Way past mada-R…!

By: Mike Rudon Jr.

One of my colleagues on the Vibes morning show has to be reminded from time to time about the choice words he lets slip when passion overwhelms diplomacy and tact in the discussion of one political topic or the other. I wonder if he’s noticed, as I have, that there have been more slips of late. I say this in no condemnation of my colleague, far from it. In fact this has nothing to do with him per se. He can speak for himself in his own column. Rather I say it in reflection and realization that the levels of angst and anger and frustration on the talk show have increased big time. There’s just so much bulls@#t going on in our small country; so much wrongness; so much pain and suffering and victimization and strife and poverty and greed and corruption and nepotism and neglect and incompetence – hell, we’re all human.

Mayor Zenaida Moya has reshuffled city council portfolios, to become effective on January 1, 2010, if all goes as planned. I’m so pissed off right now I’m having trouble thinking straight. The Mayor has got to stop taking the people of the city for jackasses. We need to stop allowing the Mayor and the UDP to take us for jackasses. I know that we basically tend to be a passive people slow to come to a boil, but this is past the mark. The truth is, the announcement of this reshuffle is just an attempt at distraction just before Christmas. It means absolutely nothing in the scheme of things. Nothing will get better. The City Council won’t incredibly and immediately see a surge in revenues. There won’t be an increase in the provision of services. Nothing! Nada! Zilch! It’s just so much glimmer and dazzle…nothing more.

I mean, let’s just separate low class s@#t from really sophisticated bulls@#t. The problems at the Belize City Council all revolve around Mayor Zenaida Moya. That’s the long and short of it. Yeah, the rest of the councilors are a lazy, good for nothing bunch of incompetents who are content to collect a hefty stipend for doing nothing. And yeah, a few of them are on the shady side and I’d be willing to bet have put their fingers in the public till in some form or fashion. But Zenaida Moya is the big problem. Zenaida Moya is the reason that the City Council is broke – completely and utterly bankrupt. Zenaida Moya is the reason for the filth and garbage and mess which is Belize City. Zenaida Moya is the reason for the breakdown in the provision of even the most basic of services.

Zenaida Moya is currently facing criminal charges for allegedly sticking her fingers in the public cookie jar. Zenaida Moya has been accused of misappropriation of public funds by the Ministry of Local Government. Zenaida Moya has been officially labeled a thief by her own party, the UDP. And while all this has happened, let’s examine two different frames of the same Moya picture. In one frame, let’s zoom in on the ruin of City Hall and the cesspool of the city. And in the other frame, just take a look at the damned multi-million dollar mansion in front of the sea where the Mayor resides in the lap of luxury. See why I’m so pissed.

Maybe the reason Zenaida has been allowed to get away with all that crap is because her political boss is a complete moron and wimp sans balls (should I have said dangling appendages to be politically correct?). The PM’s answer to the mess in City Hall was not – hmmm, maybe we should clean things up and deal with Zenaida and her scurvy, worthless crew! Oh, no! Never that! The PM says that the answer to all the chaos of corruption and mismanagement and misappropriation is simple – let’s all us Belizeans dig deeper into our pockets and give Zenaida even more money to do with what she will. Can you imagine that? Forget about being minus a couple balls – this guy is minus a couple screws.

So with that said, where does Zenaida Moya end up in this reshuffle? You guessed it – Zenaida Moya is still in charge of the revenues and finances of the Council. I won’t even bother to get into the rest of it, because it don’t mean nothing! Zenaida Moya will still get to play with our dollars to her heart’s content. Zenaida Moya will still continue to live the high life at our expense.

Man, this nonsense has got to stop and it’s got to stop now. Somebody’s going to get hurt if this continues. I say this in absolutely no attempt at instigation. I say it because life is real, and I feel that Zenaida at least deserves some sort of warning – just in case she’s become so ensconced in her luxurious setting at the seafront mansion outside city limits that she’s lost all sense of things in the city. Hell, maybe the routine of air-conditioned office to air-conditioned vehicle to air-conditioned lounging room in front of the big-screen plasma television has blinded the Mayor to what’s happening on the big bad streets of the city. Maybe she’s gotten so caught up in her balls vs. no balls fight with the PM that she doesn’t have time for anything else like the city residents or infrastructure or picking up garbage or offering basic services. Whatever it is – the Mayor better get the sense and let go of our dollars and cents. This is way past Mada-R.

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