H. Melvin Hulse must have climbed to higher heights. The bombastic one needed only 14 seconds to tell us what life is, in the H of R on Friday. I’m doing great, and the PM’s budget is great, is all the entertainment we got from him in a short lived record presentation. (His Stann Creek brother, H. Roches, followed H. Melvin with a 12-second speech).
Wellll…on the matter of public transportation, H. Melvin can make a little boast. There is forward progress in the quality of life at the Belmopan and Belize City terminals, and bus operators are on their P’s and Q’s. They still have not resolved the order of passengers getting on the buses, and no, we still can’t catch a bus between 7 am and noon on Mondays in my village (Camalote). But otherwise the system, for the commuters, is getting along.
In respect to the operators, my nose says that the operators on the morning West to East run, namely BBOC, Shaw, D&E, and Guerra’s, are cutting it very close. I think it will be a far more efficient system if these operators sit down with the Transport Department and decide on shares in a single company. The price of fuel will go up again, guys. We can hope that the government will keep fuel prices for public transport where it is but we can’t count on that. If you are not making money you’ll skimp on tires and compromise on other safety requirements. No better time than now to do what needs to be done now. Form a company. You’ll make more profits and you’ll be able to put better buses in the fleet for us.
On the highway business, I am to make a visit to the Police Station on Racoon Street to congratulate Officer Williams and his team for some unrecognized excellence in the area of safety on the highways. It is palpable that drivers are not racing as much as before, and are driving with more care. The accident statistics for 2008 bear this out. If no one comes around soon to take some pictures, look out for me, and my camera, folks at the Traffic Safety Department. You are putting in your pound.
Ms. Ivy Pitts is for real
From me to you, Ms. Ivy Pitts at Krem News is sharp, fearless, and passionate about what she’s doing. She di bring it! Every time she throws it down (a commentary) my ears are wide open. Her Sunday commentary rocked. Don’t miss it when she di bring it!
H. PM tries to rekindle
Blue Love
There was the poor Prime Minister in the House, crying his eyes out because his two buddies, the OLD PUP, and the NEW PUP, just can’t seem to fall in love again. He needs them so badly to regain their oomph…so the pressure outside his balloon could provide some equilibrium for the pressure inside his balloon…so his doesn’t implode. A Captain Bligh clone, he’s called for hanging before. His wishes are now commands…but naa, no one will get keel hauled in the age of Human Rights. He’ll not allow for any Fletcher Christian types on board ship, though. So, it must give him fits that he can’t try and put G 1 Cardona (H.) off the boat before they reach the next port. Ai, if the PUP don’t come together soon…
On restoring this PUP love affair, well, he may have won the title, but it’s very unlikely that he’ll have his heart’s desire here. No, there’ll never be another PUP love. Historians will write of the heady age which started with calls of Come Home, and Tek no Chance in 1989, and Welcome to the Party in 1998…Then a strong breeze splintered on the rocks, and ended up two whimpering winds in 2008…and 2009…and 2010…and…Dito Juan was 20 years early when he stood on a rostrum in 1988 and shouted: Never again PUP!
New PUP, old PUP…Glenn on this side, Rene on that side…Mike Rudon on this side, G. Mike on that side… H. Barrow and all his horses can’t put them together again.
Return to sender
What’s with H. John, reading mail that wasn’t addressed to him? Sure, if you see girls in the nude passing by on the net, you might have to look. But stealing people’s mail? No!
Ah, the follies of youth. H. John is a Ph.D. student, hihn noh need fu teef nobody speech. In fact, if the PUP were humble, I expect that H. John would write their speech for them.
The man who owns the Internet owns our phones too, Braa. He is reading and listening to everyone’s business in Belize. Next time his agents send mail to you, give him a return to sender.
Maybe it’s a misdemeanor
I can’t remember the newspaper that reported on the story about the seventeen- year old lad who had been arrested because he had sex with a fifteen-year old girl.
The purpose of this law must be to discourage teenage pregnancies. But talking jail to a kid for having sex with a kid doesn’t seem right.
They teach these kids how to have sex without creating a baby, and to prevent catching diseases. Now they have to teach them how to have sex without being caught by the police. All consensual sex involving teenagers is a matter for them and their church, and them and their parents, and them and their peers. Give the boy community service.
Talk straight, BEL
The PUC is saying that BEL is in the black. BEL is saying that they are in the red. If this were a matter between BEL and TELEMEDIA, they could keep the discussion in the “books.” For us this is not a matter about bookkeeper’s…”books.” This matter between BEL and the PUC has to do with real money, OUR money, money that goes to provide for baby milk, and the “book” that concerns us most, schoolbooks for the children. Oh, it’s for the pension fund for the elderly too. Mr. John Avery is talking straight. Talk straight too, BEL.