You call THAT a consultation?

As I watch the television blitz of advertisements that WE the taxpayers are paying for, I am appalled at what happened at Corozal's version of the "Ninth Amendment to Belize's Constitution consultation". These "consultations" remind me of when I see someone that goes on tv and says "we will organize a BIG weekend...we will have lime and spoon, tug-a-war and sports." These consultations are a farce and do no less than insult thinking Belizeans.

When I go on a consultation with a doctor, I wish to ask him questions, tell him how I feel and expect him to listen to me explain clearly what I have/feel in order for him to offer a diagnosis. I won't LIE to him. He won't give me pre-prepared questions for me to ask him. He won't hurry me if he does not like the disease that I am feeling. He is supposed to offer a way for my pain to be done away with and to remove anything that caused it in the first place.

How can I say this? The people that I saw line-up were nothing short of non-sensical. They were a group of people that didn't understand what the ninth amendment was all about. I think it was a shame for them to be placed there to go to the microphones and then added shame for the government to use their pictures in partisan political advertisements.

I have heard government leaders say on the face of huge throngs of protesters, "Oh these TEN Thousand people are not the majority." The people that were placed before the microphones in Corozal are not the majority and the only respect I give them is that they are Belizeans and entitled to their opinion. I do not respect their letting themselves to be tricked into speaking of an issue that the vast majority of them were obviously clueless about. Those that sent them into the political jaws are nothing short of cowards.

Students don't let yourself be polarized at this age. The young that were sent there were equally taken advantage of in Corozal. The young have a lot of sprite but there is lots to be desired of those that presented. If you sound too RED or too BLUE you are already on the wrong side. Be intelligent!

I will err on the side of FREEDOM.

ANYTHING that seeks to curtail freedom will be WRONG no questions asked.

The minority of people wreaking havoc on our nation cannot hold the peace lovers--the majority-- to ransom. PM this is not as simple as removing the tint from our vehicle's windows. Why do you think that you will succeed with the ninth when you have not succeeded in untinting the tint from our vehicles' windows?

I suggest you recall the ninth!

The Theme for your 30th & the 9th

"Honoring our histories, celebrating our cultures, uniting in peace."

I am so not a stickler for themes. For me as soon as it is churned out and presented to us it is already ad nauseum. This year it is no different.

I must say that the graphic as usual is smart. I will assume that it is the same person working n them since they do show continuity year to year. The placement of the Supreme Court building, National Assembly and St. John's Cathedral is nice. I must confess that I do not recognize that section beside the church building...is it the drums?

Each of the three issues alluded to in the themes are gargantuan to be observed much less given credit to at a single September celebration. All in all the populace does not really care.

The populace will celebrate and will love Belize regardless. I love that.

As we inch closer to the September celebrations the debate on the proposed 9th amendment to our dear constitution will collide head on with our celebrating spirit. My... how dare someone say that there is someone born in Belize that is anti-Belizean...the nerve.

For me what is chilling about Nationalization is that the government is teaching our young ones that it is OK to steal. It cannot be refuted that our water, light and telephone infrastructure was built with foreign money. We can argue all day that we in Belize could have done it BUT the fact remains that we did not. Just 10 years ago, water was rationed in the city. Blackouts were a mainstay. Telephone & the 'information superhighway' were growing as fast as the technology allowed it to.

Now as these are established and professional companies.... our government swoops in and GIMME THIS! Well this has happened with BTL and BEL. No payment given for it. However one looks at it, the essence remains a high-level jacking. It was a government-level mugging. Expropriation.... that is a joke. The companies have been stolen.

Then to add insult to injury... the government is attempting to place this high-handed action as part of our country's value system. It is almost like placing a sin in the Ten Commandments just to make it right.

Oh my... then in a divide and conquer type a action. The government calls the Council of Churches led by someone the PM has called a "FOOL" to fool the nation. I don't know why but I keep thinking of these movements as fascist.

Time will tell as to what is really happening here. I pray and wish the best for our country Belize.

New, Old, Blue & Barrowed...the 9th amendment!

“(9) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the provisions of this section are all-inclusive and exhaustive and there is no other limitation, whether substantive or procedural, on the power of the National Assembly to alter this Constitution; and a law passed by the National Assembly to alter any of the provisions of this Constitution which is passed in conformity with this section shall not be open to challenge in any court of law on any ground whatsoever.”

Oh mein.... I didn't imagine this!

The "United" "Democratic" Party did not lie to us as they partook in the Feb 2008 General Elections. They set out their manifesto and then they DID say, imagine the rest even if only as possibilities. What was the possibility that Hon. Barrow would attempt to usurp ALL the power unto himself? With an ego the size of anything larger than colossal, something had got to give.

Many of his ministers and him, the PM, made it clear that they had been out in the dry for 10 years. Now they would have the chance to reap the benefits of their newly found administration. Was that in their manifesto or we had to imagine it?

The 13th senator which was passed by them as contitutional law but put the power in the PM's hands as to when he/she should implement it. We have to imagine it!

The government has 'officially' withdrawn the Preventative Detention bill from the proverbial table. They did not say if unofficially it has been removed from the PM's mind. We can only imagine if he is still imagining it. ;)

The Barrow administration 'removed' the Preventative Detention bill from the table for the second time since the people seemed not to like the idea. Instead he is bringing in the 9th amendment that seeks to place beyond our grasp the possibility of us imagining a disagreement with him. With the ouster of our 'big brother', the courts, then we would truly need God as our supreme creator and protector. Prayer is huge people but is the eyes of calamity suffering is bound to instill. Imagine that!

Right now the marriage between the people of Belize and the Barrow-lead government is in crisis. It is doomed not to be rosy all the way to the promised till elections do us part. The new government of 2008, brought in their old bitter philosophy and the barrowed doctrine. The hope for Belize now lies in the blue that the UDP would have wanted to legislate out if they would be given the chance.

Imagine adding a clause to the constitution that says there ought to be only ONE political party.
Raise your hand if you can't wait for Feb. 2013? (ooops that is if they don't legislate that out)