Northern STAR -Tel: 629-1308 or 636-1409 - Email: [email protected] - Thursday, February 9, 2012 Page 1 No. 07 Thursday February 9, 2012 Price: $1.00 ORANGE WALK CENTRAL GONE RED! Hon. Gaspar Vega Denny Grijalva Orange Walk Central Con- A sea of red, stormed Or- stituency hundreds of sup- ange Walk Town on Sunday Prime Minister Hon. Dean Barrow porters gathered and waited and flooded the streets of the patiently, braving the hot “Sugar Capital of Belize”. “...you can’t beat people from sun to greet the Prime Min- The Prime Minister Divi- the North when it comes to ister of Belize and the only sional Tour touch-down in Leader of the United Demo- the Orange Walk Central passion, when it comes to a cratic Party in it’s history Constituency and was display of war, when it comes who will lead the U.D.P to greeted by the most massive ~ serve back-to-back or suc- show of support ever seen to carino, amor. No hay mejor. No hay mejor.” cessive terms as the Gov- on this first leg of the P.M. ernment of Belize. Tour. At the entrance of the P.M. Speech Sunday, 5th. Feb. (Continue on pg. 8) ORANGE WALK TEAM ANCHORED BY WOMEN Francine Burns Ivan Leiva Fiona Liu Mazior The United Democratic destined to be the most The team is headed by pursuing a Bachelors Degree Party’s Orange Walk Town innovative and progressive Mayoral Candidate Ivan in Business Administration Board Slate for the up- Town Board Team ever in Lieva who is currently an at Galen University. Ivan coming Town Board Elections the history of Town Boards employee of Santiago Castillo Lieva is humble, honest and is certainly dynamic and in Orange Walk. Group of Companies and is Continue on pg. 7 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com Page 2 - Northern STAR -Tel: 629-1308 or 636-1409 - Email: [email protected] - Thursday, February 9, 2012 Editorial A Huge Vulture Waits! Lake Independence Albert Carribbean Shores Within a span of two weeks three General Elections Candidates for the Opposition Peoples United Party (P.U.P) has either stepped down or flat out resigned from the party. The P.U.P was forced into emergency mode, scrambling within to find Anthony Mahler replacement candidates just Hon. Cordel Hyde Hon. Mark Espat involved in politics”. The weeks before the major thwarted image of what thought was right for the this country simply believes elections. appears to be the P.U.P is the people and country of that Ashcroft owns the fully owned and controlled With only twenty-nine days Belize. It is no secret: I lost P.U.P. Why? Because The employees of a master, that left before the People of many of those battles. My Peoples United Party just huge vulture that is perched Belize cast their votes to absences were often times recently viciously fought on the top of Queen Street’s decide which political party my desperate but sincere the U.D.P Government of Independence Hall waiting will govern the affairs of the attempts at getting the party Belize, tooth and nail simply patiently to see if we the country for the next five to see the error of its ways, to keep B.T.L, a now Public People of Belize would fall years, the resignations of to return to its social justice Utility, under the control of asleep so he can pluck out two of the most popular roots.” Mr. Ashcroft. our very eyes and have his candidates for the way with our carcasses!!! Opposition has sounded the The Peoples United Party This said Mr. Ashcroft is the For those who still have eyes death-bell for the Peoples lost the last General person that Mark Espat let them see! United Party in a definitive Elections miserably. Since questioned his relationships way. then the party has relied on at the time with the now failed attempts to distract former disgraced P.U.P The Northern Star While in the case of Anthony attention to the burdensome Government and referred to Newspaper Mahler who was the first to Super Bond. This Super that relationship as being Publisher: step down, no one expected Bond is a creature of their one of “the puppet master The Northern Star him to win against the well own creation spawned out of and the puppet”. Hench oiled political machinery of the very mismanagement Mark Espat present Newspaper Ltd. Santiago “Santi” Castillo Jr., and entrenched rape of the resignation and divorce Executive Director: Hon Cordel Hyde and Hon. public purse and coupled from the Peoples United Vernon Cutkelvin Mark Espat were considered with the then open Party. Managing Director/ difficult to defeat by even politically sanctioned Belizeans it is not enough to Editor: the most rabid, fanatical corruption within their just remove the P.U.P from United Democratic Party administration. Maira Montejo Supporter. governing. We did that in the Printer: The present leader of the last General and Municipal National Printers Ltd. The departure of Mark and P.U.P has not convinced Elections. The time has #129 New Road Belize City Cordel from the Peoples even his own colleagues in come for us to once and for United Party signal the end the hierarchy of his party all send this bogus imitation #80 Otro Benque Road of any attempt for change in that he will not continue the of a political organization Orange Walk Town Belize, Central America that party. Cordel Hyde’s hustling and rape which into extinction. parting words were that, occured when he was an Tel: 629-1308 Hubert Elrington, justifiable or “People around the table integral part of the past P.U.P 636-1409 referred to the P.U.P as being will know that I agitated Government. On the matter ------------------------ “not a political party, but a Email: mightily inside for the party of campaign financing every criminal organization [email protected] at its every turn to do what I man, woman and child in PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com Northern STAR -Tel: 629-1308 or 636-1409 - Email: [email protected] - Thursday, February 9, 2012 Page 3 THOUGHTS ACROSS THE MILES TWO ELECTIONS! DUTY AND MEMORY To be a good citizen one • Giveaway to Ashcroft. • Stronger ECONOMY must use his memory to • Giveaway to cronies. even in a time of global cri- help him to do the right • G-7 revolt. sis! thing. I do NOT remember • More JOBS! Dr. Errol Elrington the past for memory’s sake; It is easy for me to continue • TRANSPARENCY & instead I try to avoid mis- that terrible list, but I am HONESTY! takes, errors and bad deci- confident that you the voter • LAW ABIDING! he most important civic T sions. Knowing something know that PUP did you and • Acting swiftly and deci- duty of a citizen is to vote. of the past helps me to stay the country, DIRTY. sively against any potential I always remind individu- away from trouble and dan- WRONG DOING! als that to properly meet ger. In fact, if I was advising the • Admitting and rectifying that responsibility one must PUP, my recommendation ERRORS! do a little more than ‘just Humans are borned with would be to get rid of all • Respect COUNTRY! vote’, one must vote some special gifts: we the corrupt individuals - the • Respect CITIZENS! wisely! sometimes have an instinc- ones that are dirty political • Less CRIME! tive fear of danger; e.g. baggage. The very few that Indeed, if there is any time snakes! In politics there are are not as tainted should Belize had had four Prime that a person is supposed to some people that we need WALK away. That’s right! Ministers: Price, Esquivel, be selfish, it is at election to keep OUT of govern- Walk away and build some- Musa and Barrow. I am try- time. I vote for me - in the ment. Real bad apples. thing clean from the ing to be as objective and sense that my choice is for ground. as truthful as I can: PM the candidate that will work I respectfully submit to Barrow has clearly out per- hardest on the issues that I ALL Belizeans that the As things are today, you the formed the others. consider important. De- PUP, Fonseca, Briceno, voter has the job of keep- Esquivel did better than mocracy hopes that when Marin, Musa, ing the PUP away from Price. Musa failed horribly; the majority votes for Carolyn...have showed us ‘governing’ the JEWEL; why is he even running this ‘good’, citizens and coun- the worst: duty and memory! Re- year? 2008 to 2012 has try benefit! member how the PUP did NOT been perfect but a • Stale, unworkable ideas. Citizens and Country heck of a lot of good work There is a right way, a • Arrogant attitude. DIRTY? was done. BELIZEANS wrong way and a Belizean • No positive imagination. HAVE BENEFITED way. Recall that for a total • Oppressing the People. No man is perfect, but FROM THE HARD of about fifty years, the vast • Private ownership of the please do not tell me that WORK SINCE 2008. Yet, majority of Belizeans have People’s assets. Dean and the UDP behave there is much more yet to had an unexplained love • No accountability. the same way as the PUP. be done. I am confident affair with the PUP. An ex- • Runaway corruption. In fact, I do NOT believe that things will only con- ceedingly unhealthy messi- • Economic stagnation.