Big congratulations to Mr. Gregory Ch’oc and the NGO community on his selection to sit in the Senate to defend the people’s interests from rapacious politicians. Ms. Joan Burke would have been a good choice too. She has distinguished herself with BERT (a health person), and she is well respected by Belizeans all over. Mr. Ernest Castro would have been a great choice also. The President of the National Garifuna Council is an outstanding career public servant (a finance man) who is well respected by all.
I’m certainly not opposed to development. Very few people would be willing to go back to an era without electricity, without cars and roads, without mechanized farming, but one of the major problems of modern commerce is a very old human problem. It’s called greed! When we take environmental factors into consideration, it costs money. This translates into reduced profits. So, the Town Council says, “Its okay to build here.” They are looking at the potential property taxes. The farmer clears all the bush, including the big trees - more room for cash crops. The highway builders change the drainage patterns with culverts to protect the good roads that have been demanded by people moving into newly developed areas. And then, things like this happen!
In August 1851, at the head of an “army” of about five hundred mercenaries - mostly American, German and Polish soldiers of fortune, with four dozen Cubans mixed in for appearances - General Lopez set sail on his crusade. The expedition landed at Playtas, about sixty miles west of Havana, on August 11. Unfortunately, the Cuban people failed to rally around this international brigade, and within ten days the adventurers had been rounded up by the Spanish army. A few of the survivors were executed at Havana - General Lopez himself being garroted for high treason - while the rest were packed off to the Spanish penal colonies in Africa. The Americans, who a century later planned the Bay of Pigs disaster, were evidently unfamiliar with the melancholy story of General Lopez.
With the upheaval in major world economies across the globe you’d expect that our government would be discussing with us, preparing us to make the changes needed to get us through the forest. Nada. It’s like the head bushmen are asleep in their hammocks…and we’re on a picado to nowhere. All hands in the brand new full of promises GoB are busy interfering in the selection of candidates for municipal elections coming up next year. You see what’s happening? To heck with the people, secure the future for political careers!
It is incredible to see how the minds of a people can be distorted in such a way that it gives no way to comprehend the views of others. NO, BRAA, I am not easy to be indoctrinated. Assad Shoman’s 13 Chapters has nothing to do with my way of thinking. You are underestimating my psyche. I am a “Lobo Estepario” (Steppe Wolf, written by Hermann Hesse).
The first reading I gave it was about 3 p.m. on Friday 19th of the same month, and I must admit that it struck me like a lightning. Yes, Brother Charles X, it is a master work. I like to see how you got into Brother Samuel Haynes’ mind and explained what he probably meant in his poem “Land of the Gods.” My people, the Maya, will love it for the way how you had explained and interlaced “Kinich Ahau” with the Most High, the lesser gods with the Roman Catholic saints. Even Nachan Can would have been convinced.
Kremandala regrets to announce the death of our cousin, Karl Hugh Donald Harris Belisle, age 78, which occurred on Tuesday, October 7, at his sister’s home in Belize City.
Marijuana is a local crop. It grows wild. A marijuana plant was growing in our yard at #1 West Canal. We didn’t plant it but, the good friend who pointed it out to us also warned that we could be charged for the offence of cultivating it and, we would have a hard time proving our innocence. This is ridiculous but the good citizen, who was in charge of a large farm where marijuana was found growing in a remote section of it, would not agree. He was charged with the crime of cultivating the plant even though, the whole society knew him to be a man of honor.
When condensed milk from China appeared on my tea table a year or two ago, I was very surprised. The Chinese are very resourceful/productive people. China exporting electronics and machinery, and stuffed pandas, is not hard to understand. China exporting condiments, and soy sauce and other ingredients used in their exotic cuisine are not hard to understand. But, China exporting condensed milk noh mek no sense.
How can we have “National Unity” when our own leaders don’t know their own history? The information that is given out by some of our brightest intellectuals is untrue. So, how do we expect our youths to be focused when they themselves are put to shame because of not knowing their own history?
If you are a consumer (and all of us are), you should be glad that you live in a country with a free enterprise capitalist system, because this system is particularly partial to entrepreneurs. They thrive in this system and, could not survive in a socialist system. The free enterprise capitalist system is made to order for entrepreneurs and rewards them greatly, because for such a system to grow and prosper, it needs to have people who are prepared to venture and take risks. Without entrepreneurs, very little would get done, things would stagnate, then deteriorate, then come to a standstill.
As of today September 29, 2008, the international news media was reporting the “stunning defeat” of the Bush administration’s proposed bailout program for AIG and other “tanking” big companies that are on the verge of collapse. All kinds of dire predictions are out there: credit has been frozen, your company won’t be able to borrow money to make payroll so you will lose your job, US unemployment will rise to 12%+, the rest of the world will descend into economic conditions that will be worse than the Great Depression of 1929, etc. What we need to do is to analyze the situation and to realize that “the sky is falling in” can well be a tactic to force people to support policies that are detrimental to them and beneficial for the fearmongers.
Mr. Dito Juan and the UDP were premature when in the heat of the ’89 campaign they shouted, “Never again PUP!”…but dis ya time ih might be fu real. You can tell a man who is foolish by the company he trucks with. They can cut the dollar beer to fifty cents, but me, I wouldn’t be caught drunk under a PUP tent. That party da bad breeze, Braa.
He was born on the 17th June, 1922, the third child and second son of his parents, Wilfred Hildebrandt Thomas Belisle, and wife, Eva Maud, nee Lindo. They named him Lewis George, his first name being the same as one chosen for a half brother who named himself BE-LISLE, with the accent on the first syllable. But the similar first names of the two brothers was of no consequence, because when Lewis G was old enough to attend the movies, he named himself “Buck Jones” after the famous Western movie star, and Buck Belisle is how he was known ever since.
