Hypocrite of the week

This week there could be no more consummate hypocrite than that cold fish Dean Oliver Barrow. I only wish on this occasion that the award, in addition to recognition in the paper, included a public flogging or some other sort of substantial humiliation. Dean Oliver, in addition to being a hateful, heartless and absolutely cold-blooded character, takes hypocrisy into another realm.

In a recent interview, he was asked about GOB’s take from oil revenues, which works out to an atrocious figure of just about 17.4 cents from every dollar. The first thing is that the Prime Minister in the interview wouldn’t even admit to the figure which was revealed by his Petroleum Department head. Barrow claimed he doesn’t know what the true figure is. What a liad sucker! How could the head of the nation and the Minister of Finance claim that he doesn’t know exactly how much we are getting from the oil? How stupid does he think we are?

Then Dean Oliver starts going on and on about how he can’t do anything to improve our take because there is a signed agreement with the company and of course he can’t touch that because it is sacred. Oh, and he also would never do anything to mess with the company to increase how much Belizeans get because he doesn’t want to send the wrong message to investors and affect investor confidence. The Prime Minister can’t be serious. What a load of bull.

Although you wouldn’t know it to hear him talk, this man going on and on with utmost sincerity about binding agreements and investor confidence is the very same man who got up one morning and took away a private company from the biggest investor in Belize, all in the blink of an eye. He didn’t give a damn then about agreements and investor confidence. By all appearance, all he cared about then was finding even more lucrative positions for his ex-wife and son while at the same time indulging a petty grievance against a British billionaire. Certainly that is all that’s come from the hijacking of BTL so far.

Dean Oliver Barrow is a joke. He says one thing and does another with such regularity that everybody is now starting to take notice. Remember his promising to bring down the cost of living ‘No Matta Wat’ just before the price of everything skyrocketed? Dean Oliver Barrow is not only this week’s hypocrite – he is a truly hateful man who not content in running the ship of state into the reef is apparently doing his best to tear it to pieces.

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