If Da No So

Stop Play…

Shame! How can Patrick and Gapi dance in the streets of Orange Walk when the reality is that there are so many of our young people unable to go to high school? According to Dr. Herbert Gayle, there are about 19,700 young people who are not able to attend a high school in Belize – that is 30 percent.

Patrick Faber offers as a solution to the problem opening up something at the old Venus Terminal.  It is now July, we are a month away from school opening and still no work is being done to get the former Venus Terminal ready.  Now Patrick is closing down Excelsior High School.  Can you believe it, the Minister of Education is closing down a high school on the south side of the City.  Why unu balli no stap play?  If Da No So…

Cardona’s Big Whap

Poor Marcel is getting played like a fiddle.  Only in Belize and only under the UDP can a man—no, an elected official– be forced to apologize to one of his own who is clearly going after him by taking away from him what he deserves.  After marching in the streets in Orange Walk with his supporters over the fact that Gapi supposedly whap his education subsidy, Patrick cut a deal with Marcel.  But check this, Marcel will play nice this Sunday hoping Patrick will honour his commitment and give him the subvention, and then once the party leaves People’s Stadium, Gapi will be back to his old tricks and together with Patrick will punish Cardona, who will be left with nothing.  In the end you know who will be left with nothing?  The children of those same people who were marching for Marcel.  If Da No So…

UDP Convention Wisdom

This week If Da No So will provide a bit of advice people who will be going to Orange Walk and for the people of Orange Walk.

1. Calling all UDP Convention goers.  Tek the $100 you are being offered to attend the convention, you will need it.

1. Port Loyola voters we need to alert you that the going rate for the convention is $100.  We hear that in Port they are only giving $25.  Make sure you check with your Area Rep before they give you  the $25 we hear they are trying to offer you and not your $100.  And because we know your Area Rep doesn’t hang out on your side of the City, check with Miss Bailey at the Secretariat – this is your money.

1. If you are going to convention and you are a part of the UDP rank and file, take extra money because your meal ticket includes one tamalito,(tamales without meat)  a half a sandwich and ideal water.  If you are a part of the inner circle, however, no worries, you will be invited to the special party at Honey Camp and there you will have your choice of cochinito pibil, rellano, bar-b-que ribs and all you can drink Mexican beer and free zone liquor.

1. If you roll into town and Orange Walkeños are not smiling with you, do not think they are unfriendly, the opposite is true.  It is just that Orange Walk is PUP country and many PUP’s have been victimized by your party and are not in a mood to be nice.

1. Don’t be alarmed if you see a lot of security, remember the Party Leader moves with a heavy security detail and for Sunday more than 20 specialized security personnel will be there to make sure none of you get close to the Prime Minster.  So keep your distance.

1. This would be a good time to go after Gapi for all the hold up on your piece of land. You will not see him again until election time, so all of you who have been waiting and waiting, now is your chance – he wants to impress and so he will be there smiling.  Of course watch out for security because if Barrow has 20 he will want to have at least 10.

Doug’s Swan Song

Minister Doug will be stepping down as Chairman of the UDP,   For some it will be a farewell that is bitter sweet, but for others like John Saldivar, it will be dancing like it is an Elton John concert.  After all, Doug cheated him out of the Chairmanship last time round and Doug was made super minister.  John will be happy to see Doug go, but we know that Doug would never give in to the likes of John Saldivar, so expect to see a dark horse emerge as Party Chairman and Doug to have one more laugh at John’s expense.  If Da No So …

Who is the Government?

Who represented the Government of Belize last Monday when the report from Dr. Gayle was released?  This report was sponsored by the Ministries of Education, National Security, Youth, Office of the Prime Minister and the Belize Social Security Board, among others.  Yet the front row was empty, no one from the Government was in attendance, not a minister, not a CEO, not a Head of Department.  In fact so absent was the UDP Administration and leadership that the only person Jim McFadzen could find to interview was Joe Bradley.  Po Joe was so caught off guard that he even took on the church/state partnership, something well above his IQ.  Say it ain’t so Joe.  If Da No So …

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