Is Mr. Barrow Insane?

...it'll backFIRE on the FUKKERS in the end...If msMARTINEZ continues to B as SMART as she has been throughout...she will in her summation to mUSA point out that...mssrs COURTNEY & GABB & GODFREY et al would OBVIOUSLY need the somberHALLS of the supremeCOURT and the realPROSPECTS of spending some longYEARS in JAIL, to JAG their MEMORY!!!

THIS would also not be sooooAMUSING to bigusDICKUS whom spent much of his time in the WINGS in bemusedHYSTERIA!!!

Author: Adele Ramos

Amandala has come across three shocking special audit documents dating all the way back to the period 1991-1994, which reveal a string of questionable municipal contracts totaling $22.3 million, and mostly controlled by a set of related companies whose front man was well-known businessman Javier Berbey Garcia, now deceased. Nothing ever came out of the audits, except Government having to pay more money to settle lawsuits. Neither the audit report nor the lawsuits were ever made public.

If you think the shocking stories coming out of the Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Commission of Inquiry are unbelievable, wait until you get the gist of what’s inside these audit reports and the responses we’ve received from some of those people we’ve questioned about them to date.

The three-volume series produced in July, August and November 1994 were prepared by former UDP Opposition Senator, Arthur Roches, who served as an internal auditor for the Financial Secretary, doing the work for the Office of the then UDP Prime Minister, Manuel Esquivel.

The United Democratic Party (UDP) had commissioned the internal investigation of how the preceding People’s United Party (PUP) administration had been managing the public purse, but notably, the results of that audit have been secret until recently, with several copies of those supposedly confidential documents now in circulation.

The documents say that the Ministry of Finance entered into 205 works-related contracts, most of which were signed by the then Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, Hon. Ralph Fonseca, for his own electoral division, Belize Rural Central. A few were signed by the then Chief Procurement Officer, Hon. Maxwell Samuels, incumbent Belize Rural North area representative, who, the audit reports say, often bypassed the tender procedures without the knowledge of key officials in the Ministry of Finance.

“That other officials in the Government [other than the Minister of Finance] approved projects, appears illegal, and this may be a matter for the legal minds to decide bearing in mind that before funds could be made available to begin and complete projects, the Minister of Finance has to seek approval from the Legislature once there is no provision for them in the Annual Estimates,” the audit said.

There were nine big contractors and six small ones. The big contractors were Phoenix Limited, Seramak International, Southern Contractions and Investments Company, Bella Vista Development Company, K.W. Construction Company, Indeco Enterprise, Vista Del Mar Development Company, Belize Aggregates and Metropolitan Development Company. The smaller contractors were Rudolph Gillett, Carter’s Construction Company, Selwyn Gillett, John Henry, Wilhelm Lopez and Roy Quilter.
In only 38 of the cases were proper tender and competitive bidding procedures followed and most of the bidding was done by related companies, with the signature of one person appearing, in one instance, on contracts awarded to four different companies, said the audit report.

“Waivering [sic] of tender procedure appeared to be the order of the day, given the frequency at which it was done and by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance,” the report said, adding that under the financial regulations, it is the Minister of Finance alone who has the power to waive—but only in exceptional circumstances.

Instead of placing projects in the hands of the chief engineer of the Ministry of Works, they were overseen by an architect that the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance contracted – a man identified as Luis “Blas” Mendez. Roches opines that the supervising task was too monumental for Mendez, and because of lack of adequate supervision and assessments of some projects, Government could have been “taken to the cleaners.”

But what is also shocking is Roches’ claim that when he went to investigate the works that were supposed to have been done, there was very little evidence in many cases that Government even got some of the roads, bridges and culverts, and infrastructural repairs that it had paid for. There was one case of alleged fraud. Roads were sometimes found to be shorter and narrower than the contracts made them out to be. In one instance a football field that Government had paid for, could not be located.

According to the audit, $33,000 was paid on vouchers which stated that the funds were “for the chairman” of the Gales Point Village Council but the then chairman, Walter Goff, knew nothing of any money collected on his behalf. In the case of one $15,000 voucher, a Cornelius Andrewin, said to be chairman of Gales Point Manatee, was named as the payee by the Government of Belize when he was, clearly, not even the chairman. Moreover, no such person was even known in the village. The Andrewin case, said Roches, appears to be a case of “forgery/fraud.”

In one instance, a string of vouchers amounting to 60% of the total bill was paid out to a contractor even before the contract document was finalized, and by the time it was paid off totally, the contractor got $20,000 more than the agreed contract sum.

Today, Esquivel told us that he does remember the audits Roches had submitted, and that they were still in the hands of the then Solicitor General, Gian Ghandi, when the UDP left office in 1998.

But when we spoke with Ghandi thereafter, he said that he does not remember seeing any such audits. The man who was in charge of the Attorney General’s Ministry at the time, now Opposition Leader, Hon. Dean Barrow, told us that he also does not recall any such audits - that something that important would have stayed in his memory.

When we asked Esquivel why the issues raised in the audit were never resolved, he told us that the problem was that many of the contracts were in court, because the contract holders sued after the UDP government cancelled their contracts. He recalls the biggest challenge coming from the Berbey group—meaning Javier Berbey Garcia, who was the main man for a string of companies, including Belize Aggregates, which was owned 95% by Barry Bowen and Bowen and Bowen, and 5% by the Government of Belize. Garcia also signed for Bella Vista Development Company and Vista Del Mar Development Company. Al Chanona - brother of former Belmopan City Mayor Anthony Chanona - was also a point man for the Berbey group of companies.

While Barrow told us that he does not recall the Government being sued by Berbey, Ghandi said he does. When the UDP took office, the first thing they did was to unilaterally suspend the existing contracts, said Ghandi, recalling an arbitration over a contract where the arbitrator found in favor of Berbey.

Roches had submitted his documents to the then Financial Secretary, Jaime Alpuche, and the then Cabinet Secretary, Henry Gordon.

While we could not get to speak with Alpuche, we did speak with Gordon, who also recalls the issues raised in the audit, but confirms that nothing ever came out of them.

He said that he is not sure if anyone in his Government pressed the issue of the audits; Esquivel told us the same when we asked him the same question.

Gordon is calling what is being unearthed now with the DFC investigation and the investigation of the Social Security fund, “déjà vu” of what had been discovered in the 1991-1994 audits during the PUP administration.

“The document was alarming… Five companies kept tendering for practically every project,” Gordon said, describing the phenomenon as “gouging” and “feeding at the trough.”

We asked him why he thought the confidential audits are just coming out now? He responded that,

“There has been a cascading of documents” revealing the same bottom line. “It was almost, in my view, the mixing of the cake – what we are seeing happening now is nothing new. It has been going on for years.”

Esquivel told us that the intention behind commissioning the audit was to see if there was any wrongdoing during the previous People’s United Party (PUP) administration that exited office in June 1993.

Our newspaper has yet to get a satisfactory explanation as to why nothing ever came out of the 1994 audits—which, the auditor had asserted, supplies ample indication of financial bleeding of the public purse.

Gordon told us that since these were internal audits, they were never tabled in the National Assembly.

everytime i hear someone say i don't recall, i wah punch them ina deh face. That response should not be accepted as an answer, its obviuosly being abused.

rass can that statement get you off in Belize???? "i don't recall" i finally know what the magic words are, its not please.

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You will never hear me call you a racist or even insinuate it. I understand blaming the opposition for not putting up a better fight while they are the opposition, but blaming them for the pup's perversion of our system is a stretch. This PUP administration had 4 things that fell into their lap:

1. Privatization (pushed on us from an international standpoint)
2. The International community willingness to lend money to 3rd world countries.(Same as a credit card company chasing down a new college grad).
3. The international real estate boom, retiring baby boomers with cash wanted somewhere else to go.
4. EUREKA, BLACK GOLD, TEXAS TEA, OIL.

Prior to this they were small time hustlers, selling passports and looking the other way for narco-trafickers. Shaking down new business men prompting jokes like "how do you make a million dollars in belize? Well you start with 10 million HAHAHAHA"(not my laughter still in quotes). Now it might not have been any different if the UDP's were in power when these gifts came along but the fact still remains that MUSA and Fonseca were at the helm when the ship went down.

Until these guys are prosecuted criminally or have some of their ill gotten wealth repossesed we will have issues. So at the end of the day will they be made examples or will they set an example for other politicians? By listening to the DFC hearings and the arrogance I doubt we will be making any examples out of these guys.

...characterized as "BOTH the PUPs and the UDPs bearing the BLAME" for in effect, the SORRY STATE which we R in...is that PEOPLE expected MORE...muchMORE from the UDPs...morally...intellectually...and leadershipWISE...than they did from the PUPs!!!

If U will note, in the laborousEPISTLE that i posted a couple days ago...i at NO point blamed mrBARROW...i spoke about the default of the UDP...i spoke about the FAILINGS of the INSTITUTION...As we would B aware, the baldONE was NOT at the helm of the redSHIP...it was the rtHONmanuel.

i took the time to do what i did for 2 reasons...FIRSTLY i am beholden to no ONE policially or otherwise and i will say what i want to say...and SECONDLY, much of what i C in the politicalBLOGS r fanaticalRHETORIC and nameCALLING that does not lend itself to discussion and debate...The essence of that which made KONCAS popular in the first place.

i WILL b the FIRST to say that i will NOT vote for deanBARROW because he is BLACK...i will also SAY that i will be the first to ASK ppl NOT to VOTE for deanBARROW because he is BLACK...But i will be the FIRST to say VOTE for deanBARROW because he has someTHING to OFFER...And iWILL b the first to say VOTE for VIP because the have someTHING to OFFER...ditto the menoniteDUDE...and even miniME...if indeed HE had something besides grief, and poverty, and want, and corruption, and thievery to ofer the bzePPL...and if indeed ONE could dissassociate SINNING from the dEVIL!!!

What i was trying to do in my expansiveDELIVERY was to show that although NOW we KNOW that ONE party is a darn sight WORSE than the OTHER...they R both UNFIT to RULE...It canNOT simply B a GAME of musicalCHAIRs and mrBARROW waiting to put his hands on the joySTICK...It cannot B that all that we WANT is a new DRIVER in a RED hat!!!...The TRANSMISSION is slipping...The ENGINE is shot...The DIFFERENTIAL is leaking oil...The BRAKES are worn and will not hold!!!

Figurately...we have had a newDRIVER on TWO separate occasions and although it wasn't this BAD, it was NOT good enough...What we need even MORE urgently than a newDRIVER, is a VEHICLE that has been REFURBISHED in a MAJOR way...so that glennGADFREY or troyGABB never happens again...and that aliBABA and the 20 cabinetTHIEVES r indeed hiSTORY!!!

The ROAD to the promiseLAND can THUS only be attained by a LEADER with a VISION...who is committed to drafting a roadMAP to the future...And whom is a uniteER that is capable of BRIDGING the divide between a diverse CULTURE...and sowing the seeds of HOPE among a doubtful and forsaken PEOPLE!!!

Musa and the PUP Leaders are responsible for the mess that Belize is in today.

road fly, you are quite right.... If Belizeans want to hold the UDP responsible, WHO WILL HOLD BELIZEANS RESPONSIBLE????

We know everyone have 20/20 vision after the fact, but where were Belizeans when demanding reform when the UDP was in office?? Where were the Belizeans people when corruption of Musa was in their face? Where are the Belizean people when called to protest corruption? Where are Belizeans when rights of other are trampled upon???

The same logic that would hold UDP indirectly responsible for the mess created by Musa, should be the same logic that hold me and you responsible for failing to act to protect the future our kids and future generations.

Fair or unfair?

At first I thought it was just down right unfair, because the corruption perpetrated from the beginning of this administration to this very day is responsible for the financial bind that the country is in, these include but are not limited to DFC/BTL/SSB/National Debt at 3 billion etc... (I used the term not limited to because we know every day another ugly scandal raises its head).

At first I thought Red Herring, but that doesn't fit our current situation tightly. I guess it is something similar to what Hillary Clinton is dealing with, she voted for the Iraq war so she can't possibly fight against it because she voted for it. UDP didn't change the laws to protect the people when they had a chance to do so, so in a sense they can't or won't change the laws again, I guess it’s a case of not having clean hands.

Ok so let’s recap:

PUP is responsible for this mess, directly and UDP is responsible for this mess, indirectly by not putting solid laws in place when they were in power 8+ years ago.

It is to the 3rd party's advantage to repeatedly sound this line out, this is how they pick up votes by providing another choice. Nothing wrong with this but please recognize it for what it is, politics bordering on propaganda, over simplification of complex issues. How can you honestly expect a government to make changes to laws that at the time had some challenges but wasn’t viewed as failed laws. Is it even a case of failed laws, or laws that selectively get enforced depending on who knows you? Corruption always existed, under THE WHITE MAN, under Price, under Esquivel, and last but not least under Musa. Musa's government has taken it a step further and has turned the party into a criminal organization, the proof is all around us and it affects us every day.

What about the PUBLIC? Are they responsible for this mess?
I remember comments like: "Bwoy, when PUP deh inna powa tings just di bubble money di go round"...

""Imagine people like mreh who don't have a clue about nothing can still find a way to blame...."

Talk about missing the boat completely!

MREH, that was a very concise post and your thesis is clear enough for reasonably intelligent persons to grasp it, whether they agree or not! Thanks for your coherent and sensible contribution to the topic at hand.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the BONE!!"

don't cry on the color card

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Mreh indeed never mentioned anything about Barrow being black. Hahahahha if thats what you gathered from his LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG ASS post, then you got prob dude. I am not gonna agree 100 percent that the UDP is to blame for the PUP misfortunes, but i can agree with Mreh that the UDP didn't do enough to fix probs while in power. AND THAT MY FRIEND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COLOR.

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"dis da bout weh we need fu hear fu we own bettament"....those are Pinguino's words. We should vote PUP because its for our own betterment.

My god, i neva think i woulda hear dem words come outta wah belizean mouth...at least not in these times.

all i can say is " well fuck" ! in amazement.

you're telling me that i'm blind....well if i'm blind then you are both blind and deaf and dumb....because you can over see everything that PUP has done and still vote for them.

You my friend are a true PUP Puppet !

Fuck You, Have A Nice Day.

Koncas?

U can't read? You so fuckin' blind by di cala a yo skin dat yo view everything fram dat perspective.

Mreh neva say one shit 'bout anybody cala or race. Di man di talk sence. Dis da mo dan cala or race, dis da bout weh we need fu hear fu we own bettament.

Try overstand mi bredda. If wa man good or bad, y cala no matta.

"Drink Up, Smoke Up, Juk Up...nothing else really matters"

my gawd i never see wah cacksuckin' asshole like Mreh yet eena mi life. I di tell yuh dem got people eena this country that rather see it continue to go to shit rather than put a black man in office. THAT IS A FACT MREH ! since u want to talk facts.

Imagine people like mreh who don't have a clue about nothing can still find a way to blame the UDP for what the PUP is doing....that is like getting molested by a family member and having to get lashing on top because its "your fault".

Why don't we just keep our mouth's shut if we have nothing to contribute to the improvement of this country. Let your actions speak at the polls this year and later on in November when general elections take place (insider sources). Why bitch and moan and talk shit...lets settle this at the polls.

You know what's really dumb, besides you mreh, is that you give 1,000,001 reasons why UDP is bad for this country and then try to appear neutral by saying the PUP bad too....its like " sux mein PUP got this place fuck up....but don't vote UDP because its their fault and especially since a black man is leading it"

If UDP had some turks and arabs in the party everything would be well curry. Mreh don't you understand that the PUP is a criminal organization that is why Espat and cordel Hyde CAN"T LEAVE ????

Fuck You, Have A Nice Day.

...agree DAT there is a DIFFERENCE......between the TRUTH and the FACTS...They r NOT one and the same...The TRUTH is WHAT u, the collective, WANTS to MAKE it...The FACTS are based on a process of OBSERVATIONS and the EVIDENCE gathering and ANALYSIS that allows ONE to draw some conclusion, or conclusions, that would be functionally classified as a FACT, or the FACTS...Thus the now accepted NORM that GEORGE PRICE is a HERO...and THE national HERO at that...is the TRUTH...It is the TRUTH as determined by the PUP propaganda machinery...But anybody whom has lived through the 17 PROPOSALs...and the SEDITION trial of wilberforceGOLDSON...or the 21 HEADs of AGREEMENT, would KNOW beyond the shadow of a DOUBT that the prospect of having HHMM as a HERO of any SORT for thisNATION is NO FACT...There is no SUPPORTING evidence...au contraire, he is a FUKKING TRAITOR!!!...and an EGOTISTICAL one at that!!!...If anything, the EVIDENCE as presented would LIKELY support the FACT that HE is a nationalHERO for the GUATEMALANS…He has certainly been unwaveringly consistent on THEIR behalf.

This morning my HEAD is CLOUDY and my HEART is HEAVY with what miniME and ASHCROFT has done to CHRISTINE...It is a GRIM reminder that if U r not serious, then U don't want to FUKK with the PUP!!!
On my way to work hearing her PASSION and her HURT on LOVE...i thought that i would burn a little intellectual fuel in HER direction...and perhaps i still will...but Ur statement RED that holding DEAN-O to TASK for having missed a GOLDEN opportunity is in so many words 'asinine', does require a response of some sort on my behalf...And i am doing this because U seem like a fairly intelligent fellow/female, and when U say these things, at the very least they would require a response...especially given that MORE ppl than is comforting for the PUPs read the BLOGS.

The statement that the UDPs had TWO opportunities to fix the systems of publicGOVERNANCE and did nothing is a statement of FACT...i WILL stick to my GUNs...Here is Y!!!...If we pick those things that have allowed the PUPs to FUKK this COUNTRY the way that they have over the last 8 YRS, they would NOT have been able to SUMMARILY do so if the UDPs had fixed things up...Let us take these eight (8) things to bear this out: Public Indebtedness, Corruption in Public Office, Gerrymandering/Election Fixing, Privatization, Rape of Public Institutions/Finances, Public Sector efficiency, Land Grab and Conduct of Proceedings of House Meetings.

PUBLIC INDEBTEDNESS: This is scandalous by any measure...i believe everybody would agree with this, except the EIGHT FAMILIES in Belize whom control 90% of the wealth of the NATION...Lets get serious, owing TWO BILLION is NOT a cardinal SIN...I applaud eRALPHUSminus & Co for the SALESMANSHIP that they have done in duping the INTL community into lending them that sort of $$$...What is UNFORGIVABLE is the LACK of a POSITIVE and significant RATE OF RETURN on that INVESTMENT that would have meaningfully IMPROVED the QUALITY OF LIFE of every man, woman and child in this nation!!!...What is UNFORGIVABLE is that as these $$$ were being ACCESSED, the POVERTY rate went from ONE in THREE bzeans, to ONE in TWO bzeans...i.e, it went from 33% in the ‘01 to 43% over the last year or so...And since then iKNOW that it has gotten significantly WORSE!!!...What is unforgivable ALSO is where the money has gone...Apart from frenzied hustling by lowerLEVEL blueMINIONS at the local level we know that much of the money has gone to Miami & Panama & Montevedeo & Cuba & Canada!!!

What has the UDPs done about the indebtedness issue while in office???... Well they did not have the VOLUMES of CASH that the PUPs had...And it's not that they perhaps didn't want to, as much as it probably wasn't available...Let's be FAIR, the PUPs know HOW to get MONEY...the problem is what they do with the money...Back on target though, what is positive for the UDPs is that whether or not they could get money, they R no where as RECKLESS and THEIF and DISHONEST as the PUPs...Putting two laws in place w.r.t Development Incentives, as is the wont of the UDP, does not safeguard against the SHOCKS being visited on the economy by the PUPs, as a result of what can at best be charitably called 'BAD GOVERNANCE'...There is NOTHING to stop them from burrowing MORE and doing the SAME if MORE$$$ is available!!!...There R countries which have enshrined into LAW the limits that a GOV can burrow...For example in the UK, if my memory serves me right, the BRIT GOV cannot burrow or place the country in debts greater than 60% of the GDP!!!...This is the kind of remedy that the COUNTRY needs...The strategy being touted by the baldONE to bring the matter to the PPL when burrowing beyond a certain level is required, is perhaps another useful remediation...But of course this was not done by the UDPs while they were in belmoGEORGE...And although the PUPs had not misBEHAVED this BADLY at the time, the possibility was always there, since U can always Xpct the WORSE from DEM!!!...Thus not having done IT on ANY of their WATCHES is no excuse for the UDPs!!!

CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC OFFICE: There are two sets of PPL whom interact with the publicPURSE...the civilSERVANTS and the POLITICOS...The conduct of the civilSERVANTS r guided mainly by the GWR or generalWORKERSrules and the FO or financialORDERS...If the affairs of the DFC and the SSB were governed by these twoINSTRUMENTS...the FREEDOM of glennGADFRED & davidCOURTNEY & nadaGARCIA would have been greatlyCURTAILED by the colbyFOUNDATION at this point in time!!!...That is just how SEVERE the RULES r which governs the conduct of the CORE civilSERVANTS of this country...Thus these R not the PPL that needs to be REINED by any legalINSTURMENT or practice...The real badACTORS r the POLITICOS whom R not governed by ANY of these RULES...When the UDPs were in Office during their FIRST stint, they got some draft legislation started that RIGHTLY targeted the POLITICOS, however before they could enact this they were booted out of office and the PUPs took over...One of the first ACT of the blueSHIRTED fellows was to resurrect the BILL and TAKE OUT the parts that would have held them accountable and in effect reconfigured the antiCORRUPTION ACT to focus on the civilSERVANTS...the guys whose behaviour was already governed by the restrictive GWR and the FO...and whom in effect needed it LEAST!!!...When the UDPs got in on their secondWATCH of course they did NOTHING to CORRECT the obvious PERVISION of the PUPs...U get the drift RED???...The very system of governance that had civilSERVANTS shivering at the sight and sound of the POLITICOS...the very system of intimidation promulgated by HHMM...the archENEMY that had INJURED so many EDUCATED and wellTRAINED civilSERVANTS...was the SAME system that the UDPs found CONVENIENT during their secondTERM in Office!!!...Hello!!!
It’s not that the PUPs would have been unable to undo any anticorruption laws that the UDPs would have put in place, given the scope of their landslide victory…but they would have been put to SHAME attempting to change it to EXEMPT themselves from PROSECUTION…It would have been HARD for them to perpetuate the MODUS OPERANDI of having POWER, without the NEED to act RESPONSIBLY!!!

GERRYMANDERING: After the '84 Episode with HHMM and Dereck Aikman in which the nationalHEROofGUATEMALA attempted to reCONFIGURE the Division to include over 325 known PUPs at the 11th HR...U'd think that the first order of business for the UDPs upon taking Office would have been to FIX the electionMACHINERY, but it was NOT...The electionMACHINERY stayed pretty much the same way until the PUPs decided that they could not take any chances with the upCOMING elections and placed mertlePALACIO in charge of GERRYMANDERING the divisions for the SEPT 07 GENERAL ELECTIONS...In summary the UDPs did nothing to HELP their own cause...Not that i'd be advocating GERRYMANDERING or that anyONE would XPTC it from them...But what they could have done would have been to put in place the mechanisms supported by LAW...to ensure that MYRTLE would not have been able to DIVVY UP the divisions deliberately to undermine the OPPOSITION...or more accurately OPPOSITIONS!!!...These R FACTS RED, they R not opinions...the R supported by evidence...Take a MAP and check for Urslf how the DIVISIONS r conFIGURED!!!

PRIVATIZATION: This really caughtFIRE under the PUPs although manuelESQUIVEL did the BTL Thing first...and well to be fair in a DECENT and balanced way...Privation is really just a euphemism for PIRATIZATION under the PUPs...The theme of their strategy is really publicRISK and privatePROFIT...It is what i call the SADIM Touch!!!...U'd recall the fable of King MIDAS in which everything that the nobleONE touched turned to GOLD...Well it's the opposite for the PUPs...Everything that these guys TOUCH turn to LEAD!!!...It deadWEIGHT...It uncanny...It's statistically anomalous...It is disturbing...but it is a FACT...Pick any card...BTL...WASA...SSB...fortisBEL ... govPRINTERY...lukePORT...It's ALL a fukkingDISASTER!!!...If the UDPs can stand unACCUSED on any of these things, it's probably this one...Although U can make the case also that given the FACT that they did put in place GOOD PROCEDURES & PRACTICES for BTL in terms of firstly giving poorPPL an opportunity to buySHARES in the Co, and indeed keeping the ashCROFT-proSSER situation from happening, they could in retrospect have extended these sensible practices to craft NATIONAL LEGISLATION to govern the MGMT of ALL utilities...but i wont be severe on them!?!?

RAPE PUBLIC INSTITUTION/FINANCES: Although i like to say that there is nothing NEW under the SUN...it would be difficult, if not impossible to find some regime that has WREAKED the level of bareFACED havoc that the PUPs have wreaked on the INSITUTIONS of this COUNTRY and indeed the FINANCES there-of!!!...The ssbRAPE...the theftOFthePORT...the jackingOFthePRINTERS...the fleecingOFtheDFC...the farceOfmahoganyHEIST...WHEW!!!
As SAD as these things R though, the PUPs from an institutionalPERSPECTIVE have done better than the UDPs!!!...Yeah!!!...U c if U r dealing with finances U have to put in place structures and institutions to ACT in a watchDOG capacity...and well the FACTS r that the PUPs have put in place an OMBUDSMAN and a CONTRACTOR GENERAL and an INTEGRITY COMMISSION...Now as can be expected U can always count on the WORST from them...Thus the OMBUDSMAN is NOT really THAT, but a PARODY, an anemicFAXSIMILE of ONE...He WALKs like an ombudsman...He QUACKs like an ombudsman...but he has NO POWER to ACT like an OMBUDSMAN...HE is at best a propagandaTOOL for the blueSPINdoctors, and at worse an irrelevantNUT!!!

And the contractorGENERAL...Well this one is difficult to defend even by the staunchest PUP...The fellow whom had assUMED the position has apparently exited into the fourthDIMENSION…Not even miniME has the courage to mention a name, or indeed the post during his rhetoricalGRANDSTANDING during budgeTIME!!!

And the integrityCOMMISSION???...Well this is obviously NOT working!!!

And…well…as BAD as the PUPs R they have DONE something...What has the UDPs done for public scrutiny and Oversight???...Zilch...ZERO...Nothing!!!...These r FACTS!!!

PUBLIC SECTOR EFFICIENCY: This is a favourite whippingBOY of both the PUBLIC and the POLITICOS…The now extraPORTLY or if U will, cherubicallyROTUND lucasMAGNUS, and the idiotSAVANT bilILINDO never misses a BEAT to DISS publicOFFICERS…especially in the WAKE of the educcoTUTORED motivationalSEMINAR on brokebackCAYE for the pupPOLITICOS lastYR.
The sad fact is that FIRSTLY the publicSERVICE is no more inefficient than any LARGE organization…and SECONDLY it is much MORE efficient and productive than a number of private sector organizations…most notably that of senorLUKE and the self-said BILL…noteWELL that the MOW in NOT known for building houses that LEANS horribly…noteALSO that the MOW is NOT known for building bridges that collapses into rivers at first sign of a flood…noteALSO that the MOW is NOT known for doing a botchJOB reclaiming Belama Phase I or bzeanBEACH, or for abandoning derelict DREDGES that become eyesores on the doorsteps of residential neighbourhoods!!!

One of the great HYPOCRISIES of the much touted inefficiency of the govSERVICE is that the very GUYs that are promulgating this R the very ONES whom have contributed to and engendered the OVERSTAFFING of the civilSERVICE by partyHOCKS whom enter the service on the coatTAIL of the PARTY coming into power…The PUPs R wayMORE sinful than the UDPs on this one.

The solution to the inefficiencies of the publicSERVICE is to create or engender a culture based on professionalMERIT…This would automatically dislodge the politicalHOCKS that are really academicallyUNQUALIFIED and morallyUNFIT to B in the SERVICE…A coREQUISITE of this strategy would B that new PPL entering the publicSERVICE would be selected on the basis of their FITNESS to PERFORM and not on the basis of any politicaLEANINGS, or other nonprofessional considerations.

Another Strategy would be that this FOOLISHNESS of CEOs be CANCELLED…These CEO r just an extension of the MINISTERS whom R steeped in POLITICS, which is exactly what U don’t want in the publicSERVICE…These CEOs epitomizes that which is WRONG with the SERVICE…They R in general NOT in the positions that they R because of their professional accomplishments, but because of their POLITICAL leanings…Small wonder that the SECTORS under their stewardship R floundering…These CEOs R at best STOOGES for the MINISTERS and at worst a DISTRACTION and a HINDRANCE to progress in the publicSERVICE…There needs to be a reinstitution of the permanentSECRETARIES in the SERVICE which is really more than a change in labels in its conception…The permanentSECRETARIES r meant to B a bridge between the SERVICE and the demiGODS…and they R meant to go from ONE politicalADMINISTRATION to another…because of CONTINUITY and institutionalMEMORY…both of which R invaluable commodities on the RD to development.

Security of TENURE and an erosion of politicalINTEFERENCE in the publicSERVICE r also valuable commodities in terms of setting the SERVICE right.

Now what exactly has the UDPs done???...Well FACT #1: They have perpetuated the illADVISED system of politicalADVISORS instituted and perpetuated by the PUPs…Thus there was a permanentSECRETARY and an ADVISOR in each Ministry!!!...The Heads of Dept were 105 Officers when the UDPs came to power in ’84, however when they lost in ’89 the PUPs made these 105 OFFICERS politicalAPPOINTEES, which politicized the positions and gave them the where-with-all to bring in whomever they wanted…which they pretty much did…Thus much of the HODs r beholden to the PUPs…What did the UDPs did upon returning to power in ’93???…U guess it…ZERO!!!...NOTHING!!!...The system suited them well…What did the PUPs do upon their return to office in ’98???…Well they placed more of their STOOGIES as HODS…and after the ’03 elections they then REVERTED the HODs to 105 STATUS which in effect improved the security of tenure of the OFFICERS…and politically placed them beyond the hand of any UDP Administration that might come to power…Those R the FACTS…not my opinion!!!

And well the REMEDY of downSIZING!!!...I do not believe that the PUPs could have asked for a better ALLY than the rightHONORABLE doctor ESQUIVEL!!!...The politicalDUNCE did not only FIRE 860 civilSERVANTS at the heights of the yuletideSEASON…but he also ended up firing his OWN people!!!...The stoicONE retained ALL the PUP permanentSECRETARIES upon his RETURN to OFFICE in ’93 and when he made the decision to FIRE the publicSERVANTS at the end of ’95, HE put the pupPSs in charge of the process…and they of course singledOUT the UDPs!!!...Fukk…This is beyond STUPID…And U know what???…It is a FACT…it is supported by EVIDENCE!!!

LAND GRAB: This one is more of the same…Land is just another form of CAPITAL that the PUPs R hoarding, and that they R using to become RICHER…The distribution of LAND is highlyPOLITICAL with everything stopping at the MINISTER…This is the situation that ditoJUAN and the UDPs met TWICE and enjoyed tremendously, and did NOTHING about…and now the PUPs r in a hogWALLOW and r behaving at their worst!!!

HOUSE MEETINGS: This one for patrickFABER…This fellow has suffered BADLY at the hands of bettyZABANEH for trying to FUKK with her brother-in-law saidMUSA!!!...And she has done this simply because she can…The rules of the HOUSE allows her as SPEAKER to SHUT UP and SHUT OUT the OPPOSITION whenever she feels like it…Her TOR tells us that she can do everything short of MURDER to protect the shortONE…NOT surprisingly, the baldONE has found nothing wrong with this, HE is simply awaiting his turn at musicalCHAIRS…What obviously needs to be done is for the position of SPEAKER to be DEPOLITICISED…The position should be a civilSERVICE job under the jurisdiction of the publicSERVICEcommission where the recruitment is taken away from the POLITICOS, and where most importantly the PERSON assuming the position would do so on the basis of professionalMERIT…and NOT on the basis of partyAFFILIATIONS!!!

Again the FACTS r that the UDPs have met the situation as is…where it is NOT satisfactory when they R in OPPOSITION…but where it is OK when they r in GOVAMENT…And of course they have ELECTED to maintain the STATUS QUO!!!
Thus RED…When I speak…it’s not on the basis of RETORIC…Neither is it on the basis of FEAR or FAVOR…If the INSTRUMENT is a SPADE…I will NOT be calling it an AGRICULTURAL IMPLIMENT…iWILL call it a SPADE!!!

Soooo RED when i SAY that they have done NOTHING while they were IN office…that is what I meant…The FACTS do bear me out!!!

To suggest that UDP kept on CEOs who were blatantly blue to continue the game of corruption is Utter Nonsense. UDP is accused by Musa and the PUP of victimization, belizeanpearl is saying the UDP did not victimize - or should have done of it. That is only ONE person view.

It would have been foolish to dismiss all the CEOs when the UDP would have wanted some level of continuity from where the PUP left off in terms of administration of the government. It would not have been wise to fire all CEOs.

that was a long one, but very informative and enlightening. You sound like you really do know your "shit". I especially liked the idea of the speaker of the house issue.

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about the special tax and the island properties......thats the trend of thought politicians should have, not which family member or friend to sell it to for cheap.....

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are facts, good points mreh! I will go further and say that the UDP when they got into office kept on key CEOs even though they knew that these people were blatantly political towards the blues!!!!! Why? They are/were facilitators who for a price continued the game of corruption!

Just to clarify a few stuff...

On Public Debt: The way Musa and the PUP Leaders behave you seems to have drawn the conclusion that there is no law limiting public indebtedness... THERE IS SUCH LAW. Musa simply IGNORED the law or changed it as needed.

On Corruption in Public Life: There are many laws that deals with this issues, including the oversight of the Integrity Commission, but these laws and systems have failed us. Making more laws as the PUP have done - can created new oversight offices like Contractor General and Ombudsman have not helped.... If UDP created more laws, what would be the effect???

On Gerrymanding: I think the UDP carried out a Re-registration exersice to clean the voters list. Gerrymanding normally refer to manipulating the physical boundries of electoral divisions. I don't think ANY of the parties have used this to any great success.

On Public Sector Efficiency: I must agree, the UDP could have done more, yet, we must ask, why did no one, or any group press the UDP to look at these things. I can find a lot of things the UDP COULD have done, the true is, those were NOT the pressing issues of the day.

House Meetings: This Speaker is certainly the worse of any other one before her, but in a Democracy - Majority Rules. The Government should represent the majority, hence they rule the House.... that is just the way it is. I would not feel too sorry for the Opposition.

Man, that is some powerful information to absord right their. I agree with Road Fly, but i want to add this, if Dean wins, he should take away everyone's property on mainland and even islands, i mean everyone, and just have Government do what they think is right with the property.

Shit, i am going back to Belizeansbabes blog, Koncas is depressing and it is obvious that the only person who is not a fanatic party follower and present solid logic and FACTS is Mreh.

Belizeanbabes here i come

GOODBYE HORSES, I'M FLYING OVER YOU
SCREW THE HORSES, GIVE ME SOME PONANY

but TRUE.

"Drink Up, Smoke Up, Juk Up...nothing else really matters"

Printing it right now so I can review it again later.

If the system had the potential to break but wasn't broken can you really blame the opposition? The actions of this administration are unprecendented and extreme. I don't think anyone saw this coming.

Depressing because it reinforces the idea that change will only come around when the public demands it. One problem, the Belizean public suffers from low self esteem.

...between the TRUTH and the FACTS...They r NOT one and the same...The TRUTH is WHAT u, the collective, WANTS to MAKE it...The FACTS are based on a process of OBSERVATIONS and the EVIDENCE gathering and ANALYSIS that allows one to draw some conclusion, or conclusions, that would be functionally classified as a FACT, of the FACTS...Thus the now accepted NORM that GEORGE PRICE is a HERO...and THE national HERO at that...is the TRUTH...It is the TRUTH as determined by the PUP propaganda machinery...But anybody whom has lived through the 17 PROPOSALs...and the SEDITION trial of wilberforceGOLDSON...or the 21 HEADs of AGREEMENT would KNOW beyond the shadow of a DOUBT that the prospect of having HHMM as a HERON of any SORT for thisNATION is NO FACT...There is no SUPPORTING evidence...au contraire, he is a FUKKING TRAITOR!!!...and an EGOTISTICAL one at that!!!...If anything, the EVIDENCE as presented would LIKELY support the FACT that HE is a nationalHERO for the GUATEMALANS.

This morning my HEAD is CLOUDY and my HEART is HEAVY with what miniME and ASHCROFT has done to CHRISTINE...It is a GRIM reminder that if U r not serious, then U don't want to FUKK with the PUP!!!

On my way to work hearing her PASSION and her HURT...i thought that i would burn a little intellectual fuel in HER direction...and perhaps i still will...but Ur statement RED that holding DEAN-O to TASK for having missed a GOLDEN opportunity is in so many words 'asinine', does require a response of some sort on my behalf...And i am doing this because U seem like a fairly intelligent fellow/female, and when U say these things, at the very least they would require a response...especially given that MORE ppl than is comforting for the PUPs read the BLOGS.

The statement that the UDPs had TWO opportunities to fix the systems of publicGOVERNANCE and did nothing is a statement of FACT...i WILL stick to my GUNs...Here is Y!!!...If we pick those things that have allowed the PUPs to FUKK this COUNTRY the way that they have over the last 8 YRS, they would NOT have been able to SUMMARILY do so if the UDPs had fixed things up...Let us take these eight (8) things to bear this out: Public Indebtedness, Corruption in Public Office, Gerrymandering/Election Fixing, Privatization, Rape of Public Institutions/Finances, Public Sector efficiency, Land Grab and Conduct of Proceedings of House Meetings.

PUBLIC INDEBTEDNESS: This is scandalous by any measure...i believe everybody would agree with this, except the EIGHT FAMILIES in Belize whom control 90% of the wealth of the NATION...Lets get serious, owing TWO BILLION is NOT a cardinal SIN...I applaud eRALPHUSminus & Co for the SALESMANSHIP that they have done in duping the INTL community into lending them that sort of $$$...What is UNFORGIVABLE is the LACK of a POSITIVE and significant RATE OF RETURN on that INVESTMENT that would have meaningfully IMPROVED the QUALITY OF LIFE of every man, woman and child in this nation!!!...What is UNFORGIVABLE is that as these $$$ were being ACCESSED, the POVERTY rate went from ONE in THREE bzeans, to ONE in TWO bzeans...i.e, it went from 33% in the ‘01 to 43% over the last year or so...And since then iKNOW that it has gotten significasntly WORSE!!!...What is unforgivable ALSO is where the money has gone...Apart from frenzied hustling by lowerLEVEL blueMINIONS at the local level we know that much of the money has gone to Miami & Panama & Montevedeo & Cuba & Canada!!!

What has the UDPs done about the indebtedness issue while in office???... Well they did not have the VOLUMES of CASH that the PUPs had...And it's not that they perhaps didn't want to, as much as it probably wasn't available...Let's be FAIR, the PUPs know HOW to get MONEY...the problem is what they do with the money...Back on target though, what is positive for the UDPs is that whether or not they could get money, they R no where as RECKLESS and THEIF and DISHONEST as the PUPs...Putting two laws in place w.r.t Development Incentives, as is the wont of the UDP, does not safeguard against the SHOCKS being visited on the economy by the PUPs, as a result of what can at best be charitably called 'BAD GOVERNANCE'...There is NOTHING to stop them from burrowing MORE and doing the SAME if MORE$$$ is available!!!...There R countries which have enshrined into LAW the limits that a GOV can burrow...For example in the UK, if my memory serves me right the BRIT GOV cannot burrow or place the country in debts greater than 60% of the GDP!!!...This is the kind of remedy that the COUNTRY needs...The strategy being touted by the baldONE to bring the matter to the PPL when burrowing beyond a certain level is required is perhaps another useful remediation...But of course this was not done by the UDPs while they were in belmoGEORGE...And although the PUPs had not misBEHAVED this BADLY at the time, the possibility was always there, since U can always Xpct the WORSE from DEM!!!...Thus not having done IT on ANY of their WATCHES is no excuse for the UDPs!!!

CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC OFFICE: There are two sets of PPL whom interact with the publicPURSE...the civilSERVANTS and the POLITICOS...The conduct of the civilSERVANTS r guided by the GWR or generalWORKERSrules and the FO or financialORDERS...If the affairs of the DFC and the SSB were governed by these twoINSTRUMENTS...the FREEDOM of glennGADFRED & davidCOURTNEY & nadaGARCIA would have been greatlyCURTAILED by the colbyFOUNDATION at this point in time!!!...That is just how SEVERE the RULES r which governs the conduct of the CORE civilSERVANTS of this country...Thus these R not the PPL that needs to be REINED by any legalINSTURMENT or practice...The real badACTORS r the POLITICOS whom R not governed by ANY of these RULES...When the UDPs were in Office During their FIRST stint they got some draft legislation started that RIGHTLY targeted the POLITICOS, however before they could enact this they were booted out of office and the PUPs took over...One of the first ACT of the blueSHIRTED fellows was to resurrect the BILL and TAKE OUT the parts that would have held them accountable and in effect reconfigured the antiCORRUPTION ACT to focus on the civilSERVANTS... The guys whose behaviour was already governed by the restrictive GWR and the FO...and whom in effect needed it LEAST!!!...When the UDPs got in on their secondWATCH of course they did NOTHING to CORRECT the obvious PERVISION of the PUPs...U get the drift RED???...The very system of governance that had civilSERVANTS shivering at the sight and sound of the POLITICOS...the very system of intimidation promulgated by HHMM...the archENEMY that had INJURED some many EDUCATED and wellTRAINED civilSERVANTS...was the SAME system that the UDPs found CONVENIENT during their secondTERM in Office!!!...Hello!!!

It’s not that the PUPs would have been unable to undo any anticorruption laws that the UDPs would have put in place, given the scope of their landslide victory…but they would have been put to SHAME attempting to change it to EXEMPT themselves from PROSECUTION…It would have been HARD for them to perpetuate the MODUS OPERANDI of having POWER, without the NEED to act RESPONSIBLY!!!

GERRYMANDERING: After the '84 Episode with HHMM and Dereck Aikman U'd think that the first order of business for the UDP upon taking Office would have been to FIX the electionMACHINERY, but it was NOT...The electionMACHINERY stayed pretty much the same way until the PUPs decided that they could not take any chances with the upCOMING elections and placed mertlePALACIO in charge of GERRYMANDERING the divisions for the SEPT 07 GENERAL ELECTIONS...In summary the UDPs did nothing to held their own cause...Not that i'd be advocating GERRYMANDERING or that anyONE would XPTC it from them...But waht they could have done would have been to put in place the mechanisms supported by LAW...to ensure that MYRTLE would not have been able to DIVVY UP the divisions deliberately to undermine the OPPOSITION...or more accurately OPPOSITIONS!!!...These R FACTS RED, they R not opinions...the R supported by evidence...Take a MAP and check for Urslf how the DIVISIONS r conFIGURED!!!

PRIVATIZATION: This really caughtFIRE under the PUPs although manuelESQUIVEL did the BTL Thing first...and well to be fair in a DECENT and balanced way...Privation is really just a euphimism for PIRATIZATION under the PUPs...The theme of their staretgy is really publicRISK and privatePROFIT...It is what i call the SADIM Touch!!!...U'd recall the fable of King MIDAS in which everything that the nobleONE touched turned to GOLD...Well it's the opposite for the PUPs...Everything that these guys TOUCH turn to LEAD!!!...It deadWEIGHT...It uncanny...It's statistically anomalous...It is disturbing...but it is a FACT...Pick any card...BTL...WASA...SSB...fortisBEL ... govPRINTERY...lukePORT...It's ALL a fukkingDISASTER!!!...If the UDPs can stand unACCUSED on any of these things, it's probably this one...Although U can make the case also that given the FACT that they did put in place GOOD PROCEDURES for BTL in terms of firstly giving poorPPL an opportunity to buySHARES in the Co, and indeed keeping the ashCROFT-proSSER situation from happening, they could in retrospect have extended these sensible practices to craft NATIONAL LEGISLATION to govern the MGMT of ALL utilities...but i wont be severe on them!?!?

RAPE PUBLIC INSTITUTION/FINANCES: Although i like to say that there is nothing NEW under the SUN...it would be difficult, if not impossible to find some regime that has WREAKED the level of bareFACED havoc that they have wreaked INSITUTIONS of this COUNTRY and indeed the FINANCES there-of!!!...The ssbRAPE...the theftOFthePORT...the jackingOFthePRINTERS...the fleecingOFtheDFC...the farceOfmahoganyHEIST...WHEW!!!

As SAD as these things R, the PUPs from an institutionalPERSPECTIVE have done better than the UDP!!!...Yeah!!!...U c if U r dealing with finances U have to put in place structures and institutions to ACT in a watchDOG capacity...and well the FACTS r that the PUPs have put in place an OMBUDSMAN and a CONTRACTOR GENERAL and an INTEGRITY COMMISSION...Now as can be expected U can always count on the WORST from them...Thus the OMBUDSMAN is NOT really THAT, but a PARODY, an anemicFAXSIMILE of ONE...He looks like an ombudsman...He talks like an ombudsman...but he has NO POWER to ACT like an OMBUDSMAN...HE is at best a propagandaTOOL for the blueSPINdoctors, and at worse an irrelevantNUT!!!

And the contractorGENERAL...Well this one is difficult to defend even by the staunchest PUP...The fellow whom had assUMED the position has apparently exited into the fourthDIMENSION…Not even miniME has the courage to mention a name, or indeed the post during his rhetoricalGRANDSTANDING during budgeTIME!!!

And the integrityCOMMISSION???...Well this is obviously NOT working!!!

And…well…as BAD as the PUPs R they have DONE something...What has the UDPs done for public scrutiny and oversight???...Zilch...ZERO...Nothing!!!...These r FACTS!!!

PUBLIC SECTOR EFFICIENCY: This is a favourite whippingBOY of both the PUBLIC and the POLITICOS…The now extraPORTLY or if U will cherubicallyROTUND lucasMAGNUS and the idiotSAVANT bilILINDO never misses a BEAT to DISS publicOFFICERS…especially in the WAKE of the educcoTUTORED motivationalSEMINAR on brokebackCAYE for the pupPOLITICOS lastYR.

The sad fact is that FIRSTLY the publicSERVICE is no more inefficient than any LARGE organization…and SECONDLY it is much MORE efficient and productive than a number of private sector organizations…most notably that of senorLUKE and the self-said BILL…noteWELL that the MOW in NOT known for building houses that leans horribly…noteALSO that the MOW is NOT known for building bridges that collapses into rivers at first sign of a flood…noteALSO that the MOW is NOT known for doing a botchJOB reclaiming Belama Phase I or bzeanBEACH, or for abandoning derelict DREDGES that become eyesores on the doorsteps of residential neighbourhoods!!!

One of the great HYPOCRISIES of the much touted inefficiency of the govSERVICE is that the very GUYs that are promulgating this R the very ONES whom have contributed to and engendered the OVERSTAFFING of the civilSERVICE by partyHOCKS whom enter the service on the coatTAIL of the PARTY coming into power…The PUPs R wayMORE sinful than the UDPs on this one.

The solution to the inefficiencies of the publicSERVICE is to create or engender a culture based on professionalMERIT…This would automatically dislodge the politicalHOCKS that are really academically unqualified and unfit to B in the SERVICE…A coREQUISITE of this strategy would B that new PPL entering the publicSERVICE would be selected on the basis of their FITNESS to PERFORM and not on the basis of any politicaLEANINGS, or other nonprofessional considerations.

Another Strategy would be that this FOOLISHNESS of CEOs be CANCELLED…These CEO r just an extension of the MINISTERS whom R steeped in POLITICS, which is exactly what U don’t want in the publicSERVICE…These CEOs epitomizes that which is WRONG with the SERVICE…They R in general NOT in the positions that the R because of their professional accomplishments but because of their POLITICAL leanings…Small wonder that the SECTORS under their stewardship R floundering…These CEOs R at best STOOGES for the MINISTERS and at worst a DISTRACTION and a HINDRANCE to progress in the publicSERVICE…There needs to be a reinstitution of the permanentSECRETARIES in the SERVICE which is really more than a change in labels in its conception…The permanentSECRETARIES r meant to B a bridge between the SERVICE and the demiGODS…and they R meant to go from ONE politicalADMINISTRATION to another…because of CONTINUITY and institutionalMEMORY…both of which R invaluable commodities on the RD to development.

Security of TENURE and an erosion of politicalINTEFERENCE in the publicSERVICE r also valuable commodities in terms of setting the SERVICE right.

Now what exactly has the UDPs done???...Well FACT #1: They have perpetuated the illADVISED system of politicalADVISORS instituted and perpetuated by the PUPs…Thus there was a permanentSECRETARY and an ADVISOR in each Ministry!!!...The Heads of Dept were 105 Officers when the UDPs came to power in ’84, however when they lost in ’89 the PUPs made these Officers 105 Officers or politicalAPPOINTEES which politicized the positions and gave them the where-with-all to bring whomever they wanted…which they pretty much did…Thus much of the HODs r beholden to the PUPs…What did the UDPs did upon returning to power in ’93…U guess it…ZERO!!!...NOTHING!!!...The system suited them well…What did the PUPs do upon their return to office in ’98…Well they placed more of their STOOGIES as HODS…and after the ’03 elections they then REVERTED the HODs to 105 STATUS which in effect increased the security of tenure of the OFFICERS…and politically placed them beyond the hand of any UDP Administration that might come into power…Those R the FACTS…not my opinion!!!

And well the REMEDY of downSIZING!!!...I do not believe that the PUPs could have asked for a better ALLY than the rightHONORABLE Esquivel!!!...The politicalDUNCE did not only FIRE 860 civilSERVANTS at the heights of CHRISTMAS…but he also ended up firing his OWN people!!!...The stoicONE retained ALL the PUP permanentSECRETARIES upon his RETURN to OFFICE in ’93 and when he made the decision to fire the publicSERVANTS at the end of ‘95 HE put the pupPSs in charge of the process…and they of course singledOUT the UDPs!!!...Fukk…This is beyond STUPID…And U know what???…It is a FACT…it is supported by EVIDENCE!!!

LAND GRAB: This one of more of the same…Land is just another form of CAPITAL that the PUPs R hoarding, and that they R using to become RICHER…The distribution of LAND is highlyPOLITICAL with everything stopping at the MINISTER…This is the situation that ditoJUAN and the UDPs met TWICE and enjoyed tremendously, and did NOTHING about…and now the PUPs r in a hogWALLOW and r behaving at their worst!!!

HOUSE MEETINGS: This one for patrickFABER…This fellow has suffered BADLY at the hands of bettyZABANEH for trying to FUKK with her brother-in-law saidMUSA!!!...And she has done this simply because she can…The rules of the HOUSE allows her as SPEAKER to SHUT UP and SHUT OUT the OPPOSITION whenever she feels like it…Her TOR tells us that she can do everything short of MURDER to protect the shortONE…NOT surprisingly, the baldONE has found nothing wrong with this, HE is simply awaiting his turn at musicalCHAIRS…What obviously needs to be done is for the position of SPEAKER to be DEPOLITICISED…The position should be a civilSERVICE job under the jurisdiction of the publicSERVICEcommission where the recruitment is taken away from the POLITICOS, and where most importantly the PERSON assuming the position would do so on the basis of professionalMERIT…and NOT on the basis of partyAFFILIATIONS!!!

Again the FACTS r that the UDPs have met the situation as is…where it is NOT satisfactory when they R in OPPOSITION…but where it is OK when they r in GOVAMENT…And of course they have ELECTED to maintain the STATUS QUO!!!

Thus RED…When I speak…it’s not on the basis of RETORIC…Neither is it on the basis of FEAR or FAVOR…If the INSTRUMENT is a SPADE…I will NOT be calling it an AGRICULTURAL IMPLIMENT…iWILL call it a SPADE!!!

Soooo RED when i SAY that they have done NOTHING while they were IN office…that is what I mean…The FACTS do bear me out!!!

a new tax should be introduced on ownership of all island properties that don't fall within a village or town boundaries. Since you want to talk the talk lets walk the walk too.

Just of the top of my head:

1. Gov. has the right to setup special tax zones, in this case higher taxes for owning an island that sits on the WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST BARRIER REEF AND THIS HEMISPHERE'S LARGEST, THIS INCLUDES THE ONLY 2 OR 3 ATOLLS FOUND IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. After all we are talking about a world heritage landmark here.

2. After 3 years of deliquent taxes the land should go back to government with the owner having the right to bring the taxes current prior to tax-foreclosure. 3 years because that minimizes the chances of a new gov. extending or buying time for the cronies/speculators/corrupt officials.

3. Islands that are used by fishermen as camps should be offered as lease not title.

Yes some innocent owners might be affected by these changes but things or procedures could be put in place to protect these guys.

I bet you if such changes are put in place the belizean public would get back more than half the islands lost to these corrupt individuals.

how they raise you? They raise me not to steal, I look at everything thats mine and I got it LEGALLY by sweat off my brows. Its bad enough that these politicians are stealing, yes it is stealing because they funnel the money back to themselves; but whats worst is who they are stealing from, THE PUBLIC.

I agree we need to have concessions in order for development to occur and I also understand that gov. should play a role in housing, especially a country our size with such a small population.

No doubt belizeans have always run some little hustle to survive, get some favours etc... but this is pass hussling to survive this is plain down greed.

I think Barrow insane: Why can't he just shut his mouth and take away the land when he has the power to do so... that is how the PUP do it. When PUP want to take land, they don't broadcast it.

How can a person make a direct link to Dean Barrow for the UDP not "fixing the ship" so to speak. That is such a stupid statement that it was insulting to read it... never had I imagine a person attempting to conduct public discourse on topic would be so shallow.

First of all, the UDP Leaders DID FIX the problems in 1984, but the problem was not corruption - it was the economy stupid.

Then in 1993, I recall the UDP taking Harry Courtney to Court on corruption charges - 3.54 million. Where were YOU?

Did you ever come out to support the UDP as the PUP held anti-UDP rallies in support of Harry Courtney? Did you ever call the radio stations supporting the UDP in its anti-corruption stands? Did you ever take a stand in support of UDP anti-corruption policy?..... O.. but, how we blab our mouths now.. but where were you when the wall was falling down????

Each time the UDP came to power, it fixed or made strong efforts to fix the major problems with the system. Where were YOU in support of those actions????

to have a solid lock and look on the reality of both PUP and UDP and the Belizean Society and Economy at large. I simply cannot put myself to trust Dean Barrow anymore than I can trust Musa, for the reason Mreh pinpointed and that is they had their chance to fix this ship and simply just sat behind the wheels.

This is what is happening to us the Belizean People, there is a power struggle right now between town and city council elects (UDP) and the PUP government and you know who is getting the lick, the Belizean People, because no mek no baddy fool yo, UDP folks to live large too, and if they win these folks will live even larger.

I can point out some real fucked up stuff that i have seen happen when UDP was in power and i will base my judgment about them solely on that, because that's what they did in my hood and affected my family and friends, so as far as UDP goes, they are just as fucking worse as the PUP, but the only thing i can say that did not happen, i haven't seen one of them fucking UDP cronies got their land taken away and was never threatened to have their land taken away and Road Fly it sounds like you in love with Dean my boy, whats up with that dude.

Fuk i promise myself i wouldn't get sucked into this politics crap...iyayiyayi.

GOODBYE HORSES, I'M FLYING OVER YOU

...literally translated as...Returning Always to the Same Silliness...is really MORE of the SAME avoiDANCE of rootCAUSE issues...The PUPs r making OFF with anyTHING and everyTHING notNAILEDown!!!...And they R doing thisDISSING simply because they CAN...Both of theseCAMPs have CREDIBILITY issues...The PUPs r just downrigth THEIF and CORRUPT with NO moralCOMPASS...And the UDPs have HAD twoGOLDEN opportunities to fix the governanceWAGON and they did NAUGHT...zERO...They simply got in the driverSEAT and proCEDED to travel dOWN the same road as the originalSINNERS...because it was the easyTHING to do...and because it suited their purpose well...The netEFFECT of which is macroscopicINDEBTEDNESS... damningPOVERTY...massUNEMPLOYMENT...armiesOFablebodiedBEGGARS...the ruleOFtheLAWLESS...and unfetteredVOILENCE!!!

The UDPs need to understand firstly that the ballotBOX is not a PANACEA for the greif that has been visited on the bzePPL for the last 50+ yrs...SECONDLY, there is NO assuredVICTORY for THEM or anybody else, for the matter...AND thirdly, there is MORE than oneDEGREEfoFREEDOM for the ELECTORATE if and when an election is called...It is NOT simply a choice between theBLUEs or theCRIPs, and theREDs or theBLOODs!!!

What cmndrZERO...and paulMORGAN...and hipolitoBAUSTISTA...and markESPAT needs to be talking about is whatSYSTEMs they will put in place to enSURE that the JEWEL is neverAGAIN exposed to the SAME ssbRAPE...and dfcPLUNDER...and politicalCORRUPTION...and massPOVERTY that it has seen over the lastEIGHT yrs!!!

Why is it that some Belizeans can sit back and watch the PUP destroy this nation because of their own hate for a fellow black true belizean. The main reason some pup hardcore doesn't want dean barrow is because they can't stand to see a back man progress in life.

Why is it that we can hurry sweep the scandal under the rug of a PUP representative dealing drugs while fraudulently representing the nation? Moises Cal's son can be seen as much as 3 - 4 times per week at UB in Belmopan - going to the dormitory area to deliver and make collection of drug proceeds. How is it that the belmopan police can readily harrass the youths on the street corner and yet have Cal's son who is a known drug dealer - prounce around the city and even the national university conducting his drugs business.

Furthermore, why is it that the security at the university quick to pull over taxi's and even some government vehicles and yet allow Cal's son who is NOT a student at the university, patrol the campus in one of his father's 2007 SUV while polluting the youth's mind at an institution where they are trying to learn?

Fuck You, Have A Nice Day.

[edited by koncas. Can this user please refrain from making hateful remarks. This site is not going to allow users to propagate racist, hateful comments]

This letter to all foreign embassies in the country, especially the U.S. and European Embassies. This is an effective way of putting any prospective investors in Belize on notice that there could be fraud involve in their land purchase so your priority on the land might not be first.

Bravo, Bravo for such a bold move, but I still feel there is a bit more that can be done to curb the appetite of these officials that are taking part in defrauding the public. This is bigger than PUP or UDP the country’s resources are at stake here.

THIS IS WHAT I SEE.
DEAN O. BARROW PROMOTES DICTATORSHIP
DEAN 0. BARROW PROMOTES VIOLENCE (yes, someones gonna get shot if this guy starts going around taking people's, whome believe are cronies, land).
DEAN O. BARROW IS FUCKING LEGALLY INSANE