Daily, nightly, during the PUP 10 year reign of plenty…spending (‘98-‘08), notable do-nothing leaders of Her Majesty’s then number one Opposition party, the UDP, (and how the hell did that party ever form the government, cuate?) set up shop at Brad’s, a popular business place reportedly owned by a gentleman of Chinese descent. I read in the Belize Times (BT) that they sat under the eaves of this Brad’s near to the old Farmers Market, on their fat you-know-what, all day long and until late into the night, eating noodles, drinking beer, and playing dominoes (or is it pitti-pat?).
They sat, wasting God’s time, while the tax money poured (every month for 10 long years) into the accounts of those ones that the poor people had chosen, hired to keep check on a super-majority government. While they twiddled, the diligent, hardworking, honest PUP leaders (who, of course, really needed/wanted no watchdogs peeping over their shoulders) labored deep into the dark night inside the vault, and at the SSB and DFC, cooking up mortgage packages and other important deals in the best interests of the struggling proletariat.
The people saw. They, the people, shook their heads in wonderment as a great truth that can make all Belizean man and woman free came to light. One party works for all of us. When they are “in,” there is need for builders who are ready to work all day. PUP hire. The other party is a set of “lampers.” They are idle do-nothings who patronize Brad’s store. Yes, UDP fire.
I wouldn’t be fair if I failed to report that not ALL the red shirts malingered at Brad’s Store. For prime example, the new PM’s preferred hangout was his law office, or the Supreme Court, from whence he peeped out to utter some eloquent words, now and then, particularly after riots. It is true also that the Brad’s Brothers put in a pound one day per month. Each House Day, a reluctant H. Finnegan picked up his stool (well, maybe not reluctant. He live to make speech) and, along with others who were fat on public taxes, hustled off to Belmopan (according to the yerri-so it is Destitution Day for any Area Rep who misses three consecutive House Meetings).
Boy, it is absolutely unbelievable that not a single one of the 31 MEN trotted out by the UDP for the 2008 general elections can point to a straw they lifted to whack wayward PUP behinds when the people worried about what was going on with a Mr. Prosser, a Mahogany Heights, and other too difficult to understand Blue doings. Fortunately for us (and as it turned out, for the undeserving 31 also (at the reckoning we really will have to ask God, why in the world He allows rain to fall on BAD people too)) there was serious muscle opposing the Blue government. While the 31 Queen Bees were on private hustles, posturing, or frittering time at the aforementioned store, hard working bees named Ms. Lois, Mr. Ambrose, Mr. John (Avery, not Saldivar), Searchlight, Ms. Yasmine, and a man named Mr. Spooner, and oh yes, a sister named Ms. Juliet, kept the Queen’s Opposition fire burning red hot, like a brand.
Did I hear someone say, a Mr. Joe Bradley too? Please, no, I don’t think so. In my books it’s because of people like him why the world economy is in a shambles, and why Ms. Zenaida got a bum name. It is decree that ALL employees must put in a full day’s work for a day’s pay. Excuse mi, I read it in the BT that big 11 o’clock da maanin, instead of overalls, rubber boots, and leather gloves, that man is in white shirt and bow tie, lipping off on Wave Radio. Oh, the red devils still won the recent municipal elections…but trust mi, God noh like ugly. Sloppy work on garbage collection, and other tardiness ’06 to ’09 will cost that madafish party 10 years off their reign. Watch it, 2018 dat deh crowd wahn haffu goh!
By the way, did you check out that daring Searchlight last week? Yap, with apologies, she isn’t sure that marches, vigils, and symposiums are cutting it for women. Maybe she is on eye level with one TAI (Think About it) of the BT, who, after years of, yes, thinking about it, arrived at the position that the way for women to curb domestic violence against women, is for them to ehm…raise up and start murder the daylights out of…men! Hn, maybe the reason why Searchlight tempered her tongue is bikaazn she saw what the BT did to the TAI column after that one’s reckless call to fight violence with fire.
Drat, a drift far off from this discussion about noodles and dominoes. Okay, check out toari…how the UDP bamboozle the wise we. Saafli, saafli…While we naïve so and so’s were cussing them, di call dehn lazy, an schupid; the fox kech di fowl. Yap, the old linen is all on the clothesline now. San-av-a-noh-noa-wat, it’s a scheme as big as capturing the Golden Share! All the while at seemingly frivolous play, the dratted Brad’s malingerers were sanctioned emissaries, on devilish business direct from Bel China Bridge…aimed at cornering the Oriental Vote!
My, it took a whopping 10 years worth of noodles, beer, and playing dominoes, but dehn bogga win di prize. If you doubt, it’s there in stark black and white on pages 3 & 4 of last week’s the el Guardian, the proclamation that the UDP, once too slow (or too low on wiles) to compete with the PUP, has won the day, counted coup, have stolen the Oriental bloc from right under Blue noses in Freetown! A-ha, while the clever PUPs were chasing after Péré (popular young lawyer), the UDP were hot after the Chinese vote. Congratulations, Belize City Councilor, Mr. Eric Chang…and congratulations Mr. Lee Mark Chang…who the UDP ehm…don’t want anyone from their party to run against!
Wa, if you are a smarty type, like to show up people, I bet you are thinking, okay then, if the Reds control the Oriental Vote, how do you explain Mr. Archie Lee…hihn definitely da noh UDP. Well préhé to you and your backhanded slap at my two cents brains. I will blame it on paper education. Dehn should a mi teach yu that you never judge a book by its cover.
Sure, Mr. Archie Lee does look Chinese, and his accent does sound Chinese too…but everyone can see (it was uncensored on tee vee) that that gentleman’s behavior, his culture genetics, is 100% assimilated Belizean…to the bone. Now tell me, what do you judge a man by…the color of his skin…or the contents of his character?
Favoring the far right hand
Did you see where the ultra right wing Perspective, under the guise of one calling herself or himself La Llorona, threw slimy mud at Caribbean hero, Comrade Fidel Castro? Según de La Llorona, casi no hay nada de bien en Cuba, y la pais tiene un atraso de 50 años. Somebody, please, take that little blue pelota for six!