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.”
He was lean, elegant and electrifying on the football field. His ball control was a thing of beauty. When he passed the ball, killed it with his chest or instep, or moved it around his opponents, it was sweet music playing in your ears and sheer artistry dazzling your eyes. He was Leocario Mayen, better known as “Malanga.”
I woke up one morning last week with the thought in my head that maybe, just maybe the way to get our local intellectuals moving forward, fu stap simpa, is to grab their ball and run with it. I thought, okay, I should stop in at the café when next I am in Belmopan and do some research on PR (Proportional Representation) models used in foreign nations, so that I don’t make a fool of myself. Then I said, naa, what the heck, better I make a fool of myself…
Belize is a blessed nation-state. The most important commodity today is human food, and our Belize is blessed because we are self-sufficient in the vast majority of the foods we eat.
“Let Justice be done, Though the heavens fall.” The quotation above, accredited to William Watson, is a free English translation of the original Latin, “Fiat Justicia, ruant cieli,” which is apt to a discourse on the subject of the Greater Good.
This evening at about 5:30, wedding vows were exchanged between Sidney Louis Perefitte, Jr., 34, and Vanessa Lisandra Vellos, 32, at Bacab, a popular ecopark for locals and tourists alike, located at Mile 14 on the Hattieville-Boom Road.
