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Guatemala Takes Sarstoon Island Did Barrow secretly give it to them?

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Guatemala has asserted claim over what goes on on Sarstoon Island, which is in Belize’s territory. A note from Guatemala indicated that someone in the Barrow Administration gave them such authority. Speak up Prime Minister!

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UDP Disses Delroy

Pg. 6 Cuthkelvin denied right to contest Stann Creek West convention

UK Guardian: Belize in Debt Danger Zone!

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Youth Leaders Take a Stand

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Forward PUP Eastern Caucus Leaders meeting at Independence Hall on Thursday afternoon to intensify their ground campaign

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PUP Western Caucus Leaders meet to discuss campaign strategies

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A Golden Opportunity for National Development

By Gilroy Usher, Sr. Venezuela uses the revenues from the sale of oil to offer loans on the most favorable terms imaginable to Belize and other developing countries. This is the Alba Petrocaribe programme. There is no endless bureaucracy requiring months and months to access a loan. Once Belize buys a shipment of oil from the South American country, it’s allowed to convert 60% of the hard currency from the sale to a loan which it can access immediately. Unlike loans from private banks or multilateral lending agencies , like the World Bank, that carry interest rates from 2 1/2% to 8% per annum, the interest for Petrocaribe loans is only one percent per year. And while there is no grace period for most multilateral or commercial loans, each Petrocaribe loan comes with a grace period of three years before the first payment is due and 25 years to complete payment of an individual loan.

The PUP administration initiated Belize’s participation in the Petrocaribe program but it was at the ending of their 2003-2008 term. Under the UDP, the country obtained millions of dollars in special loans from Venezuela. Up to May of this year the Barrow administration obtained over $300 million in loans from Petrocaribe. Of the amount it has spent approximately $180m. A portion of those funds have been used for very few projects with long term benefits for the country. Such projects include infrastructural development such as the concreting of a number of streets and the building of roundabouts in different municipalities. Nevertheless the majority of roads, streets, and bridges in the country remain in dire need of urgent attention. The remaining portion of that $180m has been spent mainly on short term things like tablets for UB students, Mothers’ Day cheer, Christmas cheer, and other political undertakings. Those things would be acceptable once the funds for such initiatives are obtained in compliance with the Finance and Audit Reform Act of 2005 and there is transparency and accountability

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with the disbursement of the funds.

The Finance and Audit Act has been overlooked however, and the spending took place without the required compliance measure. $280 m is a lot of money. Since the Petrocaribe loans have to be repaid by taxpayers, it’s time that the lion share of those loans is used to stimulate long term development this nation. Increased investment and production mean more needed jobs for our people. We need to

find ways to make the Petrocraibe funds assist our farmers and others in the agriculture sector. Small businesses bring huge benefits; therefore, it would be a prudent investment to use Petrocaribe monies to help make such businesses successful.

We should also make sixth form and university education more affordable to more deserving students by offering free education

Thank you from the family of Kareem Clarke

by Melanie Young, Sister On behalf of the Clarke and Samuels family, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks to those who assisted us during the time of our bereavement for Kareem Clarke, our loving son, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin, friend and media colleague.

A very special thank you to Amandala’s Publisher Evan X Hyde who saw the talent and special gift Kareem had which he shared with Belizeans on a weekly basis in his articles which he was passionate about.

Thanks to the management and staff of Amandala, KREM TV, KREM Radio and other me-

dia houses who assisted with the funeral arrangements and shared their fun memories of Kareem Clarke.

Thanks to the Management and staff of Norman’s Printing House for producing the funeral program, Renaissance Tower for supporting the family, Senator Rev. Noel Leslie of the St. Joseph Parish for officiating at the funeral service, Evan “Mose” Hyde for the excellent eulogy, and Lamb Funeral Home.

We cannot forget to thank all those friends and relatives who came over to our home or who met us on the streets; who offered prayers, shared wonderful words of comfort or hugged us, brought inspirational greeting cards, and shared fond memories and photos of Kareem.

A sincere thank you to all those who supported us in any way.

Kareem was surely an inspiration to many of us, especially in the media, as he was a phenomenal writer and reader; so let’s keep his vision alive through the Kareem Clarke Memorial Fund, which will nurture other young people who can make a difference in our society.

Let’s now “KAREEM IT” for peace and love in Belize.

RIP Kareem Clarke.

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at those levels.

For the past eight years this administration has done nothing to address the need for proper two or three bedroom concrete houses for poor people of this nation. It’s time that such an important matter be addressed with petrocaribe money.

There is also a great demand for house lots especially for residents of urban communities. That’s another necessary thing in Belize that should be addressed with the special loans made possible by el Comandante Chavez.

The people also want this administration to use some of the petrocaribe money to provide the Police Department with the necessary human resources and equipment to effectively tackle the worsening crime situation across the country.

Use of the special loans for those and other initiatives will create lasting employment for hundreds of Belizeans throughout the nation. Investment in many of those undertakings will also result in economic growth and increased revenue for the government to pay its bills.

The use of this exceptionally favorable line of credit from Venezuela for purely political purposes at election time undermines the noble vision of the Hugo Chavez, who established the program to fight poverty and promote long term development in Central American and the Caribbean. According to Mr. Osoro at the Ministry of Finance Belize for the foreseeable Belize can expect an average of $75 m every year in loans from the Petrocaribe program. Used wisely in conjunction with the national budget of over a billion dollars, Petrocaribe presents a golden opportunity for national development in this country.

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Guatemala Takes Sarstoon Island

Belize City, July 16, 2015 Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Foreign Minister Sedi Elrington have been complete sell outs to Guatemala and have done the most abominable thing of submitting to their pressures.

As revealed yesterday by Elrington’s second-in-command, Chief Executive Officer George Lovell, the Government of Belize has given up sovereignty of our most southern caye, Sarstoon Island to Guatemala.

Lovell disclosed that the Government, at Guatemala’s command, has put its plans to construct a Forward Operating Base on the island on pause. He divulged that Guatemala requested that Belize not take any new measures to place permanent military presence on the island until the matter of their baseless claim of Belize’s territory is settled at the International Court of Justice.

Lovell explained that Guatemala recently reminded the Government of Belize of this position, via a diplomatic note, after Belize authorities had informed them that Belize was prepared to proceed with plans. In that note, Guatemala stated that “they were of the opinion after the twenty-eighth of May incident that we were not going to do anything in that area until after we reached some definite position through the ICJ,” said Lovell.

The May 28th incident referred to by Guatemala is the standoff between Belize’s coast guard officials and Guatemala’s military officers, which ended with Belize’s coast guard backing down at the instructions of Prime Minister Dean Barrow. The Coast Guard was

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conducting an evaluation mission in the area for ten days, but their presence triggered an illegal incursion and aggression by Guatemala’s military.

As reported by Foreign Minister Sedi Elrington who was in Guatemala at the time, it was the Prime Minister who intervened in that matter and who gave instructions to the Coast Guard to remove themselves from the area in order to diffuse the situation.

Elrington also revealed that Barrow was the only one who had engaged the Guatemalans. This then generates the question: if the Guatemalans have been of the view that Belize had given a commitment to abandon their plans on Sarstoon Island until AFTER the dispute is resolved before the ICJ, then wouldn’t that commitment have come from Prime Minister Barrow?

We note that the Prime Minister has been very defensive and even disrespectful towards the media when they have asked him to speak on the details of his discussion with Guatemala officials on that day. He has snubbed the media’s questions, and has even scolded the reporters for daring to ask questions.

Barrow claims that Col. Lovell, the Coast Guard’s Vice Commander Elton Bennett and Elrington know and have reported all the facts, so there is nothing more that he can add. But from the Guatemalan’s newest revelation this week, it is clear that there is much more.

Come clean Mr. Barrow!! Did you secretly give away Sarstoon Island and what else was part of the secret accommodation with Guatemala?

Youth Leaders Take a Stand

July 15, 2015 It has been over two years since the Ministers of Youth Hon. Patrick Faber and Hon. Herman Longsworth and a representative of UNICEF launched the National Youth Development Policy.

Since then, the policy document which Minister of State Herman Longsworth said was indicative of the “commitment by the Government to work with youths” has been ignored and left on a shelf to gather dust. The commitment made before an audience of hundreds of young people on February 27, 2013 has also turned out to be nothing but empty, sweet talk.

Today’s high levels of gun violence and murders (78 homicides in 2015), increasing joblessness among young people including graduates, and the growing social breakdown in our neighbourhood leading young people to gangs and guns, in particular in the Southside of Belize City, are the results of a spiralling deterioration of Government’s commitment to work with and for young people.

The answers to high crime and social breakdown among our youth DO NOT lie in the work of the Police Department alone.

The answers are also neither short-term planning nor spending on initiatives that only meet short-sighted partisan political objectives.

What is needed is a comprehensive youth development plan and Leaders in Government who have the political will to execute and treat Young People as a priority.

The Belize Youth Movement calls on the Government to reverse its costly position of neglecting the real issues affecting young people and to, forthwith, begin to invest the necessary resources in the implementation of the National Youth Development Policy.

On behalf of our members, and all young people throughout the country, we will not shy away from our responsibility to remind the Government of the commitments made to young people. Ignoring this call will only reinforce the growing need to MAKE them listen to us. [End]

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Belize City, July 13, 2015 The Business Insider, the UK Guardian newspaper’s popular business publication, has listed Belize as one of the countries which “are spiralling towards government debt crises”.

The article starts off reviewing the economic collapse of Greece, triggered by its high debt levels. The information is based on data compiled in a new analysis by the Jubilee Debt Campaign, entitled “The New Debt Trap”.

It also discusses how the rise in inequality and the concentration of wealth caused the global financial crisis in 2008. Countries have become too dependent on debt to attract money. This money, however, is invested in ways which does not improve conditions for the poorer groups in society, only exacerbating inequality and resulting in “growth” in numbers and not in “human development”.

“Greece’s plight is far from unique: more than 20 other countries are also wrestling with their own debt crises,” notes the Business Insider article.

It then goes on to list Belize along with Armenia, Dominican Republic, Gambia, Grenada, and Tunisia as nations who are in debt danger zone.

The article focusing on Belize’s debt problems is similar to a report in mid-June by Moody’s Investors Service which warned about Belize’s “unsustainable public debt” and the looming economic crisis as a result.

Moody’s predicts that the hard times in Belize will continue because the “economic fundamentals, including [Belize’s] economic strength, have not materially changed”.

The report notes that aside from the recognised external debt, Belize has two large “compensation liabilities” to the former owners of the telecommunications company, Belize Telemedia Limited, and the electricity company, Belize Electricity Limited.

This compensation ranges somewhere between $500-$600 million dollars.

The report noted that “…the recognition of liabilities from Belize’s nationalizations could push public debt to above 90% of GDP, render-

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Belize District, July 16, 2015 The Leaders of the People’s United Party have intensified their energies and efforts to pave the way forward to victory.

On Thursday evening, the PUP’s Eastern Caucus engaged its leaders at the PUP Headquarters in Belize City. They discussed the state of the campaign machineries in each division and shared strategies to improve the Party’s effectiveness.

A meeting was also held by the PUP Western Caucus as they gear up for the general elections. The PUP has excellent and hardworking campaign teams and workers in each of the constituencies in the Western Caucus.

The Western Caucus is made up of dynamic PUP leaders Hon. Julius Espat of Cayo South, Senator Patrick Andrews of Belmopan, Dr. Lesbia Guerra of Cayo West, Orlando “Landy” Habet of Cayo North East, Attorney Michel “MIcho” Chebat of Cayo North and former Minister Daniel Silva of Cayo Central.

Power to the people!! The Party of ideas and social justice is moving forward with Party Leader Hon. Francis Fonseca.

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Moody’s economic experts predicted that the financial stress caused by the above the impending factors and a step-up coupon rate amortization pay-

2015 ments for the Superbond “could translate into financial stress, the possibility of a pre-emptive debt restructuring” in 2017/2018.

Moody’s also warned that the Barrow Administration will

be taking a serious “risk of fiscal slippage” if it continues to spend on electioneering and political gimmicks instead of sound ideas.

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EDITORIAL BARROW IS PLAYING WITH FIRE

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he Prime Minister of Belize has clearly entered into a secret accommodation understanding with Guatemala over the Sarstoon Island.

The end result of such an illegal act is the suspension of Belizean sovereignty over Sarstoon Island which we predict will cause Belize to ultimately lose this portion of our territory, and lead to the loss of other sovereign territory and maritime areas.

Suspicion was raised in late May of this year when Guatemalan military personnel chased off Belize Coast Guard who was on the island doing preparatory work for a small forward base. Readers will recall the sensational story which left the nation in shock.

The official version was that a small party of Belize Coast Guard personnel arrived on Sarstoon Island on Thursday 28th May around mid-morning and was immediately accosted by the Guatemalan navy demanding that they leave.

So the first question is why would a regular Guatemalan patrol take such a drastic and provocative act unless it is their understanding that Sarstoon Island is not to be visited or populated by Belizeans?

The official Belize narrative continued that the Belize Coast Guard informed the Guatemalan Navy that it was Belize territory and it was the Guatemalans who should move. G.P.S readings were checked and rechecked in the presence of the Guatemalan Navy which remained adamant that the Belize Coast Guard should leave.

While this dangerous military confrontation was brewing, Belize’s Foreign Minister was unexplainable in Guatemala. He had on the Monday of that same week, signed an amendment to an agreement with Guatemala. That amendment to the infamous compromi was to allow Guatemala to breach the written terms by holding a separate referendum on whether their claim to Belize should be taken to the I.C.J-the International Court of Justice.

For the records let it be repeated, that the opposition leader Hon. Francis Fonseca rejected the government’s capitulation to the change of the compromi.

Not only was our Foreign Ministry in Guatemala on the 28th and 29th May, but so too was his Chief Executive Officer and Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala. Yet none of these three, individually or collectively could get the Guatemalan Navy from retracting their confrontational stance against our Coast Guard at Sarstoon Island.

On the morning of Friday 29 May, the Belize Coast Guard, on the direct orders of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, put their tails between their legs, hung their heads in shame and sailed away from Sarstoon Island, never to return.

To this day 17 July 2015, the Prime Minister has refused to say

anything or answer any questions as to why he made such a fateful, cowardly decision to retreat from our nation’s territory on Sarstoon Island. His response to journalists who keep braving the brunt of his arrogance and disdainful remarks has displayed a certain fear of telling the truth.

The truth has to lie somewhere between some secret undertaking given by the Prime Minister to Guatemala and the uncharacteristic refusal to inform the nation of such a monumental act of surrender.

Channel 5 broke another sensational story this Thursday 16th July that Belize had in fact asked permission from Guatemala to allow us to visit Sarstoon Island to erect a small forward base- or observation post. Guatemala’s answer was loud and clear; you are to do no such thing.

Guatemala went further than saying No. Guatemala said Belize is not to do anything, anything at all, on Sarstoon Island until the I.C.J hands down a definitive decision.

When the I.C.J will make any such determination is anybody’s guess. There may never be an I.C.J ruling. Until then Belize has lost sovereignty over Sarstoon Island.

When did Guatemala notify Belize of this new, hard-line, unfriendly position? By what authority does Guatemala now seek to enforce its sovereignty over Sarstoon Island? When did Prime Minister Barrow agree that Sarstoon Island no longer falls within the jurisdiction of Belize? By what authority has the Prime Minister surrendered Belizean sovereignty over the Sarstoon Island?

There will be hell to pay, at the rate by which the Prime Minister has been appeasing Guatemala’s behavior towards Belize.

In another revealing interview on Channel 5, Thursday 16th July, Foreign Minister Elrington’s best response to questions on this latest Sarstoon Island development, was to blightly retort that sometime in 2000 or 2002, Guatemala’s military had abducted some Belize Defense Soldiers. His intention was to show that such a behavior is not occurring at Sarstoon Island. This is the usual lousy party political response by the UDP government, i.e look what happened under the PUP, so it’s no big thing what is presently happening.

This is so immature and pathetic. Along the unmarked land border to the West, it is almost a no-man’s land. The Sarstoon Island is a straight-forward issue. It has always been treated as part of Belize’s territory. Why are there no howls of protest coming from the UDP government over the spate of unacceptable behavior by Guatemala?

Prime Minister Barrow and his incompetent UDP government are playing with fire. The gravity of what had happened with the sovereign territory of Belize on Sarstoon Island has not yet fully exposed the sinister nature of what secret accommodations has taken place with the nation’s future.

When the truth comes out there will be hell to pay.

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UDP Disses Delroy Cuthkelvin denied right to contest Stann Creek West convention

Belize City, July 15, 2015 The United Democratic Party truly knows how to use their people like useless floor cloth.

Delroy Cuthkelvin, who was once the UDP’s chief propagandist in the campaign to the 2008 general elections campaign, and who rose through his Party’s ranks to become the Prime Minister’s press officer, has been kicked to the bottom of the pit.

This week Delroy announced that his Party had rejected his application to

enth hour because he believed that the Party Chairman, Alberto August, had rigged the votes against him.

In his message, Delroy scoffed at the outcome of Hulse’s candidacy, jokingly noting that Hulse’s resignation “because of bad-mouthing the Prime Minister himself” was “poetic justice at its best”.

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that would give him an advantage, but it didn’t. He attracted Barrow’s scorn and public assault. As we had indicated in a previous article, Barrow considered Delroy’s anti-Petrocaribe stance, which was made public in an article published in the Amandala newspaper, as a direct attack.

“One needs no legal training to understand that the primary purpose of this new law is to legalize actions which, were it not for the new law, would be in contravention of the Finance and Audit (Reform) Act, 2005…”

“I humbly submit that this [Petro-

caribe Loans Act 2015] is a wrong law, one that flies in the face of Democracy, and one that reverses significant gains made by the Belizean People,” stated Delroy in his op-ed article.

The bad blood between Delroy and Dean Barrow is now fever pitch. As Barrow’s days as UDP leader wind down, it will be interesting to see whose camp Delroy joins as he prepares to deliver the final blow. As Delroy said in his commentary, with Barrow’s Petrocaribe Loans Act “we could well be headed to ‘Parliamentary Hell’ on a fully-cemented street or hot-mixed highway”.

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run as a candidate in their Stann Creek West convention. The convention was called after standard bearer Melvin Hulse was forced to step down. Hulse ran into problems with UDP Leader Dean Barrow, after he was heard in a leaked recording blasting Barrow’s leadership and describing Barrow as someone who only cares about himself and no one else.

Delroy is not happy with the turn of events. Yesterday he posted an angry message on his Facebook page, “The rejection of our application has now been officially confirmed by the Party’s Nomination Committee and Secretariat. Some Democracy indeed.”

Delroy clarified that his intentions were good, and he believed he should have been the man to replace “the disgraced standard-bearer whose installation the Cabinet itself had ensured”. Delroy was referring to the Convention held last year which he had contested but backed down at the elev-

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But memories of you will never Die. In Heaven there is no rest, no worry, no pain. We will meet again, though your smile is gone forever, and your hand we cannot touch. Still we have so many memories of the one we loved so much. We know for sure that your spirit is with us all the time.

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WOMAN IN THE HOUSE

By Dolores Balderamos Garcia

I SAY THAT IT IS WRONG!!

Late in the evening on Friday March 27 this year, at the close of the budget debate, the debate on the infamous Petrocaribe Loans Bill ensued after the first presentation by the Prime Minister. Opposition Leader Hon. Francis Fonseca forcefully rejected the Bill in his response, even though members on our side did not have nearly sufficient time to prepare. We had only seen the Bill the day before. All members were tired and wanted to return home. It was after 7 pm, yet the Bill was rammed through. I did not prepare or write down ahead of time what I was going to say. Here is the transcript, almost verbatim, of what I said on that occasion when I rose to make my contribution to the debate.

“Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will just say a very few words in support of our absolute opposition to this Bill.

Mr. Speaker, I would just like to, in my view, and in my own words, rubbish the argument of the Prime Minister that because you don’t know the exact sums of money that are going to be spent, then that should exempt you from coming to this Honourable House when the amounts are in excess of $10 million. The bypassing of the Finance and Audit (Reform) Act is dastardly, it is full of audacity, it is an act of supreme faciness, and it is completely wrong-headed, Mr. Speaker.”

“I would also like, just to state for the record, and it seems as if all of us like to quote the Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice’s statement about the malignant tumor. Mr. Speaker, I would like to say, you will have your way, but give me my say - the real malignant tumor, as was said by that Justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice, is overweening Prime Ministerial and Executive power that runs away and rides rough shod over the laws and the Constitution of the land. That is the malignant tumor. And so when we hear the Prime Minister in a self righteous way, getting up and talking about malignant tu-

mor, he should “noh watch us, watch yourself!!” The real malignant tumor is not respecting the laws of the land and not bringing Bills properly before the National Assembly in accordance with the Finance and Audit (Reform) Act.” “Mr. Speaker, I can only say that this is a sad day. I never thought I would live to see this day of such Prime Ministerial and executive arrogance as to be running over the Constitution and laws of our country and completely thumbing your nose at the Rule of Law.” “And Mr. Speaker, let me say this: They like to look at this side and call us ignorant. But let me say something: if it is a matter of not understanding and needing information, that is okay. But when you call people ignorant in a way to bring them down, to disparage them and to use offensive, most offensive utterances, that is what we will be against.”

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to say this, that maybe today the Prime Minister and his government will get their way. But even though you are trying to put it in the legislation that your actions are completely beyond the oversight of the Court, that road has been gone down before, and as much as you may think today that you can have your way, there will always be a possibility of going before the Court and the Court determining whether what you are doing is correct. Don’t think that you can get away from that separation of powers.”

“This is a wrong-headed law.

It should not be brought before this National Assembly, and I would like to go on record supporting the Leader of the Opposition. And we on this side, the People’s United Party, say that it should not be done. I rubbish this Bill, and I SAY THAT IT IS WRONG, and we should not do it, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much!!”

Hon. Dolores Balderamos Garcia is the only woman member of the House of Representatives, representing the constituency of Belize Rural Central for the People’s United Party.

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Brown Bombers win SMART Mundialito championship

Belize City, July 12, 2015 The Brown Bombers won the 2015 SMART Mundialito football championship finals at the MCC garden on Sunday afternoon.

In the championship final, the Brown Bombers won 2-0 over the Young Warriors when MVP Jovaun Ramos scored the 1st winning goal in the 1st half and then converted a penalty in the 2nd half to make it 2-0.

Young Warriors tried to equalize but were out-numbered when first Sterling Williams was sent off with a red card, and then Ceron Usher was also sent off with a red card, reducing the Warriros to only 9 men.

In 3rd place, the Ladyville Jaguars outlasted the Collet Strikers 2-1 when D’jon Canello scored the Jaguars’ 1st goal in the 2nd half.

Collet Strikers’ Shemar Gillett equalized 1-1, but Canello scored the jaguars’ 2nd goal for the 2-1 win.

Awards Best Goalkeeper - Bombers’ Juliana Medina Most Goals - Jovaun Ramos Most Valuable Player – Jovaun Ramos Best Forward - D’Jon Canello Best Midfield - Jose Garcia (Warriors) Best Defense - Anthony Parham (Collet Strikers) Best Coach - Michael “Watta-plait” Flowers (Ladyville Jaguars)

Mystics, SQ Mega Stars & UB Jaguars win in BDVA volleyball

Brown Bombers

SMART Marketing Director Anthony Mahler and FFB General Secretary Michael Blease presenting trophy to Best Goal Keeper Julian Medina

Organisers are sponsors presenting trophy to Best Forward Djon Canelo

Athletes prepare for regional competition

Chernelle Enriquez bolts to the finish line in 100m race

Belmopan Mystics won 2-0 Belize City, July 12, 2015 On Saturday night, the S.Q. Mega Stars’ Shericka Burton and Jahshema Saunders spiked points on plays set by Xiomara Quan, while Emily Evans, Karena Bernard and Nayala Tun received and blocked to tame the Leopards: 25-10 and 25-15. Leopards’ Maurissa Williams, Leyla Hernandez, Lian Herrera and Jessica Heusner scored points on plays set by Tasha and Moesha Shaw, but the Mega Stars prevailed.

The S.Q. Ultra Stars’ Mya Musa, Juel Lewis, Morgan Miles and Zazie Mckenzie hammered plays set by Cassandra Fabro and Alexis Burn to win 25-18, 25-22 against the Vista Stars. Vista’s On Saturday, the “Bengay” veterans Joseph “Sonny” Enriquez, Albert Humes, Wallace Tillett and Gillian Smith hammered kills at the net on balls set by Khalid Encalada and Martin Gongora to win 25-21, 25-21 against the S.Q. Yellow Dragons. The Dragons’ Grayson Ewing, Nayeem Mckay and Devaughn Davis scored points on balls set by Miguel Rosado and Francis Hauze, but old school won over young school!

Other matches: UB Jaguars vs. S.Q. Red Dragons - 25-14, 25-19 UB Jaguars vs. S.Q. Yellow Dragons - 25-19, 25-17 Belmopan Mystics vs. Belize City’s Leopards - 25-23, 2520 S.Q. Mega Stars vs. S.Q. Vista Stars - 25-15, 25-5

Belize City, July 12, 2015 The Belize Amateur Athletic Association hosted a national athletics meet at Marion Jones Sports Complex in Belize City last Saturday, in preparation for upcoming regional tournaments.

Female 100 meters 1st UB’s Zhanae Jex - 12.66 secs 2nd UB’s G’anne Humes - 12.97 secs 3rd Latrese Pastor - 13.81 secs 4th Kaylin Mejia - 15.78 secs Female Junior 200 meters 1st Zhanae Jex - 26.56 secs 2nd G’anne Humes - 27.83 secs 3rd Latrese Pastor - 30.46 secs 4th Lifhanie Palacio - 31.15secs Female Senior 100 meters 1st Chernelle Enriquez - 12.09 secs 2nd Tricia Flores - 12.23 secs Female Junior 400 meters 1st Lifhanie Palacio - 1:14.40 2nd Jestine Blanco - 1:51.38 Male 100 meters 1st Linsford Avila (Stann Creek) - 10.88 secs 2nd James Bregal (Toledo) - 11.05 seconds Male Junior 200 meters 1st James Bregal - 22.91 secs 2nd Donnell Arzu - 23.4 secs 3rd Xavier Belgrove - 23.43 secs Male Senior 200 meters 1st Linsford Avila - 22.56 secs 2nd Martin Flowers - 24.81 secs 3rd Fred Usher Jr- 24.81 secs

Male Junior 400 meters 1st Shamar Blanco - 1:03.02 Male Senior 400 meters 1st Raheem Arzu - 53.13 secs Male Senior 800 meters 1st Ernesto Villafranco (Dangriga) 2:06.94 2nd Erson Moriera - 2:18.19 3rd Wilfred Usher – 2:21.69 4th Alexander Alvarado - 2:43.02 Male Junior 800 meters 1st Giovanni Baizar - 2:18.2 2nd Kenion Moriera - 2:32.12 Male 1500 meters 1st Jonathan Perrera - 4:49.40 2nd Geovanni Baizar - 4:53.97 Female Relay 4x100m 1st “New School” team: Zhanae Jex, G’anne Humes, Shanicka Augustine, Kayde Vaughan – 53.30 secs 2nd “Old School” team: Chernelle Enriquez, Tricia Flores, Liesje Barrow, Shifanna Flowers - 54.84 secs 3rd “Young School” team: Aretha Flores, Lifhanie Palacio, Latrese Pastor and Kaylin Mejia - 1:00.54 Male Relay 4x100m 1st Belize City men: Kenneth Brackett, Fred Usher Jr, Shamar Blanco, Martin Flowers- 45.06 secs 2nd Southern men: James Bregal, Linsford Avila, Wilfred Usher, Eshay Cayetano – 47.38secs

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Real West & Rising Starz lead women’s football San Ignacio, July 12, 2015 The Real West Strikers and San Ignacio’s Rising Starz are leading the Adventures Club women’s football competition in which the UB Jaguars also won at the Norman Broaster Stadium on Sunday.

The Real West Strikers bombed the Bullet Tree girls 4-0.

Bullet Tree’s defender Ady Orellano blundered into give in Real West their 1st goal when she beat her own goalie with an auto-goal in the 46th minute. Jenelle Smith added a 2nd goal in the 74th minute, Vicky Ponce scored a 3rd goal in the 80th minute, and Julie Ponce drove in a 4th goal in the 85th minute.

The Rising Starz blasted the Infinites 6-1 with Shantel Robin-

Double Head Cabbage team

Double Head’s Herlet Clarke pitches

son scoring the 1st goal in the 2nd minute. Kenya Cho scored a 2nd goal in the 6th minute, and Cassie Jones added a 3rd goal in the 18th minute. Kenya Cho scored a 4th goal in the 39th minute to lead 4-zip at the half. In the 2nd half, Kenya Cho added a 5th goal to complete her hat trick, and Shayama Caliz delivered a 6th goal in the 50th minute. The Infinites’ Heydi Aceituno scored their only consolation goal

Roaring Creek Grace Kennedy, Esperanza Wolverines & Unitedville Rebels win softball matches

Stephanie Francis scored 1 run

Camalote Village, July 12, 2015 The Roaring Creek Grace Kennedy, Esperanza Wolverines and Unitedville Rebels each posted big wins in the women’s softball competition at the Dembigh Fuller Stadium in Camalote Village on Sunday.

Roaring Creek rolled over Camalote Spokane 6-1, led by their pitcher Leyandra Guy, who struck out 2 batters, walked 2 batters and allowed 5 hits, while the Roaring Creek diamond made zero errors, forcing Camalote to leave 6 runners on base. Camalote’s pitcher Rose Rowland walked

3 batters and gave up 10 hits, allowing Shadalee Ho to scored 3 runs, Sharene Reyes scored 2 runs and Stephanie Francis and Lisandra Guy scored a run apiece.

Esperanza Wolverines hammered the Belmopan Emeralds 13-6 by mercy rule in 5 innings, led by pitcher Rose Vernon who gave up 2 hits and walked 7 batters, allowing Belmopan’s Audrey Coleman and Nayari Perez to scored 2 runs apiece, while Guadalupe Chicas and Arlene Wade came home once.

Pitcher Guadalupe Chicas gave up 13 hits, and walked

in the 57th minute.

The UB Jaguars held the Belmopan Lucky Strikers to a nil-zip draw for the regulation 90 minutes, until UB’s Rosaria Cal scored the winning goal in the 2nd minute of injury time.

Upcoming games on Sunday, July 19 Infinites vs. Lucky Strikers Real West Strikers vs. UB Jaguars Bullet Tree vs. Rising Starz

3 batters, allowing Rose Vernon and Kim Ortega to scored 3 runs apiece while Shanaye Soberanis, Ashirah Harris and Marsha Stevens scored 2 runs apiece and Marina Ku came home once.

The Unitedville Rebels clobbered Camalote Spokane 13-2 led by pitcher Francine Salazar who struck out 5 batters and walked one, allowing only Trecia Coye and Aludy Arthurs to score a run apiece. Camalote’s pitcher Nadine Coye gave up 21 hits, allowing Shamira “Shampoo” Wade, Lynn Perez, Shern Robateau and Jeneive Salazar to score 2 runs apiece, while Josephine Caretella, Indira Spain, Indira Ireland, and Francine Salazar scored a run apiece.

Upcoming Games, Sunday, July 19, Joan Garbutt Stadium, Esperanza Village Esperanza Wolverines vs. Roaring Creek Grace Kennedy Belmopan Emeralds vs. Unitedville Rebels Camalote Spokane vs. Esperanza Wolverines Roaring Creek Grace Kennedy vs. Belmopan Emeralds

Robert Mariano wins Weekend Warriors’ national road champ

Central Bank’s Jacob Leslie scored 16pts

Central Bank

drowns Belikin 60-47

Robert Mariano wins A Div. race

Warren Coye wins B Div. race

Enrique Morales win C Div. race

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El Chapo’s astonishing escape from prison

Authorities look into the entrance to a secret tunnel through which Guzman is believed to had fled.

He used the tunnel to travel the 0.7miles between the prison and the Santa Juana construction site

50cm-by-50cm hole at the base of El Chapo’s shower that he used to enter an elaborate series of escape tunnels

Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, pictured after his last arrest in 2014, has escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico.

The drugs kingspin is head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel Reprinted from Daily Mail UK

By Imogen Calderwood and Alasdair Baverstock In Mexico The full extent of notorious gang leader El Chapo’s astonishing escape has been revealed by satellite images of the area surrounding the top security Mexican jail.

Aerial images of the jail and the surrounding countryside reveal just how complex the escape operation was, as a construction site sprang up over the course of a year just a mile from the Altiplano jail.

Given the sheer size of the operation, questions are being asked as to how no one at the jail reported noticing anything out of the ordinary.

Billionaire cartel leader Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman began his escape at 8.52pm on Saturday.

He entered the shower block at the high-security prison and, unnoticed by any guards, pried open a 50cm by 50cm grill in the floor of the shower block and climbed 32 feet down a ladder into a tunnel below the prison.

From there he used a motorbike that was waiting at the bottom for him to ride through the tunnel to freedom.

A miracle of subterranean construction, the remarkable tunnel was complete with air vents, electric lights, emergency oxygen tanks.

Although not a tall man - El Chapo means ‘the shorty’ in Spanish - the 5ft 6in gang lord was able to make his getaway standing upright in the 5.57 feethigh tunnel.

There was even a motorbike fitted to rails inside the tunnel to help remove the tonnes of earth when it was being built.

Neighbours have reported that a team of no more than four men were involved in constructing the tunnel, but the skilled workers stuck to a gruelling schedule of 10 hours a day for almost an entire year.

The engineers were forced to twice change the direction of the tunnel, in order to avoid the most sensitive areas of the prison, located 50 miles outside of Mexico City.

The underground getaway route carved a nearly mile-long path deep below the prison, before opening into a construction site in Santa Juana, hidden inside a ready-made house that was simple and understated.

The ramshackle and unfinished building housed two bedrooms and a cellar of 110-square-metres, from which the con-

El Chapo began his escape by climbing through a grill in the floor of the shower block, before climbing down a 32ft shaft and entering the tunnel An aerial image of the site shows the maximum-security Altiplano Prison, the Santa Juana construction site, and the path of the 0.7mile underground tunnel that connects them

A motorcycle adapted to a rail sits under the half-built house

struction of the tunnel began.

While inside the building, it has been reported that the crime lord took his time, using the bathroom and collecting a change of clothes before once again disappearing into the Mexican countryside, eluding the authorities for the second time in 15 years.

The operation to construct the tunnel was enormous, and required extensive and precise planning with the help of detailed blueprints of the prison, obtained by El Chapo’s men.

More than 3,250 tonnes of earth had to be removed and transported away from the site; the tunnel was nearly a mile long, 80cm wide and nearly two-metres tall, and would have produced 2,652 cubic metres of earth.

Once the earth was removed from the tunnel it was stored in a warehouse onsite, and from their taken away in trucks in tens of thousands of bags.

The sheer quantity of earth being removed would have required 379 dump trucks driving to and from the Santa Juana construction site.

Staff at the Altiplano prison are equipped with radar and electronic depth testing equipment which they are required to use regularly, specifically in order to check for tunnels.

But still nothing was ever reported.

Martin Barron, a security specialist for the National Institute of Penal Sciences, told Argentina’s La Nacion: ‘Since 1991, the prison has had sensors in the surroundings to stop anyone escaping.

‘It was said that it would be impossible to build a tunnel within the prison’s perimeters, let alone one of almost a mile.

‘This shows us that either the sensors were not working well, or they had been disconnected.’

Nearby construction said to be connected to a water reservoir project, aiming to bring water from the west of the capital into Mexico City, would have helped avoid arousing suspicion.

The company responsible for the construction, Cutzamala Constructions, reportedly started the job around 14 months ago.

But some of the pipes have still not been laid and workers admitted they did not know why the work was taking place in that area.

A couple who live next to the end of El Chapo’s escape tunnel have revealed how a mysterious neighbour who called himself ‘El Pastor’ moved into the area six months ago and claimed he was building a house.

Lorenzo Esquivel and Maria Esther Salgado, live a mile from the Altiplano jail in the town of Almoloya de Juarez. The couple told how the man moved into the grey, brink building at the start of this year, before embarking on a series of building works.

The man introduced himself as El Pastor – meaning the Shepherd – the couple told MailOnline.

‘He definitely wasn’t from around here but he was always very friendly,’ they said.

‘He told us he was building a new house on the property but we never saw any exterior changes.’

On Saturday, the day El Chapo made his escape, the couple described seeing two ‘very luxury black 4x4s’ also arrive at the property.

They saw the cars drive away again the following morning, along with El Pastor’s two vehicles.

All of this is uncannily similar to the operation that El Chapo had led in the late 1980s, in the construction of his first

drug-trafficking tunnel.

Evidence of the operation came to light in the trial of an architect, named Felipe Corona-Verbera, who was brought in to design and build a house on a site in the Mexican border town of Aqua Prieta.

Wanted by U.S. prosecutors and once featured in the Forbes list of billionaires, Guzman was gone by the time guards entered his cell in Altiplano prison in central Mexico, the CNS said.

Guzman’s cartel, Sinaloa, has been heavily involved in the bloody drug war that has torn through parts of Mexico for the last decade, taking an estimated 100,000 lives. It is believed to control most of the major crossing points for drugs at the US border with Mexico.

If he is not captured immediately, Guzman will likely be back in full command and control of the Sinaloa cartel in 48 hours, said Michael S. Vigil, a retired U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief of international operations.

‘We may never find him again,’ he added. ‘All the accolades that Mexico has received in their counterdrug efforts will be erased by this one event.’

During Guzman’s previous years as a fugitive, he transformed himself from a lowly middleman into arguably the most powerful drug trafficker in the world - and he was placed on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s most-wanted list.

His fortune is estimated at more than $1billion, according to Forbes magazine - which listed him among the ‘World’s Most Powerful People’ and ranked him above the presidents of France and Venezuela.

Guzman was caught by authorities for the first time in Guatemala in 1993, then he was extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking.

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We Must Not Fail Our Generation

By Micah J. Goodin Three years ago I was elected to serve as the President of the Student Government at St. John’s Junior College. I was at the time a recent graduate of Sadie Vernon High with one year into my studies at sixth form. At high school I had noted the significant impacts arising from an inequitable and unjust society. I saw the poverty and I felt the pain as I sat in classes with students that had massive potentials but limited opportunities. Society had already condemned us since our first day of high school. We were frowned down upon and treated like the bottom of the bottom of the barrel. However, I was fortunate to escape, in a sense, when I won a full scholarship to college through the Police’s “do di right thing” programme. I vowed to reach a position in which I could speak on the behalf of my high school friends and others who had not experienced my fortune. I felt it was an obligation, a duty to represent my peers especially those at Sadie Vernon. The post of Student Government President at the nation’s leading junior college was in my view the perfect springboard to launch my advocacy.

Destiny would have it that I would become a part of an unbendable and unbreakable brotherhood with two important youth leaders; Hope Amadi and Alberto Vellos.

Amadi had risen to the post of Student President at the University of Belize. He was a firebrand leader intent on ending the leadership drought that began when Moses Sulph had vacated office after being instrumental in student protests between 2004 and 2006. Hope possessed a raging passion that often times found him at odds with the UB administration in his pursuit to adequately represent the interest of the student body that elected him.

Alberto Vellos had held the post as Belize’s Commonwealth Youth Representative. He represented the interest of all Belizean youths at a regional level.

Throughout his life Alberto has been moulded by some of our country’s most informed, certified and once-influential personalities in youth development from both political parties. He engaged in training and research with his Commonwealth counterparts.

One of those research initiatives resulted in the Commonwealth Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) research which

looked at the real cost of not investing in youths among other things.

Vellos is also a firebrand leader.

Together we became the leading force behind the Nation Builders National Youth Movement. Nation Builders was a direct result of youth exclusion. We allied with all the then Student Government Presidents countrywide including two vibrant and vocal young women: Raven Galvez of Galen University and Zoila Palma of Sacred Heart Junior College and refused to sit on the side lines as our country spiralled downwards.

Together, between 2012 and 2013 we pressured the government as we lobbied on several key areas.

We demanded the completion of the youth policy, a greater budget allocation to foster youth development, a reformation of the criminal justice system and challenged the end of the UB student fees subsidy.

We fought bravely, united and selflessly. We could have used our positions and energies to engage in activities other than those of national importance. We could have turned our backs and closed our eyes to the sufferings of our youth.

We sacrificed scholarships, employment opportunities and a chance at normalcy for the greater good.

We did not succeed in every battle but we tasted the greatest victory when the youth policy was unveiled months after our collective agitation.

Today we are no longer Student Government presidents and we are no longer at those institutions.

However the problems we were faced with then continue today: Crime, inaccessible education, lack of investment in sports and youth exclusion. Our time as Student Government Presidents has passed but it is your time now. You, the current or potential student leaders, have an obligation to your country and your peers. Almost 80 Belizeans, among them many young people, have been killed this year already. Many of your friends and classmates will be unable to return to classes in the upcoming school year. You have seen that although we are the majority we are invisible and unimportant until elections are called. You witnessed this when we were given tablets a few days before the Municipal Elections. You cannot allow this to continue unless you can live with the reality that you’ve failed your obligation to our generation. You must continue the struggle for a better tomorrow with the knowledge that we are here to support you. It won’t be easy but it is worth it.

For Sale

By Order of the Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition, 2000, and having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Mortgage made the 16th day of August, 2010, between W & J HOME CONSTRUCTION LTD., of ½ Mile Iguana Creek Bridge, Spanish Lookout Road, Cayo District, Belize of the one part, W & J LANDSCAPING COMPANY LIMITED, of ½ Mile Iguana Creek Bridge, Spanish Lookout Road, Cayo District, Belize of the second part and SCOTIABANK (BELIZE) LTD., of the third part, and recorded in Deeds Book Vol. 25 of 2010 at Folios 1019 – 1054, the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the schedule hereto.

All offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing and full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. SCHEDULE ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Plot No. 2 containing 2.337 acres situate North of Belize River, Iguana Creek Area, Cayo District as shown on Plan of Subdivision Survey by Melchor Sanchez dated the 26th April, 2004 lodged at the Office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, Belmopan City, Cayo District in Register No. 14, Entry No. 8002 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and thereon.

DATED this 2nd day of July, 2015.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS LLP 91 North Front Street Belize City Attorney-at-Law for Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

For Sale

By Order of the Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition, 2000, and having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under an Assignment and Transfer of Mortgage made the 11th day of December, 2013, registered as LTU-201302294 between ATLANTIC BANK LIMITED (the Assignor) SCOTIABANK (BELIZE) LTD., and NAJAT KENDRA ZUNIGA and DEAROLL DOUGALL, which said property was mortgaged by the said NAJAT KENDRA ZUNIGA and DEAROLL DOUGALL to the said ATLANTIC BANK LIMITED on the 12th day of November, 2012, and recorded at the General Registry in Deeds Book Volume 27 of 2012 at Folios 458 – 507, the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the schedule hereto.

THE SCHEDULE All that freehold interest in all that lot, piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 60 (395.376 S.M.) of lands situate South of the Western Highway, near Mile 8, Belize District and bounded and described as shown on Plan No. 62 of 2012 attached to Minister’s Fiat (Grant) No. 62 of 2012 TOGETHER with any and all buildings and erections standing and being thereon.

DATED this 2nd day of July, 2015.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS LLP 91 North Front Street Belize City Attorneys-at-Law for Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

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By G. Michael Reid “Belize, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are among 22 countries already in a government external debt crisis, with high government debt payments leading to large amounts of money leaving their country each year, along with an overall net debt with the rest of the world”. ~ caribbean360.com The results of last week’s by election in Dangriga, while disappointing, was not the least bit surprising. I was hopeful but at the same time realistic; money was flowing like water. Anthony Sabal, by everyone’s estimation, was a good candidate and is a good person. He did the best that he could; given the short time and the long odds against him. While the conclusion was pretty much foregone, many believe that Sabal was far and away the better of the two candidates. It was my fervent wish that he could have pulled off what would have amounted to an upset because this government is in dire need of some humbling. They are obviously having trouble getting things into a proper perspective and their arrogance, greed and selfishness is running this country into some very serious problems.

The UDP victory in Dangriga might well be a blessing in disguise for the PUP and for Belize. Number one it helped to galvanize support for the party and for the first time in a long time, different factions united and stood strong in support of Sabal. Secondly, had the UDP lost in Dangriga, it would have made Mr. Barrow nervous enough to empty the public coffers.

It is the history of the UDP, and the Prime Minister has made no secret that the trend will continue, to not leave any money lying around when they demit office. When asked in an interview with Jules Vasquez about early elections, Mr. Barrow balked at the idea suggesting that it would not give him enough time to spend all the Petro Caribe funds. Only in Belize can such disrespectful frankness be put

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terview on Krem radio shortly after taking office, this current Prime Minister admitted to finding money and acknowledged that things were not nearly as bad as he had thought that they were. It is anybody’s guess what the situation will be like when this crowd is finally kicked out of office.

While the UDP has been squandering and sharing out Petro Caon public display. ribe money as if it is free and will This current administration makes last forever, the sad reality is that no attempt to hide the fact that they neither is the case. In a few short freely spend taxpayers’ money in any months, the people of Venezuela and every way that they wish. Apart will go to the polls to elect a new from covering his tracks, that was the government. It is widely believe main purpose of the dreadful Petro that should Nicholas Madura lose Caribe Loan Act. This government is his bid for re-election, any new not shy about using Petro money to government will immediately bring influence votes, to win elections and this program to a halt. Given the to gain any political advantage. Whenphenomenal high debt to gross ever an election rolls around, governdomestic product (GDP) ratio of ment vehicles are used to ferry voters Belize, the loss of Petro Caribe will to and fro the polling stations, cash cause serious economic distress. money is handed out in full view of Not only that, Opposition leaders in even international observers and hurVenezuela have pledged to speed ry up repairs are done to main streets up the recovery of all outstanding and parks. Following the misdeeds of loans in order to feed their own Elvin Penner, the Prime Minister went poor and starving people. While Beinto Cayo Northeast and publicly prolize has been splurging, wallowing claimed that should voters resist a reand wasting Petro Caribe money, call, that they would then see unprecthe people of Venezuela are starvedented spending in their area. Well, ing and standing in line for basic there was no recall but the people of food items. The developing situation between Venezuela and Guyana also requires close monitoring. Belize might very soon be called When asked in an interview with Jules Vasquez upon to make a very tough decision. Do we about early elections, Mr. Barrow balked at the support Venezuela in her idea suggesting that it would not give claim (which has a close him enough time to spend all the Petresemblance to Guatemala’s claim over Belize) ro Caribe funds. Only in Belize can such or do we support Guyana, disrespectful frankness be put on public who has been a long time display. ally and one of the first countries to support our Cayo Northeast are still waiting. Bethe previous government received a push for Independence and terrifore the municipal elections, Mr. Barmere pittance. Understanding that torial sovereignty. With a proven row was again recorded telling Orange the money was a loan which would nutcase as our Minister of Foreign Walk voters of the paradise that awaithave to be paid back in time, the Affairs, we better not take our eyes ed them but only if they voted UDP. previous government was far more off of this situation. It has been Millions were spent in Cayo North responsible in the handling of that suggested that over the years, Beto influence that by election and the money. In a statement in the House, lizeans have grown keener, wiser spending in Dangriga bordered on obthe former Prime Minister informed and sharper. As we keep flunking scene. For the past several elections, that much of the money was put into test after test however, that opinion primary funding for these lavish poan account in the Central Bank. There is now the subject of re-evaluation. litical campaigns is believed to come was no denial of this fact. In an inMay GOD bless Belize! directly from Petro Caribe money.

The way it should work is that political parties are supposed to have their own “war chest” from which they fund election drives. It makes a mockery of democracy and puts all others at an unfair disadvantage when sitting governments are allowed to use taxpayers’ money to fund their political campaigns. The Opposition can raise holy hell but it will take the voice of the people to bring this ridiculous practice to a halt. The problem is that people are inherently selfish and myopic. We too often settle for a one-day-bellyful not realizing that the few crumbs that we receive pale in comparison to the unconscionable amount that these politicians keep for themselves or that they share among their family and cronies.

The unfortunate situation is that Belizeans for the most part, have yet to come to grips with the reality that

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is Petro Caribe. Dean Barrow has convinced Belizeans that it is he who is being good to them by spending all this money on highly visible and ostentatious infrastructure projects.

Whenever anyone suggests that he should be made to give accountability for his spending, he quickly accuses them of being against development.

He then makes sure to throw a few pennies their way thereby making them seem complicit. He has done it to the teachers, to the churches and even to a couple of persons from the Opposition. The sad reality is that the ploy is so obvious, yet it has been working like a charm. Evidently, you can indeed fool some of the people all of the time.

The Prime Minister loves to pout and shout that development will continue and that Petro Caribe is here to stay. The fact is that nobody in their right mind would be against development. Nobody, least of all the Opposition, wants Petro Caribe to stop.

Mr. Barrow forgets that it is the PUP who bargained for and initially implemented this Petro Caribe program.

They keep accusing the Opposition of not doing anything with the Petro Caribe money while they were in office but the truth of the matter must be told. First of all, compared to what is made available to this government,

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PUBLIC AUCTION SALE

Licensed Auctioneer Noel J. Codd will sell the following properties in Orange Walk Town and Corozal Town at the dates and times below: ON Wednesday 29th July, 2015 at the time and place below: AT 8:30 a.m. on site

ALL THOSE (2) pieces or parcels of land together comprising 1116.932sm being BLOCK 4 PARCELS 313 & 314 ORANGE WALK REGISTRATION SECTION. The subject building is a 2 story ferro-concrete structure with a gross floor area of 3325sft of which includes 1307sft open space and 2018sft is living area. The ground floor hosts 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with kitchen/dining and living room areas. Second floor is used as a family/entertainment room. Ricardo Villanueva.

AT 9:00 a.m. on site

is occupied as a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom residence with kitchen/dining ,living room & laundry room areas. House is fully tiled, secured, plastered and painted on both the inside & outside. Building #2 is a small one bedroom structure, tiled, plastered and painted with gross floor area of 272sft. Lot is fenced. Being the Freehold property of James Moreira

Located Corner Guanacaste Street, Louisana Farm West, Orange Walk Town.

Holding 2 bedrooms one bath, living dinin and kitchen area. Property for Fernando & Emilia Ayuso.

AT 2:00 p.m. on site

AT 11:00 a.m. on site

ALL THAT LOT PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND BEING PARCEL 284/1, TRIAL FARM REG. SECTION BLOCK 4, O/WALK. Property contains 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, Living and kitchen area. Property for Lisandro Vargas

AT 11:30 a.m. on site

ALL that piece or parcel property being Block 4 Parcel 923 Orange Walk Town Registration Section, Orange Walk District containing 551.338 square meters as shown on R.I.M. Subject Property is located along Santa Clara Street between San Narciso and San Francisco Street two storey concrete/wooden.

Main level: 3 bedrooms, laundry room, 1 bath, dining, living, kitchen. Second level: 1 bedroom and 1 full bath being the Freehold property of Everind Perez.

AT 2:30 a.m. on site ALL THAT LOT, PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND, situated in Orange Walk Town being Registration Section Orange Walk Town Block 4 Parcel 3787. The subject building is 1,160 square feet containing 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, living and kitchen area being the Freehold property of Geovanni Jimenez.

AT 10:00 a.m. on site

ALL that piece or parcel being Block 4 Parcel 421 Orange Walk Town Registration Section, Orange Walk District and containing 711.11 square yards as shown on R.I.M Subject property is located in front of the B.S.I. football field.

Property belongs to Amory Jacobs

AT 10:30 a.m. on site

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 1040.4 s. m. being Block 4 Parcel 12 Trial Farm Reg Sec. Land with structure the freehold of Ismael Teck.

AT 1:00 p.m. on site

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being block 4 Parcel 3871 Orange Walk Town Registration section. The subject building is 1,260 square feet containing 5 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 2 livings rooms and 1 kitchen area being the Freehold property of Juan August.

AT 4:00 p.m. on site

All that piece or parcel of land being lot No.72 situate at the corner of Evelyn & St. Peter Street,Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District. Being Block 4 Parcel 1618 Orange Walk TownRegistration Section, Orange Walk District and containing 479.3 square meters. The subject building is a 2 storey concrete structure. Main level having 8 bedrooms, 1 part-bath,and living area. 2nd level 3 bedrooms,2 full bath, family room, laundry room, living, dining and kitchen. THE LOWER FLOOR IS USED AS DOCTOR’S OFFICE THE UPPER AS RESIDENCE. BUILDING IS IN VERY GOOD STATE being the Freehold property of Ricardo Fabro

AT 3:00 p.m. on site

AT 1:30 p.m. on site

ALL THAT piece or parcel being Block 4 Parcel 90 san Jose Palmar Registration Section and containing 1127.3 square meters as shown on R.I.M. Development consists of a 32 feet by 37 feet concrete building with a verandah in front and open verandah beside. Holding 2 bedrooms, bath/living/dining/kitchen.

Fee Simple for Naila Trejo.

AT 4:30 p.m. on site

ALL THAT piece or parcel being Block 4, Parcel 4148 Orange Walk Town Registration Section. The subject building is a one storey concrete structure with a gross floor area of 600sft. The same is occupied as a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom residence with kitchen/dining and living room areas being the Freehold property of Diego Mencias.

On Thursday 30th July, 2015 at time and place mention below: AT 9:00 a.m. on site

ALL THAT LOT PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND BEING PARCEL 1803, ANN GABOUREL REG. SECTION BLOCK 4, ORANGE WALK being Ann Gabourel Registration Section Block 4 parcel 1803 Laura D Cuello.

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ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 627.220sm being BLOCK 4 PARCEL 640 TRIAL FARM REGISTRATION SECTION. The Subject Lot hosts 2 structures. Building #1 (main residence) is a one storey concrete bungalow with a gross floor area of 2154sft. The same

ALL THAT piece or parcel being lot # 101, LUSIANA FARM WEST WHICH IS NOW PARCEL # 3939, ORANGE WALK TOWN REG SECT BLOCK 1,

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 567.75sm being Parcel 2053 Block 4 Orange Walk Town situate on Asuncion Street, Orange Walk Town. The subject building is a one storey concrete bungalow with a gross floor area of 844sft. 4 bedroom, bathroom kitchen/dining and living room areas. Property of Allan Heredia

NOEL J. CODD Carmelita Village, Orange Walk District Tel: Office: 677-5184 cell: 624-5184 Email:noelcodd@yahoo.com

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AT 9:30 a.m. on site

ALL THAT piece or parcel being Block 4 Parcel 1250 Ann Gabourel Registration Section, Orange Walk Town and containing 545.03 square yards located at the end of San Martin Street. Vacant Land being the Freehold property of Danny Duran

THE BELIZE TIMES is located along Goff Street which is the last street before reaching the Dr. George Farm It is the third parcel on the eastern side of the street It ends at the People’s Stadium in a dead end.

Development consists of a 36.5 by 38.5 split level. curtilage is concrete. Main level, 2 bedrooms, 2 full bath, living, dining and kitchen area.Second level, 2 bedroos, 1 bath, and living area. One upper room needs to be completed.

Chury’s Store

At 11:30 p.m. on site

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 348.33sm being BLOCK 4 PARCEL 1473 ANN GABOUREL REGISTRATION SECTION. Located at #49 Yo Creek & San Joaquin St., Orange Walk Town. The Subject Building is a one storey concrete bungalow with a gross floor area of 1971sft, including open area. The same serves as a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom residence with kitchen/dining and living room areas.

House was originally constructed in 1998 and renovated in 2011. House is 50% tiled, plastered and painted. There is also a second structure within the lot that is currently used as a store room.

Property of Edison & Rosita Johnson.

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AT 2:00 P.M. IN FRONT SCOTIABANK (BELIZE) LTD. Orange Walk Branch on Thursday 30th July, 2015

ALL that piece or parcel of land being Block 4 Parcel 1946 Orange Walk Town measuring 1199.638 sq yds. being the Freehold property of Ricardo Fabro.

At 10:00 a.m. on site ALL THAT LOT, PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND, being Registration: Ann Gabourel Block: 4 Parcel: 1247/1. The property contains IA 26’ X 24’, 2 BEDROOMs, BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE being the leasehold property of Felix Rejon

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ALL that piece or parcel of land being BLOCK 1 PARCEL 499 SAN ESTEVAN REGISTRATION SECTION in San Estevan Village, Orange Walk Town. Land measuring 461.9 S.M. Building:Concrete bungalow house with 3 bedrooms, full bath, living, Dining, Kitchen Area and laundry room. Being the Freehold property of Eudaldo & Macaria Patt.

ALL that piece or parcel Being Block 1 Parcels 485 & 486 San Estevan Village Lots Layout, Orange Walk and containing 1,084.1 square meters (parcel 485) and 1018.6 square meters (parcel 486) respectively. Land only Property of Amelio Cansino

Fee Simple Property BEING PARCELS 157 AND 158, DOUGLAS REG. SECTION BLOCK 1, ORANGE WALK. LOT 158 CONTAINS 1045.159 S.M. AND IS THE CORNER LOT ON ROADSIDE. LOT 157 CONTAINS 1040.57 SQ. METERS AND IS THE INSIDE LOT FOR WHICH THE STREET IS NOT YET OPENED. BOTH LOTS ARE PRESENTLY IN ITS NATURAL STATE. Property of Erica Cabral

AT 10:30 a.m. on site ALL that piece or parcel being Block 4 Parcels 623,624,625 & 631 orange Walk Town 2054.41 square meters Orange Walk Town Registration Section.

Vacant Land. Being the freehold property of M.V. Imports Ltd ALL that piece or parcel of land being Block 4 Parcel 1493 Ann Gabourel Registration Section, Orange Walk District, Orange Walk Town and containing 416.67 square yards as shown on R.I.M. Subject property is located in the Marcus Canul Area along San Felipe Street 5 blocks north of San Andres Street being the 4th parcel from the junction of Yo Creek and San Felipe Street on the southern side of the street. Rosalba Rosado.

AT 11:00 a.m. on site

ALL THAT piece or parcel being BLOCK 4 PARCEL 1444 ORANGE WALK TOWN REGISTRATION SECTION, ORANGE WALK DISTRICT AND CONTAINING 522.563 SQUARE METERS. Subject property

At 1:30 p.m. on site

ALL that piece or parcel Being Block 1 Parcels 228, 229, 230, 231 San Estevan Registration Section. Land measuring 657.1 sm, 710.8 sm, 641.7sm, & 729 sm respectively in San Estevan Village, Orange Walk. 39 x 39 feet Concrete bungalow structure: 3 bedrooms, 2 full bath, lkitchen, dining and living room. There is also an open shed, which is used as an additional kitchen & washing area. Being the Freehold property of Wilber & Erica Vega.

ALL THAT piece or parcel being Being Block 4 Parcel 4225 Orange Walk Town Registration Section, Orange Walk District and containing 522.534 square meters. Parcel is vacant mowed regularly. Fee Simple property of Benedicto Ramos

NOEL J. CODD Carmelita Village, Orange Walk District Tel: Office: 677-5184 cell: 624-5184 Email:noelcodd@yahoo.com

Fee Simple Property Being Block 4 Parcel 523 Indian Hill East Registration Section, Orange Walk District and containing 2201.267 square meters. Parcel is situated approximately 100 meters east of the O/Walk bypass and the San Estevan junction in a private sub-division along Petville Area San Estevan Road Orange Walk. Vacant land being the freehold property of Roberto Santos

ALL that piece or parcel of land being Block 1 Parcel 37 Doulas Rural Registration Section, Orange Walk District.

Containing 19.59 acres being the Freehold property of Teodocio Chuc Continued on page 19 Lease property being lot no. 309 Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk District, containing 1200.467 sqyds Two storey concrete structure; 2400 sqft Main: 1 living, dining, kitchen, 4 bedrooms, 2 bath rooms,laundry room Second Level - 80% completed: 1 living room, dining, kitchen , full bath, 4 bed rooms being the Leashold property of Primitivo Chan

NOEL J. CODD Carmelita Village, Orange Walk District Tel: Office: 677-5184 cell: 624-5184 Email:noelcodd@yahoo.com

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All That or piece of parcel being Lot No. 475 situated in Trial Farm Village Extension, Orange District now declared as Trial Farm Block 4 Parcel 87/1. The Subject Lot hosts an incomplete concrete structure with an approximate floor area of 700sft. Leasehold for Jaime Cocom

ALL THAT piece or parcel being BLOCK 4 PARCEL 428/1 SAN JOSE/ SAN PABLO REGISTRATION SECTION containing 1646.7 square meters being the Leasehold property of Miguel Briceno.

ALL THOSE THREE pieces or parcel of land containing 1,719.013 s.m. being Registration Section Indian Hill East Block 4 Parcel 514,515,516. Ishwar Mahbubani

At 8:30 a.m. on site

ALL THAT LOT, PARCEL OR PEICE OF LAND, IN ORANGE WALK being Registration Section Ann Gabourel, Block 4, Parcel 2755 being the freehold property of Van Clarke.

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Parcel 206/1 Block 1 Miller’s Bight Registration Section containing 36.7 acres being the leashold property of Apolonio Ramirez.

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 975.376sm being BLOCK 4 PARCEL 354 SAN JOSE PALMAR REGISTRATION SECTION. The Subject Building is a one storey concrete bungalow with a gross floor area of 520sft. It is 85% complete with roof, internal and external walls complete as of May 2014. Plumbing and electrical are pending. House is designed to be occupied as a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom residence with kitchen/dining and living room areas upon completion. Free simple property of DIAMANTINA P QUIROA

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Parcel 15 Block 1 Douglas Rural Registration Section being the Freehold property of Allen Development/ Fredi Patt.

ALL That piece or parcel being Parcel 188 Block 1 San Jose/San Pablo Village.

Containing a one storey concrete bungalow with a gross floor area of approximately 700sft. Holding 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, living/kitchen area.Being the Freehold property of Otilio Cacerez & Macedonia Chi.

ALL THAT piece or parcel being 62 acres being Block 1 Parcel 157 Ramonal Zapote S.E Registration Section.

Land Only being the Freehold property of Apolinar Patt/Concepcion Patt.

NOEL J. CODD Carmelita Village, Orange Walk District Tel: Office: 677-5184 cell: 624-5184 Email:noelcodd@yahoo.com

ON FRIDAY 31TH July, 2015 at Corozal Town at the following time and Place:

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 20acres being BLOCK 4 PARCEL 65 DOUGLAS RURAL REGISTRATION SECTION. Located in San Jose/San Pablo Village being the Freehold property of Vicente Escalante.

ALL that piece or parcel of land being Parcel 2157/1 Block 1 in Corozal North situate in Hall’s Layout, College Road, Corozal Town Land - 727.06 sqyds, Building 47.5ft x 32.5ft-split level concrete house, Main level holds 5 bedrooms, 2 full bath, 1 kitchen and living room. Second level 2 bedrooms and a storage area.

There is also a 13ft x 15 ft single building in the yard being the leasehold property of Ezekiel Gilharry.

At 9:00 a.m. on site

ALL THAT LOT, PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND, BEING PARCEL # 1844/1 COROZAL NORTH REG SECTION, BLOCK 1, COROZAL. THE HOUSE MEASURES 37’ X 35’. IT IS A 4 BEDROOM FULLY CONCRETE AND TILED on the Main floor and on the 2nd floor is 25’ X 35’ [875 SQ.FT. being the freehold property of Enrique J. Romero

AT 9:30 a.m. on site

ALL that piece or parcel being Block 1 Parcel 282, situated at No. 96 5th Street North, Corozal Central, Corozal Town, Land measuring 669.91 SqYds, Building - Concrete bungalow structure containing 3 bedrooms, 2 full bath, kitchen, living room, dining room, and office being the Freehold property of Froylan & America Gilharry.

AT 10:00 a.m. on site

19 ALL that piece or parcel of land being Corozal Central Registration Section Block 1 Parcel 278, located at No. 8th Street North, Corozal Town, Corozal District. Land - 505.33 sq yds. Building - One single storey bungalow house with 1 bedroom, 1 bath, living, dining and kitchen area. The original house is 21 X 31 fully complete, with an extension that is considered 40% completed and measuring 17 X 31 being the freehold of Abimael & Monica Catch.

AT 10:30 p.m. on site

ALL that piece or parcel of land being PARCEL # 1077, BLOCK 1 COROZAL NORTH REGISTRATION SECTION. Located on Narcist St. Alta Mira Area, Corozal Town. CONCRETE 2 -BEDROOM, BUNGALOW WELLING HOUSE WITH GAGLE STYLE ZINC ROOFING. MEASURES 20 FEET X 20 FEET PLUS AN ANNEX 9FEET X 5 FEET PART BATHROOM being the Freehold property Keith Nugent.

AT 11:00 a.m. on site

ALL that lot, parcel or piece of land, being Parcel No. 2163, Corozal North Registration Section, Block 1, Corozal.

Located in PORT SAUL AREA. Holding a bungalow concrete house with 2 bedroom, one bath, living/dining/ kitchen area. Land Measuring Approx 575.52 SQ YDS. Being the Freehold property of Roque & Maria Martinez.

At 11:30 a.m. on site

ALL THAT LOT, PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND, BEING PARCEL # 31 Block 1, PARAISO/ SANTA RITA REGISTRATION SECTION. Building:2 ½ storey with 5,013 sq. ft. with Main:- 2,294 sq. ft 2 Bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 1 part bath, with kitchen, dining and living room areas and laundry room. Second:- 2,077 sq. ft. 2 Bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 1 part bath, with kitchen, dining and living room areas and laundry room. Third:-642 sq. ft. and is used as an additional living room space being the freehold of Ramesh Buxani Co Ltd Continued on page 20

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AT 1:00 p.m. on site

ALL that piece or parcel being Parcel 62 Block 1 COROZAL CENTRAL REG. SECTION. Located at No 3. 4th Ave Corozal Town. Building is FULLY CONCRETE, DWELLING COMPRISING OF A PARTIAL BASEMENT WHICH CREATES A TWO-STOREY. Measuring aprox. 1800 sq ft. Property of Albertico Gongora

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ALL that parcel Sarteneja Registration Section, Block 3, parcel No. 348/1 COROZAL. Structure is a mix concrete bunglow with addition at the top, holding 3 bedrooms, bath, living/dining/kitchen areas. Property of Ariolo & Diana Samos

ALL that piece or parcel being Block 1 Parcel 682 Libertad Village Registration Section, Corozal District Land: 10,811.87 s. y Building is a two storey concreted dwelling - Main level contain 3 bedrooms, 1 full bath, kitchen, dining, living and laundry room, Second level is incomplete. According to the owner it has been sub-divided into 4 large lots. There is also a thatch house on the property a open trench that may have been initial work for a swimming pool. Being the Freehold property of Herman Botes.

ALL THAT LOT PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND BEING PARCEL 28,CAROLINA CALCUTTA REG. SECTION, BLOCK 1, COROZAL containing 907.43 SQUARE YARDS. THE PROPERTY IS IN KEN’S LAYOUT, AN EXPANSION OF XAIBE VILLAGE AND IS FIVE LOTS OFF THE MAIN ROAD. Building is a one storey concrete structure with 1 bath, living dining and kitchen area. Property is designed for more bedrooms but is not complete. Fee simple property of Valentin Nicholas

AT 2:00 p.m. on site ALL that piece or parce being Block 3 Parcel 614 Sarteneja Registration Section, Corozal District. Vacant land measuring 1106.8 s.m. being the Freehold property of Juan Perez.

AT 2:30 on site

ALL THAT LOT PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND BEING PARCEL 1710, COROZAL NORTH REG. SECTION, BLOCK 1, COROZAL. CONTAINING 555.6 SQ YARDS. It IS LOCATED ON CACAO STREET HALLS LAYOUT. THE BUILDING IS FULLY CONCRETE, TILED AND BURGULAR BARRED with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, living/dining/kitchen.

Freehold property of Sylvestre Chi.

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AT 3:00 P.M. IN FRONT OF SCOTIABANK (Belize) LTD. Corozal Town Branch

ALL THAT LOT, PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND, BEING PARCEL # 1450/1 CONSEJO ROAD S.E REG SECTION BLOCK 1, COROZAL District being the Leasehold of Jose Cawich

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 675.348sm being BLOCK 1 PARCEL 1774 COROZAL NORTH REGISTRATION SECTION. Located in Paraiso Village, Corozal District.

The Subject Building is a one storey ferroconcrete structure with a gross floor area of 1804sft, attached to the building are also 2 open area garage with a floor area of 942sft total. The same is occupied as a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom residence with kitchen/dining and living room areas. House is fully tiled, and 75% secured with burglarbars. Fee Simple Property of Roberto Tun

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Fee Simple Property being PARCEL # 552, LIBERTAD VILLAGE REG. SECTION BLOCK # 1, Corozal District, Belize. THE PROPERTY IS A BIG AND LONG LOT containing 1799.63 S.. IT IS DEVELOPED WITH 2 HOUSES. THE 1ST HOUSE IS A TWO-STOREY WOODEN AND CONCRETE STRUCTURE WITH 5 BEDROOMS, 1 FULL BATH, KITCHEN, DINING AND LIVING. IT MEASURES ABOUT 2100 SQ. FEET. WHILE THE 2ND AT THE BACK IS WOODEN WITH A CONCRETE, BACK ADDITION WHICH GIVES IT SORT OF AN L - SHAPED and HAS ABOUT 1300 SQ. FEET. IT HAS 3 BEDROOMS LIVING DINING AND KITCHEN. PROPERTY OF EMILIO & MELVA SARMIENTO (EMILA & BALDOMINIO MONTEJO)

ALL THAT LOT PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND BEING PARCEL 57/1, BUENA VISTA REG. SECTION BLOCK 1, COROZAL. Containing Approximately 1310.6 S.Y. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS NEAR CENTRALLY LOCATED LOT IN THE VILLAGE AND TWO STREETS PARALLEL TO THE NORTHERN HIGHWAY.Holding a two storey concrete building: main level has 1 bed room, living and dining area. Second level has 3 bedrooms, living, dining and kitchen area.

Leasehold property for Florencia Pott

All that piece or parcel containing 639.4 Square Meters, being Registration Section Grants Land Block 1 Parcel 322/1 Copper Bank, Corozal District. The property is appraised under the assumption of good marketable title in fee simple volume 28 of 2002. The property in review has a single family bungalow residence with a gross square footage of 980 sq ft at ground floor and 260 sq ft at first floor and land 639.4 S.M. being the freehold property of Sarah Cobb

ALL THAT LOT, PARCEL OR PIECE OF LAND, IN SAN ANDRES/ RANCHITO being Registration Section San Andres/Ranchito Block 1 Parcel 792 Corozal District. The building contains 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, living, and kitchen area being the Freehold of Jeorge Zetina

Fee simple property being ALLTHAT piece or parcel of land containing 88.16 acres being Block 1 Parcel 86 Libertad Rural Registration Section.

Land Only. Armando Martinez & Ervin Ramcharan

ALL THAT piece or parcel being PARCEL 539/1,SANTA CLARA/ SAN ROMAN REG. SECTION, BLOCK 1, COROZAL being the leasehold property of George Moralez.

All that piece or parcel containing 1.17 Acres being lot 5 situate approx 10 1/2 Miles On the Belize Corozal Road.

Land Only being the freehold property of Noguera Sugarcane Derivatives

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being 1 Parcel 120 containing 50.2 acres Parcel 97 containing 14.798 acres, Parcel 95 containing 62.79 acres and Parcel 86 containing 88.16 acres situated in Libertad Rural Registration Section cane land only being the Freehold properties of Armando Martinez and Ervin Rancharan.

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Gene therapy cures blindness by healing eyes and brain together 16 July 2015 It’s a good combination. Gene therapy to reverse blindness repairs damaged cells in the eye and also rearranges the brain to help process the new information.

Visual pathways in the brain are made up of millions of interconnected neurons. When sensory signals are sent along them, the connections between neurons become strong. If underused – for example, as people lose their sight – the connections become weak and disorganised.

Over the past few years, a type of gene therapy – injecting healthy genes into the eye to repair mutations – has emerged as a promising way to treat congenital and degenerative blindness.

One of the first successful trials began in 2007. It involved 10 blind volunteers with a hereditary disease called Leber’s congenital amaurosis.

The condition causes the retina to degenerate and leaves people completely blind early in life.

Mutations in at least 19 genes can cause the disease, but all of the people in the trial had mutations in a gene called RPE65.

The participants got an injection of a harmless virus in one of their eyes.

The virus inserted healthy copies of RPE65 into their retina.

Let there be sight Some of the volunteers went from straining to see a hand waving half a metre from their face to being able to read six lines on a sight chart. Others were able to navigate around an obstacle course in dim light – something that would have been impossible before the therapy.

Manzar Ashtari at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and her colleagues wondered how well the participants’ visual pathways had recovered after the therapy. So, two years after the treatment, she got them back to the lab to scan their brains. Now the results are in.

Pathways associated with the treated eye looked very similar to pathways in people who had no problems with their vision. They were also much stronger than pathways associated with the untreated eye, which had degraded further.

Although the team expected to see brain changes, the extent was surprising, says Ashtari – particularly given the age of the participants. “Most of our patients were in their 20s, and one

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was 45,” she says.

Eyes are the prize There is a general consensus that there is a critical window early on in life when neurons can be shaped, pruned and reshaped. This plasticity is thought to diminish with age.

“There may be a critical window of accelerated brain plasticity, but we have shown that doesn’t mean you lose the capability of restructuring pathways as an adult,” says Ashtari.

The team is now seeking approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for the gene therapy to be used as a prescribed drug for Leber’s congenital amaurosis.

Eric Pierce, an ophthalmologist at Harvard Medical School, agrees that the trial shows the potential plasticity of the adult visual system. Previously, he says, it has been assumed that

disrupted neuronal development in the brain can’t be reversed in adults. He gives the example of amblyopia, “or lazy eye”, which is much more difficult to treat in adults than young children.

One of the questions that people have asked about this gene therapy, says Pierce, is whether it might repair the retinal cells but not affect the brain pathways. That would leave people unable to perceive the visual signals that the therapy had enabled to get through.

Alternatively, if people’s degraded pathways still had some left-over functionality, the therapy might give them limited vision. This paper is important because it shows that neuronal plasticity is at least in part responsible for the improvement in vision seen in the trial participants, says Pierce.

The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river is one of 85,000 hydropower facilities in China (AFP Photo/)

Beijing (AFP) - China has begun building a 314-metre (1,030-ft) high dam which will be among the world’s tallest, officials said, as the country massively expands hydropower.

The Shuangjiankou dam on a tributary of China’s mightyYangtze river will be completed in 2022, the environmental ministry said on its website Tuesday.

The facility, costing 36 billion yuan ($5.8 billion), will be higher than the world’s current tallest dam, the 305-metre Jinping-1, also in China.

China has been expanding its hydropower electricity generating capacity as it seeks to reach a goal of obtaining 20 per cent of its power from non-fossil sources by 2030.

Beijing says reaching the target will help reduce growth in its carbon emissions responsible for climate change, the world’s largest.

China is home to the world’s largest dam, the Three Gorges, as well as some 85,000 other hydropower facilities.

Millions of people have been forced to relocate because of dam building in the country in recent decades, often with little compensation.

Environmentalists say that the dams have caused large declines in fish stocks and other aquatic life.

“The true costs of hydropower in China are consistently being underestimated or ignored, including the environmental and social costs,” the US-based NGO International Rivers said in November.

Google Will Soon Let You Buy Things Using Your Voice Just say what you want and tap to have it shipped. Like magic.

We’re not quite at the point where you can simply imagine a product to have it billed to your credit card and shipped to your doorstep, but Google is bringing us a bit closer.

The company announced Wednesday a new “Purchases on Google” feature, which will allow people to buy things directly from Google Search. If you look up something like “woman’s hoodie,” you might get a relevant ad from a retailer which you can interact with and purchase from -- without leaving Google’s

page. This will work with voice search, The Next Web reported, so you can ask Google out loud for a new colander (or whatever) and, with just a couple delicate taps of your thumb, have it shipped.

Here’s something to keep in mind if you plan to use voice search for shopping, though: Google has thus far stored voice data for features like Google Now, so if you’re wearing an Android Wear smartwatch and ask it to “send a text to Sweetie saying ‘I love you,’” that recording is sticking around on Google’s servers. You

can revisit these precious moments -- which may now include you asking Google things like “what’s the best electric toothbrush?” -- in the “Voice and Audio Activity” panel in your privacy dashboard.

It should be noted, of course, that Google says the recordings are kept private, and you can delete them whenever. You can also disable this history function, though Google notes the recordings will still “be stored using anonymous identifiers.”

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THINK ABOUT IT THOUSANDS WON’T MAKE IT Over seven thousand young students sat the primary school leaving examinations recently. The results were not the most encouraging but the fact that parents struggle to see their children attend primary school and complete is an accomplishment.

Thereafter it is over for the proud parents of more than half of the seven thousand primary school leavers. They will never know what it is to attend a High School.

How could this be? How could our nation, year after year, sit back and allow half of the primary school children to be deprived of a High School education?

Is this not one of the root causes of poverty, dependency, teenage pregnancy and social problems?

This failure to provide such an important opportunity as a High School education amounts to robbing thousands of our young people of their future.

It is unbelievable that in this day and age every young person in Belize is unable to obtain a High School education.

It is written that where there is no vision, the people perish.

46 percent of the population is living in poverty.

AMAZING ANTHONY SABAL We join in singing praises to Anthony Sabal, the candidate for the opposition party in last week’s buy-election in Dangriga.

This amazing gentleman had only three weeks to campaign against the UDP candidate who has been campaigning for three years and who spent millions of tax dollars and Petro Caribe monies.

In the face of some of the worst instances of abuse of government resources for party politics, the naked vote buying and corruption to influence the voters of Dangriga, Mr. Sabal was a calm, statesman-like personality.

The story of Anthony Sabal and the strong, decent people of Dangriga need to be told and retold across the country for its significance. The UDP has only one line to offer Belizeans-“We can buy your vote; we can buy your vote”.

Belizeans, take their money and vote them out!

MINISTRY OF REAL ESTATE The lands of Belize are an important part of the crucial resources of the country.

How it is managed and protected is part of the sacred duty of those entrusted with its administration.

The present Minister of Lands does not take this responsibility with the seriousness it deserves.

Lands are controlled and given out as if it is the personal property of the Minister.

The Minister has also succeeded in subverting the principle of an impartial public service. He has succeeded in recruiting a large pool of “his people” from Orange Walk as his personal employees.

Worst, the Ministry has now become one huge real estate agency. Private hustling with the country’s lands is at an all-time high.

Sad.

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PETROL PRICES As unbelievable as it sounds, it is true.

The price for gasoline in Belize has actually gone up again. Premium is at a whopping $10.17 a gallon and regular is at the ridiculously high $9.70 per gallon.

To say something is terribly wrong and they are ripping off Belizeans with government convenience is putting it mildly.

ALL-TIME LOW

A particular effort should be made by election officials in the Queen’s Square area where the dishonesty stinks to high heaven. Empty lots are filled with the names of voters who clearly don’t and cannot live at such address. In the words of the Prime Minister to his dishonest Cabinet Ministers on a separate issue-“For God’s sake stop it”.

We were disheartened to learn that a senior elections official, who is very familiar with Queen’s Square, went in front of the Magistrate Court arguing why voters listed at an empty lot should not be removed from the voters list.

We were shocked to hear the Magistrate allowed the names to remain.

2015 He was not arrested. No charges have been brought.

The incredible excuse by police is that the two intended victims do not wish to make a report. So police hands are tied.

Since when?

Not even a charge for possession of firearm. Not a charge for discharging firearm in public. No charge.

The assassin is free to roam the streets, without even a surveillance vehicle behind, dogging his every move.

Street talk is rife with speculation and suspicion.

That person has special protection.

Special protection from Belmopan.

ROGUE COPS

You know we have reached an all-time low when none other than Minister of Education gets up in the National Assembly and offers an explanation as to why his abuse of Petro Caribe monies for his political supporters is a good thing.

The Minister was referring to his now outrageous and infamous public statement that he spent Petro funds to take 22 bus loads of UDP supporters on an outing to Corozal. He said his supporters “ate tacos, pibil and bar-b-q”.

Petro monies are not for UDP political events. It is not for certain sections of the population. Like all public monies it is to be spent on public programs and projects that benefit all citizens irrespective of their party views.

It is obvious the Minister of Education has no respect for his oath of office to uphold the laws and Constitution and do right to all the people without favour or ill will – So Help Me God. The Constitution says he and his government CANNOT discriminate against the people of this country. Hey Sir! You can read it for yourself at Section 16 of the supreme law of the land.

No wonder they can all shout and clap in support of their Prime Minister who passed a Petro Caribe law to throw out the Finance & Audit Reform Act which requires proper use of public monies, tendering for public projects and detailed accountability and transparency.

Belize is at an all-time low when none other than the Minister responsible for education can publicly justify the worst form of abuse of public monies. Monies so urgently needed to help educate the less fortunate young people of Belize.

RE-REGISTER An important part of our democracy hinges on a clean voter’s list of persons living in the Constituency where they are required to vote.

Belize’s voters list is not accurate. Persons move from one area and go live in another area. To keep the voters list as accurate as possible, the law allows persons in July and August each year to inform the elections office that they have moved so their names can be placed on the voters list in the area they have moved to.

This is a very important exercise.

Politicians manipulate this re-registration period to illegally and immorally stack their voters list with names of persons who do not live in the constituency. They find fanatic and dishonest supporters who claim that the person lives at “their” address. We beg the elections officials to please be as vigilant as possible to weed out these bogus, dishonest voters.

HALF-MOON CAYE This Saturday 18th July, the Audubon Society is sponsoring an excursion to the fabulous Half-Moon Caye which sits alongside the world famous Barrier Reef.

Four miles from Half-Moon Caye is the stupendous Blue-Hole so awesome and so unique on our planet that from outerspace, its contours are visible.

Audubon does a great service to Belizeans by sponsoring these regular excursions to Half-Moon Caye, fifty-two miles to the east of Belize City.

Congrats to the organizers.

WALL OF SHAME Katie Usher, conscious artist and socially aware young woman from Belize City with a beautiful spirit and warrior mind has been shocked into a creative endeavor.

Refusing to ignore the ongoing violence mainly in Belize City, Katie has created “The Wall”. Using blackboard and white chalk she has painstakingly listed the names of the victims of murder. It is a stark and shocking reminder of what our society has become. And the total, like we mean TOTAL failure of the government to provide any hope or solutions to violent crime which ends in death.

Belize now has the infamous reputation as the fourth most violent country in the whole world. Can you believe it, Belize is one of the worst countries on earth when it comes to violence.

But don’t mention that to the Prime Minister, Police Minister or Police Commissioner. The Prime Minister is too busy counting his Petro Caribe millions. The Police Minister is too enthralled watching boys in shorts playing football. The Police Commissioner cannot even announce the figures for murders, attempted murders and rape that occurred since January 2015.

Wall of Shame. It’s 15 July 2015 and over 78 murders are already on the graves stones in the cemetery.

And the government is pretending it has no responsibility for this indictment of their utter failure of leadership.

ASSASSIN EXPOSED The shocking news a few days ago is that a young man pulled out a lethal firearm and fired a barrage of shots at two other young men in an attempt to murder them in cold blood. They scampered in a frantic dash to save their lives.

Jah was on their side-for now.

They knew the would-be assassin. He is well-known. Well-known to police too.

The Chief Magistrate of Belize could not believe the information which unfolded in her court. Out of a simple matter of Police searching a young man and finding nothing, they still decided to take him to the Police Station.

Having hand-cuffed the young man, Sherwin Baizer, and placed him in a vehicle, he was then subjected to cops gone wild - badly beaten and bruised. He was then locked away from sight at a police station for three days so the bruises would not be prominent.

Needless to say the usual suspect charges; assaulting police, resisting arrest, insulting words and riding a bicycle up stop.

Police officers Adalberto Batun and Andy Rodriguez who could easily abuse their uniform and get away with it, were not so lucky in Ann-Marie Smith’s Court.

She saw through their lies and unprofessional conduct. She threw out the charges and condemned the Police behavior.

She also mentioned in open Court that she would submit a Report on the officers to the Police Commissioner.

Our humble suggestion Chief Magistrate, don’t waste your valuable time, the ComPol will throw your Report in the waste paper basket as has been the practice in his department.

POPE FRANCIS “Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the Earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

For Christians, the responsibility is even greater. It is a Commandment.”

“You, the lowly, the exploited, the poor and underprivileged, can do, and are doing, a lot. I would even say that the future of humanity is in great measure in your hands.”

Words of wisdom from Pope Francis who recently completed a tour of three of the poorest nations in South America.

15 NEW LAWYERS This is either a massive scandal of the abuse of public funds and nepotism by government Minister who seem to be on a rush to make their children attorneys-free of cost, all-expense paid by government or it is the attraction of a profession that holds out the promise of great reward, public prestige and service to fellow humans in need of quality advice and representation.

We need to see the names.

In any event, respect to the 15 Belizeans who successfully completed five years of training to become the newest attorneys at law.

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Hon. Dolores supports summer camps in Belize Rural Central

The Hon. Dolores Balderamos Garcia made a donation to Mr. Daniel Smith, camp organizer, and Mrs. Leticia Castillo, manager of the Ladyville Rising Stars Football Club.

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AT 1:00 p.m. on site

The Wall July 13, 2015 Designed for LAB 2 Artist/writer Katie Usher opened her LAB2, an art installation that welcomes the artistic community to enter the Image Factory space to create a temporary work.

Katie started with the WALL, a work of names of Belizeans who have been murdered since January 1, 2015. She wrote in chalk 75 names and their age.

Here’s an excerpt of the meaning behind her work from her website: “Using names of murder victims, victims of extreme violence, which were extracted from newspapers, radio and TV news from January to July 2015, cover the black wall

CARTOON

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land containing 2995 sm being Block1 Parcel 141 San Andres/Ranchito Registration Section. The Subject Property houses 3 structures. Building No.1 is 1,200sft. and is occupied as a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home complete with kitchen, dining & living room spaces.

Building No.2: concrete two storey structure of 1,920sft. Each floor is a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom space each with kitchen, dining & living room spaces.

Building No. 3 is aq 1,200sft. structure with floor & walls in place only Freehold properties of Armando Martinez and Ervin Rancharan.

NOEL J. CODD Carmelita Village, Orange Walk District Tel: Office: 677-5184 cell: 624-5184 Email:noelcodd@yahoo.com

with white chalk.

This is a list, which I hope will act like a physical representation of ‘the writing on the wall.”

In class we are made to sit in front of a blackboard and see and record notes.

The time for seeing and writing notes has passed. Crime has gripped us in a chokehold. Class is in session or are we still at recess?

LAB 2 was reopened and I decided

to do so with this.I was reading the papers all weekend, (of my mom’s collection from January 25, 2015 to July 12, 2015), and it was violent, and most of it was on the front page. Sadder than that, the one who tirelessly shared these stories, efficiently, crying out for change ended up on the list. What a list, worse than that, what a reality!

LAB 2 continues and you see updates at www.katienumi.com.

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