The Prime Minister Insults Villagers!

March 16, 2010

The Editor

The Belize Times

Queen Street

Belize City

Dear Editor,

I write to express my great disappointment with the indecorous behaviour of the Prime Minister and his colleagues at the House Meeting held on Monday last. I had the displeasure of being at home sick with the flu, confined to my bed and happened to be listening to a radio station that was airing the meeting.

At first I was very interested when I found out through the radio announcer that the Prime Minister would be presenting the Budget 2010/2011. I wanted to know what was the strategy of the government to improve the standard of living of our people and what they would be doing to combat poverty that has become pervasive in our communities, how much the government would be investing in the health and education and what was the plan to address the already disastrous crime situation facing the country. What a shock it was when I heard the disorderly and unruly mob!

What a disgrace and an insult it was to hear the words and expressions used by the maximum leader of this nation in what should be an honourable house  and where  we should be discussing the business  of the people. How unbefitting of someone who is supposed to be a paragon to our children. All this was already bad and never thought it could get worst until I heard him refer to the Leader of the Opposition as a village idiot and a naïve. Then I really took offence!

What did the Prime Minister mean? Did he mean that us villagers are all idiots? Does he have anything against villagers?  What is it with this nincompoop? Is it that only urban residents who have had all the opportunities to educate themselves are intelligent and qualified? While some villagers are numskulls, like his deputy who was sitting beside him with his imbecilic grin and not realizing he was being insulted, I must remind the once honourable gentleman that in the villages we have highly competent, qualified and talented people. Even with the obvious disadvantages we have, as villagers we have made significant contribution to this nation and have built this nation. It is because of villagers that you eat Prime Minister; it is because of villagers that you have foreign exchange that allows you and your family to buy all your luxurious commodities; it is because of villagers that the nation has developed and it is because of villagers that you are where you are today.

Let me enlighten the Prime Minister, as I guess he certainly would not know that in the early 1990’s the Corozal Junior College graduated 4 young men who were awarded the most prestigious “Open Scholarship” for four years consecutively. These young men all came from villages of the Corozal District and today are highly competent professionals engaged in shaping the development of this country. Like these young men we have hundreds of villagers who are today professionals and leaders in their own right. In rural Belize we also have intellect and competency even though we do not get an equitable share of the country’s wealth, the very same wealth we have created!

I am now asking all villagers to prepare because the season for the Prime Minister to start visiting us all the ignoramus villagers, is right before us. We will soon be honoured with the visit of the Prime Minister and his team of morons coming to beg us to vote for their team.  This is at the heels of the Minister of Education calling our teachers ignorant and the Prime Minister now referring to us as village idiots.

Fellow village idiots, please let us give the Prime Minister the welcome that an arrogant, despotic, insensitive and megalomaniac person deserves. Prime Minister we are patiently waiting!

Sincerely,

Elisa Guttierez

Proud Villager

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