The national university’s Board of Trustees alleges “gross misconduct” and “failure to perform duties”... Amandala has come into possession of a letter from the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Belize (UB), Imani Fairweather-Morrison, to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, dated January 30, 2009, which makes stark allegations of “gross misconduct” and “failure to perform duties” by the University’s president, Dr. Santos Mahung, which the Board feels is grounds for his dismissal.
Guatemalan Miguel Perez wins 82nd Cross Country Classic... Well, it’s official. And again, a foreign cyclist has “walked” away with the garland, with foreign riders taking 10 of the first 12 positions.
Initial reports of two bodies found at Mile 8 at the Western Pine, a community founded in the 1980’s, have turned out to be one of the most heartbreaking stories we have covered for the year.
After a short break for the Easter holidays, the Belize District Basketball Association (BDBA) Digicell Ballin-4-Life basketball tourney resumes this weekend with a full slate of games scheduled for Friday night and Sunday evening. Hoops News’ pick for “Game of the Week” is tonight’s senior encounter, which has the UB Black Jaguars hosting the San Pedro Tigersharks.
Kindly allow me to make a few comments about your editorial on the satanic leadership of Father Maciel in Mexico. Mexico, our neighbour to the North, has a history of revolutions and corrupt leadership including presidents. So readers must understand that for Father Maciel, Mexico was fertile soil for his wicked campaigns. And, I agree, the Vatican must have been getting its share of the wealth, so it stayed “quiet.”
There was a very interesting programme on BBC World a week or so ago about the impact of 21st century technology—specifically information gathering and dissemination via cell phones, Internet forums, Facebook, Twitter, and others. Reports, facts, opinions, rumors, photographs and even film clips are being sent around the world every day uncovering the truth for all to see, and informing the people.
It must be a hell of a time to be a police officer in Belize. In the first place, one is trying to enforce the law in a country which has lost its sense of community values, its morality and its self-control over the last 35 years.
Last week I watched a television show which featured a Belizean man and lady promoting their plans for a Belize District branch of the National Kriol Council (NKC). The NKC was formed in 1995 or 1996, and some people say the driving force behind its foundation was the late Mrs. Ruby Marrith. The two people who emerged as the faces of the NKC in 1996, however, were Silvana Woods (now “Udz”) and Myrna Manzanares.
Fidel Audinette, a fisherman of Punta Gorda Town, Toledo, has forwarded a petition with over 150 signatures, making an appeal to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Rene Montero, to intervene and stop what they complain are unsustainable fishing practices by foreign fishermen, registered to fish in Belize but mostly residing in Guatemala.
Back in 1983 when I first started to go over to Chetumal to do purchasing for my business, Belizean license plates were targets for the traffic police. They would nail you for any and everything, even if you did nothing wrong.
Dickie Bradley has a son, Adrian, who is mentally disturbed. When the young man is mentally agitated, which is when he is smoking and/or drinking, he will come by my yard and make a scene. A couple years ago he used stones and a stick to try to break the windows and windshield of my vehicle. Last year he was shot in one of his legs by a policeman.
As an international institution which is almost two thousand years old, the Roman Catholic Church has mind-boggling assets – precious metals, valuable objects of art, massive real estate holdings, magnificent cathedrals, modern buildings, large bank accounts, and so on and so forth. The multiplying child abuse cases, however, which began a couple decades ago in the United States and have now spread to Europe, have damaged the Church where it has some financial vulnerability. This is where the Church’s cash flow is concerned. In the United States, leading, important American dioceses, like the ones in Boston and Los Angeles, have had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to victims of child molesting priests. The snowballing successes of the attorneys representing those abuse victims have only caused more and more victims to come forth.
Many Belizeans who use the City’s water taxi services to commute to and from the islands of Caye Caulker and San Pedro are boiling mad, and with good reason.
