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[JGiraldezB]

Dear Members and moderator:

This is an attemp to clear things up with this so called NicaWachGroup. They have contacted employers of mine in Nicaragua with SLANDEROUS comments and they hide behind the group name. My current employer CRRAS from the Atlantic side of Nicaragua was kind enought to send me the communication with this group. Please read from the bottom up. They contacted my clients as they are also members of my news group called Nicaragua Outback, they TRY to railroad my business all the time , BUT hide behind this name...If they are so transparent why don't they provide namesfor themselves? Addresses, like I do?
Please read below the communications with my clients and them

Jorge Giraldez-Benard
Phone Number 011 505 8258505 in Managua
Offices in Managua as well 011 505 2682874

Lets see NOW who is the CON!!!!!



Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:24:33 -0800 (PST)
From: "Rev. Rayfield Hodgson Bobb" <rayfield_hodgson@yahoo.com>
Subject: false references of Jorge Giraldez Benard
To: "Sam Thomas" <nicawatchgroup@yahoo.com>

Thank you Mr. Thomas,

We have worked with Mr. Giraldez for many many years and yes we know about Mr.Peter Tsokos, but Mr. Giraldez had nothing to do with the purchases of these islands. He did in fact bring the Greek citizen to our shores.

Ref: Name changes, for 12 years we have known Mr. Giraldez and we have the same name on our file, we have asked him to do many things for our government, in fact I will ask him about you!?

We work closely with the Commercial section of the US Embassy in Managua and again you are mistaken about Mr. Giraldez. There is a very detailed record of Mr. Giraldez actively there although there seems to be no record on your watchgroup or Sam Thomas,that could be found, but we have noted it..

Please, tell me more about whom YOU are. Phone number and credentials

Awaiting your urgent reply,


cc. attache U.S. foreign affairs officer MGA

Rev. Rayfield Hodgson-Bobbs
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Sam Thomas <nicawatchgroup@yahoo.com> wrote:
CRAAS-Bluefields
Rev. Rayfield Hodgson Bobb
President del CRAAS
Telephone (505) 5722705 & 5721005
Email: Rayfield_Hodgson@yahoo.com

CRAAS-Managua
Karla While
TeleFax: (505) 2227171
Email: karlaevis3@hotmail.com.mx


There is some question regarding a person that is using your group as a reference contact. Jorge Giraldez Benard has been linked to have been working with Peter Tsokos in the selling of native lands and Islands on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua as well as several "Investments" and Charity Programs that have never come to pass. Reports have been sent to several offices with the Nicaraguan Government. Mr. Giraldez Benard has claimed in the past that he works closely with the United States Embassy however, after contacting the US Embassy in Managua they had no record of him.

Many groups are very honest and are in the best interest of the people. We are not in anyway concluding that CRAAS is working with Mr. Giraldez Benards many cons or land dealings. Just that you would be best served if you were to contact any and all of this persons reverences directly. Make sure they truly are whom they say they are by contacting officials in Managua.

By doing a google search of Jorge Giraldez Benard you will find that his company name seem to change every six months as well as his product.

We wish you the very best in your honest efforts.

NWG

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[JGiraldezB]

It has become clear from the lack of postings from this shame network they are slanderers and have no defense in what they claim, again I welcome them to an hosest dialog.

Nothing

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Press Release

Rama Territorial Government Indict the President of the Regional
Council in the SAAR

On October 18, 2005 Mr. Sebastian McCrea Ruiz, President and Mrs.
Pearl Marie Watson, First Secretary of the Board of Directors of the
Rama Territorial Government (GTR) located on the island of Rama Cay,
Municipality of Bluefields, South Autonomous Atlantic Region (SAAR)
formally indicted Rev. Rayfield Hodgson Bobb, who in the capacity of
president of the Directive Board of the Regional Council of the SAAR
emitted "Certification" in favor of the directive board of the
supposedly "Authority of the Territory of the Rama Indigenous
People of San Juan del Norte" on July 20, 2005.

The afore mention indictors allege that Rev. Rayfield Hodgson Bobb
has facilitated the formation of a group of persons of Miskito
ethnicity and some Mestizos to whom he has extended a certification,
which they are using to invade the Biosphere Reserve of Southeastern
Nicaragua and eventually obtain the demarcation and title of the
lands within the Reserve and the Territory of the Rama Indigenous
People. This group goes by the name of "Authority of the Territory
of the Rama Indigenous People of San Juan del Norte" indigenous
community "Bartola, San Juan o Indio Maíz."

Nonetheless, in Nicaragua there exist only one Rama Indigenous
People who are recognized by historians and modern anthropologists
and formerly registered in the Autonomous Registry of the SAAR in
compliance with the criteria of Law 28 that the indictors represent.
Thus, the Rama Indigenous People by means of the recourse presented
do not recognize as Ramas the persons who were "certified" by Rev.
Hodgson because they are not part of the indigenous community;
instead, they are individual who have form associations to acquire
land. The persons "certified" by Rev. Hodgson don't even inhabit the
region. Some of them are ex-combatants who have identified
themselves to the authorities of MARENA (Ministry of the Environment
and Natural Resources) as representatives of the Resistance with
identity cards issued in Puerto Cabezas and who in the past have
received lands, which they sold. Now, they see the opportunity to
obtain more lands for commercialization. To obtain money from the
Mestizos of Nueva Guinea area, they affiliated themselves to
their "associations" for an amount between 200 and 500 Córdobas at
which time they issue an identification card contingent on a promise
of 50 manzanas of land, housing, and food for six months. They
claimed that their "affiliates" total 5,000 persons.

The indictors allege that the illegal grant of "certification" by
Rev. Hodgson to the afore mention group violates the rights
established to protect the Rama Indigenous People and the ethnic
community of Monkey Point and specifically the right to protect its
communal properties under the sui generis (unique) regimen as
defined by articles 5, 89, and 180 of the Political Constitution of
Nicaragua and developed in the definition of indigenous lands by
article 36 and article 11 numerals 3, 4, and 6 of Law 28 and its
regulation; and the representation of its Territorial Authorities as
part of the customary right protected by the Constitution in
articles 5, 89, 180 and regulated by Law 28. It also violates
articles 128, 130, and 131 of the Political Constitution of
Nicaragua.

Hence, in conformity with Law 445, for an indigenous community to
exist, it is necessary for a "group of families of Amerindian
ascendance to be established in a territorial space," and for an
ethnic community its "a group of families of Afro-Caribbean … tied
to their cultural roots and forms of possession of the land" which
is why the persons "certified" by Rev. Hodgson do not comply with
legal and constitutional rights to be considered members of an
ethnic or indigenous "community." They are not a group of people
with ties to any predetermined communal land; and even though some
of them may be of Miskito ethnicity, they are not a part of the Rama
Indigenous People as it is expressed by the illegal certification.
Instead, they are persons who belong to other Miskito communities
and Mestizos without any ties whatsoever to the Biosphere Reserve of
Nicaragua which they intend to invade.

Though the primary settlement of the Rama Indigenous People is Rama
Cay, the rest of the territory is conformed by lands on the main
land which historically and traditionally have been occupied by the
Rama's overlapping the Natural Reserve of Cerro Silva, the Natural
Reserve of Punta Gorda, the Refuge of Vida Silvestre of Rio San
Juan, and the Biosphere Reserve of Indio-Maiz, which today form part
of the Biosphere Reserve of Southeastern Nicaragua and is protected
by the UNESCO of the United Nation. Reserves that if invaded by the
persons "certified" by Rev. Hodgson and the groups which they
direct, would destroyed these protected areas. The amount of people
that they intend to introduce into the areas would be detrimental to
the preservation of the environment and the natural resources. And
that is why the minister and prosecutor of MARENA, and the
Nicaraguan Army have evacuated these persons from the Reserve of
Indio-Maiz on various occasions. Nevertheless, Rev. Hodgson with his
so-called "certification" facilitates the invasion not only of the
Reserve of Indio-Maiz but also the Reserve of Cerro Silva, which
from immemorial times have been inhabited by the Rama communities.

For more information contact the office of the Rama Territorial
Government in front of the office of the Electoral Council on
Averdeen Street, Bluefields. Tel (505) 572-1441