Belizean LGBT Rights Violations

The Guardian reported this week edition that the case may do more harm than good. What is the gay community supposed to do when we live in a society where religious leaders choose to perpetuate moral hypocrasy in the pursuit of holding on to traditional influence and politician have indicated to get on the bandwagon of extremists fanatisim. No politician should ever have to be measured in their approach to uphold the human rights of a marginlised groups. Yet, politicains have been very selective in issuing strong statements. It is unfortunate our media especially in the newspapers cannot be responsible in informing the population about section 53. All the United Belize Advocacy Movement is doing is demanding rights-enforcement through the court.  See below the share prejudice and bias of this article. Buggers Need to Worry About Those Not Making Noise - UNIBAM Case May Do More Harm than Good for Gay Community Written by Shane D. Williams    Thursday, 02 ...

Dated: January 31st, 2011 What was fascinating for this case was watching how we did not start on time, how the lawyers all met in chambers before the case and the formalities of referring to the Justice as milady.It was also interesting to see the Catholic Bishop, Eugene Crawford, Scott Stirm, Maria Zabaneh all sitting in the first half of the pews while I sat beside Jules and Richard Smith. Who call, my good friends. The section 53 case brought by UniBAM was set on fire on January 30th, 2011 when cross-applications were heard starting with the Churches. Listening to the Churches representation Michel Chebat, one would thing that we could not counter with any arguments Michel argued the following: 1).That UniBAM has no constitutional standing because it was not a person and as a result could not have sex. 2).That affidavits submission of expert witness by UniBAM needed to be struck out because they did not follow court procedures properly and they requested that their experts...

Jan 30, 2012 Church’s Holy, but Legal War with UNIBAM It’s a situation that many would have preferred to stay inside a closet. But since Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement opened the doors to challenging old law, controversy of a biblical proportion has emerged.  It’s considered the Church’s Holy war but for the homosexual community it’s a legal and human rights battle.  Can the Church’s Good Book hold up against the leviathan of legal doctrines?  It’s not yet decided but day one of the case took place today in the Supreme Court. News Five Andrea Polanco Reports. Andrea Polanco, Reporting Proponents of the Council Churches and religious leaders gathered outside the Supreme Court since nine this morning.  Armed with prayers, flags and rosaries, they prayed as the Council of Churches takes on UNIBAM in the court in round one. The small group walked the streets and offered prayers during the court’s proceedings. But inside the court the legal...

UNIBAM: We Are One January 27, 2012 On Monday UNIBAM's constitutional challenge of constitutionality of section 53 of the criminal code is going to the Supreme Court of Belize for a Preliminary Hearing. And today, UNIBAM launched its public relations campaign to get sympathetic members of the community to come  Now, if you've been watching the polls, you might say they don't have very much support, but UNIBAM is appealing to what they believe is the silent majority, and today they pulled out all the stops: Attorneys, Human Rights experts and a Christian Minister to get the message out. We were at the press conference and here's how it went: Jules Vasquez Reporting The purpose of today's press conference was to launch these wrist-bands: Caleb Orozco - Executive President, UNIBAM "The bracelets for us are our attempt to increase the visibility of the issue, but, more precisely, for generating solidarity among individuals. You may n...

22nd October, 2011 The mayor has forgotten that The Orange Walk District has many gay voters who have taken notice of his backpeddling on the Peace and Equality Mural. Covering the mural is not only a slap in the face of gay voters in the district, but symbolic of how politicians so easily sweep rights under the cover for any of its citizens. See how on October 11th, Major De la Fuente was support of the Mural through this news coverage covered by PlusTV....see link for video coverage as well. ( http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/418503/Re_Gay_pride_logo_painted_on_O.html ) PLUSTV COVERAGE 11th October, 2011 Just last week, the US Ambassador to Belize, Vinai Thumallapaly, handed over checks to eight organizations who work in some capacity with HIV and AIDS related issues. As we’ve reported, at least two of those organizations are actively promoting the homosexual agenda in Belize and one of them, UNIBAM, is presently challenging the constitutionality of Belize...