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The Belize Times The Truth Shall Make You Free Established 1957 7 JUNE 2015 | ISSUE NO: 4948 www.belizetimes.bz | $1.00 SCAN HERE PUP: NO TO SEDI, NO TO ICJ Petrocaribe Piñata!! Woman shot dead in More Tomorrow Village Pg. 6 Pg. 3 Former Corozal Town Mayor Mario Narvaez Dies At 62 Darrell Bradley, the Belizean Pinocchio Pg. 6 Opposition Hon. Leader Francis Fonseca and Deputy Leader Hon. Julius Espat have challenged the illegal borrowing and spending of Petrocaribe loan monies Leaked Documents Expose Secret & Unauthorized Uses of Petro-Caribe Loan Money Petrocaribe $$$ wasted! Crooked Tree Causeway Collapses 3 Men charged for weed hidden in Winnie the Pooh bag Pg. 23 Pg. 7 Pg. 7

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Page 1: Belize Times June 7, 2015

THE BELIZE TIMES 7 JUN2015 1 The Belize Times

The Truth Shall Make You Free

Established 1957

7 JUNE 2015 | ISSUE NO: 4948 www.belizetimes.bz | $1.00

SCAN HERE

BARROW BREAKS

THE LAW

Pg. 11

PUP: NO TO SEDI, NO TO ICJ

P e t r o c a r i b e P i ñ a t a ! !

Woman shot dead in More

Tomorrow Village

Pg. 6

Pg. 3

Former Corozal Town Mayor Mario Narvaez Dies At 62

Darrell Bradley,

the Belizean Pinocchio

Pg. 6

Opposition Hon. Leader Francis Fonseca and Deputy Leader Hon. Julius Espat have challenged the illegal borrowing and spending of Petrocaribe loan monies

Leaked Documents Expose Secret & Unauthorized Uses of Petro-Caribe Loan Money

Petrocaribe $$$ wasted!

Crooked Tree Causeway Collapses

3 Men charged for weed hidden in

Winnie the Pooh bag

Pg. 23

Pg. 7

Pg. 7

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THE BELIZE TIMES 7 JUN2015 2

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The Belize TimesThe Truth Shall Make You Free

Established 1957

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Part 2 Featuring: Pallotti High School, Sadie Vernon Technical High School, Edward P. Yorke High School, Belize High School, Excelsior High

School, Ladyville Technical High School, Anglican Cathedral College, and Toledo Community College

Belize’s Shining Stars!!

Continued on page 4

By: Alton F. Humes (Freelance Report-er)BELIZE CITY, Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

The BELIZE TIMES’ continues its commitment to highlighting the top achievers among our young and bright high school graduates.

We begin this week’s closer cover-age with Pallotti High School on Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City. The venera-ble Catholic all-girls school will march up 63 more young women in their continu-ous and long-standing tradition on Sun-day, June 7th, 2015 at the St. Joseph’s Church on St. Joseph Street, starting at

Jasmine Myvett Soila Rodriguez

Amy Genitty

Jamie Williams

Courtney Duran

Joliker Leandre Jr.

Jamal Augustine

Therese Burke

Nisa SanchezAmy Turcios

EP Yorke High SchoolPallotti High School

Sadie Vernon High School

Belize High School

10:00 am. Leading them will be: 16-year-old Ms. Jasmine Myvett (Valedictorian, from 4 Arts, with an Overall Grade Av-erage of 94%) and 17-year-old Ms. Soi-la Rodriguez (Salutatorian, from 4 Busi-ness, with an Overall Grade Average of

93%). The BELIZE TIMES sat with these quiet yet fiercely determined ladies at the school cam-pus on Monday morning.

Although studying different disciplines, they share hardships and that need to go at things for themselves. Myvett, from Sandhill Village in

the Belize District, had lost dad in her 1st year at school. That affected her immensely, to the point that she did poorly in her mid-terms.

“Even though he is gone, I honor him every day, just by doing my best in school,” she told us.

Rodriguez, she shares a nuclear family structure. She pushed as much as she could through school, with her mom being her strongest support. “Even when she might not have understood all of my work, she sat by my side and tried to get me help with my homework and so on,” she said.

And it certainly shows, in both their career plans and their advice to their fellow gradu-ates. Myvett wishes to become a nurse and eventually, a doctor. She told us, “Continue striv-ing to work hard. I’m striving to reverse all of those old and tired stereotypes about women every day.”

Rodriguez, who wishes to become a Certified Public Ac-countant (CPA), says: “Work Hard to achieve your biggest goals, and never settle for less.”

Sadie Vernon Technical High School will hold their Grad-

uation ceremonies on Thursday, June 4th at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. Leading them, all from the class of 4H1, will be: 18-year-old Ms. Courtney Duran (Valedicto-rian, with an Overall Grade Average of 90.4%), 18-year-old Ms. Amy Gennity (Salutatorian, with an Over-all Grade Average of 86.6%), and 19-year-old Mr. Jamal Augustine (3rd Place, with an Overall Grade

Average of 85.9%). The BELIZE TIMES sat with the graduates Monday after-noon at the school campus.

All three hail from different sections of the Lake Independence neighbour-hood/constituency. But their roots and stories couldn’t be anymore different – Duran, originally a native of Orange Walk, is from a family of 6. Gennity lives with her Mom, a native of Esperanza Vil-lage in the Cayo District, and a younger brother, while Augustine lives with his Mom and 2 older sisters.

Their plates, however always seemed to be full, especially outside of the school setting. Duran balanced her

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THE BELIZE TIMES7 JUN 2015 3 03

Francis Fonseca

WOMAN HATERS

Petrocaribe Piñata!!Leaked Documents Expose Secret &

Unauthorized Uses of Petro-Caribe Loan MoneyBelize City, June 2, 2015

Leaked Central Bank documents reveal that there have been hidden and unauthorized uses of tens of millions of dollars from the Petro-Caribe Loan Funds, as the Barrow Administration continues to administer the funds from the program like a piñata WITH AB-SOLUTELY NO ACCOUNTABILITY OR TRANSPARENCY.

On Monday morning, June 1st, Krem Radio Wake Up Belize Show’s fiery host Mose Hyde held up leaked docu-ments on his radio/television show and explained that the documents spelled out serious flagrances in the manner in which the Government has been spend-ing the Petro-Caribe loan monies.

The documents revealed that the Government had used $20,000,000 (TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS) from the Petro-Caribe Loan money for the payment of salaries TWICE, in 2014 and 2015.

As Mose explained, the Govern-ment has never revealed to the public that such large amounts of money have been used for the payment of salaries. He recalled that in April of this year, the Government had released a document entitled “Uses of Funds - Drawn from Petrocaribe Financing” which detailed the uses of Petro-Caribe Loan money. That document, sent to all media hous-es, did not disclose any use of money for salaries.

Mose lashed out at the Govern-ment for “blatant dishonesty”.

The Ministry of Finance responded quickly, releasing a long-winded press release which launched attacks on Mose Hyde. The release accused Mose and the Kremandala media house of “igno-rance” and being “irresponsible” before “going on the deep end”, and claimed that Mose, along with many Belizeans, had misinterpreted the document. The release rejected the accusation that any monies had been used for salaries, and maintained that the Petrocaribe monies transferred out of the Government’s account was actually a “replacement” for what had already been used by the Government.

The UDP also unleashed their ra-dio attack dogs, Alfonso Noble and the Belize City Mayor’s father, Joe Bradley, from Wus Ting Da Mawning. On that show on Monday morning, the hosts called Mose Hyde all sort of names, and accused him of various improprieties. They laughed and snickered at their own silly jokes.

Financial Secretary Joseph Waight, whose reputation is being publicly dragged in the mud by this Govern-ment, attempted to do damage control when he gave media interview to ex-plain on Government’s behalf, but end-ed up making matters worse when he revealed that the need to use Petrocari-be loan funds to replace money spent, simply means that the Government has had to “juggle” its finances.

But that was not the end of the con-troversial disclosures.

Another revelation of more secret money “juggling” was that $4 million dollars of the Petrocaribe loan used to bail out the private company, Citrus Products of Belize Limited last year. Prime Minister Dean Barrow had an-nounced that the Government would step in to assist the financially-strapped company, but no mention was made of Petrocaribe monies being used.

Now it has been confirmed by the Fi-nancial Secretary Waight that Petrocaribe loans funds were used.

The problem with the Government’s wild yet secretive bursting of the Petro-

caribe piñata is that it goes against every principle of accountability and transpar-ency enshrined in the Finance and Audit (Reform) Act, which established modern rules for Government’s borrowing and spending of funds.

The Finance and Audit (Reform) Act required that any borrowing of over ten million dollars had to first get approval of the National Assembly. It also required that such funds be held in a special fund created in the Central Bank, and that any proposed spending be reported to the National Assembly. With Petrocaribe none of these rules are being followed,

and so Belizeans are finding out after the fact about the many political uses of millions of dollars, while the spending re-mains obscure and without proper over-sight.

The Finance and Audit Act was amended in 2010 to introduce penalties for failure to abide by the rules of ac-countability, but the Barrow Administra-tion protected its illegal acts with the pas-sage of the Petrocaribe Loans Act, giving themselves indemnity and granting extra-powerful authority to borrow and spend without having to go to the Na-tional Assembly retrospective to when the borrowing commenced in 2012.

The controversy over Petrocaribe has reached the halls of the Supreme Court, where the Opposition People’s United Party is seeking to keep the Government in check. Deputy Leader Hon. Julius Espat and a team of legal experts have challenged Petrocaribe spending and the legality of the Petrocaribe Loans Act.

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THE BELIZE TIMES 7 JUN2015 4

Officer Down!

Continued from page 2

04

Santi Quits!!36 Murders ALREADY!!!

Jamie Williams

Carla Sanchez

Joliker Leandre Jr.

Kleyford Prado

Therese Burke

Samantha Bradley

Anglican Cathedral College

Ladyville Tech High School

passion for cycling with her work as Vice President of the Belize City chapter of the BFLA’s Youth Advocacy Movement (YAM), and host of the youth radio/TV show, “Bigg Chattz”, all while dealing with chores at home and schoolwork, which was significantly different from her past life at St. Catherine’s Academy, where she was a student. Augustine was in similar straits, having to balance studying with playing basketball, es-pecially in the National Elite Basket-ball League (NEBL) for the Belize City SMART No Limit club. Things were somewhat quieter for Gennity, but still, studying was very much enough for her to take on.

None of the challenges, however, would stop these young people from achieving their goals. And their biggest cheerleader continues to be, for the most part, Mom. For Duran, when it came to her various school projects, she helped out whenever she could. “Many nights, when I wasn’t sure about how to do my projects, she would say ‘Why noh do it like this?’ She was always there for me.” Gennity had back-up from her mom, a tenant nurse to the elderly and sick. Augustine, who was once a stu-dent at Edward P. Yorke High School, had stopped school. But his Mom would have none of that, pushing for him to transfer to Sadie Vernon, continue and finish his secondary education, which he could certainly be proud to say he did.

And their individual ambitions and advice belie their long journeys to where they are now. Duran wishes to be a sur-geon, a General Practitioner. “Never give up… Always aspire to be what you want to be”, she told us, admitting that if it wasn’t for being at SCA, she wouldn’t be able to appreciate the long hours of hard work she put in at Sadie Vernon. Her colleague Augustine, who wishes to be an underwriter for insur-ance companies, agreed, saying: “Stop listening to what people say. It’s not about the school; it’s about what you learn there. You only get out of it what you put into it.” Gennity, who wishes to become a Lab Technician, kept it simple: “Pay keen attention to your teachers”.

Edward P. Yorke High School Principal Mr. Rodrick Cardinez proudly shared that 129 graduates of 132 will march up on Sunday, June 7th, 2015 at the Ramada Princess Hotel, starting at 3:00 pm. Their Valedictorian will be 16-year-old Ms. Nisa Sanchez (from class 4-Industrial Studies, with an estimated overall Grade Average of 91%), while the Salutatorian will be 17-year-old Ms. Amy Turcios (from class 4-Academic Studies, with an overall Grade Average of 85.1%). The BELIZE TIMES interviewed the young ladies at the campus on Tuesday in the midst of their preparations for the ceremony.

Sanchez and Turcios do share some roots – both have parents originally from the Republic of Honduras, while they were born in Belize City and both call

Part 2 Featuring: Pallotti High School, Sadie Vernon Technical High School, Edward P. Yorke High School, Belize High School, Excelsior High

School, Ladyville Technical High School, Anglican Cathedral College, and Toledo Community College

Belize’s Shining Stars!!

Lord’s Bank Village, Ladyville in the Be-lize District home. But Sanchez shares a pedigree unlike any other, as she is the sister of CXC superstar and talent-ed genius Jonas Sanchez. That pedigree has been, unfortunately, both a blessing and a curse. Sanchez admitted, while shyly ducking her head to ease her ner-vousness, that she has experienced the pressure of being equal to or better than her well-known older brother, which has led to “extreme physical and emotional stress”, oftentimes getting very sick.

Turcios wasn’t immune from that pressure either, admitting it was meet-ing the deadlines of the School-Based Assessments (SBA’s) that was hard on her.

Both young women were not alone in their struggles, however, and relied on support to get them through the storms they faced. Sanchez credits her mom, who was “there throughout the 4 years. She was always there, always picking me back up.” She also credits her Homeroom and Technical Drawing teacher, Mr. Earl Noralez, for ‘support-ing’ her, referring to him “like a father away from home”. Turcios, too, thanked her parents – Dad for ‘supporting me financially’, and Mom for, “…always being there, to check my homework, and say to me ‘Push harder, baby, yu soon reach di finish line.’” She also expressed her gratitude to her Biology teacher, Ms. Karen Canto, who “was with us through the toughest cours-es, she told us, with the strength of her Christian faith, to keep going and persevere”.

As for their career plans, San-

chez was undecided about whether to choose Civil Engineering, Architecture or the Fine Arts. Turcios, inspired by the motion picture “Gifted Hands”, wishes to be a neurosurgeon, and one day, work with kids.

Belize High School on Mercy Lane is no longer the new kid on the block. They will have their graduation on Satur-day, June 6th, at the Belize Elementary School Gymnasium, starting at 6:00 pm. Leading them from the classes of Se-nior 1 and 2 will be: 16-year-old Felicia Pik-Ying Quan (Valedictorian, S1, with a cumulative GPA of 4.45), 16-year-old Wei-Shen (Sunny) Chang (Salutatorian, S2, with a cumulative GPA of 4.35) and 18-year-old Sherie Tam (3rd Place and Parent’s Night Speaker, S1, with a cumu-lative GPA of 4.33).

In a pair of interviews conducted on Wednesday May 27th and June 3rd, respectively, the BELIZE TIMES chatted with these talented, intelligent young women. All three have distinct and in-teresting backgrounds. Quan was born in Miami, Florida, USA to a Salvadorian mom and a Chinese dad (with Belizean roots), and has two brothers. Chang hails from the Republic of China-Taiwan and has an older brother, while Tan was born in Belize, was raised in mainland China and came back to Belize around the age of 10 years.

And with those varied roots came the difficulty of properly adjusting to the realities of new surroundings. Quan admits that she had difficulty transition-ing from Belize Elementary to the ‘sister school’ of Belize High, as well as figuring out how to adjust to the more interna-

tional-based curriculum she had to study. Chang and Tan, as foreign-born students, had even more difficulty with barriers to understanding the English language, with Tan actually failing Standard 2 due to those barriers. “I still tried to do my best in every subject, even the ones I got nervous about, like Information Technology and Physical Education,” she said.

The ladies are grateful to those figures that supported them in their difficulties

and triumphs. Quan acknowl-edged her parents, especially her Dad, who always “pushes and guides me”, including ad-vising her on summer course, her majors, and so on. Chang also thanked her parents, who not only “spend money on me to go to school, but also provide my lunch, walk me to school, and check in to see my grades and how I’m doing”. Tan acknowledged God as well as her parents’ support, both financially and “helping me get tutors for my work”.

Their ambitions and forth-right advice are a reflection of the hard-won wisdom reaped on their journey. Quan will ma-jor in Biological Systems Engi-neering (with an interest in “life systems”) at the University of California-Davis in California, USA. She told us, “Continue to strive for progress, not excellence. Find that inter-section of what you love to do and what you’re good at, and go for it.” Chang hopes to become a dentist and simply said to us, “Enjoy life”. Tan, like her business-oriented parents,

wishes to study Business or Internation-al Trade. “Study hard and don’t fool around too much; it could affect your future,” she shared.

Moving over to Excelsior High School on Faber’s Road, the institution will graduate 13 students (5 females and 8 males) on Saturday, June 6th at the St. John’s Vianney Church starting at 3:00 pm. Leading them will be Mr. Ewart Roches (Valedictorian) and Ms. Esmer-alda Coc (Salutatorian).

In the Belize District, Ladyville Tech-nical High School will be graduating 69 of 71 students (36 females and 33 males) across four programs [Business, Hospitality, Agriculture and Construc-tion/Electrical] on Saturday, June 6th at the Ramada Princess Hotel’s King’s Room, starting at 3:00 pm. Leading them will be: Ms. Samantha Bradley (Valedictorian) and Mr. Kleyford Prado (Salutatorian).

The venerable Anglican Cathedral College held their proceedings at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, May 31st. The top 3 graduates, all from the class of 4-Wallace, are: Ms. Jamie Williams (Valedictorian), Mr. Jo-liker Leandre Jr. (Salutatorian), and Ms. Therese Burke (3rd Place).

And in Punta Gorda town, Toledo Community College (TCC) will graduate 174 students on Saturday, June 6th, at the school’s Punta Gorda compound. The top graduates will be: Mr. Japheth Chavarria (Valedictorian), Ms. Melca Camas (Salutatorian), and Ms. Valencia Tut (3rd Place).

Our High School Graduation Season series continues next week.

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THE BELIZE TIMES7 JUN 2015 5 05

EDITORIAL

ENDANGERING BELIZEBelize has been told to get off Sarstoon Is-

land and told to leave from our territorial sea.

On Wednesday 3rd June 2015, the Be-lize Coast Guard gave a detailed media interview on their rescue mission to Light-

house Reef to assist in a Tropic Airplane that was forced to land with its pilot and two passengers in shallow waters.

There has no full report to this nation by the Belize Coast Guard regarding a 26 hours face off with one, then two Guatemalan gun boats. This happened at the small Sarstoon Island in the southern waters of Belize.

The confrontation started between 10:00 A.M to 11:00 A.M on the morning of Thursday 28 May 2015. Belize Coast Guard personnel had travelled by boat to Sarstoon Island to gather preliminary preparations for a base con-struction. A Guatemalan gun boat patrol was quick to approach and request the Belize Coast Guard to leave for violating Guatemalan maritime territory.

According to Chief Executive Officer, Lt. Col. George Lovell, of the Ministry of National Security, the Coast Guard Captain told the Guatemalans it was they who were in Belizean waters and should leave. They did not leave.

Lovell also said that in the afternoon the Guatemalan gun boat left and returned with a bigger boat and more military personnel. They insisted the Belize Coast Guard leave. If we are to believe this secondhand version from Lovell, the Guatemalans remained in close proximity to the Coast Guard and even began circling the Sarstoon Island.

The Belize Coast Guard remained on the Island throughout the night and we now know from Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington, that it was Prime Minister Dean Barrow who gave the instruction for the Belize Coast Guard to turn tail and head back to Punta Gorda.

Prime Minister Barrow, whose arrogant style of govern-ing led himself into improper and illegal activities with Petro Caribe monies and who loves to give interviews and hold Press Conferences, has not uttered a single word. He is probably hoping some local scandal will occur and thus offer a sufficient distraction to the latest Sarstoon saga.

That may not happen.Even if it did, like the Petro Caribe violation of the

country’s laws, nothing can erase the record of the Prime Minister’s sordid abuse of his office.

We are hard-pressed to find, in recent memory, an event of the nature of the Sarstoon Island face off. Twenty-six hours is a long time to have the military of

two countries in such a tense situation. Where were our diplomats? As circumstance would have it both the Foreign Minister and his Chief Executive Officer were in Guatemala. How could it take so long to have this matter diffused? Was the O.A.S brought into the picture at the earliest?

The government’s version of events and their hu-miliating climb down leaves much explanation to be provided.

Imagine, the Government has been told by Guate-malan military to get off its own island and to remove itself from its territorial waters and it did so. And offers no adequate explanation to Belizeans.

For the Foreign Minister to say blandly that the Prime Minister is the one who gave the order to retreat is a wholly unacceptable report to the nation.

We turned tails and ran when told by the Guatemalan bully to get out of our own yard.

This was the time for all that big talk about (not a chance in hell) that our Coast Guard would run out of their territory. What would Guatemala have done, shoot our Coast Guard, arrest them? We think not.

We think this latest incident highlights the very poor level of preparation and leadership that has become the hallmark of the Prime Minister. It is his mishandling of the Guatemalan issue that has plunged Belize into this fiasco.

We take the point it was only three months ago that there was an incident between the Territorial Volunteers and the said same Guatemalan gun boat military. Had leadership been displayed, had Belize gotten its regional and international partners to become involved in de-mil-itarizing the Sarstoon River a potential shooting incident last Thursday would never have materialized.

Instead, the government blamed the Belizean patriots for simply travelling to the border marker.

We cannot overlook that the Foreign Minister on be-half of his government stated on the latest confrontation and we quote, “Guatemalan officials were very professional and very mature” in chasing us of our own island and sea. Nothing said about the bravery of our Coast Guards.

It cannot be worse than this. Guatemala is behaving bellicose and provocative. And our government’s re-sponse leaves much to be desired.

If things continue this way the Opposition may be left with little choice but to completely decouple its support for the government in any matter involving Guatemala.

Our first duty is to Belize.

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THE BELIZE TIMES 7 JUN2015 606

Rejuvenated Hope in Dangriga!

PUP Marshalls Belize City Meeting

Woman shot dead in More

Tomorrow Village

Cordel Shuts Down Mark King

Darrell Bradley, the Belizean PinocchioBelize City, June 3, 2015

Whenever Pinocchio lied, his nose grew longer and longer. Pinocchio’s Belizean counterpart, Mayor Darrell Bradley, has a similar fetish for lying, but when he lies, his lips grow longer and longer.

In each television appearance, those that know Darrell Bradley and his conniving ways could easily detect the lies flowing from his LIPS.

Whether he was denying that he gave a liquor license to his councilor buddy, Deon Leslie, to operate a bar/nightclub at BTL park where children recreate; or whether he was denying that he would serve out his full term as Mayor before abandoning city res-idents with a $50 million dollar debt, Darrell Bradley has proven himself to be one of the most untrustworthy pol-iticians in modern day Belize, putting even the original “liad-man”, Dean Bar-row, to shame.

Unfortunately though, Bradley’s penchant for lying has not come with-out a cost. As a matter of fact, it is actually costing us as city residents millions of dollars in unaccounted rev-enue. Take for instance the fact that he has given three different versions of what took place with the $1.3 mil-lion dollars in the Council’s “legal fees”. Did his law firm get it? Did Tricia Pitts Anderson get it? Did Michael Young get it? Or was it a payment to Belize Waste Control? In the end, we will never know; but the fact remains, city residents will never see that $1.3 mil-lion again.

Just three weeks ago, Bradley held a Mother’s Day party at Lopez Mateos Park, comprised of approximately 50 city council employees (city residents are probably paying for their overtime) and about 13 Caribbean Shores Moth-ers.

A news reporter asked Bradley if he had received his Petrocaribe Moth-er’s Day Cheer, to which his lips began to move and grow and move and grow. Lies on top of lies. This man actually had the bolas to say that he did not get any of the Petrocaribe money for Mother’s Day. Two days later however, no less than the Prime Minister had to strip Bradley naked and declare him a bona fide liar. So the truth is Darrell Bradley DID receive his portion of the Mother’s Day cheer rumored to be $50,000.00. That’s more of our money vanishing into thin air.

Residents of Belize City are pray-ing for Darrell to stop talking because every time his lips start to move, it’s costing us millions of dollars in unac-counted revenue.

Last week, the city council closed down Body 2000. Bradley, perhaps try-ing to save face for closing down the most popular gym in Caribbean Shores, said he knew nothing about it. But, as fate would have it, he would be ex-posed once again. Word on the street is that the owner of Body 2000 is livid by Bradley’s comments, because not only does Darrell Bradley know about the closure of his establishment, but Darrell Bradley is/was his lawyer!

In his most recent interview to the press, this Belizean Pinocchio stated that he has no control over the increase in trade licenses and property taxes. The residents of Caribbean Shores are no fools Mr. Pinocchio. You have hit them where it hurts. Their trade licenses have doubled and their property taxes have tripled and all the while, you were at the helm.

The fact of the matter is the well-ed-ucated and well-informed residents of Caribbean Shores cannot wait for the ap-pointed day to deal with Mr. Pinocchio. Caribbean Shores is ready for an honest leader; a leader who is responsible; and a leader who listens. It is time for a true son of the Shores. It is time for Kareem Musa.

All members of the PUP Marshalls Corps of the Belize District (Belize City, Belize Rural Central, Belize Rural North) are in-vited to a very important and informative meeting to be held on Sunday, June 7th 2015 at 3:00pm sharp at the Independence Hall.

Please be on time. To-gether we move forward in serving the people.

More Tomorrow Village, Cayo District, June 4, 2015

Belmopan Police are investigating the mysterious killing of a Guatemalan nation-al in More Tomorrow Village.

39 year old Guatemalan Paula Garcia was found dead inside her home which is located at Flower’s Farm along the More Tomorrow Village road. She had a gunshot wound to her neck.

Her husband, who was at home at the time of the shooting, said that around 1:00am on Thursday morning, he heard a gunshot. When he saw his wife, he real-ised that she had been injured.

It is not clear how Garcia ended up fatally shot, and by whom, but Police con-tinue their investigations.

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THE BELIZE TIMES7 JUN 2015 7 07Former Corozal Town Mayor Mario Narvaez Dies At 62

The Major Reports to Duty!

Petrocaribe $$$ wasted!

Crooked Tree Village, June 2, 2015It is not known how many tens of thou-

sands of dollars from the Petrocaribe loans was hastily diverted for a Crooked Tree Causeway project, just in time for Edmund Castro’s Belize Rural North convention, but it certainly is clear that those monies have been wasted.

The causeway, on which material was dumped for an elevation project, began fall-ing apart following brief showers over the Belize District. Part of the stretch of road cracked and fell into the river, causing com-muters to panic and become concerned about the safety of the passageway.

While more monies will now be needed to repair the causeway, there are no indica-tions that those responsible for the project are being properly supervised to ensure the best value for money. The residents are very sceptical of this and they believe that the causeway is hazardous and not suitable.

Former Village Chairman, George Guest, has been lobbying for a bridge to replace the causeway. He said he was dumbfounded when he saw heavy equipment appear and learnt that more money was being spent on the roadway, despite the worsening condi-tions.

“…the bridge would have knocked all this out and the water would have flown freely like it used to. Right now it’s not going anywhere. We will flood again. The whole of the village will flood this time because he built a dam. I’ve got common sense. And I’ve got a brain between my ear-holes. Castro ain’t got that. He says that the Petrocaribe money is building this causeway. Well, where’s the Petroca-ribe money? It’s going back into the la-goon Castro,” expressed Guest.

The haphazardly “repaired” Crooked Tree causeway is not the only project in Belize Rural North that Belizeans must be vigilant about. In the weeks leading to Cas-tro’s convention, all sorts of miracle projects popped up including the hasty paving of roads.

With Village Council and an early gener-al election approaching, the UDP is rolling out Petrocaribe monies along its campaign path…with non-elected candidates decided who gets what and who doesn’t. If this dis-proportionate and excessively reckless way of spending monies is not stopped, Petro-caribe will be leaving ugly and costly scars everywhere.

By Roberto PasosFormer Corozal Town Mayor Mario Ignacio Nar-

vaez has passed away at age 62. Mr. Narvaez had been in hospice for about a

year, receiving treatment for illness, and died about 9:45pm on Monday June 1, 2015 at the Star Medica Center in Merida Yucatan, Mexico.

He was Corozal’s first Mayor, who was directly elected by the residents of Corozal Town after the law was revised in 1999 by the Law Revision Act, Chapter 3 of the Laws of Belize. Mayor Narvaez was elected under the People’s United Party banner to serve two consecutive terms by Corozal Town res-idents. Under his stewardship as Mayor, Corozal

Town saw many developments and infrastruc-tural projects that are presently creating bene-fits for the people of Corozal Town. The Gabriel Hoare Market brought great economic benefits; the completely refurbished Central Park; the re-location of the Slaughter House; paved streets using Town Council revenues, are just some of the great accomplishments done by one of the best Mayors Corozal Town had ever seen.

In addition to serving as Mayor for the terms 2000 -2003 and 2003–2006, Mayor Nar-vaez served as a member of the Corozal Town Board from 1991 – 1994. During this period he served both as Councilor and Mayor. He also

served as the Chairman of the People’s United Party Corozal Bay Executive Committee. He was an avid sports fan and sponsored many teams and tourna-ments in support of the community. In his younger days he was a volleyball and basketball player.

Mayor Mario Narvaez will be remembered by the people of Corozal Town as a friendly, humble, respectable, approachable and a responsible Mayor who served his town to the best of his ability.

He is survived by his wife Maria Estela Narvaez, daughters Mariely, Nayeli, and Karina Narvaez and a host of relatives and friends.

Mayor Mario Ignacio Narvaez, July 30, 1952 – June 1, 2015. May he rest in peace.

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Will taxpayers pay for damaged

late-model vehicle?

Dolores and the PUP - Always working for Belize Rural Central

City Administrator totals CitCo

vehicle

– Freetown’s Mr. Quitar?

Roaring Creek Men Mutilated!

May 29th, 2015Hon. Dolores continues vigor-

ous outreach in BRC. On Tuesday May 26th Ms. Dolores presented a donation to the principal and teachers to the Hattieville Seventh Day Adventist Primary School to assist with the school’s utilities. She also delivered along with her

staff several loads of hardcore material for the Belizean Ameri-can Site, Farmer’s Site and Old Hattieville. The material will help residents significantly, as the rainy season approaches.

Photos show handing over of cheque, delivery of material and visits with residents.

Belize City, May 26, 2015Belize City Mayor Darrel Bradley has

come to the City Administrator’s defense after the City Council-purchased vehicle assigned to her ended up totalled along the Northern Highway after a trip to Che-tumal.

Bradley told Channel 7 News said that the Government’s vehicle policy gives him full and unlimited use of vehicles just “like a Minister” while his City Adminis-trator, Candance Burke, also has access to her vehicle just like a “Minister’s Chief Executive Officer”. This explains where the Mayor gets his pig-headed attitude. He believes he should be treated like a Minister!

But back to the City Council’s dam-aged vehicle. Burke and her family were apparently driving back to Belize City af-ter going shopping in Chetumal, when the vehicle flipped around mile 14 on the Northern Highway and landed in the bushes, completely damaged.

The Council tried its best to conceal the accident. There was no report of it to the Police, as far as we know.

This is the second City Council ve-hicle assigned to Burke that has been badly damaged. The first one, a nearly brand-new Toyota Hilux, was crashed in December last year.

As to the Mayor’s previous pickup truck, which was crashed by Councillor Alifah Elrington, it has been replaced with a late-model SUV.

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IMAGINE THE DESPERATION

10 SPORTS THE BELIZE TIMES 7 JUN2015

Young Warriors, City Boys, Rising Stars & Bombers

win in Smart Mundialito

Belize Paddlers

Compete in Puerto Rico Olympic Cup Canoe/Kayak Sprint Event

Central Bank & DigiCell topple opponents in

Interoffice Basketball

Verdes FC wins

Belize City, May 16, 2015The Belize Bank Bulldogs, Belikin, Digicell 4G, Central Bank and Cen-

tral Health all posted big wins in the Belize City interoffice basketball competition at Bird’s Isle over the weekend

Central Bank crushed Ready Call 81-66, led by Jacob “Snake” Leslie and Mark Swift with 21 points each. Dave Apolonio and Ed Baptist added 10 points each. Ready Call’s Raheim Franklin led his team’s score with 17 points and 6 rebounds.

DigiCell 4G upset the defending champs Complex Generals 47-37, led by Raheem Staine with 15 points and Jason Lamb with 10 points. Complex’s Rhetton Belisle and Wilfred Richards scored 11 points apiece and Roman Williams added 5 points.

Saturday’s Matches:Central Health Region vs. Atlantic Bank – 81-69Lead scorers: Travis Bernardez, 27pts, Justin Wade, 37pts,Belize Bank Bulldogs vs. Heritage Bank - 81-78Lead scorers: Rupert Brown, 36pts; Winston Pratt, 39 ptsBelikin vs. Infotel - 60-51Lead scorers: Kadeem Olivera, 26pts; Stafford Young, 16pts

DigiCell’s Jason Lamb scored 10pts

Central Bank’s Cojac Smith scored 7pts

Belize City, May 16, 2015The undefeated Young Warriors, Rising

Stars and defending champs City Boys all post-ed wins in Week 7 of the 2015 SMART Mundi-alito annual football tournament at the M.C.C. Garden in Belize City on Saturday.

Ladyville Rising Stars vs. Carlston FC – 1-0Goals by Elan White (2)Face of Belize vs. Ladyville Jaguars - 1-1Goals by D’jon Canello, Mushay GrantYoung Warriors vs. London Strikers - 1-0Goal by Anthony UsherBrown Bombers vs. Third World - 3-0 (Default Win)City Boys vs. Hattieville Youth FC - 1-0Goal by Rasheid LordHeights FC vs. Collet Strikers - 1-1Goal by Adrian Usher, Mikey Palacio

Collet Strikers’ Mikey Palacio on the offensive

May 31st, 2015The Belize Canoe Association,

now an official member of the Be-lize Olympic Committee and the International Canoe Federation (ICF), is competing in its first ICF event, the Puerto Rico Olympic Cup (Sprint) which takes place from June 5th – 7th.

Chris Guydis, Wilberto Dan-iels, Bayron Cruz and Amado Cruz will compete in different kayak sprint races of distances of 200M, 1000M in K1, K2 and K4 Men’s Se-nior’s Category.

Ms Jane Usher, the Associa-tion’s Recording Officer/Secretary and Team Leader, said that this is a great opportunity for our Beliz-ean paddlers to gain exposure and experience on how sanctioned in-ternational canoe events are man-aged and these paddlers can help develop our local races.

The Belize Canoe Association thanked the Belize Olympic Com-mittee for their assistance, coach Mr Bob Kary for volunteering his time to help prepare the team and asks all Belizeans to show their support as we root for our guys.

The team left Belize on Tues-day, June 2nd and will return on Tuesday, June 9th.

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BTTA holds RF&G table tennis championships

Benny’s Megabytes Vallan Symns

wins Weekend Warriors Rockville raceBelize City, May 31, 2015

Team Benny’s Megabytes Vallan Symns won the Weekend Warriors’ Rockville circuit race from Leslie’s Imports to Rockville and back to CISCO Construction on the George Price Highway on Sunday.

1st Vallan Symns - Team Benny’s Megabytes - 1:37:07

2nd Isaiah Willacey - Team F.T. Williams/British Caribbean Bank – 1st B division

3rd David Pollard - Team F.T. Williams/B.C.B- 1:37:34 – 2nd A Division

4th Mark Lisbey – Team F.T. Williams/ BCB – 2nd B Division

5th Warren Coye – Team Santino’s – 1:38:17 - 3rd A di-

vision6th Kent “Bob” Ga-

bourel - Team Benny’s Megabytesh

7th Santino “Chief” Castillo – 3rd B Division

8th Colin Maheia – Team F.T. Williams/BCB

9th Andrew Vasqauez – Team Belize Water Ser-vices

10th Shalini Zabaneh – Team Sagitun – 1st Fe-male

11th Mark Reid – Team Santino’s

12th Robert Mariano – Team DigiCell 4G

13th Mark Gentle - F.T. Williams/BCB

14th Daniel Cano – Team DigiCell 4G

15th Antonio Escarpeta - Team F.T. Williams/B.C.B

16th Ernest Olivera - F.T. Williams/

BCB17th Francis Cassasola – Team

Santino’s18th Dean Belisle - Team BelCal19th Kirk Sutherland – Team Digi-

Cell 4G20th Ian Whittaker - Invitee

Shalini Zabaneh won 1st in Female

Category

Top 3: Isaiah Willacey - 2nd, Vallan Symns - 1st, Warren Coye - 3rd

Belize City, May 31, 2015Over 50 players in 4 different

categories contested the 2nd bi-an-nual RF&G table tennis ranking tour-nament hosted by the Belize Table Tennis Association at the Belize Ele-mentary School auditorium on Sun-day.

After the round robin qualifiers in the morning, the top performers in each group advanced to a dou-ble elimination round in all catego-ries. Carlos Cui won the A Division, 14-year-old Latrell Solis won the B-Division, John Del Cid won the C division, and Petie Usher-Matus won the Women’s division

In the A Division, after some intense matches the day closed off with an exciting final that went down to the wire between Carlos Cui and Tyrone Tun. Carlos Cui won 3-2 just managing to edge out Tyrone in the finals set 13-11.

A Division Results1st – Carlos Cui2nd – Tyrone Tun3rd – Nicholas MartinB Division Results1st – Latrell Solis2nd – Nicholas Martin3rd – Hector Lopez4th – Yasser MusaC Division Results1st – John Delcid2nd – Jaylen Nicholson3rd – Amiri Hoare4th – Leo CarballoWOMEN Division results1st – Petie Matus2nd – Su Sen3rd – Kelly Liu4th – Esperanza LealTrophies were awarded to all

the winners by the sponsors, RF&G Insurance Marketing Coordinator Ms. Sonia Tun. She thanked the BTTA for the opportunity to sponsor such a large event; one that includ-

ed many junior players, as well as senior and women players. RF&G is one of the original sponsors of the BTTA with this being their 6th year of sponsoring this event, and promising to continue in 2016.

While BTTA Membership Director, Mrs. Janine Carballo, assisted with the trophies pre-sentation, Director Hector Lopez, thanked the Sponsors, RF&G for their continued support of the event, the players, organizers, and spectators for a very suc-cessful tournament.

Top 3: A Division

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PUP Love in Esperanza!

Esperanza Village, June 1, 2015It was a festivity like no other

– residents of Esperanza Village gathered at the community cen-ter and football field to celebrate their community’s 50th anniver-sary in grand fashion.

PUP Cayo North East Stan-dard Bearer Orlando “Landy” Habet and his well-oiled Com-mittee Executive organised a day of fun activities. It started with a football tournament for the athletes. The matches were competitive and finishing in the first place were the Esperanza Warriors. Second place was Los Tambos football club and Third place was Atleticos football club.

Inside the community cen-ter, Mr. Habet gathered with the residents to recognize and award stalwart residents of the community. These residents are seen as senior community lead-ers and are well-respected in the community.

On the field, the residents continued to enjoy some more sports, as the Joan Garbutt Soft-ball diamond came alive with softball games, followed by the traditional May Pole for the chil-dren and adults.

It was a beautiful day to cele-brate a special event. The hard-working PUP Standard Bearer has committed to recognizing communities and their good people in his division.

“Appreciation and thanks go to the teachers who prepared the children for the Maypole, the Awardees, the football and soft-ball players and all those who helped make the Day an enjoy-able an fruitful one. We shall Do it again! Esperanza just needs a little boost. They have Good People. Like Micah says, ‘Esper-anza is Love’,” Habet shared.

Children of Esperanza Village entertained by the game of May Pole

1st place team: Esperanza Warriors got a trophy and prize money

PUP Cayo North East Celebrates Community’s

50th Anniversary

PUP Cayo North East standard bearer Orlandy “Landy” Habet

SOME OF THE AWARDEES

Landy hands over prize to Los Tam-bos Football Club players

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Sunrise: December 28th, 1913Sunset: May 23rd, 2015

PUP Collet holds BBQ & Cowfoot Soup Sale!

Belize City, June 1, 2015The food available at the BBQ

& Cowfoot Soup Fundraising Sale held on Vernon Street by the PUP Collet Committee was delicious, but the vibes among residents and supporters who turned out to support was positive and upbeat.

PUP Collet Standard Bearer Yasmin Shoman and members of her Committee were on hand to greet and chat with supporters.

She shared that the funds raised from the initiative will go towards feeding programs and school supplies for needy chil-dren in the Collet Division. With summer approaching, families will soon begin to deal with the back to school crunch, and in these hard times under the Bar-row Administration, the help will come in handy.

The PUP Committee will con-tinue to reach out to the commu-nity. It is already planning a jum-ble sale slated later this month. Look out for more positive vibes from the PUP Collet team.

L-R: PUP Collet Standard Bearer Yasmin Shoman, PUP Mesopotamia Standard Bear-er Dorla Vaughan & PUP Caribbean Shores

Standard Bearer Kareem Musa

Ground general ‘Tambran’ assisting the fundraiser

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Lennox Castillo defends against Matthew Leal

NOTICE OF COMMENCED DISSOLUTION

Notice is hereby given BARNSBURY ASSOCIATION LTD. commenced dissolution on 11th May, 2015; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the companies. Notice is hereby given BUSINESS SERVICE GROUP CONSULTING LTD. commenced dissolution on 12th May, 2015; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Notice is hereby given MEDRES LTD. and CHATYSTA GROUP LTD. both commenced dissolution on 14th May, 2015; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Limited

NOTICE OF COMMENCED DISSOLUTION

Notice is hereby given ABC WEST CO., LTD. commenced dissolution on 18th May, 2015; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Notice is hereby given SHERBROOKE FINANCIAL CORP. commenced dissolution on 19th May, 2015; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Notice is hereby given FIXTON INVEST & TRADE INC., ADINE DEVELOPMENT INC., SUN RA INC. and TERRY PROPERTY S.A. all commenced dissolution on 20th May, 2015; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the company.

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Limited

NOTICE OF COMMENCED DISSOLUTION

Notice is hereby given FORTUNE ENTERPRISES S.A. commenced disso-lution on 21st May, 2015; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose regis-tered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the companies.

Notice is hereby given RICHMAR LOGISTIC AND CHARTERING LIM-ITED, INDEPENDENT CAPITAL GROUP S.A., and HARRIET MANAGE-MENT LTD. all commenced dissolution on 27th May 2015; and Belizean Liquidators Services Inc. whose registered office is at 50 Shirley Street, P.O. Box CB-13917 Nassau, Bahamas, is the Liquidator of the companies.

Morgan & Morgan Trust Corporation Belize Limited

Project Engineering Solutions LTD. #142,741 (“the Company”)

Pursuant to Section 102(4) of the International Business Companies Act, Chapter 270 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, notice is hereby given that Project Engineering Solutions LTD.

a) is in dissolutionb) commenced dissolution on the 27th day of May, 2015; andc) Lugano Corporate Services Ltd. whose address is 7 New Road, Second

Floor, Belize City, Belize is the Liquidator of the Company

Lugano Corporate Services Ltd. Registered Agent

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Keeping it realWe need less talk, more action

Wesley College & ACC girls show no mercy

LIQUOR LICENSE NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Wal-ly Phanord is applying for a Beer Liquor License to be operated at “Papa U”, situated at 9760 Rose Bradley St., Belize City, Belize Dis-trict under the Intoxicating Liquor License Ordinance Revised Edi-tion 1980.

By Micah J. GoodinYouth development is not

a one night stand in which we launch a youth policy, romance our youth population with end-less possibilities and then wake up with a hangover from exces-sive cocktail consumption.

It has been two years and four months since the grand launch and celebration of a document that was to forever change the realities of our Belizean youth. Though vague in its approach to education, youth governance and economic opportunities people this policy contains the blueprint of our lives, it is all we have to dream from.

To date, the only things that have tremendously changed for us are the quality of the streets on which young black men are murdered on.

Since 2008 almost 1000 Belizeans have been murdered of which more than half are es-timated to be youth. A crime occurs in our country every 23 minutes of which 34% occur in the Belize District, according to data from the IT unit of the Police Department. Of this amount the majority is reported on the south side of Belize City where ‘bars, pawnshops and gaming salons outnumber schools 25 to 1’.

Our education system has been broken for so long that it is now effectively breaking down our society. There are more youths outside than inside the worn out walls of a classroom where a teacher struggles to find a stick of chalk because the ministry cannot provide her with adequate and fundamental re-sources.

As a member of the Belize Youth Movement, I can confi-dently say that our impediment is not a lack or limited knowledge of the issues affecting our youth population. We know what our problems are, we face them ev-ery day. Our obstacle is that our ideas are met with a lack of in-terest, political will and resource commitment on the part of the government.

We have a government that has spent more on concrete than on our future. It has spent more on telephone bills than on us. We are invisible until a UDP Minister wants to look good in the media

PUBLIC AUCTION SALE

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIMITED, a Licensed Public Auctioneer will sell the following property at the place and time as listed.

At the Parking Lot across the street from the office of Holy Redeemer Credit Union Limited, No. 1 Hyde’s Lane, Belize City on Friday June 12, 2015 at 10:00a.m.

ALL THAT piece or parcel or block of land being Block No. 41 consisting of 49 Acres situate along the San Ignacio – Benque Viejo Road, Cayo be-ing such land comprised in MINISTER’S FIAT GRANT No. 800 of 1999 dated 16th October 1999 and more particularly shown and delineated on a Plan of Survey No. 800 of 1999 recorded at the Office of the Commis-sioner of Lands and Surveys, Belmopan, Cayo District as Plan No. 1514 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of MINOR CASTELLANOS

DATED this 27th day of May 2015

All sales are strictly cash and deemed final. For more information contact:

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

Phone: (501) 224-5644Fax: (501) 223-0738Email: [email protected]

or wants to use us to win an elec-tion.

Last week Friday there was a youth forum at the Youth Gateway Center which was built from a loan by the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank, coincidentally in the constituency of the Minister of Ed-ucation Youth and Sports (political agenda at play?).

I stand with all the youths that participated and I salute them. However, I refuse to be magnan-imous with one of the panelists who participated, namely Darrell Bradley.

Mayor Bradley does not under-stand the nature of youth develop-

ment; he does not understand our struggles. In January of last year this man said crime was a figment of our imagi-nation. He obviously does not feel what we feel. His actions and inactions have only ac-celerated the demise and de-struction of our young people. No new parks or sports arenas for the south side, while north side gets an alcohol producing structure in one of its parks. He also called the humble suggestion that the Council could start a scholarship fund as “stupid”?

I urge the government to

talk less and do more for the Beliz-ean youth. Invest in us, develop us, and give us a chance to become what God has prepared us to be. Give life to the youth policy; allocate a portion of the budget towards the formation and operations of a national youth council which you promised us a long time ago. Respect!

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Respect to Mr. Gonzalo “William” QuintoDown Memory Lane

Contributed By Evondale CoburnSeveral weeks ago I posted on my timeline

chronicling the Old Parr basketball teams. The spon-sor of that team was Mr. Gonzalo Quinto. Mr. Quinto is known by many Belizeans for the above introduc-tion but there are also many Belizeans, especially the younger generation who know little about Mr. Quinto and his Chinese friend Mr. Simon Quan.

Mr. James Lee and several others were respon-sible for sponsoring and popularizing the game of Vol-leyball in Belize. Before I get to the volleyball piece I would like to highlight a couple of Mr. Quinto’s work and generosity which I believe he would not object to being promulgated. During our playing career, af-ter every game and whether we won or lost (we did not lose many) his Canton Restaurant on New Road was closed to the public and opened solely for his players, their wives, girlfriends and most loyal fans who accompanied us after games. We were afforded whatever we wanted to eat and or drink all at his ex-pense. Additionally we were each given a stipend as appreciation for our efforts. All we wanted to do was win for him and watch him flash his infectious smile as he hoisted the championship trophy four times out of five years before I migrated to the US. We were respectful and appreciative of his generosity. Small gestures like this had a profound effect on a poor boy from Plues Street. I’ll explain in closing.

Gonzalo Quinto & Sons’ main store is located next door to the Central Police Station on Queen Street. Daily, at the end of the work day, the police courtyard at the front of the station house was trans-formed into a volleyball court complete with referees and officials. This may have been around 1967 (I stand to be corrected).

Mr. Quinto and his Chinese friends formed the core of his team with the late Camma and Kent Myvett as regulars on their team because of their height and kill abilities. The other teams were made up of players from the community who learned the game along the way. Some of these players were Jimmy Harris (he was a well-respected traffic policeman who rode one of the signature Triumph motorcycles in the depart-ment), Jimmy “Capito” Lawrence, Pappy Nunez, Ju-nie Myvett, Thor Middleton, Ned Lord, Anthony “Pro” Myvett (brother of Kent Myvett) and his cousin Gilbert Gomez, and Beebs Menzies, to name a few and sev-eral other members of the police force.

There were other players involved but I’m unable to recall names at the moment. It was a treat and also impressive to be at courtside and watch the Chinese players return powerful kill from the opposing team on their fingertips quietly setting Camma or Kent for their kill at the net. Jimmy Harris had the most powerful kill that I have seen at the time and Camma

had the best control kill. There were some intense and heated arguments at times, but they never got out of con-trol because everyone was aware of where they were located.

The games were open to the

Mr. Quinto on the right and his friend Mr. Simon Quan on the left. (Photo courtesy of Ms. Connie Quinto’s Facebook page)

contrary please enlighten me).In closing, team-sports allow an in-

dividual to develop intangibles that are applicable to your everyday life in order to be successful. Discipline, leadership, teamwork, perseverance, dedication, conflict resolution, social interaction, practice, preparation and execution, lis-tening and following instructions. I’ve always listened and paid attention to my parents, teachers, friends, and people like Mr. Quinto who worked hard and displayed high standards, integrity, sup-port and affection to others. I’ll say this reluctantly because it’s not about me but I sucked it all in and applied what I have learned which allowed me to retire twice and now enjoy the fruits of my labor. I did not want to let any of these people down because they expected excellence.

Mr. Gonzalo “William” Quinto, you are a great Belizean! Thanks for investing in a group of unknown kids from humble beginnings. Many of us became house-hold names in our neighborhood and Belize because of your confidence in our abilities as athletes. It was money well spent. I overstand [sic] why you are a successful businessman. UTMOST RE-SPECT to you Sir!!

public so passersby would stop in and watch, sometimes to standing room only. You could hear the ooohs and aahs as the Chinese play-ers moved with coordinated precision to set up their plays. The games would continue until late into the night. Some of the movie-going audience from Majestic Theatre would stop by to enjoy the games after the show (two for the price of one). Eventually the game became more popular and subsequently Mr. Quinto and his friends were instrumental in organizing the first volleyball tournament held at St. Ignati-us. At this time most of the players who played basketball on St. Ignatius court also played vol-leyball. The weekends were reserved for bet games. Football in the back (where the bell was located), basketball and volleyball on the court sometimes simultaneously (half-court basketball on one end and volleyball on the other), cards, dominoes, dice, marbles, top, ca-paruche, roller skating, hand ball, but I digress, you get the picture. Mr. Quinto and his friends deserve most of the credit for making volley-ball happen. (If anyone has information to the

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Chiquibul

Illegal Guatemalans caught panning for gold inside the Chiquibul forest

Reid

By G. Michael Reid“There’s something wrong with

your character if “opportunity” con-trols your loyalty”. ~ Trent Shelton

“The only people to whom I owe my loyalty are those who never made me question theirs”. Anon

“Loyalty is only a conditional vir-tue and can be a powerful force that prevents us from taking an unpopu-lar stand against the misguided reli-gious or political views of our family or friends”. ~ Anon

As a supporter of the People’s United Party, I was only moderate-ly interested in the outcome of last week’s convention in the Belize Ru-ral North (BRN). The final tally of the votes however, piqued my interest to the point where I felt compelled to spend some time musing over the political paradigm and culture of not only BRN but of our country on a whole. Why do voters remain loyal to politicians and political parties even in the face of overwhelming evidence that they are corrupt?

The convention held in the village of Sand Hill was to determine who would run on the party ticket of the United Democratic Party in the next General Elections. From all indica-tions, those elections will be held sooner than later but that of course, hinges on the arbitrary decision of one man and one man only; the Prime Minister. I have long advocated for a set day for elections as is the case in the US where elections are held on the first Tuesday in November. Lead-er of the Opposition Francis Fonseca has already indicated being favorable to that concept and has gone further in promising a four-year term. This makes perfect sense and the idea that one man can, merely on whim and fancy, decide when, where and why to hold elections opens a wide door to manipulation and chicanery.

The Prime Minister has promised that elections won’t be this year but then again, he also promised trans-parency and accountability. He prom-ised to address corruption and unlaw-ful enrichment and then he promised us an oil refinery. Actually, the things

that this man has promised and not delivered on are so numberless that it would take this entire column to list; I will leave it up to you the read-ers to recollect. He did make it clear that elections would not be held until he has had the opportunity to spend all the monies collected through the Petro Caribe initiative. The way things are going and the way these monies are being squandered, we shouldn’t have to wait too long.

A substantial amount of that money was spent just this past weekend in having this pointless and unnecessary convention. The incumbent was current Minister of State Edmund Castro who was being challenged by his former campaign manager Dwight Tillett. For weeks, both candidates have been running endless political ads and while we’re not sure where Dwight Tillett’s mon-ey was coming from, we have a pret-ty good idea how Castro’s budget

was funded. At some point, we will have to get serious on the discussion about campaign financing reform.

I watched a few of the ads and really felt that Tillett would give Cas-tro a better run for his money. The man seemed sincere, intelligent and articulate; he is a former a teacher, a public servant and a respected mem-ber of his community. Apparently,

a chance? Why squander so much money on having a convention when they already knew what the outcome would be? Why not just endorse your boy?

Leading up to the convention, and in fact, pretty much for the entire tenure of his political life, Castro has been beseeched by scandals and alle-gations. Twice has he been “slapped on the wrist” by the Prime Minister for being caught with his hands deep in the cookie jar! Not only is Castro as crooked as a corkscrew but he is not even good at being a crook. He continually gets caught in his mis-deeds but then again, he seems to know that not only will his party de-fend him but that the voters of Belize Rural North will just keep voting for him. In other words, “he’s a crook but he is our crook”.

The question persists, why do voters continue to vote for an indi-vidual who has proven time and time again to be incompetent, corrupt and boldface in his misdeeds? I imagine it’s for the same reasons why some folks keep defending the UDP and why voters in Washington DC kept voting for Marion Barry. In January of 1990, while serving as Mayor of the capital of the United States, Bar-ry was caught on camera smoking crack. He was subsequently arrested

by the FBI, was charged and eventu-ally convicted. He served six months in a federal prison but after his re-lease, was allowed to run again and was once again elected, serving a full mayoral term from 1995 until 1999. Barry’s victory came in spite of the release of the FBI video which was released just prior to the election. The video went viral and shocked the

Care or not to care

The Prime Minister has promised that elections won’t be this year but then again, he also prom-ised transparency and accountability. He did make

it clear that elections would not be held until he has had the opportunity to spend all the monies collected through the Petro Caribe initiative.

those are not the qualities that Be-lizeans are looking for in their political candidates. From all appearanc-es, it seems that Dwight Tillett nev-er had a chance and the result was predeter-mined. One has to wonder then, if Dean Barrow and basically his en-tire cabinet knew that they would throw their politi-cal weight and fi-nances behind Ed-mund Castro, why fool poor Dwight Tillett into believ-ing that he had

entire nation, in particular after the story made front page headlines of newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. It was not even as if Marion Barry was such an exemplary major. Like Castro, his terms in office were wracked with scandals and financial disparities. Wasteful spending and bloated con-tracts were the major causes of Bar-ry’s problems and the comparisons with our own situations are uncanny if not ironic.

As close an answer as I can come up with is that people tend to develop a sense of loyalty and once that loyalty is formed, they feel compelled to remain loyal even if it means setting aside good judg-ment. Social psychology provides a partial explanation suggesting that “the norm of social commitment di-rects us to honor our agreements...People usually stick to the deal even though it has changed for the worse”. In our current situation, poli-ticians use our own taxpayers’ mon-ey to grant small favors and our loy-alty becomes ipso facto obligations to our feelings of gratitude. Loyalty does not necessarily require us to be complaisant or servile, but poli-ticians have a way of manipulating it to be as such. There is a certain resonance to the saying “when an

organization wants you to do right, it asks for your integrity; when it wants you to do wrong, it de-mands your loyalty.”

Pictures of support-ers hoisting Castro on their shoulders follow-ing his victory conjured the image of a very dark skinned woman hoisting former Ku Klux Klan wiz-ard Bill Wilkinson in San Pedro. She was loyal to

a very evil man who has done her entire race wrong. It is written that “man inherits the capacity for loy-alty, but not the use to which he shall put it and he may just as un-selfishly devote himself to what is petty or vile, as he may to what is generous and noble”. Voters of Belize Rural North need a reality check.

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10th Anniversary Petrocaribe

Welcome to BelizeVenezuelan School Ship “Simón Bolívar” (BE-11)

June 10th – June 15th, 2015

Consejo Takes Neighborhood Watch to a New Level

CONSUMER NOTICE

If you have credit commitments, PLEASE LIVE UP TO YOUR AGREEMENT.

If you have problems, TALK TO YOUR CREDI-TOR.

Don’t be known as a “HARD PAYER” block-ing yourself out of our growing credit economy. Always remember “A GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN MONEY IN THE BANK”.

Visit our office and bring along your social security card to check if there are any complaints against you.

Credit Master SystemsComplaint Information System

PUTTING VALUE BACK INTO

“YOUR WORD”

#11 Douglas Jones Street

Belize City

Tel: 223-5845/2283

Email: [email protected] Website: cmssearch.bz

May 23 2015We are a “different” Neighborhood

Watch. Out of perceived necessity based on our distance from Police and Medical services in town and the need to have resources quickly available. We have de-veloped the “Responder” program. Re-sponders are our neighbors. They care enough about the community to have vol-unteered to respond when called upon. Sometimes in the middle of dinner and sometimes well after dark. While you may not always think we “do it right”, our responders are doing this because they are willing to help protect the community. Remember, we work with but, are not a replacement for the police or community medical services or NEMO. What we are is a first line of defense. Looking out for one another and responding as quickly as we can when called for a criminal situa-tion, medical emergency, or a natural di-saster.

Our responders respond to events when a neighbor reports suspicious ac-tivity. We remind all residents that our community is safe because people are watching and not assuming “well it must be OK” we congratulate our residents for maintaining a vigilant attitude.

To illustrate our level commitment to defending our community we need

only to look briefly at our incident-track-ing log for 2014, and thus far in 2015. In 2014 we had one attempted assault and battery (along Consejo Road); one act of vandalism (Buccaneer Bay); one theft of an antenna (Mayan Seaside); one break-in but nothing stolen (Mayan Seaside); one theft of lawnmower (Consejo Shores); and one home break-in involving theft (Con-sejo Shores). In the last incident cited, it is important to note that the thief was caught, the items were returned to the owner, and the perpetrator is now serving a prison term. 2015 Incident Summary: To date, there has not been any thefts, no break-ins, nor any assaults reported. This has been accomplished by using current technology and ongoing training. Many residents are purchasing security alarms, cameras and dogs.

We are very proud of the dedication and diligence that our responders and watchers have provided and continue to provide towards safeguarding our com-munity. Never before have neighbors in our area looked out for their fellow neigh-bors to such a degree. We have had a big impact on reducing crime locally. All of us should take great pride in the fact that we demonstrated to the entire area that we will not be victims of crime and those who try will know the price will not be worth it.

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PUP Hattieville Campaign Team Election Ready!!

Scotiabank Welcomes New Country Head, Michael Shaw

Water crisis in

Gardenia and Biscayne

Villages

Employment OpportunityDental Clinic is looking for a competent licensed Dental Surgeon.

Role and Responsibility:

The successful candidate will be part of a Dental team to provide general dental care to patients.

Qualifications and Experience:The Dental Surgeon must have at least 1 year experience as a dental surgeon and a good understanding of all aspects of dentistry. They must speak English, Spanish and be able to communicate effectively and efficiently to patient’s needs, wants and desires.

They must provide honest, quality, ethical and morally competent dental care to patients.

Skills and competences:- Composite and Amalgam fillings- Crown and Bridge- Root canal therapy- Periodontal maintenance- Oral Hygiene- Extractions- Oral Rehabilitation

Salary: Negotiable

Kindly send curriculum to:Dr Dalix Hernandez [email protected]

Belize City, June 2, 2015PUP Belize Rural Central Area

Representative Hon. Dolores Bal-deramos Garcia and her Hattieville campaign team are preparing vig-orously for the upcoming general election campaign. On Saturday May 30th, team members attend-ed a very informative and inspiring training session conducted by train-ing expert and PUP stalwart Ms Merilyn Young.

All the pointers and discussions were well received by those in at-tendance, who pledged to continue the on-the-ground visits and cam-paigning on behalf of their caring and hardworking PUP area repre-sentative.

PUP Hattieville Adelante!

Belize District, May 26, 2015The residents of Gardenia and

Biscayne Villages deserve potable running water in their homes. The BWS water line stops in Sandhill just 1.5 miles outside of Gardenia Village and 4 miles from Biscayne Village. It will take a pittance from the Petro Caribe Fund together with villagers’ labor to extend the water line to these two villages so that they can have safe drinking water.

In Biscayne Village, a villager shared that there is a water crisis. He said the wells are dried up and a water truck arrives with water, only UDP supporters get water. Just how unfair can the UDP be to the people of Gardenia and Bis-cayne Villages?

“It is our TAX DOLLARS that pays for the water and the truck. Every single villager deserves to fill their buckets. How can you say this UDP Government is a Gov-ernment for all?” questioned the resident.

Ms. Dolores & Ms. Young with the PUP Hattieville campaign team

Ms. Dolores & the lucky winners of three door prizes

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Gene study shows humans took Egyptian

path out of Africa

Throw away those power cords and chargers. Signals from a Wi-Fi router providing wireless electricity could soon be used

to power gadgets and charge phones

SCIENCE & TECHBELIZE TIMES WEEKLY

R E V I E W

Gadgets powered wirelessly at home with a simple Wi-Fi router

01 June 2015 by Chris Bara-niuk

Our homes are a tangled mess of wires and chargers. But that might be about to change. Work is under way to use the Wi-Fi signals that surround us to power our gadgets.

In Seattle, six households have taken part in an experiment in which modified electrical de-vices were put in their homes along with a Wi-Fi router. Over 24 hours, the devices were pow-ered solely by the router’s signal, which also continued to provide wireless internet access to the home.

How was this possible? The energy of the radio waves the router sent out was converted into direct current voltage with a component called a rectifier, much as solar panels convert light energy into electrical energy. That voltage was then boosted to a useful level by a DC-DC converter (arxiv.org/abs/1505.06815).

The system powered tem-perature sensors and battery-less low-resolution cameras, and charged standard batteries.

The hard part is getting the router to constantly push out enough energy, says team mem-ber Vamsi Talla from the Universi-ty of Washington in Seattle.

When someone is browsing the web, the Wi-Fi signal is active and can be used to power devic-es. However, when not browsing the signal goes quiet.

“With Wi-Fi for communica-tions, you only want to transmit when you have data to send,” Tal-la says. “But for power delivery, you want to transmit something all the time. There’s a clear mis-match.”

To get around this, the team designed software that broad-casts meaningless data across several Wi-Fi channels when no one is using the internet.

Small devices could use this

as part of an internet of things, says Ben Potter at the University of Reading, UK. “Where we’re heading is to have more sensors in everything around us,” he says. “Innovations with mi-crochips mean they can run with less power. For that type of application, this is interesting technology.”

The problem is that Wi-Fi is never going to pro-vide a very powerful signal. Wi-Fi is tightly regulated in many countries – the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), for ex-ample, limits the power of a Wi-Fi broadcast to 1 watt. An iPhone charger delivers at least 5 watts – and has no other demands on its output.

One company with a solution is Ossia in Bel-levue, Washington. It has a system called Cota that gets around the FCC reg-ulations by designing a wireless hub that transmits waves at a Wi-Fi frequency but doesn’t send a commu-nications signal.

The Cota set-up can produce up to 20 watts, but would only deliver 1 watt to a single phone. CEO Hatem

Anatomically modern humans migrated out of Af-rica, but where and how? For years, researchers have argued about whether anatomically modern humans took the northern route through Egypt into Eurasia, or the southern route via the Arabian peninsula. Genomic analysis of hundreds of people from the area reveals that we took the high road – but that’s far from the end of the story.

“I think we’re only at the beginning of trying to un-derstand the out-of-Africa migration,” says Michael Pe-traglia at the University of Oxford.

This event probably occurred between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. Luca Pagani of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, and his colleagues ex-amined the genomes of 100 Egyptians and 125 Ethiopi-ans to see whether traces of the early migration could still be seen in current occupants of those countries.

If the last stop out of Africa was Egypt, Eurasian genomes should have more in common with Egyptian than other African genomes. And if the last stop was Ethiopia, Eurasian genomes should be more like theirs.

To control for more recent migrations in and out of those areas, the researchers ran computer models to simulate later movements and controlled for the predict-ed genomic effects. The Egyptian genomes emerged as those most similar to Eurasian ones, indicating that Eur-asians took the northern route.

Good fitThis conclusion fits well with other evidence, says

Petraglia, who was not involved in the study. Eurasians interbred with Neanderthals soon after they left Africa. And we know that Neanderthals lingered in the Levant at about the time of the out-of-Africa migration, but there’s no evidence that they lived further south, says Petraglia.

Luisa Pereira at the University of Porto, Portugal, isn’t convinced by the new results. She says that they depend too much on the computer simulations, which might not capture all genetic mixing that has happened since then. It makes sense that Egyptian genomes would have more in common with Eurasian ones, given that Egypt is right on the region’s doorstep, she adds.

But Pagani says the simulations are robust. His team even tried artificially introducing an “error” to make the Ethiopian genomes more like the Eurasian ones, but Egyptian data still emerged as more similar.

Nevertheless, Pereira’s criticism suggests that we’ll need more evidence before any consensus can be reached on the routes humans took out of Africa.

Zeine says that’s enough to charge an iPhone 5 several times over in a single day if it has constant access to the signal.

“Unlike Wi-Fi, our pow-er signal is unmodulated,” says Zeine. “It’s a continu-ous wave, there’s no mes-sage in it.”

A receiver chip on the device being charged tells the hub which of Cota’s thousands of antennas it is receiving signals from. Those antennas alone are kept active and the system is able to ignore other ob-jects in the room, such as a human body.

Eric Woods, an IT infra-structure researcher at con-sultancy firm Navigant in London, thinks there will be demand for this type of tech-nology for the many sensors that will fill the smart homes and cities of the future.

Sensors powered by Wi-Fi could be used to monitor air quality or the status of systems across a city, says Woods. “Removing the need to think about batter-ies takes away one of the barriers to the exploitation of those technologies,” he says.

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For SaleBy 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 15th day of July, 2009, between EDUARDO SARAVIA of Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek District, Belize of the one part, and SCOTIABANK (BELIZE) LTD., of the other part, and recorded in Deeds Book Vol. 16 of 2009 at Folios 957 – 986, 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 LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 132 situate in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek District, Belize, and bounded as follows:- On the North for 22.856 Metres by a Street; On the South for 22.856 Metres by Lot No. 111; On the East for 33.523 Metres by Lot No. 133; On the West for 33.523 Metres by Lot No. 131, containing 766.202 Square Metres as shown on Plan No. 2080 at the office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon.

DATED this 4th day of June, 2015.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS LLP91 North Front Street

Belize CityAttorney-at-Law for

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

For SaleBy Order of the

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edi-tion, 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 17th day of July, 2006, between ROY SYLVESTRE TILLETT JR. of Pomona Village, Stann Creek District, Belize of the one part, and SCOTIABANK (BELIZE) LTD., of the other part, and recorded in Deeds Book Vol. 26 of 2006 at Folios 603 – 632, the said Scotia-bank (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 Lot No. 63 comprising 461.849 Square Metres situate in Pomona Village, (Del-Oro Site), Stann Creek District, bounded and described as shown by Plan No. 178 of 2006 attached to Minister’s Fiat Grant No. 178 of 2006 TO-GETHER with buildings and erections standing and being thereon.

DATED this 4th day of June, 2015.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS LLP91 North Front Street

Belize CityAttorney-at-Law for

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

For SaleBy Order of the

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Compa-nies 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 1st day of October, 2009, between SANTIAGO ACOSTA of Mile 11 Stann Creek Valley Road, Stann Creek District, Belize of the one part, and SCOTIABANK (BELIZE) LTD., of the other part, and recorded in Deeds Book Vol. 23 of 2009 at Folios 1067 – 1096, 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 Scotia-bank (Belize) Ltd.

SCHEDULE

ALL THAT lot, piece or parcel of land situate South of Stann Creek Valley Road, Hoffman Estate, near mile 11, Stann Creek District, being Lot No. 5 comprising of 771.893 s.m. of land as is shown on the said sub-division plan dated 29th July, 2008 made by the said J.H. Hertular, Diploma Com-munity Planner and Licensed Land Surveyor and recorded at the Lands and Survey Department, Belmopan on Entry No. 1389 Register No. 7 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon.

DATED this 4th day of June, 2015.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS LLP91 North Front Street

Belize CityAttorney-at-Law for

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

For SaleBy 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 Gift subject to existing mortgage registered as Instrument No. LTU-201200869 made the 28th day of April, 2012, made between Miria Anita Romero and Anthony Alexander Romero to ALEXANDER ROMERO, which said property was mortgaged to the said Scotiabank by a Deed of As-signment and Transfer of Mortgage made the 13th day of May, 2008, recorded in Deeds Book Vol. 18 of 2008 at Folios 145 – 176, which said property was mortgaged to the Development Finance Corporation on the 10th day of July, 2007, recorded in Deeds Book Vol. 27 of 2007 at Folios 229 – 274, 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 Lot No. 28 situate in Pomona Village, Stann Creek District, and bounded as follows: On the North for 22.860 Metres by Lot No. 15; On the South for 19.874 Metres by A Street; On the Southeast for 4.329 Metres by A Daylight Cut; On the West for 36.570 Metres by Lot No. 27; And on the East for 33.523 metres by A Street; Containing 831.304 Square Metres (994.31 Square Yards) of land as shown on Plan No. 1992 at the Office of the Commissioner of Lands and Survey. TOGETHER with all buildings, erections and developments standing and being thereon.

DATED this 4th day of June, 2015.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS LLP91 North Front Street

Belize CityAttorneys-at-Law for

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

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THINK ABOUT ITOUR NATION IN DANGER

The Guatemalan military and the Belize Coast Guard had a stand-off/face-off in the coastal waters down south. It happened at Sarstoon Island which is in Belizean territorial waters. The Guatemalan military patrol insist-ed that our Coast Guard leave the Island which on orders from the Prime Minister they reluc-tantly did. Put another way, Belize had to put its tail between its legs and slink away.

This happened on Thursday 28 May 2015 and lasted for 26 hours. This is a full day plus two hours for the Guatemalans to have veri-fied their position as to whether they were in our territorial waters or not. They knew exactly where they were and intentionally forced us to eat crow. Their Generals and Commanders are laughing at us. We are a laughing stock.

We are proud to hear that our Coast Guard stood their ground.

We thank almighty God that things did not escalate.

The Belize government has wimped out of the matter. As they have done in previous situations. We are ashamed by our govern-ment. No one is asking them to start a war. We are asking that they do what any govern-ment would do in the circumstances. Lodge a formal protest, a strong one, each time Gua-temala slips up or engages in these types of behavior. Six days after the Sarstoon Island matter the government has still not protested to Guatemala.

There are presently 92 clearances by Guatemala nationals in our territory. These are known by our government. There was the shooting death of Danny Conorque that could only be by a Guatemalan. There is the towing of a Belizean boat with dozens of our citizens from out of the same Sarstoon River to Living-ston in Guatemala by Guatemala military gun boats recent as February this year.

There have been no responses from our government.

Our government allowed a Guatemalan company to build Belize’s military out-post in the southern waters. What a sick joke on our nation. In any democracy the Minister of Na-tional Security would have to resign.

One of these days these provocations will result in Guatemala taking military control of our southern river and seas and maybe our lands.

Our government has not been reporting Guatemala’s behavior to the Caribbean na-tions, or to O.A.S. or to the Commonwealth countries or to the United Nations. Our foreign Embassies are of no help to our country on this most serious existential issue.

We are taking these serious matters lightly. We will come to regret it.

We are also deeply disappointed that only an employee in the Ministry of National Security has spoken briefly on the stand-off. In weighty matters of this nature, the protocol requires that an elected Minister of Govern-ment address the nation and make himself available to the media for questions.

Also to be considered is that Guatema-la is gearing up for Presidential, Congressio-nal and Mayoral elections in September. In the same way we think our government is a wimp. Same way some ambitious candidates could be saying the Guatemala government is allowing Belizean Coast Guards to violate their territory-repeatedly.

Our government is taking these matters too lightly.

GOVERNMENT BEHAVING UNLAWFUL

The government is behaving unlawful with government monies.

The government is saying it makes sev-enty-five thousand dollars of public monies available to UDP area representatives and un-

elected UDP standard bearers. But only twen-ty-five thousand dollars to PUP elected area representatives.

This is called discrimination and is uncon-stitutional. It is written in section 16 of the Be-lize Constitution that no law shall be discrimi-natory either of itself or in its effect. Also NO PERSON shall be treated in a discriminatory matter by any PERSON OR AUTHORITY.

The Prime Minister and his government fall under the ANY PERSON OR AUTHORITY provision. If public monies are used for UDP elected officials the same amounts must be made available for PUP elected officials. The same applies for when the government uses public monies on political matters like Christ-mas cheer and Mother’s Day programs. The Prime Minister cannot be using public monies like it is his. Such is the law and such is the Constitution. Of course the P.M. can always break the law by passing an illegal retrospec-tive law.

MAJOR CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE

Allyson Major Sr. sat calmly and quietly in the Supreme Court, listening to his attorney Anthony Sylvestre outline the case against the government and the Police.

In a nutshell the government through its Police detained, then arrested and charged Mr. Major for unlawfully keeping a gun and ammunition. He was remanded to jail where he spent 38 days before finding money for a lawyer to go to the Supreme Court for bail. Had he not received bail he would have spent a minimum of three months on remand, like so many poor people have been forced to do by the unjust gun laws. If convicted he would have spent a mandatory time of five years in jail.

The facts of his case are that on 17 April 2012 the worthless and hated Gang Suppres-sion Unit G.S.U (which has committed all manner of human rights abuses, violation of citizen’s rights and physical assaults, as well as planting evidence against poor people) searched a premise in Belize City. Five per-sons were taken to Police Station for gun and ammunition.

Mr. Allyson Major was not at the premise at the time of the search or the finding of the illegal items. He never even lived there.

In preparing the charge sheet for the five persons found at the premises, the G.S.U in-cluded two additional persons- Yvette Lynch, a nurse and Allyson Major.

Late in the evening of the 17 April, the G.S.U. located and arrested Allyson Major and the following day 18 April took him to Court where he was remanded to jail.

During trial in November 2013, the G.S.U. could present no evidence against Mr. Major except the usual stupid lie that they had some “intelligence” that he was a resident at the premises. The Magistrate quite correctly dis-missed the charges.

The Constitutional claim argued in front of Supreme Court Judge Michelle Arana is based on the G.S.U. violating the constitutional rights of Mr. Major that he is not to be deprived of his liberty. Secondly that he is not to have his right to be presumed innocent violated.

In his written submissions to the Court, strengthened by oral presentations, attorney Sylvester relied on the relevant Sections of the Constitution, the articles of the European Court of Human Rights, the draconian Crime Control laws, the Firearms laws, decisions from foreign Courts, decisions of the Privy Council, British House of Lords cases, Belize Chief Justice decision in Sgt Palacio vs. Jo-seph Grant, the C.C.J decision in Phillip Zuniga vs. Belize A.G.

It is disgraceful that the government through the Attorney General’s Ministry is fighting against Mr. Major in an effort to deny

him financial compensation for a blatant vi-olation of his fundamental human rights as guaranteed by the Belize Constitution. The duty of our government is to protect citizens from those who abuse them and violet their human rights, not the opposite of protecting the abusers.

We urge more citizens to go to the Su-preme Court against the wanton violation of their rights being committed by Police, Lands Officials, Customs and GST branches of the government.

Also citizens need to take Mayor Bradley to Court for denying them a driver’s license because they owe property tax. One thing has nothing to do with the other and the May-or is acting illegally.

The Supreme Court will hand down its decision next month.

THE MAYOR AGAIN

Belize City Mayor again. This time he turned against his own client, Body 2000, in order to grandstand and score political points. Why else would a politician so publicly smear Body 2000?

On Friday afternoon, Police and City Council officials unlawfully entered Body 2000 gym and ordered customers to immediately leave. They then forced the gym to close. They claim Trade License was not paid.

This is outrageous behavior.This is no way to treat business people.

There is no justifiable reason to do this to Body 2000.

The Mayor could have waited until the gym closed in the evening to notify the per-son in charge. Everyone knows gyms hardly make money. The few customers who pay dues cannot cover the operating costs of util-ities and staff; it’s more of a community ser-vice than a profit making enterprise. The only reason the gym is not closed is because the owner is a physical fitness fan and supports healthy living style and exercise.

Shucks! Here is a creole Belizean always helping his community in sports, culture and with entertainment. Why can’t his gym be giv-en a payment plan? Why can’t a gym which can only produce healthy citizens and healthy lifestyles be given a reduced tax rate? There are some privileged businesses which do not pay taxes to the Mayor’s Council. How come?

WILLIAM’S RING

Is it a wedding ring? Is it a special ring? Is it a gay thing? Or is it just a ring?

If so, why is it on the ring finger on the left hand? There seems space on the right hand.

It don’t (does not) even look like real gold. But it sure looks like a wedding band on the ring finger.

Ah! The things that people notice.

A MINISTER IS CO-ORDINATOR

This is more than a gay thing.The Minister of National Security

showed up on national television as the Na-tional Co-ordinator of Belize’s National Foot-ball Team.

Come on Sir, this is overdoing it.Why?You are a full time Minister of Govern-

ment responsible for one of the most import-ant portfolio subject areas-security. For both internal in respect to the Police and external security in regards to the army. The Coast Guards are obviously under the Americans.

The BDF most recent spectacular fail-ure was the hog-wash that their only vehi-cle had engine trouble, and having no plan B, or a back-up plan they left Danny Conor-quie to take tourists into a danger zone with absolutely no protection. Danny was then murdered in front of dozens of foreign tour-ists and their cameras. The murderers, most likely being from Guatemala seeking revenge over what BDF soldiers may have done to them the previous day or days. This is also the Minister which approved and allowed

Guatemala to build Belize Military base in the southern waters.

On the Police side, the Minister, his Ministry and the Police department have been unable to produce any plan or policy to tackle, curb or deal effectively with on-go-ing violence and murders. Rape, home-inva-sions, gang violence and vicious murders are the number one concern of the nation. The Minister’s solution is road blocks and Police brutality.

The poor image of the Police in our soci-ety is at an all-time low. The abuse and viola-tions of citizen’s fundamental rights are at an all-time high.

The Minister is paying attention to foot-ball.

JULES IS DISTORTING

Channel 7 news on Tuesday night was not the best or even good journalism. We expect better from Jules, even as we know he has a UDP agenda and uses his TV to pro-mote a distorted view.

In trying to stir up the Ivan Ramos- Ju-lius Espat spat over the P.M approval of petro monies for Ivan’s constituency, Jules pushed the UDP propaganda on the issue.

The PUP is not fighting the spending of the petro monies. It is fighting the illegal man-ner in which the UDP government is handling the monies. It is a fact the Prime Minister vio-lated the Constitution and the laws governing approval of the National Assembly and prop-er accountability of the monies.

Those are the facts.

LIFE IS REALLY HARD

Life in Belize is really hard for large sec-tions of our population.

The cost of living and the low wages be-ing made is having a debilitating toll on our people. For those without a job it is a daily grind just to survive.

Our country was never this coarse and rough. Hustling, thieving, all forms of male and female prostitution all forms are going on.

It’s dread.It’s happening at a time of unprecedent-

ed spending, waste and hustling by the gov-ernment.

DOYLE PRINCE

For his generation Mr. Doyle Prince was the man with the baddest swagger. He must have patterned his walk from the movie char-acters in his time - could be John Wayne, Yul Bryner or Audie Murphy.

Doyle is now in his eighties and battling diabetes. Doyle is a colorful character and knows a whole heap of the history and plac-es of Belize City.

He also worked with Robert Sydney Thurton, the mentor and patron of a young George Price. Doyle and Price worked in Mr. Thurton’s office as his trusted Assistants and Secretaries.

Doyle would have important information on the young George Price which must form part of the history of the country’s greatest leader.

Maybe NICH-the Institute of Culture and History could find a little interest to interview Doyle Prince.

MAGNA CARTA

Some months ago, a Professor from the University of the West Indies visited Belize in order to encourage the local Branch of the U.W.I to promote a public forum of the Great Charter of liberties which is 500 years this month.

That forum was a success but was lim-ited to only college or Sixth Form students.

The great Charter of human rights, rule of law, jury trial and the rights of citizens deserve a more fuller discussion and with a wider audience participation.

How about it U.W.I, U.B and Galen?

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UDP Embraces Corruption!Respect to our workers

The Petro Caribe Crutch

CARTOON

3 Men charged for weed hidden

in Winnie the Pooh bag

Cayo District, June 1st, 2015Three men were arrested and

charged after Police authorities in Benque Viejo del Carmen searched the trunk of the vehicle they were travelling in and discovered a large quantity of marijuana hidden inside a Winnie the Pooh bag.

The men, 43 year old Juan Garcia, who is a taxi driver of Dangriga Town, 29 year old Jose Majil Madre of Dan-griga Town, and 21 year old Herson Gonzales, a taxi driver of Arenal Vil-lage, were travelling from Arenal Vil-lage to Benque Viejo and stopped at a Police checkpoint in Arenal Village. The passenger area of the vehicle was searched but nothing was found. It wasn’t until Police officers checked the trunk and peered into a large red and black Winnie the Pooh bag that they found illegal substance.

Inside the bright coloured bag they found twenty-five parcels wrapped in black plastic bags that were tightly sealed by transparent tape. When the parcels were checked by the Police, its content was sus-pected to be cannabis.

The men were taken to the Ben-que Viejo Police Station where the drugs was further inspected and weighed, amount to 11,132 grams. They have been charged for drug traf-ficking.

Sandhill Village, June 4, 2015With almost unlimited access

to Petrocaribe money and almost the entire UDP Cabinet backing him, disgraced UDP Area Repre-sentative Edmond Castro pulled off a win in the UDP’s Belize Rural North Standard Bearer convention held on Sunday, May 31st, 2015.

This shows how much the United Democratic Party embraces corruption. Big time Ministers like Boots Martinez, Patrick Faber, John Saldivar, and Mark King brought their heavy brown paper bags to

support Castro against a political nov-ice, Pastor Dwight Tillett.

While the strong show of support paid off for Castro, it left Belizeans ask-ing whether something was wrong with the people of Belize Rural North. Castro must have been sharing red cool aid.

In the weeks leading to the conven-tion, Castro’s name continued to come up in scandals, keeping consistent with his political history. He recently appeared in Court in the defamation case which he brought against whistleblower Alvarine Burgess, but ended up admitting that he participated in a visa hustle. Castro

then had to answer allegations that he was illegally occupying privately owned land, and he admitted that he was indeed cultivating cane on land that didn’t belong to him.

Despite all of the scandals, the UDP never once has taken any ac-tion against Castro. The Party appar-ently accepts and embraces ques-tionable behaviour from its political leaders. Instead of allowing a man who has been in the middle of so much wrong doing to take the back seat, the UDP has fully embraced him.

Belize City, June 1, 2015Ever since 2012, the UDP

Government of Belize has ceased to grow its recurrent revenue. The influx of the Petro Caribe Loan that has been provided by the Bo-livarian Republic of Venezuela via the initiative started by the late Commander Hugo Chavez, the government has gotten lazy.

The revelation of the State-ment of Government Account at the Central Bank of Belize clearly indicates that the UDP Govern-ment of Belize is technically broke. We say this because on March 18, 2014, the Barrow Government borrowed $20.0m from the Petro Caribe account to pay salaries for public officers (see Image 1. Also note that in December 16, 2014 another $20.0m was borrowed. In total the government borrowed $40.0m to finance recurrent oper-ations. This was further confirmed by the Financial Secretary, Joseph Waight, in a television interview on Monday, June 1, 2015, where he claimed the government keeps

finding itself in a cash crunch and therefore had to draw down on the Petro Caribe loan funds.

He tried to explain that the draw down was a reimbursement for monies previously spent by the gov-ernment on projects that were to be funded by the Petro Caribe loan, but the entire nation of Belize knows that is hogwash. How can the country be in a cash crunch and have liquidity to spend on Petro Caribe project at the same time? This has been the mo-dus operandi of this Barrow adminis-tration. Just plain lazy and greedy for easy money.

The UDP government since 2008 have destroyed the foreign in-vestment confidence by the unnec-essary nationalizations of four (4) privately owned multi-million dollar companies and continues to threat-en others such as Fort Street Tour-ism Village.

In addition, the UDP have taxed the business community so much that many of those business own-ers are now out of business. Prop-erty Taxes and Trade License were

increased arbitrarily by more 200% in most cases. The Belizean public (consumers) were not spared as the UDP hiked the General Sales Tax up to 12.5%. In effect that hike in the GST has devalued the Belize Dollar to 87.5 cents. Despite prom-ises that the price of fuel would be capped at $8.00, fuel prices at the pump are sky high and only tumble down before an elections.

It is clear that the UDP gov-ernment has run the country into bankruptcy and cannot pay for the basic recurrent expenditure such as salaries. Even with the reduction in the debt servicing requirements by the government it is becoming harder to generate the level of re-current income because the source of the income is drying up due to the shrinking Foreign Direct Invest-ment (FDI) and the shrinking busi-ness community.

Since 2008 Belize has seen a drastic decline in its economy as a result of bad fiscal management, incompetence and corruption. Now the Petro Caribe loan is being used to mask all the UDP government incompetence, at the expense of future generations.

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