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Vellos pleased with new GoB. This love affair (fling) won’t last too long…Russell Vellos and politicians/lawyers/that ilk are oil and water, so it was quite amusing, very, very, to read in the editor’s shot Look in the mirror, in last week Tuesday’s Amandala, that the PUP are doomed to remain the Opposition, unless the UDP, at some point in the future, become the PUP, which is not likely to happen anytime soon if Prime Minister Dean Barrow sticks to his game plan, which was a pleasure to hear, when he announced his cabinet today, Monday. The government reportedly has said that within one hundred days we will feel the winds of change. I give the Vellos/new GoB honeymoon one hundred days too. Trust me, it can’t last.
 
The last PM still blames the media. Former PM, Honorable Said Musa, does not feel the media gave his party a fair shake in the February ’08 elections. The truth of the matter is that the people and the free media tried the PUP and found it guilty of corrupt practices.
The present Attorney General, H. Sedi Elrington, once said that he quit defending crooks because the system can’t get convictions against a good lawyer. No court has found the PUP guilty of anything wrong…in respect to the letter of the law. Because H. Musa is a lawyer, and thinks (the brain part) like a lawyer, he has difficulty (it certainly appears so) understanding how his party can be condemned. But, there is a spirit to the law…and it goes straight to the soul. In the opinion of the people, the PUP was a very corrupt party.
 
The free media responded by ignoring the achievements of the People’s United Party 1998-2008.
 
She’ll have to read Iyo now. New Senator H. Juliet Thimbriel once commented that she wouldn’t waste her time reading any book written by Dr. Joseph Iyo. Well, it was easy pikins raising Cain about corruption on Wave Radio…right up her alley…but in the Senate she will be under the microscope. She’s got the flavor all right, but all them folk going to the Senate have already read Dr. Iyo’s A Concise History of Economic Development in Belize 1981-2005.   Quote (page 17): The People’s United Party’s Growth Economics is certainly aimed at promoting a new Fairness Agenda suited to the demands of the modern economy in which we live. Heh! Ha, ha, ha…Okay, okay, in the very next paragraph Dr. Iyo writes…Where Growth Economics has a major shortcoming is its inability to deliver equitable distribution of wealth among the different strata of society.
 
By the way, I too am perplexed to hear that Brother Dr. Iyo will be doing research to find out why the Pups got wap one by one on February 7. One would have thought if there was “need” for such a study, it would have been done before the cow done gaan out of the PUP barn…like right after municipal elections 2006. What’s it all about in this new-fangled world? On the innocent side I guess it could be a bad dose of regret. When the PUP won in 1998 they said…study? Study? All them shelves are packed so high with studies we run out of office space. Let’s get it on! And they did.
In respect to the other side of the coin, where we set out to find what we set out to find…Guess what, you can do this one at the National Library on North Front Street (files). It’s the media, man.
 
Agric went 1 for 3. Of the 3 candidates the Agriculture Department sent up in the general elections, only 1, Rene Montero (H.), managed to get in the House. Landy Habet went down to Elvin Penner (H.) in Cayo Northeast, and Jose Mai went down after a valiant fight to Marco Pech (H.) in Orange Walk South. Of course, we could claim Honorable “Clear the Land” Castro, and say 2 for 4. H. Castro is not from Agric, but he sure acts like one of us. But, another “Clear di Land” brother, Tomas Polanco, went down in Stann Creek West. So, let’s keep it at 1 for 3. In 2013 Agric will have to field more candidates. We da di backbone a di country.
 
Now we know. When the FFB rejected all Belize’s great players…Tilliman Nunez, Bent Burgess, and others…and sent out some young boys to take pakking after pakking, the word was that old stars had to be shelved because they could not adjust to the super sophisticated Bilches system. You know, they say it isn’t easy for old dogs to learn new tricks. When new coach, Mr. Lewis, led Belize to respectability (draw with Guatemala), FFB Head, Dr. Bertie Chimilio (Veterinarian #9903 (if you want to get your pooch “fixed”)), fired him forthwith and returned Belize to the failed Bilches way of doing things (only young players)…and more pakking. Well, it turns out that the madness was all about control. The primary football credential in 2008 is loyalty to Veterinarian #9903. 
 
Yap, the little boys have grown up and many are loyal to the bone…to #9903. The new government better not reward FFB incompetence, intransigence, and dishonesty. Starve them. Starve the FFB until the players understand that their loyalty should be to this nation. And if they still don’t get the sense, take a tarjeta roja from FIFA.
 
Whoa, Mr. Henry Gordon. How can a man as smart (he is), as educated (he is), as moral (he is), find so much good in a political party? Now we know who wrote the Guardian (or was it the sleazy Pulse?) headline story (the hand of God was in it) after the surprise 1993 General Elections Red victory. Take some time out to find some evil in your party, Mr. Henry. Sniff, sniff, want to start with squeezing the living blank out of an economy?
 
The Slusher Papers. This left-leaning socialist (me) (go the cooperative way says the VIP) is on the edge of his seat waiting (sounds like this one could be an ally) for this Tuesday’s installment of the 22nd Adlith Brown Memorial Lecture presented by former Central Bank Governor, Mr. Alan Slusher. Call this line the truth about “them”…regardless of the poverty situation in a country, everyone wants to see growth in their incomes every year, even those who already have high incomes; so that the prospects for continued growth in income inequality are good…Call this line the truth about the real… The question for us involves the implications of this set of attitudes for continuing social cohesion. Please don’t break our hearts, Allan.
 
P.S. A bruku is a meal or bit of pastry made with leftovers.

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