By: Mike Rudon Jr.
Dean Oliver claims that he doesn't have any damned money to waste on a Commission of Inquiry into the immigration scandal/smuggling ring. Doesn't matter that he probably spends much more travelling all over the place so Kim can get in some shopping! Doesn't matter that his royal ass is pampered in a fancy ride which cost taxpayers a quarter of a million dollars! Doesn't matter that he routinely pays his ex-wife Lois hundreds of thousands of dollars with a single voucher! Nope…none of that matter when it comes right down to it. Dean Oliver doesn't want a Commission of Inquiry because he doesn't want the truth. He doesn't want the full scope of this smuggling thing to see the light of day. So he smiles sincerely and states that he loves Carlos Perdomo to bits and that bloody Carlos so saintly and sweet that he would never do anything wrong. End of story!
Dean Oliver has done the same thing for his friend from Port. In fact, he won't even entertain any questions about that candidate for sainthood. I remember right before elections when Boots used to come to the House of Representatives in an old broken down van. More often than not we used to have to give him a jump to get it started after the House meeting. As early as a couple months after elections, though, Boots was living the life of the wealthy and privileged, making hundred thousand dollar cash deposits into his account. I hear that by last count he has built six large cement houses in the city and lives in another large house which he rents on St. Thomas Street. He and those very close to him are living the high life. Hell, everybody has heard about the warehouse with materials stored…everybody knows that there's something not so kosher with the Housing for the Poor operation (lucrative for Boots but not kosher)…everybody has heard about the kickbacks on the purchase of construction materials. But Dean Oliver says that Boots is the bomb and would never be involved in anything shady. End of story!
I remember when Dean Oliver destroyed the life and career of a young Police Officer, Detective Constable Mangar. It was around Easter and based on the word of a criminal, our Prime Minister stood before the nation and named the young Detective Constable as a criminal mastermind, the ringleader of a vast network which had orchestrated countless brazen robberies including a heist in Spanish Lookout which resulted in the murder of a guard and a bounty of more than $300,000. The Police (accompanied for some unspecified reason by Dean Oliver's driver and UDP financier Lee Mark Chang) ransacked the home of this young police officer in front of his common-law wife and daughter. They arrested him and threw him in jail. In the end it was all bogus, but the damage had been done to the young officer and his family who are still struggling to make a living and return their lives to some semblance of normal.
And then I listened to Dean Oliver in the most recent debacle involving the daughter of one of his senior ministers, who has been accused of mishandling taxpayer funds at the Belize High Commission in London. The accusations have been made by no less than Belize's High Commissioner to the UK Kamela Palma (who has since been relieved of her post). According to Ms. Palma she sent three reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this alleged wrongdoing but her reports were ignored and dismissed. But Dean Oliver stated quite clearly – 'I certainly am not going to give them (the accusations) any currency…' It doesn't matter that one of our highest ranking and respected diplomats made the allegations and felt they were serious enough to put them in writing three times. It doesn't matter that it is our funds which was allegedly mishandled and that amounts to no less than a criminal betrayal of the public trust. None of that matters. Because the girl against whom the charges were made is the daughter of a UDP Minister, Dean Oliver won't give them any currency.
See, the currency these people use is different from the currency used by us common folk. Dean Oliver didn't give a damn when he shredded the reputation and destroyed the life of a young police officer on the word of a criminal who was offered a deal. We is po' common folk, not worthy of certain considerations! When it comes to Tanya Hulse, the daughter of the UDP minister, ain't nothin' going to come of this except that now that the space of UK High Commissioner is vacant she may be bumped upstairs. That's how it works in this UDP.
The Belize Times broke the story of Tanya Hulse and allegations of mishandling of public funds more than 6 months ago. This is nothing new…but it has no currency, says our beloved Dean Oliver. In this UDP, it doesn't matter what you do…it's all about who are and who you know!
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Source: The Belize Times
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