with exit) was held to determine whether or not the United Kingdom should remain a part of the Euro-pean Union (EU). The UK had joined the EU back in 1973 but from very early in the arrangement, there had been dissenters and opponents to the idea. Just two years after join-ing what was back then known as the European Economic Commu-nity (EEC) or simply the “Common Market”the UK held its first ever referendum as the result of a similar campaign promise. As did Cameron, the Labour Party had promised their electorate that should they win the election, they would let them decide “through the ballot box” whether to remain with the EEC or not. At that time, the “Remains” outvoted the “Leaves” by a considerable margin with 67% voting to remain a part of the union.

While we in Belize might not have been paying keen attention, the leaders in the US were. In a visit to the UK as a part of the Queens 90th birthday celebration, President Obama basically threatened that if the UK voted to leave the EU that it would push them to the “back of the queue”where trade with the US was concerned. Trump on the other hand, in an interview with Piers Mor-gan in May remarked that if he was British, he would “vote to leave the EU” and defined the union as “very bureaucratic and very difficult”. Let

in recent years.The UK referendum “divided

generations, pitted nations of the UK against each other and split social classes”. Older people, tra-ditional English and rich and mid-dle class tended to vote “remain” while the young, urban dwellers and the under-educated were more inclined to “leave”. Many young people in the UK are lamenting that their future has been decided upon by the older generation who will likely not be around to suffer the consequences. Analysts are point-ing out however, that the young have only themselves to blame. Exit polls reveal that only 36 per-cent of voters between the ages of 18 and 24 years turned out to vote in last week’s referendum while 78 percent of those over 65 did. For an issue that was so important to the future, this is intriguing if not deplorable.

This of course, brings up to the relevance of UK’s recent ref-erendum to Belize. It would seem that very likely; we will soon be

heading to the polls for a referendum of our own. Dean Barrow and Sedi El-rington can jump high or jump low, but no decision in the ICJ can be made without first getting ap-proval from the people. The time to educate our-selves on this issue is not after the votes are tabu-lated but now. We obvi-ously cannot depend on those in authority to edu-cate us so we will have

to do our own research and fact-findings. It will also be important for people to come out and vote, in particular the young who like in the UK, will be most affected by whatever decision is made.

We cannot vote, like many in the UK did, basing our decision on lies, emotions or phobias. We must educate ourselves, read, and ask questions in order to make a determination based on sound log-ic and information. Wake up Belize and let us learn from the experi-ences of other. May GOD bless Belize!


THE WONDERER AND GUATE”MALA” – THE PROBLEM – PART 1

Guate”mala”, our neighbour west and south is a large, far more populated country than we are. Their population today is about 16.7 million compared to our 350 thousand, or about 48 times larger than ours. Their sur-face area is 108,889 Km2, ours is 22,966 km2 or they have 4.7 times our area. Their average is 153 persons per square kilome-ter. Ours is around 15.2 persons per square kilometer. They are 4.7 times larger than us but have a density 10 times larger. Now having the statistics do you wonder if this is part of our problem? They are overcrowded, don’t have land for expanding so they are now looking across our border. The OAS and Ministry of Foreign Affairs are permitting these people to farm on the so-called “adjacency zone” and also anywhere they want. These peo-ple have systematically crossed our borders and even across the mountain divide. Guate”mala” is a very poor country with some 40% indigenous people that are very poor. The wealthy and the military own most of the nation’s fertile soils. The poor, if they own anything, it is mostly barren soils. Look at the satellite images and you will notice that their entire forest is all gone near our border to the west and south. They have no where to go, the poor people are marginalized and now moving to Belize. OAS and UDP no care!

According to Friends of Conservation and Development (FCD) there has seen an upsurge of illegal clearings inside the Chiquibul Forest, and that they have observed 17 new clearings and several thatch-roof dwellings illegally erected inside Belize. The NGO is now calling for “the activation of patrols and opera-tions to suppress the advance of the milperos. They are wander-ing into our country and the OAS is doing “NADA”. UDP is doing “NADA”

FCD report also claims that up to October 2015, some 39 square kilometers have been deforested. This does not include all the cutlines, all over the place for access to our nation.

FCD notes that “Deforesta-tion, as a consequence of agri-cultural encroachments in the Caracol Archaeological Reserve and Chiquibul National Park, remains one of the main threats to the ecological and cultural integrity of the forest”. Belizean authorities established the Ceibo Chico Conservation Post in 2012

extraction of Scarlet Macaw chicks and eggs.

4. Illegal extraction of other wildlife.

5. Illegal hunting.6. Illegal gold panning

and use of mercury during this process, probably affecting our water source.

7. Looting of archaeologi-cal sites and cave systems.

8. Illegal debushing for illegal slash and burn farming activities.

9. Construction/clear-ing of hundreds of miles of picados or walklines in the reserves.

10. Frequent incursions by armed Guatemalan civilians and military.

11. Contamination from garbage which includes plas-tic, cans and even fecal con-taminants is severe.

12. All the above causing major disturbance and environ-mental and chemical impacts within the reserves and their watersheds.

All the above is causing major border conflicts which the Guate-malan government turn their backs to. Our own government seem to really believe that the border is re-ally artificial and non existent. Peace and Harmony seem to be dete-riorating between the Belize and Guatemalan populations and both governments seem to be in har-mony in doing nothing. Next week in part 2 “the border solution”, I will give my perspective as to how to solve our western border problem.

Have belizeans ever wondered what the OAS is doing? What really is their function? They seem to be “Cozy” with the Guatemalans. They want to investigate everything “so-called bad” that Belize does, but never wants to investigate or talk about the badness Guate”mala” is doing to us. Did you see on TV when the OAS bigman hug the Guatemalan Foreign Minister? Like you hugging you breda and tell-ing him “don’t’ worry a deh pan u side”. Did you see how the man hug fu we one “cold and short hug”, no grinning, no laughing? Like he telling our Foreign minister “stop fussing, Belize da fu Guatemala”. I wonder when will Belizeans smell the coffee and fight for our rights? I wonder when the Belmopan big man will have big ba..s and say enough is enough and fire “Crazy Glue”, sorry I mean “Stu-pid Glue”, and perhaps tell these wealthy and military chapines to back off.

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detected:1. Illegal timber activities

up to 30 miles inside Belizean territory, across the mountain

divide.2. Illegal Xate extraction up

to across the mountain divide.3. Poaching and Illegal

to halt illegal activities in the area, Manzanero said. The number of Guatemalans illegally panning for gold was estimated at about 200 in 2011-2012, he added. The fact that they continue to come to Belize, means that they are coming for something: “They are actually getting gold, no doubt about it!” Manzanero said.

I passed wondering and decided to do some wan-dering around our border and into our forests. I asked questions and finally came up with the list of damages being done to our NATION OF BELIZE. Not UDP na-tion and certainly not for Guate”mala”. Problems


EDITORIALMás de la Mitad de 1 Billón de

dólares a una sola personaFinalmente se dio a conocer el dictamen

arbitral. Esta es la decisión que determina cuánto el gobierno tiene que pagar al grupo de empresas y fideicomisos de Ashcroft. Esta es la pieza final y la más crítica de la liquidación entre Dean Barrow y este gobi-erno UDP y el señor Michael Ashcroft.

Con todo dicho y hecho, ahora sabe-mos que Dean Barrow le habría firmado un cheque en blanco a Ashcroft para la adquisición de BTL. Este cheque en virtud del dictamen arbitral y el acuerdo resulto ser de 453 millones de dólares y seguimos contando. Cuando le añadimos los 97 mil-lones de dólares que este gobierno UDP y Dean Barrow también le pagaron a Ashcroft en septiembre del año pasado para resolver el caso BCB, terminamos con que Dean Bar-row ha firmado y nos ha comprometido a cada uno de nosotros a pagarle a una sola persona – al señor Ashcroft – la angustiosa y sin precedente suma de 550 millones de dólares – más de la mitad de 1 billón de dólares - para una empresa que no vale ni la quinta parte de esa suma.

No hay nada, en la historia de este país, que se compara con esto.

Ahora sabemos por qué tan apresurada-mente llamó las elecciones el año pasado – para ocultarle a la gente está despreciable verdad antes de las elecciones. En lugar de enfrentar al pueblo con la verdad y sufrir las consecuencias, Dean Barrow y el in-competente UDP, estaban tan obsesionados con y desesperados por mantenerse en el

en Espanol

poder, que premeditadamente disfrazaron el monumental desastre que el Primer Min-istro personalmente dirigió, engañando a la gente a pensar que con la pequeña suma de $ 160 millones de dólares, Ashcroft estaba de acuerdo. Profeso una victoria para Dean Barrow y el UDP y que sería igualmente una victoria para el pueblo de Belice.

Ahora sabemos que no se trataba de ninguna victoria para el pueblo de Belice. Esto fue una masacre – un asalto de medio billón de dólares a la economía y al pueblo de Belice. Dean Barrow firmo un cheque que ahora el pueblo de Belice tenemos que cobrar – más de $1.500,00 de cada hombre, mujer y niño para pagarle a una sola per-sona – el señor Ashcroft – cortesía de Dean Barrow.

Ya se especula libremente por todos la-dos que todo esto fue planeado entre Dean Barrow y el Señor Ashcroft – un siniestro plan para maximizar el saqueo para el Señor Ashcroft a coacciones de su fiel sirviente y abogado, Dean Barrow. ¿Hay mucha espe-culación sobre qué parte de los despojos le tocara a Dean Barrow? Nosotros sin embar-go preferimos no creer que nuestro Primer Ministro es un vil impostor, un fraude al pueblo Beliceño. Preferimos creer que se trata de vil arrogancia e incompetencia por parte del Primer Ministro y el UDP. Sea cual sea es, sin embargo, lo que es – nos ha costado a todos más de la mitad de 1 billón de dólares, dinero que no tenemos y que no podemos pagar.

Cortesía de Dean Barrow y el UDP Vergonzosamente Incompetente


THINK ABOUT ITCHILD MURDERER

A child, 15 years of age, waited in front of the Queen Street Police Station two Fridays ago. It was the usual busy Friday morning after 8:00 a.m.

Police say the child was well dressed and stood on the side-walk directly in front of the entrance to the station. A well-known gang leader from the Prime Minister’s George Street Constituency of Queen Square had gone to the Po-lice Station to sign-in as part of his bail condition.

When the gang-leader emerged, the young man pulled a gun and started shooting. Corporal Arnold, who was in the vicinity, pulled his Police weapon and tried to stop the young shooter. The Corporal was shot in the chest and belly. The young shooter was captured.

This is the most brazen act of crimi-nality in Belize. It tops the assassination of Andre Trapp just outside the Mag-istrate’s Court, when he was gunned down in cold-blood a few years ago as he was leaving the court. Since that bra-zen murder there has been no change in the security arrangements at the Courts. Anyone, defendants, witnesses, lawyers, magistrates, judges, court staff can be easily killed around the courts, in the parking lot, inside the courts. There is no security protection by the govern-ment. Everyone is at the mercy of mur-derers.

But it is the age of last Friday’s would be murderer that should shock the conscience of this country. It seems we have become so numb with all the killings and government incompetence and wrong doing that we have given up on ourselves.

The shocking incident of a 15 year old child being a hitman, actually a hit-boy, has been met with stony, cynical silence by the Ministers of Government. The Minister of Security, the Minister of Human Development and the Minister of Education have not bothered to open their hypocritical mouths.

For the Ministers, it’s just another day in the dysfunctional life of the coun-try for which they have contributed so much to its ruination. They and their Prime Minister who are the real murder-ers of our dreams, hopes and future.

At 15 years old, that child should have been in school. He deserves an ed-ucation. He has a right to a better future than a wasted life of a crime. 15 years and marked for death.

Do the Ministers care about all the other 15 year old children whose future in Belize is bleak and hopeless? The an-swer is obvious.

With all the millions of dollars squandered to bribe voters the country is now flat broke. Petrol is almost ten dollars a gallon and food keeps becom-ing more expensive. There is no money, there is no plan, there is no concern.

Something got to give.

OUTRAGE

We join with those of the many citizens, and the Amandala newspaper over the outrage meted out to the Ah-mad family.

We are at a loss to understand how public officers and civil servants can

continue to violate the sacred Consti-tution and laws of Belize which they are sworn to uphold? We are equally amazed at the continuous violations of the human rights of Belizeans which again are protected by our nation’s high-est law without any reprimand from the higher authorities.

These Constitutionally guaranteed rights include the right to privacy, the right to be treated equally under the law, the right to property, the right not to be arbitrarily searched or detained of false-ly arrested and held in detention. There are numerous other rights.

There are rogue police officers in any department in any democratic coun-try. When they over-step their bounds it is the duty of the Police Commissioner and the Minister and CEO to see that they are disciplined and no such thing ever happens again.

Unfortunately, in Belize we see Po-lice abuse and violations of citizens oc-cur time and time again. The perpetra-tors are never disciplined.

What Belizeans are unaware of is that the Special Branch is the Belize’s spy apparatus and are supposed to be protecting Belize from internal and external threats through intelligence gathering. Instead, they are becoming another GSU. Somebody high up in gov-ernment has authorized them to have their own special strike squad, going around harassing and violating citizens.

The situation is dread.The budget for 2016 for Special

Branch according to page 157 of the Draft Estimates of the government is $12million dollars. $7 million is for sala-ries; $2 million for allowances; $89 thou-sand dollars is for arms and ammunition; $200 thousand is for vehicle parts; $857 thousand dollars is for fuel. And dozens of thousands for a variety of recurrent expenses.

At Monday’s “Waste of Time” press conference, in the presence of the Po-lice Commissioner, the Head of Special Branch said the police can detain any person for up to 48 hours, and since the Ahmad family members were held for only 12 hours no law was broken.

This is absolutely not true.We call upon the Attorney General

to clarify the Constitution of Belize so that the Police can desist from violat-ing the law and violating the guaranteed fundamental rights of Belizeans.

There is obviously or deviously a gross misunderstanding of our highest law, our Constitution.

Section 5 subsection (3) states “Any person who is arrested or detained … (b ) upon reasonable suspicion, SHALL be brought before a COURT WITHOUT UNDUE DELAY, and in any case not later than forty-eight hours after such arrest or detention”. There is nothing about detaining for up to 48 hours, It is about being taken to court. Buffoons.

The ComPol and Head of Special Branch and all Police officers need to check Section 5 subsection (6) on page eight of the Constitution-“Any person who in unlawfully arrested or detained by any other person SHALL be ENTI-TLED to COMPENSATION thereof from that other person or from any other per-son or authority on whose behalf that other person was acting”.

We call upon the Supreme Court Judge who will hear the lawsuit against Special Branch and the Compol to whap them with the biggest money judge-ment ever awarded for the gross and outrageous treatment of each and every member of the Ahmad family.

DEBATE ON GUATEMALA

On Thursday night 23 June, 2016 there was a packed audience at the Bliss Institute to hear an informative de-bate on whether Belize should go to the I.C.J.

It was probably the first of its kind, in terms of presenting both sides to this important issue.

The UDP government signed a Treaty with Guatemala in 2008 to take Guatemala’s claim to the International Court of Justice. Belizeans were never informed of this important decision until the Treaty was signed.

The Treaty requires the citizens of Belize and Guatemala to hold simulta-neous referendums of whether to go to the court or not. The referendum was to be held October 2013. But Guatemala was able to change the date.

Thursday’s debate was sponsored and organized by the Social Security Board which proved itself superior to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, none of which have bothered to sponsor discussions on both sides of the issue.

We found it quite a surprise when Dickie Bradley introduced the issue of a Supplemental Treaty signed in 1863 by Britain and Guatemala in which the Brit-ish agreed to pay Guatemala £50,000 to satisfy their obligation for the building of the road as stated in the 1859 Bound-ary Treaty. Why have Belizeans not been hearing of these important historical facts before?

And don’t Dickie’s views make sense, that the British and Guatemala have a quarrel over the 1859 Treaty but that can in no way require a new inde-pendent Belize to give up part of its ter-ritory as compensation for somebody else wrong.

The University of Belize, the Univer-sity of West Indies branch in Belize and Galen University should take shame for their failure to promote balanced dis-cussion on the Guatemala issue.

BEL PROFIT

The Belize Electricity company has announced its goodness of profits of 29 million dollars. Congratulations are in order. The government will take 70 per-cent of the profits and waste it out.

We wish to say two things. First, it is time for BEL to embark on a Solar Power project. This can start in all vil-lages so we can get off the old diesel engine system.

The second observation is the need to further reduce the cost of electricity; poor consumers and struggling busi-nesses are taking a licking in this shrink-ing economy.

We also find it obscene to be cut-ting out electricity to consumers for such small monthly costs like twenty odd and thirty odd dollars.

PANAMA & BELIZE CANALS

In the 1960s and 1970s the joke question used to be asked, “What is the difference between the Panama Canal and the Belize City Canal?” The answer was one carry ship, the other carry shit.

Among the many lasting indignities of living as British subjects under the colonial rule of Britain, no sewerage system was ever constructed in Belize City. Thousands of citizens were forced to use slop buckets which were emp-tied into the canals. Citizens with a little money built septic tanks.

It was the Canadian government which gave money for Belize City to build its present sewerage system.

Despite more than three hundred and twenty-five million dollars made available to Belize by Venezuela, our present government has squandered and looted every dollar without expand-ing the sewerage system and removing the human indignity of poor Belizeans who are still, in 2016, using slop buck-ets.

On Sunday 26 June 2016, Panama Canal opened improved facilities to accommodate larger ships passing through its canal.

The World has been going forward but Belize is still trapped under a neo-colonial set of politicians who are look-ing out for themselves and their coins.

CHURCH SHOULD APOLOGIZE

“I think that the Church not only should apologize… to a gay person whom it offended but it must also apologize to the poor as well, to the women who have been exploited, to children who have been exploited by being forced to work. It must apologize for having blessed so many weapons.”

“We Christians have to apologize for so many things, not just for the (treatment of gay people), but we must ask for for-giveness, not just apologize; forgiveness.

Lord it is a word we forget so often.”Spoken on Sunday 26 June 2016 by

Pope Francis.

ANOTHER SCANDAL

“Fire, fire and we have no water”.Another fire in San Pedro, and again

we hear the familiar complaint, there was no water.

For eight years we have been hearing the same story. Whenever there is a fire, the fire engines arrive on time, but they don’t have water. Eighty-eight persons are homeless following the weekend fire in San Pedro. The fire engine had only three hundred gallons of water. What a sick joke for the country’s tourist capital. One drum of water is fifty-five gallons. The fire engine had only six drums of water to tackle an inferno.

The Area Representative who is Min-ister of Tourism has millions of dollars at his disposable for election campaign, three times in the past eight years, but half of one million could not be found for an effective fire engine.

Everywhere we look we see the ne-glect, incompetence and cold-hearted-ness of these politicians as our people suf-fer in every way.

Last week a rat bit a worker at the Stann Creek regional hospital. It’s not the first or second time at the nation’s hospital that rats have exposed how slack the ad-ministration of Belize has become.

As to fighting violent crime, our num-ber one scourge, the government has long since given up on formulating an effective strategy. Eight years with hundreds upon hundreds dead, and not even a word is said.

No wonder Guatemala just up and take Sarstoon River, easy as Sunday morn-ing.


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Notice is hereby given that FIDE-LINA GILHARRY is applying for a Beer Liquor License to be op-erated at “My Ice Cream”, situ-ated at Parcel 643, West Collet Canal, Belize City, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor Li-cense Ordinance Revised Edi-tion 1980.

Notice is hereby given that YU QIANG HUANG is applying for a Shop Liquor License to be op-erated at “Wong Shop”, situat-ed at 18 ¼ Miles, Phillip Goldson Highway, Belize District under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edition 1980.

Notice is hereby given that YUE LING HUANG WONG is apply-ing for a Shop Liquor License to be operated at “Highway Store”, situated at 271 Bella Vista, Ladyville, Phillip Goldson Highway under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Re-vised Edition 1980.

LIQUOR LICENSE NOTICES


A vacancy for Cashier exists at Yasin Store on Cemetery Road, Belize City. Call 651-

3435 for information.

A vacancy for Cashier ex-ists at East Canal Grocery & Laundry on East Collet Ca-

nal, Belize City. Call 669-4212 for information.

A vacancy for Cashier exists at BD Laundromat & Grocery Store located at 39 Mahog-any Street, Belize City. Call 623-8190 for information.

1 Fiber Glass Boat (skiff), white and blue

in colour. MV RHIO Registration # BZ-1852.

I Juan Luis Cruz hereby ap-ply for the replacement of a lost Vessel Registration Certificate from the Belize

Port Authority being for ves-sel named “Yuritza”, bearing Registration # CZL-0042, and Certificate No. BPA –A26309.

Vacancy

Vacancy

Vacancy

LOST BOAT

LOST CERTIFICATE

Missing BDF Soldier Murdered & Dumped At Sea

Heart of San Pedro Town Goes Up in

Flamesto stop a lot of looting last night during the course of the fire and we worked side by side with the fire department because they are a very small number. So along with the public, the Police Officers also worked as firefighters as well. By 1:30am we managed to get out our officers who had worked the day shift so we had a maximum of about twenty officers on the ground. So that made us cover the entire area from Pescador to the Barrier Reef Drive”.

Perhaps the biggest story is the relief effort, though, with many organizations and individuals working together to secure and provide cloth-ing, food and shelter to the 88 persons affected. Running parallel with that effort is a massive cleanup operation taking place to clear the de-bris from the area and to restore some degree of normalcy to the area. Though it will be a long time before that area of Pescador Drive looks anything like normal.

NOTICENotice is hereby given that the below company has been dissolved and struck off the International Busi-ness Companies Register with effect from June 18th, 2016.

FRENCH MILL CORPORATE LTD.

ALEMAN, CORDERO, GALINDO & LEE TRUST (BE-LIZE) LIMITED

Registered Agent

Punta Gorda Town, June 29, 2016On Sunday a post-mortem examination was conducted on a

badly decomposed body which had washed up along the sea shore in Punta Gorda Town.

The Caucasian male person was identified as Orlando Rash, 27, a resident of San Felipe Village in the Toledo District. The examina-tion confirmed cause of death as blunt force traumatic injury to the face, and it is believed that the body had been immersed at sea for a week. While the body was found without hands, investigators believed that predators at sea were responsible.

Rash, a BDF Officer, had been reported missing by his wife on Friday, June 24th. She told Police that she last saw him earlier in the week at the Punta Gorda Town Central Park. The body was discovered by a resident of Punta Gorda who saw vultures flying low on the beachside and went to investigate. That is when she made the grisly discovery of the nude body and immediately called the Police.

Police say that they currently have no leads in the murder and are asking residents of town who may have seen Rash at the Cen-tral Park last week to visit the station with any information that may assist in determining who murdered the BDF soldier. The BDF has issued no official release on the death of Orlando Rash.

belize times july 3, 2016

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