Today is the start of my 2012 input into this new charge that ends in the making of Belizean history. March 7, 2012 will be nothing short of the beginning of a new chapter for our Belize. If you love Belize you will care for this day and make sure to participate. You will decide if the title of this blog published is true or simply a simple attempt by a government that has gone afoul of ideas.
IMHO the yellow dude that has been launched again unto the Belizean people to try to convince us to vote for the government and the UDP is repulsive both in message and in his being passé.
My logic tells me if the PUP has 'no come back fih come back' then there is no need for the Christmas giveaways, the sudden giving away of citizenship and voting eligibility, the sudden paving of some streets, the barring of Shakron, the ads paid for with our tax dollars, the parades, t-shirts etc. etc. All these seem like desperate moves from a political contender that is mind-boggled at an impending loss at the election polls.
If you go back to previous posts you will see that I have went on record to state categorically that governing from a position of arrogance and being annoyed with life was/is not good for Belize. I really thought that Mr. Barrow would become a Prime Minister once we had the name. He though never did gain the soothing airs of one that has good in his heart. Maybe he said a little too many times that he will "campaign like the devil."
The Belizean body politic now is busy preparing the only report card that matters...our vote. The current lame duck administration might be at odds not to be the latest of outgoing ruling parties that has NO COMEBACK FIH COME BACK....Not in 2012.
Hey Belize...no super majority please... we are not ready for that. Just a majority of GOOD Belizeans is needed....
In my humble opinion...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Mission Accomplished: By the Barrow Administration...or is it?
Hey... I am still imagining the possibilities. They may be never-ending.
To be fair, no government can fulfill all promises that are set-out in their manifesto. No government of humans had and will be able to do that.
What is troubling nevertheless is the main promise of being the antithesis of the musa-administration. The promise of being transparent as the air. The promise and still over-used mantra of being for the people--the poor especially--keeps re-echoing in the air.
The character of the UDP(08-12) was set out from day-one after the election when PM Barrow said, "But they are just celebrating." He was referring to the broken glass, destroyed property, and riot styled celebrating of the UDP aficionados.
I deliberately want to be concise with the post so let me go directly to the end of the administration or else I will have to mention a certain bridge, a certain undone road, a contrabanding maniac, hurricane "victims", fired opposition aficionados, BTL(robbed), BEL(hijacked), untinted vehicles, BTL phone giveaways, land, SSB fathom write-offs...ooops there I go. Sorry I really meant to go to the end.
The last promise that all Belizeans will be imagining forever will be that of completing their term. On gaining office, Belizean governments promise to lead us and do good for 5 years not four and not three.
Does that mean failure? For me yes...The body politic will cast judgement on March 7, 2012.
To be fair, no government can fulfill all promises that are set-out in their manifesto. No government of humans had and will be able to do that.
What is troubling nevertheless is the main promise of being the antithesis of the musa-administration. The promise of being transparent as the air. The promise and still over-used mantra of being for the people--the poor especially--keeps re-echoing in the air.
The character of the UDP(08-12) was set out from day-one after the election when PM Barrow said, "But they are just celebrating." He was referring to the broken glass, destroyed property, and riot styled celebrating of the UDP aficionados.
I deliberately want to be concise with the post so let me go directly to the end of the administration or else I will have to mention a certain bridge, a certain undone road, a contrabanding maniac, hurricane "victims", fired opposition aficionados, BTL(robbed), BEL(hijacked), untinted vehicles, BTL phone giveaways, land, SSB fathom write-offs...ooops there I go. Sorry I really meant to go to the end.
The last promise that all Belizeans will be imagining forever will be that of completing their term. On gaining office, Belizean governments promise to lead us and do good for 5 years not four and not three.
Does that mean failure? For me yes...The body politic will cast judgement on March 7, 2012.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Fonseca or Barrow...PUP or UDP etc
In a little more than a month our precious jewel will be lead by a new slate of people. These will come from our very own and will thus be a microcosm of our society. Questionable polls have poised the elections as being too close to call. The history of 1998 and 2008 is that there was no need for a poll...except for the main one giving credibility to the suspicion that the incumbent government would be voted out.
Nevertheless, for those that are floating out there and that are indecisive the decision is there to be made now...or in 30 plus days.
Will Dean Barrow get your support or Francis Fonseca?
I can tell you a few things that I would like to know.
I would like to see the list of people that do not have to pay back money to Social Security. It may have been fluttered at the National Assembly but I would like it to be newspapered. If it is SO SO much of goodness and good news for the nation then let us see it....please.
I would like to know WHO owns Health Care Partners. This little institution helped the last government to be voted in. Yet, the owners are illusive. The same can be said for Heritage bank...can hardly remember the last name...Alliance.
I believe that I am not asking for much. PM Barrow has lead on that he is a man that deals with transparency so it would be an easy deal to offer.
"Bombastic use of terminological inexactitudes"....this is a quote once used by Barrow about Musa and it resounds in my mind. In my last blog post I spoke about Dean Barrow misleading the people and offering lies so many times. The difference is that he never did say that he lied. Also, no journalist had the intestinal fortitude to ask him like Musa was asked once in Dangriga.(do you lie?..easy)
Let's get this straight.... Administrations canNOT tell us EVERYTHING. It would not be in the interest of us all. Even if they want to tell us everything it is impossible.
With that set out.... It does not give any administration the right to mislead, take, and become corrupt. The PUP dabbled into that realm and paid dearly for it at the polls. The UDP has also soiled themselves with becoming corrupt albeit in a short 4 years.
Let us MOVE forward....
Let us NOT vote in the PUP because of what the UDP did. Let us stop the cycle now.
Let us listen intelligently to what is being said. Let us not take any money for a promise of a vote(take 'help' and done). Then decide on who you want to vote for because of the content of their character. Belize needs that. Any landslide decision means that a party along with lousy candidates would have been voted in.
Sorry Barrow....you are the incumbent and that does put the onus on you to promise beyond what you already have had the chance to DO and did NOT do. A Barrow miscalculation is that the usual PUP voters that swung to the UDP to castigate the PUP in 2008 are not happy with being ignored. Barrow helped himself and his UDP people well but what about all those that helped elect him...what about other Belizeans.
Fonseca, you need to distance yourself deliberately from the doings of Said and Ralph. You do have the upper hand in that the people of Freetown voted you in as their representative at the last elections when the PUP was being swept out. The new PUP plan needs to be devoid of unbelievable promises but yet FULL OF HOPE.
In the end of it all, do we trust Barrow with another "five" years and will all the PUP voters that voted UDP in the last elections vote PUP once again? Let the floating end!
Nevertheless, for those that are floating out there and that are indecisive the decision is there to be made now...or in 30 plus days.
Will Dean Barrow get your support or Francis Fonseca?
I can tell you a few things that I would like to know.
I would like to see the list of people that do not have to pay back money to Social Security. It may have been fluttered at the National Assembly but I would like it to be newspapered. If it is SO SO much of goodness and good news for the nation then let us see it....please.
I would like to know WHO owns Health Care Partners. This little institution helped the last government to be voted in. Yet, the owners are illusive. The same can be said for Heritage bank...can hardly remember the last name...Alliance.
I believe that I am not asking for much. PM Barrow has lead on that he is a man that deals with transparency so it would be an easy deal to offer.
"Bombastic use of terminological inexactitudes"....this is a quote once used by Barrow about Musa and it resounds in my mind. In my last blog post I spoke about Dean Barrow misleading the people and offering lies so many times. The difference is that he never did say that he lied. Also, no journalist had the intestinal fortitude to ask him like Musa was asked once in Dangriga.(do you lie?..easy)
Let's get this straight.... Administrations canNOT tell us EVERYTHING. It would not be in the interest of us all. Even if they want to tell us everything it is impossible.
With that set out.... It does not give any administration the right to mislead, take, and become corrupt. The PUP dabbled into that realm and paid dearly for it at the polls. The UDP has also soiled themselves with becoming corrupt albeit in a short 4 years.
Let us MOVE forward....
Let us NOT vote in the PUP because of what the UDP did. Let us stop the cycle now.
Let us listen intelligently to what is being said. Let us not take any money for a promise of a vote(take 'help' and done). Then decide on who you want to vote for because of the content of their character. Belize needs that. Any landslide decision means that a party along with lousy candidates would have been voted in.
Sorry Barrow....you are the incumbent and that does put the onus on you to promise beyond what you already have had the chance to DO and did NOT do. A Barrow miscalculation is that the usual PUP voters that swung to the UDP to castigate the PUP in 2008 are not happy with being ignored. Barrow helped himself and his UDP people well but what about all those that helped elect him...what about other Belizeans.
Fonseca, you need to distance yourself deliberately from the doings of Said and Ralph. You do have the upper hand in that the people of Freetown voted you in as their representative at the last elections when the PUP was being swept out. The new PUP plan needs to be devoid of unbelievable promises but yet FULL OF HOPE.
In the end of it all, do we trust Barrow with another "five" years and will all the PUP voters that voted UDP in the last elections vote PUP once again? Let the floating end!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
OH MY!!! Electioneering....
PUP or UDP...UDP or PUP...oh then there is the VIP!!!!!!!!
Four years ago in the midst of pre-election rhetoric then candidate now Prime Minister of Belize quoted to the effect.....the people of Belize have no choice other than vote for the UDP and that obviously they will not vote for the PUP. After two terms the PUP, vis-a-vis it's leaders, had shot themselves on the foot...cut off their own noses to spite their faces...etc. In February of 2008 the people of Belize castigated the PUP where it hurts in the most decisive way...the General election polls. I have gone on record to state how that irks my soul.
This style of results brandishes our the electorates collective ire versus a party and not the individuals running. Ah...so so sad. It also exposes the very weakness of democracy. The majority is not always right. Nevertheless we all have the greatest of human rights--that of the right to be wrong.
What is probably not pardonable is the wanton abuse of our electorate by politicians who DO know better.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Insults the value of a voter's right to decide using their own free will...Not to mention its being illegal.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Shows that the politician is corrupt even before he has been elected. This throws corrupts absolutely out the window. ;)
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Tempts the voter to be dishonest also...and many accede into this dishonesty.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: The dishonesty stretches into "I will take their money and STILL vote them out. Yes that is dishonest...since you to lie to a fellow human.
Today there is another display of unfair play with the registration list that is being padded with newly nationalized Belizeans. That these people went through the correct process to become Belizeans is one main issue. In my opinion, if someone wants to become a Belizean that is something that makes me proud. Wow....
Another SAD issue is that this patriotic act of nationalization is then desecrated by holding it to ransom.
'Since I helped you to become a Belizean you should then vote for me.' DAMN.....the nerve. No one has that power...no one. People become a Belizean because of their qualifying via due process after their collective will and fate brought them to that decision.
'This is nothing new, the PUP did it before'........STUPID remark. Whilst telling us to Imagine the Possibilities the UDP stood on a rostrum of 'we will not be like the PUP.' Hey.....UDPers...the PUP lost big time after they, according to you, 'did the same thing.' Just maybe it was a part of their undoing. Why would you want to repeat strategy that was folly? Again this shows me the lack of intellect and desire to do the right thing.
Lastly...Said Musa was touted as being a liad person...that untruths were his order of the day. Can we say that Dean Barrow has been any different? At least Said said that 'I have to lie sometimes'...and that is true of us all.
Step forth if you have never lied. Go ahead. I know ONE person who would like to step forward. Do you need hints?
Four years ago in the midst of pre-election rhetoric then candidate now Prime Minister of Belize quoted to the effect.....the people of Belize have no choice other than vote for the UDP and that obviously they will not vote for the PUP. After two terms the PUP, vis-a-vis it's leaders, had shot themselves on the foot...cut off their own noses to spite their faces...etc. In February of 2008 the people of Belize castigated the PUP where it hurts in the most decisive way...the General election polls. I have gone on record to state how that irks my soul.
This style of results brandishes our the electorates collective ire versus a party and not the individuals running. Ah...so so sad. It also exposes the very weakness of democracy. The majority is not always right. Nevertheless we all have the greatest of human rights--that of the right to be wrong.
What is probably not pardonable is the wanton abuse of our electorate by politicians who DO know better.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Insults the value of a voter's right to decide using their own free will...Not to mention its being illegal.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Shows that the politician is corrupt even before he has been elected. This throws corrupts absolutely out the window. ;)
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: Tempts the voter to be dishonest also...and many accede into this dishonesty.
The giving of a little 'blue-buay' for a vote: The dishonesty stretches into "I will take their money and STILL vote them out. Yes that is dishonest...since you to lie to a fellow human.
Today there is another display of unfair play with the registration list that is being padded with newly nationalized Belizeans. That these people went through the correct process to become Belizeans is one main issue. In my opinion, if someone wants to become a Belizean that is something that makes me proud. Wow....
Another SAD issue is that this patriotic act of nationalization is then desecrated by holding it to ransom.
'Since I helped you to become a Belizean you should then vote for me.' DAMN.....the nerve. No one has that power...no one. People become a Belizean because of their qualifying via due process after their collective will and fate brought them to that decision.
'This is nothing new, the PUP did it before'........STUPID remark. Whilst telling us to Imagine the Possibilities the UDP stood on a rostrum of 'we will not be like the PUP.' Hey.....UDPers...the PUP lost big time after they, according to you, 'did the same thing.' Just maybe it was a part of their undoing. Why would you want to repeat strategy that was folly? Again this shows me the lack of intellect and desire to do the right thing.
Lastly...Said Musa was touted as being a liad person...that untruths were his order of the day. Can we say that Dean Barrow has been any different? At least Said said that 'I have to lie sometimes'...and that is true of us all.
Step forth if you have never lied. Go ahead. I know ONE person who would like to step forward. Do you need hints?
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