CUSTOMERS REQUIRED TO REGISTER PREPAID CELLULAR PHONES

Effective October 11, it will be mandatory that all prepaid cellular phones be registered. The measure is part of the Government of Belize's anti-crime efforts. It is expected that having customers register their cellular phones will allow for the recovery of cellular numbers, eliminate cellular phone theft, and assist law enforcement in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting crimes that involve the use of cellular phones. According to the Ministry of Police and Public Safety there will be a six month period after which all unregistered phones will automatically be disconnected by the respective telephone company. New cellular phones purchased after October 2011 will have to register at the point of sale. The public will have to   contact their service provider for information on how to register their prepaid cellular phones.

 Do you believe that this initiative will effectively  facilitate  law enforcement in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting crimes that involve the use of cellular phones?

Theory of the ape's language

Nim Chimpsky (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee who was the subject of an extended study of  how animals acquire language (c
The validity of the study is disputed, as Terrace argued that all ape language studies, including Project Nim, were based on misinformation from the chimps. R. Allen and Beatrix Gardner made a similar earlier study, called project Washoe, in which another chimpanzee was raised like a human child. Washoe was given affection and participated in everyday social activity with her adoptive family. Her ability to communicate was far more developed than Nim's. Washoe lived 24 hours a day with her human family from birth; Nim at 2 weeks old was raised by a family in a home environment by human surrogate parents to see if he could refute Noam Chomsky's thesis that language is inherent only in humans. Both chimps could use fragments of American sign language to make themselves understood.
Chimpsky was given his name as a pun on Noam Chompsky, the foremost theorist of human language structure and generative grammar at the time, who held that humans were "wired" to develop language.^[