No consultations, no symposium — Dr. Barnett consultancy ended... Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Hon. Dean Barrow told Amandala Monday that there will be no budget consultations and no symposium this year, as the consultancy of Dr. Carla Barnett, a former Financial Secretary, who had served as an advisor and consultant to the Ministry of Finance, has come to an end.
Oil revenues plunged more than half, despite increase in volume exported... Belize’s newly released trade data, current to October 2009, indicates that both export earnings and import purchases dropped substantially in the first 10 months of 2009, compared with the same period in 2008, according to the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB).
Foster mother says child wants her to formally adopt her; biological mother fights to get her back... An 8-year-old girl of Ranchito village, Corozal District, is in the center of a bitter custody battle between her biological mother Kelanie Gentle, 23, of Belize City, and her foster mother Lupita Bejerano, 42, of Ranchito.
However, the interests of local consumers and their access to safe, healthy seafood seem to be overlooked. An ongoing study of Belize City seafood consumers asked consumers about seafood availability at the local market. Survey work conducted between June and August of 2009 in Belize City sampled seafood consumers at various income levels, and one key finding suggests that the quality of seafood available at the market has gone down over the last two decades.
While the men lawyers line up to follow di money, women lawyers in Belize battle for justice. Add the name of Mrs. Audrey Matura Shepperd alongside Ms. Lois Young (the battle for BTL), Ms. Antoinette Moore (the battle for the rights of our brothers and sisters in Toledo), and Mrs. Candy Gonzalez (the battle for clean water, and the rights of river dwellers).
Police detain young deportee.. Crooked Tree needs police station, says village’s only cop.. 1 officer assigned to 923 villagers – Ladyville OC says it’s the same in other nearby villages
On the final day of Commission of Inquiry public hearings, former and current KHMH officials scramble to explain hospital’s handling of purchases of chiller unit parts; also, back and forth continues over million-dollar Venezuelan grant in 2007 and what it was used for.
After being dropped from the list in 2008, Belize has again landed a spot for the second time in three years, on the list of the world’s top 10 ethical destinations, according to a report released on December 3 by Ethical Traveler, an international alliance of travelers headquartered in Berkeley, California, USA, and headed by Jeff Greenwald, world traveler, writer, artist and photographer.
When I started to write this column in 1979, I decided to deal with several currently topical subjects, without getting into any one too deeply, just to whet readers’ appetites and start them thinking about the subjects themselves and maybe writing letters to the editor expressing their own views. Then someone came to me and said (I always liked that line from Alice). He said he liked the column but, just when he began to think along with me, the piece would end and he was left dangling. Why don’t I choose a subject and deal with it properly? I was intrigued. It seemed like a good idea. So I started to write essays.
Audit Department’s report finds repeated failure on part of KHMH management to institute “internal checks and controls”... KHMH official had said: “the issues did not warrant the slowdown… [BMDU]’s allegations had ‘no substance, no specificity, no detail’.” (Maria Elena Sylvestre, in “BMDU alleges ‘hustling’ at Karl Heusner,” Amandala #2340, Sunday, June 21, 2009, pg. 39)
Most of us knew him as “Budgie” (which may not be the correct spelling of his nickname), but we now know his full name is Percival Erlin Davis, from the leaflet of the Service of Thanksgiving for his life celebrated at the Wesley Methodist Church on Tuesday, 1st December, 2009. Budgie died last Thursday, 26th November. He was 93 years old.
Bridge might have been intended to be played by the elites - royalty, nobles, doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs. Those who could master Ely Culbertson’s honor tricks values in order to determine the trick taking potential of a hand which is bidding strength. He was the first internationally acknowledged master of the game. You are very lucky, if your wish to learn to play bridge, that you don’t have to know about honor tricks. But just in case you are curious, this is the table Mr. Culbertson devised:
In matters of the spirit, there are four groups of people in the world. The first group, which is the largest, have a faith which is based on their belief that there is a Supreme Being who created everything that exists. Members of the Christian churches call him “God” in English, in Spanish “Dios,” in French “Dieu,” etc. etc. Members of the Islamic faith call him “Allah” and, the original settlers of North America, dubbed Plains Indians by the subsequent settlers of those lands, call him “Manitou.”
