Hypocrite of the Week

This week’s hypocrite par excellence is none other than Minister Pig, the fat fellow from Belmopan who is utterly lacking in mental or physical agility but is bulging at the seams with duplicity and backstabbing tendencies. John Saldivar has caught our attention in a most unfavourable light even as the UDP’s political rag last week placed him on the front page in all his flabby glory, hailed for halting a land grab. What the article didn’t mention is that Saldivar was the one who set the play in motion before he ran behind the skirts of the Minister of Lands and tried to imitate Pompous Pilate.

It is in fact Minister Pig who dispatched some of the youth from Belmopan to mile 41 to occupy land which was privately owned. It was Minister Pig who pointed out that the owner was either dead or in jail so it wouldn’t be a problem. What Minister Pig couldn’t foresee is that the mini-movement to mile 41 would turn into a full-fledged exodus, as hundreds upon hundreds of Belizeans have jumped on the ‘opportunity’ to claim a piece of the jewel for their own.

Now that it has turned into a media circus, Minister Pig wants to place himself in the position of upholder of law and order. He has gotten the Cabinet to issue a stop order on all development on the land, claiming that GOB will do things the right way – acquiring the land and then parceling it out as they see fit. Except that the people don’t want to hear that. They don’t trust Minister Pig, and some of them are saying that the fat one is involved in a deal to sell off the land to wealthy interests including the oil company.

Minister Pig isn’t fooling anybody. He is caught between a rock and a hard place in Belmopan and will no doubt get the shaft for his duplicity. Because of the hypocrisy of Minister Pig, the land issue at mile 41 has turned into a national crisis. No matter what pedestal he hops on, Belizeans know the truth – whatever happens now will be on the head of this issue’s premiere hypocrite, Minister Pig.

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