Poet wishes Belizeans well for Christmas
Welcome back. We’ll take you back to downtown Belize City where our team has lined up a special guest. A guest with a long white beard, a twinkle in his eye and a belly like a bowl full of jelly.
Here he is folks, the man of the night: St. Nick, Kris Kringle or as I like to call him Santa Claus. Santa, tell me about the work you have been doing with your elves up at the North Pole.
Santa Claus
“We’ve been travelling a lot all over the place gathering the stuff, the toys — all they ask me for. So far I’ve managed to get along all this way thanking everyone who has helped me so far to get through and I’m getting through now trying to get done everything that I can or the kids at home, waiting for this very special night now.”
Q: “Santa, you’ve been getting a lot of letters in the past months, tell me what have the kids been asking for?”
Santa Claus
“As kids they ask for many, many things which I try to do my best to provide them with and so far cute little things, Barbies, bikes, cars, boats… everything you name it.”
Q: “One of the questions they were asking me to ask you is where are your reindeers?”
Santa Claus
“I think they are stationed up there at Brodie’s roof.”
Q: “I think another question, a main concern that Belizean children have is that we don’t have any chimneys here so how are you gonna get into their houses to give them their presents?”
Santa Claus
“I can’t let them know that; that’s a secret the way how I get into the house.”
Q: “What do you look forward to when you go to houses? Do they usually have cookies and milk out for you?”
Santa Claus
“Some of them are very nice. They invite me, they know that I am travelling from far to get them the toys and yeah, so far they have been good.”
Q: “So what are you doing in Belize City? Why did you come out here?”
Santa Claus
“I like the children a lot so I wanted them to meet Santa and have a nice time with them.”
Q: “I think we have a few children who wanna ask you for some presents. Hello what’s your name?”
Shandy
“Shandy.”
Q: “Shandy why don’t you tell Santa what you want for Christmas this year?”
Sandy
“I want a Barbie car, Barbie roller skates and a Barbie bike.”
Q: “Have you been a good girl this year? Santa you have to do the interviewing you known, because it’s you who decides who gets the presents.”
Santa Claus
“Okay then that’s what I see in them who’s been good all year round, obedient to mom, not fighting with the friends at school, listening to the teacher. I have to see all that and if they’ve been good of course they will get all that.”
Q: “Did you do all those things?”
Shandy
“Yes.”
Q: “You’re going to sleep early tonight so that you can wake up early tomorrow?”
Shandy
“Yes.”
Okay. I don’t think there are more children out here at the moment but we do have another special guest. His name is Erwin Jones and he has prepared an improv Christmas poem for us. He is the author of a poetry book named, “Uprizin” and I just learnt tonight that all of Erwin’s books that he has just released on Wednesday have sold out, over six hundred copies, right Erwin?
Erwin Jones, Poet
“That’s right and I must give thanks to Belize for the support. I love the warm reception that I’ve gotten from my people, big respect, uprising is here this year. Live up!”
Q: “Your copies sold, does that mean you’ll have an extra merry
Christmas this year?”
Erwin Jones
“I wouldn’t say it’s going to be an extra merry Christmas but it’s gonna be a Christmas because Christmas for me is a time of love, time for sharing and caring, a time for peace. But on the same token when I look at conditions in Belize it’s also a time when the poor really feel poor and when some people feel that they don’t have nothing because those of them around them that have and not give to them, it saddens them and it’s a sad reality.
So on the same token it has a positive and a negative and I want Belize to remember that, “it’s a force within you and me, it’s the fabric the essence or life that makes us be. It’s the warmpt, the cold, it’s more precious than gold, it cannot be bought, it cannot be sold. It is the force within you and me, the fabric, the essence of life that makes us be. Since Christmas is here and I’m live on the air, Belize I wanna ask you this year to give love, the force within you and me, the fabric, the essence of life that makes us be.””
Q: “Belizean talent in its essence, Erwin came up with that in about twenty minutes. I just met him out here and I asked him to do a little something for me. That was really great Erwin. So tell me are you one of those last minute shoppers or were you an early bird?”
Erwin Jones
“I’m gonna be a last minute shopper because I’m still finishing the last amount. I have about twenty books left and after this I will try to see if I can get something. My mom, I haven’t done anything yet. Brothers and sisters, if I don’t come up with something tomorrow please forgive me.”
Q: “Why don’t you say Merry Christmas and tell us who they are?”
Erwin Jones
“I wanna say Merry Christmas to my mother and also to my father, my brothers and sisters, Caroline at Pino’s you’re working very hard. I want to also thank all my friends, all my supporters; I want to also thank all my detractors. I want to thank Channel Five and Channel Seven.
I also want to recognize the talent and the spirit that I’ve been adorned with and I want to give thanks to God. Please remember that Christmas is also a time to acknowledge the Birth of Christ and to go to church and share in the spirit and the nature. And remember that we want peace, for all bad boys, hold down the gun, put down the knife, make we live up!”
Janelle Chanona
“Thanks Erwin. Merry Christmas! From all of us here on Albert Street live tonight on Christmas Eve we wish you and your family a very safe and a very happy holidays and have a great, great weekend.”
