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.

In time, the PUP decided that I was not to be part of their future, and you could not, or would not do anything about that; in fact, no less than a couple hundred feet away from the same home where you came to look for me to help you win, you and the PUP destroyed my every hope at Lopez Mateos Park in 1992.  Notice, please, that I walked away, into the night, to rededicate myself to family, and attempt to rescue my little tour operation. But too much damage had been done to me; like so many thousands of others in Belize, my business failed, because of politics, my personal fortunes waned and were destroyed, I lost my family home, and now, sunk in a hole deeper than I can ever get out of, I have joined the tens of thousands of Belizeans in the same hole with me, seething with rage, feeling lost and helpless, and praying for miracles to happen, while working like dogs to survive.

You, meanwhile, Sir, have expressed publicly that you are “following the money”. Based on my military background, my political help to get you where you are, and make you what you are, I am hereby appealing you to use the power you now have, and which I helped you to achieve, to reverse the horrible trend Belize now faces. Reject the Dark Lord who has brought a new colonial era to our beloved Belize; reject the false voices who are pointing your name into the darkest annals of our history; change the course of events that have brought our Beloved Belize to its knees, wounded, hungry and extremely angry. It is your name that is and will forever be in the forefront of history – not the dreadful men who have and continue to feed voraciously on the nation’s wealth and resources. Become the hero you can be, once and for all.

Said, please open your eyes and see the pain in the eyes of your closest true friends, in the eyes of the men, women and children of this nation, numbering in the tens of thousands. Forget the dark politics that have brought you and this nation to the brink of disaster; wake, up, stand up, feel in your heart what must surely be in your heart, but covered by ugly circumstances – the pain and suffering and hoplessness of a people puzzled and now angered by that which even Assad Shoman had to admit – the wealth of the nation being concentrated in the hands of a few, while the majority are left without, and without hope.

History is preparing to write you up very, very badly, while taking the people and nation down a narrow, thorny path of pain and ruin and deprivation.

As God is our Maker, and our Deliverer, Said, please listen to this voice that once admired you, supported you, and helped you to win. You are Prime Minister and Leader of the PUP because of men like me. Change the course of our history, and yours – turn away from the greedy and dangerous few, back to the nation and its multitudes. From the Rio Hondo to the Sarstoon, from the Cayes to the Western borders, the people of Belize, YOUR people, are crying out – men, women and children. Turn back to them, do not turn your back on them – turn back to them, and they will support you through thick and thin, to the very end.