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Crocodile Eats Neighborhood's Pet Dog
 The
Saga Humane Society has received several complaints in the last several
weeks about crocodile feedings down by the water plant area again.
These feedings have resulted in the lost of two small dogs on the
island.
One of these dogs was a family pet now being mourned by a very distraught and traumatized child. Not only is this behavior illegal and dangerous, it is clearly being conducted by morons. The Saga Humane Society along with the South Ambergris Caye Neighborhood Watch(SACNW)will increase patrols in the area and will prosecute to the full extent of the law anyone conducting or participating in any of these activities. The Wildlife Division has been notified of these incidents and will also carry out an investigation and remove any crocodiles now conditioned to human feedings. Anyone passing by that area and seeing any of this illegal activity is asked to notify the patrol at the SACNW station. That number is 610-4911. Please help us protect our wildlife by stopping this illegal and very dangerous activity. Resources will support land security and
help create a dynamic land
market
The Inter-American Development Bank today
approved a $2.5 million
loan to Belize to assist the government establish a more dynamic and
efficient land market by improving country-wide access to land
management services, their quality and efficiency.
The resources will finance the expansion of a parcel-based land information system and the improvement of urban land information as well as support the provision of modern land management services. This project will complete the shift from manual processing of land transactions and record keeping to streamlined, automated procedures through a parcel-based information system to be established in the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment. The new system will improve transparency and reduce potential error, fraud and loss of title documents. It will provide access to reports and records, creating additional revenue due to improve services and increase transactions. In addition, the on-line public access will reduce transaction costs for property owners, lease holders, banks, law firms and other users, avoiding unnecessary visits to check status or search records. The project will add 50,000 urban parcels to the digital cadastre, increasing the total to 158,000 parcels, which will represent 70% of all land parcels in the country. The IDB loan is for a 25-year term, with a 3.5-year grace period, at a LIBOR-based. Local counterpart funds total $229,000. NATIONAL UNSUNG HEROES RECOGNIZED
A livestock farmer and a nurse have been
chosen as this year’s
local
unsung heroes. A ceremony honoring Paul Bradley and Nurse Judith
Cuellar-Krieg organized by First Caribbean International Bank was held
this afternoon at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. Bradley and Craig were
chosen from among 17 hopefuls that were nominated for doing much more
than is expected of them in their respective communities. Rosanna
Villanueva is the Local Coordinator for the Unsung Heroes programme in
Belize.
Rosanna Villanueva: Local Coordinator, Unsung Heroes Programme in Belize “When we receive nominations the local committee gets together for the selection process. The first thing that we try to do is contact the persons who nominate them to get more information, ask more questions and things like that. Then we start to look at the information contained in the nominations, what is the individual’s level of sacrifice? How long have they been doing the work in the community? How far their impact is on the community? From there we just narrow it down. Eventually we get an interview to them to get a feel of what they are doing and then we select a finalist. It is a wonderful program because it bring out people from little corners of the country who you might not normally hear about.” Paul Bradley is a livestock farmer in Burrell Boom Village who has assisted farmers in the Belize River Valley Area in countless ways. He has secured grants from the government for the development of livestock programs. Judith Cuellar-Krieg or Nurse Judy, as she is more affectionately known, is a born Belizean who migrated to the states a young girl where she served as a Critical Care Registered Nurse. Nurse Judy came home presumably to relax but wound up providing Hopkins Village and villages in the surrounding area with much needed health care free of cost. Love News spoke to the heroes after the ceremony. Paul Bradley: Livestock Farmer “I have some of my friends here with me. We have been trying to form an association to help livestock farmers and other farmers in Belize River Valley to help themselves and to do something with their land. This will allow them to make a decent living. I did not expect anything like this to come out of the work that I have been doing. They say you cannot keep a quarrel on the ground and that is me; I always try to help, I do what I can and I am happy with everyday of my life and what I do.” Judith Cuellar-Krieg: Nurse “A was born and raised in Belize City. After that I did a couple of thing before migrating to the states where I met my husband and married and then became a nurse. He was ready to retire and I was ready to kind of relax a little bit myself and we thought that the south might be the place for us. We wanted some place quiet by the beach and that is where we found Hopkins and Hopkins found us. My mom was my mentor and she is the one that woke up in the middle of the night and took care of her patients and thought me nursing and the nursing that I do down in Hopkins. You do what comes naturally, my mom thought me that, my dad thought me that, the community surely needs it; they have accepted me so it is a group effort. It is not me being a hero but the whole. I alone cannot do it alone; it takes a whole village literally.” Villanueva told us what is next for our Unsung Heroes. Rosanna Villanueva: Local Coordinator, Unsung Heroes Programme in Belize “We have had Belize win five years so we are hoping for another win again next year for either Nurse Judy or Mr. Bradley. Their names and their profiles have been submitted to our regional committee who will make a selection from all the territories in which FirstCaribbean operates and that will be announced in December. If any of them is chosen as the regional champion he or she will get US seven thousand five hundred dollars. If they are chosen as one of the runners up he or she will get US five thousand dollars. They will also be taken to Barbados for a wonderful ceremony in their honor.” At today’s ceremony Bradley and Nurse Judy were presented with six hundred U-S dollars towards their projects and causes. Love FM LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
MEXICO DAYLIGHT
SAVING TIME
FINISHED ON 25 OCTOBER · In Mexico, clocks go backward one hour on Sunday 25 October. · Mexico and Belize will have again the same local time. We would love to see
you at the dedication of the San Pedro Town
Library's new Paul Hooker Media Center on October 24th at 6:00 p.m.The
Paul Hooker Media Center has been made possible by the kind
patronage of Mrs. Pam Hooker in loving memory of her husband. Mrs.
Hooker donated the funds to purchase six new computers, a movie
projector, and a movie screen. The movie, The Planet Earth will be
shown at the Esmeralda Park adjacent to the San Pedro Library starting
at 6:30 p.m., following the dedication. Please join us for this
exciting evening.
Irecela Acosta, Librarian San Pedro Library Committee *Ambergris Caye
Elementary School* (A.C.E.S.) welcomes the San Pedro Community to
our
Halloween Bazaar Fundraiser. It’s on Saturday, 24 October from 6pm to
10pm on our campus
located just behind Paz Villas. There are great prizes for the best
costume for a male and female in
the following categories: Adult, child - scariest, child - most
original,
and baby.
We have an amazing raffle, $5 per chance. 1st prize – Smart cell phone, 2nd prize – Smart cell phone, 3rd prize - 24 hr golf cart rental from Captain G’s, 4th prize – Wood carving from Graniels, 5th prize - $50 gift certificate from Remax. We will have a Spooky House, a Fun House, Fish pond, and Tombola for the children and the young at heart. For the adults, there will be a Texas Hold’em tournament. Food and a variety of wonderful pastries will be available for sale. Admission: Children $2 and Adults $3. Come and join us for a night of family fun and start off the Halloween Season with a Bang!
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