Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Bianca de la Fuente, Giselle de la Fuente, Dec. 1, 2011

** Two Auxillou granddaughters, Bianca and Giselle de la Fuente. They are growing up mon!

BELIZEANS COMPARE WESTERN UNION, MONEY TRANSFER COSTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES

COMPARING WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER SERVICE COSTS WITH DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

Compare and Price Western Union In Person money transfer fee on $500 from the USA.

Belize
$43.00
Guatemala
$11.99
Mexico
$25.00
Guyana
$25.00

https://wumt.westernunion.com/WUCOMWEB/shoppingAreaAction.do;jsessionid=3INQqCRSUQutrNXkHDKm4_o?method=load&countryCode=US&languageCode=en&nextSecurePage=Y

HURRICANE STRONG DOME HOMES FOR BELIZE

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*Belize TOUCAN construction supervisor.



Domes for Belize charity, from Pinnacle Security

PRESS RELEASE
Nov. 29, 2011, 2:27 p.m. EST
Pinnacle Security's "Securing Hope" Initiative Sends Volunteer Team to Belize
Security Company Partners With Domes for Belize to Construct Disaster-Proof Homes
OREM, UT, Nov 29, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Pinnacle Security, a leader in the North American residential security market, recently completed a week-long home-building project in Belize as part of the company's philanthropic initiative, "Securing Hope." A group of 27 Pinnacle representatives spent one week in November building eco-domes for families in Belize through the nonprofit organization Domes for Belize.
Volunteers including Pinnacle representatives and their family members, as well as supporters of Domes for Belize, raised funds and participated in the construction of disaster-proof housing for families in Belize. The dome-shaped construction of the homes allows them to withstand natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes.
"As part of our Securing Hope initiative, Pinnacle sets up humanitarian opportunities as often as possible, many times partnering with organizations like Domes for Belize to make the most significant impact we can," said Stuart Dean, vice president of corporate communications for Pinnacle Security. "Service is an integral part of our company DNA and that desire and commitment to help is part of what makes up a Pinnacle representative. This trip to Belize is one example of our commitment as a company to a culture of service."
Funding for the Domes for Belize project came from a charity run organized by Pinnacle, as well as additional contributions from Pinnacle associates. Pinnacle sponsored its Third Annual Charity Run with events in October and November, raising tens of thousands of dollars for both Domes for Belize and Beyond Borders. Additionally, Pinnacle representatives who desired to build the homes in Belize donated commission from four to five sales to provide additional funding.
"Families were able to move into the homes as soon as they were finished which just takes a few days," said Scott Warner, a regional vice president for Pinnacle Security. "It was an amazing experience to build safe homes and create an immediate positive impact for these families. Our entire group was so pleased to be a part of it."
In addition to building dome homes, the Pinnacle volunteers painted a local school and donated boxes of groceries to nearby families. The team completed one dome home and began construction on two others. Warner plans to return to Belize next year to build multiple homes for several families in Belize.
For more information on how to become involved with Pinnacle Security Securing Hope initiatives, please visit: www.pinnaclesecuringhope.com .
About Pinnacle Security Pinnacle Security is an industry leader in providing quality residential and commercial security solutions to help individuals realize the peace-of-mind that comes from protecting the things that matter most. Pinnacle is headquartered in Orem, Utah and has sales offices throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.pinnaclesecurity.com .
About Domes for Belize Domes for Belize is part of "Domes for the World," a non-profit organization building eco-domes in various parts of the world where disasters often strike and leave local communities destitute. The eco-domes are tornado and hurricane proof, and can be built in less than a day. To learn more about this organization, visit their website at www.dftw.org .


Media Contacts

Stuart Dean
VP of Corporate Communications
Pinnacle Security
801-616-4388
sdean@pinnaclesecurity.com

Jennifer Webb
Coltrin & Associates
801-350-9412
jennifer_webb@coltrin.com

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UDP GOVERNMENT LOSES 2 POINTS, PERFORMANCE RATING DROPS TO 3%

UDP GOVERNMENT LOSE 2 POINTS FOR BUREAUCRATIC CORRUPTION

NEW SCORE FOR UDP GOVERNMENT DROPS TO 3%

Two points lost over bureaucratic criminality and their getting away with it. The managment controls lie with the UDP Cabinet, as also the punishments and prosecution if any. A government cannot prosecute citizens for violations, if the bureaucrats get away with shoddy, or illegal work.

Belize Channel 7 TV, gets KUDOS for reporting on bureaucratic rice scam!

Uruguayan import rice scam, EXPOSED by Channel 7 tv investigative reports. Job well done!
CHANNEL 7 TV CONTINUES TO DO A GOOD JOB OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING. KEEPING OUR POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS IN LINE.

Since last week news has been breaking about the presence of Uruguayan rice on the local market for sale at retail outlets in Orange Walk - and almost 20% cheaper than the abundant Belizean rice.

All fingers pointed to the Belize Marketing Development Corporation, because, plainly, rice from Uruguay was not Mexican contraband. But they empathically denied giving any such permission, so the question lingered, where was the rice coming from, and how much of it was on the market?

Well this evening - in fact, just about an hour ago - BAHA, the Belize Agricultural Health Authority sent out a sheepish press release saying they did it.

But, they say they didn't do it to undermine local imports, it was for charity - how it ended up in a Chinese grocery store in Orange Walk is another story, the answer for which you'd have to look up under the letter H for hustling. But, before we get to that, back to the setup: how it was imported into the country.

On fifth November, BAHA received an application submitted by a charitable foundation called "A Hand to The Needy", which gave its address as Price Barracks, Ladyville - which is BDF Headquarters. When we called the BDF, they said that is an outfit run by NEMO - and the BDF only provides the warehouse. The permit was for the importation of 960 bags of long grain broken white rice donated by Food For The Poor - a charitable foundation in Florida.

According to BAHA, the donation was to support poverty alleviation efforts and school feeding programs countrywide. So, the rice was to be imported as a donation solely for charitable purposes. But somehow, it has turned up at retail outlets in Orange Walk - being sold far cheaper than Belizean rice.

This is wrong on so many levels, that it's hard to quantify them all. But 960 totals 9,700 pounds of rice - which may sound like a lot - but it is an insignificant number considering Belizeans consume 260 thousand pounds of rice a week. And certainly, it offers no explanation as to why rice producers say their sales are down sharply, as much as 20%.

So far, Orange Walk Customs has confiscated six sacks of the Uruguayan rice from a local retailer. And so, the licensed importation of Uruguayan rice raises many questions: first who allowed it unto the market? Which is another way of saying, who took it from the poor, for whom it was designated? Second, did the relevant authorities get a CARICOM waiver to import rice from outside the region, which is strictly prohibited under trade rules Belize must adhere to. We hope to have answers to these questions tomorrow.

In other rice-related news, Cabinet has announced relief for the long-deprived Rice farmers of the South. The BMDC paid Toledo rice farmers $40,000 last week, and they will receive $200,000 this week, with another $100,000 to be disbursed next week.

BELIZE TOLEDO DISTRICT FINALLY RECEIVE PAYMENTS FOR RICE.

TOLEDO RICE FARMERS FINALLY START GETTING PAID

Home » Miscellaneous, People & Places » Central Government’s Cabinet release on land use policy
Nov 29, 2011
Central Government’s Cabinet release on land use policy

Cabinet, during a regular session today, was informed that forty thousand dollars was disbursed to rice formers in Toledo last week by the Belize Marketing and Development Corporation. Another two hundred thousand dollars will be paid out this week followed by a hundred thousand next week as part payment for the current rice crop. It also endorsed the National Land Use Policy and Integrated Planning Framework, a course of action put together by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment through the Forestry Department. Finally, it approved the distribution of two acres of land within the Ministry of Works compound in Belmopan to be used as the site for a new Bureau of Standards building that will house a metrology lab and office space.

Comment: I don´t believe a darned thing about the Forestry Department! That is hot air and baloney. They are incompetent, or corrupt in my opinion.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Romance in Western Belize honeymoon and raves for ATM trip


Romance in Belize's Jungles & Beaches
Sebastian & Julianne's Belize Honeymoon

My wife and I chose Belize for our honeymoon because of all it has to offer: beaches, scuba diving, fishing, archaeology and wildlife. We started in San Ignacio Town (Cayo District), where we toured the Maya pyramids of Caracol, swam at Big Rock Waterfall, explored Rio Frio Cave and spelunked the ATM Cave (our favorite). Our archaeological guide Sergio Paiz and ATM Cave guide Carlos Panti were very knowledgeable and friendly. Our hotel in San Ignacio, Martha’s Guesthouse, was very comfortable and a great value.

Then we jumped on a boat with Captain Fermin, who took us to the quiet and remote coral island of Tobacco Caye... Read More

Read more about Sebastian and Julianne's Belize honeymoon including swimming with sharks and petting stingrays! Continue reading to find out more

MEXICANS, MORDIDA FROM CIVIL SERVANTS IN MEXICO GIVES BELIZEANS A PAIN IN THE NECK AND POCKET!

Chetumal border with Belize.
Bridge between Chetumal, Mexico and Belize northern frontier.
ANNOYING HABIT OF CORRUPTION IN MEXICO, ALL OVER!

The Mordida corruption in Mexico for service by government salaried workers.

"Robert Lopez, VIP’s Chairman
This weekend, my family and I traveled to Chetumal. Certainly like every other Belizean we went there to enjoy their hospitality and the shopping and their entertainment. Upon reaching the border, on the Mexican side there were long lines and there were at least two to three-hundred of us and the line was wrapped around the building. I noticed that there were two security guards and a group of Belizeans gathered around them. So I said let me find out what that is about. So I walked up to them and I asked the security guard what was going on. He said, ‘Well for ten dollars, I can get your passport stamped and you won’t have to stand in line.’ He continued by saying that ‘The ten dollars is for the immigration officer and you’ll need to give me something for my services,” I guess as a courier to go in. I watched him take bundles of passport, because he didn’t do them one at a time, he did them in fives and even tens at ten dollars apiece. I saw people pull out their money and as we got closer where we could have seen inside the building through the glass, I saw these security officers giving the immigration officers the money and then these Belizeans did not have to stand in line."
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The only country I heard of worse maybe than Mexico for corruption is India? Never been there, so don´t know.

RUMORS REACH THE WEST, OF A BUSINESS CONFERENCE IN THE EASTERN PORT OF BELIZE CITY BY PRIME MINISTER OF BELIZE.




RUMOR MILL HAS IT PRIME MINISTER, DEAN BARROW HELD A BUSINESS CONFERENCE IN THE PORT OF BELIZE CITY, DOWN ON THE EAST, CENTRAL COAST OF THE COUNTRY.

Unconfirmed highlights of this port town conference for the business pèople of the port town, were that the Government is spending $50,000 a week, in make work programs, for the street gang types in the city, to deter them away from crime.
Mentioned also; was the drive to improve GST tax collections from businesses. We have noted in the news recently that there are more examples being made of business people who have not paid their GST tax collected, or spent it on their own activities. They are being prosecuted in court.

Also we heard that the DFC ( Development Finance Corporation ) of Belmopan, the capital of Belize in the center of the country, is to be changed to a NATIONAL,COMMERCIAL, LENDING BANK.

There is also a move afoot to legislate a CAP on allowable interest rates that can be charged in Belize.

MEXICAN EMBASSY, SPONSORS COMPETITION FOR BELIZE SCHOOLCHILDREN.

** BIG BROTHER, our neighbor MEXICO to our North, is very helpful in many ways, constantly. Marcelino Marinda announces on behalf of the Mexican Embassy, a competition sponsored for Belizean Schoolchildren.
MEXICAN EMBASSY IS SPONSORING A COMPETITION FOR BELIZEAN SCHOOL CHILDREN. NO FURTHER DETAILS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.

UDP Government gets 3 points on Report Card approval rating. NEW BELIZE GOVERNMENT RATING IS 5%.

To the NORTH in central Belize, our neighbor Orange Walk town, their district capital got three new classrooms. We are awarding 3 points to the UDP government report card for this. The ITVET is modeled along the USA Community College system. Not as big of course, but impacts youth tremendously in the careers for which there is enough students to make a class pay. The ITVET system needs all the financial help they can get, they do very worthwhile work. Their is an ITVET ( fledgling Community College, USA style) in each of the six district capitals ( six of them around the small nation ).





Armando Gomez, Manager, OW ITVET

“We had an inauguration this morning whereby we inaugurated a triple classroom space, this is a project that we ventured in since the beginning of the school year in January and we worked at it through fund raising and also part of the construction was assisted by the government, the ministry of education, that classroom space we are already using it because like I said we really needed it, it is a state of the art classroom space whereby we have air-conditioned in it and fans so that the students could be learning in comfort, so that building was a big accomplishment for this new year and hence the reason why we had to do an inauguration for it.”

Hipolito Novelo-Reporter

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Diane Auxillou, famous real estate person and developer of Caye Caulker, Belize

Ran across my daughter´s real estate advertising. She now seems to be juggling a real estate career both in the USA, working as a Century 21 agent and in Caye Caulker, Belize with her own, long time agency.

** Diane Auxillou real estate sales and developer. She is almost as pretty as her father! ( grin )

Caye Caulker, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, LEASE, RENTAL, VACATION HOMES, property management.
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Re-enactment financing of Mayan temple pyramid in Belize sacrifice.

Wendy´s post on the Greek temples and tourism numbers is a wake up call for Belize.

For decades I have put on the listserve, that we require a re-enactment, during the tourist high seasons, at Cahel Pech, 3500 year old, Mayan pyramid temple.

I´ve seen these both in the U.K. also in Canada, and in the USA. They are stupendous tourist affairs. Well worth seeing. I loved them and was very impressed.

I have no idea, how to go about finding the financing for such re-enactments to be held at Cahel Pech, Mayan pyramid. You would have to hire probably 200 people for 12 weeks, have costumes made, do rehearsals, all for a six week season in the winter and another six weeks in the summer. Perhaps in Easter for three weeks also.
I would imagine you could charge an admission as CAHEL PECH is fenced.

Just for the six week winter season on a daily basis, the cost would run $604,800 in salaries. Costumes would run another $30,000. Though they would be reusable for other performances.

Many times, I´ve run the fiscal scenario done by myself, since I could not get any interest locally for financing. Certainly I cannot afford such a thing. These are conservative cost estimates for a working budget. It would take several years, to become a classic tourist draw. So you could expect say, a deficit for around three years. The boost to Belize tourism would be exponential and out of sight.

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Caye Caulker gal views on Belize tourism and the Greek Acropolis in Athens.

Dear Editor: ( Amandala newspaper )

I had the good fortune to visit the Acropolis in Athens, Greece last week, and was stunned at just how much tourism revenue this one archeological site generates. The Parthenon in the Acropolis is easily one of the most famous and identifiable structures in the world.

The great Sphinx of Egypt, the Colosseum of Rome, Stonehenge in England, and the Great Wall of China are ALSO on the list of easily identifiable structures. People who have never set foot at any of those places can still point them out to you in pictures. The mere mention of their names conjures up glorious images of grand civilizations rich with stories of fascinating kings and kingdoms, mythical and mystical heroes, amazing gods and goddesses, brave warriors and their captives, impressive art and culture, and yes, incredible architecture that defies our wildest imaginations.

In short, archeological tourism sells .. BIG time!

Wendy Auxillou in GREECE, Fall, 2011 on assignment in Thessaloniki. ( Looks darned cold in Greece. Not for me mon! Give me Belize any day! The land of eternal Spring !)

Belize is a nation covered from north to south, east to west with ancient Mayan sites. We are sitting on a veritable tourism gold mine. The Popul Vuh, sacred book of the ancient Maya, sizzles with the story of how Itzamna created the Mayas, and then taught them how to raise maize, how to write, how to keep a calendar, and how to heal people. For all the right reasons, ancient Mayan history, culture, and civilization, should be at the forefront of our tourism strategy. Our Mayan history is no less fascinating or jaw-dropping than Greek, Chinese or Roman history. They just market theirs better. And we do nothing to tap into this gold mine.

If you type the words "ancient Greece" into Google, you get tens of millions of responses. Yet, if you Google "ancient Maya Belize", there are less than half a million results. If we want to increase tourism in any substantial way, we need to do a complete paradigm shift in the way we market Belize. We need to become "Belize: Homeland of the Ancient Maya" and get rid of that failed marketing slogan "Mother Nature's Best Kept Secret". At the very least, a good start would be to once and for all declare a MAYAN DAY.

Of course, with this racist, anti-Mayan government in place loaded with principals who prefer to pretend that we don't have Mayas in Belize, or if we do, that they are not "real", or if they are real, that they are not human, such a suggestion is like swimming upstream?. But at least the suggestion deserves mention and some contemplation. So there it is, my 2 cents worth...for all its worth.

Sincerely,
Wendy Auxillou
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Our own ruins, a mile away, at Cahel Pech are much older than the GREEK Acropolis. We go back 3,500 years with this Mayan temple ruin alone.

Cahel Pech a 3,500 year old City State, pre-classic, capital, built BEFORE the GREEKS built anything.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

CHIEF FORESTRY OFFICER LABELED A LIAR IN BELIZE!

Cabinet Minister, politician Gaspar Vega, the boss of Marcello Windsor, Chief Forest Officer.
Proven liar, Marcello Windsor, Chief Forestry Officer.


More than a week has passed since the infamous video by local cable tv stations with Chief Forest Officer, Marcello Windsor. The man turned out to be a liar and a fraud. The investigative media reported that the FOREST DEPARTMENT are shrouded in a veil of secrecy regarding the promises made by Chief Forest Officer, Marcello Windsor, the week before. All attempts to get a list of the permit holders for ROSEWOOD failed, by repeated visits to the Forestry Department. All the promises of cooperation, accountability and transparency, met with a BRICK WALL.

As former Prime Minister Said Musa is often quoted when he commented on his corruption scandals. "It will all blow over like a lee breeze!" In this case this is Prime Minister, UDP, Dean Barrow´s corruption scandal, or one of them. Implicated by inference is Marcello Windsor´s boss, Cabinet Minister Gaspar Vega.

Cross border ( Guatemala and Belize students ) end 6 month cultural exchange program.

( Compliments of Channel 5 TV )


Home » Art & Culture, Featured, Regional / International » Hundreds of Belizeans and Guatemalans Storm Border for fun
Nov 25, 2011
Hundreds of Belizeans and Guatemalans Storm Border for fun

For the past six months Belizean and Guatemalan students have been working side by side, learning art and music in a cultural exchange program. The initiative to bring together youths from both sides of the border who share common interests, is a part of the Confidence Building Measures implemented by the Organization of American States (OAS). Today, the official closing ceremony was held at the adjacency zone where an art exhibit and cultural display showcased the work of the participants. News Five’s Delahnie Bain headed to the border for this morning’s event.

Delahnie Bain, Reporting

These past 8 years, Belize and Guatemala are acting like ONE COUNTRY, as part of the Mayan Empire. Today the two countries came together to “Promote a Culture of Peace”. That was the goal of the art and culture course that culminated at the OAS Adjacency Zone.

Magdalena Talamas

Magdalena Talamas, Chief of Peace Fund, Secretariat for Political Affairs, OAS

“This is the closure of the culture of peace program in the agency zone. It’s a program that started six months ago and that consists of music, art workshops where approximately three hundred students have participated and today they are showing us the results of what they have accomplished, which goes far beyond having learned or perfected an artistic skill. They have shown us what it truly means to be a good neighbor and we’re very proud of the students and what they’ve done here today.”

The participants put on a grand display, showing off the new talents they developed in the program.

Magdalena Talamas

“We have both art workshops; we have their paintings that are displayed today. We also have the bands and the students playing the instruments that they have learned, guitar and piano and song.”

{Highlights of music and art…}

Magdalena Talamas of the OAS says the program is one of the most successful in their many efforts to keep the peace along the Belize/Guatemala border.

Magdalena Talamas

“The project is open to all the communities in the adjacency zone and we were expecting a registration of approximately a hundred and fifty but it was so successful that we had three hundred students register and we made our best efforts to accommodate them and we’re very happy that we were able to do so. I think it’s one of the most successful projects because these students are representing, they’re showing us that it’s much more than hope for the future. They are showing us that that dream is actually a reality; sitting side by side, persons and young people from two different countries speaking two different languages have planted the seed of peace in the adjacency zone and I’m extremely proud to be a part of this program.”

Unfortunately, because of financial reasons, there is no guarantee that the program will be an annual feature.

Magdalena Talamas

“We didn’t have it last year, unfortunately. We had it in 2009 and we depend on external funding. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the governments of Canada and of Spain who have made generous contributions to the Belize/Guatemala sub-fund of the Peace Fund and who have made this project possible and we hope to be able to count on their support on the future so we can continue this very important project.”

Delahnie Bain for News Five.

The six months of classes were provided free of cost of the students.

Friday, November 25, 2011

JEFE DE LA BANDA, CARLOS MARTINEZ DE GUATEMALA, PARA INVACIONES EN BELIZE!

Bandidos desde Guatemala en Belize.( TV news en Belize )




JEFE DE BANDIDOS DE GUATEMALA evade retenes Guatemaltecos y patrullas militares, en la frontera y dentro del Parque Nacional de Belize, para robar.

Capturados pirateadores de maderas. Carlos Martinez es el Jefe de la banda. Ocho ladrones fueron capturados en la frontera de Guatemala y Belize. Martinez vive en el pueblo de ARMENIA como Jefe de los Bandidos; paga a grupos de ladrones, y les financia a ellos los equipos ( cortadoras a gasolina, mulas y comidas ) para saquear y robar al Parque Nacional de Chiquibul de Belize, pasando muy adentro de Belize hasta 33 kilometros dentro del pais, en una verdadera invasion, y en violacion de las propias patrullas militares y controles de Guatemala.

Este grupo de bandidos, y hay otros, son reportados como los que han robado $1.4 millones de dolares solamente durante el 2011, vendiendo la madera en la Ciudad de Guatemala, madera por la cual no han pagado ni un centavo en impuestos al gobierno de Guatemala.

Belize MAYAN SCHOLARS CONTEMPLATE MEANING OF HYROGLYPH FOUND ON FRINGES OF THE MAYAN EMPIRE for 2012 cyclical history reference.



Xunantanich Mayan temple, capital of the post classic more modern Mayan Empire built about 1200 years ago and abandoned around 900 AD. The two Mayan temples are favorites of exploring tourists in things Mayan and well maintained by the Government of Belize, in their remoteness. Xunantunich and Cahel Pech are about 8 miles apart and the former overlooks the Mopan River, the earlier city state capital of Cahel Pech, overlooks the Macal River. The two river join together in the TWIN TOWNS of Santa Elena and San Ignacio and form one river, nowadays called the Belize River which flows 200 miles to the Caribbean sea. It is today, the site of a WORLD CLASS canoe race over three days, from the Western TWIN TOWNS to the Caribbean sea port of Belize City. The race is held in March each year and immensely popular.
Cahel Pech, the capital of the MAYAN CITY STATE found in Western Belize is pre-classic and was built about 3,500 years ago, long before either the Roman Empire existed, or even the Greeks and Minoans. The ruins are found in an archeological preserve in the suburbs of the TWIN TOWNS of Western Belize, Cayo District.

BELIZE MAYAN STUDIES CONTEMPLATE HYROGYLPHS MEANING, FOUND ON THE FRINGES OF THE MAYAN EMPIRE IN MEXICO.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual amongMayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks.

Comalcalco Mayan ruins of city state.



Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
The "Comalcalco Brick," as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums. Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.
"Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced," David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a message to The Associated Press.
Stuart said the date inscribed on the brick "'is a Calendar Round,' a combination of a day and month position that will repeat every 52 years."
The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.
But the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past, Stuart said.
"There's no reason it couldn't be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period. In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, "he/she/it arrives."
"There's no future tense marking (unlike the Tortuguero phrase), which in my mind points more to the Comalcalco date being more historical that prophetic," Stuart wrote.
Both inscriptions — the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick — were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some ways.
The Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.
However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, "He will descend from the sky."
The Comalcalco brick is also odd in that the molded or inscribed faces of the bricks were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen.
The Institute of Anthropology and History has long said rumors of a world-ending or world-changing event in late December 2012 are a Westernized misinterpretation of Mayan calendars.
The institute repeated Thursday that "western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya."
The institute's experts say the Mayas saw time as a series of cycles that began and ended with regularity, but with nothing apocalyptic at the end of a given cycle.
Given the strength of Internet rumors about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organizing a special round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar."

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual amongMayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks.
Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
The "Comalcalco Brick," as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums. Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.
"Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced," David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a message to The Associated Press.
Stuart said the date inscribed on the brick "'is a Calendar Round,' a combination of a day and month position that will repeat every 52 years."
The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.
But the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past, Stuart said.
"There's no reason it couldn't be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period. In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, "he/she/it arrives."
"There's no future tense marking (unlike the Tortuguero phrase), which in my mind points more to the Comalcalco date being more historical that prophetic," Stuart wrote.
Both inscriptions — the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick — were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some ways.
The Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.
However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, "He will descend from the sky."
The Comalcalco brick is also odd in that the molded or inscribed faces of the bricks were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen.
The Institute of Anthropology and History has long said rumors of a world-ending or world-changing event in late December 2012 are a Westernized misinterpretation of Mayan calendars.
The institute repeated Thursday that "western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya."
The institute's experts say the Mayas saw time as a series of cycles that began and ended with regularity, but with nothing apocalyptic at the end of a given cycle.
Given the strength of Internet rumors about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organizing a special round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar."

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual amongMayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks.
Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
The "Comalcalco Brick," as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums. Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.
"Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced," David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a message to The Associated Press.
Stuart said the date inscribed on the brick "'is a Calendar Round,' a combination of a day and month position that will repeat every 52 years."
The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.
But the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past, Stuart said.
"There's no reason it couldn't be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period. In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, "he/she/it arrives."
"There's no future tense marking (unlike the Tortuguero phrase), which in my mind points more to the Comalcalco date being more historical that prophetic," Stuart wrote.
Both inscriptions — the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick — were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some ways.
The Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.
However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, "He will descend from the sky."
The Comalcalco brick is also odd in that the molded or inscribed faces of the bricks were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen.
The Institute of Anthropology and History has long said rumors of a world-ending or world-changing event in late December 2012 are a Westernized misinterpretation of Mayan calendars.
The institute repeated Thursday that "western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya."
The institute's experts say the Mayas saw time as a series of cycles that began and ended with regularity, but with nothing apocalyptic at the end of a given cycle.
Given the strength of Internet rumors about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organizing a special round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar."
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http://ambergriscaye.com/earlyhistory/
Website and construction of the Early History of Belize book, was donated FREE by Marty Casado, who has the biggest and most effective website coverage on Belize and things of Belize online, built up over 20 years. If pioneering web designer, Marty doesn´t have it, it probably doesn´t exist?

-1990-


Co-authors, Mr. & Mrs. Silvia and Ray Auxillou, wrote back in 1990, one of the first books on the Early History of Belize and particularly emphasizing the known history of that segment of early Mayan City States that existed in the more modern age of territorial national boundaries. There had been about 24 City States in what today´s political boundaries is called the nation of Belize. Concentrating on what then, was little knowledge of Mayan history within the modern day international boundaries of Belize. They donated the published manuscript book ONLINE, in the EARLY DAYS OF MODERN INTERNET establishment. FREE for all scholars to peruse and persue online. The internet has grown tremendously since then and Mr. and Mrs. Ray and Silvia Auxillou live in the proximity of the old pre-classic CITY STATE of CAHEL PECH, over 3500 years old. Their retirement has been on the slope of GREEN PARROT VALLEY, in a suburb community village called HILLVIEW, part of greater TWIN TOWNS, in particular, the rural agricultural area of Santa Elena Town. Both are in their 60´s and 70´s nowadays retired in Hillview.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Dog getting a ride on a dolphin, cute photo!

CUTE PHOTO!

HOW POLITICIANS IN THE U.K. , NIGERIA AND BELIZE GET RICH!

Upside Down World:

Belize Government Defies Supreme Court Ruling; Grants Oil Company Permit to Maya lands PDF Print E-mail
Written by Intercontinental Cry
Wednesday, 23 November 2011 11:14
Source: Intercontinental Cry
The government of Belize has quietly granted an American oil company drilling rights to protected Maya lands inside the Sarstoon Temash National Park (STNP) in the Toledo District of southern Belize. The surreptitious move is in defiance of an historic Supreme Court ruling that confirmed Belize's obligation to adhere to the international standard of informed consent, says the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM).
SATIIM, a community-based indigenous environmental organization that co-manages the STNP, found out that Belize had granted a permit to US Capital Energy only after it learned that the company had suddenly returned to the protected lands.
The company isn't wasting any time, says SATIIM. "A truck equipped for seismic drilling has already arrived along with a drill-ready tractor. Trees were cut for two seismic lines in Sunday Wood village, with rumors of plans to cut more in the village of Crique Sarco."
SATIIM points out with great concern that the government failed to inform them--or anyone else--that a drilling permit had been issued, adding:

This is merely the latest 'surprise' in a shameful history of secrecy that began one morning in 1997. Five Indigenous communities in Southern Belize woke up to learn that the government had declared their ancestral land a national park in 1994. Ever since, these communities have struggled to defend their land at every turn.
Notably, in 2006 they won a temporary injunction against seismic testing in this protected area, where an entirely new ecosystem was recently discovered. Another ruling from the Supreme Court confirmed Maya rights to land and resources and Belize’s obligation to conform to international standards of informed consent established when it signed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in 2007.
Nonetheless, the government has kept all dealings with US Capital Energy secret. SATIIM asked for information in several letters to the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief Forest Officer. The government has ignored each one.

SATIIM is now demanding that the government respect: 1) the rule of law; 2) environmental justice; 3) economic equality; and 4) its obligations under UNDRIP and legal rulings by Belize's highest courts.
Most of all, SATIIM is demanding an end to the government secrecy surrounding US Capital Energy's new operations in southern Belize.
SATIIM and the Indigenous communities have also agreed to use "any means necessary" to make the government and the oil company comply with national and international law.
For updates on the situation, keep an eye on www.satiim.blogspot.com

SEISMIC WORK FOR OIL PONDS CONTINUES IN NORTHERN BELIZE

SEISMIC TESTING for OIL, STILL GOING STRONG IN NORTHWESTERN BELIZE POCKET, NEAR THE PETEN FORMATIONS OF GUATEMALA.

The seismic work is in it´s 5th month now and other lines have yet to be done! Progress is slow but steady.

Treaty Energy Corp, the OIL COMPANY drilling in Belize stays optimistic.

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Belize map.
TREATY ENERGY THE OIL DRILLING COMPANY JUST BECOMING ACTIVE DOWN SOUTH, ARE ASSUMING THEY CAN PRODUCE 5000 BARRELS OF OIL A DAY EVENTUALLY.

At the moment, Treaty Energy, produce nothing but hot air, but activity on the ground and seismic activity are producing lots of investment propoganda and indeed, may eventually produce a working producing oil company in Belize. We still have to wait and see. All oil drilling is a gamble!
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Somebody sent me an email, with this New Orleans release. Thought it was interesting. Something from the timespicayne, whatever that is?

New Orleans has a new publicly traded company: Orpheum Property Inc., which owns the city's unrepaired beaux arts theater, the Orpheum, and trades on the unregulated over-the-counter stock market.
orpheum.jpgThe Times-Picayune

On Monday, theater owner Andrew Reid put the finishing touches on a deal with a defunct but publicly held Hawaiian coffee company, Pacific Land and Coffee Corp. Pacific Land and Coffee purchased the assets of Reid's company, 129 University Place LLC, in late June, and Reid took over management of Pacific Land and Coffee. Since the idle, flood-damaged 1921 building is the company's only asset, Reid said he changed the company's name to Orpheum Property Inc. on Monday and moved the headquarters of the company to New Orleans.

The company is intended to be a real estate investment company that will purchase income-producing properties in the hotel and entertainment arena, said Reid, the company's director. "The Orpheum itself was not intended to be the focus of this company. It's just a small portion of it," he said.

Reid said he was interested in taking the Orpheum public because it makes it easier to sell shares to raise money. "The ability to raise funds through a public company is much easier than with a private company," he said. "It gives me a lot of other options."

That's potentially good news for theater fans who would like Reid raise money to reopen the performance venue, but a red flag for prospective investors.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., the industry group that regulates securities brokers, has seven closed securities investigations on file for Reid alleging things like misrepresentation, fraud, negligence, breach of contract, unsuitable trading and investing, violating securities regulations and depositing a check meant for the firm into his personal account.

Reid said the check deposit was a mistake and resulted in sanction because he failed to respond after leaving the firm, and that prospective investors in Orpheum Property shouldn't worry about dealing with him as a result of his FINRA record.

"I was never found to be at fault for harming any investors," Reid said, a statement which conflicts with the official account in his 22-page report.

Uncertain repair plans

Meanwhile, the new name that Reid has given his company, Orpheum Property Inc., is not registered with the Louisiana secretary of state.

As proof of his intent to restore the Orpheum, Reid says he has hired Landrieu Construction to carry out a $10 million renovation of the theater, expand the stage and install the latest technology in a project that will begin in mid-February.

Renee Landrieu, owner of RLH, the parent company of Landrieu Construction, said her firm is ready for the job -- if it comes together. "We have a verbal agreement subject to them getting all the financing in place that we'll be the general contractor," she said.

Reid said Park 49, a New York private equity firm, is financing the project.

Mario Uribe, managing partner and founder of Park 49, said nothing is firm. "This is one scenario that we might be interested in. We are reviewing the opportunity at this point," Uribe said. "We still have to do our due diligence."

When Reid took over the project in the spring, he said he was talked into applying for Community Development Block Grant money to finance the renovation. While his application was pending, Reid said he was unable to do any work on the theater because he wouldn't have been reimbursed, but the process was taking so long, he abandoned it and found other financing.

"I got tired of waiting, so I'm moving forward with my alternate funding, and look to probably start construction in mid-February," said Reid.

'It just kind of happened'

Doing business as 129 University Place, Reid bought the theater earlier this year from entities controlled by Texas businessmen Richard Weyand and Peter Thiessen.

Weyand and Thiessen purchased the theater in 2006 for the bargain price of $675,000, took out mortgages on the property and transferred ownership between different corporate entities, but they failed to reopen the theater and left it mired in debt. In 2009, the Louisiana Landmarks Society placed the Orpheum on its list of most endangered sites in New Orleans.

Meanwhile, investors around the country have complained that they had put up millions to renovate the theater on the promise of earning handsome returns while helping New Orleans, but the distributions from Weyand and Thiessen stopped arriving. Investors have had little recourse in collecting because their names had never been placed on the deed to the theater.

Reid, a French Quarter resident who says his career was in the oil and gas business, has never been a theater buff, but got involved when the previous owners approached him. He agreed to assume a $2.7 million mortgage on the property and issue $3.47 million in stock to Weyand and Thiessen for total consideration of $6.2 million. "It just kind of happened," said Reid, who in the spring also became chief executive of a Houston energy exploration company that also trades as a bulletin board stock.

Reid's partner in the venture is Rod Solow, the founder of Live Magic, a New Orleans production company that Reid said he bought to help give the Orpheum a technological edge. Solow's company, Live Magic, was incorporated on July 1, according to the Louisiana secretary of state, two days after Reid's takeover of Pacific Land and Coffee was complete.

Their new venture, Orpheum Property Inc., is traded with the ticker symbol PLFF on the over-the-counter quote board, or OTCQB exchange, the middle tier of the largely unregulated bulletin board companies. Orpheum would trade on the lowest tier, the totally unregulated "pink sheet" exchange, but because it merged with a company that was already public, Pacific Land and Coffee, it automatically got bumped up a notch.

History of fraud

Micro-cap stocks, or companies with fewer than 500 investors and $10 million in assets like Orpheum Property, don't have to make filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. No filings have been made about the Orpheum merger or name change.

The SEC notes that many micro-cap stocks are legitimate businesses, "but the lack of reliable, readily available information about some microcap companies can open the door to fraud." Fraud perpetrators often pay promoters to tout their stock and issue news releases that are exaggerated or untrue, the SEC warns.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's database indicates that Reid is no stranger to securities fraud.

In 2002, while working for Williams Financial Group in Dallas, Reid took a $10,090.58 check from a customer and deposited it in his own account rather than forwarding it to the firm. When Reid failed to respond, the National Association of Securities Dealers barred him from association with any member firm.

In 2004, Reid was accused of unsuitable trading and investing, fraud, negligence and violating state and federal securities regulations that caused $6 million in damage to investors. After arbitration, the case was settled in 2006 for $35,000.

In 2003, Reid's employer, Corporate Securities Group, filed a complaint alleging "unsuitable investment" in municipal bonds that caused more than $100,000 of damage. Arbitration is pending.

In 2001, while working for First Allied Securities in San Diego, Reid was accused of having an unexplained debit balance of $60,321.09. The case was settled for $290.

In 2001, GMS Group of New Jersey accused Reid, who worked for the firm, of making "unsuitable recommendations, misrepresentations and breach of contract in connection with their investments in certain high yield corporate debt and other securities" resulting in damages of $200,000. The case was settled in arbitration for $106,275.

Rebecca Mowbray can be reached at rmowbray@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3417.
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Hey! I´ve got nothing against a hustler? Should see the penny stocks in Canada!
The $675,000 mortgage on a State Heritage site, which cleared a $2.5 million mortgage was a real good one. I always tell people, selling stock in gold mines in Bolivia, Peru and Belize, are good stock selling stuff. Selling stock is where the money is. If you can get hold of a public company, cheap for any reason, MAN O´ Man!, you got a money machine. There are a millions of people like a penny stock flyer and dismiss the money before they even buy the stock. Especially if you stay below the threshold for S.E.C reporting, on the unregulated market. Met a few characters made their living that way, over the years.

EU supplies GRANT of $5 million to help Belize with rural electrification.





SURPRISE NEWS ABOUT RURAL ELECTRIFICATION GRANT FROM THE EU AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS WHERE THE MONEY WILL BE SPENT!


The message for Belize is that the GDP has to rise from incoming money, such as the expansion of the phone call centers, perhaps shipping semi finished Rosewood wood blanks, or more exports, including blanks for lignum vitae blanks, for ocean ship and submarine shaft bearings.
Only export orientation, or cash incoming activities are going to wipe out the national debt and pay for infra structure.

An interesting blurb on last nights TV was that the EU had given a GRANT for $5.5 million to BEL our electricity carrier. To build rural electric capacity.
I had surmised, or supposed that it would be going to the Toledo District and all those villages without electricity. Imagine my surprise after waiting for a long time about it, the list of places being rural electrified, were all North of Dangriga. Mostly in the Belize River Valley and Corozal and Orange Walk districts, that I thought in my ignorance, already were electrified. Go figure!
If this is true, RURAL ELECTRICIFICATION will need another $50 million dollars for BEL. WOW!!! We are worse off than I thought as a country.

They said, BEL doesn´t have enough money to do it themselves.

GUATEMALAN BANDIT CHIEF NAMED, LIVING IN ARMENIA, GUATEMALA.

CARLOS MARTINEZ WANTED IN BELIZE BY POLICE.

Captured lumber pirates and Xate harvesters have named, GUATEMALAN, CARLOS MARTINEZ, as the bandit chieftan, on the frontier in Guatemala in the village of ARMENIA, as the PIRATE BANDIT CHIEFTAN, hiring gangs of men and financing them with equipment ( chain saws and mules and food ) to raid and plunder the National Chiquibul Park and even deeper into Belize as far as 33 km on raids. In violation of his own Guatemalan government patrols and controls.

UDP GOVERNMENT MISMANAGES ROSEWOOD AND RARE WOOD EXPORTS

Rosewood guitar bridge blanks $10 usa each on E Bay
Rosewood guitar fingerboard blank, $40 usa on E Bay
Rosewood coffee table fram $875
Rosewood blanks $75 usa on E Bay
Small Rosewood blanks for making pens $17 usa
Rosewood guitar blanks $875 usa on E Bay
Rosewood blank for sale on E Bay for $75 usa

*** Expensive chopsticks. The demand exceeds the supply, by billions.


The market for ROSEWOOD, chopsticks is in the billions, as a status expensive symbol of wealth and power, in Asian countries with a Chinese population. Chopsticks are mostly disposable eating utensils.

Yet the UDP GOVERNMENT has allowed the export of raw ROSEWOOD, rare, endangered wood, such as ROSEWOOD and some other types of wood, to be plundered in the name of short term greed. If all the ROSEWOOD logs on the ground, were made into chopsticks, for the upscale market in ASIA, you still could not fill the demand for them. As a Value Added Product coming out of Belize, that is the proper use for ROSEWOOD. Not selling and shipping the raw chunked logs for somebody else to run the machinery to make chopsticks.

BELIZE OIL NEWS, MID NOVEMBER, 2011

Belize oil well
Treaty Energy Corporation Reports Results for Third Quarter and First Nine Months of 2011

Revenue for the First Nine Months of 2011 was $215,912, up from $1,570 Revenues in First Nine Months of 2010; Total Assets at September 30, 2011 were $2.37 Million, up 834% Over Total Assets of $254 Thousand at December 31, 2010; Additional Paid In Capital increased 1,325% to $7.51 Million at September 30, 2011, from $527 Thousand at December 31, 2010; Total Stockholders' Equity Increased by 174% to $888,947 at September 30, 2011, as Compared to a Negative $1,231,368 at December 31, 2010.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Treaty Energy Corporation (OTCQB: TECO) (www.treatyenergy.com), a growth-oriented energy company in the oil and gas industry, today reported financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2011.

Revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 increased to $215,912 from $1,570 revenues in the same period a year earlier. Revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2011 increased to $104,877 from $1,570 for the same period a year earlier. These revenues are from oil production and well drilling for independent oil companies.

Net loss for the third quarter of 2011 was $420,925, or nil per diluted share, a decrease from the Net loss of $482,871, or nil per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2010. Net loss for the first nine months of 2011 was $4,614,482, or $(0.01) per diluted share, an increase of $4,173,395, from a net loss of $441,087, or nil per diluted share, for the comparable period in 2010.

Shareholders' Equity made an impressive reversal to the upside, from a negative of $1,231,368 at December 31, 2010, to a positive Shareholders' Equity of 174% to $888,947 at September 30, 2011.

Other Financial Highlights:

* Total Assets increased to $2.372 million, an increase of 834% at September 30, 2011, from $254 thousand at December 31, 2010.
* Additional Paid In Capital rose to $7.51 million, an increase of 1,325% at September 30, 2011, from $527 thousand at December 31, 2010.
* Total Stockholders' Equity increased to a positive $888,947 at September 30, 2011, an improvement of $2,120,315 from the Company's negative net worth of $1,231,368 at December 31, 2010.
* Proved Producing Oil Reserves increased to $1.15 million at September 30, 2011 from none at December 31, 2010.
* In Texas the Company has secured a funding commitment of $700,000 to drill an additional 12 wells and has indicated that the achievable potential of its fifteen Texas leases is now believed to be in excess of 5,000 BPD.



Operational and Other Highlights:

* On November 15, 2011 Treaty Energy announced the appointment of Bruce Gwyn, a Director, to Co-CEO of the Company and Lee C. Schlesinger to Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer.
* Treaty Energy has continued to acquire assets for its drilling company, Treaty Energy Drilling, LLC, which currently owns seven (7) drilling rigs, a significant step toward vertical integration of the Company.
* On September 14, 2011 representatives of the Board of Directors of the Treaty Charitable Trust, the philanthropic division of Treaty Energy Corporation, officially announced at a press conference at the Matalon Business Center in Belize City the establishment of the BELIZEAN NATIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND (BNLF).



"The third quarter of 2011 has continued to show progress as our Company moves ahead to start its initial drilling program this week in Belize," stated Andrew V. Reid, Chairman & Co-CEO of Treaty Energy Corporation. "Treaty Energy is moving ahead as an international oil & gas company with active drilling programs in Texas and Belize, and is anticipating exciting progress from these programs as we move toward the end of 2011. We see 2012 as the year that we become a strong, profitable revenue producing company."

The complete Form 10-Q filing for the period ended September 30, 2011 can be viewed at the following link: http://filings.issuerdirect.com/data/1075773/000135448811004692/teco_10q.pdf

Forward-Looking Statements:

Statements herein express management's beliefs and expectations regarding future performance and are forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, raising working capital and securing other financing; responding to competition and rapidly changing technology; and other risks. These risks are detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Forms 10-KSB, 10-QSB and 8-K. Actual results may differ materially from such forward-looking statements.

Contact:
Osprey Partners
Tel: 732-292-0982
Fax: 732-528-9065
osprey57@optonline.net

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* New World Oil & Gas successfully completes Phase 2 of seismic acquisition at Blue Creek located in the productive Petén Basin in Northwest Belize.
* It has acquired 70.95 line kilometres bringing the total for Phases 1 and 2 to 139.15km. Phase 3 seismic acquisition planned to commence immediately - expected completion in Q1 2012.

New World Oil and Gas Plc, a company focused on making investments in the oil and gas sector, announces an update from the 420 sq km Blue Creek Project located in the productive Petén Basin in Northwest Belize ('Blue Creek' or 'the Project').

Overview

* Successful completion of Phase 2 of seismic acquisition at Blue Creek - 70.95 line kilometres acquired bringing the total for Phases 1 and 2 to 139.15km
* Field and processed data to be interpreted shortly by the Company's geophysicist and Competent Person's Report ('CPR') to be updated by mid December 2011
* Updated CPR expected to include P10, P50, P90 mean volumetrics, scoping economics and an estimated market value for Blue Creek
* Phase 3 seismic acquisition planned to commence immediately - expected completion in Q1 2012


New World CEO William Kelleher said, "We continue to make excellent progress at our Blue Creek Project since its acquisition in June of this year. The completion of the second phase of our seismic acquisition programme is another significant milestone for New World as we progress towards anticipated phase three completion in Q1 2012.

"Following the positive results from the first of three planned phases of our seismic programme, the updated CPR specifically highlighted four structures similar to those found in the nearby producing Spanish Lookout field in the productive and highly prospective Petén Basin. Following the completion of the Phase 2 seismic, a second update to the CPR will be completed which we expect to include the first official estimates of in-place and recoverable oil volumes. We expect this update to be released by the middle of December 2011 and look forward to updating shareholders on our progress then."

Further Information

In total, 70.95 line kilometres were acquired during the second phase of seismic at the 420sq km Blue Creek Project located in the Petén Basin in Northwest Belize, bringing the total for phases 1 and 2 to 139.95 km. Excel Geophysical Services, of Denver, Colorado, is currently in possession of all the field and processed data which will shortly be interpreted by the Company's geophysicist. Once this has been completed the Company's competent person, RPS Energy, will analyse the data and provide an updated CPR which is expected to include P10, P50, P90 mean volumetrics, scoping economics and an estimated market value for the Company. This updated CPR is expected before the end of 2011.

A third phase of seismic acquisition is planned to commence immediately on the 'Project of Belize Lands', with completion scheduled for February 2012.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

UDP LOSE 2 % POINTS ON REPORT CARD - NEW SCORE 2% APPROVAL RATING

** Gaspar Vega, Forestry Dept. Cabinet UDP Minister. Is he a well liked, bumbling incompetent politician, or too smart, corrupt political type criminal? You can decide, as cable TV investigative reporters in Belize, reveal the sordid GREED based SCAM of protected ROSEWOOD exporting. This is SOAP OPERA entertainment Belizean style, as we the public wait with bated breath for the newest media revelations.
** Marcello Windsor, Chief Forest Officer, Belmopan.
UDP GOVERNMENT LOSE 2 PERCENTAGE POINTS ON THEIR PERFORMANCE IN GOVERNING REPORT CARD.

The loss is because of the FORESTRY DEPARTMENT. A re-run of the media interview with the Chief Forestry Officer last week, done this following week on evening TV, in which he asked the media to come to his office on Monday after the weekend, to get the list of HOLDERS of ROSEWOOD raw commodity logs, to be exported in containers. The media are reporting by Wednesday morning, with failure. Plain stonewalling by the Forestry Department. At least one media station on local cable TV was claiming to have gone 4 different times over Monday and Tuesday to get the list of license holders promised to them by the Chief Forest Officer last week.

Speculation among the public is rife with ideas for the stonewalling, blockage, prevention of the media from getting the list of licensed, permited persons authorized to export a restricted rare wood species, from Belize in a raw commodity state.

SPECULATION:
a) Chief Forestry Officer was lying?
b) Chief Forestry Officer is incompetent?
c) Chief Forestry Officer is under instructions from Cabinet Minister, Gaspar Vega to avoid the media?
d) Political shennanigans and corruption will be the result of the media following the money trail in this SCAM? So orders have come down from on high, to prevent it?

You name it, and some section of the public will think the worst in these conspiracy theories. At any rate, it is no way to run a government, even if this is standard politicial operating procedure to do with the Forestry Department. So the UDP CABINET lose 2 points from their PERFORMANCE APPROVAL RATING REPORT CARD.

Belize Defense Force on the patrol around our side of the border again.

** Belize Special Forces doing jungle patrols.

** Belize Defense Force patrolling inside National Western parks of Belize, protecting our patrimony from Guatemalan bandit gangs invading the country, to pillage.
LUMBER PIRATE LOGGERS AND XATE POACHERS CAUGHT SIX MILES INSIDE BELIZEAN TERRITORY IN THE CHIQUIBUL NATIONAL FOREST RESERVE.

It´s a nice feeling for Belizeans to hear our Belize Defence Force are doing their job, inside the Western Frontiers of Belize. With all the specialty training in jungle warfare training they have received, and tax money spent on them, it is nice to see some results. The individuals were allowed to escape, but their equipment and horses were confiscated. The KING PIN criminals on the other side, in Guatemala were identifed by those caught. The Guatemalan bandits were raiding as deep as 33 kilometers inside of the Belize frontier. This particular group of Guatemalan bandits were caught 10 kilometers inside the boundaries of Belize.

Caught as a result, they nabbed an armed logger, Evelio Adelso Romero, a villager of Las Brisas de Chiquibul in Guatemala. He was armed with a weapon, which is illegal here in Belize.

The BANDIT CHIEFTAN identified as Carlos Martinez buys the lumber, which is transported to Guatemala City. Carlos Martinez is the Chieftan of the banditry, and lumber pirating, on our side of the frontier. He lives in ARMENIA, Guatemala and pays his pirates $36 Bz a day, or Q 125 quetzal a day, to raid DEEP into Belize on his illicit activities.
Weapons were light, as .22 rifles and 16 guage shotguns were being carried. Not like the automatic AK 47´s used by Guatemalan marauders, invading down by Xalacte, Belize, further South. These latter are military style weapons and very powerful and longer range, carried by the Guatemalan bandits.

So far, the Belizean government has prohibitied using the intelligence gathered on the Bandit Chieftans, over the frontier, in the safe zone of the Guatemalan side. The question does arise from time to time, should there be retaliatory raids on the BANDIT CHIEFTANS? So far, Belize has chosen peace. The OAS has promoted cooperation between both governments and this is still working. Unfortunately, Guatemalan armed robber bandits murdered an innocent 16 year old boy from Belize on this side of the Mopan river, bordering Melchor de Menchos and Benque Viejos, the two sister border towns, yesterday. They did it, because he was poor and had no money to rob. They shot him in the back, blew a hole through him, that tore out his heart to pieces. A vicious crime by any standards. Which does not give our population a sense of security and safety. The police authorities are working jointly in both border towns, to catch the organized bandits from Melchor de Menchos area.
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Amandala:

Posted: 22/11/2011 - 10:31 AM
Author: Adele Trapp - aotrapp@amandala.com.bz

Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD), the NGO co-managing the Chiquibul National Park with the Forest Department, reported a bust today of illegal Guatemalans raping the Belizean forest of its resources in a wave of incursions that may have cost the nation tens of millions of dollars.

FCD reported that the Joint Forces Unit in the Chiquibul Forest—a team of Belize Defence Force, Police and FCD personnel—was on a mission on Friday, November 18, in the area of Tunkul, located 10 kilometers (over 6 ” said the FCD.

As a result, they nabbed an armed logger, Evelio Adelso Romero, a villager of Las Brisas de Chiquibul in Guatemala.

“In his possession was a rifle and three .22 bullets,” the FCD reported. “Another firearm was also recovered in the area: a 12-gauge shotgun and five shotgun shells.”

The report said that Evelio was cutting lumber to be transported to Nueva Armenia, where a man identified as Carlos Martinez buys the lumber, which is transported to Guatemala City.

The logger reported that he is paid 125 quetzales per day, roughly BZ$35, for cutting the logs, said the FCD.

“The Chiquibul Forest Joint Enforcement Unit personnel estimated that there were at least 8 persons operating in the area, 8 chainsaws and 4 firearms,” they added.

Evelio Romero was subsequently taken to the San Ignacio Police Station, where he was handed over to police.

“It is expected that he will be charged for possession of an unlicensed firearm, unlicensed ammunition, illegal logging and illegal entry,” said the FCD.

FCD has reiterated the urgency of increased surveillance to curb illegal Guatemalan activities inside Belize.

We understand that they are having meetings and making presentations to key Government officials this week.

UDP PERFORMANCE GAINS 2 POINTS. NEW REPORT CARD BACK UP TO 4%

UDP CABINET GAIN ANOTHER 2 POINTS.
NEW SCORE CARD, APPROVAL RATING BACK UP TO 4%.

CABLE TV news last night was interesting about the new CALL CENTERS coming in and training programs. Haven´t given any credit to the UDP managed bureaucracy about it, because most of the claims and talk in the past has been propogandizing rhetoric. Been waiting for something concrete to show up on the table so to speak. We award the UDP points for ACTION and PERFORMANCE. They are only as good as their last successful piece of ACTION that works.

At any rate, some CALL CENTER operating here, has increased hiring some 200 people and more are supposed to be in the works. New CALL CENTER investor players are coming in is the report, and the bureaucrats have set up an application and training program, to prepare people for the job hiring process. This class graduated their first CALL CENTER customer service people, about 60 people done through the Community College system, we call ITVET. They are being pre-selected and trained as to education, mastery of the English language, instead of Creole, or Spanish, etc., Patrick Faber, Minister of Education gave out diplomas as a political show. SINCE JOBS HAVE BEEN ACTUALLY CREATED, it is worth 2 points. If the public and media announce any actual further STATISTICS of jobs created, it will receive more points. Generally speaking, they are on the right track as a bureaucracy and a government, and the TV show was upbeat about performance achieved so far, and looking for more jobs created, they say is in the works. JOBS are always important in any economy. This is pro-active and I heartily approve. Hence the 2 points awarded for the REPORT CARD for the UDP government. Rene Montero for Agriculture and Patrick Faber seem to be in appearance anyway, the only working Cabinet Ministers? The Prime Minister except for his past performance in the two year world economic crisis slowdown seems otherwise a bumbling Cabinet Minister. Not that he didn´t do good during the first two years of his government. But when it comes to performance, you are only as good as you show you are doing, LAST WEEK. Last year doesn´t count anymore.

Monday, November 21, 2011

HURRICANE HATTIE 1961 MEMOIRS

*** Ray about 15 years older after Hurricane Hattie events.


Regarding the University of Florida, pdf file on Hurricane Hattie and the remarkable recovery on Caye Caulker, a barrier reef island of 90 fishermen´s homes, that was swept by Hurricane Hattie tidal surge of 15 feet which covered the island. The school building was full of children and adults. It got picked up by a stormwave sweeping across the island and then it dropped in the trough and broke apart. That was where the 14 dead or so came about. Pablo Canto a thief and village drunkard, tied himself to a coconut tree and survived high up in the tree. What is the split, or cut today on the island,was just a small trickle of water, about a foot and a half wide after the hurricane. Tidal flow back and forth ate it open as wide as it is, in 2011. Tony Vega had his house survive. His posts were down about 11 feet in the ground and the swirl of water did not dig them out. His house was also tied together with angle iron at all the posts, studs and corners.


From: Ray Auxillou
To: Wendy Auxillou
Cc: "bz-culture@psg.com"
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: Bz-Culture: Ray Auxillou controls Caye Caulker after Hurricane Hattie

I can while I´m still alive add a footnote to whoever wrote that piece. After reporting to Governor Thornly at Queen Street police Headquarters, after returning from Caye Caulker, I asked for permission to get tools and hardware from Hofius Hardware, still standing. The Governor said fine, but I asked for a written piece of paper, with his signature on it. He gave it to me, but said he couldn´t enforce it. I and a couple of Caye Caulker helpers ( one was Leslie from the Caye ) went to Hofius walking, but the manager, would not let me have anything. So I went back to Governor Thornly and he told me he could not help me. I asked for a pistol, as the crowds were looting up and down the street and the Manager of Hofius ( an Englishman ) was worried if he opened his doors he would get looted too. We had two island sailboats by the then Marketing Board, on the riverside and had to walk through about 3 or 4 feet of mud around the city. I lost my shoes and never had another pair. Anyway the Governor referred me to a military officer ( a British Major ) who seemed to be in dispair and sort of crying, as he had no men, etc. I told him that I needed, was some soldiers to take with me and the Governor had approved it. Because of the mob. He went on and on, but finally, a patrol just coming off a 24 hour shift, volunteered. At least one corporal and a private. I also asked the Police Seargant for a pistol, telling him the Governor had approved it. He lent me his. Not sure of the caliber, and I promised to have it back in an hour. Leslie, another fisherman, two soldiers and myself went to the Police Station gate, and the military guy officer who I had asked, said there were no lorries available, ( he was almost weeping and crying at his inability to do anything ) as they were either without gasoline, or on the airport shuttle for supplies. So I asked my guys to wait and walked up the street a bit, and flagged the first 3 ton Bedford truck coming by empty, apparently on the military run to the airport. I think they had been carrying stuff to the Marketing Board shed? Anyway, I jumped in the passenger side and said I was commandeering the truck for an hour. The driver protested, he was already commandeered, but I stuck the pistol in his ribs and told him to pick up my crew by the Police Station gate. Basically, I hijacked him from the army. He did and off we went. We went around the back door of Hofius Hardware, as the manager refused to let us use the front door, as the mob were looting all the stores along the street, we went with the truck in the alley and had to finish knocking down a telephone pole to get to the doors. I went in by the front door and Louise Sylvester, the area representative was arguing and pleading with the manager to get tools, but the manager resolutely refused. I listened and there was a crowd in there with permission to get stuff, but the English manager wasn´t budging. The corporal and private were with me, and they were armed, I told the Corporal to arrest the manager and he put his rifle in the guy´s belly and pushed him back against the wall. The soldier private and one of my Caye fisherman went to the back and opened the doors and we start loading, house jacks, axes, crowbars, nails, hammers and all kinds of sundry things. Finally, the manager being held against the store wall, pleaded to me, to let him at least get a pen and paper to write down the stuff I was taking. Did that, and after that everything went smoothly. We filled the truck with stuff, then went to the Marketing Board and did the same there with food. Leslie ( a Caye black man ) had got himself arrested someplace and I rescued him and we loaded the truck with food at the Marketing Board and went around to the two sailing sloops. While the boys loaded the vessels, I took the pistol back to the police seargeant at the Queen street police station, let the soldiers go and get some sleep, the truck was sent on his way and I reported to Governor Thornly that we had our stuff and were going back to Caye Caulker. He was amazed and asked how I did it. When he heard, he simply said, he didn´t want to hear any more, but give him a report on Caye Caulker next time in town. It was some days later, and at that time the British Ship had arrived and naval doctors set up in the BLISS INSTITUTE. I went in and got my feet tended too. The doctor said he took 36 pieces of glass out of my bare feet. A good salt water sea wash fixed that for infection.
The people on the Caye really did good. They organized themselves in teams, and got stuff done quick time. Several political type villagers, went in by boat to the mainland, but were unable to get any cooperation from anybody. Next time I went in, I got zincs and hardware supplies for shelters. The hardware store manager, treated me with welcome arms and let us take anything we wanted. He just wanted to write it down. Very cooperative second time around. About three weeks later, Louise Sylvester, elected area representative came out by British military helicopter, but things were going well and he left. A year of so later, George Price, First Minister I think? Or some title, wrote me and asked how much I wanted for my work after the Hurricane. I toted it up, and submitted a claim for $120 Bz and received a voucher for the money and one day, months later cashed it. I thought it was nice to be so recognized. For some years afterward, I was joshingly called GOVERNOR on Caye Caulker.
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November 23rd, 2011 Posted in News | 2 Comments »

The following article is an excerpt from a book compiled by John D. Friesen entitled “Hurricane Hattie, Story of the hurricane that ripped through the British Honduras – October 31, 1961″. It’s a very interesting read for all and I invite everyone to access this historical information especially for our beloved isla carinosa, Caye Caulker:
Caye Caulker’s Recovery after Hattie


by: Correspondent

Caye Caulker, 20 miles north-east of Belize, near the Barrier Reef, was swept by 15 foot waves. After the Hurricane, only two good houses were left out of over 100. Almost 400 people were homeless and nearly completely wiped out with 14 known dead.

There were a few more houses numbering about 8 that were also used as refugee centers during the storm but at best were continually swept by water and badly damaged.

People were in a complete daze for the next two days as their grief and sorrow made them seemingly incapable of dealing with the situation. Meanwhile, on the second day in Belize, a fisherman from the Caye arrived in his small boat where he immediately spread the word among relatives of the terrible, bad, bad disaster there. Upon questioning the man, Mr. Ray Auxillou, an Englishman, residing in Belize, thought it was necessary to make a trip out to the Caye and bring back an accurate damage report. He set out, contacting relatives of the people on the Caye and soon a small party with a 19 ft. runabout and salt water drowned motor was found. A mechanic from Gordo’s worked on the motor feverishly while gasoline was hunted.

During the hurry and bustle of preparation, a visit to the controlling authority was paid by Auxillou to notify them of the intention to inspect the needs of the people at the Caye and the extent of the damage. Controlling authority turned out to be the Governor who seemed pleased and offered any help.

Consequently, a small list of food was obtained from the Marketing Board to be taken out for emergency use. The food turned out to be too much for the small boat and two other island sloops were comandeered at the wharf and the food loaded aboard. The speedboat with Ray Auxillou, Luis Alamina and Ilna Alamina went ahead to organize the reception and distribution of food.

Upon arrival the group were met by Constable Bernard Higinio, who was informed by Mr. Auxillou that a state of emergency was declared on the Caye, and that he would work under his authority for the time being on direct verbal orders from the Police Commissioner Bruce Taylor in Belize. A meeting of the Village Council was held at the J.P.’s house (best house remaining).

The distribution and plans for rehabilitation were discussed and after a little time, it was decided to leave things in the hands of the Village Council. However, by the next morning, it was apparent that the shock of disaster and great loss of everyone made things difficult. The Council were not reliable to adequately control or agree on what to do, people were looting and there was no spirit of cooperation. The Constable and Mr. Auxillou therefore called a public meeting that morning. The terrible situation in which the hurricane had left the whole country was described and the situation at the Caye was reviewed. Mr. Auxillou, speaking as the Governor’s representative, stated he found it necessary to declare “Martial Law” on the Caye, and in a long speech told the people that they could expect hardly any help from outside, but the best could be attempted, with no promises.

He explained how everyone should work together in cooperation with the Village Council, who would control all operations answerable to him.

Registration groups were formed immediately to list all people on the Caye, by age, name and family. A list of the destitute was made; a list of immediate requirements was also made.

The paper work took most of the day. Another meeting was held that night and “volunteer” conscription was organized with the motto “no work, no food”.

Gangs were assigned to the emergency projects in order of priority. There were the gathering and repairing of all water vats, erection of temporary shelters and looking after aid. Five serious hospital cases were sent into Belize City by boat early the next day.

Upon returning to Belize, a report was given to the Governor and a list of emergency requirements requested. These were authorized immediately and Mr. Auxillou’s authority for representing the Governor’s Emergency Hurricane Headquarters was confirmed verbally.

A tough time, even with the Governor’s written authority was experienced in getting materials, as no respect was shown to the Police Guard assigned. It was eventually found necessary to use two armed soldiers; after this was done, things worked out smoothly.

In two days’ time, the Caye had several houses standing and 19 temporary shelters. Now four weeks later, there are almost 50 complete houses, and work has stopped only because materials are lacking. At least 50 houses were swept completely away to sea.

After ten days, Mr. Auxillou passed the authority over the the Constable through the Governor, still leaving the Village Council in actual charge of operations, as the emergency crisis was deemed over, and all operations were now working fairly smoothly. The situation broke down slightly a few days later for a short time, but went back to normal again with the Village Council, now working in complete charge.

Caye Caulker was split into two following Hurricane Hattie in 1961 (Photo by Ray Auxillou )