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Sunday, July 13, 2014 - STAR - Tels: 626-8822 & 804-4900 - Email:[email protected] Page 1 *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. 151 405 Sunday, SUNDAY, July 13, MAY 2014 11, 2008 Price Price $1.00 $1.00 A Five Year Old Case Finally Concluded SAN IGNACIO, Cayo, Tuesday, San Antonio Village to San father in law Albert Woodye. July 8, 2014: Ignacio town loaded with Under caution Rivera told the Five years after the vacation suspected stolen goods. A team police that he had gone with house of a Belizean engineer was of policemen headed towards Woodye to get the items from a cleaned out by burglars and San Antonio Village. The police house in the Mountain Pine destroyed by fire, the case came upon the van on the road Ridge. He said that after loading finally ended today with the between San Antonio Village and the van and they were departing, incarceration of one, the Cristo Rey Village. The driver Woodye told him to stop the imposition of a fine against complied with the order to stop vehicle. He said that Woodye another and a third suspect still the van, exit the vehicle and to exited the vehicle, walked back to at large. open the back door. The van was the building after which he saw a The case began way back in found packed with plastic chairs, huge flame coming from the February 2009 when Godwin a brown sofa, a folding table, building as Woodye returned to Sutherland’s vacation house in floor tiles and other construction the van for the journey to Santa the Mountain Pine Ridge area was materials. The driver, identified Familia. burglarized and destroyed by fire. as Rene Rivera, 26 at the time, The investigation later led to The Victim Police received information at told the police that he is a Woodye’s house as well as the Eng. Godwin Sutherland around 9:00 pm on February 23, Belizean mechanic residing in home of one Gabriel Martin 2009 of a grey van heading from Santa Familia Village, Cayo. RestRivera was accompanied In by his PeacePlease Turn To Page 15 Ambassador Belmopan. July 9, 2014. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs regrets to announce the passing of Senior Ambassador H.E. Alfredo Martinez, who was serving as Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala from 2003 to the present. He had also been serving as Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republics of Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. In earlier postings he had served as Non-Resident Ambassador to Venezuela in 1994- 1997, Cuba in 1996-1997, as Non-Resident High Commissioner to Jamaica in 1996-1997. During his tenure in the Diplomatic Service of Belize, Ambassador Martinez served as Belize’s Chief Senior Ambassador negotiator in the Belize/Guatemala H.E. Alfredo Martinez negotiating process and as a His first diplomatic appointment member of the negotiating team for took him to Mexico where he served many years. Please Turn To Page 9 Page 2 - STAR - Tels: 626-8822 & 804-4900 - Email:[email protected] - Sunday, July 13, 2014 enterprise he owned. capital as well as those living in EditorialEditorial A large majority in the House the largest geographical district of Representatives with a corrupt in the land are subjected to the Learning From Past Mistakes leader can result in extreme toxic smoke emanating from If the possibility of a contempt On the down side, a large arrogance where one of them can garbage dump sites perpetually charge was non-existent in terms majority with a leader who, publicly tell the people that it burning. of matters before a court, we himself is engaged in official does not matter how many The negative effects of a larger would have long commented on corruption, will only mean the mistakes he and his government majority with a corrupt leader are the only possible outcome of the presence of a larger group of makes and that the more mistakes real and numerous, the nation criminal proceeding against individuals raping the nation at they make, the harder the must therefore never ever again Elvin Penner. the expense of the masses. Such Belizean people will work to get fall into that trap. What we find interesting in this a situation can easily result in the them out of trouble. The standard of living and the matter is at least two “firsts” that amassing of a large national debt A large majority with a corrupt meaningful development of a it presents in the history of the with nothing to show for it. It can leader can result in the hurling of nation can be realized in an nation. It is the first time that any result in the corrupt giving away insults to the employable among environment where official Prime Minister of Belize has of a nation’s key facilities to us as they do not create jobs corruption is at its lowest level. ever publicly announced the friends and cronies for very little because they publicly accuse us The best combination for this to banning of an area representative or nothing at all. It can lead to the of being lazy thieves. They can happen is by way of the election from ever serving in the party he awarding of bloated contracts to come forward and proudly of a leader of a political party leads. relatives and friends resulting in announce that they don’t need us with the moral fortitude of take It is also the very first time that substandard work like for and that they can go to any of their action against all forms of any serving Area Representative example a bridge that washes offices in Montevideo, Canada corruption among the team he is before a court of law on a away even before a single person and Cayman, where they can leads given a comfortable matter relevant to the ministerial or vehicle passes over it. It can make a lot of money. majority in the house of portfolio that individual held. mean the washing away of a A large majority with a corrupt representatives. If the government would have multi-million dollar bridge on leadership can result in the It was a wise man who once had a larger majority of area the Southern Highway with the collection of an environmental said that a nation who studies not representatives, there would also first flood. It can mean a leaking tax and after a couple years its history, learns not from have been the possibility that this center for the performing arts increasing that tax by 100% mistakes of the past and would have been the first time an which is less than ten years old. without using the funds derived highlights not, to the younger area representative would have It can mean the giving away of therefrom for its intended generation, the errors of the past, been successfully recalled 12,000 acres of land (over purpose while the people living is doomed to a lifetime of triggering a bye-election in the 40,000 house lots) to a single in the nation’s commercial suffering. constituency to which that individual who has no intention individual was elected. of using the land and instead A larger majority of area walks into a bank gets a huge sum representatives for any one of money as mortgage for the political party can either have land and allows the bank to take positive or negative implications ownership of the land. dependent on the integrity of A large majority in the House the leader of that party. 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