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Friday, June 3,
2011 Go Green! |
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US
Donates
To
Coast
Guard
The United States Military
Liaison Office has donated a number of pieces of equipment and machines
to the Belize Coast Guard.
This morning handing over
ceremonies were held at the Coast Guard's Headquarters at Mile 4 on the
Western Highway.
Lieutenant Gregory
Soberanis, Belize Coast Guard
"The gifting of this equipment is greatly appreciated by the Belize Coast Guard. Definitely for 3 main reasons, one; it will definitely enhance our professional capability to conduct or military missions - law enforcement missions in Belize sea spaces. Two; the equipment provides greater personal protection for tactical units as they conduct these high risk operations within our sea spaces and it also increases our ability for overall effectiveness and efficiency. three; it definitely increases our ability for night operations and our ability to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance at a larger scale and last but not least, it speaks volumes to the commitment by the commandant of the Coast Guard, the Ministry of Defence and Government of Belize in the fight against narco-trafficking in the Belize maritime domain. So this equipment that have been gifted to the Coast Guard will definitely enhance our overall operational capability in Belize sea spaces." 
"As it relates to the
personal protective equipment (PPE) we have
the bullet proof vests behind us. as we know in the coast guard and
maritime domains - there are many threats that we face out there -
threats both foreign and domestic and when we conduct these law
enforcement missions or these military missions our personnel needs to
be properly equipped for personal safety and these vests will enable
them a greater degree of personal protection.
 We also have helmets to
protect their head. We have as well the night vision goggles or the
NVGs that enhances our ability to conduct operations at night - to
basically see in the dark. We have binoculars - again these extends our
range of reconnaissance - being able to see beyond what the natural
eyes are able to see - radar equipment that provides electronic
tracking - electronic navigation. So overall it definitely increases
our professional capabilities."
Guest Speaker for this
morning's handing over ceremony was Police Minister, Dough Singh.
CH7 INCREASE
IN
PRICE
OF BUTANE TO BE ANNOUNCED
If you haven’t yet filled up
your butane tank, well, now would be a
good time to do so. That’s because the price is going to go up, by at
least eight dollars in the first instance, and then another six
dollars. The acquisition cost of liquid petroleum gases increased by
fourteen dollars since January and now, that has been a sore point for
importers who have been clamouring for the equivalent in increase in
prices. Currently, imported butane retails for a hundred and twenty six
dollars per hundred pound cylinder or a dollar and twenty six cents per
pound. Butane from the Belize Natural Energy sells for ninety two
dollars per hundred pound cylinder or ninety two cents per pound. BNE
Marketing Manager, Daniel Gutierrez, told Love News today that even if
the imported butane increases, the price of the local product will
remain the same. But the importers are not happy with government’s
unwillingness to bend to their demands – that of immediately increasing
the price to a hundred and forty dollars per hundred pound cylinder and
also to extend the deadline for the mandatory use of scales. Chairman
of Cabinet sub-Committee on commodities, Minister John Saldivar,
chaired the meeting this morning at the Belize Biltmore Plaza between
the Minister of Economic Development, Erwin Contreras, and retailers,
who have said that they are willing to remain open for business, and if
the need arises, they can work towards importing the commodity if the
importers decide to go on strike. Minister Saldivar told Love News that
there will be a supply of butane on the market and that there need not
be any worry of the product going scarce.
Minister John Saldivar – Chairman, Cabinet Sub Committee on Commodities “It was a meeting of the retailers and other stakeholders in the butane industry other than the importers who we met with yesterday and who basically made some demands of government that government has been unable to meet and at the time of me doing this interview have not communicated to us that they are not going to withhold their butane from the consumers. The meeting just now was with the retailers and other stakeholders to come up with a contingency plan should the importers follow through on their threat to strike." Marion Ali - Reporter What is the gripe? Minister John Saldivar – Chairman, Cabinet Sub Committee on Commodities “Two things, one, they made a demand for a further 30 day extension to the requirement for them to have scales on their trucks and they were demanding also a $14.00 increase in the price of the 100 pound cylinder butane, none of which Government could agree to. We certainly could not agree to any further extension on the issue of the scale because we believe that consumers have waited long enough for us to put this measure in place to ensure that consumers get what they are paying for. In terms of $14.00 increase, I can say the last increase was in January and that during that time the acquisition price of butane has gone up by the $14.00 they are claiming, but we felt that in the current environment where the consumer has been burnt and certainly the image of the industry is not at its best that we wouldn’t want to put that entire increase on the consumer at this time. We therefore made a counter proposal to increase the price by $8.00 this month and a further $6.00 next month which they have rejected that is where we are right now. The meeting with the retailers was to make sure that if they followed through on their threat that we had a plan B to make sure that the consumers remain supplied with butane. Yes we do have the agreement from the retailers that they are prepared to remain open and we had BNE in the meeting and they are prepared to put their stock of butane into the mixture if we have to do some sort of rationing of butane and we now have stakeholders who are looking into the possibility of importing their own supply to keep the country with butane.” We tried to get a comment from a few of the importers but they have declined, saying that they have not yet determined if they will go on strike. LoveFM NOTICES
&
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Correction to Wednesday issue:
NEMO
District
Coordinator
Ms.
Timrose
Augustine
Tel. +501 600-8672
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