Hypocrite of the Week

In this week’s issue, our panel decided to divert just a bit from the regular old hodgepodge, run of the mill, ordinary, everyday UDP hypocrite – Lord knows there are many of them! This week our attention was caught by the new-fangled, brand spanking new hypocrisy of a man who hides behind the zinc-fence. Many people have expressed theories as to why ‘zinc fence.’ Well, our panel has come up with a new theory which rings true. See, zinc isn’t especially firm and durable. It’s easily bent and twisted and shaped and molded. Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde is our hypocrite of the week because, just like a zinc fence, he has been twisted and bent and warped – all because of the almighty advertising dollar.

For some time now Belizeans have been wondering why this ‘white knight’ from the south-side has been strangely silent when it comes to certain issues facing us today. I mean, this is tradition the man who would ‘bun fyah’ on the oppressors and fight for the rights of the oppressed and so on and so forth. But the man of the people seems strangely silent lately.

The BTL issue is the big thing right now. From the beginning things went south when the first thing the Prime Minister did after hijacking BTL was to appoint his ex-wife and son (both already rich) to lucrative positions on the Board of BTL. That certainly raised some eyebrows. But not Mose’s eyebrows apparently, because that talk-show host was relatively mute. Now months after, when no new investor has emerged to scoop up BTL; when the path of the company is highly uncertain; when profits have fallen; when BTL employees are de-moralized and when poor roots Belizeans are still waiting for the benefits from the ‘giving BTL back to Belizeans’ campaign – Mose remains quiet.

And to cap it all off there was Barrow’s appearance on the Krem WUB show – talk about a Partridge Street Ernesto Vasquez. Mose could not have powdered the Prime Minister more if the bald one had been upended in a concrete vat full of Gold Bond Talcum Powder. Our country is going through the absolute worst of times – recession, depression, corruption, famine, unemployment, a bankrupt city council, infighting, industries in crisis, tourism going south – and no light at the end of the tunnel. And the Prime Minister was given a pass by Mose – imagine that. No hard questions!

Did we forget to mention that credible reports indicate that Krem is receiving $75,000 a month from BTL? Or did we forget to mention that Krem allegedly was gifted with the $400,000 advertising plum from SSB? For just a fistful of dollars, Barrow has bought himself an invisibility cloak, at least when he’s behind the zinc fence. For a fistful of dollars, Mose has earned himself the title of hypocrite of the week.