Tacking

Yesterday the People's United Party with representation from most of Belize's constituencies cast votes that supported Orange Walk's very own as leader of the Party. This comes at a time that is crucial in the bid to return Belize on to the path of economic Independence and away from the politics of anger, frustration and vengeance. This is to be followed by a full fledged convention which will start the swing of the nation to IM Dean that his ego-trip of an administration is already into its lame duck stage.

All this is to the expense of our Belize. But we are resilient; we will survive; we are learning. Ironically for the UDP it seems that the only restoration that Belize is experiencing is a draw away from imagining the horrible possibilities. The problem with the UDP perception of their plan for our jewel is that they had none. All they had was conjecture and the hope that their experimentation with Belizeans would work.

It is all a sad state of affairs.

It it premature to go to a countdown to calling Juan Antonio Briceño the 5th Prime Minister of Belize?

I can see the tacking.

Inquiring minds wanna know

I was watching the OPEN PAKI show and have the following questions.

Did the posturing as potential candidate for Orange Walk East feel that since he was appointed to the BNE Trust by the government then he should be Trusted? How novel.

The other person in charge at the trust is calling OW a home. Was there any clarification as to the contents of this website?

Yerwood turmoil is reflected in internal e-mails

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/stamford-ct/TD2KUR23GS7PTET9I

So from Appeals Court to SSB to UN Ambassador to Central Bank to BTL to BNE Trust, wow the nepotism is rampant.

Wow what a platform of transparency. Maybe all is transparent for the Prime Minister now. Next will be our phone calls...well officially.

Sunk Cost Fallacy

I stumbled across an article that fed into this term. Like so many things in our lives, it was unknown...or so I thought. As I read it shone light unto a phenomenon that is definitely around us everyday and during our decision-making processes.

Remember those times when you felt that you have invested too much money, time, effort, love, or some other personal resource that you cannot go back. You feel that if you go back that you will lose all that you have invested.

Sunk cost means that you have irreversibly spent the resource and it is irretrievable. What you get back will be another resource... different money etc. Many-a-times though we know deep down that the odds of getting back what we have spent is very small or not even there. We cling to hope; we are blinded by pride.

Some mental accounting will let you realize that what is left for you to spend will only continue increasing your losses. The decision is sometimes hard but it is up to you to make it.

I look at our Belizean lives and felt that we are definitely guilty of this fallacy. It is a part of our being human. Also, it is important for us to be able to decide when enough has been spent on an item/section/event in our life and say no more.

I am sure we have all battled with decisions. The angle here is "Will the continued investment be worthwhile and allow us to get back even what has been spent?"

Maybe we will be satisfied that we will get back something but the loss is often hidden in stress, anguish and time. This is what makes it a sunk cost fallacy.

Has the same root as the spanish word 'fallar.'

Cockamamie

The House of Representatives met on Friday August 6, 2010. This the legislative branch of our Bicameral system of government led by the United Democratic Party again proved to the nation that the system is beyond the need to reform; there might be the need for a total overhaul. The problem now with the UDP is that since the time of the SIS in the eighties they seem to be in love with stealth ways of supposedly getting things done. It is up to public perception and opinion that they are already doing some of the same things that they deem to make legal now.

Restore Belize... I am not sure if this is a misnomer but I am sure that Belize needs an about turn and to move way beyond where we were before.

The situation especially in the city of Belize shows that someone is not content with the status quo and that they are hell bent with turning it to their own way of thinking. I know someone who likes to allude to the devil and hell.

Again for those that might understand what I am saying. The Prime Minister has it wrong from the onset. I do not sit in his cabinet room but I do see how he presents. The ire and bitterness of the presentation is translated directly into his speech presentation. What is he still opposing? The spirit of proposing seems to have been lost many many years ago.

Unfortunately the powers that be in Belize cannot even be trusted with our passports or our driver's license database. We already suspect that they are routinely listening to phone calls of persons deemed persona non grata, not even criminals. How else would they know that it works? If they know it works because George Bush instituted it in the USA, all this is borne in fallacy.

I suggest that they invest their dollars in Crime Scene Investigation techniques which go hand in hand with the promised DNA lab. The processing of crime scenes is so much more detrimental to the conviction of a suspect than listening in to phone calls.

By the way, the Bush Administration has this phone call interception more as an anti-terrorism ploy than against gang warfare.

Mada fish... the poor southern minister lived at the Natural Resources department between 1998 and 2008. In all that time all he could come up with was that a few stamps or signatures were not processed. OOOOPppsss sorry for going astray like that.

Do we trust the UDP to have the good intentions, money and technological know-how to implement all of this crime bill? Or does it sound all cockamamie?