Hypocrite of the Week

This week there was some thought given to acknowledging Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega as the premiere hypocrite of the week. He certainly was in the running, after a news appearance in which he was proudly presiding over two palapa huts and a bathroom on Goff’s Caye, and was patting himself on the back for that miniscule achievement in two years. Vega is certainly better known for all the land he has taken away from poor Belizeans, simply out of political malice. And he is certainly well known for all the land which has been acquired by connected UDPs under his tenure – to say nothing of the hustling in the ministry.

But at the last minute the little runt minister from Collet beat out his northern colleague for the grand prize. See, Minister Faber was on the radio this week at the official inauguration of the ITVET facility at the Old Technical compound (coincidentally a project which was envisioned, formulated, negotiated and brought to fruition under the PUP). According to Faber, he and the rogue UDP bunch we call government will never stop a project just because it was brought to life under the PUP. According to Patsy, once it is a good thing, he and the UDP don’t care if a project was started under the PUP – they will continue on the same path. What a crock. Patrick should have been struck down by a righteous bolt of lightning.

This is the very same Patrick Faber who stood up in the House of Representatives and proudly boasted that he and his UDP have fired single mothers and the elderly for no other reason but that they were supporters of the PUP. This is the very same Patrick Faber who without a thought fired a school warden who had consistently exhibited exemplary performance, simply because she was a supporter of the People’s United Party. The very same Patrick Faber shamed that dedicated school warden when she went to find out why she was fired, since she was the breadwinner of her home with four children going to college. The very same Patrick Faber refused to budge despite the pleas of the mother; despite the fight the mother and her husband put up to protect her job; a fight which eventually led to the death of Charles Good.

In fact, Patrick Faber was so fixated in his arrogant ways and hatred for anything or anybody associated with the PUP that the widow and mother of four had to take her fight to the Court.

And it is that boy who has the balls to stand in front of the nation and give a commitment that he and the UDP commit to continuing PUP projects and not to discontinue them. Patrick Faber is a joke with dreams of becoming Prime Minister. But no matter what his dreams and aspirations, no matter what sweet nothings flow from his double-speaking tongue, Patrick Faber will never be the Prime Minister of Belize, and this award of Hypocrite of the Week is likely the most prestigious accolade he will be given.

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