After an action packed Week 13 of BPFL action, the defending champs F.C. Belize are finally in a familiar position, at the top of the standings, where they join Hankook Verdes, who were inactive this past weekend. Not only are the two clubs tied with 18 points, but their two leading goleadors, F.C.’s Jeromy “Jarro” James and Verdes’s Daniel “Danny” Jimenez, are also locked in the league lead with 9 goals apiece.
How wonderful it is that the president of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize (NTUCB), the leader of the majority of employed workers, is in the Senate side of the House in Belize. Who would change that, Braa?
Consider life in Belize City from the standpoint of the working adult. There’s something wrong here. In fact, there are several things wrong. And the problems all become evident after dark. This is essentially the point of Frankie Rhys’ column this week. I get a real sense of how frustrated and angry Frankie was feeling.
Jason Young, 28, a construction worker of Lord’s Bank who, police allege, committed two robberies within a half hour of each other, was charged with 2 counts of robbery when he appeared today in the #5 Magistrate’s Court.
Last week I had promised in my column that I would write about the THIRD FORCE this week but, I have decided that the subject of this article is more urgent.
“ … Chicagoans did not see Marxism as their true enemy. The real source of the trouble was to be found in the ideas of the Keynesians in the United States, the social democrats in Europe and the developmentalists in what was then called the Third World These were believers not in a utopia but in a mixed economy, to Chicago eyes an ugly hodgepodge of capitalism for the manufacture and distribution of consumer goods, socialism in education, state ownership for essentials like water services, and all kinds of laws designed to temper the extremes of capitalism.”
A bitter personal quarrel between two high-profile cycling personalities, Gerald Garbutt, president of the Belize Cycling Association, and Santino “The Chief” Castillo, business magnate and owner of Belize’s most successful cycling team - Team Santino’s, erupted into public warfare today when Garbutt suspended four of Santino’s best cyclists, three for one year and one for two years.
Senior officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Honorable Minister Lisa Shoman (vacation), the Ministry’s Chief-Executive-Officer, Ambassador Amalia Mai (vacation), and the Ministry’s Senior Director of International Affairs, Mr. Alfonso Gahona (out of office until Friday), were not around to tell us what’s what as of today, Thursday, December 27, 2007, with the illegal settlement on the Belize border - Santa Rosa.
Pre-election fever caught on in 2007 with strong talk that the general elections would have been called before the year is out. That would have made two sets of elections this year, with the Village Council elections having been held during March and April. Even though those early election forecasts have proven false, the political drama, as well as the kick-off of a fierce advertisement campaign, has given the electorate enough fuel to get them into the spirit. There was no shortage of political controversy for both dominant political parties to play with, but with popular support eroding for them – the ruling party more so than the Opposition - a number of third parties have sprung up, with roots spanning from North to South, East to West.
A talk show panelist for the UDP’s WAVE Radio, Clement Palacio, also known as “Stiletto” and “Papa Roots,” lies in Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in “stable” condition after an exchange of words threatened to become deadly last week Friday night.
