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San Pablo Robbery
 Another robbery took place last night in the
San Pablo Area on the
early house of Saturday, October 10th. Nano’s Store located on Pearl
Street was a victim of a robbery that took place around 1:00am. Access
to the store was gained by breaking the side show window. According to
unofficial reports, the robbers went away with the cash register and
liquor. Police arrived shortly at the scene and are still investigating
the robbery. This comes only about a month after the Espinosa Store
robbery where armed robbers shot and injured two store employees on the
same street. Ambergris Today
JP meeting to be held in SP
The Association of Justices of the Peace
& Commissioners of the
Supreme Court will be visiting San Pedro on the 24th October, 2009 to
conduct a training seminar and re-establish the chapter. Cost of
training is $20.00 per person. We would like to commence at 6:00 p.m.
the training should take approximately 2 hours and the meeting to
re-establish the chapter should last approximately 45 minutes. Once we
start on time we should be finished by 9:00 p.m.
Please bring a pen and your reading glasses as we shall go through many of the documents that JP's witness on a regular basis. We shall also be outlining details of the JP Act of 2005. I would like to ask you all to please contact all J.P.’s on the island so that we can make another effort to re-establish this chapter. We need to elect a President, Vice President, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Public Relations officer, Legal advisor and two councilors. If you know other J.P.’s who have email addresses, please send to us so we can contact them. Or feel free to forward this email to them. I am hoping for a positive response as we are willing to continue this association, and San Pedro has been out of our official chapters for some two years or more. The meeting will be held at El Divino Restaurant at the Banana Beach Resort. Appetizers and soft drinks will be available and there will be a cash bar. San Pedro is fortunate enough to have over 100 Justice's of the Peace and I look forward to meeting most of you at the meeting. For further information and to confirm your attendance (so that the restaurant can be prepared) please call Danny Madrid at 610 2295 or 670 0007 or Rosie Reyes at 610 1737. San Pedro Sun PM says Taiwan turning from UN
won’t affect Belize 
The Oppenheimer Report “Multiple Caution
Flags” focused on the
investor confidence in Belize. One of the caution points referred to
the fact that Taiwan is no longer seeking full membership into the
United Nations. Taiwan has made over fifty million U.S. dollars in
commitments to Belize. And the only gesture Belize has consistently
made to Taiwan is to support Taiwan’s inclusion at the U.N. Since
Taiwan has abandoned that bid, the economic pundits project that there
would be an eventual dip in Taiwan aid programs. The financial forecast
is foreboding while the country scrounges to find multimillion dollar
payments for the super bond. But the Prime Minister says that he
believes the change in Taiwan’s focus will not affect the economic
relationship with the Jewel.
Prime Minister Dean Barrow “I don’t think that has anything to do with the economic cooperation agreement between Belize and Taiwan. In fact we agreed last year on this four year program, what was a hundred million dollars and we front ended the first disbursement because of the super bond payment that we needed to make. I expect next year we will get what has been agreed. I will certainly try to ask for more since we have to pay additionally on the super bond because of the interest. But there is no indication at all that Belize is considered a less valuable ally where Taiwan is concerned. You’re right in terms of the relationship between Taiwan and mainland China having improved the objectives of the new president of Taiwan seemed to have shifted. And in a sense that merely means that Taiwan’s allies, including Belize, are not now obliged to take a position which, in the context of the U.N., is isolationist. And so that’s a good thing. But ultimately, for us it doesn’t matter. We are friends of Taiwan. We are allies of Taiwan and we will do whatever is asked of us as long as it is consistent with our own national interests.” At today’s house meeting, cabinet approved the acquisition of three loans from the Inter American Development bank for a total of twenty-two point five million U.S. dollars or forty five million Belize dollars. CH5 Commentary: British Privy
Council
judges are tired of dealing with cases from Belize and the Caribbean Wellington C Ramos 
The headlines for the Caribbean Life
newspaper, which is published in
New York City, dated September 30, 2009, were: “Clean Up Carib Courts;
Jurist”. This article stated that British judges who sit on the Privy
Council in London have expressed their frustrations in presiding over
cases that come from the Caribbean countries and colonies.
One of the judges on the court, Lord Nicholas Phillips, went further by telling the Financial Times of London that these cases are creating a financial burden for British taxpayers and it consumes most of their time on the bench. This Lord must have forgotten that it was not the people from these Caribbean countries and colonies that voluntary opted for the Privy Council court but it was a court that was imposed on them by the British for being their colonial master when they were colonies to Great Britain. For the countries that are now independent, they have the option of making their appeal courts the last court for all appeals or to submit their cases to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) for final determination. Countries that are still colonies to Britain will have no choice but to allow their cases to continue going to the Privy Council in London. Over the years, Belize and the Caribbean countries have been experiencing a significant rise in the amount of senseless murders that are being committed in their respective countries. In all these countries, the punishment for the crime of murder is death by hanging. However, before a person could be hanged, he or she must face trial before the courts in their country and a final appeal be made before the Privy Council in London. Many of these cases that have been taken to the Privy Council, have resulted in the death sentences being commuted to life in prison or a lesser sentence being imposed. The countries of the Caribbean have made several complaints about the Privy Council rulings but have made no serious efforts to resolve this problem. They have failed to amend their constitutions to make their countries’ appeal courts the final court for the determination of all outstanding legal matters or the Caribbean Court of Justice. While these countries remain complacent, their citizens are being murdered senselessly everyday in Belize and the Caribbean. The government of Belize is at the brink of completing its constitutional consultations to refer all their cases to the Caribbean Court of Justice in Port of Spain, Trinidad. After this process is finalized, they will go back to the National Assembly to seek an approval to the amendment and implement the change to the constitution. Two of the major political parties in Belize -- the United Democratic Party (UDP) and the People’s United Party (PUP) -- are both in support of this amendment to the Belize’s constitution. Only two countries in the Caribbean have made the Caribbean Court of Justice their final court for appeals and they are Guyana and Barbados. I now call on all the citizens of the Caribbean countries to urge their governments to stop being complacent and make a decision on this matter that now requires some prompt action. The seat of the court is in Trinidad which is also a republic and the government of Trinidad, where the court is seated, should lead the way in making the Caribbean Court of Justice the court for all the nations of CARICOM. Trinidad is also facing a huge increase in the amount of murders and violent crimes. The countries of the Caribbean will have to share the burden of the cost to ensure that this court prevails for their citizens to get justice. As a Belizean citizen, it is hard for me to look at the internet every morning and see the faces of our young children being murdered viciously. Some will say that changing the court arrangements will have no impact on reducing the amount of murders that are taking place in these countries today. The countries of the Caribbean can also look at forming a Commission of Inquiry with some experienced criminal and social experts to examine the root causes or murders and violent crimes in their countries. Well, what is taking place today is deplorable and is unacceptable to the citizens of the Caribbean and something must be done now. Caribbean Net News LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Emergency Fund Raiser at B.C.'s Bar this morning at 11:00AM. This is to help Dulce Wolfe's sister Deni who was brutally attacked in her home. She is currently in the hospital in Belize City and the family could really use help with the medical expenses. Dulce is usually the first to help anyone in need, so help out if you can. It will be a hastily put together flea market, everything from household goods, clothing, baked goods , lunches etc. Hot Dogs, Potluck, 50/50 Draws. Stacie Chesnick is organizing. Contacts are Stacie-665-9028. Anna Hanna-226-3209 /626-2150 or Dulce 663-9615 San Pablo / San Marcos Neighborhood Watch Meeting: Tuesday, October 13 at Caribbean Villas Beach Bar at 7:30 PM. Please be on time and bring a neighbor.
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