The day will come when there will be no land to distribute to the children of our grandchildren. Corruption comes with different faces and I don’t think it can ever be eradicated. Regardless of the reforms to the Constitution, nothing is really serious: it is only protecting the benefits of the few. There are many powerful interests whom our leaders prefer to serve, and to hell with “the little people down there.”
The eighth of August of this year will make it six (6) months since the UDP has become the Government of Belize. After Hurricane Dean, no one had ever visited many of us survivors. Who got the help, even though they had no economical losses, were those who looked “PUP.”
I was very happy when I knew about the B.D.F. involvement with a committee to participate by combing the entire area to find those who were (are) in need of help regardless of political creed. But it was disappointing to know that when they were about to give in their final report, a meeting was held during the night and in the morning their services was terminated on such commission.
It is also disappointing to prove that the same UDP leaders who know of those who were rejected by the PUP from Hurricane Dean disaster grants, care nothing about those who are still living in inhumane conditions. There are those whose houses were shaken but did not fall. At simple sight it looks good, but each time it rains the water flows through the joints and other non-visible spots. Do the political leaders know? Yes. Do they care? No. With their swell salary out of our taxes, their bread are buttered on four sides. Many of them are hustling for themselves.
The P.M. is very occupied with his political reform to the Constitution where he has the people exactly where he wants.
Gambling, prostitution, liquor, etc. are the new Belizean way of life. Their popular activities are very profitable for both the religious and political leaders.
On the health services, there is a lot to desire. MD’s specialists are just human beings just like anyone of us: they also need a vacation. But the problem lies in how the system is set up. A responsible organization doesn’t send out its only specialist on vacation knowing that there are urgent sick people with appointments that were made in time, without a certain time of notice so that the corresponding authority can find who will substitute for such specialist. In Belize there is only one specialist to service over 70,000 people. What is the Dean Barrow administration doing to solve this situation?
Don’t give us too many discourses of good will, because it was proven to us after the Musa administration that it serves of no good. And don’t throw the fault on the Cuban doctors. These people are hard working professionals. So are our Belizean MD specialists, but they are human beings. Even iron fades away. Prime Minister of Belize, Hon. Dean O.Barrow, if you can’t organize and administrate the health services in Belize, how do you expect to handle the problems of the nation?
I heard you apologized to the 156,993 voting citizens of Belize for not having time to meet and see them personally. That’s the difference with the PUPees: they find time to take care of their people. Dean Barrow, I will be directing my writing direct to you, because I don’t want your subordinates to think I am smearing their political career. Guess what? The people are desperate on the streets asking for donations for school books, clothes, shoes, etc. I bet you, that they cannot reach where you are at.
This pen is on behalf of the “Sons of the Belizean soil.” I hope you and yours may understand what that means.
July 23rd 2008
Finca Solana
Corozal Town