national perspective august 2, 2009

Sunday, August 2, 200949th Edition Vol. 1 - Week 49

Stop the Hate, stop the

Persecution

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Oscar Ayuso Jr.

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Prominent Businessmancommits Suicide

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The global financial crisis coupled with the lack of an economic strategy on the part of this government, may have pushed this local businessman into a

stressful frustration which lead to ulti-mate suicide. Oscar Miguel Ayuso, man-aging director of G.A. Ayuso and Sons Ltd & Ayuso’s Travel Agency located on Daly Street in Belize City was found dead with a gun-shot wound last Friday evening at his home in the Bella Vista Community.

The fifty-one year old Ayuso had earlier returned home from his parent’s house where he had participated in a family reunion celebrating his mother’s birthday. After returning, it is said that Ayuso secluded himself to the Den, while his wife, Halima, carried on her chores in the preparation of supper. Just over an hour after around 7:30 pm that evening, his wife discovered the tragedy when she had gone to serve him his supper. She described that she found him dead, seat-

Shaun Oliva , Money Gram Inter -nat ional’s Bel ize Coordinator

ed in his chair with a single bullet wound which penetrated his left temple. She observed that his licensed .380 Beretta pistol loaded with 8 live rounds was near his side as well as one expended shell. During this time it has been confirmed that his two children, Oscar Jr. and Yas-min were in another section of the fam-ily home. Police say they responded to a call just around 7:30 pm last Friday evening, and as a result visited Ayuso’s home located at #81 Bella Vista Street where they observed his lifeless body in the den section of his home seated in his chair with a bullet wound to the left side of the head. After their initial investiga-tion, they announced that foul play was not suspected. It has been widely ru-moured that the two family businesses’

The more the National Perspective probes into the ongoing Money Gram saga in Belize, the more perplexing it appears. As new players emerge, the daunting question persists over what is the real story where the world famous money-transfer business is concerned with regards to Belize? Money Gram put its best foot forward when it re-launched its operations in Belize on Monday at the Royal Room of the Princess Hotel and Casino. The ceremony lasted about two hours according to a copy of the Banquet Order obtained by this newspaper. In at-tendance were members of the Toledo

Teachers Credit Union (TTCU), Direc-tor of FIU, Ms. Marilyn Williams, Re-gional Sales Manager for Money Gram International, Steve Higgins and other relevant guests.

National Perspective spoke with Mr. Higgins along with Money Gram’s new master agent in Belize, the TTCU, at the Princess Hotel shortly after their launch-ing ceremony. Ms. Shaun Oliva, star witness for the FIU’s investigation and alleged whistle blower in the demise of the Coye’s Money Gram operations mas-tered by Dean Fuller’s Omni Networks (now defunct as result of the allegations

and charges of money-laundering) was also in the gathering. Curious to us at the National Perspective is the link or relationship between Ms. Shaun Oliva, Dean Fuller’s Omni Networks, the Coy-es’ Money Gram operation and the FIU. Other evidence obtained by this news-paper outlines an intriguing trail left be-hind by Ms. Shaun Oliva.

A source told the National Perspec-tive that Ms. Oliva was preparing to open her own Money Gram operation, a rumor that she was peddling. Whether delusional on her part or not, our un-

Clue-less

PatrickAs Cabinet backed off this week in

embarrassment announcing that the Government of Belize will not be issu-ing land title for the sale of 9.3 acres of reserve within the ‘Krooman Lagoon claiming that they acted out of igno-rance. It makes us wonder how many other dealings they have done out of ignorance that we do not know about. People are asking where was the Area Representative for Collet, Hon. Patrick Faber during all this time when this transaction was occurring right un-der his nose. He has stated than no one consulted with him about the transac-tion nor did he give any recommenda-

THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Sunday, August 2, 2009

UDP vs. NTUCBWell the chickens are coming

home to roost. The unions in this jewel called Belize are becoming quick learner as they discover who the real Dean Barrow is and it is not the one that was standing beside them as they blocked the Belcan Bridge. Will the real Dean Barrow please stand up? The real person, who is now Prime Min-ister, stood up on Wednesday in the news broadcast, where he made it clear that he is “no Said Musa”. He is not a compassion-ate man, nor will he be a rollover. P.M. Barrow made it clear to the NTUCB “bring it on”.

Since 2005, the National Trade Union Congress has been pound-ing its chest claiming it was a government killer and a serious power broker. This was because union members such as Dillon Reneau, the two Perriots, George Frazier, etc. along with the G-7 were able to pressure the Said Musa government into calling Commission of Inquiry and Sen-ate Hearing against itself. Now the NTUCB seemed to be trapped in a time warp and forgot that a crazy man is now the Prime Min-ister. This is a man who wanted to pass the Preventative Detention law with the underlying design to jail PUPs on sight. Now Barrow is back with three new constitu-tional amendments designed to place his former wife in a much more lucrative positions. There seems to be no end to the “state sponsored alimony” paid for by Belizeans tax payers.

However, back to the NTUCB, who decided that they now want to be a member of the vetting com-mittee for the Venezuela grant made to the PUP government in 2007, but the UDP government is saying not so fast, NTUCB! Both the Prime Minister and the Min-ister of Housing (his first son’s uncle) did not hesitate to chastise the NTUCB. They made it clear that they will not tolerate any in-surgency of any sorts. The union sent out a feeble rebuttal by its General Secretary, a naïve, Javi-er Roberts, who is no match for these “hate filled” politicians.

Then there is Jacqueline Wil-loughby who really is a shy PUP

that wants to pick a fight with Barrow and the UDP but lacks the backative. She appears to have a cordial relationship with Mose Hyde, who allows her air time to attack Barrow and his draconian policies whenever she so desires. But Jacqueline Wil-loughby is a voice crying in the wilderness and she will soon be transferred and sent to Siberia or she will be criminally set up and be forced to sell her soul in com-promise.

Jacqueline Willoughby will soon find out that she is deal-ing with a demon government that will stop at nothing to main-tain their kingdom. In addition, the UDP has done a good job of brainwashing prominent union leaders such as George Frazier, Harris Patton, Elena Smith, etc. so at this rate, Willoughby will not be able to get any support from her colleagues.

The ministers of this govern-ment are so busy trying to feath-er their beds that they could not find it in them to give support to the former UDP Deputy Party Leader, Oscar Ayuso. They stood by and watched while one of their comrades sunk to the lowest level in business, and they all forsake him. Ayuso Travels is one of the largest travel agents and the UDP government rarely gave support by purchasing tickets from Ayu-so for all their public sponsored junkets.

The UDP has a long list of de-stroying all their financiers when they are in government. One prominent financier was How-ell Longsworth of HL’s Burger a millionaire in the late eight-ies and early nineties who went broke during the 1993-1998 UDP government. The UDP unleashed their hate machine on him and he eventually lost the majority of his assets including his King’s Park family home. Fortunately for Howell Longsworth, he found solace in the church and is now a prominent pastor at his church. Even today Longsworth is being harassed for alleged back pay-ments by this UDP government.

Also, voters should seek the true story behind the fall of UDP giant minister Derek Aikman,

who lost all his assets during the early nineties. We are certain that the research will put the current P.M. in the middle of the con-spiracy to declare Mr. Aikman a bankrupt. As a result of being declared bankrupt, Aikman had to resign his parliamentary seat in 1992.

So, the unions are now facing extinction under this UDP re-gime. Each of the ten union lead-ers that make up the NTUCB is on the public enemy list. Soon, police and political operatives will be following them around, watching their houses and wait-ing for them to do something ab-normal.

At this publication, we pledge our support for the unions. When combined with the G-7, they were powerful. Well, the UDP has their G-4 (Marin, Contre-ras, Finnegan, and Zaldivar) who may well give the unions the fod-der they need in the same fashion as the PUP G-7. The UDP G-4 is disgruntled ministers who are fast finding out that Barrow is a hypocrite.

The union plus the UDP G-4 seem to be the only hope for bet-terment from the oppressive UDP leadership. If there was a formi-dable opposition, then the unions would not be required to take a front role. The unions would be added support to the large num-ber of people disgusted with this government. This is allowed to happen because the PUP is pres-ently designed to oppress PUPs.

The only conclusion that can be derived from lack of actions by the Leader of the Opposition

on this explosive issue is that there is a formal agreement with Barrow and Briceño. Briceño, it is believed, agreed to allow the UDP two terms or ten years in government. One glaring confir-mation that some arrangement is afoot is the agreement by John Briceño to allow Dennis Barrow to be a judge of the Appeal Court. This would make two UDP’s on the Appeal Court bench.

This is the most ridiculous de-cision made by a leader in mod-ern times. He is giving the gov-ernment “stick to lick” PUPs. Based on these types of actions, many are convinced that Briceño is a true “dodo bird”. Reports from the Central Party Council on Saturday were that Briceño could not answer why he agreed to Dennis Barrow’s appointment; however, he chastised the crowd and stated that it was his decision. As usual Briceño’s responses are pathetic and clueless. Many at the CPC felt that he was set up by his best friend and Campaign Manager, who is a family friend of the Prime Minister and first lady.

We wish the NTUCB all the best in their short future, be-cause this is the last time they will ever be recognized by this government. We advise John Briceño to start forge alliances with the NTUCB. This publica-tion also declares solidarity with the unions and stands ready to act as their voice. The unions are integral for democracy to exist in Belize, as it nears dictator-ship. OPEN YOUR EYES THE PEOPLE ARE AWAKE!!!

Sunday, August 2, 2009 THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

It was with a little bit more ex-citement that I started compiling this week’s article. Last Wednes-day when I wrote my article it was the afternoon before the first 7th Constitutional Amendment Con-sultation. In that article, it was mentioned that at the P.U.P Cen-tral Party Council there were 3 resolutions passed by the second highest authority of the party. One of those resolutions had to do with the Party’s position on the said 7th Constitutional Amendment; I also stated last week that it was a good week for the P.U.P. Little did I know that at the Consulta-tion that same Wednesday night, the arguments presented by the P.U.P legal team which consisted of the Party’s legal advisor, An-thony Sylvester Jr., Attorney Lisa Shoman and the Hon. Francis Fon-seca, the Party’s representative on the House committee, would have been so brilliant and captivating that it was largely supported by the audience and accentuated the week that the P.U.P was having.

On Friday, at the meeting of the House of Representatives, for the first time since the 2008 Gen-eral Election defeat, the P.U.P ap-peared to have had some muscles in the Chambers of the National Assembly.

It seemed that for the former Prime Minister and former P.U.P leader and area rep. for Fort George, Said Musa, he, may have reemerged with some vigor. Ap-parently for Said not having to bear the burden of carrying the weight of the Party on his back, coupled by the fact that he has been vindicat-ed from what he had referred to as “trumped up charges and political persecution” had returned to the House prepared to set the Govern-ment straight. Said’s presentation was precise, direct and most of all assertive. This kind of presenta-tion forced the Prime Minister to have to admit to the speaker of the House that Said Musa appeared to be “the true leader of the P.U.P.”

This, in no way, is mentioned in this essay, to undermine or intimi-date Johnny Briceno’s leadership. Johnny is the duly elected leader of the People’s United Party, but I contend that he should take that example from Said, and be as-sertive in every way shape and form. Let there be no doubt, Party

Leader, that you are the man! If it means you have to reprimand or chastise some of your Executive members in order to command re-spect, do that. Then there will be no need for me to have to write these tones of articles to light fire under YOUR Party. It is extreme-ly pleasing that by Tuesday of this week, pressures induced in part by the P.U.P and citizens of Collet forced the Government to rescind issuing the Krooman a.k.a Ante-lope Extension Lagoon to Jack Extra House. The P.U.P can con-sider that a political victory.

I believe in victory and I play strictly to win, therefore all I want is to see my party, the P.U.P, or their Party depending on how you look at it, put itself in an excellent position to be able to win elec-tions. I am a loyal P.U.P, and have done more for P.U.P than many others. But, the interest and well-being of the Belizean people is far greater, to me, than what the Party does internally- hence the reason why it is so important to me that this Party, the P.U.P, sets out its purpose, plan and agenda for this country so that when it becomes the Government again, it has clearly defined agendas and pur-poses that it needs to accomplish. I don’t know how many people

realize it, but the P.U.P’s philoso-phy, is merely an adaptation, to an extent, of part one of the Belizean Constitution built fundamentally on “social justice for all.”

It bothers me, because in close P.U.P circles people are starting to become too confident that we will win the next election. I am sorry that I have to be the bearer of bad news, while we may have over 50% chance if Municipal Elections are called today, however, if National Elections are called, let’s be real, we are not going to win! At least not right now, I’m sorry but that is the hard truth.

The months of July and August are the months of the year where electors can transfer from one con-stituency to another. On the south side of Belize City, I will not com-ment on Lake I and Alberts, be-cause Cordel and Mark have their organizations and they know what to do; but I am absolutely certain in the other 4 constituencies on the south side of Belize City, the P.U.P does not have the level of energy. This has to be a major con-cern, considering that we are only months away from village council elections. In a nutshell, the P.U.P has a moral and legal obligation to this nation to be as responsible an Opposition as they can. In a situa-tion where there is great disparity in Parliament it is imperative on us to get the media on our side as well as the unions. I was disap-pointed earlier this week to hear on the P.U.P radio station, our people criticizing the unions. Man that is

treason that we are criticizing the union at a time when the union is disagreeing with the Government, how can we be so wrong?

Anyway the Belize Times have significantly improved in its qual-ity and content; and the people at the Belize Times must be congrat-ulated! I still have some reserva-tions though, about Vibes Radio, while I am sure that my collogue Glen has the interest of the P.U.P at heart, he is very knowledgeable of the issues and is very intellectual, I don’t think Glen’s Morning Show on Vibes Radio is motivating and attracting the base of P.U.P sup-porters at the pace in which I ex-pect we should be attracting them. The Morning Show on Vibes is the only political show on that Ra-dio Station. While I can express my opinion about the show, it is also my belief that of all the peo-ple at Vibes Radio, Glen has the most political experience, so why are we underutilizing Glen? Why not then, make Glen the manager of the station? Earlier, I said that I play strictly to win, and if it takes those types of moves for us to be in a better position to win elections, then folks, let’s do what has to be done. By the way, I will continue to express my views, candidly, ob-jectively and if I have to be critical at times, I will have to do that for as long as I have the opportunity to express myself, it will continue to be my “impartial view.”

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MONEYGRAM RELAUNCHEDderstanding is that she did apply for a master agent’s license, but for whatever reason, her application was turned down by the Central Bank. Representatives for the TTCU told the National Perspective that they met with Mr. Emory Ford of the Central Bank at the Fort George Hotel. Their meeting or meetings resulted in the TTCU acquiring the master agent’s license which was refused to Ms. Oliva. From what we were told by executives of the TTCU, Oliva will answer directly to Money Gram International and will not have anything to do with their system. The TTCU will prepare reports for sub-mission to the Central Bank.

The new agents for Money Gram, even though they put their best foot forward, have not exactly divorced themselves from the miasma of alleged money-laundering via Money Gram in Belize. Monday’s re-launch has only re-surfaced the questions that swirl around the entire operation with the so-called money-laundering investigation. In an interview with Channel 5, Caribbean Sales Manager Higgins said that Money Gram International worked closely with the FIU and the Central Bank before re-entry into Belize. According to Higgins, it was Money Gram that shut down op-erations in Belize because of the ongo-ing investigations that he reiterated and emphasized to Channel 7’s Keith Swift on Tuesday.

Miss Oliva, who seems to be moving

under the radar, has re-emerged with the recycled Money Gram as the Coordina-tor here in Belize. The National Perspec-tive obtained a copy of Oliva’s resume, in which she claims to have extensive experience in the internet transaction business. She worked at Fulton Datapro from 2001 to 2006 when she was termi-nated. Fulton Datapro’s operations were also halted by the FIU as a result of ille-gal activities with a gambling site called Carib Sports book. The name ‘Sports book’ resurfaced again earlier this year when the FIU moved on the Coye’s op-eration. According to the FIU, the ‘driv-ers’ license data base’ was being used to transact payments for gambling via this Sports book site. The City Council has denied any involvement or responsibility for the database being used in the ille-gal transactions. But we note that former Councilor Calvert Quilter also worked with Ms. Oliva at Omni and were the two that Omni’s Director, Dean Fuller sought employment for with the Coye’s Money Gram operation.

Why Ms. Oliva has been able to flex the way she has so far, is a mystery to us. She also claimed to have worked as a receptionist and clerk for the Belize Chamber of Commerce’s Western Union from 1995 to 1998. While we do not want to cast any aspersions here, it is a wonder why there has been no mention of what we feel is a key figure in the en-tire Money Gram money-laundering fi-asco in Belize.

Another piece of information is that Oliva did not really apply for her job at the Coye’s operation, rather it was Dean Fuller who advised Ms. Coye to hire her because he was restructuring and Oliva along with Calvert Quilter were going to be let go, not for poor performance, but because they would be redundant in the new structure. Oliva commenced work-ing with the Coye’s in August of last year. Earlier this year, it was discovered that the ‘drivers’ license database’ was being used to process proceeds from al-leged internet gambling.

Channel seven reported on June 8th, 2009, “Online gambling isn’t legal in the United States so through the Inst-adollar service, these gamblers would be instructed to send the money to Be-lize using Money gram. And this is the important part – to do so – they have to have a name to send it to – so that’s where the ‘driver’s license database’ came in. Those names – from the Prime Minister to the Governor of the Central Bank were used by Instadollar and then sent to Belize.”

That’s where a clerk working for the Coye’s Money Exchange International would then fill in the particulars such as the address and the license number and then sign a false signature. The volume of transactions was incredible; on some days, it would exceed $110,000.00 using dozens of names of unsuspecting Belize City residents daily.

Ironically, Ms. Oliva was employed

at Fulton Datapro when it was investi-gated by the FIU in 2004. Back then, the company was represented by Dean Bar-row. When the FIU froze the accounts of ‘Carib sport’, which was operating out of Fulton Datapro, Barrow successfully fought to get the funds released. Today, it is a different story for the Coye fam-ily who are trying to recover their as-sets and pick up whatever pieces of their lives. Both their cases and Dean Fuller’s will go to court on September 24th of this year.

We have also learnt from Ms. Oliva’s intriguing file that she was held up by authorities at the International Airport earlier this year when she attempted to enter the country with a large sum of US dollars. Oliva boasted to our source that ‘deh light’ when the authorities were un-able to find the cash on her. Ironically, Ms. Oliva was employed at Fulton Dat-apro when it was investigated by the FIU in 2004. Back then, the company was represented by Dean Barrow. When the FIU froze the accounts of Caribsport and the employees took to the streets in dem-onstrations, Barrow successfully fought to get the funds released. Today it is a different story for the Coye family who are trying to recover their assets and pick up whatever pieces of their lives. Unlike what was required of the Coyes, Dean Fuller has not been subjected to the same rigors of the conditions. Both the Coye case and Dean Fuller’s will go to court on September 24th of this year.


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To THE EDIToRThou hast RECEIVETH but what hast thou GIVETH?Contributed by Anonymous 1

National Campaign Manager, arguably, it’s one of the most critical roles that ex-ist within the executive structure of any political party. Traditionally, the role of National Campaign Manager has been tied to “campaign financing”. Looking at it from a practical sense, in Belize, the National Campaign Manager of any political party is tasked with generating resources that would then be shared “eq-

uitably” among the thirty-one (31) con-stituencies across Belize. Thus, it would stand to reason that the person who as-sumes such a key role would be adept at resource generation. After all, for all intents and purposes, the National Cam-paign Manager is the Party’s “chief mar-keter”. And on the matter of elections, it’s a no brainer that you’re not going to win elections without “mula”. Following his narrow victory at the March 30, 2008 PUP Leadership Con-

vention, it came as no surprise to anyone when Johnny Briceno picked his close friend and confidant, Eamon Courtenay to be the PUP’s National Campaign Man-ager. By the same token, it should come as no surprise that under Courtenay, the PUP Treasury is “broke”. And for those who may wish to challenge this FACT, you ought to check with the Party’s Trea-surer. In order to understand how this has all come about, one needs to first understand the man behind the role. Throughout his political career, Eamon Courtenay, as many would agree, has gotten a “free ride” on the back of the PUP. Let us not forget that it was the former Prime Min-ister, Rt. Hon. Said Musa, who, in his first term (1998 – 2003) appointed Cour-tenay as Senator responsible for Govern-ment Business in the Senate. Not long after, the then Prime Minister utilized the provisions afforded him under the Laws of the Senate to appoint Courtenay as At-torney-General of Belize and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. The latter portfolio, no doubt, was right up Courtenay’s alley given his reputation as a “frequent flyer”. Much like the current Attorney-General, however, the Office of the government’s “Chief Attorney” didn’t “beguile” Courtenay albeit he is an Attorney-at-Law and a Senior Coun-sel at that. This assertion is evidenced by the abysmal record he left behind as Attorney-General. No more evident was his “free ride”, though, when one considers that unlike his fellow Cabinet colleagues and Area Representatives at the time, Courtenay did not have to face the “wrath” of the electorate at the infamous “Wednesday Clinic”. On the contrary, while the PUP Area Representatives were confronting

long queues of people whose attitudes were often diverse, Courtenay was busy racking up mileage in the skies and add-ing to his fine line of clothing. As PUP National Campaign Manager, what does Courtenay have to show for the 14 months he has held this role? Is it any wonder why the PUP performed so miserably in the March 4, 2009 Mu-nicipal Elections? Word is that on the said day, the PUP National Campaign Manager was “invisible”. Let the UDP say what they want because it is com-mon knowledge that the UDP’s March 4, 2009 Campaign outspent the PUP’s by 3 to 1. Courtenay and the other numb-skulls on the National Executive can say what they want about the former National Campaign Manager but what they will never say is that HE delivered the “cheese” every time. To hear about the PUP Treasury being “broke” under the former National Campaign Manager would be tantamount to hearing about WALL STREET being “penniless” – IM-POSSIBLE!! It is clear for everyone to see that Ea-mon Courtenay’s time and interest are taken up in the courts litigating and no one could be mad at him for that. After all, the practice of law is his mainstay. The role of National Campaign Manager, however, is a role way too critical to be overlooked or, as in the case of Courte-nay, be completely ignored. If he has the PUP’s best interest at heart as he has long sermonized, then, Courtenay should va-cate the post of National Campaign Man-ager and give way to someone who can effectively and efficiently perform this crucial role. Why bear the title if you’re not prepared and willing to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty?

Contributed by:Mark Thompson II

I watched with great interest a TV show on the zinc fence’s station, spon-sored by Scotia Bank and featuring well known PUP affiliate and self-proclaimed economist Bill Lindo. It might not be fair to say that Lindo is self-proclaimed because, quite regularly, he is referred to by ‘The Publisher’ of the zinc fence’s newspaper as an ‘Economic Genius’. It is not surprising then that Scotia Bank chose to use The Publisher’s station and Lindo’s ‘stomping ground’ (KREM TV) for their weekly show.

My point in all this is to express my utter disappointment in Scotia Bank’s decision in selecting Mr. Lindo as their ‘poster child’ when it comes to dealing with financial issues/advice. I believe they failed to conduct appropriate due diligence in regards to Bill.

As far as I am concerned, for one to offer public financial advice, one has to earn that right. In other words, one needs to have an established track record based on one’s personal success in the financial and/or business sector. Bill Lindo, as far as I know, is a failed businessman. The

many projects/businesses he engaged in over the years ended up either failing, in-complete, politically/financially contro-versial or a combination of all the above. In addition to that, many (if not all) of the business opportunities he has gotten, is as a result of political affiliation and cronyism as opposed to ‘fair play’.

The sad thing in Belize is that many a times, one is able to talk his/her way up the ‘ladder of success’. If you are able to talk the talk, then you can sell a lot of dreams and fool people into thinking that you are some sort of intellect, ge-nius, administrator, business person or politician. I think this is typical of Bill Lindo and others such as Godwin Hulse, Nuri Muhammad, Bert Tucker, Patrick Rogers, and many more. All the above mentioned brothers have absolutely nothing to show for all the talk they have been doing over the years. Like Lindo though, all these people have benefitted from lucrative positions and opportuni-ties in various sectors because they are skilled in one thing - TALKING! I dare anyone to show me what successes God-win Hulse has to show as a business man

by G. Michael Reid


Do you remember a time when anyone could scold our child on the street and we, instead of being angry, would be pleased to know that we lived in a society where people cared for our children like we our-selves did? Today, that is gone. If you, an adult happened to correct a child in the street, you just might get yourself cussed out by the child and later by the parent “for not minding your own business”. What is causing this and other cases of moral decay in our community? What has happened to the common brotherly rela-tionship that we once had for each other? Can we survive as such a small nation with the magnitude of disunity that is becom-ing so commonplace in our community today? Where has this plague come from? Were not those officials who are charged with the responsibility of watching out for the physical, moral and spiritual welfare of the people aware of the spread of this epi-demic? Could they not have sounded the alarm of the severity of the situation and begin immediately to reverse the condition to its former state? The fact is that we have been invaded by the gluttonous, materialist mentality of the western world, in particular America. Through every possible medium that our senses are in contact with, we are daily be-ing molded into a people with numerous suicidal tendencies. Tendencies that, ‘befo time, dat da no like we atal. There are several major occurrences in our modern history that have acted to breakdown our resistance to this diseased mentality, but a particular case in point is the return of some of our native sons from Panama City in the 1940’s. During this period Belize City experienced a dramatic turning point from the old way to a new city. With this experience came the jackpot lottery and later the Boledo, precursors for Lotto and the casinos of today; modern day ‘wishing wells’ that drains the economy of our poor people. Also during this period the Belizean man began to adopt a strange personality type – the fullness of which is seen in our young dancehall-minded youths today. The famous Zute suit and the anchor chain; the rough and disrespectful handling of our women; all became signs of the “hip” new Belizean man. “Waa happin Saa” be-came the ‘in’ slang and the U.S.A. became everybody’s Promised Land. Today the television, radio, internet, magazines and the cultural injection that comes from those returning from abroad, are all a part of the scheme that continue to shape our present mentality. These medi-ums have induced our youth with cultural values that have them aspiring for depraved and unrealistic societal relationships. Tele-vision especially, has been a powerful molder of materialistic values over the last twenty eight years of our independence. The family structure is becoming weak-er and weaker everyday. The common respect for authority that we once boasted of has now become extinct. The patience to wait like a former for the harvest of our labor is being replaced by a “Jan Crow” at-titude of “get it how you could get it” and it is obvious that our ideals of honesty and trustworthiness have been replaced by a gutter-snipping mentality. There is no doubt that Belize has be-come a consumer society where we import unnecessary trinkets striving to live above our means. Our concept of modern is based on the glittering image of America’s pop culture. As a consequence, we are becom-ing a copy-cat culture, especially in terms of our material desires, which only strains

us financially, and leave us empty and ever wanting. Or as one man put it: we barrow what we can’t afford, to buy what we don’t need, to impress the ones we don’t like. There are those who would argue po-litically that all our problems of destitution in Belize is a result of the inability of one group of politicians to handle the rein of power over the affairs of the people and that, if given the chance, the other group will set things in order. But can the moral breakdown in Belize be blamed on the politicians alone when they themselves are entrapped by the same sickness? Surely they wouldn’t poison themselves after poi-soning us! The fact is that this virus mentality is reaching epidemic proportions in spite of whatever platform any of the political par-ties may have assumed. This mentality is fed into our minds more consistently, day in and day out, than any rhetoric from any of the political personalities. As a result, our everyday moral life is a reflection of those images that are fed into our being on a consistent basis. So whatever temporary fervor of political consciousness we may express is only a drop of water in the ocean of our total being. Unless we feed the moral being in our people we will never realize the strong Belize that we all dream of so dearly. The moral well being of the society is the re-sponsibility of the religious leadership. More than any body of knowledge in the society it is the religious knowledge that should protect the society from wallow-ing in its own vomit. Like the mother who tends for the young, the religious leader-ship should stand as a watch-boy over cul-tural developments in the society, to insure that a standard of dignity and uprightness is maintained in the life of the people. But even in this vital area we see the worldly, materialist mind working to fan the fire of division and denominational distrust among the religious bodies render-ing them weak as a force for social change. Jehovah’s Witness won’t worship with Catholic; Seventh Day Adventist won’t partake in activities involving certain de-nominations and numerous other examples of the like. As a result the institution, which influences the lives of the people the most, is also the most silent on the social decay of the society, voicing their dissatisfac-tion only within the walls of their place of worship where it reaches only a few of the depleting Church membership. I must commend Pastor Richard Smith from My Refuge Radio in Roaring Creek, who has been leading a very fervent campaign to take “the word” to the streets and address the critical social and economic problems caused by moral decay. Religious people, who believe in One God, can be likened to members of one family under one roof. Though we wor-ship in different rooms of that one house the fact remains that we are in one house. Our problem is that we have been so tied to ancient religious prejudices and crusader type sentiments, that though the house is on fire we, find it difficult to unite to save it. Jesus the Christ, (peace be upon him), said that a house divided against itself can-not stand. Now, more than ever, is the time for religious heads to meet, discuss and plan ways of arresting this virus mentality. This plague of artificial humanism knows no color line, no political line, no religious line, it is catching to all those who have not been immunized by the strength of moral guid-ance. (Comments welcomed: [email protected])

Reid Between the lines By Nuri Muhammad

DIS YA TIME DA NO LIKA BEFO TIME!

Fixing What ain’t Broke

Consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confi-dence in the process.

~ John Anderson

The government has embarked upon what is being described as a series of “public consultations”. On the table are a number of proposed amendments to the Belize Constitution, namely:

• Adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the final court of ap-peal,

• Allow the Attorney General (AG) to be hired from outside of the arms of government

• Allow dual citizens the right to run for office.

Last week I shared my views on the proposal to allow dual citizens the right to run for office (or remain in of-fice whatever the case may be). This week, I beg your indulgence in looking at the other two proposals. The first warrants but a fleeting glance since few people are opposed to replacing the Privy Council with the CCJ. Most believe that it is in fact, way past time that we move to a more regional and relative system and were it not for the opposing of the very ones now propos-ing, we would already be taking our final appeals to the Caribbean. Many will remember that the past government had tabled this very bill but it was shot down by the now government who was then in opposition. They gave no logi-cal reason for opposing except that they were in opposition and that is what they believed that oppositions should do, op-pose! As an adjunct, it is interesting to note that while the CCJ was initially being packaged as part and parcel to a bigger Caricom initiative, this seems to be the only aspect of that initiative that is making any headway. Caricom on a whole, if not dead in water is then cer-tainly struggling to just stay afloat. Be-lize’s stint at chairmanship has left no laudable legacy. Matter of fact, barring some miraculous revivification, his-tory might well record Belize’s tenure at the helm as the period that signaled Caricom’s demise. That topic however, must wait for another day.

Back to our proposals, the second of which was not expected to draw much attention and objection. The govern-ment wants to be able to choose anyone to be the attorney general. As it stands, the AG must be appointed from either the House of Representatives or from the Senate. Fact of the matter is that rarely, if ever, is the AG chosen from the sitting members of the House or the Senate. What usually happens is that a successful candidate is selected and then appointed as a Senator after which he or she is then made Attorney General. The Prime Minister’s rationale is that candi-dates might not want to involve them-selves in the “hurley-burley” of politics.

In other words, he or she does not want to have to answer to parliament. This is unacceptable. The other argument that they simply want to widen the available pool, is hogwash. As it stands, they already have the option of selecting anyone and just making them a Sena-tor. The process takes all of one day! Again, we might need to be going in the opposite direction on this one. Remove the requirement that the AG be a law-yer. After all, the Minister of Finance is no accountant, nor is the Minister of Works an engineer. The AG is the head of a department and could just as easily choose qualified technocrats to advise him and engage in the ‘hurley-burley” of law. The DPP now, must be a lawyer and is already chosen from outside the House. The DPP should not be politi-cal but with ministerial rank, regardless of where they come from, the AG will always be xed up in the “hurley-burley” of politics. And by the way, I wonder how Sedi Elrington feels about all of this?

On Thursday last, I made it a point to attend the first of the so-called “pub-lic consultations.” The discussions were quite lively and fervent and if the government expected to be met with acquiesce and applause, they were in for a surprise. Except for a couple of “forced-ripe” Americans, the majority in attendance were quite vociferous in their objections. The coup de maitre was delivered by Tom Greenwood who suggested that instead of fixing what ain’t broke, we should concentrate on fixing what is. Mr. Greenwood’s as-tutely observed that Sub Umbra Florea seems to have been changed to nolle prosequi. Certainly, as far as Latin phrases are concerned, the latter gets far more mileage in our daily vocabu-lary than the former. Listen to the news on any given day and the term is sure to present itself. Murder suspects walk down the stairs of the courthouse daily, free and laughing in the face of victim’s families and at the Police Officers who risk their lives to apprehend them. The prosecution cries that witness do not want to testify but who can forget the dramatic and emotional scene of a wit-ness being wielded into the courtroom on a stretcher. “Yes your honor, I know the man.” “Yes your honor that is the man.” And the jury comes back unable to convict. Three suspects are appre-hended in a murder. One is let go in exchange for his testimony against the other two but on the day of the trial, he changes his story and all three are set free. Three persons are shot in a house. Two are dead and one escapes by playing dead. That one gives a writ-ten testimony and also reveals the mur-derer to others who also testify. Yet the accused cannot be convicted. Thank you Mr. Greenwood, you are right on the money. What are we doing spend-ing time and money fixing things that aren’t broke when there is so much that is in disrepair. The judiciary is not only broke, it is a joke. We already have an Attorney General, what we don’t have is a judiciary that offers redress to the serious crimes that plague our commu-nities. Instead of rearranging the chairs on the deck of the titanic, our leaders need to be trying to right the ship. If they don’t, there will be hell to pay.

Clueless Patrick

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tion as required. The worst part of this entire scandal is that for two weeks, no one in cabinet stood up like honourable men to admit that the sweet heart deal for Jack Charles was approved by so and so. Every one hid behind ignorance, but then again, it could well be that indeed the ‘Cabinet dodo birds’ knew nothing about the secret deal struck. The Minis-ter of Natural Resources Gapi Vega has said on several occasions that no lease or title is given without his knowledge; so he must take the responsibility and stand up to the consequence. Perhaps then, he must have been the only one that knew about the intricacies of the secret sale of the reserve for a miserable token fee of BZ$66, 684.00 who allowed the com-mencement of construction development in violation of regulations, and without the proper plans. Even after some 4000 truck loads of filling were transported and unloaded on the site and pile driv-ing equipment pounded several piles into the ground, Cabinet held out for two weeks in silent, hoping the story would erase from the media radar screen, but it didn’t. Even Prime Minister Barrow tried the ignorance ‘whap’ and when it did not ‘gel’ he tried to trash the story last Thursday with the ridiculous cover of the ‘Minister’s Reserve Act’ that he created. But the Leader of the Opposi-tion and former Minister of Natural Re-sources, Johnny Briceño quickly made him appear to look like a complete idiot. Briceño categorically stated: “There is no such thing as a Minister’s Reserve. There are two acts under which you can call a reserve, apart from the ma-rine. We’re talking about the National Lands Act, Forest Lands Act, and Na-tional Parks Systems Act. Under those three acts you can declare a reserve and there’s a process that you have to follow. Krooman Lagoon, that was declared a land reserve under the National Lands Act and for that to happen, you had to make it public, you had to survey it and publicize it. To this day, this government has not publicized the de-reservation of that area. Before any land can be given out in that area, you need to de-reserve it.”

The Area Representative for Col-let, Patrick Faber also came out swing-ing with the ignorance, but it seems that Faber shot himself in the leg and he appears to know so little about what is happening in the Collet area. He is still denying he knew any thing about the is-suance of the reserve land. As soon as he was informed by Channel five dur-ing the news cast, he said that he took the issue up with the Minister of Natural Resources and the Prime Minister. In-stead of getting a straight answer there and then by the PM and DPM, Faber was told to take up the matter to the Cabi-net the following Tuesday. The neophyte Cabinet Minister said that he did just that at the next Cabinet meeting seeking clarification, but instead there were still some issues that could not be resolved. Faber admitted that the process for the sale of this land happened very quickly

and within the scope of thirteen days, it was surveyed, sold and filling develop-ment phase started. Faber noted that the expediency in which the deal was pro-cessed is a matter that raises eyebrows and concluded that for such a huge tract of land Jack Charles paid a token price.

But he sounded like a complete idiot saying all this after the whole transac-tion breezed under his nose unknow-ing to him and he was supposed to be the one looking out on your behalf and looking out for your wellbeing, but he wasn’t. He promised to be there for you and he doesn’t even know what his Cabi-net colleagues were doing in Collet. An apt representative knows everything about everything that is about to occur in his area. He promotes, recommends or stops any project that is not in the inter-est of the people. The people in Collet have seen the true incompetence of its representative. So much for the so-called transparency and accountability from the UDP. So much for the UDP

The Krooman Lagoon; it made the news since July fifteenth because it is a reserve that provides drainage for the old capital and it had been parceled off, leased and paid for by a well-connected businessman. Well today, the news com-ing out of Cabinet is that government has backed off from the sale and the nine point three acres of the reserve to Jiten-dra Chawla. When a News Five team ob-served trucks carrying fill into an area about a mile on the Western Highway, they went to investigate and found men cutting down trees in the mangrove and spreading clay. As the cameraman took footage, the site supervisor threatened to shoot the crew. Why was it so important that the development was not disclosed? Well, it’s because the development was in a reserve and a catchment basin for water on the south side of the city. And since News Five broke the story, the city council, the Association of Protected Ar-eas Management Organization and resi-dents of Collet have discussed the rele-vance of keeping the area untouched. At last Friday’s House Meeting, the lagoon was the subject of heated exchanges be-tween current and former ministers of natural resources. And as we said at the top of the story, Chawla, the man who paid for and has started a potato chip factory, will not get titles for the land. The sale of the land occurred with in-decent haste without the consultation of the area representative for Collet, Patrick Faber who appears to have won over the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources, Gaspar Vega. Today Faber has the last word on Krooman La-goon and he says the lagoon is back in the hands of his constituents.

Patrick Faber, Minister/ Area rep. For Collet

“Indeed the Krooman Lagoon plays an integral part in the whole catchment and drainage of the area. We looked at a study presented by the Ministry of Works, the Halcrow Study, that was done several years ago as a part of the South

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Some have called it a return to colo-nial rule, others are hailing it as an over-due move by London.

As the United Kingdom prepares to take back government of its overseas territory, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the UK finds itself defending a decision which followed an in-depth corruption probe.

The opposition leader of the Turks and Caicos Floyd Seymour has hailed the recent Commission of Inquiry into allegations of corruption.

“One of the things that this whole process has taught us is that the laws in the Turks and Caicos Islands work, and that no one is above the law,” Mr Sey-mour told BBC Caribbean.

The UK is on the brink of suspending the TCI’s constitution, after the probe found clear signs of corruption in the government.

The report of the Commission was published online at the weekend, how-ever sections were blacked out for legal reasons, as court challenges got under-way in both Grand Turk and London.

What the document saysNow a version of the document is

public, the 266-paged report outlines the extent of what it called “this moral, gov-ernmental and financial decline”.

According to the document, the cor-ruption appears to have consisted of “bribery of Ministers and/or public of-ficers by overseas developers and other investors, so as to secure Crown Land on favourable terms”.

The Commission also discovered “se-rious deterioration - from an already low level - in the territory’s systems of gov-ernance and public financial manage-ment and control”.

The contributing factors to this de-cline include “the potential and encour-agement in the system of governance for abuse of public office, concealment of conflict interest at all levels of public life”.

Another factor was the lack of ef-fective constitutional checks and bal-ances “to protect the public purse, the inefficient from scrutiny, the dishonest from discovery and the vulnerable from abuse”.

Head of the Commission, Sir Robin Auld, has recommended criminal action against former premier Michael Misick and other politicians who are accused of enriching themselves. Mr Misick and others have refuted the charges.

Direct ruleSir Robin has also recommended the

restoration of direct rule in the TCI for two years, during which time the terri-tory will be under the direct rule of Gov-


Mr Job says the Hugo Chavez dollars are attracting fragile oECS economies

Morgan Job blasts ALBA

A former Trinidadian government minister has said he doesn’t support Caricom member states joining the Ven-ezuelan-led Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA.

Mr Job says the Hugo Chavez dollars

are attracting fragile OECS economiesMorgan Job who served in a Basdeo

Panday administration, is also not keen on the proposed Trinidad and Tobago/OECS Unity initiative.

Antigua’s opposition leader Lester Bird has come out in support of the pro-posal between Port of Spain and some of its neighbours, because the former prime minister says he doesn’t want to see the sub-region subsumed into Venezuela.

Morgan Job says it is clear that Ven-ezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Trinidadian leader Patrick Manning are trying to steer the islands in different directions.

He has accused the three Caricom states who have joined ALBA: Domi-nica, St Vincent and Antigua, of doing so purely for financial reasons.

ernor Wetherell, the Queen’s representa-tive in the territory. He will be assisted by an advisory council.

Governor Wetherell told BBC that Britain will use the two-year period to put measures in place to ensure good governance.

“The fact that it has decided that these steps are necessary, underlines the seri-ousness of the situation.

“It would have been a dereliction of duty on the part of Her Majesty’s gov-ernment given this responsibility for the good governance of the islands, to do differently,” Mr Wetherell said.

The task facing the newly-empow-ered governor will include constitutional reform as well as a complete revamping of financial, political, and public service codes if the report recommendations and its associated appendices are anything to judge by.

Right to governFormer premier Misick, who stepped

down in March amid the corruption al-legations, has criticised the UK deci-sion, and has mounted a legal challenge against the restoration of direct rule.

“We have the right to govern our-selves, the right to hold free and fair elections.

“To take away people’s rights because of allegations should not happen in a modern democracy, even a colony,” he told the BBC.

“And that’s why we have decided to challenge it.”

The Turks and Caicos’ independent neighbours, the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) grouping has also denounced the UK decision as too drastic.

At the end of its annual summit in Guyana earlier this month, the regional grouping said that: “Suspending the Constitution of TCI and its democratic institutions and resorting to direct rule by the colonial power are not the most effective tools to bolster good gover-nance and effective administration in the territory.”

Not the first timeBut it’s not the first time such a scan-

dal has hit the Turks and Caicos Islands.In 1986, the then Chief Minister Nor-

man Saunders was arrested in Florida with a suitcase filled with money and cocaine.

However, in the internet-linked me-dia spotlight of 2009, very few of the in-vestigation’s secrets remained quiet for very long.

The report, mistakenly published without the sensitive areas and names blacked out, meant that the full report was doing the rounds globally even as it

was being pulled from the official site.Recommendations:Some of the recommendations com-

ing out of the report include:• The appointment of a special advis-

er to the Governor to oversee reform of the public service; three public financial management advisers; an economic ad-viser; a good governance adviser and a crown land adviser.

• The provision for a special criminal process and civil recovery of assets aris-ing out of any criminal or other investi-gations.

• Promulgation of a Code of Conduct for Ministers of the Turks and Caicos Is-lands.

• Early implementation and amend-ment of the Integrity Commission Ordi-

nance enacted in May 2008.• Strengthening of the Attorney Gen-

eral’s chambers.• Preparations for increased judicial

workload that may result from criminal and/or civil recovery investigations un-dertaken pursuant to this report.

• The establishment of a Civil and Criminal Recovery Unit.

• Provision for criminal and civil trial by judge alone, at the trial judge’s direc-tion in any case in which he considers no fair or effective trial could take place with a jury.

• Disqualification from membership of the Legislature of those who have been convicted of serious criminal of-fences for longer periods than presently prescribed

A Jamaican official says five athletes on the island’s national track team have tested positive for banned substances.

Herb Elliot of Jamaica’s Anti-Doping Commission said the four men and one woman have been informed of the results and will have an opportunity to contest them at a hearing.

He did not name the athletes or the drugs involved.

The positive test results were first re-ported Friday by the Jamaican Observer, which said none of the nation’s premier sprinters are among the five athletes.

The samples were taken during last month’s national championships in

Kingston.Success in track and field is a source

of national pride in Jamaica, whose sprinters dominated the Beijing Olym-pics.

Discussions were ongoing on Friday over the possible lay off of a further 150 workers from LIME Barbados limited.

LIME, a rebranded Cable and Wire-less, says its telecoms business in the Caribbean has been affected by a further drop in tourist numbers.

The company said it was offsetting the decline through cost-cutting.

Management and the Barbados Work-ers’ Union are negotiating the staff cuts.

Country Manager Alex McDonald says the move is only part of an overall decision to streamline operations.

LIME workers getting the axe


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Rights group makes case for moving Gitmo trials

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The vast majority of recent terrorism prosecutions in the U.S. ended in conviction and pris-on sentences, ahuman rights group said Thursday in a study arguing that Ameri-can government doesn’t need its special war crimes court or indefinite detention to deal with the nearly 230 men held at Guantanamo.

U.S. federal prosecutors had a convic-tion rate of 91 percent in terrorism cases involving 214 defendants since the Sept. 11 attacks,Human Rights First found. Nearly 90 percent of the defendants in the study were sentenced to prison, with an average of nearly nine years.

By contrast, the Guantanamo Mili-tary Commissions, created by Congress and President George W. Bush in 2006 to prosecute prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba, have resulted in three convictions, including one by plea bargain, and will likely face more legal challenges if they are restarted under President Barack Obama.

“Politicians have spent eight years trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to prosecuting terrorism and that approach has failed miserably,” Human

Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba

Mexico police catch 11cartel suspects at meth lab

MEXICO CITY – Mexican police say they have captured 11 suspected mem-bers of the La Familia cartel and seized a methamphetamine lab in the western state of Michoacan.

The Public Safety Department says federal police detected the lab allegedly

operated by La Fa-milia after a strong chemical smell was reported in a rural area of the state. The department says the lab pro-duced about 220 pounds (100 kilo-grams) of crystal meth each week.

Lab opera-tors packaged the drugs, loaded them into pickup trucks

Elias Alvarez Hernandez, the coordi-nator of federal police in Baja California state, says the men were allegedly part of

an immigrant smuggling ring. Twenty-one immigrants were found with them when the men were detained near Tecate on Saturday.

Hernandez says the suspects are two brothers and two taxi driverswho alleg-edly worked for them. Police seized four guns during the detentions.

Hernandez told a news conference that one of the suspects told police another man detained Friday with a 9 mm pistol in his possession was the one who shot agent Rosas.

Rights First CEO Elisa Massimino said. “The best way forward is to rely on our existing legal system.”

The report by the Washington- and New York-based group comes as the Obama administration, which suspended the Military Commissions, wrestles with how to prosecute the men held at Guan-tanamo, weighing options that include a combination of civilian and traditional military courts as well as indefinite de-tention for prisoners they are unable to prosecute but are considered too danger-ous to release.

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said the government would con-sider the group’s findings as Obama administration task forces study the is-sues. The president has pledged to close Guantanamo by the end of January.

“Capturing a wide variety of views...will only help the task forces make more informed decisions and recommenda-tions,” Boyd said.

Some critics of the Obama admin-istration, including relatives of people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, have urged him to resume the war crimes prosecutions at Guantanamo.

HOLGUIN, Cuba – Raul Castro said Sunday that the global economic crisis means tougher times ahead for Cuba, but the country has no one to blame but itself for poor farm production that leads to fre-quent shortages of fruits, vegetables and other basics.

In a speech marking Revolution Day, Cuba’s president said the island can’t pin all its problems on Washington’s 47-year-old trade embargo. He implored Cubans to take better advantage of a government pro-gram begun last year to turn unused state land over to private farmers.

“The land is there, here are the Cubans,” he said, pounding the podium. “Let’s see if we get to work or not, if we produce or not, if we keep our word.”

The line did not get much of a response from a crowd not thrilled about working under the island’s scorching tropical sun, but the 78-year-old Castro called agricul-tural production Cuba’s top priority and a matter of national security.

“It is not a question of yelling ‘Father-land or death! Down with imperialism! The blockade hurts us,’” he said, referring to U.S. sanctions begun in 1962. “The land is there waiting for our efforts.”

Three years since the last time his 82-year-old brother Fidel was seen in public, the younger Castro showed signs he is getting more comfortable with national addresses, opening with a joke about how whoever designed the stage failed to provide any shade for the speaker or the crowd. He later harpooned his own Ag-ricultural Ministry, asking how previous Cuban generations managed to ever grow even a single mango tree if all state advis-ers do today is say there’s no money for reforestation.

Tens of thousands of supporters, most wearing red T-shirts or caps, filled a grassy plaza dotted with red and black “July 26” flags. Revolution Day, the top holiday for the communist government, commemo-rates the date in 1953 when the Castros led an attack on the Moncada army barracks in the eastern city of Santiago. The attack was a disaster, but Cubans consider it the beginning of the revolution that culminat-ed with dictator Fulgencio Batista’s ouster on New Year’s Day 1959.

Unlike in his last two holiday speech-es, Raul Castro did not address the crowd with a sculpture or banner of his brother’s face nearby.

4 suspects detained in Mexico in agent’s

killing

Patrol vehicles are seen from the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border

MEXICO CITY – Mexican federal police say they have detained four men suspected of involvement in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas.

and sent them to the United States.Police said they seized two rifles in the

Saturday raid. The suspects are being held on suspicion of drug offenses.

So far this year, police say they have seized 40 drug labs operated by the La Familia cartel.

Instead, an eight-story tall banner on a building behind the crowd featured a pic-ture of both Castros thrusting their arms skyward under the words “The Vigorous and Victorious Revolution Keeps March-ing Forward.”

Despite Cubans’ hopes for change af-ter Raul formally took over as president in February 2008, economic reforms that were supposed to ease life on the island have been slow to come. Meanwhile, Cu-ba’s economy has been hammered by the global economic crisis, and U.S. relations have not improved much underPresident Barack Obama.

Raul Castro “was working to improve things, but with all that’s happened with the economy in the world, the effect has been minimal,” said Silvia Hernandez, a retired commercial analyst for a state-run firm in Holguin, where Castro spoke.

Castro has asked Cubans to be patient as he implements “structural changes” to a struggling economy more than 90 percent controlled by the state. He also has said he’d be willing to meet with U.S. leaders over any issue — including the country’s political prisoners and human rights re-cord, though he did not mention that Sun-day.

Officials from Cuba and the U.S. dis-cussed immigration this month for the first time since 2003. The Obama administra-tion lifted restrictions on Cuban-Amer-icans who want to travel or send money to the island. But Washington has said it wants to see small political or economic reforms before going further.

“The other side doesn’t want to do any-thing,” said housewife Elena Fuentes, 73, referring to the Obama administration. “We’ve been like this for 50 years. That’s too long. They talk about ‘change,’ but the change we want is for things to get better with the United States.”

In recent months, the government has ordered lights and air conditioners turned off at banks, stores and other government institutions and closed state-run busi-nesses and factories early to conserve oil — even thoughVenezuela sends the island about 100,000 barrels of crude a day at fa-vorable prices.

Farming and land reform have bolstered production of vegetables somewhat, but government money problems have delayed imports of other food, causing shortages of basic staples such as cooking oil.

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swell and narrow. This makes it hard to breathe. Asthma is a lifelong problem, but it does not have to limit you. If you take charge of your asthma, you can lead a full and active life. There are two parts to taking charge of asthma: Controlling asthma over the long term. You and your doctor can make a daily treatment plan that helps reduce the swelling of your air-ways and prevent attacks. Using a daily treatment plan also helps you keep track of your asthma and know how well your treatment is working. Treating attacks when they occur. An asthma action plan can help you prevent and treat attacks. If you or your child has been recently diag-nosed, it may seem like there is a lot to remember. But the things you need to do to take charge of your asthma are really quite simple. With some practice, they will become part of your normal routine.

1. Asthma Symptoms People with asthma experience symp-

toms when the airways tighten, inflame, or fill with mucus. Common symptoms of asthma include: Coughing, especially at night, Wheezing, Shortness of breath, Chest tightness, pain, or pressure. Still, not every person with asthma has the same symptoms in the same way. You may not have all of these symptoms, or you may have different symptoms at dif-ferent times. Your asthma symptoms may also vary from one asthma attack to the next, being mild during one asthma at-tack and severe during another. Some

people with asthma may go for extended periods without having any symptoms, interrupted by periodic worsening of their symptoms called asthma attacks. Others might have asthma symptoms every day. In addition, some people with asthma may only have asthma during ex-ercise or asthma with viral infections like colds. Mild asthma attacks are generally more common. Usually, the airways open up within a few minutes to a few hours. Severe attacks are less common but last longer and require immediate medical help. It is important to recognize and treat even mild symptoms to help you prevent severe episodes and keep asthma under better control.

If you have early warning signs or symptoms, you should take more asthma medication as described in your asthma action plan.

2. Know the Asthma Symptoms in Children

Asthma affects as many as 10% to 12% of children in the United States and

is the leading cause of chronic illness in children. For unknown reasons, the in-cidence of asthma in children is steadily increasing. While asthma symptoms can begin at any age, most children have their first asthma symptoms by age 5. Asthma is characterized by inflammation of the bronchial tubes with increased production of sticky secretions inside the tubes. Not all children with asthma wheeze. Chronic coughing with asthma may be the only obvious sign, and a child’s asthma may go unrecognized if the cough is attributed to recurrent bronchitis.

3. Know the Symptoms of anAsthma AttackAn asthma attack is the episode in

which bands of muscle surrounding the airways are triggered to tighten. This tightening is called bronchospasm. Dur-ing the attack, the lining of the airways becomes swollen or inflamed and the cells lining the airways produce more and thicker mucus than normal.

All of these factors -- bronchospasm, inflammation, and mucus production -- cause symptoms such as difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, and difficulty performing nor-mal daily activities. Other symptoms of an asthma attack include: Severe wheez-ing when breathing both in and out

Coughing that won’t stop, Very rapid breathing, Chest pain or pressure, Tight-ened neck and chest, muscles, called re-tractions, Difficulty talking, Feelings of anxiety or panic, Pale, sweaty face, Blue lips or fingernails.

The severity of an asthma attack can escalate rapidly, so it’s important to treat these asthma symptoms immediately once you recognize them.

Without immediate treatment, such as your asthma inhaler or bronchodilator, your breathing will become more labored. If you use a peak flow meter at this time, the reading will probably be <50%.

As your lungs continue to tighten, you will be unable to use the peak flow meter at all. Gradually, your lungs will tighten so there is not enough air movement to produce wheezing. This is sometimes called the “silent chest,” and it is an omi-nous sign. You need to be transported to a hospital immediately. Unfortunately, some people interpret the disappearance of wheezing as a sign of improvement and fail to get prompt emergency care.

If you do not receive adequate asthma treatment, you will eventually be unable to speak and will develop a bluish color-ing around your lips. This color change, known as cyanosis, means you have less and less oxygen in your blood. With-out aggressive treatment for this asthma emergency, you will lose consciousness and eventually die.

If you are experiencing an asthma at-tack, follow the “Red Zone” or emergency instructions in your Asthma Action Plan immediately. These symptoms occur in life-threatening asthma attacks. You may need medical attention right away.

4. Know About Unusual Asthma Symptoms

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Continued from page 7Gilberto NoveloClueless Patrick

Two Dead, one Murdered, the other Suicide?Police Authorities in San Ignacio

have arrested nineteen years old, Fred-dy Fernandez, of that municipality and charged him with the stab-wound mur-der of sixteen year old Gilberto Novelo of Santa Elena.

According to the Police Formation Commander of that western twin-town municipality, Senior Superintendent, Paul Wade, states that their investiga-tions indicate that Novelo (a minor le-gally) was socializing at the San Igna-cio ‘Faya Wata Night Club’ just before 2:00 am last Sunday morning when an argument ensued between himself and a group of young men which quickly en-gulfed into an all out violent brawl. Dur-

deal with such an emergency, he was im-mediately re-transported to the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan for fur-ther specialized treatment in an effort to save his life. Unfortunately, because of the distance and the time it took to get him to the Western Regional, the sixteen year old minor succumbed to his injury whilst undergoing treatment around 4:00 am that same morning. The senseless incident originated at the above named night club, down town San Ignacio, just a few minutes walk from the Police Sta-tion. Sources say this establishment rou-tinely harbours scores of minors under the required age of eighteen years which the law requires in order to be allowed into or to consume intoxicating liquor on the premises. The source added that the night club operates as a regular hang-out joint for under-aged teens without any type of enforcement or the prohibition of minors into the establishment.

Superintendent Wade, told the media that several teen-agers involved were de-tained for questioning but based on the evidence gathered; Freddy Fernandez was arrested and charged since all evi-dence pointed to him as the one who al-legedly inflicted the deadly wound which caused the death of Gilberto Novelo.

Meanwhile, there is controversy brewing regarding the circumstances

Continued from page 10Taking charge of your asThma

Not everyone with asthma has the usual symptoms of cough, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Sometimes individu-als have unusual asthma symptoms that may not appear to be related to asthma. Some “unusual” asthma symptoms may include the following:

rapid breathing, sighing, fatigue, in-ability to exercise properly (called exer-cise-induced asthma), difficulty sleeping or nighttime asthma, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and chronic cough without wheezing.

Also, asthma symptoms can be mim-icked by other conditions such as bronchi-tis, vocal cord dysfunction, and even heart failure.

5. Know Why Infections Trigger Asthma Symptoms

Sometimes a virus or bacterial infec-tion is an asthma trigger. For instance, you might have a cold virus that triggers your asthma symptoms. Or your asthma can be triggered by a bacterial sinus infec-tion. Sinusitis with asthma is common.

It’s important to know the signs and symptoms of respiratory tract infections and to call your doctor immediately for diagnosis and treatment. For instance, you might have symptoms of increased shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, or wheezing with a bronchial infection.

In people who don’t have asthma, the bronchial infection may not trigger the same debilitating symptoms.

Side Poverty Alleviation Program. In-deed the entire lagoon is crucial to this project and to drainage of the area. So we would conclude then that this is a matter of ignorance this was given to Mr. Jack Charles. So to that end, we have said that the title will not be issued. So there is no fear of that. It is true that Mr. Charles has put in a lot of work there and that indeed he engaged with the Ministry of Natural Resources to try to purchase the land. And that will be dealt with. The Ministry of Natural Resources will now meet with Mr. Charles and they will work out what compensation can be made. However, I need to say where Mr. Charles acted out-side of the regulations, as I know that he has started construction without proper plans and so and I’m not sure what the compensation will be like in that area. The ministry and the pertinent officials will meet with Mr. Charles to figure out the solution. What Cabinet has agreed to

as well is that the Krooman Lagoon area is to be for the use of the people of Collet, if any at all. That means that the portion of land that Mr. Charles has now filled and any other area around the lagoon and including the lagoon is to be used for the people of Collet. It does not neces-sarily mean there will be house lots. We are waiting for further advice from the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Natural Resources to tell us what can be done with that area.

There are a few suggestions being tossed about but I can assure every-body that whatever is done is going to be something that will be environmen-tally safe; and something that the people of Collet can be proud of. It may include house lots. We don’t know. We just need to wait and see we get the proper advice and then we’re able to make a proper de-cision. It will be for the use and enjoy-ment of the people of Collet and for the larger nation of Belize.”

ing this time, Novelo suffered a deadly stab wound with a small steak knife to his lower abdomen which caused him to collapse as a result. Nazim Juan, owner of the night club in question, is denying that the brawl erupted at his establish-ment and claims that the incident took place some 50 feet away near Corona-tion Park.

Witnesses deny his version and say that they called the police immediately as the fight erupted and before the stabbing took place but by the time they respond-ed and arrived on the scene, the fight was all over, and Novelo had already been transported wounded to the San Ignacio Hospital. Since that hospital is not apt to

mention of marks and bruises to Fran-cis’ body even though the uncle, Elton Jex, revealed to the media that there were obvious signs that cast doubt as to the nature of his death and contradicts the suicide theory. Jex said “The officer who allowed me to see his body lift up his shirt to show me his stomach. His stomach seems to me looks like he had a couple of bruises on his stomach and he was bleeding one of his foot, his mouth from through his ears.”

But there are new revelations where the family of the minor is making alle-gations that implicates the police stating that an unnamed person has informed them that Francis was shot somewhere on East Collet Canal, claiming that the alleged gunman was a police officer. Ac-cording to the revelations, Francis was picked him up, placed in a vehicle which sped off with him.

This new information boldly offered by family members cast aspersion on the integrity of the entire police depart-ment as well as the integrity of govern-ment paid pathologist, Dr. Mario Estrada Bran, who earlier stated that his findings regarding the post mortem examination of Kevin Francis was categorically ‘in-conclusive’. If Estrada Bran intention-ally disregarded signs of violence like bruise marks, and bleeding at different parts of the body and came up with a sci-entific inconclusive cause of death then why then is he appearing on the media forty-eight hours to defend a theory based on his feelings after his scientific procedures already proved inconclusive. Elton Jex, the uncle of the deceased, who witnessed the post-mortem examination said that Estrada performed his so called post mortem examination following his scientific procedures and came up with his inconclusive finding in less than five minutes.

Estrada Bran justified his five min-utes post mortem examination stating that it was because the body was decom-posed, and because the police told him that they did not suspect foul play, the forensic criteria he followed was based primarily on the police preliminary in-vestigations, but there were no prelimi-nary investigation available at the time since the forensic doctor was called to the scene around the same time police arrived also. In this case, everybody knows that Kevin Francis was found dead hanging from a telephone cord and there was no need for a forensic doctor to certify that. But he could have been beaten so badly, and even shot before he was transported to that secluded area where the perpetrators may have hanged an already dead man. That is where we needed a scientific procedure followed to determine if that sort of foul play may have had any thing regarding the death of the minor but all that was pronounced as inconclusive just by observation and being around the body under five min-utes. There has been no reaction by po-lice authorities to indicate if a thorough investigation will be carried out now that aspersions has been cast on the integrity of the entire police department.

surrounding the tragic death of the six-teen year old St Michaels Student, Kevin Francis, whose body was discovered behind the Belize Tourism Industry As-sociation (BTIA) building in the Fort George Area near the Memorial Park on Cork Street this past Monday morning. Francis, who reportedly left home on Saturday morning after a heated argu-ment with his mother, was found in the early morning in a state of decomposi-tion suspended from a ‘telephone cord’ tied to the railing of the building and strapped around his neck.

Because of the state of decomposi-tion, government forensic doctor, Mario Estrada Bran, conducted a post mortem examination on site which according to him was ‘inconclusive’(in other words, he could not medically state the exact cause or circumstances surrounding his death). The Forensic Doctor made no

Freddy Fernandez

Kevin Francis

Prominent Businessmancommits Suicide


he had inherited had accumulated con-siderable debts outstanding with one of the local commercial banks, and that he allegedly received an eviction notice in-forming him that they were foreclosing on his house. Oscar Ayuso was an out-standing and well-known member of the business community and served on the Board of Directors for the Social Secu-rity Board, Port Authority, and the Be-lize Chamber of Commerce and Indus-try. Prior to the 1998 general elections campaign, Ayuso expressed his political aspirations becoming involved in part-politics under the platform of the United Democratic Party and was appointed a Senator. During the restructuring phase of the UDP in 1999, he emerged as Dep-uty Leader of the party and resigned from party politics in 2005 after losing

his bid as standard bearer for the Carib-bean Shores Area to Carlos Perdomo.

Oscar Ayuso has also served for many years as honorary consul to Sweden and more recently he was appointed Belize’s Ambassador to the Holy Sea. He leaves to grieve his wife Halima and his two children, Oscar and Yasmin.

Both the United Democratic Party and the People’s United Party have joined in extending their condolences to the fam-ily of the late Oscar Ayuso.

An official funeral service was cel-ebrated at the Divine Mercy Church on Wednesday July 29, 2009 for Ambas-sador Oscar Ayuso, which was followed with a burial ceremony at the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery.

The National Perspective joins the nation in the mourning and extends their heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.



By Rhenae nuñez

Aries-The social bug bites you this week, Aries, and you’ll be filled with the

urge to contact your friends, fam-ily, and childhood best friend forever via text messages, phone calls, and letters. On Monday Venus in Gemini in your sec-tor of communication trines gre-garious Jupiter in Aquarius and you’ll search out your compan-ions to plan a major get-together.

Taurus-Taurus, you’ll find it hard to apply your tradi-tional common sense and

practicality this week. On Monday your ability to think clearly and logically will be off-kilter. You’ll be filled with thoughts of utopian paradise, and driven by the belief that you can easily reach Shan-gri-La if you just set your mind and heart on your quest. This isn’t the week to make decisions.

Gemini-You have the ad-vantage in all your life situ-

Cancer-You’re in for a treat this week, courtesy

Leo-Leo, you’ve been on the lazy side recently, and your belief that ‘it will all work out

of the cosmos! On Friday lovely Venus enters Cancer and your sector of self. Get ready for your self-esteem to accelerate. This is a great time for you to strut your stuff and not worry about how other people will react. You may need to give yourself a pep talk on Sunday as you deal with a rival.

for the best’ isn’t helping you right now. On Thursday Mercury in Leo in your sector of self opposes ex-cessive Jupiter and you may dis-cover a real mess is building due to your inaction. It’s time for you to roll up your sleeves and become proactive regarding your life.

Virgo-You’ve made errone-ous assumptions in your life recently, Virgo, and the re-

sults haven’t been positive. Take heart, because on Sunday your ability to be discerning will ac-celerate as Mercury, your clever ruling planet, enters Virgo and your sector of self. Now your in-stinct and intellect will begin to work in synch. Get ready to cre-ate a new blueprint for your life.

ations early this week, so keep that in mind as you go about your daily routine. On Monday Venus in Gemini in your sector of self trines Jupiter and you’ll be inun-dated with positive energy. This is a great time to start any new proj-ects you have on the back burner and bring those endeavors firmly into the forefront of your life.

be running all over the place due to your abundant and scattered en-ergy. On Monday Venus in quick-silver Gemini trines Jupiter in your sector of fun and amusement and you’ll just want to entertain yourself! By Wednesday your to-

do list will be backed up big time. However, you won’t mind attend-ing to household duties over the weekend, thanks to the entry of Ve-nus in domestic Cancer on Friday.

Scorpio-You enjoy being in control of your emotions, but this week you may find

that your feelings run you rather than the other way around. On Wednesday the Moon in extreme Scorpio in your sector of self is quincunx fiery Mars in Gemini and you won’t be able to hold back your tempestuous emotions regarding an important matter. Sagittarius-Sagittarius, you know you’re retaining negative emo-tions regarding certain events that took place in your life. This week you’re going to discover that you’re able to release your toxic

feelings and be finished with them once and for all. On Monday Venus trines

Jupiter, the planet of blessings and your ruler, and you’ll dispose with any negativity you’re holding onto.Capricorn-You’re used to waiting out difficult circumstances, Capri-corn, thanks to your ruling planet, stalwart Saturn. Your patience is commendable; however, this week you’ll encounter a predicament

that demands immediate attention. On Tuesday Ve-nus in your sector of daily

activities squares explosive Ura-nus and you’ll have to tend to a di-lemma that unexpectedly pops up. Aquarius-Get ready for new ad-ventures! Recently, you’ve felt bogged down by your duties and responsibilities, but you can say goodbye to your sense of stagna-tion on Monday as Venus trines op-


Libra-Settle down, Libra! This week you’re going to

timistic Jupiter in Aquarius in your sector of self. You’ll

discover your zest and curiosity return, and you’ll be buoyed up with the feeling that yes, life has a lot to offer you, and vice versaPisces-Try not to get in your own way this week! On Tuesday Venus squares erratic Uranus in Pisces in your sector of self and your ener-gy will be so scattered that you’ll

More of what we already knowThis week Harold Crooks discusses

further the sore subject of promotion with-in the Belize Department. We may recall that Minister Perdomo immediately after taking office as Minister of National Secu-rity turned the department into a complete circus. Chester Williams was banished to Belmopan and other officers, thought to be PUP, were dispersed elsewhere.

Officers who were recently promoted by the former administration had some of their promotions rescinded. Sr. Super-intendent Broaster was given his turf, the CYDP, to operate. Eventually Mr. Crispin Jefferies was appointed Commissioner. Still the streets of Belize City especially continue to be the deadliest. What if any-thing has Perdomo and his government have done to curtail crime to a minimum has not been evidenced. Almost two years into his tenure as Minister of Police, Mr. Perdomo and his government can longer rely on the escapist excuse of blaming for-mer Minister of National Security Ralph Fonseca. With the importunate crime situ-ation on our hands it is way past time that we get to solutions that work!

Long been a pain that many of us in the media have had to suffer is the poor com-munication capabilities of officers. This has denuded the image of the department. Sadly, it is another area where there is no indication that anything will be done to uplift the image of the BPD in this regard.

18. It is recommended that;• The Draft Conditions of Services

Regulation enumerate all criteria consid-ered for appointment to the Senior Ranks.

• Promotions are based upon fair equitable, transparent and effective per-formance evaluations.

• The Police Rules governing pro-motion be complied with.

SUCCESSION PLANNING3.32 There are 79 Senior Police Offi-

cers in the BPD. The attrition among se-lected ranks are as follows.

• From Superintendents to Com-missioner

By 2012, seven (7) or 29% of these ranks will have departed the department.

• From Acting Inspectors to Assis-tant Superintendents

By 2012, six (6) or 11% of these ranks will have departed the department.

19. In view of this, it is recommended that succession planning, career path and improved performance evaluation of the Senior Officer Corps along with a needs based officer training programme and an estimated budget be implemented by March 2009.

The following table 3.1 shows current staff ratios in the BPD.

GENDER, CIVILIANIZATION AND STAFF RATIOS

Table 3.1 STAFF RATIOSSELECTED STAFF TOTAL Catego-

ries RATIOS Strength of BPD to date 1139 P o -

lice including Paid Sp. Cons: population 314,300 1:263

Total Civilian Staff 151 R a t io of Civ. Staff to Police 1:8

Total Women Police 128 R a t io of Women Police to Men 1:9

Total Volunteer Special Constables30 Ratio of Vol. Sp. Cons to Police

1:38Total Paid Special Constables 54

Ratio of Paid Sp. Cons to Police 1:21

3.33 Too many clerical/ administrative/ ancillary duties are performed by trained Police Officers. The cost of assigning trained Police Officers to these tasks is a drain on the public purse since they can be performed by qualified civilian personnel

and special constables with greater econo-mies.

20. It is recommended that over the next 3 years annual targets be set to reach the following ratios.

• Female to Male Police Of-ficers 1:5

• Civilian to Police Staff 1:4• Volunteer Special Constable

Corps to Police Staff 1:1.5• Paid Special Constables to

Police Staff 1:53.34 This would contribute to

a considerable increase in Police Staff available for CORE POLICE TASKS. This approach should lead to a downward revision of the pro-posed increase in police establish-ment by 3000 members in 2014. (See The Commissioner’s Proposed Strategy to Address Serious Crimes 2/10/07). Gender issues are further discussed in Cap 4. These are all cost saving measures.

SUPERVISION3.35 The quality of overall su-

pervision of front line police in the field is mixed. The Specialist Units such as the Anti Drug (ADU) and Special Patrol Units (SPU), Domes-tic Violence Unit, Planning Inspec-tion and Training Unit and a few others are fairly well supervised. Supervision of the regular uni-formed Patrol Units and reception areas by Corporals is poor. As is to be expected, differences in the qual-ity of oversight activities of the Se-nior Officer Corps vary from poor to good. Recommended reform of the organization structure at figure 3.4 will allow for greater delegation of routine internal administrative function, thus creating more time for the managerial ranks to attend to matters having a greater impact on results, service delivery and ensur-ing public trust.

21. It is recommended that an in-tensive in-service 80 hours modular supervisory course be designed for Sergeants and those remaining Cor-porals and that by 2010 attendance be one of the prerequisite for pro-motion to those ranks. Improved performance management, enforced promotion criteria, relevant training and meaningful oversight by Senior Management staff will all serve to invigorate the middle managers of the BPD.

INTERNAL COMMUNICA-TION

3.36 Internal Communication be-tween members of The BPD is gov-erned by the principles of seniority in rank. Most written orders emanate from the CoP via Standing Orders. Within the senior ranks, written and verbal communication is more col-

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legial, whereas from among them to the NCO’s it is always strongly directive and sometimes unclear. Direct written communication from senior ranks to constables is rare as it has to pass through the respon-sible NCO’s. Distributing copies of written orders or memoranda at this level on the need to know basis is rare.

3.37 This historically rooted and inhibiting embedded Top down, or-der centered style has discouraged the lateral or upward flow of ANY MEANS of communicating obser-vations, ideas or opinions and is regarded by many lower ranks as downright dangerous for career ad-vancement.

3.38 This method of commu-nication, signals that status and police knowledge are purely rank and rarely ever ROLE BASED. To signal otherwise is to question the authority of the senior rank commu-nicated to and is often regarded as out of place despite observing the required rituals of deference.

3.39 This slavish dependence on

orders and a tall hierarchy of ranks have stifled initiative and discour-aged delegation of authority to act. Little gets fixed from below and so-licitation of ideas and suggestions from BELOW is a sign of weak-ness and ignorance ABOVE. These problems exist in most organiza-tions but in the BPD they have had a PATHOLOGICAL EFFECT ON THE ORGANIZATION in shaping mass exclusion of the largest part of the cognitive resource of bright but junior staff in the policing en-deavour. SO LITTLE GETS DONE RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.

3.40 Policing requires written rules but the language and style should be more collegial. For this to happen it requires organization-wide transformation which will gen-erate greater TRUST in each other across all ranks. This will evolve with improved training, socializa-tion and commitment to ethical val-ues and courteous behaviour to all, regardless of rank in the department or CITIZENS’ STATION IN LIFE who remains at the receiving end of police culture.

In and around the time of the 2003 National Elections, it was said that Courtenay had contemplated contest-ing the Collet Convention for Standard Bearer. At the time, Courtenay had even bragged that he would’ve won “hands down”. While all indications were that his “wishful thought” had died a natural death, lo and behold, Courtenay appears to have resurrected it. Word is that he again expressed his intent to become the PUP Standard Bearer for Collet. Well, the learned gentleman needs not wait ‘til

2013 to know the fate of such a decision nor does he need to look to anyone other than his Chairwoman who has been RE-JECTED not ONCE but TWICE by the people of Collet. In her case, Madam Chairwoman entered Collet under the guise of a “proletariat/revolutionary”. Were the National Campaign Manager to even think about using such a guise, he would be committing nothing short of “political suicide”. The question, then, is how will he “sell” himself to the people of Collet? The answer is simple: He won’t need to figure out “how to sell” himself because

like the Chairwoman, the people of Col-let don’t buy REJECTED GOODS. Not that Patrick Faber is, by any means, “su-perior goods”, but when one considers

his former opponent and possible “fu-ture opponent”, understanding why the people of Collet chose the cantankerous politician becomes elementary.



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in the private sector. Anyone? These gentlemen are good examples of the maxim that ‘the worse vice is advice’.

But back to Bill Lindo, writing long-winded (maybe plagiarized) ar-ticles on local and world economics doesn’t qualify you as an economic ge-nius. Lindo needs to qualify himself by giving some specific and personal examples of his successes. Had Sco-tia Bank done its due diligence, they

would have known that their poster child has some serious money issues with a couple business establishments around the City. The bank only needs to visit a prominent northside Chinese restaurant and a stationery store to see their poster child’s name promi-nently displayed on the walls of these establishments. In one case it was for a bounced cheque. The only thing I don’t quite remember, though, if it was a Scotia Bank cheque.


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Aurelia Villanueva of Duck Run II, Cayo

Ernie Braun of Spanish Lookout, Cayo to Jennifer Wright of Santa El-ena, Cayo

Anish Patel to Neelam Patel of Morden Surrey, U.K.

Patrick Cal to Felicita Pop of San Jose, Toledo

Ademer Jovanny Vidal to Minelvy Lisette Can of San Jose, Toledo

Delfido Alvarito Monroy to Sheyla Yahayra Gonzalez of Benque Viejo, Cayo

Rudolph Crawford Jr. to Nicole Perriotte of Crooked Tree, Belize

Ramon Marconi Gomez of San Ig-nacio, Cayo to MIda Asusenia Brad-ley of Central Farm, Cayo

Zane Alexander Santiago to Stephanie Vivian Caretella of Santa Elena, Cayo

Aurelio Reynaldo Garcia to Van-essa Melissa Baño of Santa Elena, Cayo

Ian Derrick Burns to Adda Marina Echeverria of San Ignacio, Cayo

Diego Valentin Pech of Santa Clara, Corozal to Noemi Isely Cas-tillo of San Victor, Corozal

Miha Golobic to Spela Avsec of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Edwin Alexander Zaldana to Ma-ria Del Carmen Ordonez Mejia of Santa Elena, Cayo

Clive Ernest Walford to Norma Ruth Coleman of Santa Elena, Cayo

Juan Jose Ramos to Maria Tomasa Evazo of San Ignacio, Cayo

Nigel Alfonso Cruz of Houston, Texas to Lucia Miraida Ulloa of San-ta Elena, Cayo

Michael Gregory Brakeman of La Democracia, Belize to Anna Mae Za-browski of Monkey Bay, Belize

William Andrew Simmerman to Stacy Lynn Boisvert of Atoka, Ten-nessee, USA

Kelly Lee Rogers to Diana Dale Fowler of Reno, Nevada, USA

Edgar Ofis Seguro, 24

Clive Ashworth Young, 75

Edward A. Messam, 83

Michael Kent Ramsey, 74

Santos Mateo Guerra, 55

Gloria Bowen, 77

Danile Guillamo Lazaro, 39

Freddy Usher, 30

Henry Nathan to Nathan Jay and Valbina Miller nee Bo

Zaniel Angel to Isaias Angel and Melissa Monica Gongora nee Ara-gon

Johnny Joseph to Johnny and Donna Dalia Medina nee Gonzalez

Carlet Kay to Carlos and Arlet Kay Ramriez nee Crawford

Magda Lilian to Leonel and Mag-da Lilian Salguero nee Recinos

Teyshaun Bryson to Chesterfield and Laverne Elaine Baptist nee Mor-tis

Zahara Sarita to James Michael and Charlotte Emma Jones nee Faux

Dalmy Kishanny to David Anto-nio and Teresita Aldana nee Cunil

Joash Ethan to Vernon Walter and Tanya Sasha Wade nee Smith

Kriston Semeon Angel to Semeon Shannon and Christine Adriana Ja-cobs nee Avila

Thea Isabel to Victor M. And Sa-mantha Lizarraga nee Woods

Collin Carl Elrington to Soledad Philippe of Belize City

Mohammed M. Mahmood to Lu-cianda Montejo of Belize City

Wilber Humberto Zuniga to Aura Consuelo Paz of Selena, Cayo

Alfonso N. Guerra to Crystal C. Alvarez of San Pedro Town, Belize

Neldon Alex Lara to Amelia Pop of San Pedro Columbia, Toledo

Chadd Mitchell Garcia to Karen Marie Rutt of West Palm Beach, Florida

Edwin Edward Gillett to Farah Bridget Jones of Belize City

Ryan Keith Heigert to Pamela Sue Stoddard of Utah, USA

Ricky Lee Johnson to Tanya Sue Janecka of Houston, Texas, USA

Corey Michael Ryan to Sarah Christine Rapinz of East Lake, Ohio, USA

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pie crust mix (enough for a 2-crust pie)Half a pound of ground steak (beef,

pork, whatever you like)1 medium-sized baked potato1/2 of a medium-sized white onion1 egg, salt, pepper, and other spices

as desireda muffin pan and some-

thing to grease it with Grease the muffin pan well. You want the pies to slip right out of it, otherwise they can get torn up.

Method to follow:Chop up the onion and potato well.

Very well; you want this stuff to cook thoroughly, and for the juices to mix and be absorbed. Put it in a bowl and add the ground meat. Mix it well, and add any spices you like. I use about half a tea-spoon of pepper.

Make the pie crust mix according to the instruction on the package. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. On waxed pa-per or some other surface, roll a piece of dough into a thin sheet and line a cup

of the muffin pan with it. Don’t stretch it too thin; you don’t want these to tear. Fold the corners of the rolled-out dough in, drop it in so the center touches the bottom of the cup, then moosh the dough against the sides of the cup. It should hang out over the edges of the cup on all sides. Fill the dough-lined cup with the meat mixture. Roll another piece of dough flat and use it to cover the filling.

Press the dough together around the edges of the cup, then cut just outside of the cup, making sure to leave some of the pressed-together area intact. Retrieve the scraps of dough and begin with the next cup. You should have enough for a dozen mini-pies.

When these are all done, make a de-cent-sized hole in the top of each one with a knife. Beat the egg in a cup and brush it over the tops of the pies as a glaze. Bake the pies for 40 minutes at 350 degree. If the cups were properly greased, after the pies cool you should be able to carefully insert a butter knife a few times around the edge of each cup and twist the pies right out.

Haitians boat capsizes, 113 saved, 85 missing

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Ca-icos – A boat carrying Haitian migrants capsized and sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and up to 85 people are missing, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tues-day. One survivor said the boat struck a reef as it tried to elude police.

Rescuers found 113 survivors strand-ed on two reefs and recovered two bod-ies, said Lt. Cmdr. Matt Moorlag, a Coast Guard spokesman in Miami, revising an earlier statement that four bodies had been found.

The shipwreck happened around 2 p.m. Monday. By late evening, Turks and Caicos authorities using small boats had rescued 40 people stranded on a reef 2 miles (3 kilometers) southeast of West Caicos Island. Many others were later found on a nearby reef, Moorlag said.

The boat carrying up to 200 Haitians had been at sea for three days when pas-sengers saw a police vessel and acciden-tally steered the boat onto a reef as they tried to hide, survivor Alces Julien told The Associated Press at a hospital were some survivors were receiving treat-ment.

Elgammal said information from sur-

vivors indicates that between 160 and 200 people were on board when the ves-sel capsized near this island chain north of Haiti and southeast of the Bahamas. She said the cause of the accident is un-der investigation.

A Coast Guard cutter has been search-ing through the night for survivors, and Moorlag said a helicopter and a jet will join the search at first light. He said a C-130 aircraft was expected Tuesday morning to help in the search.

Haitians routinely take to the seas in rickety, overcrowded boats in hopes of escaping poverty in the Western Hemi-sphere’s poorest nation.

In May 2007, an overcrowded sloop carrying more than 160 migrants cap-sized off the Turks and Caicos Islands. Some of the victims were eaten by sharks. The 78 people who survived ac-cused a Turks and Caicos patrol boat of ramming their vessel as they approached shore and towing them into deeper wa-ter.

In May, a boat carrying at about 30 mainly Haitian migrants capsized off Florida’s coast, killing at least nine peo-ple, including a pregnant woman.


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Members of Parliament, the diplomatic corps, members of the business commu-nity, hundreds of family members and friends, paid their last respects to Oscar Ayuso Jr. on Wednesday, when they at-tended his funeral services held at the Divine Mercy Catholic Church on the Northern Highway.

The mass of thanksgiving for the life of Oscar Ayuso was officiated by Bishop Dorrick Wright and Father Jim Blount of the Divine Mercy Parish. The eulogy was read by Dr. David Hoy, a lifetime friend from childhood days on to adulthood. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education spoke on behalf of the UDP regarding Ayuso’s dedication to the par-

ty. Oscar Ayuso was laid to rest at the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery after he was car-ried in a funeral procession that lasted about an hour. At the Cemetery, he re-ceived a twenty-one gun salute by mem-bers of the Belize Defence Force Guards of Honour.

Ayuso, who was a well respected businessman, a former deputy leader of the UDP, a Senator and a diplomat died last Saturday evening from a self in-flicted gun-shot wound. It is rumoured that the fifty-one year old businessman was depressed after he found himself entangled in huge financial debts relat-ing to his business and could hardly see a way out.

It is amazing to see the Govern-

ment’s hypocrisy with high praises for Ayuso after his death when Govern-ment is partly responsible for the entire financial mess the country faces and didn’t lift a finger to assist Ayuso in his time of need. Where was Patrick Faber when Ayuso was battling alone with his problems? Where was Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez? He forgot that Ayuso worked hard to help him win the convention over Louis Leslie. Where was Prime Minister Barrow?

It is reliably understood that Father Jim Blount, during the Service, took the opportunity to call on the Prime Minis-ter to stop the Hate and to stop the Per-secution. That is a loud call from here to Texas.

The National Trade Union Congress of Belize (N.T.U.C.B.) this week criticized the Barrow Administration stating that they were appalled at the sudden and un-warranted proposal to amend the section of the ‘Settlement of Disputes in Essen-tial Services Act’ without proper consul-tation with the entities involved, adding that the unions under its umbrella, only resort to “sick outs” and “go-slows” after meaningful discussions and negotiations have not worked. In a release issued this week, they said that the N.T.U.C.B. believes those actions are beneficial be-cause those methods are what led to the Memorandum of Understanding being signed between K.H.M.H. doctors and administration and the consequent in-stallation of the commission of inquiry. It suggested that the Prime Minister should focus more to balance the composition of the Arbitration Tribunal, which does not

yet include the N.T.U.C.B., despite the nineteen nominations it has sent since January 2009 to the Labour Commis-sioner. The NTUCB General Secretary, Javier Roberts said that “The unions that operate under the Essential Services Act are already limited to certain actions that they can do and by removing those actions such as sickout and go slow and those other actions that the doctors em-ployed, will limit further the bargaining power of those unions affected.”

The release warns the Prime Minister to reconsider this new proposal because the N.T.U.C.B. is “prepared to ensure that the workers rights earned by the struggle of our past and present lead-ers are never eroded”. The NTUCB is against the amendment because it stran-gles their options with regards to protest.The settlement of disputes Essential Ser-vices Amendment Bill was introduced

at the last sitting of the House and has since eroded the marriage/honeymoon between the UDP Government and the NTUCB. The UDP came to power af-ter luring the NTUCB into a conspiracy against the former PUP government and its leaders.

This week, the Mesopotamia Area Representative, Michael Finnegan taunted the NTUCB saying no to the N.T.UC.B. last minute interest to be a part of the vetting committee for the dis-bursement of the Venezuelan Housing Gran. Finnegan claims NTUCB want to take over the committee they had previ-ously refused to be a part of.In his re-sponse to the NTUCB release, Barrow said on Wednesday, that he has no inten-tion of backing down from his proposal on the ESA and emphasized that if that organization wanted war, then “bring it on”.

Barrow said ‘If the N.T.U.C.B. wants to continue with the kind of irresponsible rhetoric I’ve been hearing from them, if they want to threaten war, bring it on. There will be no retreat absolutely from what we intend to do, because it is the right thing to do.”

Everybody knows by now how vindic-tive this UDP government under Prime Minister Dean Barrow has become. On Wednesday, during a funeral service held for Ambassador Oscar Ayuso at the Divine Mercy Catholic Church in But-tonwood Bay, the parish priest, Father Jim Blount took the unique opportunity to call on the Prime Minister to stop the hate and persecution.

This priest is not a Belizean, but seems to know much about what is going on locally and the type of government that we are subjected to. Before the UDP became the government, they conspired with the Unions to bring down the previ-ous PUP government, organizing strikes and undermining everything the previ-ous government tried to establish for the greater wellbeing of the Belizean people. No sooner did they come into power they began burning the bridge that got them from the side of being in opposition to the other side of being the government.

The first order of business for the UDP in government was to lash out cal-lously against the working man with mass firings which strangled their means of survival.

They started persecuting their politi-cal rivals as a priority instead of seeking to create opportunities to uplift the way of life for the working class Belizean. As if that was not enough, they started to in-terfere with the principal investors in the country without taking the consequence into consideration.

They have sought to make constitu-tional amendments to restrict the rights of Belizeans even though they swore to serve without fear or favour and to up-hold the constitution.

As Belize declines with a fail govern-ment leading the country to a fail state, it is obvious even to a priest that in or-der for us to move forward as one people into prosperity, this government must stop the hate and persecution.

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Gentle Touch & Delille Pumas win female football semifinals

Puma’s Dorita Ramos scored twice

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Old Belize Museum, July 26, 2009Jermaine Audinett and Arvid Arnold of

Belize City won the 5th stop of the national men’s Beach Volleyball Tour organized by the Belize Volleyball Association at the Old Belize Museum over the weekend. Ernest Broaster and Raul Arnold won 2nd place; while Caye Caulker’s Carlos “Tico” Requena and Juan Marin took 3rd place.

In Game 1 on Saturday, Caye Caulker’s Andy Marin and Luis Requena hammered Oscar Arnold and Kleon Coleman of Belize City 21-13 and 21-18.

In Game 2, Ernest Broaster and Raul Ar-nold of Belize City won over Jamal Galvez and Robbie Gongora of Belize City in two sets 21-16 and 21 -15.

In Game 3, Caye Caulker’s Carlos “Tico”

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Requena and Juan Marin hammered Patrick Bennett and Karim Coleman of Belize City 21-14 and 21-8.

In Game 4, Jermaine Audinett and Arvid Arnold won easily 21-14, 21-15 over Caye Caulker’s Andy Marin and Luis Requena.

In Game 5 Ernest Broaster and Raul Ar-nold won Caye Caulker’s Carlos “Tico” Re-quena and Juan Marin, winning the 1st set 21-19, but Requena and Marin came back to take the 2nd set: 21-14, before Broaster and Raul pounded hem into submission in the 3rd set: 15-13.

In Game 6, Jamal Galvez and Robbie Gongora eliminated Patrick Bennett and Karim Coleman 21-15 and 21-15.

In Game 7, Audinett and Arnold contin-ued their winning streak with a 21-13 , 21-14 victory over Broaster and Raul Arnold.

In game 8, Caye Caulker’s Carlos “Tico” Requena and Juan Marin eliminated Oscar Arnold and Kleon Coleman, who won the 1st set: 22-20, before Requena and Marin took the next 2 sets: 21-17 and 15-13.

In Game 9, the last game Saturday eve-ning, Andy Marin and Luis Requena had eliminated Jamal Galvez and Robbie Gon-gora, who had won the 1st set 21-15; before Marin and Requena won the next 2 sets 21-11 and 15-9.

On Sunday in Game 10, “Tico” Requena and Juan Marin moved on to challenge and eliminate Andy Marin and Luis Requena, before they too fell under the hammer of powerful spike attacks from Ernest Broaster and Raul Arnold in Game 11.

In Game 12, these worthies then tri-umphed over Audinett and Arnold but in Game 13 Audinett and Arvid Arnold recov-ered to win over Broaster and Raul Arnold. The best teams will go on to represent the jewel in the international events such as the NORCECA Central American champion-ships later this year.

Old Belize, Museum, July 25, 2009Team Creative Marketing: Babsy Cadle and Thara Blanco of Belize City won the 5th stop of the national women’s Beach Volleyball Tour organized by the Belize Volleyball Association at the Old Belize Museum on Saturday, July 25. Jasmine Anderson and Esther Middleton won 2nd place and Jacky and Aritha Sabal of Dan-griga took 3rd place. In Game 1, Jacky and Aritha won over Tichelle and Tisha Solis of Belize City in 3 sets. Tichelle and Tisha took the 1st set to several game points before the Sabal girls prevailed 22-20. The Solis sisters recovered behind a series of spike attacks from Tichelle to win the 2nd set 21-14. The Sabal girls took the 3rd set: 15-4.In Game 2, Jasmine Anderson and Es-ther Middleton won over Shantel Arnold and Diana Carillo in 3 sets. Arnodl and Carillo surprised Jasmine and Esther in the 1st set with a 21-16 win, but Jasmine and Esther got into their game and won the 2nd and 3rd sets: 21-15and 15-9. In

Game 3, Creative Marketing’s Babsy Cadle and Thara Blanco won easily 21-12, 21-7 over Jacky and Aritha Sabal.In Game 4, the Solis girls bounced back from their loss to the Sabals to eliminate

Broaster spikes Audinette

Shantel Arnold and Diana Carillo. Ar-nold and Carillo took the 1st set 21-9, but the Solis girls rebounded to triumph 21-16 and 16-14 in the 2nd and 3rd sets.In Game 5 Creative Marketing’s Babsy

Cadle and Thara Blanco handed Jasmine Anderson and Esther Middleton their 1st loss. Jasmine and Esther won the 1st set 21-15, then Babsy and Thara took it away in the 2nd and 3rd sets: 21-12 and 15-8. In Game 6, the Sabal sisters bounced back to triumph over the Solis sisters, winning the 1st set: 21-17. The Solis girls recovered to spike the Sabal girls 21-14 in the 2nd set, before Jacky and Aritha took it away in the 3rd set: 15-10.In Game 7, the Sabal girls made a bid for a berth in the finals, but Anderson and Middleton had no trouble winning 21-14 and 21-9 to advance to the final. In Game 8, the final match, Cadle and Blanco won over Jasmine Anderson and Esther Middleton 21-17 and 21-13.The best teams will go on to represent the jewel in the international events such as the NORCECA Central American championships laterthis year.

Esperanza Village, July 25, 2009National women’s defending champs

Gentle Touch of Esperanza Village blasted the Belize Defense Force wom-en 4-0 on in Esperanza on Saturday af-ternoon, while the Delille Pumas raked the Millennium girls of Belize City 5-2 in the national women’s football semi-finals of the at the Carl Ramos Stadi-um also on Saturday Gloria Chun and Araceli Lambey spearheaded the BDF offensive with the help of midfielders Cynthia Salazar and Cindy Fuentes, but made no impression on the Gentle Touch defense led by Kendra “Peach-es” Gentle.

Gentle Touch star striker Abby Hal-liday ran through the BDF backfield to embarrass the BDF goalie by scoring the 1st goal early in the 1st half. Hal-liday soon added a 2nd goal and Kim Perez also blasted in a 3rd goal and just like that the Esperanza girls were up 3- zip at the half time break.

The ‘Ranza girls’ defense continued to frustrate the BDF women for the en-tire 2nd half, even as Kim Perez found another opening t drive in her 2nd goal for the 4-0 win.

In Dangriga, the Delille Pumas also enjoyed a 5-2 win. Midfielder Dorita Ramos ran thru the city girls defense to blast a hard cannonball shot past Millennium’s goalie Ermine Ferguson for the Griga girls’ 1st goal. Nyke-mah Kuylen and Nataki Alvarez also pressed their attacks, and Nykemah scored a 2nd and a 3rd goals for the Pu-mas. Unfortunately the Griga defense goofed in giving up a penalty, and Melony Tasher converted with aplomb for the visitors’ only consolation goal of the 1st half, as the Pumas were up 3-1 at the half time break.

In the 2nd half, Dorita Ramos scored a 4th goal and Nataki Alvarez added a 5th goal, before Millennium’s Shinelle Gentle scored a 2nd goal as the Pumas went on to post a 5-2 win at the final whistle.

This Saturday will feature a double header at the MCC garden as the Pu-mas will try for a repeat win against Miellennium in the 1st game and Gen-tle Touch will seek to secure a place in the finals with a 2nd win over the BDF.

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Entre mas este periodico trata de in-vestigar sobre el actual saga de Money Gram en Belice, mas perplejo aparenta. Mientras los nuevos jugadores emergen, las preguntas persisten sobre la verdade-ra version referente la empresa de trans-ferencia de envio que Money Gram tiene en Belice. Money Gram trato de poner su mejor pie por delante en su lanzamiento de sus nuevas operaciones aquí en Belice el pasado lunes que se llevo a cabo en la sala real del Hotel Princess en ciudad Belice. Las ceremonias que duraron casi dos horas según la copia de la orden de banquete obtenido por este periodico. Asistiendo a la ceremonia estubieron funcionarios del Toledo Teachers Credit Union (TTCU), la Directora del FIU, Sra. Marilyn Williams, Gerente General

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para Ventas y Mercadeo de la Money Gram Internacional, Sr. Steve Higgins y otros invitados relevantes.

Este periodico hablo con el Sr. Hig-gins asi como el Agente Principal en Be-lice, de la TTCU, en el Hotel Princess poco despues de las ceremonias de Lan-zamiento. La Sra. Shaun Oliva, quien tambien es una testigo principal para la FIU en las investigaciones y quien se cree dio el pitazo en contra de la fa-milia Coye y sus operaciones referente a Money Gram, quien estaba dirigido en ese entonces por Dean Fuller de Omni Networks. Estos mencionados enfren-tan acusaciones y cargos de labado de dinero. Curiosamente para nosotros aquí en este periodico, la relacion entre Ms. Shaun Oliva, Dean Fuller y su empresa Omni Networks y las operaciones bajo los Coye’s de Money Gram y la FIU es algo de que debemos analisar. Otras

pruebas obtenidas por este periodico persigue un camino intrigante de la Sra. Shaun Oliva.

Una fuente le confio a este Periodico que la Sra. Oliva habia hecho prepara-

tivos para lanzar su propia operación de Money Gram aquí en el pais como agente principal y es un rumor que ella misma estaba circulando. Tenemos por entendido que solicito una licensia para una agencia principal, pero por motivos desconocidos, el Banco Central de Belice desaprovo su solicitud. Representantes de la TTCU divulgaron a este periodico que en verdad se habian reunido con el Sr. Emory Ford del Banco Central en el Hotel Fort George. En esas reuniones, se confirmo que la TTCU hiba a adquerir la aprobacion de la Agencia Principal, la que le fue negada a la Sra. Oliva.

Por lo que entendemos de los Ejecuti-vos de la TTCU, Oliva esta involucrada con la Money Gram Internacional y es-tara como coordinadora en general, pero no tendra nada que ver con el sistema de operaciones, ya que la TTCU prepara

La crisis global finaciera acoplado con la falta de estrategia por parte del gbierno pudo haber empujado a este em-presario local al marco del estress y la frustracion y al suicidio.

Oscar Miguel Ayuso, Director Gener-

al de las empresas GA AYUSO and Sons & La Agencia de Viajes Ayuso ubicados sobre la calle Daly en ciudad Belice, fue encontrado muerto con una herida de bala a la cabeza el pasado sábado en su casa en la Comunidad de Bella Vista. El empresario de cincuenta y un años a cavaba de llegar de la casa de sus padres a donde participo en una reunión famil-iar para agasajar a su Sra. Madre quien estaba cumpliendo años.

Después de sui regreso a su casa, se reporta que Ayuso se encerró en su despacho de su casa mientras que su esposa Halima se entretuvo con la pre-paración de la cena. A menos de una hora la cena estuvo lista y su esposa le llevo su cena solo para hacer el descu-brimiento de una tragedia. Ella describió que lo en contra con un tiro a la parte izquierdo de si cabeza sentado en su silla de descanso. También observo su pistola

tirado cerca del cargado con ocho tiros y la que utilizo para darle termino a su vida. Durante este tiempo, sus dos hijos, Oscarcito y Yasmin estaban en casa pero en otra sección estudiando música.

La policía dice que respondió a una llamada telefónica a eso de las 7:30 de la noche del viernes y como resultado se dirigieron a la casa de Ayuso ubicada so-bre el #81 calle Bella Vista en donde re-portaron haber observado un cuerpo sin vida que estaba dentro del despacho de dicha casa sentado en una silla reclinable con un tiro a la cabeza. Según investiga-ciones preliminares se anuncio que no se sospecha ningún tipo de acto ilegal. Se ha rumorado ampliamente que las dos empresas de la familia que el había here-dado habían acumulado considerables deudas a unos de los bancos comerciales y que supuestamente había recibido una

El Gabinete de Gobierno se revoco por pena anunciando que el Gobierno de Belice ya no estará entregando titulo por la venta de 9.3 acres de tierra en la reserva conocida como Krooman La-goon, explicando que se llevo a cavo la aprobación inicial dentro la ignorancia.

Hace pensar cuantos otras cosas que se han hechas dentro del marco de la ig-norancia y no ha relucido y tiene al pueb-lo preguntando dónde estaba el Repre-sentante del Área para Collett, Patrick Faber durante este tiempo cuando las

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Los nuevos agentes para Money Gram, aunque trataron de poner su me-jor paso a delante, no han podido divor-ciarse del escandalo que involucra el lavado de dinero a traves de las opera-ciones de Money Gram aquí en Belice. El Lanzamiento del las operaciones del lunes solo ha hecho que resurgan pre-guntas alrededor de las operaciónes con la supuesta investigacion del lavado de dinero. En una entrevista con el Canal 5, el Gerente de Ventas para el Caribe, Higgins dijo que Money Gram Interna-cional a colaborado de cerca con la FIU y el Banco Central antes de su reingreso a Belice. Según Higgins fue Money Gram Internacional que clausuro las op-eraciones en Belice para dar paso a las investigaciones que se llevaban a cabo y reitero esa posicion al Canal 7 el martes pasado.

La Sra. Oliva quien parece que se ha estado moviendose bajo el radar, ha re-emergido como coordinadora nacional de un Money Gram recyclado. Este peri-odico ha obtenido una copia del resumen de la Sra. Oliva en donde presume tener extensa experiencia en transacciones em-presariales via internet. Trabajo en Ful-ton Datapro desde 2001 al 2006, cuando fue destituida. Las operaciones de Fulton Datapro tambien se clausuro por la FIU a resultado de una investigacion sobre actividades ilegales relacionado al juego alazar por medio de un citio web llama-do Carib Sport Book. El nombre Sports Book resurgio de nuevo hace unos meses cuando la FIU intercepto las operaciones de los Coye’s. según la FIU el banco de datos para permisos de manejar, tambien era utilizado para hacer transacciones de pagos en juegos alazar a traves del citio web de Sport Book. El ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Belice ha negado cualquier involucramiento o responsabilidad por el banco de datos que se utilizaba en ac-tividades ilegales, pero queremos subra-yar que un ex Consejal Calvert Quilter quien tambien trabajo como colega de la Sra. Oliva en Omni Networks, fueron los mismos dos que el director Dean Fuller de Omni instalo como trabajoderes en Money Gram bajo la administracion de los Coye’s. Como la Sra Oliva logro so-brevivir hasta ahora es verdaderamente un misterio.

Oliva tambien dice haber trabajado compo recepcionista en el Western Union de la camara del comercio desde

ano 1995 a 1998. No queremos hacer ningunas acucasiones aquí pero estamos consternados que no ha habido ninguna mencion de los personajes claves dentro del fiasco del lavado del dinero y Money Gram en Belice. Otra informacion nos llega que Oliva nunca solicito su em-pleyo en las operaciones de los Coyes porque fue Dean Fuller quien consulto con los Coyes para que la aceptaran en su empleyo porque según el estaban re-estructurando y perdirian su trabajo. Ol-iva comenzo a trabajar para los Coyes en agosto del ano pasado. A principios de este anio, se descrubrio sobre el banco se datos para las licencias de manejo que se utilizaban en el proceso de envios en el supuesto juego alazar via el internet.

El canal 7 reporto el pasado 8 de junio de 2009, que el juego alazar via internet no es legal en estados unidos y que un servicio con nombre de Inst-adollar era utilazado por jugadores que siguian instruciones de enviar dinero a Belice atravez de Money Gram. Y este es una parte importante ya que el banco de datos proporcionaba los nombres y las informaciones pertinentes a esa cen-tidades incuyendo los nombres del prim-er ministro y del gobernador del banco central que se creeye fueron utilizados por el servicio Instadollar para recibir dinero aquí en Belice. De esta parte aquí en Belice la trabajadora trabajando para Money Gram en las operaciones de los Coyes llenava las informaciones relacio-nadas dando las particularidades y do-micillo que aparece en las licencias de manejar obtenido atravez del banco de datos. Luego solo agregava una firma falsificada. El Volumen del transaciones fue increible ya que se rumora que exce-dia sobre de los $110,000.00 dolares dia-rios. Y para eso se utilizaban docenas de nombres con identidades falsas. Eronea-mente la senora Oliva estuvo empleada en Fulton Datapro que tambien fue in-vestigado por la FIU en el 2004. En ese entonces la empreza fue representada legalmente por el abagado Dean Barrow quien ahora es primer ministro. Cuando la FIU conjelo todo las cuentas bancarias de “Carib sport” operaban de la Fulton Datrapro, Barrow exitosamente lucho para que esos fondos fueran regresada. Hoy es otra historia con la familia Coye quienes estan tratando de obtener el re-greso de sus recursos financieros para poner sus vidas de nuevo en perspectiva. Ambos estos casos conjunto a Dean Fuller estaran ventilandoze el proximo 24 de septiembre de este anio.

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Faber ha declarado que nadie con-sulto con él sobre la transacción y aludió que nunca dio consentimiento no reco-mendación como es requerido. Lo peor del caso y este escándalo es que dejaron pasar dos semanas y nadie en el Gabi-nete admitió haber hecho el error en la aprobación de esta venta de tierra a Jack Charles de la empresa Extra House. To-dos se escudaron utilizando la ignoran-cia como excusa y en verdad pudiera ser que los ingenuos en verdad desconocían de la transacción que incluyo al Ministro de Recursos Naturales y el Primer Min-istro Barrow.

El Ministró Gapi Vega ha dicho nu-merosas veces que ningún arrendamien-to o titulo de tierra se extiende sin su conocimiento; así que tiene que tomar responsabilidad y darle frente a las con-secuencias. Se cree que fue el único quien supo de la venta y los detalles de la venta secreta

De los 9.3 arces de tierra por un bajo precio de $66,684.00 y quien permitió que Jack Charles comience la construc-ción sin los permisos reglamentarios y sin planos apropiados.

Ni después de 4000 camionadas de tierra que fue transportada al sitio como relleno.

El Gabinete trato de sofocar el es-cándalo y permaneció en silencio espe-rando que el escándalo pase a la histo-ria o se olvide. Hasta el mismo Primer Ministro trato de sofocar la historia el pasado jueves cuando trato de encu-brir los hechos con su cuento ridículo de un Acta de Reserva Ministerial que el mismo creo. Pero reboto en su rostro y termino mirándose como un perfecto idiota cuando el Lider Opositor reboto su cuento ridículo anunciando que no

existe ninguna Acta de Reserva Min-isterial. El Lider Opositor dijo que no existe, Agrego que solo existe dos Actas que se pueden llamar reservas aparte del marítimo. Subrayo sobre el Acta de Tier-ras Nacional, y el Acta de Sistemas de Parques Nacional. Para que pueda haber una de reserva se tiene que hace públi-co y hasta esta fecha el gobierno no ha hecho semejante cosa.

Patrick Faber de Collet conveniente-mente utilizo la ignorancia pero hacié-ndolo se dio un tiro a la pierna ya que aparenta desconocer de asuntos de suma importancia que está sucediendo en su área. Esta negando saber sobre lo suce-dido con la entrega de la reserva y dijo que supo de la situación al escucharlo en las noticias en el canal cinco y claro que solo él se está engañando.

Dijo que el momento que se informo, trato el asunto con el Ministro de Recur-sos Naturales y el Primer Ministro pero en vez de que se resuelva la situación, se puso más perpleja. Agrego que lo trato a nivel del Gabinete buscando clarifi-cación pero aun a ese nivel no se pudo resolver.

Faber admitió que el proceso de la venta particularmente de esa tierra, fue rápida y dentro de trece días se súbalo, se vendió, se relleno y se di y inicio para la fase de construcción. Además anoto que para esa cantidad de terreno, se pago un monto muy por debajo de lo normal.

Sus revelaciones hace que él como representante se mire como un idiota e incompetente ya que todo se hizo bajo de sus narices y el debió estar en la van-guardia protegiendo el bienestar de su pueblo como prometió. Se cree que un representante capaz trata de informarse sobre todo particularmente cuando se trata de su área electoral. La gente de Collet ya ha visto su incompetencia y parece estar sin representante.

carta de notificación para desocupar su casa ya que el banco estaba reclamando. Oscar Ayuso fue reconocido como un miembro destacado de la comunidad em-presarial y sirvió en varias capacidades en las Juntas Directivas para el Seguro Social, la Autoridad Portuaria así como para la Cámara de Comercio de Indus-tria de Belice. Antes de las elecciones generales de 1998, Ayuso expreso sus aspiraciones políticas involucrándose en política partidista bajo la plataforma del United Democratic Party y poco después fue nombrado como Senador en donde se destaco en dos periodos. Durante la re estructuración del UDP en 1999, Ayuso emergió como Líder Auxiliar del Partido y en el 2005, renuncio después de haber fracasado en su lucha para ser el candi-dato para la área de Caribbean Shores al

actual Carlos Perdomo. Oscar Ayuso también sirvió por var-

ios años como cónsul honorario de Sue-cia y más recién fue nombrado embaja-dor de Belice ante el Vaticano. Deja atrás su esposa Halima y sus dos hijos Oscar y Yasmin. Ambos Partidos Políticos el United Democratic Party y el People’s United Party se han unido para extender pésames a la familia sobreviviente de Oscar Ayuso.

Los servicios fúnebres fueron lleva-dos a cabo en la Iglesia Divine Mercy el pasado Miércoles 29 de Julio para el embajador Oscar Ayuso que fue seguido por una procesión fúnebre hasta el Cam-po Santo conocido como Lord’s Ridge Cemetery.

Esta publicación Perspectiva Nacio-nal se une a la nación para extender su grato pésame a la familia.

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Policías de la DAIA resguardan la droga que eratransportada en un camión.

759 Kilos de Cocaínaincautada

NOTICIAS LATINO AmerICAreGIONAL

Zelaya pone a EE.UU. en su lugar

26 de julio de 2009, 15:56Ocotal, Nicaragua, 26 jul (PL) El presidente hondureño, Manuel Zelaya, instó hoy a Washington a enfrentar “con fuerza” al régimen de facto, para saber real-mente cual es su posición.

En sus palabras a la multitud reunida en el puesto fronterizo de Las Manos, el mandatario aseguró que continuará la resistencia pacífica junto a su pueblo y reclamó a los otros gobernantes del área redoblar las acciones para poner fin al régimen de facto instalado en Honduras desde el pasado 28 de junio.

Los golpistas, dijo, se están bur-lando de las recomendaciones hechas por los gobiernos de la región y las ex-

presiones de rechazo del pueblo hon-dureño.

Algunos presidentes ni hablan de la represión, prefieren referirse a otros temas al abordar la situación de Hon-duras, advirtió Zelaya, quien solicitó a la secretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton que enfrente a la dictadura con fuerzas para poder hablar bien de la política del presidente norteamericano, Barack Obama.

Que dejen de evitar el tema y lo enfrenten con fuerza, para realmente saber la posición de Estados Unidos frente al golpe, reclamó el dignatario centroamericano.

El pueblo hondureño y él, aseguró,

siguen en pie de lucha, reclamando sus derechos, frente a los militares quienes reprimen, violan las garantías ciudada-nas y los derechos humanos.

Zelaya denunció que sus familiares y miles de simpatizantes están impe-didos de reunirse con él en la frontera con Nicaragua, debido la actitud in-transigente de los militares hondure-

Caracas, Venezuela: Una acción desestabilizadora está en marcha en Venezuela precedida por una ofensi-va de guerra psicológica y con rami-ficaciones financieras en Panamá y Colombia, según datos e informes de inteligencia divulgados hoy.

El ex vicepresidente venezolano José Vicente Rangel afirmó que la operación, detectada por un equipo multidisciplinario, está destinada a contener y revertir los procesos de transformación social en América.

Precisó que parte de los recursos para estas acciones son otorgados por una fundación en Venezuela bajo la fachada de importar juguetes desde Panamá y Colombia.

Agregó que la operación se re-aliza como indican los manuales de golpe de estado de los organismos de inteligencia de Estados Unidos y los recursos son manejados por empre-sas y fundaciones de dos banqueros venezolanos y empresarios del ramo de seguros. Para financiar el plan se adquirió una empresa aseguradora en Panamá la cual es parte del mecanis-mo de transferencia de recursos para los sectores de oposición de Venezu-ela.

Rangel reveló que uno de los di-rectores de la empresa subsidiaria es un ciudadano de origen árabe con una cédula de identidad venezolana falsa y nexos importantes con los or-ganismos de inteligencia de Estados

Unidos. Apuntó que esa persona es una de las piezas conectadas con el estado occidental Zulia (fronterizo con Colombia) para facilitar el trá-fico de armas hacia Venezuela.

Asimismo aseguró que fue con-firmada la participación de empre-sas y una fundación vinculada a un banquero venezolano en aprietos en el manejo de dinero vía Panamá y Colombia. En su programa televi-sivo dominical, Jose Vicente Hoy, Rangel indicó que se observa medi-ante los medios de comunicación de la oposición como se intensifica la campaña de desprestigio y desgaste social y político contra el presidente Hugo Chávez.

Precisó que se magnifican hechos delictivos, además de campañas so-bre supuesto apoyo a la guerrilla colombiana y grupos extremistas islámicos, entre otros, como pre-paración psico-social para poner en marcha una agresión contra el orden constitucional.

La acción prevé la utilización de paramilitares traídos desde Colombia y centro América, así como policías de gobernaciones y alcaldías con-troladas por la oposición. Según la investigación, un importante grupo de exfuncionarios de la Dirección de Servicios de Inteligencia y Preven-ción (DISIP) están entrenando para-militares para generar terrorismo ur-bano de alto impacto psicológico.

Presidente Hugo Chavez

ños, quienes les impiden el paso.Qué delito comenten el pueblo y mi

familia al querer venir a reunirse con-migo, cuestionó el gobernante.

El mundo, consideró, no puede cal-lar ante esta situación; las relaciones políticas y diplomáticas están desafia-das por la dictadura impuesta por los golpistas en Honduras.

Zelaya denunció que sus familiares y miles de simpatizantes estánimpedidos de reunirse con él en la frontera con NicaraguaDenuncian plan subversi-

vo contra Venezuela

El ministro de Gobernación, Raúl Velásquez, informó que los 759 kilos de cocaína incautados ayer en un predio en Escuintla podrían pertenecer al cartel de Sinaloa, México, y que pudo haberse tratado de un robo entre bandas de nar-cotraficantes que operan en ese sector.

Velásquez, quien llegó al lugar del operativo, afirmó que la droga está valo-

rada en unos Q76 millones, ya que tiene un grado de pureza del cien por cien.

“Sabemos que aquí —Escuintla— opera el cartel de Sinaloa”, refirió el funcionario.

Investigadores de la Policía indicaron que la población los alertó de que en ese predio, ubicado en la 4a. avenida norte, calzada Colom Argueta, zona 2, era un centro de venta de narcóticos al extran-

jero.La droga estaba escondida en un

camión que llevaba cajas con bebidas gaseosas.

Hace cinco años esas instalaciones fueron allanadas, pero las autoridades no encontraron ninguna evidencia, re-firió el ministro de Gobernación.

Decomisan armas

La División de Análisis e Infor-mación Antinarcótica (DAIA) decomisó en esa vivienda tres fusiles de asalto, dos M-16 y un AK-47, que estaban dentro de dos camiones. También encontraron tres chalecos antibalas y radiocomunicado-res satelitales. En el lugar incautaron dos vehículos tipo agrícola, y en uno de ellos localizaron chalecos con las siglas DEA y FBI.

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Dos Muertos, Uno Asesina-do, Otro Suicidado

Aries-El tránsito de Mercurio y el Sol por tu casa cinco te ayuda

a aumentar tu confianza y a creer más en tus posibilidades. Vas a sentir cierta urgencia para hacer cosas fuera de lo normal andando a la búsqueda de la originalidad, de la creatividad y de la diferencia. Te resultará más fácil clari-ficar tu postura personal ante cualquier situación amorosa. Vas a adquirir más capacidad para comunicarte, en espe-cial, en todo lo relacionado con tu vida

Géminis-El tránsito de Mercurio y el Sol por tu casa tres indica un

social, igualmente vas a buscar en el exterior cosas que realmente produzcan cambios en tu vida interior. El tránsito de Mercurio y el Sol por tu signo indica más actividad en tu vida diaria. Virgo-El tránsito de Venus y Marte por tu casa diez indica que vas a buscar

social. Tauro-El tránsito de Mercurio y el Sol por tu casa cuatro revela

que vas a tener que solucionar algunos de los problemas que se dan en tu nú-cleo familiar.Tu actitud va a ser impor-tante para poder solucionarlos, aunque no todo va a depender de ti. El tránsito de Venus y Marte por tu casa dos indi-ca que estás en disposición de quitarte ataduras adquiriendo más autonomía, tanto emocional como económica.

tener más experiencias en tu vida profesional. Marca un periodo del año muy importante en donde vas

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ma de relacionarte. Vas a desblo-quear situaciones complejas que se están dando dentro de tu vida

tener la capacidad de poder materializar tus ideas. Refleja ayudas desde el exte-rior. Quizá estés ahora mejor preparado para enfrentarte a nuevos retos y super-arlos o quizá conozcas nuevas vías de acción que te resulten muy validas. Libra-El tránsito de Mercurio y el Sol por tu casa once indica que vas a compartir y vivir momentos muy interesantes en

tus vacaciones. Se incrementa-rán tus relaciones personales, la

comunicación con tu entorno, el inter-cambio de ideas, etc. Estás en un buen momento para desarrollar con éxito tus iniciativas personales. Si quieres un cambio en tus relaciones de amistad es ahora cuando lo tienes que negociar. Es el momento de avanzar basándose en tu talento y en tu esfuerzo. Escorpio-El tránsito de Mercurio y

el Sol por tu casa diez te da la opción de vivir situaciones bastante especiales, tanto en

el ámbito profesional como en el per-sonal. Igualmente puedes vivir cambios imprevisibles y sorpresas dentro de tus relaciones. Actualmente estás sujeto a diferentes influencias externas. Indica que tu vida profesional pasa por una etapa intensa, llena de nuevas emo-ciones.

Sagitario-Mercurio y el Sol transitando por tu casa nueve indican un periodo favorable

para afianzarte y mejorar tu desarrollo personal desde un punto de vista inter-no. Tu visión de las cosas y tu escala de valores van a cambiar. Refleja una eta-pa para fortalecer o afianzar tu person-alidad. Se abre un periodo de enorme apertura mental en el que vas a tener un mayor sentido de libertad personalCapricornio-Mercurio y el Sol tran-sitando por tu casa ocho indican que vas a profundizar en tu interior. Si últi-mamente estás teniendo problemas en tus relaciones ahora es el momento de la reconciliación. Vives una etapa ap-

ropiada para ciertas reflexiones respecto a los recursos comparti-

dos con tu pareja, tanto emocionales o sexuales como materiales. Acuario-El tránsito de Mercurio y el Sol por tu casa siete revela que se pueden dar durante las próximas semanas situ-aciones urgentes en tus relaciones per-sonales, en especial, con tu pareja. Vas a tener que estar muy alerta y concen-trado a la vez. Muestra un periodo que

te impulsará a la renovación y al cambio, pero tendrás que tener cuidado con ciertas sorpresas.

Algo en tu interior puede decirte que estás cansando de la rutina.Piscis-El tránsito de Mercurio y el Sol por tu casa seis refleja que entras en una etapa diferente, en especial, en todo lo relacionado con el trabajo. Tus relaciones laborales van a ser una de las áreas más importantes de tu vida en este momento. Es posible que te sientas

empujado por un sentido de in-dividualidad muy acusado. Los desafíos te darán marcha para

atender todo lo que te echen encima. Revela un aumento de tu confianza personal así como de tu capacidad para comunicar.

Todos saben lo vengativo que ha sido el gobierno UDP bajo el primer ministro Dean Barrow. El pasado miércoles du-rante un servicio fúnebre religioso para el embajador Oscar Ayuso que se llevo a cabo en la iglesia católica, Divine Mercy, en ButtonWood Bay el sacerdote parro-quial, Jim Blount, tomo la oportunidad de hacer el llamado al primer ministro para que cese el odio y la persecución. Este sacerdote que no es un Beliceño parece saber mucho de lo que está suce-diendo localmente y del tipo de gobierno a quien estamos sujetado. Antes de que el UDP llegue al gobierno conspiraron con los sindicatos para derrocar al antiguo gobierno, organizando paros generales y boicoteando todo lo que ese gobierno trataba de hacer para establecer un me-jor porvenir por el pueblo Beliceño. Al arribar al poder comenzaron quemando los puentes que sirvió para cruzarlos de un lado al otro. Su primer orden del día

para el gobierno UDP fue para destituir miles de trabajadores de sus puestos de trabajo para así estrangular sus miedos de sobrevivencia también iniciaron una campaña para hostigar y perseguir a sus rivales políticos en vez de crear los opor-tunidades necesarias para mejorar la vida cuotidiana del Beliceño. Como si no fuera suficiente así mismo empezaron a interferir con los principales inversioni-stas del país sin tomar en cuenta las con-secuencias devastadoras.

Han tratado de hacer enmiendas con-stitucionales para restringir los derechos de beliceños aunque juraron servir y respetar la constitución. Belice va decli-nando por un gobierno fracasado que nos lleva a la deriva hacia un estado fra-casado. Es obvio al sacerdote que para que nosotros como pueblo nos muéva-nos hacia adelante a la prosperidad, este gobierno tendrá que cesar con el odio y persecución.

Alto Al odio y A lA Persecución

Las autoridades policiacas de San Ignacio han arrestado a Freddy Fernán-dez de diez y nueve años de ese muni-cipio y lo acusaron de asesinar con una herida de arma blanca a Gilbert Novelo de diez y seis años de Santa Elena.

Según el Comandante de la Forma-cion Policiaca en ese municipio[io, Paul Wade, Sus investigaciones indican que Novelo (un menor) había estado di-virtiéndose en el night Club Faya Wata poco antes de las 2:00 de la madrugada del domingo cuando de repente se vio involucrado en una discusión que poco después se convirtió en un pleito.

Durante este tiempo, Novelo sufrió una herida mortal con un cuchillo de mesa a la parte del estomago que cause que se desplomara a suelo.

Nazin Juan propietario negó que el incidente ocurrió en su establecimien-to y dijo que el pleito se llevo a cavo a cincuenta pies de su club. Testigos niegan la versión de Juan y dicen que hicieron una llamada a la policía inme-diatamente cuando irrumpió el pleito y antes de que Novelo fuera herido, pero cuando la policía respondió y llego al sitio, todo ya había terminado, Novelo herido y hasta ya lo habían transpor-tado al hospital de San Ignacio. Ya que el hospital no esta equipado para tratar con dichas emergencias, lo envi-aron de inmediato al hospital regional occidental ubicado en Belmopan para tratamiento especializado en el esfu-erzo para salvarle la vida. Desafortu-nadamente, por la distancia y la logís-tica, el menor sucumbió a sus heridas mientras que era tratado alrededor de las 4:00 de esa misma madrugada.

El incidente origino en el night club ubicado en el mero centro de San Ig-nacio a pocos minutos caminando de la estación de policía y la policía no pudo responder de inmediato. Las fu-entes indican que el establecimiento tradicionalmente atrae a menores bajo la edad requerida de 18 años de lo que requiere la ley para que puedan entrar o consumir licor. La fuente añadió que el night club opera mayormente

con estos jóvenes sin ningún tipo de reforzamiento policiaco ni nadie que prohíban a los menos a entrar al estab-lecimiento.

El superintendente Wade le dijo a los medios que los jóvenes involu-crados en el pleito fueron detenidos e interrogados pero basado sobre las evidencias, Freddy Fernández fue ar-restado y acusado ya que las pruebas lo señalan como la persona quien hirió y causo la muerte de Gilberto Novelo.

Mientras tanto, está creciendo una controversia referente a las circunstan-cias que rodean la trágica muerte de un estudiante del Colegio St. Micheals identificado como Kevin Francis de 16 años. Su cuerpo fue descubierto detrás del edificio de la Belize Tourism In-dustry Asociacion (BTIA) en la área de Fort George cerca del Memorial Park sobre la calle Cork este pasado lunes. Se dice que Kevin Francis dejo su casa el sábado en la mañana después de tener un argumento con su madre. Fue encontrado en las tempranas horas del lunes en un estado de descomposición suspendido de una cuerda telefónica que estaba amarado en partes del edi-ficio.

Por su estado de descomposición, el Dr. Forense del Gobierno, Mario Es-tradabran llevo a cabo un examen de autopsia en el sitio en donde certifico que fue inconcluyente; en otras pa-labras, clínicamente, no pudo concluir las causas de su muerte. El doctor no menciono las marcas de hinchazones que demostraba el cuerpo y esto causo dudas para los familiares y en especial el tio que se identifico como Elton Jex. Jex le dijo a los medios que existían diferentes marcas en el cuerpo de su sobrino y estaba sangrando de sus pies, su estomago, de su boca y oídos.

Pero existen nuevas revelaciones en donde la familia del menor está haciendo alegaciones que implican a la policía. Declararon que una fuente fidedigna les informo que Francis re-cibió una herida de bala en la calle East Collet Canal y que el pistolero era una

policía. Según las revelaciones, Francis fue metido al vehículo y se lo llevaron. La nueva información ofrecida por la familia está poniendo en duda la integ-ridad de la policía así como del doctor forense, Dr. Estradabran. Jex dijo que el supuesto examen forense duro me-nos de 5 minutos y lo único que se hizo fue de voltear el cuerpo de un lado para otro y las demás observaciones fueron nada más al criterio.

Estrada Bran justifico su proced-imiento en el examen forense diciendo que normalmente cuando el cuerpo está descompuesto, toman en cuenta las investigaciones de la policía.

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