“The most prominent leader was Jacinto Pat, batab of Tihosuco. There were reports that he was a zambo, a Maya with African blood, as well, and photographs of his descendant Leonardo Pat show evidence of this heritage. If true, the source would have been Belize, where there was a black population of twenty-three hundred by the end of the nineteenth century, and Tihosuco had commercial ties with that place.”
I refer to a letter written to you on September 17 about “Goliath”. Obviously the writer has a personal reason to attack what the government and my company believe is good for Belize. As he says, “it is plastic and styrofoam that carpet our landscape.” You do not see Belikin Beer, Guinness, Lighthouse, Coca-Cola, Fanta or Sprite glass bottles because these all have a value in the form of a deposit, and consumers take care of them to get their money back.
Zenaida Moya has now turned out to be the biggest mistake of Dean Barrow’s ten-year leadership tenure in the United Democratic Party. At the time the UDP ditched Sir Andie for “Z” in late 2005 or so, we thought it was a mistake. We thought it was a mistake not because we expected Zenaida to get out of control, but because we were Sir Andie fans. Mr. Barrow is a GQ kind of guy, however, and the Belizean people like their leaders and politicians to be like this. For sure Zenaida was a better candidate, in the strictly political equation, than the Sir, but Zenaida was form. Sir Andie would have been function. The Hon. Barrow went for form.
Berne trying to “Change the Game”... “A lot of artists would like to take the industry seriously, but at the same time they use it as a hobby and a supplement to what their real breadwinner might be, instead of making music their breadwinner. We can help make it their breadwinner, if we are all willing to change the game together!”
Earlier this week, teacher and performer Joseph Stamp Romero announced plans to contact many of Belize’s major performing artists to invite them to participate in a peace rally against the overwhelming crime affecting the City.
Breaking news to Amandala tonight, and since confirmed by police in San Pedro, is that the manager of Belizean airline Tropic Air in Caye Caulker, identified to us as one Lorleen Young, has been found dead in her home on the island this evening.
Gillett’s killer, or killers, fired 23 shots at him under cover of Tuesday night’s rainstorm.. The vicious killings continue in unrelenting regularity, and on Tuesday in Belize City, around 8:00 p.m., another resident was shot to death by two members of the increasingly brazen criminal element.
Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya-Flowers, has taken on her party leader, Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who handed over the special audit of the Belize City Council for April 2009 to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Moya-Flowers faced criminal charges in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today—and her reaction to the charges with a constitutional lawsuit filed on Tuesday, a 3-page statement to the media, and an extensive media interview today have seized public attention.
Attorney General could have filed a criminal case for misfeasance and not a civil suit, judge indicates... “It is my view that in the case of the state or government, as in the instant case through the Attorney General, alleging abuse or misuse of public office by public officials or wrongfully exercising official powers entrusted to them, there is the criminal offence of misfeasance in public office.”
Unofficial statistics count 73 murders; department notes trends in violent crime in North, West... In a closed-door press briefing held this afternoon at the Racoon Street Police Station Conference Room, among other topics discussed between representatives of the press and Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries, was the (at this point) unofficial statistics relating to the crime situation in Belize for the first 9 months of the year.
Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers and three City Council finance managers charged... Crowds of onlookers jostled for the best places around the Magistrate’s Court this morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya-Flowers, as she and three other senior staff members of the Belize City Council were taken to the small courtroom on the Regent Street side of the public building housing the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to be arraigned.
My brother-in-law Phil, an American, always announces his arrival in Belize with the tune, “Fun Time in Belize”. He always bemoans that the popular Children’s Corner radio program is no longer a feature of our airwaves. It had been a hallmark program hosted by the now defunct Radio Belize.
Even as I write, Dr. Dylan Evans and a group of distinguished scientists are conducting a significant experiment. They have built a 17-mile tunnel in the Swiss Alps. In it they are going to shoot subatomic particles at each other at the speed of light to stimulate the Big Bang, a theory which has been proposed as adequate explanation for the existence of the universe.
Tariq Gabb and Wincy Lopez had breakout games at the Andres Campos Civic Center in Corozal a couple weekends ago as they totaled 19 pts and 12 pts, respectively, for the U-15 arm of the Belize Bank Bulldogs; propelling them to the convincing 76-19 win over Corozal U-14 champs Dazzles in a friendly basketball exchange played between the two programs.
