CURE FOR ARTHRITIS FOUND IN BELIZE!
A lady I know has suffered from arthritis for years. She is not old either. In her 30's and the disease is quite debilitating. Anyway, when we stopped to talk the other day, she was saying she finally found a herbal cure and is much better now. The cure was honey and cinammon mixed in a small drink of water. Perhaps arthritis is simply missing some chemical, or mineral ingredient?
Sunday, November 15, 2009
The RISE of vigilante justice in Belize and Guatemala!
THE RISE OF VIGILANTE JUSTICE IN BELIZE AND GUATEMALA
Recent articles in the port newspapers of Belize indicate that the murder rate in Guatemala is quite high. Not counting per capita it is high also in Belize. The reasons are much the same.
There is no faith, in either Guatemala or Belize with the justice system. The courts are looked on as a set of rackets, with the only winners being the lawyers. People in both countries have resorted to justice outside of the legal system. The vigilante system of justice is widespread now in both Guatemala and Belize.
Recent newspaper articles in Belize pointed out, you can get a hit man from across the Guatemalan frontier to assassinate somebody for $300 bz, or about $150 usa. here in Western Belize. This is becoming more and more the prefered way of settling beefs, or disputes in Belize. Nobody is discussing the assassination prices to do with the port of Belize City on the coast, which are more common. Frankly I prefer this method over the justice system myself. The Belize national police system continues in corrupt performance according to newspaper articles. Seems they are hiring crooks as recruits? Burglaries in the Santa Cruz neighborhood of Santa Elena Town are escalating. A local nurse working at the government hospital said the other day, that most of the emergency room cases were from Santa Elena town and involved knives and machetes, here in our TWIN TOWNS.
Belize and Jamaica are also in the news with TORTURE by police officers of suspects. Forced confessions are worthless. Everything from dislocating arms and shoulder sockets, to pouring boiling scalding water on the genitals by police officers. In one case in Benque Viejo Town, the ruling Police Inspector even has his bully boy constables to do the torture. No satisfaction can be found through either the police system, or the court system. At least there is no satisfaction in the newspapers in follow up articles. The law in the Caribbean English speaking countries is very much that of the 16 and 17th century. Violent and brutal! Such is the British heritage.
Belize is still small enough not to have yet achieved secret civil, self defense groups, but they undoubtedly are coming. The six or so Guatemalans down by the Rio Dulce that were in the news a couple of years ago for murdering a yachting couple living aboard, during a robbery, have all been assassinated. They went to Guatemalan court trial, which was dismissed and subsequently a local famous business proprietor apparently as the story goes, hired a hit man and sought these murderers out after the justice system failed in that country, and shot them before many witnesses. Nobody saw a thing! As it should be! I kind of like vigilante justice myself. It is certainly cheaper than the lawyer racketeers.
Recent articles in the port newspapers of Belize indicate that the murder rate in Guatemala is quite high. Not counting per capita it is high also in Belize. The reasons are much the same.
There is no faith, in either Guatemala or Belize with the justice system. The courts are looked on as a set of rackets, with the only winners being the lawyers. People in both countries have resorted to justice outside of the legal system. The vigilante system of justice is widespread now in both Guatemala and Belize.
Recent newspaper articles in Belize pointed out, you can get a hit man from across the Guatemalan frontier to assassinate somebody for $300 bz, or about $150 usa. here in Western Belize. This is becoming more and more the prefered way of settling beefs, or disputes in Belize. Nobody is discussing the assassination prices to do with the port of Belize City on the coast, which are more common. Frankly I prefer this method over the justice system myself. The Belize national police system continues in corrupt performance according to newspaper articles. Seems they are hiring crooks as recruits? Burglaries in the Santa Cruz neighborhood of Santa Elena Town are escalating. A local nurse working at the government hospital said the other day, that most of the emergency room cases were from Santa Elena town and involved knives and machetes, here in our TWIN TOWNS.
Belize and Jamaica are also in the news with TORTURE by police officers of suspects. Forced confessions are worthless. Everything from dislocating arms and shoulder sockets, to pouring boiling scalding water on the genitals by police officers. In one case in Benque Viejo Town, the ruling Police Inspector even has his bully boy constables to do the torture. No satisfaction can be found through either the police system, or the court system. At least there is no satisfaction in the newspapers in follow up articles. The law in the Caribbean English speaking countries is very much that of the 16 and 17th century. Violent and brutal! Such is the British heritage.
Belize is still small enough not to have yet achieved secret civil, self defense groups, but they undoubtedly are coming. The six or so Guatemalans down by the Rio Dulce that were in the news a couple of years ago for murdering a yachting couple living aboard, during a robbery, have all been assassinated. They went to Guatemalan court trial, which was dismissed and subsequently a local famous business proprietor apparently as the story goes, hired a hit man and sought these murderers out after the justice system failed in that country, and shot them before many witnesses. Nobody saw a thing! As it should be! I kind of like vigilante justice myself. It is certainly cheaper than the lawyer racketeers.
CARICOM IS GETTING WORSE!
CARICOM DEVELOPMENTS SPIRAL WORSE!
Some of the more outspoken Heads of Government are saying NOW, after 40 years or so, that the concept of a Caribbean Community, or a Common Market are DEAD in the water and will never come to pass.
The reasons are other than business reasons, like insufficient exports and revenues and government done by foreign loan borrowing It seems that the COMMON MARKET idea depends a lot on the common citizenship and free travel of citizens of island countries to be able to travel like in Canadian provinces, or the USA states. The HEADS OF GOVERNMENT are totally opposed to the FREE TRAVEL and WORK abilities of other countries in the Caribbean. Everybody is afraid of a Haitian invasion. Caricom countries are afraid of being flooded by Guyanese and Jamaicans. Not only Haitians. Without the idea you are a citizen of a Federated country with standard laws, the whole concept of a FREE TRADE economic area breaks down.
Population explosion is getting worse and alternate foreign countries to bleed off excess population of Caribbean countries are getting stricter and harder to get into.
Major Heads of GOVERNMENT are now saying a Caribbean Community and or a CARICOM Nation is basically dead, because of the population problem. Most of the countries are all sustained by foreign LOANS to govern with. They have not developed any kind of self sufficiency and exports.
Some of the more outspoken Heads of Government are saying NOW, after 40 years or so, that the concept of a Caribbean Community, or a Common Market are DEAD in the water and will never come to pass.
The reasons are other than business reasons, like insufficient exports and revenues and government done by foreign loan borrowing It seems that the COMMON MARKET idea depends a lot on the common citizenship and free travel of citizens of island countries to be able to travel like in Canadian provinces, or the USA states. The HEADS OF GOVERNMENT are totally opposed to the FREE TRAVEL and WORK abilities of other countries in the Caribbean. Everybody is afraid of a Haitian invasion. Caricom countries are afraid of being flooded by Guyanese and Jamaicans. Not only Haitians. Without the idea you are a citizen of a Federated country with standard laws, the whole concept of a FREE TRADE economic area breaks down.
Population explosion is getting worse and alternate foreign countries to bleed off excess population of Caribbean countries are getting stricter and harder to get into.
Major Heads of GOVERNMENT are now saying a Caribbean Community and or a CARICOM Nation is basically dead, because of the population problem. Most of the countries are all sustained by foreign LOANS to govern with. They have not developed any kind of self sufficiency and exports.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Canoeing in the Cayo District of Western Belize Alps foothills!
*** There are worse ways to spend the winter than digging out of snow storms.
*** When it is FREEZING COLD in North America and Europe, remember you could be canoeing and camping in the Belize Alps foothills of Western Belize.
**** Canoeing in Cayo District, the Western Belize Adventures.I'm always amused by protesting visitors from countries in the colder northern temperate zones. They say they love the changing of the seasons, the variety. Yeah sure! For me, give me the ETERNAL SPRING of BELIZE. I don't want to spend half my life in buildings with the heat on, the bills to pay, digging out of snow banks, driving in heavy traffic with snow chains. Forget it! Then there is the infamous SPRING. Yeah sure! Sleet, mud, rain and cold with alternate glimpses of odd sunlight. Forget it, give me Belize and our climate of ETERNAL SPRING and a full year of living in and outdoors at MY CHOICE! True, January can be chilly here, when the Northers come through from Alaska and we tend to get a lot of rain as the weather fronts pass over. It also gets very warm in May and June. You can sure keep your indoor living up there mon! Not for me! The only decent months up in temperate climates is August, September and October - just a quarter of a year. The other 9 months, or 3/4 's of your life is wasted.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
BELIZE MEDICAL SERVICE IN BELIZE, COMPARED TO MIAMI, USA
E-MAIL ON COMPARATIVE COSTS FOR US RETIREES IN WESTERN BELIZE - VERSUS COSTS IN METROPOLITAN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, USA
Charlie ( Washington, D.C. )
Was seriously considering moving to TEXAS to operate the trading due to slow dial up internet speed here. The only problem with that was, we couldn't afford the USA health system.
For example the wife was running a fever yesterday and had recurring kidney pains again. So off we went to try out the new San Ignacio Poly Clinic out on the Bullet Tree Road here in Western Belize, Central America. Feels like about 2 miles from San Ignacio past the police check point. We live across the river in Hillview, in Green Parrot Valley, a suburb of Santa Elena Town. Rural style living.
The location of the new Poly Clinic is superb on a hill and all around are hills and valleys with lovely views. The new building isn't bad either. It took us seven hours to get through service, diagnosis and treatment. But she got a blood test which was okay, a urine test which showed she had an infection and then got two antibiotics and some Tylenol. At first we had to line up in the ordinary hospital/poly clinic reception area. That took a long time as everybody had quit for lunch. En masse. No service and it seemed somewhat disorganized and chaotic. The reception area lacked a TAKE A NUMBER, or priority system. Lots of women with children problems. Finally after a few hours, saw the doctor and she was referred to the emergency room. Got antibiotic by intra venous for a couple of hours as she is allergic to some of them. The new emergency room has 4 beds and 2 children beds, state of the art equipped. IMPRESSIVE! I saw a sign that said there was a TRAUMA room. The CUBAN staff, doctor and nurse were EXCELLENT. Professional and good bed side manner.
Anyway, after seven hours and everything she needed done, it was all FREE ! Including medication from the hospital pharmacy. At a local private doctor and clinic and tests, in the center of the Twin Towns here, the whole shebang would have run about $200 Bz. ( $2 Bz to $1 usa ) and taken about 2 1/2 hours in and out. This in downtown TWIN TOWNS. So for the price of 7 hours at the government public hospital poly clinic, the savings was good and the service was very good. Next time I'll take a book to read though.
The same treatment ( kidney infections are recurrent with my wife ) in Miami-Dade metropolitan area in Florida used to take 3 weeks. With a lot of car travelling, traffic, waiting room time and seeing the family doctor, being referred to a clinic for tests and then a specialist doctor with more tests and then back to the family doctor again. The pain would escalate and make those 3 weeks seem like hell! With insurance or medicare, the cost ran around $4000 usa. You still had to pay co-payments as well. I'll take the medical service in Belize, Central America, over that in the USA anytime.
------------ As an aside Charlie, it is true we closed the three story, Falconview Backpackers Adventure Hostel. We have 18 beds, five bathrooms, two furnished apartments for rent, two dormitories and a back yard with two nurseries for growing our own vegetables and flowers. Not counting our internal central private residence of two bedrooms, bath and kitchenette of 400 sq. ft in the center of the Hostel. Nor the warehouse and two store rooms and laundry area. Lots of fruit trees, breadfruit, coconuts, oranges, plenty of papaya. We eat well! All in a 75 ft x 100 ft lot. Very quiet around here. We have the place for sale for $328,000 usa on the internet and will move to a duplex we built on a ridge a block away, which is one floor as we are getting too old, to be climbing stairs.
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For stories and articles on Western Belize there are over 600 of them on WESTERN BELIZE HAPPENINGS, my BLOG
Charlie ( Washington, D.C. )
Was seriously considering moving to TEXAS to operate the trading due to slow dial up internet speed here. The only problem with that was, we couldn't afford the USA health system.
For example the wife was running a fever yesterday and had recurring kidney pains again. So off we went to try out the new San Ignacio Poly Clinic out on the Bullet Tree Road here in Western Belize, Central America. Feels like about 2 miles from San Ignacio past the police check point. We live across the river in Hillview, in Green Parrot Valley, a suburb of Santa Elena Town. Rural style living.
The location of the new Poly Clinic is superb on a hill and all around are hills and valleys with lovely views. The new building isn't bad either. It took us seven hours to get through service, diagnosis and treatment. But she got a blood test which was okay, a urine test which showed she had an infection and then got two antibiotics and some Tylenol. At first we had to line up in the ordinary hospital/poly clinic reception area. That took a long time as everybody had quit for lunch. En masse. No service and it seemed somewhat disorganized and chaotic. The reception area lacked a TAKE A NUMBER, or priority system. Lots of women with children problems. Finally after a few hours, saw the doctor and she was referred to the emergency room. Got antibiotic by intra venous for a couple of hours as she is allergic to some of them. The new emergency room has 4 beds and 2 children beds, state of the art equipped. IMPRESSIVE! I saw a sign that said there was a TRAUMA room. The CUBAN staff, doctor and nurse were EXCELLENT. Professional and good bed side manner.
Anyway, after seven hours and everything she needed done, it was all FREE ! Including medication from the hospital pharmacy. At a local private doctor and clinic and tests, in the center of the Twin Towns here, the whole shebang would have run about $200 Bz. ( $2 Bz to $1 usa ) and taken about 2 1/2 hours in and out. This in downtown TWIN TOWNS. So for the price of 7 hours at the government public hospital poly clinic, the savings was good and the service was very good. Next time I'll take a book to read though.
The same treatment ( kidney infections are recurrent with my wife ) in Miami-Dade metropolitan area in Florida used to take 3 weeks. With a lot of car travelling, traffic, waiting room time and seeing the family doctor, being referred to a clinic for tests and then a specialist doctor with more tests and then back to the family doctor again. The pain would escalate and make those 3 weeks seem like hell! With insurance or medicare, the cost ran around $4000 usa. You still had to pay co-payments as well. I'll take the medical service in Belize, Central America, over that in the USA anytime.
------------ As an aside Charlie, it is true we closed the three story, Falconview Backpackers Adventure Hostel. We have 18 beds, five bathrooms, two furnished apartments for rent, two dormitories and a back yard with two nurseries for growing our own vegetables and flowers. Not counting our internal central private residence of two bedrooms, bath and kitchenette of 400 sq. ft in the center of the Hostel. Nor the warehouse and two store rooms and laundry area. Lots of fruit trees, breadfruit, coconuts, oranges, plenty of papaya. We eat well! All in a 75 ft x 100 ft lot. Very quiet around here. We have the place for sale for $328,000 usa on the internet and will move to a duplex we built on a ridge a block away, which is one floor as we are getting too old, to be climbing stairs.
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For stories and articles on Western Belize there are over 600 of them on WESTERN BELIZE HAPPENINGS, my BLOG
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Belize farmers get new market for GINGER and PEPPERS in London
TOLEDO REMOTE FARMERS IN THE JUNGLES AND HILLS, REPORT THAT A REPRESENTATIVE THAT WENT TO LONDON TO TALK BETTER PRICES FOR THEIR CACAO JUNGLE SHADED CROP, HAS COME BACK WITH OFFERS TO BUY GINGER AND PEPPERS
USA declares war on ALBA countries and Chavez declares war on Colombia?
US CONGRESS AUTHORIZES WAR ON ALL ANTI-USA COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
A document was sent to me yesterday. Apparently it declares war on any anti-USA country in Latin America and the Caribbean by the USA Air Force. This is industrial and economic war. Modern warfare is about AIR POWER and COVERT groups, behind the scenes type activities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15951
This is said to be an official USA AIR FORCE DOCUMENT presented to Congress at Budget Hearings for expansion of the Palanquero, Colombia air base. The air base is recommended because it is isolated and is central from the USA borders in the North, to Patagonia in the South and can cover air operations, industrial espionage throughout the continent. The idea is to increase the capability of USA warfare capabilities and expand expeditionary warfare capacity. The USA military establishment is used mainly to further the economic requirements of the industrial sector of the USA economy.
I don't know if this document is true or not myself?
The target is ANY ANTI-USA country and government. The document is under the name of Eva Golinger, a US citizen allegedly living in Venezuela.
Belize is covered by this warfare umbrella. In all fairness the US say it is for fighting the FARC and narco terrorism. President Hugo Chavez has declared war on Colombia this past week and is said to be moving 25,000 troops along the border with Colombia. Colombia he says is a client state of the USA. The heart of the move is intended one would presume, to secure a remote frontier and protect the ORINICO OIL RESERVES yet undeveloped. The USA is reported to be changing to a Natural Gas transportation system in which they have gas resources of their own. Since some oil will still be needed, the biggest oil supplier is Venezuela and the biggest oil reserves are the ORINICO BASIN, shared by Colombia and Venezuela and currently controlled not by either country sovereign government, but by the infamous kidnapping 12,000 army of terrorist mafia bandits the FARC. There are no security on the ground from either Caracas or Bogota. No civil service functions serving the area. The USA call it an UNGOVERNED AREA on the maps.
Persian Gulf oil reserves are declining now. They have passed PEAK OIL production.
President Uribe of Colombia changed the Constitution to have a second term. Apparently he is changing the constitution again to run for a third term. This pretty much makes him in Latin America no different than Chavez, who is a PRESIDENT FOR LIFE and has rigged the government, Supreme Court, and fraudulently counts his own ballots, it is said, to say in office.
The document implies that all ALBA FEDERATION countries are enemies of the USA, and authorizes by the budget committee of the US Congress for the military and particularly the AIR FORCE, to carry out this war, but not in those actual words.
Chavez of Venezuela carries out covert war and spying in Colombia, using the FARC TERRORIST BANDIT ARMY along the frontier, and recently he captured three DAS ( Intelligence agents from Colombia) within Venezuela. A tit for tat situation. There are also different factions in the Colombian military and the socialist communist sympathizers are passing intelligence to Venezuela it has been long rumored. The Colombian military have failed to eliminate the FARC and establish good governance in the disputed land areas in the ORINICO basin. There is a lot of economic trade between Venezuela and Colombia by citizens, elsewhere.
Some are saying CHAVEZ is declaring WAR to distract the populace from 27% inflation in his country and an inadequate investment in infra-structure. There are a lot of electrical brownouts and water shortages. In the USA some say that the OBAMA government is trying to STIMULATE the economy with another war, to work it's way out of a depression and rising 18% unemployment figures. Whatever you believe, the region is being destabilized by both CHAVEZ and OBAMA bureaucracies.
In Belize, one should remember; that when the elephants fight, the ants should get out of the way.
A document was sent to me yesterday. Apparently it declares war on any anti-USA country in Latin America and the Caribbean by the USA Air Force. This is industrial and economic war. Modern warfare is about AIR POWER and COVERT groups, behind the scenes type activities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15951
This is said to be an official USA AIR FORCE DOCUMENT presented to Congress at Budget Hearings for expansion of the Palanquero, Colombia air base. The air base is recommended because it is isolated and is central from the USA borders in the North, to Patagonia in the South and can cover air operations, industrial espionage throughout the continent. The idea is to increase the capability of USA warfare capabilities and expand expeditionary warfare capacity. The USA military establishment is used mainly to further the economic requirements of the industrial sector of the USA economy.
I don't know if this document is true or not myself?
The target is ANY ANTI-USA country and government. The document is under the name of Eva Golinger, a US citizen allegedly living in Venezuela.
Belize is covered by this warfare umbrella. In all fairness the US say it is for fighting the FARC and narco terrorism. President Hugo Chavez has declared war on Colombia this past week and is said to be moving 25,000 troops along the border with Colombia. Colombia he says is a client state of the USA. The heart of the move is intended one would presume, to secure a remote frontier and protect the ORINICO OIL RESERVES yet undeveloped. The USA is reported to be changing to a Natural Gas transportation system in which they have gas resources of their own. Since some oil will still be needed, the biggest oil supplier is Venezuela and the biggest oil reserves are the ORINICO BASIN, shared by Colombia and Venezuela and currently controlled not by either country sovereign government, but by the infamous kidnapping 12,000 army of terrorist mafia bandits the FARC. There are no security on the ground from either Caracas or Bogota. No civil service functions serving the area. The USA call it an UNGOVERNED AREA on the maps.
Persian Gulf oil reserves are declining now. They have passed PEAK OIL production.
President Uribe of Colombia changed the Constitution to have a second term. Apparently he is changing the constitution again to run for a third term. This pretty much makes him in Latin America no different than Chavez, who is a PRESIDENT FOR LIFE and has rigged the government, Supreme Court, and fraudulently counts his own ballots, it is said, to say in office.
The document implies that all ALBA FEDERATION countries are enemies of the USA, and authorizes by the budget committee of the US Congress for the military and particularly the AIR FORCE, to carry out this war, but not in those actual words.
Chavez of Venezuela carries out covert war and spying in Colombia, using the FARC TERRORIST BANDIT ARMY along the frontier, and recently he captured three DAS ( Intelligence agents from Colombia) within Venezuela. A tit for tat situation. There are also different factions in the Colombian military and the socialist communist sympathizers are passing intelligence to Venezuela it has been long rumored. The Colombian military have failed to eliminate the FARC and establish good governance in the disputed land areas in the ORINICO basin. There is a lot of economic trade between Venezuela and Colombia by citizens, elsewhere.
Some are saying CHAVEZ is declaring WAR to distract the populace from 27% inflation in his country and an inadequate investment in infra-structure. There are a lot of electrical brownouts and water shortages. In the USA some say that the OBAMA government is trying to STIMULATE the economy with another war, to work it's way out of a depression and rising 18% unemployment figures. Whatever you believe, the region is being destabilized by both CHAVEZ and OBAMA bureaucracies.
In Belize, one should remember; that when the elephants fight, the ants should get out of the way.
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