Now that the 81st Cross Country Classic is behind us, yet again the debate has started as to the merits of having foreigners participate in this most storied and historical event. As a team owner, and part of the management team of Sugar City Cycling Club, which had two teams in the race, Sugar City Starz and Team ZAMIR Cycling teams, I would be grateful if you would allow me to share some thoughts on the race.
On Friday, April 17, what started out as a pleasant outing for the Mora family of Sarteneja and visiting friends, turned into a nightmare when their boat overturned shortly after departure, throwing all 13 passengers into the sea, where they spent the next 24 hours fighting for their lives.
Manning: “Several leaders expressed the view that Port of Spain marks a turning point for inter-American relations and for building a stronger community of nations.” After a hectic three days accommodating literally thousands of guests for the Fifth Summit of the Americas, Port of Spain began to return to normalcy on Sunday evening, as Heads of State of 33 visiting countries hosted by Trinidad and Tobago President Patrick Manning began departing, after a series of intense meetings had drawn to a close, clearly with serious unfinished business - chief among them being the continued exclusion of Cuba from what is dubbed the Inter-American System, and a half-century-old blockade imposed by the United States on that country.
When is Mr. Obama coming to Belize? That is the question Kremandala posed to Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on the occasion of the Fifth Summit of the Americas, which saw US President Barack Obama visit the twin island republic for the first time – albeit without his wife, Michelle Obama, who had been expected to attend the Summit with him.
We’ve got it all wrong in Belize. And it is time for our economics experts to speak out, “spill the beans,” if you will. “The king is naked,” and it’s about time he put on some clothes. I’m talking about the viruses, the leeches, that are sucking away, devouring all the life fluids of the Belizean economy. I’m talking about telecommunications and electricity, two of the vital “engines” of development.
We at the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management are outraged and shocked at the decision of the Forest Department to grant permission to US Capital Energy to enter the Sarstoon Temash National Park for the purpose of conducting seismic testing activities. Particularly outrageous is the unilateral and secret manner in which the government chose to grant the permission. These perpetual and blatant policies of social exclusion and persistent discrimination only serve to close the doors of opportunities which our efforts and that of our legal team had hoped to eliminate by our 2006 Supreme Court lawsuit.
Information has been released via the Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Culture in regard to new permit requirements for foreign bus companies and tour operators coming into Belize. The permits will be issued at border points and will take effect on April 20, 2009.
While Castro was consolidating his position in the Sierra Maestra, Batista’s controlled press and radio in Havana were announcing the extermination of the rebel leader and all his men. First it was claimed they had all died on the beach at Belic. Then it was reported they had all been wiped out at the battle of Alegría de Pío. Next it was revealed that their bodies had been discovered scattered along the trails and in the swamps below the mountains. And although few Cubans placed much reliance on their government’s information, few knew for certain that these claims were untrue. It was certainly true that the rebels had suffered disaster — but had they really all been killed? Was Fidel Castro dead and this Twenty-Sixth of July Movement suppressed? All sorts of rumors were coming out of the Sierra Maestra — but the people were uncertain.
Many developers are known for setting up lucrative enterprises that, along with the revenue they generate, carry the huge cost of devastation to the environment, but at Point a Pierre on the island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago today, the emphasis was on demonstrating how this unsustainable practice hurts the peoples and countries of the Americas and what can be done to ensure that the environment does not suffer unnecessarily on account of grand schemes for enterprise and growth.
In a courageous, almost desperate and genuine effort to curb the wave of “senseless” crimes by very young males in our community, a number of organizations, public and private, as well as individual citizens have thrown their resources, efforts and energy into hosting sporting games for young people, in the hope that this would keep their minds focused on positive things. But the crimes keep on keeping on. It’s almost like, “in your face”— the types of “reckless” violence that seem to erupt with dreadful regularity, whenever we are lulled into a feeling of relief or security. Whenever we venture to think that perhaps the shootings will stop, we hear of someone else being shot, sometimes killed, and more often than not, it is by a young male, more likely with some level of pigmentation
Going on a year and a half after the PUP got a major (deserved) dust-off at the polls they still haven’t recovered from the shelling. They were darn hoggish when they ran the place and they probably earned their ten years in the wilderness. Yes, darn hoggish. But only a sadist could revel in the woes of this mighty party gone feeble. It’s really pathetic. It’s so pathetic that the present PM, their enemy, went all the way to the House and pleaded with them to try and fix dehnself …for the good of the nation.
I’m on a bit of a holiday from Amandala. Over the last few years, my responsibilities had been reduced in certain areas, but I still did an amount of rewriting and shaping, so to speak. Last week my daughter Rachael did my “rewriting and shaping” work, and one of my younger brothers did the editorial. Things worked out pretty well.
Two persons apparently died by their own hands over the Easter weekend in Benque Viejo del Carmen. On April 10, Mario Barrillas, 38, of the New Border Road in Benque Viejo Town, reported to police that at 3:00 p.m. that day he arrived home to find his common-law wife, Marta Lidia, Hernandez, 34, suffering from stomach pains
The Belize National Teachers Union held its 39th Annual Convention on April 15 and 16 in Punta Gorda Town under the theme, “Quality Teaching for Quality Education.” Some 250 teachers from across the country participated in the convention.
