RUTA MAYA CROSS COUNTRY CANOE RACE 2011, IN BELIZE

ANNUAL RUTA MAYA RACE FINISHES TODAY 2011. WITH 83 CANOE ENTRIES, THREE PERSONS EACH.

DEMOCRACY DIDN´T LOOK TOO GOOD IN BRITAIN, OR THE USA LAST NIGHT ON TELEVISION.

Duke of York, British hereditary aristocratic ROYAL FAMILY, alleged in British Parliament to be a close PARTNER OF KING GHADAFFI. ( guy on left in photo )
King Ghadaffi, or Libya. Called an INSANE MADMAN BY A LIBYAN GENERAL.
Secretary of State, Clinton of the USA in the United Nations, condemning King Ghadaffi, but praising other Arab tyrannical self appointed monarchies.




BRITISH PARLIAMENT, MONARCHIST, ROYALIST ( "speaker of the House" in Britain ) DEFENDS DUKE OF YORK get rich quick privileges of PARTNERSHIP, WITH KING GHADAFFI OF LIBYA IN LAST NIGHT´S TV DEBATE IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT

What a contrast in mealy mouthed rationalizations, euphinisms and political double talk, by the British Parliament and particularly the Speaker of the House, who cut off an Honorable members question about the close partnership´by the DUKE OF YORK, with LIBYAN, KING GHADAFFI. ( who is the Duke of York? ) The ROYALIST, MONARCHIST, SPEAKER of the British Parliament made it plain, there would be no discussion in open debate about the ROYAL FAMILY of Britain.
By contrast, later the same evening, the speech by Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, lambasted King Ghadafi of Libya, while defending other Arabian self appointed KINGS and their hereditary PRINCES and other family aristocracies. Some place else on television there was free talk in democracies, about the King of Nicaragua, King Ortega, King Chavez of Venezuela, King Morales of Bolivia and King Castro of Cuba, all hereditary tyrannies said ( I believe it was described by her, the USA Secretary of State ) described as dictatorships and tyrannies. Yet in the same breath on behalf of the USA while condemning USA enemies and their hereditary tyrannies posing as ROYAL FAMILIES, she was apologetic about the KING and Princes of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, while condemning the religious dictatorship of IRAN.

I guess we the general public have to take into consideration that some ROYAL HEREDITARY FAMILIES are not tyrannies and dictatorships imposed by subterfuge on populations of their countries, but perhaps "MIGHT makes RIGHT"? Particularly if you control the TREASURY, POWER, INTERIOR MINISTRY ( secret police and army ) and can jail, torture and murder your political opponents?

Early photos of a young 25 year old Cap´n Ray Auxillou on Caye Caulker

In the 1960´s when I was around 25 years old. I would teach at the primary school and was known in the small island village as Cap´n Ray, my magnificent yacht was that wooden dugout dory you see my daughter Sharon playing in. The fish were amber jacks, delicious eating and caught in a wire heart shaped trap set off the beach in about 5 feet of water. The fish were eaten, filleted and salted, or given away and occasionally sold a dozen for .25 cents.

Early photo of Grandpa Ray Auxillou. At 14 years he ran away and joined the Canadian Army. On his outfitting and leave before being posted, he went home in uniform and that was the end of that. His parents would not sign for him. At 15 years of age, he joined again, trying to get into the Korean War before it was over. This is a photo of him at 16, in training as a radio mechanic at the Canadian Army Signal Corps base in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The Korean Armistice ended before he completed training and at 18 years of age as an adult, he refused to sign up again for another 7 years with the Army. Instead he went back to High School and joined the Perth Regiment Black Watch infantry Reserves and served about five years in that, leaving Canada as a Seargant. At 21 years of age, he was still a virgin.

BELIZE - BUSINESS PERSPECTIVES TV PROGRAM THIS WEEK SUCCESSFUL.

Old TV program panel discussion photo.


BELIZE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - BUSINESS PERSPECTIVES HAD THREE EXPORTERS FROM BELIZE.

You could see the chair person was out of her depth. Didn´t really know the questions to ask. All three panel people were good in explaining their business export problems.

The HIGHLIGHTS were the suggestion we make BELIZE a total FREE ZONE as a country. Do away with INCOME TAX, IMPORT DUTIES AND EXPORT DUTIES. That would certainly do it. I´m not sure I would like to live in the manufacturing country that would develop from that though. The only role model I know of would be St. Maarten in the Eastern Caribbean and understand they have been that way successfully for 50 or more years. Warehouses dot the landscape and inventory from around the world, which is then shipped to South American countries mostly. To make that work in Belize, the government would have to operate on GST tax revenues almost alone. Perhaps tax on oil exports as well. This idea has been around for more than 30 years, but no Port Town controlled Belize government by the ROYAL CREOLES has shown any interest in such a thing.
Port authority charges for moving containers, in or out, $1700 to $1800 was quoted - WOW ! There is a problem right there.
Nice to see a meaningful discussion on the panel for once without the biases of the port town merchant aristocracy.
It was a start with floating realistic ideas on making Belize a wealthy country.

WESTERN BELIZE, STAR NEWSPAPER, RAISES SERIOUS DOUBTS ABOUT OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM

Star newspaper of Western Cayo District, of the nation of BELIZE.


The local STAR newspaper, our Western Belize weekly newspaper is questioning the premise of our British electoral Prime Minister system.

The revolt in ARAB countries against their police states, sometimes with Presidents, Prime Ministers, Sheiks, Emirs, Kings, Mullahs, etc., has given rise to an in depth article on the Commonwealth countries in particular. The system we use as government and the many countries that have recurring, heads of states, inherited by their children and the political parties sustained by police states, violence, torture and terror. Real Democracy provides for regular removal of leaders and their political party system.
Even in Belize, our Constitution does not prohibit more than two terms in office, or prevent sons, wives, or daughters from inheriting the political party and the top administrative position of the country. With all the trappings of power, and access to controlling government jobs, while being able to steal from the tax revenues and the national treasury. Around the world, hereditary monarchs and their aristocratic family system are being replaced with fake republican and parliamentary political heads of state models. Tyranny is a constant in most countries of the world.
The STAR newspaper is to be commended on instigating a look at our own political system.
In Belize writers like Clinton Luna in the Amandala newspaper criticizes the British Parliamentary Constitution we copy in Belize. We are controlled by British Aristocracy, recognize we belong to the Queen of England, ruled by the Queen´s Governor General in emergencies, our society is inundated with mock titles to encourage rule by Britain, such as; awards of Knighthoods, and Member of the British Empire medals and titles, by what Clinton Luna our Mayan writer calls continuous subjection by our ROYAL CREOLES of the old colonial capital, the port town of Belize City. Even in England, the British Military establishment swear allegiance to the Royal Family and not to their representative government, the parliament. The taxes of the masses are spent to reward the aristocratic monarchy hereditary system. Bright and influential people in Belize are CO-OPTED by the British MONARCHIAL ARISTOCRACY through awards of KNIGHTHOODS AND MBE´S among other things.

MOPAN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL WINS THE SCHOOLS KARATE TOURNAMENT IN BELIZE.

MOPAN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL WINS THE SCHOOLS KARATE TOURNAMENT

Mopan Technical High School in Benque Viejo del Carmen, the border town, won the most medals in the SCHOOLS KARATE TOURNAMENT. The Cayo Shotokan Karate Academy at the Benque Viejo Community Center beside La Cancha Marshalleck Statdium on Saturday night. The Mopan Technical High School won medals, 5 gold medals, two silver and two bronze.
The Pastor sisters won three of those medals in girls kumite in the under 48 kg weight division. Nerici Pastor won the gold medal, while her sister Asha Pastor took the Silver medal and Cara Pastor claimed the bronze.
The girls of St.Catherines Academy from the coast placed second. Sacred Heart Primary School of San Ignacio, Cayo District, won gold in the boys kumite in the under 55 kg division. Romain Romero of St. Ignatius High School of Santa Elena Town in Cayo won the bronze.

GUATEMALA AND BELIZE ARE MORE AND MORE, ACTING AS ONE COUNTRY, PARTICULARLY IN SECURITY AND TRADE.

Guatemala green color and Belize is pink color.




GUATEMALA AND BELIZE ARE MORE AND MORE, ACTING AS ONE COUNTRY ! PARTICULARLY IN SECURITY AFFAIRS ALONG THE BORDER AND IN TRADE.

From Amandala:

Posted: 22/02/2011 - 10:30 AM
Author: Adele Ramos - adelescribe@gmail.com

Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala, H. E. Alfredo Martinez, told Amandala on Monday that there is already evidence that Guatemala’s narcotics problems are trickling to this side of the border. Martinez informed our newspaper that the Government of Guatemala is about to dispatch Special Forces soldiers to conduct regular foot patrols in the southern areas of Peten, near the border, while Belize military will do coordinated patrols on this side of the border.

These Guatemalan Special Forces soldiers were reportedly trained in secret by the US Green Beret, a group within the US Army Special Forces. Fox News reported last December on anti-narcotics training that had been ongoing inside the Peten jungle, just south of Guatemala’s border with Mexico.

This happened on the heels of a staged prison breakout to release a drug lord and the appearance of several decapitated heads on the steps of Guatemala’s parliament in June 2010—a brazen signal undoubtedly sent to the government by drug cartels. The Guatemalan version of the US Green Berets is supposed to combat cartels which openly conduct drug transactions and advertise on billboards for recruits.

Ambassador Martinez said that Guatemala’s Green Berets, or “the green soldiers”, are to look after those natural parks which have become havens for drug traffickers. Previously, efforts had previously been concentrated more in the north, in the regions of the border with Mexico, Martinez indicated.

The Guatemala Green Berets also would be helping with the increasing incursions in southern Belize, and they are expected to commence border patrols on the Guatemala side within the next week or two, he added.

Belize is expected to continue separate but coordinated patrols on this side of the very porous Belize-Guatemala border.

Not only is Belize’s western border with Guatemala infamously porous—Guatemala disputes its very existence, particularly the portion to the South of the Sibun, where anti-narcotics efforts are supposed to be concentrated. The fear is that Guatemala’s narco-trafficking problem is slowly becoming Belize’s problem.

It is against this backdrop that Guatemala’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Haroldo Rodas, met in Belize with his counterpart, Belize Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, on Friday, February 18.

Rodas was accompanied by Guatemala’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Raul Morales.

Elrington was accompanied by his Chief Executive Officer Alexis Rosado, as well as Ambassador Martinez.

“They [the Guatemalans] wanted to tell us that operations are being strengthened in their area, so we must be on the lookout on our side,” Ambassador Martinez told Amandala.

The parties, Belize and Guatemala, have set up a mechanism of consultation as well as intelligence sharing, as Guatemala continues to step up operations in the Peten—the area of greatest concern, he explained.

Speaking with Amandala about the significance of Friday’s meeting, Ambassador Martinez said: “Guatemala recognizes that in the area of security in the region, it has to depend on Belize also.”

He added that Belize and Guatemala both form the funnel neck with Mexico for what comes through Central America from Colombia and other source countries. The drugs must pass through Guatemala and Belize, said Martinez.

As the battle against drug traffickers in Mexico rages on, more traffickers are drifting south, and Guatemala has a very serious problem with narco-trafficking, particularly the Zeta infiltration, explained Martinez.

He told us that whereas Guatemala has seen measurable improvements after it put Alta Vera Paz, just south of Peten, under a state of emergency and cut off all constitutional guarantees to crack down on the narco-trafficking, regular crime has escalated in Guatemala, on the whole. “It is a real challenge for the present government,” said Martinez.

Rodas, at his meeting in Belize Friday, outlined plans for Guatemala’s 6-month presidency of the Central American Integration System (SICA), including regional and international meetings.

Ambassador Martinez informed Amandala that the countries of SICA will be hosting international meetings on regional security in June, to which they are inviting the United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and the European countries. That meeting will be held in Guatemala, but ahead of that meeting is another international gathering.

That gathering, said Martinez, is the visit of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, to Guatemala in March. The Prime Minister of Belize and the presidents of Central America have been invited to attend.

The guests at the June meeting of SICA plan to discuss how they can collaborate through financing and infrastructure to help combat this onslaught of drug-related crimes, the Ambassador said.

The countries in the Central American region are spending their own budget funds to fight, but it is not enough, and they are telling the international community that they need to help, he added.

Apart from discussing regional security on Friday, said Ambassador Martinez, the group also took the opportunity to discuss concerns on the Belize side over the illegal extraction of xate and logs from Belize’s forests, including the protected areas.

Martinez said that the parties discussed how they could cooperate more fully, and how Guatemala could dissuade its citizens from illegally coming into Belize’s national parks.

The ministries on both sides of the border under whose portfolios the environment falls would be setting up discussion groups, said Martinez.

Belize’s prized Chiquibul Forest—the country’s most expansive and richest forest—continues to be targeted for incursions and illegal extraction of both flora (plants and plant materials) and fauna (wildlife). Some of these people, said Martinez, may very well be in cahoots with narco-traffickers.

What was different at Friday’s meeting, said Martinez, is that Guatemala demonstrated the disposition and political will to cooperate with Belize on the ground.

“Incursions are increasing and we therefore need to keep those in check,” said Ambassador Martinez.

“We are doing our part; they have not been doing it along Chiquibul,” Martinez commented.

According to Martinez, both sides will do regular surveillance on foot patrols. Belize does not have the capacity to conduct regular aerial surveillance, but Guatemala does it periodically, although aerial surveillance along the Belize-Guatemala border was not specifically mentioned at Friday’s meeting, Martinez indicated.

Martinez said that they are already seeing evidence that Guatemala’s narcotics problems are spreading to Belize. When we asked him to be more specific, he cited a recent extradition as an example: In November 2010, Belizean authorities handed over Otoniel Turcios Marroquin, alleged drug lord of Guatemala, to US authorities. Ambassador Martinez declined to get into more details on observed trends.

“We have to coordinate along with Honduras very soon,” added Martinez, because, on their side, he said, there is a lot of sea-trafficking.

Martinez notes that as Guatemala continues to grapple with a murder rate of 16 bodies a day, and the parties are now in campaign mode, security is expected to be a leading campaign issue.

Campaigning started last month, January, and the first round of elections is due in September for presidential, Congress and municipal seats. There are 18 to 20 political parties running, since governments in Guatemala are normally formed by coalition—not by institutionalized parties, as is the case with Belize.

Alliances and groupings are created every four years for elections—that complicates matters even more, said Martinez. He added that should no presidential candidate get more than 50% of the votes, they have to engage in a second round of voting in November and the new government would take office in January 14, 2012.

The Ambassador indicated that the pending referendum between Belize and Guatemala, in which the peoples on both sides of the border would be asked whether they want to take the territorial dispute maintained by Guatemala to be litigated at the International Court of Justice, would not happen before the parties dispense with elections by 2013. The matter of the ICJ referendum, said Martinez, was only briefly mentioned at last Friday’s meeting.

He told Amandala that, “The political relationship between the two governments [Belize and Guatemala] has been very healthy, [and] ...security and regional issues that affect both parties are discussed very freely.”

Martinez described the drug and gang situation in Central America as “worrying.” He said that sooner or later this, too, will start trickling into Belize, but the situation is not yet as bad as in Central America, and particularly in San Salvador, Guatemala and Tegucigalpa—places he described as being “almost in a state of siege when it comes to the gang situation.”

But, Martinez emphasized, “...the problems can be aggravated in Belize if we are not careful.”