The day will come when there will be no land to distribute to the children of our grandchildren. Corruption comes with different faces and I don’t think it can ever be eradicated. Regardless of the reforms to the Constitution, nothing is really serious: it is only protecting the benefits of the few. There are many powerful interests whom our leaders prefer to serve, and to hell with “the little people down there.”
It is now over five months since Belizeans elected, by landslide, a new government to “put things right,” after the most horrendous betrayal of a people’s trust occurred during the ten years of the Said Musa PUP administration.
Hon. Edmond “Clear the Land” Castro, Minister of State in the Ministry of Works and area representative for Belize Rural North, was today vindicated in #7 Magistrate’s Court after Oscar Pollard was fined $200 and court costs on the charge of using insulting words.
Many Belizeans are of the thinking that there is much more that should go to the public purse from the country’s oil, and the Government of Belize has indicated that it plans to levy a windfall tax on petroleum profits, to increase the Government’s take from oil revenues. But talks have still not concluded, and Prime Minister Dean Barrow predicts industry stakeholders will not be happy with the new tax.
Jeffrey Prosser’s Innovative Communications Corporation and Belize Telecom may have dropped off the radar in Belize, but that does not mean that they have given up on challenging the Government of Belize, under the former (Said Musa) administration, from ousting its directors on the board of Belize Telecommunications Limited – now Belize Telemedia Limited.
Respect to the Belize Times editorial of May 25, issue # 4595. I reserve my yay, or my nay, but thanks for keeping the whip on the red tiger’s tail. Please, there is a small part of the piece we have to talk about. The editorialist wrote: Prime Minister Barrow…with his powerful mandate of February 7th prefers to talk big – the language is now windfall tax, nationalization…expropriation. Braa, forget the true big talk…nationalization, and expropriation, and let’s talk about humble windfall tax.
The last time I checked, shelter was third on the list of the basic necessities of human beings. The last administration, despite much squander, made giant leaps to solve the housing problems. As long as the population keeps growing, there will be need for more houses. Things are nowhere near perfect in this arena, but we’re getting by.
Many economists will tell you that, excepting a world war, the world will never experience serious money chaos like it did in the early part of the 20th century, because the financiers of today know a lot more about paper money management than they did back then.
The newly constituted Senate, with three new Opposition members, met this morning at the National Assembly in Belmopan. The major items on the agenda were the approval of three ambassadorial appointments, and, yet again, a US$5 million loan motion for concessionary financing from the state-owned Export-Import Bank of the Republic of China, Taiwan, to finance the construction of the Marion Jones Sports Complex.
