26 OCT
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THE BELIZE TIMES
2014
Do The Right Thing! By Gilroy Usher, Sr. “I didn’t tell you to go and mek so much pickney”, “I am not your pickney pa”, “I can’t mine yu”, “I am not yu man”, “Money nu the grow pan me”,“A nu de se nobody till wa mont fra now”, and “A done gi yu $50.00 fi election. A nu gat notun mo fi gi yu.” are only a few of the many insults a lot of our Port Loyola residents have to endure often in public, when they seek assistance from many UDP Area Representatives especially one who is notorious for building large yellow concrete houses all over Belize City. After neglecting the most basic needs of their people for five long years, and seeking reelection, those same politicians do a few minor things in their area one to two months before an election and ask the same people to vote for them again with the promise that next time things will be better. “A wan gat you back dis time if u elect me again”, they tell the people. “This time you will be able to see me anytime, I will make sure you get the land, the house, the scholarship, the full time job, a “nice” money free every week, or whatever you need, and on election day I will give you $100.00 after I win my seat”.That’s the sale pitch of many of the current UDP politicians seeking reelection after turning their backs on the people in Port Loyola and other areas of the country shortly after they were victorious at the polls. Unfortunately for a few dollars on election day, a lot of people seem to suffer amnesia, forget the years of neglect and
NOTICE
Boots Martinez insults by the governing Area Representatives, and reelect those same uncaring politicians to office. Those people forget that just as how a hawk will never stop catching chickens, such politicians have become set in their ways and will never stop the massive neglect of their divisions. We must all remember that most of the money many of the ruling politicians use to entice voters on election day is not their personal cash by any stretch of the imagination, but taxpayers “dough” that are channeled to them through Christmas cheer and other giveaways orchestrated by the administration. Most of the ruling politicians will not spend even a copper of their own personal money to do anything for the residents of their constituency. They are just simply mean with the people who elected them to office. Municipal elections will be held in early March next year, and general elections will be held either at the same time or by sometime in 2017 the latest. Whenever such polls are held, the people should take the money from the ruling politicians who have neglected their divisions and vote them out of office. To avoid suffering three or five more years of insults and neglect from ruling politicians who have a well-known record of totally neglecting the people, we must all do the right thing at the polls next time- take their money and vote them out of office for betterment for ourselves, our families, and our communities. *** Send comments to Facebook at gilroyushersr
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