Sunday, June 6, 2010
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Belize Times The Truth Shall Make You Free
Opposition Blasts Barrow’s Cabinet Reshuffle
SUNDAY JUNE 6, 2010
Issue No. 4696
Rodwell Williams Clinging to Life
The Prime Minister's law partner and good friend Rodwell Williams, Senior Counsel, lies in the intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Florida after he was shot at close range on Monday night. The vicious attack occurred at around 8:00 on Monday night while Williams was leaving his office, Barrow and Williams, at #99 Albert Street and heading toward his parked vehicle just 50 yards away on Albert Street West. A security guard who was accompanying him was the first person
whom the two youths riding a bicycle approached. They searched the guard, apparently looking for a gun and then they produced one of their own and shot Williams. Residents in the area heard the gunshot and looked outside to see Williams lying on the ground near the parking lot and two youths running towards Saint John's Church. One woman said she saw a black car pass by the office, followed by someone on a bicycle following the shooting. Williams was rushed to the Belize Healthcare Partners Limited where a team of specialists from the city's three hospitals performed three surgeries in a 12 hour period on him. But the gunshot caused life-threatening injuries in 10 different locations in Williams' abdomen, including his lower intestine and a portion of the vena cava, a main artery that pumps blood to the heart. Doctors say he had literally bled to death, with blood pressure and oxygen levels at zero, but they managed to resuscitate him and kept him alive by feverishly supplying him with an enormous amount of blood units. During one of the (Continued on page 35)
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The Opposition People’s United Par ty has come out swinging against the reshuffle/ expansion of the UDP Cabinet presented to the nation by the acknowledged ‘smoke and mirrors’ master, Prime Minister Barrow, calling the exercise ‘no more than a feeble game of political musical chairs, which
regrettably will not enhance by one iota, the services rendered to the Belizean people.’ In a statement issued on Wednesday, the PUP laments that ‘after many months of speculation and uncertainty, and a virtual standstill in Ministerial performance given (Continued on page 35)
The Biggest Losers
The Prime Minister’s Cabinet expansion offered to Belizeans as a reshuffle was as bogus and insubstantial as the man who made the presentation. After more than two years of absolutely dismal failure and the worst administration in memory, the Prime Minister promised to shake up things and went so far as to admit that things have not worked and things have gone wrong with his crew. So Belizeans in concert said finally, the man admits failure and now maybe, just maybe things will
take a turn for the better. And then we get that bit of nonsense early this week. Not one single person in Mr. Barrow’s Cabinet was punished for the mistakes and failures that he claimed. If anything, they benefitted. Mr. Perdomo who ranked as one of the worst UDP Ministers in a really bad bunch is still a UDP Minister, paid the same big salary. The only difference now is that he can really dedicate himself fully to his extracurricular activities (Continued on page 35)
Belize’s Top Student
The week started out like any ordinar y week for young Siian Rancharan; he had to make it in time for classes, get through his chores at home, take care of the dog, listen to his iPod and it was all a part of the life for a young boy, until he found out that he was the top primary school student in Belize. Siian placed first out of the 6,661 primary school students who sat the exams and scored 386 out of a (Continued on page 35)
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