The Belize Sovereignty March hosted by Citizen’s Organize For Liberty thru Action was held on Saturday.  Some two hundred or more people gathered  at the constitution park, in Belize where they proceeded to march through the city streets.  The march concluded at the Battlefield Park in down Town Belize City, and ended with a rally, where a host of re-known speakers addressed the crowd. Participating in the march was a wide cross section of society, ethnicity and locality. Participants from Punta Gorda, Corozal, and Dangriga also attended the march to voice their concerns on current issues affecting the country.  The march also brought out several environmental organizations including APAMO, members from the Belize Christian Workers Union, as well as families of those have been murdered.  COLA’s President, Moses Sulph, tells us that the march was intended to highlight all the ailing issues that affect the country Moses Sulph says that this march is the first of many to come, as COLA does not plan to stop until their voices are heard.
Fail State and Artificial Border; it’s a study and research that was done to explain those borders that were arbitrarily drawn by the European Powers and divided nations and their people. The study according to Senator Godwin Hulse gives legitimacy to the term “Artificial Border” as an actual terminology used, and because of its definition he believes the minister of foreign affairs should clarify his statement to the OAS. Senator Hulse who was also a guest speaker at eh Sovereignty march on Saturday,  touched on the matter of oil revenues and Belize not getting its fair share. In addition Senator Hulse also shared his views on Guatemalans receiving Belizean Citizenship.
Bring it on! Those were the words of Yolanda Schakron to the police department.  Schakron is the aunt of Christopher Galvez who was gunned down late December.  Yolanda and the family of Christopher Galvez have been carrying out their own investigation, since Christopher’s death, and claim that they have discovered alarming evidence that suggest that a police officer may have been involved in Galvez’s death.  The family claims that they have given sufficient evidence to the police department to act upon, yet there has been no arrest. Since their determined demand for justice, the family says that they have been threatened on numerous occasions. And what is even more alarming is that the threats have been coming through Christopher Galvez’s cellular phone. On Saturday Yolanda and her family came out at COLA’s Belize sovereignty march. The family says that they will not stop until justice has been served.   
Large quantities of reserve lands may be de-reserved for private interests. It is still not quite clear says the coordinator of APAMO, but it has been rumoured that there has been over 500 leases and title that have been given out to private entities for lands in the protected areas of Belize. The organization which is the umbrella for about 14 environmental organizations and represents 40 percent of the protected areas in Belize, says that there are burning issues surrounding protected areas, that they have been consulting the government on.  The issues of concerns are the fact that Belize’s barrier reef has been placed on the endangered list, and risks loosing its title as a world heritage site. Yvette Alonzo, says that the conservation community has developed amendments to a mangrove act that has yet to be addressed. Including all these issues Alonzo says that they have great concerns on the matter of exploration of oil in the waters of Belize, but the problem is that they have not been consulted at all. She says that she believes that the conservation community needs better representation on the NEAC board