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In the second PUP administration Prime Minister came to EditorialEditorial 1998 to 2003, this time under Said office vowing not to commit Musa as Price was forced out in the errors of the two previous No Turning Back 1996, along with the UDP Administrations: NO Formed on September 27, newcomer Derek Aikman who unelected senator Ralph Fonseca RETRENCHMENT and NO NEW 1973 the United Democratic Party would become the youngest member financed the economy by selling all our TAXES. (UDP) is this week engaged in of the led UDP national assets under the guise of The current Dean Barrow activities commemorating the Government. privatization. Our electricity, water administration, into its second 41st anniversary of the formation Having served as government and telephone companies were consecutive term in office, is neither of the party. going on to four terms in post packaged and sold to private selling our passports nor our national The UDP was birthed through the Independence Belize, the UDP is interests. Our airport and seaport assets. In fact our telecommunications amalgamation of the Phillip Goldson currently serving its first back to back were sold. The prison was privatized. and electricity companies have been led National Independence Party terms in office in post independent The government printing service was renationalized. Our water company is (NIP), Dean Lindo’s People’s Belize. privatized. The International Ship now government majority owned. Development Movement (PDM) and The PUP has served three terms in registry and the International Business A sitting Minister of government the Liberal Party founded by Manuel government in post independent Belize Company registry was privately was sacked on allegations of Esquivel, Curl Thompson, Henry as follows: 1989 to 1993 under the owned and operated, among others. engaging in selling a single passport. “Pa Hen” Young, Harrison “Sir leadership of . In the third PUP administration Prime Minister Barrow moved Harry” Lawrence and Nestor Then between 1998 and 2003 under again under Said Musa, the economy promptly to renationalize our public “Net” Vasquez. Said Musa who was reelected to was financed through unrestrained utilities. First to be renationalized was Eleven years after its formation the serve a second consecutive term borrowing resulting in the creation of the telephone company in 2009 UDP made history, in December 1984 between 2003 and 2008. that monster known as the infamous followed by the electricity company when it defeated the George Price In the first administration the PUP, 2 Billion dollar Super Bond. Forced in 2010 and the international ship led People’s United Party (PUP) in under George Price, financed the to use borrowed monies to meet registry in 2011. the first general elections after the economy through the bucket sale of recurrent expenditure, including the The dreaded super bond has been September 21, 1981 attainment of our passports. The scandalous sale of salaries and wages of public officers, successfully renegotiated. Belize’s political independence from our national identity was so troubling the nation’s infrastructure was Public officers have received 9% Great Britain. that, combined with the terrible state neglected and no new project was increase in salaries with more to come. History was also made in the 1984 of the national economy, George implemented. Two billion dollars No new taxes have been general election when the undefeated Price was forced to call election in were borrowed and spent and the introduced. Premier/newly appointed Prime 1993, a full 16 months before it was PUP had nothing to show for it. The nation is undergoing Minister, George Cadle Price was constitutionally due. The UDP The UDP was reelected to unprecedented development. defeated in the Freetown won those elections by a margin of government in 2008 with Dean The difference is as clear as day is Constituency by the young political 21 to 7. Barrow as the leader of the party. to night. SHOPPERS’SHOPPERS’ CHOICECHOICE September sale!!! We sell: Digicell & Smart phones, Laptops. Kitchen Appliances. Cosmetics.School shoes Furniture (wardrobes, kitchen cabinets, bed & matress, chest of drawers, entertainment center. ) LCD TV’S. Window & Split AC Units. Washing Machines. Stoves. Refrigerators. Stoves. Bicycles. Motorcycles. Etc...

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told the police that when he was able Neri Lopez Injured In Traffic Accident to refocus he saw a male person without shirt staggering across the SANTA ELENA TOWN, Cayo, on the George Price Highway on saw an unconscious male Hispanic highway. His attempt to swerve away Wednesday, September 24, 2014: Saturday, September 20, the eve of person, bleeding from the mouth, from the staggering man reportedly Santa Elena resident, Neri Lopez, our nation’s independence. lying on his back in front of a blue failed, resulting in him knocking down today remains at the Karl Huesner Acting on a report of a road traffic Mazda Tribute SUV bearing l/p SI the man who was later identified as Memorial Hospital in a critical accident, San Ignacio police visited C-03191, with a dent on the right side Neri Lopez. The injured man was first condition after he was knocked down the scene in Santa Elena, where they of the bonnet. transported to the community The driver of the Mazda Tribute, hospital in San Ignacio and later Independence Day Miguel Millian, 25, Belizean of a transported to the Karl Huesner address, told the police that Memorial Hospital in Belize City Murder In Los Tambos he was traveling from San Ignacio to where he is listed in stable but critical LOS TAMBOS VILLAGE, the Santa Cruz area of Santa Elena condition. CAYO, Sunday, September 21, when a vehicle was coming in the Millian has since been issued with a 2014: opposite direction with its high beam notice of intended prosecution as the San Ignacio police is investigating on, temporarily blurring his vision. He investigation continues. the case of a shooting death in the mainly Hispanic community of Los Tambos, Cayo. The initial investigation revealed that the deceased, Manuel Ramos, 27, Guatemalan naturalized Belizean and his common-law wife, Alba Luz Moralez, 36, were reportedly relaxing out under a shed when several gunshots rang out. Ramos fell to the ground dead and was later found with gunshot injuries to the Manuel Ramos chest, arm and chin, and died on the Hernandez as “Traumatic asphyxia spot. The common law wife emerged due to injuries to the left lung and with a gunshot wound to the leg. trachea resulting from gunshot Ramos and Moralez were injury of body and chest”. transported to the Western Regional As the investigation continues, Hospital where Ramos was officially police are asking anyone with pronounced dead while Moralez was information that can assist in the treated and later released. investigation to please call San Ignacio The mandatory post mortem police toll free at 911 or 804-2022. examination certified the cause of Investigators inform that all calls will death of Manuel de Jesus Ramos be held in the strictest of confidence.

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Galen University is proud to Galen University Appoints Dr. Cynthia acknowledge Dr. Aird for her valuable contributions in the development of higher education Eve Aird As Provost Of The University in Belize. We stand committed to Provost of the University. Dr. Aird served in the capacity of President of working closely with her in earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum, ATLIB from 2008 to 2012. Dr. Aird providing the entire student body of Instruction and Administration was a founding member of the Galen, with the highest possible with a minor in Higher Education Belize Board of Teacher Education caliber of education toempower from Boston College, Boston, (BBTE), serving for three terms with and prepare students for the future. MA. Dr. Aird is a skilled and two as the Vice Chair of the Board. The appointment of Dr. Aird will dedicated educator and is currently Dr. Eve Aird was also a founding become effective on December President of Sacred Heart College, faculty member of Galen University, 1, 2014. Cayo. serving from 2003 until 2008 as an In the meantime, we would like to With over twenty (20) years Associate Professor in Curriculum, take this opportunity to congratulate experience in the education sector, Dr. Instruction, and Media. As a trained and thank Mr. Raul Avila for his Aird developed a professional professional, Dr. Aird researched, outstanding contributions to Galen Dr. Cynthia Eve Aird network amongst her colleagues in wrote, and presented locally, University as Interim Provost. We CENTRAL FARM, Cayo District the Association of Tertiary Level regionally, and internationally on look forward to work with him in his Galen University is pleased to Institutions of Belize (ATLIB), and the themes of higher education new capacity as Senior Academic/ announce the appointment of Dr. the Consortium for Belize Educational in developing countries; including Administrative Officer at the Cynthia Eve Aird, to the position of Cooperation (COBEC). She has Belize. university.

September 1990, in San Ignacio Youth Invitational Karate Championships Town, and have trained hundreds of The Cayo Shotokan Karate Club Saturday, 27th September, 2014, athletes will be competing against youths from the twin towns of San in conjunction with the Belize Karate 9am to 4pm, Sacred Heart College visiting athletes from El Salvador and Ignacio and Santa Elena. The CSKC Federation is hereby inviting the Auditorium, San Ignacio Town. This Guatemala. now has its permanent headquarters general public to attend and witness event will be held in commemoration The Cayo Shotokan Karate Club at 1b, Joseph Andrews Drive, San the Youth Invitational Karate with the Cayo Shotokan Karate (CSKC) was founded by Sensei, Ignacio Town, and also has a branch Championships, to be held this Club's 24th Anniversary. Belize Herman Pastor Jr on the 24th in Belmopan. Sunday, September 28, 2014 - STAR - Tels: 626-8822 & 804-4900 - Email:[email protected] Page 5 (both Government and NGO’S) in combating instances of abuse against Opening Address for Senior Citizen’s Week Older Persons. It is my hope that BY: Sr. Elsa Oliva, SAC- HelpAge and services offered to our Older understand that there is a need to renewed efforts will be taken up by Belize Patroness Citizens both on the family and address the Older Population, whose these agencies to review and re-f ocus The theme for this year’s Senior community level. Several Senior global population will grow to twenty their strategies in the fight against Citizen’s week is “LEAVING NO citizens have been murdered over the percent (1.4 Billion) by 2030. By elderly abuse. ONE BEHIND: PROMOTING A past weeks. We are also very 2030, there will be more people over I would like to take this SOCIETY FOR ALL” familiar with the scenario where an 60 than children under 10, with the opportunity to ask God’s blessing, The last week of September older lady or man who boards a most rapid change in age structures and extend our gratitude on the leading up to the 1st of October, the crowded public transport and is occurring in the developing countries Government, the private agencies and official International Day of Older unable to get a seat even though many If our ambition is to “Build the individuals who contribute so Persons, is designated to celebrate of these seats are occupied by young Future We want,” we must address generously to make our programs and and honor Senior Citizens. HelpAge and able-bodied men and women. concerns of this Population, we must projects possible; to the volunteers Belize has set aside this week to “How many of us have offered a increase our present efforts in all over the country who give their review the progress made or lack helping hand to an older person advocating for the rights of Older time, energy and talents in aid of the thereof and to re-strategize if crossing the road?” Persons in all spheres of their lives. elderly. necessary improve the effectiveness At the family level, we are also The issue of protection for Older In conclusion, I would like to and end results of the various aware of the scenario in which Persons is not limited to just their extend greetings and best wishes to programs and projects that we have “granny” is kept in a little back room protection from crime and violence each and every Older Person in implemented to benefit our older all by herself and is rarely seen or heard but includes protection from mental Belize as we celebrate SENIOR persons in Belize. from. In all these cases the older and financial abuse. While we are CITIZENS WEEK 2014. May God Our Society has a lot to be desired person is being disrespected. cognizant of the work that is presently Continue to bless you and yours and in regards to the respect, protection HelpAge Belize and its partners being done by a number of agencies bless Belize. Thank you!! event. Participation means contacting The 100 Thousand Poets For Change the media, posting the event on the web, in calendars, newspapers, etc., reading poems, doing a concert, Movement For Peace & Sustainability performing in general, supplying cupcakes and beer (it’s up to you), demonstrating, putting up an information table, inviting guest speakers, musicians, etc., organizing an art exhibit, and documenting the event (this is important, too), and cleaning up, of course. Organizers and participants will create their own local event as an expression of who they are locally. Do they want a a concert or a jam session, candlelight vigil or a circus, a march or a dance, poetry reading in a cafe or on the subway, do they want absolute silence, a group meditation on a main street; it’s up to the local organization. However, groups should try to hold some part of the event, if not all of it, outdoors, in public view (not required). The point is to be seen and heard, not just stay behind closed walls. It is also important that the event be documented. Photos, audio, videos, poems, journals, BY: Barrington Castillo alienated in recent years. We hardly events. Peace also seems to be a paintings! Documentation is Do you want to join other poets, know our neighbors down the street common cause. War is not crucial. The rest of the 100 Thousand musicians, and artists around the let alone our creative allies who live sustainable. There is an increasing Poets for Change want to hear planet in a celebration to promote and share our concerns in other sense that we need to move forward what you have to say about change peace and sustainability and to call for countries. We need to feel this kind and stop moving backwards. But and enjoy your creativity too! serious social and environmental of global solidarity. It will be we are not trying not to be dogmatic. The documentation will be shared change empowering. We hope that together we can through a blog/website that I will set 1) What kind of a change are we And of course there is the political/ develop our ideas of the “change/ up, a blog/website where groups can talking about? social change that many of us are transformation” we are looking for share and announce event information, 2) I want to organize in my area. talking about these days. There is as a global community , and that each as well as post photos, videos, How do we begin to organize? trouble in the world. Wars, violation local community group will decide poetry, art, and thoughts. But an event “What kind of CHANGE are we of human rights, ecocide, racism, their own specific area of focus for doesn’t have to involve tons of talking about?” genocide, gender inequality, change for their particular event. people. It can be just you (the The first order of change is for homelessness, the lack of affordable All we ask is that local communities organizer) and your pet, on a street poets, writers, musicians, artists, medical care, police brutality, organize events about change within corner, with a sign. Just let me know activists to get together to create and religious persecution, poverty, the guidelines of peace and what you are planning! perform, educate and demonstrate, censorship, animal cruelty, the list sustainability. Every effort counts! simultaneously, with other goes on and on. If you are an organizer for your Each local organization determines communities around the world. This It appears that transformation community this means that first you what it wants to focus on, something will change how we see our local towards a more sustainable world is will consider a location for the event broad like, peace, sustainability, community and the global community. a major concern and could be a and begin to contact people in your justice, equality, or more specific We have all become incredibly global guiding principle for 100 TPC area who want to participate in the Continued On Page 14 Page 6 - STAR - Tels: 626-8822 & 804-4900 - Email:[email protected] - Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Children’s Friend “Then were there brought unto remember his father’s acts and words, him little children, that he should and the remembrance would support Living with Unfulfilled Desires put his hands on them, and pray.” him: “No; am I not the boy who was - Matt 19:13 kissed and blessed and given to Contributed by: Janice Swift created you. He has good plans for Those children must have been God?” Written by: Mary Whelchel you, not disaster. You can let go of glad in after days to remember that In the stress of life his mind at last It can be a great puzzle to us when your desires, give him permission to Jesus had laid His hands upon their gave way, and he spent years in the we can't understand why God hasn't change them, and be absolutely heads and blessed them. Sometimes gloomy apartments of an insane done what seems to us so important confident that if he does, you will not the remembrance even of a human asylum. And thence in his brighter and so good. lose, you will gain! hand laid on the head in childhood moments he would write to his Have you ever thought about the Many times we miss God's richest stays all through life, and is a daughter: “Here I am shut away fact that God may want to change blessings to us because we refuse to benediction. and very lonely. I have no one to your desire and then fulfill it? God says even think about changing our desires. A Christian man said late in his life sing to me as you used to do,— he'll give us the desires of our hearts, I know you believe it's impossible for that he could still feel the touch of his ‘Jesus, lover of my soul,’ but that may mean that he changes your unfulfilled desire to change, but dying mother’s hand on his head as or those desires first. When you think just be willing to let God do it if that is she bade him farewell and asked him ‘Rock of Ages, cleft for me.’— about it, what difference does it make? his will. When you do that, you've to promise to follow Christ. A boy was It seems very dark and hard; but If your desires are changed and then relinquished it and now the monkey brought to his father’s bedside, and yet I am the boy that was kissed fulfilled, you're a fulfilled person. But is off your back. And please believe was “kissed and blessed and given and blessed and given to God.” many times we're unwilling to allow me; God is quite capable of changing to God.” All through his youth, when Thus all through his life he was him to change us. you and your desires, beyond your there came any temptation to do sustained and strengthened by the We single women tend to do that. wildest dreams. wrong, the thought would come, “No, remembrance of his father’s last We have this enormous unfulfilled and Then, sometimes our desires go I must not do this, for I am the boy blessing. 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serious pastoral reasons". Paraguay Bishop Livieres It also said that the move followed a Vatican investigation of the bishop, the diocese and its seminaries. Sacked Over 'Abuse Cover-up' The BBC's David Willey in Rome says that the Rt Rv Livieres Plano has The Right Reverend Rogelio been at the centre of a local dispute Livieres Plano has been dismissed over the promotion of an Argentine as bishop of the diocese of Ciudad priest accused of inappropriate sexual del Este behaviour. Pope Francis has sacked a Our correspondent says that Pope Paraguayan bishop who has been Francis has insisted there be no accused of protecting a priest privileges for bishops when it comes suspected of sexually abusing young to sex crimes against children. parishioners. The Rt Rv Livieres Plano is a The Vatican said that "the Holy member of the conservative Opus Dei Father has decided to replace movement and is reported to have Monsignor Rogelio Livieres clashed with more progressive Plano" as bishop of Ciudad del Este. members of his diocese. It is the second time in a week that Church prosecutors have dealt with Pope Francis has taken disciplinary some 3,500 abuse cases worldwide action over clerical sex abuse during the past decade. scandals in Latin America. Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano walks to church in Pope Francis has pledged a He has promised "zero Ciudad del Este, Paraguay on 25 July 2014 crackdown on clerics and employees tolerance". Dominican Republic. to the reasons behind the sacking of of the Church who exploit minors, Two days ago, the Pope ordered 'Painful decision' the Right Reverend Livieres Plano as comparing their actions to a the arrest of a senior Vatican The Vatican statement only referred a "painful decision taken for "satanic mass". diplomat, Jozef Wesolowski, accused of the sexual abuse of children during a posting to the Don’t Be A Litter Bug!!!

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In changes in the respiratory system, primarily affects the nose. Symptoms children. The cough is usually mild total over 200 different viral types are decreased immune response, and low include coughing, sore throat, runny compared to that accompanying associated with colds. humidity increasing viral transmission nose, sneezing, and fever which influenza. While a cough and a fever Transmission rates, perhaps due to dry air allowing usually resolve in seven to ten days, indicate a higher likelihood of The common cold virus is typically small viral droplets to disperse farther with some symptoms lasting up to influenza in adults, a great deal of transmitted via airborne droplets and stay in the air longer. It may be three weeks. Well over 200 virus similarity exists between these two (aerosols), direct contact with due to social factors, such as people strains are implicated in the cause of conditions. A number of the viruses infected nasal secretions, or fomites spending more time indoors, near the common cold; the rhinoviruses are that cause the common cold may (contaminated objects). Which of an infected person, and specifically the most common. also result in asymptomatic these routes is of primary importance children at school. There is some Upper respiratory tract infections infections. The color of the sputum or has not been determined; however, controversy over the role of low are loosely divided by the areas nasal secretion may vary from clear hand-to-hand and hand-to-surface- body temperature as a risk factor they affect, with the common cold to yellow to green and does not to-hand contact seems of more for the common cold; the majority primarily affecting the nose, the throat indicate the class of agent causing the importance than transmission via of the evidence suggests that it (pharyngitis), and the sinuses infection. aerosols. The viruses may survive for may result in greater susceptibility (sinusitis), occasionally involving Progression prolonged periods in the environment to infection. either or both eyes via conjunctivitis. A cold usually begins with fatigue, a (over 18 hours for rhinoviruses) Other Symptoms are mostly due to the feeling of being chilled, sneezing and and can be picked up by people's Herd immunity, generated from body's immune response to the a headache, followed in a couple of hands and subsequently carried to previous exposure to cold viruses, infection rather than to tissue days by a runny nose and cough. their eyes or nose where infection plays an important role in limiting destruction by the viruses themselves. Symptoms may begin within 16 hours occurs. Transmission is common in viral spread, as seen with younger The primary method of prevention is of exposure and typically peak two daycare and at school due to the populations that have greater rates of by hand washing with some evidence to four days after onset. They usually proximity of many children with little respiratory infections. Poor immune to support the effectiveness of resolve in seven to ten days but some immunity and frequently poor function is also a risk factor for wearing face masks. The common can last for up to three weeks. The hygiene. These infections are then disease. Insufficient sleep and cold may occasionally lead to average duration of cough is 18 days brought home to other members of malnutrition have been associated pneumonia, either viral pneumonia or and in some cases people develop a the family. There is no evidence that with a greater risk of developing secondary bacterial pneumonia. post-viral cough which can linger recirculated air during commercial infection following rhinovirus No cure for the common cold after the infection is gone. In children, flight is a method of transmission. exposure; this is believed to be due exists, but the symptoms can be the cough lasts for more than ten However, people sitting in close to their effects on immune treated. It is the most frequent days in 35–40% of the cases and proximity appear at greater risk. function. Breast feeding decreases the infectious disease in humans with the continues for more than 25 days in Rhinovirus-caused colds are most risk of acute otitis media and lower average adult getting two to three 10%. infectious during the first three days respiratory tract infections among colds a year and the average child Cause of symptoms; they are much less other diseases and it is recommended getting between six and twelve. These Coronaviruses are a group of infectious afterwards. that breast feeding be continued when infections have been with humanity viruses known for causing the Weather an infant has a cold. In the developed since antiquity. common cold. They have a halo, or The traditional folk theory is that a world breast feeding may not Signs and Symptoms crown-like (corona) appearance cold can be "caught" by prolonged however be protective against the The typical symptoms of a cold when viewed under an electron exposure to cold weather such as rain common cold in and of itself. include cough, runny nose, nasal microscope. congestion and a sore throat, The common cold is a viral sometimes accompanied by muscle infection of the upper respiratory WANTED ache, fatigue, headache, and loss of tract. The most commonly implicated appetite. A sore throat is present in virus is a rhinovirus (30–80%), a type By Orange Walk Police

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