AMANDALA NEWSPAPER SCORES THE PULTIZER PRIZE OF BELIZE.

WOW! The AMANDALA NEWSPAPER drops a bombshell with a story entitled LIBYA - ALL ABOUT BANKS, OR MAYBE OIL?

Couldn´t find this story in their online version but it is a dynamic look at the world events, on a par with stories done for the USA dealing with US interests, as it effects Belize. This is definitely quality writing on our Belizean Foreign Affairs, superior to anything our UDP government, or Foreign Ministry is doing. We need a PULITZER PRIZE OF BELIZE. Whoever their AMANDALA newspaper editor is on this story, it was magnificent. WOW!

Essentially, the point was made that there are WARS within WARS, within WARS on the world scene. Nothing is as it seems with these wars and the disinformation and blarney put out in the press. At heart, was the FACT and FACTS are unavoidable things when it comes to conspiracy theories. In this case, it was pointed out, when the popular uprising was made in Benghazi, in Benghazi, LIBYA, against the authoritarian, successful, socialist state of Ghadaffi, BEFORE even the uprising had got organized, or decided to consolidate and make some leaders and councils for the uprising and rebellion, a queer fact arose. Somebody took the uprising to heart and created back as early as MARCH, another second, CENTRAL BANK of LIBYA, based in the pre-planned revolutionary stronghold of BENGHAZZI. Before the REBELLION started to organize.
Now Libya has it´s own CENTRAL BANK in TRIPOLI, they also print their own money, have stockpiled tonnes of GOLD to back their money. Their people have lifestyles and wealth beyond the wildest dreams of the USA, U.K., or Belize. Everybody has a house, a cheap European car, cheaper than Europeans can buy them, young married couples get $50,000 after the wedding ceremony. No food shortages, cost of living lower than in Belize. Free medical, free education, even the government will pay for you to go abroad to get a Ph´d in a foreign educational institute. You name it they got it. They have a de-centralized government run on Tribal Council lines. While they have an authoritarian leader with no title, but has a bit of a police state, and controls the oil wealth with his family, other than that, you could not wish for a better socialist country built on the lines of the Northern Fisherman´s Cooperative on Caye Caulker.

In the USA, it is a well known scandal that Goldman Sachs and the privately owned Federal Reserve, control the country in financial affairs and often in foreign affairs. There is the oft trotted out conspiracy of the ROTHSCHILD BANKING OCTOPUS, and thrown into the mix are the BILDEBURG WORLD CONTROL GROUP, the G- 20 and the OECD countries of Western civilization ( the old colonialist empire builders ).
The AMANDALA newspaper after doing valuable research, points out that the ARAB countries have their own BANKING SYSTEM outside of WESTERN CONTROL. None of them belong to the control group now flagrantly in a war to control the smaller tax havens and financial centers. In Belize, we well know the controls of the banking system on CARICOM financial centers, as done by the 56 member banks of the WESTERN BANKING SETTLEMENT system, ( BIS )has literally put the tax havens and financial offshore business out of business, ( wire transfers these days are useless, they steal your money ), by denying our CARICOM and BELIZE banks the ability to exchange cheques, wire transfers, seized deposits and monies to make their WILL the law, on world money control affairs. The euphinism and excuse given is a WAR on TERRORISM. The ARAB countries are not members, the AMANDALA article points out and the famous quote, which I vaguely remember by some infamous ROTHSCHILD who said something to the effect of; if I control the DEBT of the countries, I care not about who rules, or the politics. The ARABS do not deal with the IMF, or WORLD BANK, but in Belize we must and are thus controlled as a producer of a foreign exchange crop through DEBT. That has been discussed many times going back decades in Belize. There is the fact that on the WORLD SCENE the infamous PATRIOT ACT and loss of democratic civil liberties that has ensued, seems nothing more than a weapon of war to subjugate smaller foreign countries, in a WAR of different means for world power.
In Belize, the recent visit by the RUSSIAN FEDERATION wanting who knows what? As we only have a small influence in Central AMERICAN affairs, the votes thus held in the United Nations by Central America and CARICOM. I watched the reading of the BUDGET SPEECH by PUTIN to the RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT in MOSCOW on television the other day, for the Russian Federation and they also seem to know they are in a NEW WAR with the WESTERN COUNTRIES, for exports and economics. The RUSSIANS have been beaten by the WESTERN NATIONS in this economic war and are complaining about their manufacturing industry of weapons systems and are having to write off TRILLIONS of RUBLES of debt thusly. Which makes their overtures to tiny Belize, with a population of only 313,000 people as somewhat ludicrous from our viewpoint.
Getting back to LIBYA, QUADAFFI is the leader of a movement to make an economic union of AFRICA with it´s 200 million people market. The CHINESE are even now moving into AFRICA doing development and investing, as they are in Latin America. The EUROPEANS and the USA are already here, on our continent, defending their perceived TURF, the Canadians are notoriously absent, being an extension of Europe.
In the USA the FEDERAL RESERVE is PRIVATELY OWNED, not by the US Government, the banksters as the AMANDALA calls them run the US Government along with corporate interests. WARS are simply an extension of economic WAR in US policy as is also apparently the EUROPEANS. In LIBYA the CENTRAL BANK is owned by the STATE, as it is in Belize. The foreign banking CARTELS, like the ROTHSCHILDS and GOLDMAN SACHS have to do business through the CENTRAL BANK of LIBYA over whom they have no control, them not being members of the OECD, or the FOREIGN EXCHANGE system, which we in Belize are controlled by with a heavy hand, in the attack on our FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY throughout CARICOM.
THe AMANDALA article well researched, went on to explain how the money system works with banks, controls, etc. in these hidden ways of war, we nothing of. An eye opener for a new generation of students in government service in our University of Belize. It pointed out, if your government is out of the control of the OECD, or the foreign exchange system, called by the acroynm BIS, in Brussels; you can do infra-structure building at half the cost of borrowing money from the banking Western World octopus control system. As the ARABS have proved by being independent, they borrow from themselves and their own Central Bank and do not therefore pay interest, cutting development and infra-structure costs by 50% at least.
Too bad the AMANDALA NEWSPAPER article was not online. The AMANDALA NEWSPAPER has risen to new heights for our national identity, giving food for thought, about where we are going and where we would like to go. It really makes you think, and the shackles we are bound with, by our governments continuing to persue debt via the WESTERN WORLD banking system.

EXCELLENT ARTICLE AND FOOD FOR A LOT OF THOUGHT AND MAYBE SOME NEW POLICIES AT CABINET LEVEL? BEEG KUDOS to the AMANDALA newspaper.

Belize onion farmers bankrupted by local competition.

pickled small onions for export
rotting onions in Orange Walk and Corozal flat lands.



BELIZE ONION GROWERS OVERPRODUCE FOR LOCAL MARKET AND HAVE TO LET ONIONS ROT IN THE FIELDS

Pictures on local television show interviews with groups of organized small onion growers, who have borrowed money from banks and credit unions to grow onions, lamenting the competition and overproduction for the local market. First the market opened well, at prices of $45 per 50 lb bag, or .90 cents a pound. As more onions came on the market, the price started falling to .60 cents a pound and eventually to .40 cents a pound.
I was reminded of my own youth around 11 or 12 years old, growing up on a Southern Ontario, Canada farm, in which the same thing happened to growers of turnips. After a second year of rotting turnips due to overproduction, the third year, with less growers, now changed into growing oats, or wheat, or hay, the turnip price skyrocketed and those farmers with turnips ended up doing very well. In those years, our rural, one room schoolhouse was closed as children were put into the fields in the FALL season to harvest crops.
Competition for the local market has swamped the farmers of onions, in the Orange Walk and Corozal flat land district.
Some crops simply do not lend themselves to year round growing in Northern Belize. The reason for this is flowering has to take place in colder night time temperatures and at certain seasons in Belize, only works in the Mountain Pine Ridge hills, where the altitude and lower night time temperature differential occurs with the day time warmer temperature differential. Seems like the extension Agricultural officers still do not have a handle on growing crops in Belize.
Tomatoes require the Maya Mountains and colder night time air to flourish successfully, in the local dry hot seasons, so do orchids, which currently are only grown at Central Farm in air conditioning temperature controlled conditions.
The local TV showing farmers ruined by rotting onions brings back memories. It is also a mistake for government to encourage farming crops based on loans, but no matter how you much you tell them in Belize, a bureaucracy run by port town academics continues to distribute ruinous ideas and misinformation. For which in the end they just shrug their shoulders and make excuses, as they live on a guaranteed monthly salary.
If you are going to grow crops, you need to be able to export them. I see nobody growing the very small round onions used for pickled containers in vinegar, which can be exported. Ebb andf Flow Hydroponics does this crop very well, on a year round basis. I believe they call them leeks.

BELIZE CITRUS GROWERS AND FACTORY QUIBBLE ABOUT TECHNICALITIES

CITRUS GROWERS AND FACTORY QUIBBLE ABOUT TECHNICALTIES

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CITRUS GROWERS ASSOCIATION HOLDS SPECIAL MEETING

Mon, April 18, 2011

The Citrus Growers Association of Belize held a special general membership meeting on Saturday at its headquarters at mile nine on the Stann Creek Valley Road. The meeting was a follow up to one held at the end of February and dealt with three main agenda items, including prices, and updates on arbitration and cash flow problems at CPBL. With regards to the prices, Chief Executive Officer Henry Anderson told Love News that the CGA reported to members on grape fruit prices.

Henry Anderson – CEO, Citrus Growers Association

“It’s at $6.19 per box. At the last meeting we reported that we are expecting a new price for oranges; we got that new price, it has yet to be accepted. That new price when accepted will be around $12.21 per box which would mean that growers will be getting about 15% more than the first price. What we have pointed out to growers is that when you look at the price per pound solid in the world market, at $12.21 per box now, that is the highest that they have ever been getting and essentially that is because of the arbitration findings that ensured that CPBL had to provide more information to CGA and because we are more diligent in following up these things, that some of the anomalies that we have would see in the past we are not seeing as much again. We highlighted that there are still some issues with some prices going into the Caribbean and that is an ongoing matter.”

Saturday morning’s meeting also gave members an update on Implementation of Arbitration Recommendations, as it regards the discrepancy in pound solids between factory and pound solids lab for orange, sanctioned by the Citrus Control Board. Anderson says that the technical audit was carried out by two consultants from Florida and that they found some surprising revelations.

Henry Anderson – CEO, Citrus Growers Association

“They came in and they found areas where we could improve how the samplers work, where the factory can improve its efficiency by doing some changes to the extractors and to do some other settings. Some of the stuff they have come up with, I think they have learnt, these are like preparatory things, over the years. What they were able to demonstrate is that the factory can and should be getting yields more than the lab. They demonstrated that our factory when they did their tests, it was about 4.8% more than the lab and the other one was about 7% more than the lab; that is just for the day they did the test. What they are saying that it should be above and given the recommendations I mentioned they were saying to be done, that it would be higher and above. The factory indicated to us that over the course of this current season they are actually 2% above the lab, we are talking about oranges. What we reported to the growers that while this was good news that the factory is above the lab, it is strange in the sense that nothing changed from last year and last year they 2.9 before so you have a 5% swing in production just as the same time you are trying to find out what is the problem and the factory is saying that they really haven’t made any major changes with the extractors and stuff. They made some changes based on what came out of the arbitration report in terms of the sales to make sure that the amount of fruits that is being paid for is actually passing through. This raises some concerns Patrick because you have a trend for five years that the factory’s productivity is going down as it relates to the lab, now that it has a 5% turn, then it begs the question what caused that, was it that the factory was paying for fruits it was not getting and certain growers were getting those payments and if you are paying for fruits but you are not physically getting the fruits then you will never be able to get the pound solids. Or was it that those pound solids were actually produced and mysteriously went somewhere else and did not appear in the price formula. We can’t be sure if it is a combination of both or is either or but it does leave a big pressing issue as to what happened and how things have now mysteriously turned around, noh.”

Anderson says that the mysterious turn around will likely end up before the Citrus Control Board for final determination of the way forward.

Henry Anderson – CEO, Citrus Growers Association

“We are awaiting the final report of the consultants which will be due in a week’s time. Therein it was made to look at what is now and how to get it better but they have confirmed that the factory is reporting more than the lab and the factory is confirming the very same so that is something that we sit down and discuss and negotiate.”

Patrick Jones - Reporter

What is the way forward now, what happens until that report comes in?

Henry Anderson – CEO, Citrus Growers Association

“We wait for it to come in, that should come in by the end of the week and then the Committee of Management would have to look at it and then we decide, we go back to the Citrus Control Board, I can’t pre-empt anything here. The point I am making to you is that there is a 5% turnaround in productivity and if you understand what is happening here, that did not happen just like that so that raises its own issues here, noh.”

According to the CGA official, on Friday evening he was served with a court order on behalf of some non-paying members, allowing them to be able to attend Saturday’s meeting. Despite the court order, Anderson says that only one of the aggrieved members actually showed up for the special general meeting. Love News spoke with CEO of Citrus Products of Belize Dr. Henry Canton who said the rationale behind the high prices that growers will be receiving has nothing to do with the reports they are required to submit.

Dr. Henry Canton – CEO, CPBL

“I think that reason why the growers are getting the highest price paid to them is because we have a very strong, high price on the world market and the fact that this year unlike many other years the yield per box of fruit is a lot higher this year than before due to climatic conditions or whatever conditions the fields are having. It is the combination of good yield and also high prices that are giving that; it has nothing to do with the report that we give to them.”

Canton said the difference between the trend of the previous years compared to this year can be explained easily.

Dr. Henry Canton – CEO, CPBL

“There was a discrepancy between the front door which is what the pound solids authority reports that the growers deliver and then basically the back door or the yield that the factory gets. Historically we were ahead for the first two or three years that we were doing pound solids by about a point and a half two percent and then it slid, and it slid rapidly in one year and then it slid to the 2.9% that he referred to last year. This year we are back up again by between 2 and 4%. There are a number of reasons why something like that would happen and it is technically based. Primarily based on the quality of fruits, how the fruit was delivered in and the mix of products that we are making because when we are making pulp we extract solids also out of the juice along with the pulp so there are a number of explainable issues. One of the things that did come out of the summary of the report in the interim report of the technical audit was the fact that there are some serious issues on the sampling of fruits at the pound solids where there is a larger portion of the smaller fruits being selected by the sampler and that smaller fruits versus larger fruits there is as much as a difference two points in the amount of solids in the juice which is able to impact substantively the yield of the front door. What that means is that if the factory at the front with the smaller fruits was artificially higher because the sample is not representative of the load of fruit then the factory would not be extracting what the front door is saying but be extracting what it gets from the load of fruit; therefore that would be setting a false threshold at the front and not being able to collect it at the back because the factory is just like a computer if garbage goes in the front, garbage will come out the back and what goes in the front comes out the back.”



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University of Belize lacks production of factual scientific papers on Tilapia Fishing.

UB education empowers Belize sign.
UB a dream still unfilled.
WHERE IS THE ACQUA CULTURE SCIENCE ON TILAPIA COMMERCIAL POND FISHING?

The University of Belize is not yet a technological development, economic resource for the development of the country of Belize. There is no source of technical research for investors wishing to go into commercial tank, or pond TILAPIA FISHING for instance. Much less research on sea cucumber ranching. Perhaps it is too much to expect in these early days of the Belize National University development, but the lack of such feasability papers and scientific research is sorely felt in the PRIVATE SECTOR investment community.

TOLEDO DISTRICT OF BELIZE THE GROWING FRONTIER

The TOLEDO DISTRICT is the fastest growing district of opportunity and population. The government will have to do some reclaiming of old tracts of territory, that supposedly have homongous tax debts now, on unused agricultural land, in order to distribute lands to a new wave of immigrants that are sweeping into the vast Toledo Hill Country.

How do Belize entrepreneurs develop a sea cucumber acquatic facility?

WHERE IS THE ACQUACULTURE SCIENCE ON SEA CUCUMBER RANCHING?

Sea Cucumber

Dr. Sands recommended using Sea Cucumber with Original CMO. Sea Cucumber (Beche-de-Mer) is a seabed dwelling marine animal which feeds on microscopic algae, absorbing nutrients from the organic matter. Sea Cucumber has been used for thousands of years by Asians as a culinary delicacy.


The Chinese have treasured Sea Cucumber since ancient times for prevention of disease and as a longevity tonic. Traditional Chinese medicine commonly uses sea cucumber in treating weakness, impotence, debility of the aged, constipation due to intestinal dryness, frequent urination, and joint problems.Tall Ships, Yankee Clippers, what precious cargo were they taking to the Far East? Pearls or gold? NO, it was Sea Cucumber!

Western medicine is successfully using Sea Cucumber to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, and connective tissue disorders. Australia has approved the use of sea cucumber as an over-the-counter treatment for arthritis and the Japanese have a patent using sea cucumber chondroitin sulfate for HIV therapy.

Beche de Mer (Sea Cucumber) is a marine animal related to starfish and sea urchins containing mucopolysaccharides, chondroitins, protein, vitamins A & C, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, sodium, and carbohydrates. The nutrient content of sea cucumbers is extremely broad, and total identification of each innate constituent will probably never be established. The University of Queensland Centre for Drug Design conducted a series of chromotographs that displayed "an enormous number of compounds". Some of the compounds identified unique to the animal kingdom include two types of triterpenoidal oligoglycosides, one type occurring with a sulfate group and the other without. Molecules of this general classification are abundant in the plant kingdom, but are quite rare among animal tissues. Other compounds found in abundance include analogues of monosaccharide structure and analogues of sulfated mucopolysaccharide configuration.

Sea Cucumber has shown an ability to balance prostaglandins, which regulate the inflammatory process. Sea cucumber has a cartilaginous body that serves as a rich source of mucopolysaccharides; mainly chondroitin sulfate, known for its ability to reduce arthritis pain. As little as 3 grams per day of the dried sea cucumber has been helpful in reducing arthralgia (joint problems). Chondroitin's action is similar to that of glucosamine sulfate, the main building block of chondroitin.

Beche-de-Mer

Chondroitin building blocks can be repeated numerous times. This is basically a glucose molecule (left portion) and glucosamine molecule (right portion), which has been sulfated (O3S, at the top). Long-chain sulfated polysaccharides, like chondroitin, also inhibit viruses.

Russian, Japanese, and Chinese studies reveal that sea cucumbers contain saponins (triterpene glycosides). These compounds are structure similar to the active constituents of ginseng, ganoderma, and other famous tonic herbs. Pharmacology studies indicate anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties of the sea cucumber saponins.

One of the sea cucumber saponins, representative of the structures commonly found in these organisms.

In addition, the sea cucumber oil contains two anti-inflammatory fractions. One fraction has fatty acids characteristic of those found in fish; they can be used as a substitute for fish oil in reducing inflammatory byproducts of fat metabolism, and to nourish the brain and heart. The main compounds of interest in fish oil are EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid also found in sea cucumber, and DHA (docosahaenoic acid), unique to fish:
sea cucumber

sea cucumber

Stereochemical representations of EPA (left) and DHA (right). The double bond locations are different, causing a different bending of the structures.

The other oil fraction is a mixture of branched chain fatty acids, mainly 12-MTA (methyltetradecanoic acid). This compound, and the more widely studied variant, 13-MTA, are potent inhibitors of the 5-LOX (lypoxygenase) enzyme system. 5-LOX inhibitors are one of the key areas of modern drug development, with plans evolving to use the compounds in treatment of asthma, ulcerative colitis, and arthritis. In addition, cancer-inhibiting effects have been observed in preliminary studies with prostate cancer cell lines and other human cancer cells These fatty acids are thought to be produced by bacteria that live within the sea cucumbers; they are also produced by bacteria in other marine organisms, such as sponges and tunicates.

sea cucumber

Sample branched chain fatty acid found in sea organisms. The central chain is a simple carbohydrate. These long chains can interact with cell membranes.
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P.S. Sea cucumbers are also essential to a healthy reef – they’re like the vacuum cleaners of the reef. For the first time last year, Belize allowed harvesting of sea cucumbers, despite the fact that Fisheries has no idea of how many we have, so don’t know what a sustainable harvest would be. Despite that lack of knowledge, a number of sea cucumber fishing licenses have been issued by Fisheries.

They grow VERY slowly and efforts to farm them have been unsuccessful because of their extremely slow growth.

Also, not all sea cucumbers are created equal. The kind we have in Belize are not the kind that are highly prized for their aphrodisiac qualities.

In addition, the alternate name for sea cucumbers is NOT beche de mer. Beche de mer is something you make from cucumbers. Basically, you dry out the skin, which is then used as a casing for stuffing of other seafoods, including the body of the sea cucumber.

Efforts in Belize centered in Sarteneja to produce beche de mer failed when the skin could not be dried properly. The largest quantity of sea cucumbers harvested in Belize are now sold to Mexico. Fishermen harvest them (they’re very easy to pick up with a hook stick) and drop them into shrimp bags. When a bag is full, it’s tied off and left in the sea off Big Creek until a truck from Mexico arrives to pick up the bags. (At least that was what was happening late in 2010.)

If you’ve ever eaten “Happy Family” at an Asian restaurant, you’ve probably eaten sea cucumber.

Belize governments continue to practice monopolies and exclusion of wider private enterprises.

On 4/13/2011 4:23 PM, Lan Sluder wrote:
> Ambergris Brewing says that after receiving clearance from the Bureau of Standards and Department of the Environment for a microbrew/brewpub operation in San Pedro it has now been denied a permit by Belize Customs. The reason given: It would "open the floodgates on similar and other unique business ventures."
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> Belize certainly doesn't need any more unique business ventures, does it?
the spirit of Barry Bowen lives on!!!
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ONE OF THE RECURRING COMPLAINTS IN BELIZE, ARE THE EXCLUSION OF COMPETITIVE ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETITION IN BUSINESS. These are done through monopolies or the manipulation of the permiting process through the use of different government departments. POLITICS like in the 1870 and 1890 period durig the infamous era of the ROBBER BARONS, with the GOULDS, the Vanderbilts, the ASTORS, and other infamous persons of that early era in the USA industrial development, was based on bribery, party donations to individual politicians, or high civil servants, or the party campaign chests. Elections were often bought and sold. This resulted in cyclical market and bank failures, economic depressions and recessions, in which the TREASURY REVENUES were plundered to build railroads owned by Robber Barons paid for by tax dollars, or to rescue favorite banks in the USA history. It also concentrated wealth into the hands of a smaller and smaller percentage of the overall population. It resulted in the establishment of a huge below poverty class and an increase of crime. This early history of the USA industrial era of the late 1800´s is now being experienced over the last forty years in the nation of small Belize as we also grow and the ties between industry and politicians corrupt the process of building a wealthy middle class nation.
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P.S. There is an excellent autobiographical fiction novel, written by Clay Pendleton, a reporter for the Hearst newspapers at the time of the CUBAN INVASION, covering the period from the end of the US Civil War to the early 1900´s. The written manuscript was written by Clay and his wife Genevieve who are live characters in this novel. Clay died in 1915 and Genevieve died in 1925. They were participants during most of this era. The manuscript was locked in the vault at Bowood along with other historical papers of the Stapleton family. Since it involved past USA Presidents still then alive, Civil War generals, the many Robber Baron speculators, like Jay Gould who became the biggest speculator billionaire of the late 1800´s, the manuscript was not presented until 1985, after all participants and their immediate descendants were dead. The title is THE SPOILS OF WAR, authored by Thomas Fleming.
For any student in Belize wanting to understand the development of fragile small Belize as a nation, this is a MUST read, to teach you about two party politics, idealism, patriotism in an unfettered capitalist society without rules, such as Belize is today. We are literally living through the same political and social changes experienced in this novel and reading it will blow your mind, on how they have come about and where we are going as a nation. Will the knowledge help in our future? Unlikely! GREED overcomes all things as it did then in the early USA and as it is doing now in Belize.
The novel is available at the Santa Elena Public Library in the Cayo District in paperback called THE SPOILS OF WAR.