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Sunday, August 16, 2009 - STAR - Tel:- 626-8822 & 626-3788 - Email:[email protected] - Page 1 *With FREE Insurance & License For An Entire Year!!!! *STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR* STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR *STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR8*8TAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR*STAR* No.No.No. 151151197 Sunday, August SUNDAY,SUNDAY, 16, MAYMAY2009 11,11, 20082008 PricePrice $1.00$1.00 Ignacio town. I picked them up the females sat in the back seat near the Woodland Resort in of the car. SANTA ELENA TOWN, Benque Viejo Town, Cayo. On Benque. I also picked up two I dropped off the first female Cayo, Wednesday, August 12, July 21, 2009 at around 5:00 female passengers in Benque passenger in Succotz and 2009: p.m., my services was requested Viejo Town. One of them was requested for the other female Jose Guerra states: “I am a to transport two male persons traveling to the village of San to take up the front seat vacated Belizean taxi driver living in from Benque Viejo to San Jose Succotz and the other was by the first passenger in order heading to San Ignacio, the to make the ride to San Ignacio two male persons and one of Please Turn To Page 15 Five of the seven members of Belize’s new Integrity Commission: (L-R) Chairman: Mr. Bernard Q Pitts Commissioners: Ms. Armead Gabourel, Mr. Dean Lindo QC, Mrs. Maria Fernandez Stuart and Mr. George Swift BELMOPAN CITY, Cayo, Integrity Commission was held Tuesday, August 11, 2009: on Tuesday, August 11at the Official swearing and a Commission’s Secretariat, 3rd familarization meeting of the Please Turn To Page 15 Jose Guerra, Belizean Taxi Driver Comfortable & Secure Accommodations Full Service Restaurant & Bar Swimming Pool Conference Facilities Excellent Venue for Weddings, Parties and Social Events Santa Elena, Cayo, Belize www.aguadahotel.com [email protected] 011-501-804-3609 “We’re not Expensive, We just look that Way!” Page 2 - STAR - Tel:- 626-8822 & 626-3788 - Email:[email protected] - Sunday, August 16, 2009 Dishonesty In The Handling Of Fuel We take time out this week to congratulate the Mayor of Benque Viejo Town, His Worship Nicholas Ruiz for taking swift and decisive action against an employee of the Council who was found to be engaged in dishonest fuel transactions at the expense of the council and taxpayers of the municipality, by extension. The main factor fostering the perpetuation of dishonesty in any organization is when the person at the helm likewise engages in dishonesty and therefore lacks the moral fiber to take corrective action due to the risk of being exposed. When the “boss” is stealing, everybody steals, and corruption flourishes while, in the public sector, the masses perish with increased taxation to satisfy the greed of the dishonest as the provision of essential goods and services to the wider community is severely curtailed. It is no secret that the dishonest handling of fuel is a major cancer affecting MANY government Departments and this week to congratulate Mayor Nicholasito Ruiz for Ministries. It is also widespread within the private sector. doing his part to protect the interest of the community he However, unlike Mayor Ruiz many of these Heads of serves notwithstanding that the employee in question is Departments and Managers have their hands so deep inside closely related to a serving member of that western Town the cookie jar that they become impotent in taking corrective Council. action to stem the cancer. We likewise take this opportunity to inform STAR We would therefore be remiss if we did not take time out Readers and Advertisers that we will be proceeding on 14 days vacation for much needed rest and relaxation. We will be returning on August 31. The next edition of the STAR Newspapers will be distributed on September 4. Corozal /Orange Walk Districts Sugar and Feeder Roads Rehabilitation Project – Lot “C” Tender Publication No.: EU/SUGAR/2009/OWC/C The Government of Belize intends to award a works contract for the rehabilitation of the following three feeder/sugar roads in the Corozal District with financial assistance from the European Union: 1. Little Belize - Chunox Road (for a length of 8.7 miles or 13.93 km) 2. Progresso - Little Belize Road (for a length of 1.9 miles or 3.05 km) 3. Progresso - Copper Bank Road (for a length of 8.6 miles or 13.77 km) The tender dossier is available for inspection at the following address: Project Execution Unit Ministry of Works Power Lane Belmopan Belize Tel: +501-822-0562 Fax: +501-822-0563 Email: [email protected] The deadline for submission of tenders is 28th September 2009 at 10:00 am local time. Possible additional information or clarifications/questions shall be published on the EuropeAid website: http:// ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/index_en.htm and will be communicated in writing to all tenderers. Sunday, August 16, 2009 - STAR - Tel:- 626-8822 & 626-3788 - Email:[email protected] - Page 3 Belmopan area. Officer Commanding Cayo SAN IGNACIO TOWN, Cayo (Police) District, Sr. Supt. Paul Thursday, August 13, 2009: Wade welcomes the additional San Ignacio Police now have vehicle which he said will a new addition to their fleet of enhance the Detachment’s vehicles. ability to respond to calls for A new, black, 2009 Toytoa assistance. Hilux, double cab, four wheel, standard transmission pickup truck today made its grand entrance into town. The new vehicle, one of five recent additions to the national fleet, was purchased from Belize Diesel and Equipment Company. Four of the vehicles were Sr. Supt. Paul Wade posing with the new Toyota Hilux purchased by the Government of Limited. two were dispatched to Belize Belize and the fifth was donated In addition to the one assigned City’s Eastern Division, and the HAPPY HOUR by Belize Natural Energy to the San Ignacio formation, other two are for use in the Mon. to Fri. 5 to 7 P.M Monday: Draft Beer -$2.50 BELMOPAN CITY, Cayo, as Mathematics, Geography, develop their skills in the Tuesday: Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Natural Sciences, History and Spanish language. Local Rum -$2.50 More than 1,000 books were Spanish. For many years, the Mexicvan Wednesday: Margaritas $6.95 today donated by the Mexican A release from the Mexican government has been donating Thursday: government to schools in Belize. Embassy informs that the aim of book to Belizean schools Piña Colada -$6.95 Twenty primary schools in the the Mexican government is to through the Free Text Books Friday: Corozal District will each provide students and teachers National Commission of Mexico Micheladas -$3.50 receive a complete set of more with support material that can (Conaliteg) geared towards than 50 books. contribute to their performance, increasing cooperation in Tel: 501-824-2730 The collection, all in Spanish, and which can be used as tools education and culture between E-mail: [email protected] covers subect areas such for those students who wish to both countries. Web: Rolsons.com Page 4 - STAR - Tel:- 626-8822 & 626-3788 - Email:[email protected] - Sunday, August 16, 2009 During his long legal career, The Honorable Justice Denys Barrow has held several judicial appointments. Between 2000 and 2005 he has acted as a High Court Judge in St. Lucia, Grenada and the British Virgin Islands. He was also appointed as an acting Judge of Supreme Court of Belize in 2004. More recently, he was a Justice of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court from 2005 to 2008. As is required by the Constitution of Belize, Justice Barrow’s appointment as a Judge of Belize’s Court of Appeal was approved by the Senate at a special sitting held on Thursday, August 6 2009. The Honorable Justice Denys Barrow will be taking over from Justice Boyd Carey who will be retiring in October of this year with the coming to an end of this year’s session of the Court of Governor General Sir Colville Young (R) was the first to congratulate Belize’s new Appeal. Judge of the Court of Appeal, The Honorable Justice Denys Barrow (L), brother of The other three serving the Hon. Prime Minister Dean Barrow Judges of the Court of Appeal BELIZE HOUSE, Belmopan, School in Jamaica. its prestigious “CUSTOS are its President, the Honorable August 10, 2009. Fresh out of law school he JUSTITIAE AWARD” for Justice Elliot Motley The Government Press Office teamed up with Attorney outstanding contribution to (Barbados), the Honorable informed that Mr. Denys Ernest Staine and for 17 years the legal profession and for Justice Manual Sosa (Belize) Barrow SC was today formally he practiced under the business “excellence in the practice and the Honorable Justice appointed as a Resident Judge of name “Staine and Barrow”. of law”. Dennis Morrison (Jamaica). the Belize Court of Appeal. In 1994 the “Staine and The 10:30 a.m swearing in Barrow” partnership was ceremony by the Governor- dissolved giving birth to SAN IGNACIO TOWN, Cayo, complexion who threatened her, General Sir Colville Young, was “Barrow & Co” with Justice Wednesday, August 12, 2009: force her inside the bathroom held at the Belize House in Denys Barrow as the senior San Ignacio Police are and raped her. Belmopan in the presence of the partner. investigating the reported raping She was issued with a pair of Honorable Prime Minister, During his lustrous legal of a 23 year old female of Santa medico-legal forms and escorted Dean Barrow, and other career Justice Barrow served Elena Town, Cayo.