Belize Times May 25, 2014

THE BELIZE TIMES 25 MAY2014 4

Officer Down!

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PUP at 60% of threshold

From Bella Vista with Love

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By Francis W. FonsecaLast Sunday Night,

May 18th, as Sir George Domingo and I journeyed back from the beautiful village of Bella Vista in the Toledo East Constituency, my thoughts were only of the kind, sincere, humble and hardworking people I had just been privileged to encounter on my visit alongside the good gentle-men of the PUP Southern Caucus, Hon. Deputy Par-ty Leader Mike Espat (To-ledo East), Hon. Oscar Re-quena (Toledo West), Hon. Ivan Ramos (Dangriga) and Hon. Rodwell Ferguson (Stann Creek West).

Our worn but reliable

blue Landcruiser rolled steadily across the mag-nificent Southern High-way, and even as mid-night approached, a clear moonlit night afforded me the opportunity to take in the breathtaking wonder and beauty that is Belize.

The public rally in Bel-la Vista had brought out some 1500 residents of the surrounding commu-nities. They were filled with energy, excitement and love. They had come out to see, meet, and hear their Leaders and to share with us their con-cerns and hopes for the future.

Their issues were Education, Health, Land, and Immigration.

Like most Belizeans they are concerned about the increasing cost and poor quality of education and health-care being offered to their families. Too many of them have had their land taken away to be given to UDP party hacks and those who have tried to obtain land through the Gov-ernment have met ob-stacle after obstacle. Many are immigrants who have Belizean chil-dren yet their nation-

ality status remains undeter-mined. They are in no position to offer incentives to the Big Boys in Belmopan to facilitate nationality documents and land titles.

As the meeting drew to a close they rushed the stage to touch and embrace their lead-ers. They wanted and needed to know that someone cares, that we care!

This is what the PUP must always be about. This is what politics must always be about. Serving our people! Caring for our people!

Those who gathered in Bella Vista would generally be regarded as poor by today’s standards, but they are rich in spirit. They came not in search of a $50 handout but rather in search of a better life for them, their families, and their communities.

They have hope in the PUP!

They believe in the PUP!They are ready for a PUP

Government!We will not fail them!God Bless Belize!

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BELIZE A.D. 2014(DIVORCE)

ACTION NO: 19

(MarcoCeledonioAguirre Petitioner ( Between ( AND (

(Alida Oneila Aguirre

TO: ALIDA ONELIA AGUIRRE

TAKE NOTICEthataPetitionforDissolutionofMarriagedated31st January, 2014 endorsedwithaNoticetoyoutoappearandanswerchargesthereinhasbeenfiledintheSupremeCourtofBelize,byMARCO CELEDONIO AGUIRREofSantaCruzVillage,PlacenciaJunction,StannCreekDistrict,BelizeandthatyouarerequiredwithinFourteen (14) daysafterthesecondpublicationherein,inclusiveofthedayofsuchpublication,toenteranappearanceeitherinpersonorbyyourAttorneyattheRegis-tryoftheSupremeCourt,shouldyouthinkfitsotodoandthereaftertomakeanswertothechargesAND FURTHER TAKE NOTICEthatindefaultofyoursodoingtheCourtwillproceedtohearthesaidchargesprovedandpronouncejudgmentyourabsencenotwithstanding.

ThisPetitionisfiledandthisNoticetoappearisissuedbyOswaldTwistof16BishopStreet,BelizeCity,BelizeAttorney-at-LawforthePetitioner,MARCO CELEDONIO AGU-IRRE.

DATED THIS 24thdayofApril2104

Registrar

NOTE:AnypersonenteringanappearancemustatthesametimefurnishanaddressforservicewithintwomilesoftheSupremeCourt.


Like the Government… the University of Belize

is dysfunctional

For SaleBy Order of the

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition, 2000, and having its regis-tered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Mortgage made the 16th day of August, 2010 between DYLANA LESLIE of No. 561 King Fish Avenue, Vista Del Mar, Ladyville, Belize District, of the one part, and Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., of the other part, and recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds Book Vol. 25 of 2010 at Folios 963 – 994, the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the schedule hereto.

All offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing and full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

SCHEDULE

ALL THOSE LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 215 situate in Maxboro Area, Sandhill Village, Belize District and bounded as follows: on the North for 30.476 metres by Lot No. 198; on the South for 30.476 metres by A Street; on the East for 31.393 metres by Lot No. 214 and on the West for 31.393 metres by Lot No. 216 containing 956.733 square metres of land and as shown on Entry No. 4844, Register No. 21 at the Office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon.

DATED this 5th day of May, 2014.

MUSA & BALDERAMOS91 North Front Street

Belize CityAttorney-at-Law for

Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

BY ORDER OF MORTGAGEENOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL

HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIMITED a statutory body formed and registered under the Credit Union Act, Chapter 314 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2000, and whose registered office is situated at No. 1 Hyde’s Lane, Belize City, Belize District hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under and by virtue of a Deed of Mortgage registered at the Land Titles Unit between ROY SUTHERLAND of the one part and HRCU of the other part.

HRCU will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the Schedule below.

ALL offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing to Holy Redeem-er Credit Union Limited from whom full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained.

SCHEDULE

ALL THAT piece or parcel or lot of land being Lot No. 7 comprising 415.515 square metres situate on Sister Therese Sparks Street (formerly Raccoon Street Extension), Belize City, Belize District now Parcel 322, Block 45, Port/Loyolaville Registration Section as shown and described on a Plan of Survey No. 1012 of 1999 drawn by Li-censed Surveyor J.V. Hyde dated 25th October 1999 and being lodged and recorded at the Lands & Surveys Department in Belmopan as Entry Plan No. 3186 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon, the freehold property of ROY SUTHERLAND

DATED this 14th day of May 2014

HOLY REDEEMER CREDIT UNION LIMITED1 HYDE’S LANE, BELIZE CITY, BELIZE

Phone: (501) 224-5644Fax: (501) 223-0738

May 14th 2014By Norris Hall

The red flags at the University of Belize are much more numerous than those warning of an impending hurri-cane. The green flag, if it ever appears, will not signal an all-clear but rather that the university is taking a collision course with history as it is ill-prepared to take that highway into the future. Neither does it seem to have the credentials to prepare the country’s young talents for the task of nation building. And that is thirty two years after independence!

The Ministry of Education appears not to understand the vital function of this institution for higher learning. It has lowered the entrance requirement for UB and rather than help in promoting the quest for excellence it continues, with political dumbness, to encourage mediocrity. It is even easier to earn a de-gree from UB than to buy one on e-bay. A retired teacher recently commented that a high school diploma earned in Be-lize in the 70s is now worth more than a degree from this national university today. There are admittedly, a few stu-dents who perform with excellence and on their own accord in the miserable environment of a UB campus. It is sim-ply not just for parents to be gambling their children’s future on a dysfunctional institution and the persistent political interference in a university that is sup-

posed to be autonomous and above politics.

NO ACCREDITATIONThe forced resignation by the

most recent President, Dr. Cary Fra-ser, who made attempts to bring the university up to speed, landed him in a snake pit of government politicians and the university’s Board of Trust-ees when he made a recommenda-tion for the revision of the University of Belize Act. This recommendation was intended to upgrade the institu-tion to meet international standards for accreditation.

In his attempts to properly man-age the University, the recent former President found himself swimming upstream in piranha-infested waters.

After a politically concerted ef-fort leading to his demise, the Pres-ident’s lips have been zipped. This is as a result of a gag order decreed on him by the Prime Minister in a “Sep-aration Agreement”. This agreement was drafted by the government’s legal Houdini, whose name is an antonym to integrity. The gag order prohibits Mr. Fraser from speaking to the media about the nasty mess that he was unable to clean-up at the university during his two year tenure and the “in your face” political inter-ference by the Ministry of Education and the politically-appointed Board of

Trustees.The numerous issues and lidded

scandals at what is supposed to be Be-lize’s premier educational institution is leading to discontent among the fac-ulty and student bodies. This includes the political appointments of some faculty members without their proven credentials as well as their inability to speak and write English. It is as basic as that.

THE LAND GRABThe University of Belize owns a

total of about two thousand acres of land in campuses all over the country. This includes a marine research station which sits on ten acres of Calabash Caye, an island located north east of Belize City in the area of the Turneffe atoll. This research station is under the umbrella of the Environmental Re-search Institute of UB. The main cam-pus of the University in Belmopan has 750 acres. These pieces of UB real es-tate in the nation’s Capital and on the island are considered the university’s crown jewels.

Some members of the UB Board of Trustees is contemplating a land grab. A member of the Board of Trust-ees with political connections in real estate agent is the catalyst behind this land hustle, particularly to highjack the 10 acres of prime island estate. Some members of the UB Board of Trustees are also promoting a sub-di-vision and sale of portions of the land which forms a part of UB’s estate in Belmopan. Agents have been promot-ing this - but subtly.

UB’s INVESTMENT IN UMLIn the year 2000 the University

of Belize entered into a joint venture agreement with Datapro International

Ltd. to expand the internet domain name registration service. It is full of technicalities but the intent was to provide a more accessible inter-net service in Belize rather than to have a few like BTL.net or yahoo.com etc. There were three share-holders. They included allotted shares to UB of 255 thousand at US $1.00 per share under a share purchase agreement. Under this agreement UB invested BZ $510 thousand in the purchase of these shares. Datapro Ltd. did likewise. Another company was allotted 50 thousand shares in UML (Univer-sity Management Ltd). Up to 2009 it was still not clear what level of business was conducted by UML or if any dividends were paid out to shareholders, including UB.

Since then the operations of UML and its relation with UB have become a tangled web. In a letter to the Chairman of the Board of Trust-ees in February of 2013, UML said that “the experience with UB has not been a good one over the years”.

UML also expressed its inter-est in acquiring UB’s interest. That is where the paper trail ends. No one we asked could indicate what happened to UB’s investment in shares. There appears to be some evasiveness about this investment and whether dividends were ever paid. There also appears to be no ac-counting to provide answers about the more than $1/2 million share purchase made in its investments in UML. Over the period UB should have received a profitable return on its investment.

…to be continued.

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OBSTACLES TO THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION IN BELIZE

Edmund Castro

G odwin Hulse

WOMAN IN THE HOUSE

Use Only the Word Belizean!!

By Dolores Balderamos Garcia

I have just completed a book that was kindly loaned to me from the li-brary of James and Lydia Waight. Its name is simply “British Honduras,” and it was written by Englishman Algar Robert Gregg and published in 1968 by The Corona Library, a series of volumes “dealing with the United Kingdom’s dependent territories, the way their peoples live, and how they are governed.”

It was a fascinating read, at once factual and fanciful. I say this be-cause Mr. Gregg had clearly done his research. He included a Reading List

or Bibliography which sets out to his sources for historical information, and as well a list of Official Publications. On the other hand, he had travelled widely in the country, but some of his impressions were somewhat naive and clearly of his time and British pre-dilection.

For instance his chapter on Ear-ly History makes no mention what-ever of the various slave rebellions in eighteenth century Belize, and his references to twentieth century Belize completely ignore the Ex-Ser-vicemen’s Riot and the early Labor

movements that preceded the Na-tionalist era. Of course with source documents such as Sir John Burdon’s Archives and Histories by E.O. Winzer-ling, Stephen Caiger, Wayne Clegern, W.A. Donohoe and R.A. Humphreys one can easily understand the Eu-ro-centric perspective of his account.

His take on the devaluation of the British Honduras dollar for exam-ple, which was the spark that lit the Nationalist movement, was matter-of-fact and oblivious to the plight of so many poor urban Belizeans for whom the move was debilitating. Surprising, however, was that he felt that Belize’s future would be as a republic of Cen-tral America, even though he fully recognized our status and (under)de-velopment as a British Crown colony.

His chapter on several hurricanes that struck our country with devas-tating consequences is probably the most gripping, as there are detailed accounts of the 1931 Hurricane, Hur-ricane Janet and Hurricane Hattie.

However, most of note for me were his comments on his meeting with then Premier George Price as well as his closing remarks regarding his opinion of Belize’s future. First, he tells us that British Honduras Pre-mier, Hon. George Price ‘accorded’

him an interview and was ‘most co-operative.’

The Premier, he says, asked him: “Please do not stress the differ-ences between our people. Instead, emphasize the common identity of the people living in British Hondu-ras. Do not say Creole or Carib or Mestizo. Use the expressions Af-ro-Belizean, Carib Belizean or Ma-ya-Belizean. Or better still, use only the word Belizean.” However, Mr. Gregg does add: “the diversity of human types in British Honduras is most remarkable.”

Secondly, in his closing essay he says: “The great advantage that Belize possesses is the good nature of her people. They are intelligent above average, well behaved, indus-trious and healthy. Perhaps their best characteristics are their emotional maturity, their lack of complexes.”

And further: “Belize needs out-side capital, but it also needs people, hard working people, to build up the country. Belize still holds out one of the last opportunities for pioneer-ing.”

Some forty seven years after Premier Price said it I want to agree that we should “Use Only The Word Belizean!!”

By E. Andrew Marshalleck SCBelize, like many of its neighbours,

having accepted the need to confront and eliminate corruption in public functions, now faces the daunting challenge of chart-ing an appropriate course to achieving that most elusive objective. The challenge re-quires that we identify the obstacles to the prevention of corruption in public func-tions, devise appropriate measures for dealing with them and then take the steps required to implement those measures. While such an approach appears simple enough, the task is indeed a daunting one in Belize because it requires the making of principled decisions which inevitably fly in the face of political self-preservation, and indeed, in the face of what may now well constitute a number of cultural norms in Belizean society.

In typical Caribbean fashion, instead

of confronting and addressing the issue squarely, the preference is to pay lip service to it, while refusing to create and empower the neces-sary institutions obviously needed to achieve required changes. This disposition is a significant obstacle to the prevention of corruption in Belize.

This is readily illustrated by reference first to the report of the Attorney General on behalf of the Government of Belize of Decem-ber, 2010, to MESICIC (The Mecha-nism on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption). I quote:

“ Since becoming a Party to the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (“the Conven-

tion”) in 2002 and joining the Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Convention (MESICIC) in 2003, Belize has been steadfast in its fight against cor-ruption. It has repeatedly shown in no un-certain terms that it is committed to fight corruption domestically and to use its best efforts to assist its fellow countries to fight this plague, which has no regard for interna-tional boundaries.

In March 2008, the present Govern-ment of Belize was brought to power on a heavy campaign against corruption. Be-tween June 2008 and December, 2010, the period covered by the present Report, the Government of Belize has undertaken a number of positive actions and measures to fight corruption in general, and to imple-ment a number of Recommendations and Measures suggested by the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC during the first two

rounds of review. These include:• Adoption/Amendment of Legisla-

tion:1. Prevention of Corruption Act,

2007, which, inter alia, makes provisions for strengthening measures to prevent and combat corruption and corrupt activi-ties, provides for the offence of corruption and offences relating to corrupt activities, provides for investigative measures in re-spect of corruption and related corrupt ac-tivities, and provides measures for estab-lishing probity, integrity and accountability in public life;

2. Belize Constitution (Sixth Amendment) Act, 2008, which, inter alia, sought to enlarge the membership of the Senate to ensure that Senators nominat-ed by the Opposition and nongovernmen-tal organizations together constitute the majority, sought to extend the powers and functions of the Senate to enable them to initiate and conduct public enquiries into mismanagement or corruption by persons in the central government of public statu-tory bodies, and provides for the expedi-tious submission of reports by the Auditor General to the National Assembly;

3. Freedom of Information (Amend-ment) Act, 2008, which, inter alia, was passed to invalidate secrecy provisions in public contracts, to reduce the categories of exempt documents, to penalize unrea-sonable refusal or failure to provide access to public documents;

4. Finance and Audit (Reform) (Amendment) Act, 2010. This amend-ment is presently a Bill. It seeks, inter alia, to enhance transparency in the tendering process for the Government procurement

and sale contracts, and to restore the Finan-cial Orders and Stores Orders to their origi-nal status of subsidiary legislation.

• Adoption and dissemination of a Na-tional Plan of Action for the implemen-tation of the Recommendations of the MESICIC for Belize.

• Providing the widest measure of le-gal assistance requested by other coun-tries to assist them in their investigations and prosecution of acts of corruption.”

The centerpiece of the Government’s legislative effort to combat corruption, which was listed first in the above report and referred to on numerous occasions thereafter as having met one or other of the requirements of the Plan of Action to fight corruption adopted by Belize, is the Prevention of Corruption Act, 2007. That Act provides for the appointment of an Integrity Commission which is charged with respon-sibility to implement the provisions of the Act.

The members of the commission are to be appointed in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has for a number of years now neglected to give the requisite advice to enable the appointments to be made. There is accordingly to date no appointed Integrity Commission that can enforce the provisions of the Act, two of the Prime Min-ister’s most recent appointments to the post having promptly resigned rather than subject their own finances to public scruti-ny. In fairness it should be recognized that because the majority of the members of the Integrity Commission are appointed by the government, even when a commission is appointed, it usually sits paralyzed, unwill-ing or unable to act.

Not surprisingly the provisions of the Act are routinely ignored by the vast major-ity of the members of the House of Rep-resentatives who fail annually to make the requisite disclosures as to their personal finances to the Commission. This has led




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1. How much in legal fees was paid to Denys Barrow his legal opin-ion recently given to the Ministry of Natural Resources in respect to the Mayan Land Rights case?

2. Is Castro paying for his own legal defence or is the Government dishing out another handsome cheque to brother Denys?

3. Is the National Trade Union Congress President truly represent-ing the interest and integrity of the Belizean workers? Or has he been bought ought with the perks that come from sitting on various boards and even the Government’s national bank. With all the issues affecting workers, the NTUCB has nothing to say about it.

4. Could the Minister Know It All explain the reason a personal cheque was paid to another Min-ister’s sister at Immigration to the sum of $5,000 dollars by a Chinese who she helped to turn into a Beliz-ean?

5. Mr. Mayor, please give the reason for having 24/7 security guards posted at your City Admin-istrator’s house, and does the City Council pay for it?

6. Could either the past or

new Chairman of BTL Board explain the reasons for opening an offshore bank account and company in St. Lu-cia, which is listed as a subsidiary of BTL? Also, do the past and present Chairman, and former CEO appear as shareholders in this company or have any type of interest?

7. Mr. New BTL chairman, please tell us why BTL funds in US dollars are being remitted on a regular basis to the offshore bank in St. Lucia? Is the Central Bank aware of these transac-tions?

By Gilroy Usher, Sr.I write to condemn the continu-

ous double standard when it comes to enforcing the laws of this coun-try. Government’s approval for the current export of rosewood is a per-fect example of that.

To protect this precious wood from depletion due to massive ex-port, to places such as China where it’s used to make some of the most expensive furniture, a moratorium was placed on the extraction and sale of the product. This decision was taken by the Barrow Adminis-tration after everyone in the trade was given the opportunity to sell all the rosewood they had on the ground. Couple months later some wealthy people in the rosewood trade with good political connection claimed that they had missed the moratorium enforcement date. With the ears of Belmopan they were al-lowed to export more rosewood to China although the moratorium was already in effect for several months.

That should have been the final shipment of the precious commodi-

ty until a sustainable method of har-vesting was devised by the govern-ment. That’s what we all thought. To bolster that misguided belief, the administration confiscated every rosewood log cut by poor people trying to make a few dimes after the moratorium and made sure those seizures hit the evening local news.

Now to the surprise of the or-dinary citizens across the length and breadth of this nation, the Bar-row administration has again given permission for the same wealthy rosewood traders with good politi-cal connection to sell a large stock of rosewood that has filled two 40 feet containers. The excuse of the government for sanctioning a sec-ond export of rosewood despite the moratorium is that the logs are from private lands and were cut before the moratorium. Do our leaders real-ly believe the people of this country buy that nonsense?

Where were these wealthy rose-wood traders when they were all given ample opportunity to sell the entire stock of rosewood they had on the ground before the moratorium was introduced? Where were these same people when they were all giv-en a second opportunity to sell the rosewood they had on the ground about five months after the cutting and sale of these logs were banned and can’t our forest officers tell the difference between rosewood that was recently cut and those that were cut more than a year ago?

The law comes down like a ton of bricks on the head of a grassroots person who is caught cutting a few

rosewood trees, but it turns a blind eye to the unending and around-the-clock cutting of the precious logs by wealthy wood traders with political connection regardless of the exis-tence a moratorium on the harvest of the product. It will only be a matter of time before the ruling politicians ap-prove the sale of another large ship-ment of rosewood that they and the wealthy wood traders will claim was again cut before the moratorium was

introduced.Belizeans really need to wake

up and realize that they are being taken for a ride again and again by crooked leaders of this country. They are doing this with double standard in the enforcement of our laws with respect to the rosewood trade and many other things in the Jewel. As Jose Marti said “The first duty of a man is to think for him-self”.

T he Dean Barrow Cabinet has endorsed the R osewood hustle in Belize


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Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition, 2000, and having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its inten-tion to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Mortgage made the 3 1st day of May, 2009 between LUIS G ODOY of S an J ose S uccotz Village, Cayo District, Belize of the one part, and Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., of the other part, and recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds Book Vol. 14 of 2009 at Folios 977 – 1004, the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the schedule hereto.


SCHEDULEALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 276 comprising of 555.790 S. . situate in Succotz Village, Cayo District, bounded and described as shown by lan No. 241 of 2001 attached to Minis-ter s Fiat Grant No. 241 of 2001 TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon.






Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition, 2000, and having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Assignment of Mortgage made the 13 th day of May, 2002, recorded in Deeds Book Vol. 19 of 2002 at Folios 253 – 266, between T HE DEVEL-OP M ENT FINANCE COR P OR AT ION (the Assignor) Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. (the Assignee), and P HILIP HENR Y HUM ES, which said property was mortgaged by the said P HILIP HENR Y HUM ES to the said DEVELOP M ENT FINANCE COR P OR AT ION on the 26th day of February, 2001 and recorded in Deeds Book Volume Deeds Book Vol. 11 of 2001 at Folios 701 – 746 will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the schedule hereto.All offers to purchase the said property must be made in writing and full particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained from the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd.

T HE SCHEDULE

ALL THOSE LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 57 situate in Lords Bank Village, Belize District and bounded as follows: On the North for 24.374 metres by a Street Reserve; On the South for 24.374 Metres by No. 50; on the East for 36.561 Metres by Lot No. 58; On the West for 36.561 Metres by Lot No. 56 containing 891.14 S.M. as shown on Entry No. 3466 at the Office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon.


MUSA & BALDERAMOS LL91 North Front Street

Belize CityAttorneys-at-Law for



Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Companies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition, 2000, and having its regis-tered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Assignment of Mortgage made the 24th day of May, 2007, recorded in Deeds Book Vol. 19 of 2007 at Folios 497 – 514, between BELIZ E M OR T G AG E COM P ANY 20 0 2- 1 (the Assignor) Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. (the Assignee), and VER NA M AE VILLAFR ANCO, and under a Deed of Assignment of Mortgage made the 16th day of September, 2005, recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds Book Vol. 28 of 2005 at Folios 1005 – 1080, between T HE DEVELOP M ENT FINANCE COR P OR AT ION (the Assignor) BELIZ E M OR T G AG E COM P ANY 20 0 2- 1, which said property was mortgaged by the said VER NA M AE VILLAFR ANCO to the said DEVELOP M ENT FINANCE COR P OR AT ION on the 12th day of April, 2001 and recorded in Deeds Book Volume 15 of 2001 at Folios 1241 – 1282 will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the schedule hereto.


T HE SCHEDULE

ALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 47 containing 851.015 s uare yards situate in Hope Creek Village New Site, Stann Creek District, Belize bounded and described as shown by lan 299 of 1999 attached to Minister s Fiat Grant No. 299 of 1999 at the Office of the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys TOGETHER with all buildings and erections standing and being thereon.






Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., a company duly registered under the Com-panies Act, Chapter 250 of the Laws of Belize, Revised Edition, 2000, and having its registered office at Cor. Albert and Bishop Streets, Belize City, Belize, hereby gives notice of its intention to exercise its power of sale as Mortgagee under a Deed of Mortgage made the 20th day of October, 2008 between COR ONADA LUP E VIAFR AN-CO of omona Village, Stann Creek District, Belize of the one part, and Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd., of the other part, and recorded at the Land Titles Unit in Deeds Book Vol. 37 of 2008 at Folios 1077 – 1102, the said Scotiabank (Belize) Ltd. will at the expiration of two months from the date of the first publication of this notice sell the property described in the schedule hereto.


SCHEDULEALL THAT piece or parcel of land being Lot No. 13 containing 835.844 s uare meters (999.67 s uare yards) situate in omona Village, Stann Creek District, bounded and described as shown by lan No. 519 of 2000 attached to Minister s Fiat Grant No. 519 of 2000 and TOGETHER with all buildings, erections and developments standing and being thereon.






Reid

Dictating the tone

The media is now more used to push po-litical propaganda and steer people’s focus away from the corrupt and “distasteful”

ways of this administration. The media plays a significant and important role and have created some powerful per-sonalities in our society.

By G. Michael ReidSomebody — was it Burke?

— called journalism the fourth estate? That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present mo-ment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism. ~ Oscar Wilde

A question that is often asked these days is, with all the corrup-tion and wrongdoing that is hap-pening under this administration, why are the people so calm and complacent. There are those who murmur and grumble but nothing like what happened in 2005 when the masses took to the streets. Many believe that what is going on today is much more blatant, malignant and corrupt than any-thing that happened under the past administration.

Some suggest that people are afraid of victimization; gov-ernment is the biggest employer and Dean Barrow has proven a ruthless paymaster. Some believe that people are afraid of the Gang Suppression Unit (GSU), whose reach and powers extend far be-yond just the handling of gangs. Then there are those even, who suggest that the people are afraid of the gangs themselves, many of whose members are known to be criminals and who receive regular perks and payoffs from the gov-ernment. All those things might indeed factor in, but the biggest problem in my opinion, is a media engaged in shameful and outright lapdog journalism.

The news media was initially created to serve as a watchdog for the people, but it seems that in Belize, they have strayed far from that original role. The media is now more used to push political

propaganda and steer people’s fo-cus away from the corrupt and “dis-tasteful” ways of this administra-tion. The media plays a significant and important role and have created some powerful personalities in our society. People who author Thom-as Carlyle suggest have “a tongue which others will listen to”.

Men like Evan X Hyde and Jules Vasquez play with facts and use subterfuge and duplicities to influ-ence the opinions and response of the masses. We rely on these per-sonalities to provide us with news and informative commentary but much of what we get is covert pro-paganda. When media moguls sell

out to business or political interest, then the people are led astray and are left lacking of the vital informa-tion necessary to form rational and informed opinions. Carlyle wrote exhaustingly about this topic and pointed out that the press influenc-es opinions, shapes the will of the people and even quite often deter-mines the outcome of elections. The Amanadala publisher can often be read bragging about how many elections he has influenced and of-fers proof to substantiate his claim.

The dif-ference be-tween today and 2005 is not so much about the level of wrong that is being per-petrated but much more so about the degree and type of cover-age given to these corrupt acts. Back in 2005, com-m u n i c a t i o n lines were left open, gloves were taken off and

public dissent was encouraged. To-day, very serious acts of corruption surface but instead of discussing these on the talk shows, we have guests talking about computer com-ponents or some fabulous deal at Courts. “Sorry folks, the telephone lines are closed” or “We are not dis-cussing that issue today”.

Last week’s Amandala editorial was about the danger of pesticides. Now that is a relevant issue but back in 2005, that would have been dis-cussed in small print way in the back of the newspaper. The headlines and editorials back then consistently hammered at the personalities and deeds of our leaders. The unions were being called out and the peo-ple were made to feel silly and guilty about not protesting and being in-volved. Now my intent is not to jus-tify anything that went wrong back them but let’s be fair; if it was a fever back then, it is a case of full blown pneumonia at this point.

I think that a major reason why the media was so hostile to the PUP back then was the decision to dis-

continue the subvention program. In the first PUP term and before, all media houses received thousands of dollars each month to do public service announcements. Very few public service announcements were ever aired and it was obvious what the money was really for. The gov-ernment realized that it was un-sustainable and made a decision to discontinue the practice. That more than anything else, in my opinion, signaled an open season against

the then administration and the rest, as they say, is history.

While the UDP has not re-instituted the subventions, they have found a much better way to buy good spin and publicity. By owning the utility companies of BTL, BEL and BWSL, being in control of Social Security and having major shares and influ-ence in big companies like citrus and sugar, the government has control over a lot of advertising spending. Add to that the nu-merous and expensive political ads that air several times every day and that are paid for by pub-lic funds and we have millions being funneled to these media house each year. That kind of money buys a whole lot of puff-ery.

Of course, not every media outlet receives this generous consideration and you can ask Channel Five or Plus Television. In a televised interview giv-en last week, Minister Boots Martinez was seen lambasting

Channel Five for daring to question him about taxpayers’ money that he was doling out to political supporters. According to Martinez, he had a ma-jor issue with this me-dia house because they refused to put a “posi-tive spin” on the issues. Is this really what these politicians think that the media is supposed to be doing?

With his government be-set by scandals, Dean Barrow seems more concerned with feeding the media than weeding out corruption. Instead of the media being a “fourth estate”, it seems more a “fourth branch” of our government. We need a watchdog, not a lapdog and the people need to be told the truth. After all, it is the truth that shall set us free! May GOD bless Be-lize!



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A tiny pacemaker like this one was placed in a rabbit and powered wirelessly from

outside its body (Image: Alexander J. Yeh)

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Wireless energy powers pacemaker in live rabbit

19 May 2014 by Aviva RutkinThere’s electricity in the air. A rab-

bit’s beating heart has been regulated using a tiny pacemaker that beams in energy from outside its body. It is the first time this kind of wireless energy transfer has been demonstrated in a living animal. If such wirelessly pow-ered medical implants can work in people too, it would reduce the seri-ousness of the procedures required to get them fitted.

“Our device is small, so it will be much easier to deliver into the body,” says Ada Poon of Stanford University in California, who led the team that im-planted the tiny pacemaker.

Being fitted with a pacemaker currently requires surgery plus an-other operation when the battery eventually runs down. So Poon and her colleagues outfitted a rabbit with a pacemaker that has no battery and is just 3 millimetres long (see picture, above right). A metal plate, powered only by a cellphone battery, was then held a couple of centimetres above the rabbit’s chest.

Body boostThe plate transmit-

ted 2000 microwatts to the pacemaker via elec-tromagnetic waves. The pacemaker was then able to regulate the rabbit’s heartbeat, and delivered safe lev-els of energy to the surrounding tissue.

Such “near-field energy transmission” was previously con-sidered too weak to power devices that are small or placed deep-ly in the body. To get

“I think that amongst the solutions that are proposed to power an implant, this is going to be the most reliable,” says Patrick Mercier at the University of California, San Diego, who works on wireless power for implants. He says that when the Stanford team first shared their unusual power scheme, many in the field were surprised. Be-cause of the high frequencies involved,

no one had thought to try this meth-od.

Skin patchPoon’s team also found that their

device worked in tests with pig tis-sue, delivering energy to implants placed in samples of pig hearts and brains. The team is now launching a company, Vivonda Medical, to adapt the technology for use in humans. That will include more practical alter-natives to the metal plate, perhaps delivering energy via a patch on the skin.

Robert Puers at the Catholic Uni-versity of Leuven (KUL), Belgium, isn’t convinced that the technique makes sense for crucial medical devices like pacemakers. “These devices, being life-supporting, should not depend on the presence of an external powering device,” he says.

Poon’s team also plans to adapt their technology for other types of implants, such as neurostimulators which are implanted in the brain to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.

Fans’ World Cup trip could be dampened

by dengue

around this problem, Poon’s team de-signed the plate to emit electromagnetic radiation in a directed beam towards the implant. They also used the rabbit’s own body tissue to help deliver the signal: the radiation is of a high frequency that propagates particularly well in animal tissue, allowing it to pass further into the body without losing much energy into the tissue or causing damage.

20 May 2014 by Catherine de Lange

Travelling to Brazil for the World Cup? Then pack some mosquito repellent. Football fans have been warned of potential outbreaks of den-gue fever in Brazil during the competition.

Rachel Lowe at the Cat-alan Institute of Climate Sci-ences in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues have devel-oped the first early warning system for the virus. They analysed variables including

rainfall, temperature and popula-tion in the 12 cities that are hosting matches during the tournament. Although most posed little risk of dengue, they found a high risk of the disease in three of the host cit-ies – Natal, Fortaleza and Recife, all in the north-east of Brazil.

The team predict that some fans will catch the virus, which is spread via mosquito bites. Brazil re-ported 1.4 million dengue cases last year. Symptoms include extreme tiredness, severe pain behind the eyes, fever, diarrhoea and a rash. In very rare cases it can be fatal.

There is currently no ap-proved vaccine for the disease or a cure, so visitors should protect themselves by wearing mosqui-to repellent and booking rooms with air-conditioning. Even if

people return home with den-gue, it’s unlikely that they will spread it as most won’t live in places where the carrier mosquito is endemic, the re-searchers say.

Won’t be so much fun with dengue (Image: AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)



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