There are much bigger issues for our people to focus on right now, so, with your permission, I would like to close the curtain on my series of lamentations on the historic Belize City landmark - the Pound Yard. I suspect that ground will soon be broken, and a huge privately owned skyscraper will arise on land we used to consider our own City Council’s property
Ahora es el momento de que todos debemos de practicar el “Liberalismo Social,” para alcanzar y garantizar nuestra soberania, justicia, liberatd y democracia. Debemos construir una nueva vision revolucionaria ideológica nacionalista para los nuevos tiempos, no ser indiferentes a las miseries de las mayorias y apoyar la opulencia de unos cuantos, protegiendo el delito sin importar la justicia.
I have noted before, but it bears repeating: The 2003 government came into port on false promises. The architects, H. Said Musa and H. Ralph Fonseca, who controlled the government’s finances, KNEW that they were not about to (indeed could not) build the houses they promised, create the jobs they promised, give the juicy raise of pay they promised to public servants/teachers, because they had to take us into austerity, haad time…euphemistically called restructuring.
Political appointments. I think the apostle Paul said you have to be aware of the law before you can sin. We are all aware of the rest of the world because of television. We have seen how rigorously the mighty USA goes about certain processes. Some things are obvious, but people still do it. Our governments should not make important appointments in the last year of their term. There should be continuity, but no such contracts should extend beyond three months into another administration. Also, people should not accept such appointments/contracts. There are many brilliant talents any new administration would be wise to hire/keep on if it is serious about improving the nation, but it shouldn’t be pressured into doing so.
It was generous of you to remind me of a moment of personal triumph in my life of changing fortunes, especially since it evoked a remembrance in you of a very low point in yours. However, as you have said many times, cream does rise to the top, and your personal accomplishments have impacted the lives of Belizeans in many countless, powerful ways.
I open up personally, because I have known you personally. In 1987, when you and Luke Espat came to my house near Lopez Mateos Park (the place where I was later to be deeply humiliated and crushed by you and the PUP), you both convinced me to join forces with you and the PUP, to get the party elected. Liking the excitement of the prospect of getting involved in high level politics, I agreed, and eventually became a PUP standard bearer, campaigned most heavily for the party, neglected my family and business, spoke loudly and clearly in support of the party on every single rostrum throughout the length and breadth of Belize, time and time and time again, and in the process making enemies I have to this day, who have and continue to ensure I am punished. I suffered the indignity of arrest and incarceration, was processed through the Supreme Court on utterly serious, but false charges, and eventually, by the grace of God, and with you as my prime defence, was set free, as innocent men must be, at all times. No person in Belize has suffered more for the PUP - none.
This response is delayed because of my absence from the country when your front page story was released. For the record, it is important that I respond to your statements of and allegations about my actions, penned in your article in The Reporter Newspaper, Volume 40, No. 16 of Sunday, April 29th, 2007, and written by you, in your capacity as News Editor for The Reporter newspaper. The news story, a front page article which carried my picture, was entitled: University President Corinth Morter-Lewis being forced out?
Math. So, they will go to the House on Friday. The Reds have maintained all along that all these bold/failed Blue projects were “pension schemes for the old boys club”, that they took it off the top. If that is true…
In the most humble and respectful manner, for and on behalf of the residents of the Santiago Juan Layout Area of San Ignacio, I hereby request that you accommodate this letter. We have found it necessary to resort to this medium to make public a situation which has been affecting our community through the administration of Bishop Martin R.C. School.
My experiences in unionism in a country where I lived for forty years make me perceive the behaviour of those who make up the component of a workers union in a different way. I believe that to form a workers union, the agreement of the majority of the workers is needed. Once they agree to unite themselves for such purpose, then after, they need to form an executive body or their leader who would be the person(s) to defend their rights and also to seek for better working conditions, higher salary and many other benefits.
We NIPees used to scoff at the PUP song that the business of politicians…is to win elections. We used to think (when we were children), that political leaders went out among the people to find out about their needs, and ideas. And when they achieved power they did their best to do the best, the most moral thing. Ha!
Last night on your Kremandala Show, your panelist Bill Lindo stated categorically that it was the law firm of Barrow & Williams, of which I’m a partner, that had drafted the controversial Government of Belize guarantee to the Belize Bank in respect of the Universal Health Services Company’s debt.
