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Den sala di Corte Huez a adverti pa criminalidad den black market

*Expertonan ta mira necesidad pa asistencia internacional Aruba

*Informantenan ta mustra cu armamento a bira circulo vicioso 

ORANJESTAD(AAN)—Arma ta uno di e negoshinan di black market cu mas ta plama rond mundo y ta destrui bida y bienestar di henter comunidad.

Na diferente ocasion DIARIO a presenta relatonan di expertonan cu a expresa preocupacion serio pa e negoshi di arma na Aruba, cu ayera a bira base di un advertencia serio den corte di Husticia.

Durante e tratamento di e caso di un repartidor di corant, cu a wordo alcansa pa un bala, Huez a adverti pa presencia y uzo di arma na Aruba y e peliger cu e crecemento di criminalidad ta nifica pa Pueblo tanto riba tereno di seguridad personal como riba tereno economico.

Den e Caso di Corte e Guera di Gangnan a bini dilanti ayera con un repartidor inocente di corant, a bira victima di pelea di gang cu a dispara riba su auto pasobra nan a kere cu e ta otro persona.

Con peligroso e realidad di presencia di arma den man robez ta, a bini dilanti ora e acusado a splica cu e no ta bon conoci cu e forma cu mester atende cu un arma.

Huez no a laga duda di e peliger cu arma ta pa hende y pa economia di Aruba cu ta basa riba turismo, cu no ta soporta e menasa di uzo di arma den un comunidad.

E hecho cu crimen basa riba uzo di arma clandestino ta crece, ta encera un peliger grandi pa turismo segun Huez.

E remarke di Huez ta completamente di acuerdo cu informacionnan economico mundial, cu ta indica con halto seguridad personal ta riba e lista di turistanan den un mundo di problema grandi y di criminalidad cu ta aumenta.

DIARIO a discuti ayera e advertencia di Huez cu informantenan cu a mustra riba e problemanan serio cu accion dirigi contra presencia ilegal di arma, ta confronta.

A discuti diferente forma cu por atende cu e problema, cu manera un informante clave a trece dilanti, a bira un circulo vicioso.

Condicionnan social a crea tera fertil pa criminalidad den cual e black market a florece, sigur pa trafico ilegal di productonan y articulonan mara na criminalidad.

Riba tereno internacional por mira con bandanan ta haci uzo di refugiadonan pa trafica den por ehempel arma y droga.

Prostitucion y negoshinan ilegal ta keda centronan di actividad di bandanan criminal, cu ta presente tambe den e trafico di arma cu a mara su mes na tur forma di criminalidad.

Resultado di aumento di arma den man criminal a haci cu miedo ta inspira mas y mas hende pa arma nan mes na forma secreto.

Ya cu ta trata di un acto contra ley, un persona cu por ehempel perde su arma of descubri cu su arma a wordo horta, no ta bati alarma pasobra e ta na haltura cu e hecho cu e tin arma den su poder, ta castigabel.

Pues e aumento di crimen den cual ta uza arma, ta haci cu mas hende ta cumpra arma, expone nan mes na e peliger di negoshi den arma pero cu miedo pa expone nan mes na autoridad, cu por castiga hende pero no ta peligroso manera bandanan criminal.

Informantenan clave a indica cu Aruba mester pidi asistencia di Reino y instancianan internacional manera Interpol pa atende cu e negoshi di arma, cu ta mara na tur forma di criminalidad y ta mucho mas peligroso y dificil pa atende cune.

Na nivel internacional, autoridad continuamente mester introduci metodonan nobo pa atende cu e crecemento di negoshi den arma cu ta ademas basa riba negoshi internacional.

Mas informacion di fuentenan cu kende a discuti e asunto aki, ta mustra cu por haci uzo di pensionadonan di Cuerpo Policial, cu ta conoci cu mundo di criminalidad na Aruba y cu por sostene asistencia internacional.

E alarma cu Huez a bati ayera den Corte enfrente e peliger di negoshi di arma na Aruba, sigur mester haya tur atencion riba termino hopi cortico ya cu e situacion mundial caotico, ta produci mas y mas motibo pa criminalidad manera hamber, migracion cu ta costa placa y di cual criminalnan ta trata di abusa.

Turismo no ta soporta criminalidad ya cu e turista ta gasta su placa pa su trankilidad, paz y su bienestar.

Agentenan di biahe ta proteha nan clientenan tambe y ta evita bende destinacionnan cu criminalidad ta haci peligroso pa nan cliente.

Na momento cu criminalidad mishi cu turismo, economia ta den problema serio manera anteriormente DIARIO a trece dilanti a base di informacion concreto y manera ayera a keda confirma pa Huez den Corte di Husticia.

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Minister di Husticia:

ORANJESTAD(AAN): Diabierna mainta durante un conferencia di prensa, minister di Husticia y Asuntonan Social Rocco Tjon a tuma tempo pa duna un pabien na tur e trahadornan di prison, mirando cu awe ta e dia oficial di trahadornan di prison, kendenan ta den pleno celebracion den e dianan aki.

“Nan ta eherce un trabao sumamente importante, no solamente pa e cadena judicial, sino tambe pa pais Aruba”.

Hopi biaha nos no ta para keto riba esaki.

Hopi biaha nos ta kere cu combati criminalidad  ta solamente haci un investigacion y percura pa e malhechornan wordo cera, pero e realidad ta cu si nos kier evita cu e personanan aki bolbe comete un error, ta importante pa e personanan aki por reintegra y re-socializa na un manera exitoso.

Esaki segun Tjon, kende a sigui bisa cu esaki por logra na e esfuerzo, e dedicacion y e sentido halto di integridad di nos trahadornan di prison, cu esaki mas y mas por bira exitoso.

“Di e banda aki nos kier gradici nan y desea nan hopi exito den e siman aki cu nan ta celebrando cu nan coleganan di St. Maarten, Boneiro, Suriname y Corsow cu ta akinan presente na Aruba”, segun e mandatario.

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BELIZE CITY, Wed. Oct. 5, 2022

On Monday, the most recent session of the Redistricting case brought by the Belize Peace Movement (BPM) against the government of Belize was held in the courtroom of Supreme Court judge Genevieve Chabot, who is now presiding over the case following the ascension of Justice Michelle Arana to the Court of Appeal. The purpose of Monday’s session was to fully update the new sitting judge on the case. In two weeks, on October 18, the parties will be in court once again, and questions will be posed at that time to the expert witness in this case. (As mentioned in earlier reports, Lord Michael Ashcroft joined the proceedings as an interested party and financed the hiring of an expert witness to map suggested layouts for the redistricting process in Belize.)

At the end of the process, there should be a roughly equal number of voters in each of the country’s 31 constituencies — ensuring equal representation for all residents of Belize, and, despite a purported effort by an appointed Redistricting Task Force to accomplish such a goal, the claimants are seeking, by means of the case, to have the Elections and Boundaries Commission make a proposal to Parliament to carry out the redistricting process..

“This case is asking for one simple question: for section 90 of the Constitution to be adhered to, for the Elections and Boundaries Commission to make a proposal to Parliament to allow for the distribution of voters to make constituencies as equal as possible. Once that is done, then it goes back to the Elections and Boundaries Department to draw those lines. Those lines, as the expert has stated, could be done within a matter of days,” the attorney for the claimants, Arthur Saldivar, explained.

He said clearly that the Re-districting Task Force established by the government has no legal authority under the Constitution and is in his view merely an attempt at gerrymandering.

“The task force is set up with an agenda of bias, because it is geared toward moving voters from areas where they predominantly vote for a particular party, into another area where they continue to vote for that party and its preferred candidate,” Saldivar commented.

He noted that the matter of the task force had been brought forward by the defendants in their strike-out application (in an attempt to suggest that a litigative effort to initiate a redistricting process was no longer necessary) and was roundly put down by the courts.

“It cannot be used as a basis to say that they are complying with the Constitution. What it is really, it’s a wasteful exercise, because it’s taking taxpayers’ money to pay for something that public servants have been doing from time immemorial,” Saldivar said.

Saldivar further made reference to Minister Henry Charles Usher’s suggestion of a merger of the Caye Caulker and St. George’s Caye voters with those in Fort George, in which there are a below-average number of voters, and noted that such a decision would go against section 90(2) of the Constitution.

“The geographical features and transportation concerns would have to be taken into consideration when looking at the boundaries and setting up the boundaries of a constituency in a redistricting process. So, you would not go so far, to find additional votes to make up the numbers. You’d have to first look closer,” Saldivar said.

Saldivar went on to point out that voters in divisions that are in closer geographical proximity to the Fort George Division — such as Pickstock, Albert and Caribbean Shores, all of which are constituencies where the number of voters is below-average — would be looked at first for possible mergers that could bolster the number of voters in the Fort George Division, rather than a division as far from that constituency as Caye Caulker.

“We could actually amalgamate Fort George and Caribbean Shores. It would be a very interesting amalgamation, I think,” he said. “In that regard, what would we do, then, with Mesopotamia? Mesopotamia is a small constituency as Queen’s Square, as is Albert, so we could see a situation where Mesopotamia and Queen’s Square become 1, or Mesopotamia and Albert become one. It’s just a question of which representative go home,” Saldivar went on to remark.

The Re-districting Task Force has already been ruled to be outside the Constitution, according to Saldivar, but will likely be used to generate a proposed redistribution layout to Parliament that would be favorable to the current members of government.

“Whether it is constitutional or not, our leaders don’t really care. They are hellbent on spending that money and on doing this exercise, and I believe thereafter they will want to float a proposal to Parliament which will then show boundaries drawn with their particular leanings in mind,” Saldivar said, adding that these decisions, which would be unconstitutional, may be challenged if that course of action is taken by the government.

Saldivar further noted that it would take a matter of days for the drawing of the new constituency boundaries to take place, since all the data is readily available, making the work of the Re-districting Task Force redundant.

“They have elected to do a task force, but what I’m saying is that by virtue of the day-to-day function of the Elections and Boundaries Department, the number is known, so if the numbers are known and the geographic composition of the constituencies are known, why would you need to create a new entity to do something that is already done. It’s unnecessary, it’s a waste, it’s a waste of time and a waste of money,” Saldivar said.

“The only reason it would take as long as these people want it to take is that they are trying to create an unfair advantage for themselves politically. They are not doing what is necessary under the Constitution; they are doing what they want to do for their political expedience and advantage,” Saldivar went on to say, and he subsequently noted, “The groundwork that they are doing is to find out who votes for who.”

He said that the expert witness was brought into the case to determine how the disparity across the electoral divisions in Belize can be remedied and to suggest a number of possible realignment scenarios.

“He gave three or four possible solutions where he basically was talking about, you could increase the number of constituencies or you could amalgamate some of the constituencies, or you could increase the numbers, the threshold in terms of the number of constituents within constituencies. Now, I don’t see us going over 31 seats, so he also gave us a variation that allows for 31 seats to be maintained,” Saldivar explained, adding that a number of constituencies in Belize City would be brought together, and other out-district constituencies would be divided to create new divisions.

“For example, Stann Creek West would be split, Belmopan would be split, Cayo South would be split, so they were like the creation of 6 in the districts and in the city a number of them would be made one,” he said.

Saldivar explained, “These constituencies’ boundaries are known; they are well established for quite some time. We have polling areas, we know where all the polling areas are. So, for argument’s sake, let’s say you have 16 polling areas, 1 to 16, and you have four constituencies. So, you have four of these polling areas in these four constituencies, right, but now you are going to create 6 constituencies out of the four, so two of those consistencies out of the four are going to slip in two, and the polling areas won’t change. It would just mean that polling areas 12 and 13 that were once in this particular constituency will not go into another one,” he explained.

In reference to the resignation of Martin Aldana from the Re-districting Task Force, Saldivar said, “I expect more resignations from the Task Force, because what you have there is a political process, and you will rarely find politicians agreeing on anything when they are from different parties.”

Notably, the Elections and Boundaries Department compiles a supplementary list of voters each month and presents that data to the Elections and Boundaries Commission. The EBC has the responsibility to review those reports and determine if the distribution of voters is suitable so that each constituent is represented equally.

“They the commissioners [inaudible] should be able to see, because I think they put qualified educated people on that commission, not a bunch of dunces, who can’t read and competency and read numbers and read figures and see when something is out of whack or not. If these are the intelligent people that we are putting on the Elections and Boundaries Commission, they should then know that their responsibility under the Constitution, once they see this disparity as wide as it is where one constituency is 10 times bigger than another constituency, that they would make that proposal. Manuel Esquivel in 1988 took it to Parliament and said that this should never happen again, that we should never have a situation where we have such a disparity in numbers between one constituency and the next,” Saldivar said.

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REAL NEWS- Joan Peters, President of the Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association (ABPSA), says the organisation continues its struggle to settle a number of outstanding issues, including back pay for healthcare workers and their promised COVID-19 stipend.

Reporting on her members’ working conditions, Peters says the Fiennes Institute, the Clarevue Psychiatric Hospital, the General Post Office and a number of other government departments continue to be a cause for worry.

She says that a major issue now plaguing staff is the lack of drinking water at their work places.

By law, she notes, an employer has to ensure that there is water on the premises for workers’ consumption.  However, Peters says, she has learned that the Government’s failure to pay the service providers has caused them to stop delivering bottled water.

Accordingly, Department Heads and staff have to source drinking water otherwise, according to Peters.

The ABPSA President says the issue of uniforms for those required to wear them also remains outstanding.  There have been instances when some departments receive uniforms and others do not, she notes.

Another troubling issue, Peters says, is the $1,000 stipend that was promised to healthcare workers who were required to deal COVID-19 patients.  Clarevue workers have not received any such remuneration at all, she states.

Meanwhile, addressing the bathroom facilities at the country’s only psychiatric hospital, Peters describes them as dreadful.

Two weeks ago, workers at the institution complained about pit latrines that were causing serious infestations of flies.  However, Peters says the matter is being addressed by the placement of concrete slabs over the holes.

She was quick to point out that, after one facility had been constructed, the Minister of Health, Sir Molwyn Joseph, sent word to stop; but the work continues, she says.

The Public Service Association represents civil servants and workers in some of the statutory corporations.   Therefore, in its endeavours, the Union must write letters and conduct negotiations for collective bargaining agreements and the like.

As a not-for-profit organization, the Union reportedly has requested – through Labour Minister Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin – that the Government allow it to collect a negotiation fee like other bargaining agents.

However, Peters says, their request has been ignored, to date.

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