P.M. says strike is politically motivated

While the unions and business groups make their plans for Thursday and Friday where does Government stand? Today Prime Minister Said Musa, in a recorded address, castigated the Leader of Opposition as a “reckless politician careless of the harm he does to the Belizean people and to Belizean democracy.” The protests, he claims, have little to do with economics.

Prime Minister Said Musa
?What we have here is clearly not a legitimate trade dispute or sector grievance, but a politically motivated attempt to profit from the situation, with reckless disregard for the damage done to our people and to our democracy. The UDP, which in its last term imposed itself on the people for three months more than is constitutionally the practice, is trying to bring down a popularly and democratically elected government three years before its constitutional term expires. This is all about a reckless thirst for power by a few political demagogues who have managed to manipulate a few leaders of legitimate and respected institutions whose members will, I am sure, not allow themselves to be so used.”

On Friday the stage has now been set for possible confrontation as the Peoples United Party has called on all of its supporters to assemble in Belmopan at the meeting of the House of Representatives.