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Ambergris Caye, Belize Saturday August 11, 2007 Belize's only Daily- Seven Days a Week |
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Belize on alert to maintain foot and mouth
disease-free status
Following an official
declaration of a recurrence of Foot and Mouth
Disease (FMD) in England in a beef farm in Surrey, the Belize
government is taking appropriate preventative measures, including a ban
on animal exports from the UK as well as meat and dairy products.
The 2001 FMD crisis in the United Kingdom indirectly affected Belize because of the erroneous concept held by officials in Central America and Mexico that Belize is a “Little England”. Thus, these countries considered Belize a high risk country for FMD and effectively closed their borders to importations of live cattle and cattle products from Belize. The Ministry of Agriculture and BAHA will enforce regulations especially in the Commercial Free Zone areas to assure neighboring countries and trading partners that we are taking appropriate preventative actions. Belize recently requested the OIE (World Organization for Animal Health) for recognition as officially free of FMD without vaccination and it is expected that it would be recognised as such by the end of August 2007. Read More Free textbooks distributed to schools
 The first stage of
government’s free textbook programme is in full
swing as the first shipment of school supplies arrived in Belize
earlier this week.
Judy Diego, Manager, District Education Centre “It has been a lot, a lot, a lot of planning. I plan when I sleep, I plan when I wake up, just for the process to be smooth. And I must say that I have a wonderful staff working here, I have wonderful facilitators over at the training, and we are going smoothly. I must say thanks to all of them.” For the past two days, the staff at the Belize District Education Centre have been busy receiving and processing its supply of the text books that will be distributed free of cost to primary school children in September. Judy Diego, Manager, District Education Centre “The books came in last week and the containers were emptied at the Belize Elementary’s auditorium, that is really the hub, and the books were distributed from there to the districts.” On Thursday the Belize district received its supply of seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty textbooks in five subject areas: Language Arts, Mathematics, Spanish, Social Studies, and Science. Six processing clerks have been hired to prepare the books for distribution to primary schools. For accountability, each book will be stamped with a number, the name of the school and student. Read More Butane
prices up $3 in second increase in 2 months
In news about another
type of energy, the government has announced a
three dollar increase in the price of butane. The new retail rate for a
hundred pound cylinder is one hundred and five dollars in Belize City,
Belmopan one hundred and seven, while in San Ignacio it’s one hundred
and ten bucks. Customers in Benque will pay one hundred and eleven
dollars; in Orange Walk the price is one hundred and six; Corozal one
hundred and five. In the south, butane will sell for a hundred and
seven dollars in Dangriga and one hundred and eight dollars in Punta
Gorda. This spike comes on the heels of another increase which occurred
on June thirteenth when butane went up by four dollars. The new prices
took effect on Thursday. Read More
Cops: counterfeit cash
trading hands in Corozal
Tonight
residents in the Corozal district are asked to be on the
lookout for funny money. According to authorities in the north, over
the past week businesses have reported counterfeit Belize bills in
fifty and hundred dollar denominations, as well as fake fifty dollar
greenbacks. The counterfeit cash carry the serial numbers DB544458, DC
139009, DC138842, DA 259809, DA566342, CB31112141A and GE35861610A. If
you believe you are in possession of any bogus bills, please contact
the nearest police station. Read More
Six
Caribbean national Red Cross societies for HIV global alliance
The
HIV Global Alliance is an enabling framework to mobilize capacities
and resources to provide harmonized, effective support to National
Societies for the achievement of their HIV programmes within the
framework of the Federation’s Global Agenda.
The Global Alliance offers a structure by which the Global Agenda Goals and the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved collectively and efficiently. “While the Red Cross is independent, impartial and neutral by way of its fundamental principles, we also acknowledge that we cannot work in isolation and so we would continue to operate within the established systems,” noted Kapila. The other national societies from the Caribbean that have been targeted to participate in the Global Alliance are Belize, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti and Trinidad & Tobago. The Alliance also includes Asia, Europe and Africa which have been selected by the International Federation as other priority regions for the implementation of the programme. Read More NOTICES/LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Dorado and Tuna Tournament- Sunday August 12. Briefing: Caliente
at 7pm Friday the 10th
More info here: http://belizephotographs.com/070809.html BRUNCH Served every Saturday and Sunday at Beachin' Kitchen. Cathy's great cooking! CHURCH
SERVICE
AT
HOLY CROSS- Sunday,
August 12 at 10 am. Guest preacher will be
Rev.
Julie Bryant from Pacific Palisades, California.
All parents of registered Holy Cross Anglican School students are required to attend the parent/teacher conference on August 26 at 2 pm. The new school year begins Monday, September 3. For any additional information, please call the School office at 226-3456. THOUGHT
OF THE DAY
The
most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is
as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
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