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Man
Crushed
to
Death
by Town Garbage Truck San Pedro Police was on the
scene of an accident this
afternoon,
July 11, 2011, in the Alta Mar Area of San Pedro Town investigating the
death of a worker of the San Pedro Town Council. Spectators watched as
the crime investigation team worked on the scene where the lifeless
body of a male Hispanic man laid in a pool of blood behind the town
garbage truck.
The man was identified to be Virgilio Alvaro Pot, public worker (garbage collector) of the San Pedro Town Council. According to one of his co-workers Pot fell from the trailer and was crushed by the two wheels. “We were about the finish our route and we had told him he can go home,” commented one of the workers to Ambergris Today. “I was sitting at the top of the pile of garbage on the trailer and Virgilio was sitting in the ramp which connects the trailer to the truck. I believe he fell asleep; all I saw was that he fell and I shouted to the driver, but it was too late. He was crushed by the wheels.” Dr. Javier Zuniga was called to the scene and a relative of Pot was called to properly identify him. More details of this story as they become available. Ambergris Today Reporter
Editorial
Last week in Dangriga a local
magistrate sentenced three
Colombian men who had entered the country illegally to five years
imprisonment.
With good behaviour these men will be out in three. They were found with some 13 kilos of cocaine and with three handguns and ammunition. They had obviously come to Belize to do business: to distribute the cocaine and to sell the guns. In Belize City, men and women and even children are being sent to jail for having gun offences. They get one year for each bullet. But in Dangriga the Colombians appear to have had special treatment. Five years in jail for drug and gun trafficking are seen in Belize City as a slap on the wrist. Belize today is engaged in what has become a life-and-death struggle against gun-toting gangs. There is a paralysis of fear running through many of our neighbourhoods. The Government has been obliged to take draconian measures to meet the challenge to make our streets and neighbourhoods safer, and the people of Belize have been willing to endure the hardship, even in the face of arrogant police behaviour, because they want to believe that the crime epidemic will eventually go away. But the gun and drug traffickers are getting the wrong message. The message seems to be that some people can get special treatment. We are of the view that sentencing guidelines, especially for drugs and guns, need to be revised and uniformly applied throughout the country in all jurisdictions. People who deal in drugs and guns have to know that when caught, they will face long jail sentences. We believe that for the present this should be a function of the Department of Public Prosecutions. But in time Belize should establish a District Attorney’s Department, responsible for carrying out prosecutions and supervising sentence enforcement. The District Attorney’s Office would take care of all prosecutions, gathering the evidence, accounting for witnesses to the point of protecting them, and making sure that Belize has the forensic ability to track down criminals using fingerprints, DNA, blood analyses and whatever other tools are available for effective work. If we had such a District Attorney, we could wage a successful battle against crime. Reporter Planning
Tourism
For The Next 20 Years 
What's
going to be happening in the next twenty years for tourism in
Belize? No one knows but the planners at the Ministry of Tourism say
they have a well-informed guess - and that's because they plan to shape
the future.
It's in The National
Sustainable Tourism Master Plan,
is part of
the requirement for a $15 million Sustainable Tourism Program Plan.
It's has been presented in key areas already and today it was brought to Belize City - here's what it's about:… Lindsey Garbutt, CEO BTB "The heart and soul is for this to move tourism the most important industry I think in Belize right now - we have to have a plan. A plan that show us not only were we want to go but how to get there." 
Christy Mastry,
Sustainable Tourism Programme
"It really talks about our product development for our country - all the different areas we need to develop and enhance the development. What stakeholders can bring to the table - the responsibility of private sector and the responsibility of government as full partners in the future of tourism development. so it's really just taking stock of what we have and finding out what we are doing right. Creating a vision that promotes what we are doing right and then growing that vision for the next 20 years." Lindsey Garbutt, CEO BTB "They took Belize and place in into different zones and determine what kind of development is best in terms of density, size of hotels and just put it in a math form of where you should do what and not only where you should do what but how you should do it." Christy Mastry, Sustainable Tourism Programme "This is the first time that Ministry of Tourism has taking a stance on physical planning and mapping out the country with where they want to see development grow in certain areas that we need to promote the growth, where we need to decompressed the growth, where we need to conserve the growth altogether and really put in on the table how we are going to grow or double our overnights and build our cruise sector over the next 20 years in a responsible and sustainable manner." "We have notice certain areas that have kind of overgrown which could jeopardize sustainability themselves but we also feel the country is still pure in the state of development but there are numbers and certain rooms occupancies that are very low in certain areas, so it's not that we need to be following this to reach 20 years but its every year the developers that we allow in are containing themselves to the vision the country has. So it's us committing to a vision." 
Lindsey Garbutt, CEO BTB
"After today we need to make sure that we take it now to government where the decision will be made to give the necessary commitment to make it work." The overall goal of the plan is to double the number of overnight arrivals by 2030, boosting the tourism industry's annual contribution to the economy to approximately US$1.2 billion US Dollars. CH7 NOTICES
South Ambergris Caye Neighborhood Watch (SACNW) This Wednesday the 13th of July is our scheduled general meeting at Mr. Joe's Lone Star Grill and Cantina 7:00pm. We hope all members that are on the island will attend as we are taking nominations for the 2011-2012 Executive Committee. Saga
Humane
Society
Monthly
Cook-Off
Wednesday,
July
20,
2011,
6
– 9 p.m. at the Tackle Box Bar & Grill. The
theme for July is ‘Pasta’. Served cold or hot, ‘Pasta’ is a food loved
by almost everyone! To enter a dish, please contact Lori Purdy at
675-5185 or email her at loripurdy@gmail.com, or Katia Marin at
610-0992 or email her at katita815_@hotmail.com. We ask that you RSVP
your entry so we have an estimate of the number of dishes being
submitted. If you do not RSVP, you may still bring your entry to the
Tackle Box by 6:00 p.m. on the night of the event. The dish must serve
a minimum of 60 sample size portions. Please come out and support Saga
Humane Society. A great cause for our community! The cost is BZ$10 to
sample all the entries. A fun night for all! There
will be great prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places! And
several Raffles!
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