Belize Times December 26, 2010

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Belize Times

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A ‘Barrow’ Christmas SUNDAY DECEMBER 26, 2010

Issue No. 4725

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Snake no deh eat like Turkey

The old saying in Belize that “Christmas and funerals bring their own money” has been made into a lie by this UDP administration. In fact, the only truth in it under this government is that we have seen a lot of death and handpicked UDPs having Christmas all year with the gift of watching Boots, Barrow and Vega pea-cocking with millions of our dollars.

But when our reporters took to Albert Street, Fourth Avenue and Queen Victoria Avenue interviewing the window shoppers on Thursday, they were saddened by the sense of uncertainty and frustration in the voices of the pedestrians. These streets were not as busy as they normally are around this time, and the actual shopping was far from what

Last month we highlighted the crisis the sugar cane industry was facing and the fact that the Prime Minister was completely oblivious to the fact that BSI was in a financial predicament. This happened despite the fact that the People’s United Party and the Leader of the Opposition had for months been predicting the breaking point and imploring the Prime Minister to pay attention, in

this newspaper and in the House of Representatives. On the heels of what seems to be a very temporary respite for the sugar industry, another crisis has reared its ugly head and once again government intervention to date has been nonexistent. The Citrus Industry, like the Sugar Industry, is a private sector enterprise but because of (Continued on pg. 3)

ANOTHER DAY… ANOTHER INDUSTRY IN CRISIS!

the vendors and surely the children are expecting. One woman whose interview we cannot reproduce in its entirety because of the message she wanted to send to “dis set yah”( the UDP Government) is to “…tell them fi hurry up and left. Dey too liad and mean. People wah neva spend dey money wid dis set cause dey no gat none, Mista. We di have mawga season

fi three years now”. Belizeans have a long tradition of reflecting their holiday cheer with elaborate strings of Christmas lights. This is as important to us as the fresh smell of varnish and black cake spilling out into our verandahs. But when we drove around the city, the gloomy and dark reality was that only an average (Continued on pg. 3)

Season's Greetings

Party Leader John Briceño and Deputy Party Leader Carolyn Trench-Sandiford meet with Church Leaders to discuss national affairs.


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