Charles and Hirian steadfast with their protest
They have been silent for a few weeks, but everyone traversing the downtown circuit will have known that the husband and wife team of Charles and Hirian Good have been keeping their daily vigil inside the Battlefield Park. But there is another development in the Goods’ ongoing plight in which the Minister of Education, Patrick Faber admitted he fired Hirian for political reasons. Charles Good says his wife’s attorney, Arthur Saldivar, has served government and the Minister with the documents for a civil suit. But Good says there has been no response from the other side and the time limit for that has expired. So it has taken on the makings of an all-out, full fledge war between a former military soldier and a minister of government. And while Good has acknowledged that a court proceeding will force him to cease his two-month old protest, he says there are other ways in which he can show his discontent with the firing of his wife.
Ret. Captain Charles Good, Suing Government of Belize
“If these people want this matter to continue on and on to frustrate us, then I will have to perhaps go to another level to start with and once this matter is within the courts then I cannot continue to protest, as I’ve indicated earlier. But what I can do—and I think I have all rights—is still to come out here without my placards, I have all rights to go and sit over there on the bench below the Supreme Court and wait for whatever time. Maybe they want to put it til March, April, whatever time, next month; it all depends on them. But if they prolong the situation, then I’m gonna raise my level of protest. I can sit over there until March, April whatever, and I will not eat, I will not take my medication, nothing at all. Cause these people are tampering with every single thing within this country. And these people, the Government of the day, I’m not afraid to say it, they are doing whatever they please and certainly they were not elected to do these things as such. My main problem is with the Minister of Education, the so called honourable, Patrick Faber, that’s my problem.”
Good says he has left the amount of remuneration up to his attorney to determine and ultimately for the judge to decide. Charles and Hirian Good started their protest in early August after Hirian was fired as a school warden at Trinity Methodist Primary School.”
