The Arrogance of the Prime Minister!

February 10, 2010
The Editor
The Belize Times
Queen Street
Belize City
Dear Mr. Editor,

I thought I had seen it all with respect to the arrogance of this Prime Minister. But today on the news, as the media reported on the Press Conference, it was evident that the arrogance of the Prime Minister has reached an all time high. The display of his arrogance only pales in light of the flaunting of his nepotistic practice during these last two years.

Imagine he went as far as to say he will not apologize for the payments done to Lois Young Barrow for work done on behalf of the government. I hope Belizeans are aware that these payments are above the million dollar amount and this is only for a short period.  More  is yet to come!

Who does the Prime Minister believe he is fooling when he tries to justify why Ms. Lois Young Barrow gets all the GOB cases? Because she did pro bono work during the past administration and she worked diligently to bring down the PUP government she thought was corrupt…is that a reason for her to get all the jobs from GOB?  Was the Order of Belize not thanks enough?  So Mr. Prime Minister, if that is so, then what your ex-wife did was not Pro Bono work…that was work done with an intention to charge in the future. In the financial world we would say that payments were present valued or booked for the future, perhaps Ms. Lois Young Barrow was trading in the futures market. What we know now is that she is collecting balloon payments for all the “Pro Bono” work she did for the ACB (which we now know stands for Association of Cronies of Barrow).  What a joke they all  played on the Belizean people!

Belizeans continue to hope that we will hear about this issue in the following weeks from the private sector organizations, the Unions, the NGO’s, the media, and all those individuals that usually know everything. Certainly they are aware that Ms. Lois Young Barrow….the saviour and the great philanthropist (according to her ex-husband) never participated in a tendering process to get all this work from government. Perhaps the Contractor General could give us some insight into the procedure to be followed for the provision of goods and services to any government department and if the work given to the ex-wife followed this procedure.

I am one of many Belizeans still waiting for the transparency, accountability and good governance promised by the UDP in their manifesto. Or should I say, maybe I just imagined these possibilities?

Sincerely,

Vonetta Williams

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