MARK ESPAT BEING WOOED BY UDP AND TO LEAD SUPERBOND RE-NEGOTIATIONS

MARK ESPAT IN UDP GOVERNMENT GOOD GRACES. WORD IS, HE IS GOING TO LEAD THE COMMITTEE TO RE-NEGOTIATE THE SUPER BOND BILLIONS OF DEBT, BELIZE OWES.

FAMOUS CELINA´S FAMILY STORE ROBBED BY GUNMEN IN SAN IGNACIO

FAMOUS LOCAL STORE ROBBED BY GUNMEN IN SAN IGNACIO.
Apr 4, 2012
Celina’s Store in Cayo robbed by gunmen

Around two-fifteen this afternoon a popular supermarket was robbed in downtown San Ignacio. Celina’s Super Store located at number forty-three Burns Avenue was the target of two armed men. It is reported that robbers walked into the store and pistol-whipped two employees. One of the assailants later held a gun to the head of the owner’s son, demanding money. The robbers later helped themselves to money from the cash register. The men made off with about three thousand seven hundred dollars in cash. The two robbers reportedly, escaped in a getaway car. Reports late this evening say that San Ignacio police have one person detained in connection with this robbery.

BELIZE BILLIONAIRE 2012

Huang Maoru BELIZE BILLIONAIRE
Belize has had more than one billionaire take up citizenship and buy a home here. There was the Dixie cup guy, and then there is Lord Ashcroft, and others.


Huang Maoru & family

Net Worth
$1.1 B As of March 2012

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At a Glance

Age: 46
Source of Wealth: retail, self-made
Residence: Shenzhen, China
Country of Citizenship: Belize
Marital Status: Married

Forbes Lists
#1075 Forbes Billionaires

#1 in Belize

Dillon Auxillou Kuylen, photo

Nope! Dillon is not a NAVAJO SHAMAN, he´s a Cayo Hicaco Mayan SHAMAN!

Dillon Auxillou Kuylen, in black leather jacket.

Thats his MOM in the middle and his older brother in the red jacket. I have no idea where they learned the idea to live in a climate that is so cold you have to wear clothes. I spent the majority of my life, either in a bathing suit, jocky short underwear, barefoot, and when it was cold, a T shirt, maybe in dead of winter, with a sweater. But all those clothes. Mon o Mon! Don´t make sense mon! Must be Indiana or Illinios?

SNORKELING PHOTO BY GREAT BARRIER OFF CAYE CAULKER, BELIZE 2012.

Snorkeling by the Great Barrier Reef of Belize off Caye Caulker. Those were the days. I spent decades doing this and lived well. Not rich, but a nice delightful pleasant life, with boats and the warm seas as my dream.

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BELIZE SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH IN NATURAL SUSTAINABLE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION FROM SQUIDS

squid electric power replaces solar panels?

BELIZE MARINE SCIENTISTS MAKE SUCCESSFUL BREAKTHROUGH IN PRODUCING SUSTAINABLE ELECTRICITY AT GLOVERS REEF ATOLL. USING SQUID ELECTRIC SHOCKS TO CHARGE STORAGE BATTERIES
Posted on 01 April 2012 by Sumit Bose
Electric squid power homes

A team of scientists from Belize have succesfully harvested electricity from squid. The invertebrates have been discharging enough bioelectricity to run the lighting and air-conditioning units at the research centre on Glover’s Reef Caye on the Caribbean coast.

The team lead by Dr Dino Vanidici have published their findings in the Journal of Invertebrate Science and believe it could herald a breakthrough in sustainable energy. The researchers used the Belize Rainbow Squid (pictured) which discharges an electric shock equivalent to 202V but has been known to produce up to 380V, they then collected the discharge onto a conductor placed in the pen and used it to charge a capacitor which was connected to a large set of batteries.

Dr Vanidici told ELN: “The squid are kept in pens in the sea and we have about 200 per pen. We have put a small underwater microphone in the sea that sends a signal at a certain frequency that makes the squid discharge their shock onto the conductor. It doesn’t harm the squid and they can keep discharging up to 30 times an hour on average they produce 5A of current.”

“It’s small scale but and we are producing on average 20kW of power per hour and that’s with considerable wastage in the converting process. We’ve used it to power our research facilities and are now trialling the system for a few homes in the nearby village, we believe for small rural fishing communities across Belize and the wider Caribbean this could be a great source of sustainable energy.”

The Rainbow Squid is plentiful in the seas around Belize and has been found across the western Caribbean coastal waters of Mexico, Honduras and as far east as Cuba and the Caymans. If the trials in Belize are successful the project could be duplicated across the region.

Dr Vanidici insisted the squid were not being harmed by constantly discharging their electric shocks: “They use their shocks all the time in nature to navigate and capture prey and even to attract a mate, as they discharge they often change colour hence their name. Animal rights people can say its cruel but its just like a dog barking, the squid do this anyway all the time we are just harnessing mother nature’s gift. Besides they don’t taste good so they are not caught for food here and we have plenty of them that can be used by the fishermen as a source of income.”

But critics still say its a dubious practice. Sheila Granoche of the Belize Aquatic Large Lagoon Society said there was a danger of exploitation: “The Rainbow Squid has its place in the ecosystem and if there is more and more harvesting of them for power it could upset the balance of the seas. I’m all for renewable power but we must not destroy the seas to get it.”