UDP Politics as Usual

The Stench of Corruption…

Back in the days when Dean Barrow wanted our votes to make him king, he rode the anti-corruption horse for all it was worth. With purity and purpose ringing shining in every word, Barrow declared that if there was even a whiff of corruption in his administration, he would stomp it out. There was even word of a two sided machete with which he would chop off this corruption at the roots. Yeah right. Those very same words have come back to bite Barrow right in the royal posterior. The recently leaked City Council Audit report is jam-packed with everything from mismanagement to abuse of office to petty hustling to plain outright ‘tiefing’ of the people’s money. In just one instance, Zenaida Moya’s sister-in-law received $139,000 of our money but the audit shows that she never did the work which was claimed. I mean that’s outright in your face corruption. And that’s just one case. The date on the audit report is September 22, 2009. And of course, the first person to whom the completed report would have been sent is our very own Dean Oliver. So that means that the report has been on his desk for the past four months. For four months, Dean Oliver has had all the evidence of corruption right under his nose. He hasn’t had one word to say about it. Not one word. The public has been kept absolutely in the dark. What is contained in that report is much more than a whiff! It is in fact enough of a stench to put Dean Barrow’s sensory glands permanently out of commission due to corruption overload. So what happened to the gladiator for righteousness, the poster boy for anti-corruption? As one of my colleagues keeps pointing out – the Prime Minister is bogus. It doesn’t get any clearer than that. Imagine. He has the evidence but has kept silent. Our Prime Minister is shameful.

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FIU joke…

Old UDP political wannabe and now director of the Financial Intelligence Unit Marilyn Williams was on television the other night. She reminded me of Dean Barrow with her obvious ‘sincerity and strength of conviction.’ But just like her boss Barrow, Williams is completely bogus. Both of them need to be reminded that sound bytes and carefully rehearsed pauses and gestures and speech do not add up to strength of character and integrity. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not sweating fever for the ‘white man,’ as some will obviously claim. I just think the entire handling of that particular money laundering case was completely bogus. When Williams started spouting off about investigatory and ‘prosecutory’ (which incidentally is not a word) functions of the FIU that was bad enough. When she turned the entire thing into a crusade against the ‘white man’ who had the audacity to come to our shores and invade our integrity with his criminal ways that was horrible. Her spiel about intolerance for wrongdoers and those who would challenge the justice system was out of this world. The FIU basically took this man for all he was worth – jacked all his money and his three-quarter million dollar boat too. They did it by threatening to jail his wife and have social services take away his two year old daughter. Using that threat they forced him to plead guilty to money laundering. I don’t know how you see it but to me that’s plain wrong – extortion of the highest order. So really it doesn’t matter what Marilyn Williams had to say. The FIU was just chancey. And hell, if Marilyn Williams is such a crusader for justice and is so gung ho about rooting out the criminals, she doesn’t really have to pick on a man from foreign. She has a whole bunch of criminals right in her very UDP. Pick a Minister….any Minister.

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For your own good…

I think people are fast running out of nice and even not so nice requests for the Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo to resign. When the patience of the people runs out, things will get nasty very fast. It’s not only about the crime rate which has gone through the roof. It’s not only about the Minister’s bad habit/addiction which renders him incapable of coherent thought, much less action. It’s not even only about the top brass which have been compromised and manipulated by their political masters. It’s all that and so much more. Suddenly now, under the UDP, the Police seems completely corrupt. It’s as simple as that. Take one case in point – the murder of young Chris Galvez. There was Police involvement in that. The person who is the most likely suspect was allowed to leave the country just hours after the murder. Even now, Carlos Perdomo seems reluctant to divulge the finding of the investigation which has been on his desk for the past week. What is he hiding and who is he protecting? And while the Police investigation seemed deliberately bogged down, the family launched their own investigation and came up with real answers very quickly – something the Police could not or would not do. Now an eyewitness has come forward and is calling names. And still the Police are doing nothing. Carlos Perdomo and the UDP have destroyed the credibility of the Police Department. Carlos Perdomo and the UDP have destroyed all confidence in the Police Department. The only ones in this cycle who have benefitted from Carlos Perdomo and the UDP are the criminals.

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Low down dirty shame…

In 2009 Minister of Natural Resources Gaspar Vega approved the payment of $150,000 of our money to his buddy and UDP financier Landy Burns. The payment was made in compensation for a piece of land which had been acquired from Burns a couple years back. It is the piece of land in front of his store on which the Orange Walk City Council erected a bus stop. The size of the property is probably about 10 feet by 20 feet, if that. And for that, Landy Burns received $150,000 of our money. Burns didn’t try to get any compensation until his friend Gapi was in the position to facilitate the big money deal. When he was asked about allegations of corruption within the Ministry of Natural Resources aimed at Gapi Vega, Prime Minister Dean Oliver said that he refused to believe that his DPM was corrupt, and would never believe it unless he was presented with the evidence. Well there it is, Mr. Barrow – $150,000 to Landy Burns for a miniscule piece of land for a bus stop. Do you believe us now when we say that Gapi is corrupt?

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Flour monopoly…

Whenever there is any talk about unjust enrichment in the UDP, UDP Minister Rene ‘pig thief’ Montero always comes to mind. In just the first two years of the UDP Montero has gone from a man of modest means to a man with very significant wealth. There’s been much talk about kickbacks from contracts awarded to select UDP cronies. There’s also been much talk about mucho dinero arising from the granting of select permits for the importation of goods. The latest talk is that Montero’s daughter has now set up a company in Cayo for the distribution of flour. It appears that retailers are not allowed to purchase their flour like before. All retailers in Cayo are now forced to buy from Montero’s daughter at increased prices, we are told. Meanwhile Montero and his family are laughing all the way to the bank. If FIU head Marilyn Williams is serious about stamping out corruption, maybe she should take a look at Minister Montero and investigate some of his newfound wealth.

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