A formal written brief of what had occurred had to be prepared for travelling ministers. If asked about the episode, they were to speak from their brief - if they couldn't commit it to memory - and distribute copies to counter the negative publicity abroad.
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The ouster of a Chief Justice is the kind of thing that attracts international scrutiny. He wrote seeking an explanation from the government. He was obliged to do a write up on the matter for his report to the UN's 56th Session of the Commission on Human Rights. He would be scheduling a visit to Belize to investigate this matter if it was not soon resolved. It was promptly explained to him by the ubiquitous Gian Gandhi that he had no jurisdiction to "investigate" anything.
Belize had laws and a court system inherited from none other than the British. The judge had appealed to the Court of Appeal and, if successful, his rights would. Negotiations began in earnest between attorneys for the deposed Chief Justice and envoys of the government. There were discussions, too, directly with the judge and those select envoys of the government he deigned to meet with. To be perfectly honest, direct negotiations with Mr. Sosa had commenced prior to the filing of the bogus claim that led to his removal. With the ceremonial opening of the Supreme Court set for January 18th, , the Prime Minister wanted the year to commence with the judicial slate wiped clean of the controversy over Sosa's electioneve appointment in August Chief Justice Sosa had been approached on several occasions prior to January 18th.
His interlocutors put to him the government's case. If he would but step down from office, the government could claim moral victory and, that won, it would promptly re-appoint him, this time in strict compliance with the constitution. Incredibly, the Chief Justice agreed to that outrageously absurd formula.
To be fair to him, the government had not yet been discovered for its pathological mendacity. But he recovered quickly, rejected the offer a few days later and declined further discussions. A few days after the court had declared his appointment unconstitutional, the government offered to appoint him to the Court of Appeal.
He refused and then a few days later communicated through George Price that he was prepared to consider the appointment. The two moved in sacerdotal circles, but there was never the suggestion that any kind of divination had produced the change of heart. In a private meeting at his house, Mr. Sosa dictated the terms and conditions for his appointment to the Court of Appeal. The government agreed to all his terms and conditions, except his request for compensation for loss of office. It was not about the money. Payment of compensation was tantamount to an admission of wrongdoing. He quite rightly was concerned that he could later be sacked from the Court of Appeal after a year or two had passed.
To quell this concern, he was promised the security of tenure enjoyed by the Supreme Court judges. The salary and benefits he enjoyed as Chief Justice - and a pension - would remain in place if he agreed to be appointed as a justice of appeal. Negotiations ebbed and flowed for a week. The judge suddenly and.
The government was running out of time. His inexplicable vacillations had, for the second time, caused negotiations very near to solution to break down. Dato' Cumaraswamy had called to say his flight details were being finalized. The government wasn't intimidated, mind you; it just didn't want that sort of human rights taint early in its term, so pregnant and refulgent with expectation. Special emissaries were again deployed. Finally, the judge's own advisors persuaded him to settle for the appointment to the Court of Appeal on the previously agreed terms and conditions.
The terms were memorialized in a signed agreement and the judge, in the jargon of the profession, was elevated to the Court of Appeal. In the decade that has passed, Justice of Appeal Sosa has continued to live an intensely private life, watertight and impermeable to vile gossip. He is punctiliously alert to the remotest allegations of bias that could be dredged up from the deep and distant past by litigants.
The imminent vacancy at the office of Chief Justice has thrust. Justice Sosa has noble and distinguished qualities, but he is not an ideal candidate - and not necessarily through any fault of his own. That the people perceive that justice will be done is just as important as justice itself. With all that has befallen him at the hands of the PUP, his dignity and pride so mangled and mortified, he could not hope to inspire the ready confidence that he could be Chief Justice for all the people, even if he would be. He was caught in the crosscurrent of politics; a victim of the vicissitudes of history.
Box Belmopan no later than August 13, Buyers will be required to pay appropriate import duties for vehicles purchased. Two of the charges are indictable. They include forgery of an official document and possession of an official false document, a Belize Police Department identification card. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to Wilson that she would not take a plea for those offences because a trial for them will be held in the Supreme Court.
The other charges were theft. Wilson pled not guilty to those charges. The prosecution objected to bail on the ground that Wilson might interfere with the complainants. The incident occur red on Friday, July Shannon Martinez reported to the Police that she was at BTL Park on Newtown Barracks when she met Wilson who was dressed in police uniform and was driving a vehicle with private license plates. She said Wilson offered her a ride to the home of her boyfriend Malcolm Vasquez, who resides on Princess Margaret Drive and she accepted. She said Wilson drove her to her house and upon their arrival Wilson caressed her thigh.
She said Wilson also stole her cell phone. Police detained Wilson later the same day on Newtown Barracks while he was still in police uniform and driving the private vehicle. July 20, Laverne Longsworth, 35, a. Senior Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to her that she would not take a plea because the offence is indictable. According to reports, Longsworth doused White with kerosene then she set him on fire. The reports further state that it was Longsworth herself who put out the flames.
Longsworth allegedly told Police that she and White had a dispute and White beat her because she accused him of stealing her money. Lemoth reported to the Police that he gave Conorquie money on three occasions for her to get him a Caricom passport and a U. Embassy and passport office. Conorquie who has 2 convictions for obtaining property by deception and 1 for theft, was released from prison about 1 month ago after having served 6 months for theft.
July 21, Gina Conorquie, 28, an alleged con artist residing at 42 Rivero Street who reportedly pretended to be an employee of the U. Conorquie pled not guilty to the charges. How much longer must we wait for a new bridge, Mr. July 20, William Daniel Torres, 21, charged with 2 counts of carnal knowledge of a girl, 14 years and 6 months old, was freed of the charges when they were withdrawn by the prosecution yesterday in the Court of Justice Herbert Lord.
Crown Counsel Christelle Wilson withdrew the charges after the girl and her mother testified and said that they do not want any further Court action. The girl said she and Torres were boyfriend and girlfriend and they did not plan to take the affair so far. She said Torres has already suffered for 3 months and she does not think that he has any future in prison. She said she and her husband discussed the matter and they decided to withdraw. The incident occur red on October 27 and October 28, at Roaring Creek. The girl was examined by a doctor at the Northern Regional Hospital who certified that she was carnally known.
Torres was not represented by an attorney. July 21, Austin Rowland, 24, a laborer of Oleander Street charged with the attempted murder of Richard Russel, 29, was freed of the charge yesterday in the Court of Justice Herbert Lord when Crown Counsel Christelle Wilson made an application for the charge to be withdrawn and Justice Lord upheld it and dismissed the charge.
Crown Counsel Wilson made the application after Russel took the witness stand and testified that he does not wish to proceed with the case. Russel said he awoke one day and God told him to leave all judgment unto the Father. Russel admitted he gave the police a statement in which he implicated Rowland but he denied that Rowland was the person sitting in the docks. The jury was already empanelled when the charges was dismissed.
The incident occurred at around 6: Russel, who resides on Central American Boulevard, reported to the Police that he was standing on the boulevard not far from his home talking to two men when his assailant appeared and took out a pistol. Russel said he rode off on his bicycle when he saw the.
Russel said he fell to the ground and while he was lying on the ground he saw the gunman standing over him with the gun in his hand. Russel said he pretended to be dead and the gunman ran back in the direction from which he came.
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Rowland was not represented by an attorney. July 21, An appeal to the Privy Council by Kirk Gordon, convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, was allowed and the conviction of murder was reduced to manslaughter. The Privy Council gave its decision today and it has remitted the case to the Belize Court of Appeal for sentencing. The Privy Council deflected the ground of self defense and accepted the ground of manslaughter. Gordon was convicted of the murder of Arthur Ellis in July, In November he lashed Ellis in his face and head with a piece of 2x4 lumber near his residence on Kraal Road.
Gordon and Ellis got into an altercation when Gordon reportedly asked Ellis to move his van out of the. Gordon then struck Ellis repeatedly with the piece of lumber. Consejo Farms Limited, Surety for Mr. Being a vacant parcel of land situate in the Selena Area, Cayo District, the leasehold property of the property of Mr. Aaron Braun surety for Mr. July 20, at 5: July 21, at Yearwood, you are the police press officer for christs sake!!!! And i bet that we are never going to hear or see what truely went on with this incident.
Clearly the police department is covering up something because the entire incident smells fishy to me. The Antidrug unit, an unregistered boat floating in the sea, an airstrip and a high minister of government all at the same scene at the same time doing what? Come on people talk up!
Is it that the minister has the police department in his back pockets? July 21, at 7: Everyone including the Minister of Police appear to be waitng around like helpless buzzards. As little as Belize is, there should be no way for these kind of threats to be happening, with the police not having a clue as to what is happening. Perhaps, they all should resigned or termiated by the people who elected them. Power to the People! Call for new elections! End this leadership crisis now! Do a massive demostration calling for justice! July 21, at 9: It seems to me that most of the high ranking officials in the Police dept lock common sense.
Who knows if this fake cops had access to some of these case files that were going missing. This just shows that anyone can penetrate the security system in Belize. This guy could have been a Guatemalan SPY. Wake the F up Belize. This is not a joke anymore you are putting all the Belizean people at risk.
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The Government needed 31 votes to extend the state of emergency, but six of its members were absent and the Opposition rejected a day extension of the measure, saying it could not replace an effective crime plan.
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After hours of debate, the matter. Seventeen MPs were absent at the time of the vote, 18 abstained and 25 voted yes. Local church leaders are being called upon to take measures to attract youth into church, and make it more exciting. Borrows says several young persons are of the opinion that church is boring.
Church has placed young people in a box. Ms Williams is scheduled to depart Guyana today after serving for two and half years here. She will continue until she is replaced by Tom Pierre. Ms Williams released the migration figures after a round-table discussion with the media at the US Embassy in Georgetown. In , the embassy issued immigrant visas, amounting to an average of 14 every day, including Sundays and holidays. In the number dropped to The following year, , there were immigrant visas. Borrows believes what the churches of today are offering is really boring.
He said church leaders need to recognize that the concept has to be changed. Former United States President Bill Clinton says he will dedicate the next three years of his life in helping to rebuild Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake. It's going to be a stretch," Clinton told reporters in Port-au-Prince Sunday. In the streets, we need more jobs. We need to begin reconstruction, then do something on the education front," he said. I used to say rebuilt, but then I realised there really wasn't one before.
We'll have to rebuild the infrastructure; we'll have to rebuild the agriculture. The World Bank is also urging donors to deliver on aid pledges in order to keep the reconstruction momentum going. For this year, immigrant visas have been issued so far. All told, the legal migration rate is about 13 per day- for each day of the year. This figure does not include legal migration to Canada, Suriname, the Caribbean and elsewhere. It also does not include the granting of non-immigrant visas which some people use to migrate.
The migration of well-educated and trained nationals from Guyana and the Caribbean and other developing countries has been an ongoing phenomenon, and something Governments have been unable to control. Patterson is heading a Commission that will make specific recommendations to assist small states and less developed countries which have suffered excessive out-migration of expensively trained persons, and are yet to benefit significantly from return migration or diasporic investment.
Patterson has said that in some places the brain drain of skilled people, such as nurses, teachers and scientists may damage development by depriving public services or key industries of the expensively trained human capital they need. The perceptions about migration are mixed and one of the tasks of this commission is to highlight the positive aspects of international migration, and these include the improvement of the lives and incomes of migrants moving from developing countries and the boost to development by remittances sent back to countries or origin.
Patterson said that the Commonwealth is best placed to develop and. But before this can happen the Commonwealth has to deal with the obvious shortcomings in current government policies. The Commission has been tasked by the Ramphal Centre in London to develop practical policies in the important field of migration and development, initially for Commonwealth countries to take forward into action. Jane Morris Goodall, born 3 April , is a British primatologist someone who studies primates such as monkeys and is considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees.
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His experiments supported the germ theory of disease. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. Next time you pick up a box of milk remember Mr. Try to fill in the missing numbers. The missing numbers are integers between 5 and 9. The numbers in each row add up to totals to the right. The numbers in each column add up to the totals along the bottom.
The diagonal lines also add up the totals to the right. A principle is something that does not change, and can be relied upon in any situation. Principles come first and become a foundation for every other thing. It has no respect for poverty, wealth, intelligence, or a particular family name and lineage. What is sure is that it must be used to guarantee repeated success in accomplishing our daily goals. In other words he was appointed - given the power and authority - over this aspect of our lives to make us whole!
But because of their child like obedience to the command, they were healed while on their way to the priest. If the disease was eating away their bodies, it stopped. If they were in pain it went away, if they were loosing limbs, or slowly decaying this process ceased. Now, according to scriptures, of the ten one came back making a whole lot of noise praising God! He was so excited by the gift of being healed that he did not manage to reach the priests. He instead pulled up the park brakes, did a three-sixty, oh sorry, a oneeighty, rather.
Samaritans were sometimes even referred to as dogs. The point was that the leper that came back was of all things an outcast and unbeliever. The Jews after all were Gods chosen people who understood the principles of faith and gratitude!!!! What happened in the next verse encapsulates the spirit and essence of this biblical formula with all its teachings.
This man was not only healed but Jesus told him your faith has made you Whole!!! Meaning God not only cured the sickness but restored that which he lost. These laws or principles were given to us by divine inspiration directly from God! So these Principles work just as effectively when applied in the Christian community, our parents, our teachers, our employees, or even our Bosses!!!! Try it and see how powerful it is. God bless you all and have a good week!!!! Thanks to a local church brother for this contribution. 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.
Dated the 9th day of July, By order of the mortgagees, Messrs. All That piece or parcel of land containing On the 18th February, I was informed by two uniformed police officers who stated they were acting on the instructions of the Solicitor General and who served me with the order that I was to pick up my belongings and leave the Supreme Court building. Since being served with the order I have ceased to occupy the office of the Chief justice and to be entitled to the prerequisites of the office.
From the court records the facts. They were as follows: Henry Gordon for necessary action under the Constitution three proposals, namely, i that Mr. Justice Sosa be appointed Chief Justice, ii that Mr. Justice Singh be appointed a Justice of Appeal, and iii that Mr. Said Musa inviting his comments on the proposed appointment of Mr. Justice Sosa as Chief Justice.
On the following day, Thursday, the 20th day of August, , the Cabinet Secretary wrote again to the Leader of the Opposition this time inviting his comments on the proposed appointments of Mr. Justice Singh and Mr. Justice Meerabux as Justices of Appeal and later that same day the Leader of the Opposition responded complaining that the communication was sent to him only after the Attorney General had announced the proposed appointments.
The Leader of the Opposition also cited section 2 of the Constitution and informed that he stood ready. Town, Stann Creek District, have applied to the Supreme Court for a declaration of Title with respect to the land described in the Schedule below which is held by her in continuous and undisturbed possession. On Wednesday, 24th August, , five days later , the Prime Minister forwarded the file regarding the proposed appointments to the Governor General and the Governor General signed and sealed the instruments appointing Mr. Justice Sosa as Chief Justice, Mr.
Justice Singh as a Justice of Appeal for a period of three years, and Mr. Justice Meerabux as a Justice of Appeal for a period of three years, all three appointments to take effect from 26th August, Remarkably, on the same day Monday, August 24th, , the Cabinet Secretary also replied to the Leader of the Opposition inviting him to a meeting with the Prime Minister in Belmopan on Tuesday 25th August, at 9: The Leader of the Opposition immediately replied to the Prime Minister by fax suggesting that the meeting take place instead on Wednesday, 26th August, , in Belize City.
On the following day, Tuesday, August 25th, , the Prime Minister replied to the Leader of the Opposition regretting that he was unable to accede to the request for a change in the appointment for a meeting because, as he explained, Tuesday, 25th August was his last day in office prior to General Elections. On the 26th August, all three judges travelled to Belize House in Belmopan and were sworn in by the Governor General. And so it came to pass that Mr.
Chief Justice Sosa served as Chief Justice however only for a number of months. In particular, the Leader of the Opposition, who had after the elections become Prime Minister, and a number of the Ministers in his government as well as supporters continued in the belief that the Sosa appointment was a political one designed to perpetuate the interests of the United Democratic Party.
Not surprisingly, on the 16th February, Mr. James Jan Mohammed, most probably as a mere nominal plaintiff, instituted legal proceedings in the Supreme Court for determination of the following questions: The case came on for hearing before Mr. Justice Meerabux after hearing the claim promptly found that the purported appointment of the Honourable Manuel Sosa as Chief Justice effective the 26th August, was unconstitutional and therefore null and void and ordered that the said Honourable Manuel Sosa be prohibited from continuing to act as Chief Justice. Albeit the procedure adopted was indeed questionable, there was undoubtedly a valid complaint raised by the Janmohammed suit.
This complaint was squarely addressed by the trial judge who had no hesitation in finding that there had in fact been no genuine consultation by the Prime Minister with the Leader of the Opposition in making the appointment. The trial judge however went further to also find that the appointment had been conceived in bad faith. In his reply, the then Leader of the Opposition expressed grave concern about the proposed appointments and asked for a meeting with the Prime Minister to present his views.
The meeting was arranged by the Prime Minister for Tuesday 25th August, , in Belmopan to hear the views of the Leader of the Opposition. The chronology of events, however, shows that a day before the proposed meeting, 24th of August, , the file concerning the proposed appointment had been sent to the office of the Governor General and the Governor General signed and sealed the instrument of appointment of Mr. Sosa as Chief Justice the same day. This is the most telling piece of evidence and shows that the proposed meeting scheduled for Tuesday 25th August, , was a mere sham.
In the light of these sequence of events, the submission of the learned Counsel for the Defendant that the Leader of the Opposition had sufficient opportunity to present his views between the 19th and the 24th of August, can hardly hold water. I also find that the appointment of Mr.
Sosa as Chief Justice was flawed on the additional ground that it was conceived in bad faith. It is trite learning that bad faith like fraud vitiates everything. I also take judicial notice of the fact that general elections of members of the House of Representative was due to be held on the 27th day of August, and the proposed appointment of Mr. Sosa as Chief Justice became effective a day before the election ie. Such a course of action is unheard of in a parliamentary democracy based on.
To my mind, to appoint a Chief Justice substantively just a day before the general elections makes a mockery of parliamentary democracy. The former Chief Justice thereafter sought to challenge the decision on a number of procedural and substantive grounds by seeking special leave to appeal the decision to the Court of Appeal. The application to the Court of Appeal was however eventually withdrawn as part of a settlement reached between the government and the former Chief Justice. The Sosa experience starkly demonstrates how a Chief Justice ought not to be appointed as well as the damage to the administration of justice that political motivations are capable of wreaking on that system purportedly in accordance with the existing constitutional framework.
Thankfully, a number of lessons can be gleaned from the experience. These include, first, that in the absence of some consensus in an appointment to Judicial Office such as Chief Justice those offended by the decision will remain reluctant to respect the appointment, regardless of any merit in the appointment, and the suspicions and distrust flowing out of such disrespect undermines instead of promotes justice.
Third, and probably foremost, that the political culture that exists in this country does not support the effective operation of the existing constitutional framework for the appointment of a Chief Justice. Those provisions will, in short, likely never work in Belize the way. As a postscript, it must be added that Mr. Justice Meerabux was subsequently removed from office for misconduct. The misconduct charged and proven, however, had nothing to do with the Janmohammed case although many believe that decision represents another example of misconduct.
In fact, the acts. Meerabux was, of course, notwithstanding such acts of misconduct, nevertheless promoted to the Court of Appeal by the Esquivel administration. He however, adopting a principled stance, in fact never took up the appointment but instead pronounced upon the validity of the Sosa appointment in the manner he did.
Faith Maheia, Mertell Bailey. Kirsten Fuentes turned things around for the Ladyville girls in the 2nd half, blasting the 1st goal past Ashley White. The Ladyville girls were still down , but Faith Maheia and Mertell Bailey kept the pressure on and Faith scored a 2nd goal and Mertell a 3rd to tie the score at before the final whistle. Myvett set the play for Zuniga to score a 3rd goal and Myvett added a 4th goal for the win. In Game 4, the B. Daniel scored the winning goal for the Flames in the closing minutes of play. A mid-week match will determine whether Nizhee Corozal will win the 4th spot in the Belize Bank Super League football playoffs, as a win would give Nizhee 23 pts to tie with Santa Elena Synergy, who also have 23pts after they upset top-ranking Placencia Assassins in Santa Elena on Sunday and San Felipe Barcelona eliminated themselves when they drew with City boys, who had already advanced, at the M.
Nizhee Corozal has a better goal average than Synergy, but needs to win against Belize United on Wednesday night, as a win would give them 23pts and the 4th spot; a draw allows Synergy to advance. Belize United had transportation problems and could not make it for their scheduled game at the Ricalde Stadium on Sunday. Their persistence paid off in the 87th minute, when Placencia defender Ernie White erred in that dreaded.
San Felipe Barcelona was already out of the running and their chances of qualifying depended on both Nizhee and Santa Elena losing, as they stood to score a maximum of 22pts by a win against the City Boys. In the 2nd half, the San Felipe goalie also had trouble holding on to the ball on a long lob from the corner. Gentle then set table for 1st. The playoffs begin on Sunday, July Jamaal Kelly hit 5 long treys as he led Digicell with 26pts, grabbing 4 rebounds and a steal, and blocking 4 shots.
Elton Anderson added 12 pts on fast breaks while making 3 assists and 3 steals. Adrian Flores led the Police with 19 pts, grabbing 2 rebounds and 2 steals while handing out an assist and Kenard Clarke added 17 pts and grabbed a monster 15 rebounds, handing out 3 assists, blocking a shot and stealing the ball twice.
Kenroy Roca led the Firefighters with 14 pts, grabbing 8 rebounds and three steals, handing out an assist and blocking a shot. Marlon Palmerston added 10 pts and grabbed 3 rebounds and a steal and handed out 3 assists. Kenrick Samuels led KHMH with 12 pts and a steal and Norman Humes added 11 pts and grabbed 7 rebounds dishing out an assist and grabbing 5 steals.
In Game 1 on Monday, B. Marlon Palmerston led the Firefighters with 14 pts, dishing out an assist and stealing the ball once, while their big post center Rafael O'Brien scored 11 pts on the putback from 7 rebounds. Chester Noralez led the Police with 17 pts grabbing a rebound and 2 steals, while Maurice Martinez added 12 pts, grabbed a rebound and 2 steals and handed off an assist.
Jamaal Kelly led Digicell with a monster 32 pts, grabbing a rebound and 6 steals, while Edward Thompson added 15 pts and grabbed 12 rebounds. Alamilla's David Alamilla had Jacob 'Snake' Leslie added 15 pts, grabbed 3 rebounds and made 7 assists. In Game 5, the National Fire Service quenched Customs ; Tyrone Palmerston top-scored with 24 pts, grabbing 7 rebounds and a steal while handing off 4 assists. Kenroy Roca added 21 pts and snagged 7 rebounds and 2 steals.
A couple of the morning shows are good barometers of the mood of the people living the reality of modern day Belize. This morning I listened to one of the hosts on Love FM and was a little surprised to detect palpable disgust in his voice as the discussion zeroed in on the Belize City Council.
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I imagine that it would be hard to stay objective when the suffering of the people is heard each and every day, when their calls for help are ignored each and every day. This morning the portion of the show I caught. And then a caller went off about a bridge in North Creek which had fallen into the creek. He was furious because the residents had reported the matter time and again without any response from the Council or the Area Representative. As a writer who is passionate about pointing out the many faults and inadequacies of the stupid people running this country, I should be in hog heaven.
Seriously, there is absolutely nothing to smile about. BWS reserves the right to accept any tender or reject all tenders. Belize Water Service Ltd P. I would imagine that there is plenty for the daughter and son of the Prime Minister to smile about, for they have been richly blessed through their association to daddy. My friend Boots is smiling pretty right now.
Castro and his wife are smiling. Montero in Cayo is smiling. Barrow created in his image though with more hair is smiling. But what about the rest of us… those without the special privileges and perks of UDPness? I look around and there is so much wrong with this country that it is ludicrous. That one has gotten old. Look at the crime situation and the already defunct Operation Restore Belize. Barrow has not a clue how to deal with the crime situation. His public taunts of senior officers have made them laughing stocks at a time when they should be commanding respect. He has done absolutely nothing to curb the escalating crime and violence.
The blame for that lies squarely on your shoulders, Mr. The officer in charge has revealed that their equipment is antiquated and they have no facilities to record calls. They are struggling to get proper training for the persons manning the phones. Our system is inadequate. Barrow, how difficult would it be to upgrade the system to adequate, if not international, standards? How difficult would it be to provide proper training for staff manning the phones? Your administration owns BTL, does it not? Perhaps you could advise your Minister to tone down his obsession with sweaty, spandex clad policemen flexing their biceps and deal with upgrading the system and ensuring that it is staffed by qualified, professional personnel 24 hours.
Which one would save more lives, Mr. Barrow…a new gym or a revised, updated system? Proven knowledge of computer. Excellent communication skills Team Player Results-oriented Honest, dedicated and hardwork-. If you are interested in progressing with us please send your application letter with your detailed curriculum vitae giving your current position by July 30, to: Only a short list of qualified candidates will be notified. By anthony sylvestre A colleague of mine remarked the other day that the Ministers of government should be mandated to do drug testing, at least three times for the year.
He was being of course euphemis-. And yes, the Honourable Minister of Police was present when the search was done. Ih look wah way, as they say in the street. But surely, as the Minister of Police and Minister of Public Safety which basically means the Minister of law and order , he should know more than anyone else that ignorance of. Stanley ErmeavDistrict of 35A Regent Belize, was appointed July 21, interrupted as receiver andon electricity will beontemporarily manager of all the property, assets and undertaking of Wednesday, July 28, Now, as the Minister of Law and Order, you would want to think that he knows a little something about the laws of Belize, right; in any event, that should be a prerequisite for the job.
So then, his actions or omissions are scrutinized more vigorously. And this is the point here. The Minister of Police and Public Safety of course is not an elected representative, so he has no constituency or base to pander to. I suppose then, all of this will go unpunished by the electorate. In a time of anarchy, which is Belize right now, it is doubly important that the state apparatus of the police is seen to be operating aboveboard. That is the only way that citizens can regain confidence in it.
I am sure our friends in the North are watching and taking note. BEL regrets any inconvenience that may be causedto: Box or other customerBelize related Cityissues at: For some months the Ministry of Health has been conspicuously silent on the outbreak of malaria and the epidemic of dengue, most importantly about the several cases of hemorrhagic dengue. It was not until a fatality came to light and the media picked it up that Belizeans were formally made aware that dengue and malaria are on the rise.
But what we experience everyday is the unusual amount of mosquitoes and the noticeable absence of the MOH spray trucks around our neighbourhoods. We also know that these conditions are on the rise because we hear of a greater number of friends, families and co-workers that have contracted either dengue or malaria. This is never reported on those expensive full paid ads that the MOH places in the newspapers to make propaganda of their activities. Neither do we see it on the famous weekly TV program coming out of Belmopan, a program paid by our taxes to feed us half truths and the party line.
However, most recently we were reliably informed that the MOH has discovered that our Belizeans living in the southern part of our country are increasingly being diagnosed with Marasmus. The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Marasmus includes the 7 symptoms listed hereafter: Growth retardation, muscle wasting, impaired immunity, lethargy, vomiting, delayed wound healing and loss of fat stores. Essentially this condition is a result of malnutrition both in children and adults. And while this may be the adequate response from a medical standpoint it surely is the most expensive one and the less practical.
Additionally it is attacking the condition but it does not address the fundamental issue…the cause of Marasmus. Without a doubt, poor nutrition is the inability of our population to access food. The little food eaten by our brothers and sisters in the south are grossly lacking in protein…. The caloric intake, in general. People, we have Belizeans that are literally starving to death. Do they mean to hide this reality from us as they have done with the dengue and malaria statistics?
The MOH is embarking on a program to alleviate this nutritional problem that has arisen in the south. Nonetheless, it is the National Health Insurance NHI that is being asked to pay for the micronutrients that will be given to our brothers and sisters of the south. We are trying to cover the sun with a finger giving the hungry some micronutrients, instead of jobs. Whatever happened to the famous adage that tells us that it is better to teach our citizens to fish instead of giving them a fish?
And please let us not allow the MOH to blame the nutritional problems of the south to the cultural habits of the people. For sure we are bound to hear that bull again. The time has come to take the bull by the horns and address the real problem. The stark reality is that more and more we have social and health situations like crime and nutritional conditions that are the result of poverty.
It is time for us to start recognizing and addressing the causes of our social problems in a true effort to eradicate them. It is simple in the case of our brothers and sister of the south; if they have no access to food and no access to jobs…they will continue to suffer these nutritional problems.
Today it is Marasmus, tomorrow it can be another form of nutritional deficiency. It is heartbreaking to see that Belize has now joined some of our Central American neighbours in forming part of these shameful statistics. We need a better response from the Government and the Ministry of Health. We also need the truth and we need it now! Matura, quien fue baleado hace pocos meses el 10 del pasado Marzo. Algunos dicen que Pinkard fue asesinado porque estaba en el barrio de la pandilla rival.
Pero Pinkard no era ajeno a la zona porque era un lugar, de acuerdo a los familiares, que visitaba con frecuencia debido a su novia. La semana pasada el Belize Times fue el primero en predecir que hubo una e pidemia de dengue en Belice. El poderoso principio de decir gracias. Principios de llegada y convertirse en una base para cualquier otra cosa.
En otras palabras, fue nombrado - dado el poder y la autoridad - sobre este aspecto de nuestras vidas para hacernos entero! Si la enfermedad fue carcomiendo su cuerpo, se detuvo. Si estaban en gran dolor se fue, si se trataba de perder las extremidades, o decaimiento lento este proceso ceso. Estaba tan emocionado por el don de ser sanado que no logro llegar a los sacerdotes. Cuando hacemos el esfuerzo de decir "gracias" o aplicar los principios efectivos de gratitud, se aclara un mayor margen de toneladas de bendiciones a fluir en nuestro camino!!
Tenga en cuenta que todas las respuestas a todos los problemas de la tierra, repito, todas las respuestas a todas el problema de tierras, se encuentra en el libro que contiene todos los principios, vuestra Biblia. Recuerde simplemente decir gracias y vera cuan poderosa resulta ser esa palabra…. Mi amigo Boots se encuentra sonriendo en esos momentos.
Y no, no es culpa del gobierno anterior, Sr. La culpa recae sobre sus hombros, Sr. El oficial a cargo, ha revelado que su equipo es anticuado y no tienen facilidades para grabar las llamadas. Nuestro sistema es insuficiente. Usted es un hombre enfermo! Esa es la realidad. Nuestros dirigentes, quienes se comprometieron a servir a todos, ahora sirven sus propios intereses especiales. No es justo que nuestros hijos se hayan convertido en mendigos, mientras que nuestros dirigentes viven en el lujo.
Dejamos a nuestros seres queridos fallecidos en donde? Hasta que haya alguna otra alternativa? Y eso es fuera de sus puestos de trabajo privados de tiempo completo. Tenemos que empezar a presionar a estos concejales irresponsables. Han tenido un viaje gratis durante demasiado tiempo. El brote de dengue Ha sido el banco de sangre almacenada para hacer frente a los casos urgentes que requieran transfusiones de inmediato?
Recuerdo cuando el colega del Primer Ministro fue asesinado. Buckley no pudo darse ese lujo. Barrow tiene el poder de hacer algo por el Sr. Esto es una broma. Barrow debe despedir a sus propagandistas por ridiculizarlo! Creemos que el Primer Ministro ha movido al Tribunal Supremo porque ha hecho una serie de decisiones punto de referencia que no han ido a favor del Gobierno y nuestro querido Sr. Se nos ha dicho que esta Corte es un tribunal ilegal. Dos personas no identificadas fueron ejecutadas por un comando que viajaba a bordo de dos unidades, una Ford Lobo blanca y una Jeep Liberty.
Otras cuatro personas y una mu-. En la carretera Navolato-El Castillo fueron localizados los cuerpos de dos personas, atados de pies y manos, con impactos de bala. Prayer To The Holy Spirit O Holy spirit, you who are the fountainhead of all knowledge, who illuminate the pathway which enables me to reach my goal. You who share your divine gift permitting me to forgive and forget past insults and injustices, and who are always at my side within reaching distance. I desire in this short supplication to thank you for all that you have done for me, and to assure you once more that I never want to be separated from you under any circumstances, no matter what the incentive.
I want to be with you, I along with my loved ones, cradled in your unending love. Thank you for your never failing kindness towards me and those I call my own. Prayer to be offered for three consecutive days; faith in the Holy Spirit will cause him to respond to your request no matter how difficult the problem might be.
Publish prayer as soon as request has been granted. Este libro entre otros cosas habla de como el sobre pastoreo acaba con los arboles de un bosque de cedros. El cedros atlantica es natural de Marruecos. Los marroquis vallaron un parte de sus bosque para echar herbivoros en un esfuerzo 0para salvar sus cedruses que son un buen atraccion turistica y las hierbajas recuperaron y con ellos la tierra y despues los arboles, que habian llegado a tener my pocos ramas o hojas, recuperaron.
Si eres un quranista ha de interesarte que en paises del quoran usan la hoja de arboles para alimentar el ganado en los meses cuando los pastos secan. El sabinar Tamajon, camino a Majaelrayo. El otro parte de este libro que es muy interesante es que dice que, en cementerios Marroquis especiales, por ser donde se han enterrado un santo islamico, se cierran los cementarios a personas y ganado, excepto para celebar algun ocasion especial y ahi crece olivos, algarobos ceratonia silicua y palmitos y soto bosque con tal profusion que se hacen un bosquete impenetrable con un suelo que por los hojas que cayen en ello y el falta de sol es rico sombrio y humido.
Cuelgo un photo de detritus los hojas restas del bellota ramitas y flores del encina el roble mediteraneo. El detritus del encina el roble mediteraneo se usaba tradicionalmente para recoger lo para mejorar la tierra en los huertos de la gente. Malo para el bosque y bueno para los huertos- agri rose macaskie. Tambien me gusta el libro de jesus charco porque escribe de muchos classes de bosques.
Jamas habia considerado muchos clases de bosque solo algunos los de pinos o abetos y algun clase de arbol ingles o mezcla de ellos de familia desconocida. Sobre detritus y detrivores, Lombrices. Guisano son detrivores como ciervos son herbivors, uno come detritus y otro hierba. Algunos guisanos son principalment detrivors, viven entre hojas muertos y tal, otros escavan la tierra mineral aireando lo y aydando en la penetration de agua aunque tambien mezclan detritus y tierra mineral y suben mucho tierra al superficie.
Asi la tierra empieza a formarse encima de piedras. Su libro se llama "Vasura magica" se trata de tierra y comp9ostaje. Ella se dedico a vender el estiercol de las vacas de su padre. DXije que quisera un trabajo que la pusiera an contacto con muchos gente y en que viajaba y su padre surgirio que vendera su estiercol.
Para venderlo tuve que aprender much para convencire a los centros de jardineria que querian su producto. Parece que es una persona inquieta intellectualmente que estudia las cosas de todos formas. Jane Down dice que las lombrices pasan unos 7. Un hectar es dos y medio, un poco menos acres. Las lombrices suben el nivel de la tierra unos 5. El formacion de moho vegetal por el action de lombrices, segun ese escritora.
En Eygyptia tuveron consciencia de cuan importante el lombrice fui para creer tierras fertiles y las trataron como dioses. Los de Babilonia, de las jardines de Babilonia importaron lombrices del valle del Nilo para sus jardines. I can't read a lick of it.
When I first saw this thread I thought "should I change the subject from 'spainsh' to 'spanish'? It would be better to change the title to spanish. Quranista asked for a list of books for Santa Domingo she said there was a desert in the middle of the island. I started to give her one a bit reluctantly because all writting is time consuming and it is more fun writting for all and then the Haiti happened and i thought i had better write a longer one and for everyone, for South Americans too, it is though something that it is hard for you to check up on and it does not seem to attract people who would correct anything wrong putting in their own opinion so i understand that you should have reservations about it.
In it I wrote a description of a lot of curiouse things different races of sheep eat here in spian mostly according to the government book on spainish races of sheep, their charicteristics and such and it took a bit of time to write it so i would rather not try again. I have not read through it again to see what shape its in though i could add to it.
Mnd you its a lot of work writing all this in spanish and not many people seem to read it. We need a page in french for the haitians. Very useful book list. You always make references to such interesting books that are in Spanish but I've never seen available here. My Spanish isn't good, but my girlfriend is fluent and I'm sure can help me in my studies. Hi Rose, I live in a desert area and so I also have an interest in reducing and reversing desertification. I have gone through a lot of revelations over the past couple years while I've been researching my area of the US West and permaculture.
Until a few years ago, I was not aware that my area used to be desert prairie and there used to be extensive forests located around my local lake, for example. However, the former forest around the lake was recorded by a Spanish priest as he traveled through the area in the s.
Now the land around the lake is utterly barren and horrid, and most people do not care, which makes me feel very sad. They are interested in building houses and vacation homes around the lake. The effects of plowing for agriculture and overgrazing of cattle have done much to destroy and make the land more like desert. I believe the way forward is through right knowledge and right action. Do you know of books which focus on la dehesa of Portugal and Spain? I am particularly interested in this farming style. Also your books on Mediterranean plants are useful.
I am trying to identify and learn from the best sustainable farming systems. I believe the way to the future is one through right knowledge and right action. I can roughly follow your posts in Spanish. I need much more practice, I know, and so my girlfriend tells me. My background is in science.
I believe more in the commonality and potential of the human spirit.
We should not think of ourselves but for the generations that follow. If anything, that is the driving force for what I believe in now. It may well be my horrible spanish that makes it hard to read this thread. It is edited by the Junta of Castilla y Leon. It is though the best i have found but there maybe other good ones. I have a book that talks about all the natural woods in Spain that is very good called Los Bosques Ibericos. You talk about the effects of urbanization on the lake side where you live.
Here one of the main stories about desertification the main story is that the it is urbanizations that has reduce vegetation because they take away from the moor land I suppose, the land that is just the natural vegetation, supposedly. I find fear of fires makes the locals put herbicides on large tracts of apparently wild countryside and that in housing estates people plant and look after so many trees that it seems to me that if desertification is what you mind about the areas of chalets are good against desertification.
If the natural ground cover is what you are worried about, then residential areas reduce it but there is still a lot of moor land in Spain. I am torn between my love of bare mediteranean soils and the stones you see in them and the feeling that we should cover everything in vegetation so as to reduce desertification and now-days to reduce the carbon in the air because plants sink carbon. I do know how if I found a market for mountain fed lamb in which there sheep received a really good price, then they would be convinced. No, it's fine, Rose. I've been looking over your other thread and the information in that is fantastic.
Almost too much for me to take in at the moment. I will try to purchase and have the books you mentioned sent to me for study. Thank you so much for the references and firsthand knowledge. Maybe it doesn't matter. The lake is dead and full of alien carp too. We have a saying, that the first settlers might "make the desert bloom as the rose," except I came to realize they made the desert. It's my understanding that much or perhaps most of Spain used to be covered in mixed oak forests before the time of the Romans and other ancient settlers. Perhaps it is not such a strange thing to want the land to be covered again.
I believe that fire management and the fight against desertification can go hand in hand, if we focus on ways to "water" the land more effectively and get the proper plants and trees in to maintain the water cycle. We have many problems with large wildfires here in the American West. I have seen several huge wildfires close by my city and in the mountains, and now we have wildfires almost every summer, due to invasive grasses which burn hotter and faster than the native vegetation.
Also, we have killed and driven away most of the herbivores that would help clean up and control dry grasses, brush, etc. The whole situation is a mess and a waste of money and manpower. As long as some people care and remember, the old ways will stay alive. I hope that more people will see the value of pasture and naturally fed animals too. All my readings and personal experience taste tests! I made a mistake talking of th etrees that are natural to the counrtside round the village my house is in and said sorbus aucuparia when i meant sorbus aires.
Now to track down these books That's going to be the difficult part. I think urbanization is part of it, but it is true what you say. Much of the desertification is due to agricultural practices, whether it be clearing trees and forests, burning crop stubble and not returning it to the soil, or overgrazing. I am strongly opposed to laying down too much concrete and asphalt, though, as it prevents the soil from breathing and poisons it and gives no places for water to collect and drain into the ground. Thus, as urbanization spreads, there is usually a greater likelihood for heat waves and flash floods.
In general, I agree with this philosophy and I am not a total "nativist" in that I insist only on growing native plants. I do think the focus should be on native plants, but including additional plants or animals which may complement or enrich a system, farm, or ecosystem. Some plants and animals are irreplaceable for what they do. I think there is good reason to use a wide range of species but we must be careful about what we plant and grow. If we only restricted ourselves to native species, it would also make sense to me to abandon most of our foods and ornamental plantings as well, because they are not native.
So no wheat, rice, chickens , pigs, cattle, etc. Life would not be as rich, right? However, used correctly, these are not a problem, IMO. It is more important to use adaptable or locally adapted varieties of plants and animals and ones which can fit in sustainably and in harmony with the locality.
I'm envious of your garden. Mine has a mix of herbs, veggies, flowers, and native plants such as chokecherries, blueberries, grapes, etc. Forgive my slow reply, I've been thinking about your reply since I finished watching some videos and talks on grazing and desertification. Maybe invasive is only just a label, just like how we brand certain plants "weeds. There are no weeds in nature.