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More divisions please

FeaturesMore divisions please

At the end of the discussions in the Senate over the matter of the signing of the New York Convention, the leader/overseer of the Senate, Madame President Carolyn Trench Sandiford, called on those senators who favored the signing to say aye, and the opportunity was given to the naysayers to register how they felt. Those for the deal clearly had the day, and other matters were set to be addressed when the leader of the minority side, Senator Pere, rose and called for a division.

Ordinary people like me were surprised when the call from Senator Peyrefitte was denied. After a little to and fro, Madame President Sandiford satisfied Senator Peyrefitte with an explanation for her denial, and he sat down. I will say I am still surprised that there was no division, but I’m no lawyer, so I might need more time to get the full sense. All I got from the exchange was that the Senator let his chance to call for a division slip by, and if that is the full story, I declare that I find the explanation unsatisfactory.

We need more divisions so we can know who our leaders really are, what they stand for/on. Respectfully, Madam President Sandiford should have twisted the arm of the law if she had to, to allow for Pere’s call for a division. The Ayes had it, but if there is one dissenting vote, we should have our leaders put their names beside their vote.

With all the reforms and loads of sticky stuff coming up, we want each Parliamentarian and Senator to be on record, individually.

Ah, we all remember how Dean Barrow, the master of division, and his understudy, Patrick Faber, tried to wiggle out of a division when Kareem Musa called for one on the right of Belizeans abroad to cast their ballot in the referendum. That night Speaker Longsworth, to her great credit, stood like a champion for the nation.

UDP fealty hell, she agreed with the division, and now every name from the red side is on the record with their disappointing NO to Belizeans abroad who sought the right to vote. We’ll have to tweak our laws a bit, but I say it is high time these people who lead us stop hiding behind their party.

Talking sticky, we know there are many Ashcroft PUPeez in the House, and he has the upper hand on us at this time; what we don’t know is which of them would vote for him to get everything he wants. We don’t know much about many of our new leaders. They wouldn’t have been off the hook if so many of our third party leaders hadn’t insisted on running in the elections. If they had stayed out of the two-party show, they would have been in a better position to press the standard bearers of the two major parties to declare what they stand for, and we the people would have known who believes in change, and who are for the same oal ting.

All respect to the VIP for taking the progressive road, staying out of the fixed election system and pushing their agenda through the Belize Peace Movement. I could say more bad things about the decision of these third partyers to run, but they are way too important for our country, soh a will leave them alone and continue praying for them to stop rolling dice in a game that is rigged to come up RED, or BLUE.

Bah, we don’t even know what our opposition members stand for. As it stands, Dean Barrow and Michael Finnegan forced two of their own on the people. Dean and Finnegan planted family members who were unlikely politicians for the sole purpose, it would appear, of having some control over the government, the spoils, if they won, or if they lost narrowly, to protect their interests. But we all know that they lost, badly.

Spreading my opinion about the other three at the Red table, Hugo Patt was way too close to the most corrupt elements of the UDP; Tracy is a lot more Herbie than Leroy, and Mr. Faber, I wish I could say he is a cut above his peers, but in his past he has been altogether too petty.

I said I want the people to smack down all eight of their slates in March, not because they don’t have some good talents, but to make the UDP know how much we’re hurt over the wrongs they did us during their thirteen years, and force them to think reform. Their first reform should be to kick out all the baggage.

Ah, unu sih why I noh send een fu my party card yet. We need a strong opposition, and those 13-year criminal bohgaz are shooting off a lot of hot air, hollering nonsense at a government that MUST get us out of the bankruptcy they left behind, and Covid-19. They should be about think tanks to reform their evil ways.

Noh wait

It’s a popular saying that we shudn wait fu the man dead fu tell ahn ih gud, and I agree, but I think a more important saying would be, noh wait til the man kill the man, try to intervene. Sometimes I think we pay leaders and give them big perks because we want someone on a pedestal.

It’s easy to spot a leak in a roof, and the quicker we address it, the better. It’s easy to spot problems in human behavior too, and to see situations developing, if we care to look, and if we care to look, we will think of interventions. Bah, too many of these people who lead us don’t care to look, and if they see, they don’t care.

Big in the noh wait category is to beg paadn when yu err. I have to prostrate myself before Rufus X and Diki Bradley, for in my mind I ehm…convicted them for the conflagration at Paslow Building back in 2004.

Some kinds of notoriety make men popular with some ladies, and maybe that’s why they have never publicly claimed innocence. In truth, I had heard that another character was the culprit, but I don’t believe bad things about people I don’t know until I have their full pedigree. Love FM calling the gentleman’s name for another suspected vile act just might have ended all doubt.

Ah, I was at Spanish Caye when I saw the smoke, and I said to myself, this is big, and later, when I heard the news on Krem about what had burned down, I said to myself, this is really, really big, and we don’t need an investigation to find out who the crooks are; all we need to decide is if we will crown them, or cane their behinds.

Sometimes the math behind things, the two plus two, is so easy. People out of the know think that loving Ralph was Said’s worst mistake, but the real mess-up is when he exalted Diki and Rufus.

The first piece of the puzzle is that Diki railed hell on Paslow every Wednesday night on his Krem show and the fire service Musa gave him had just bought a spanking new 3-ladder fire engine. The second part is that Rufus, his friend, thrives on action.

Hatred of Paslow, lover of action, a 3-ladder fire engine, the tallest building in Belize in those days —put those together and the reverse Perry Mason had his conviction. Check the scene: match struck and new shiny red baby races over to douse the flames, but Paslow’s building was tinder dry, and before red baby could go on display, the grand, historic building was rubble.

I had it all added up. I was ehm…wrong. I noh wait. I apologize.

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