Home Affairs Minister Responds to Shyne Barrow’s Calls for his Resignation

Kareem Musa

While the Leadership Intervention Unit is working to address the root causes of crime and violence in the streets of Belize City, the number of gang-related shootings since the beginning of the year continues to raise serious concerns. It has even prompted Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow to call for the immediate resignation of Minister of Home Affairs’ Kareem Musa.  Here’s how Musa responded to Shyne’s demand.

Shyne Barrow

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs

“I serve as Minister of Home Affairs at the pleasure of the real Leader of the House of Representatives, not the play-play one. So if Shyne thinks that he can remove me, he needs to think again. But as a matter of fact, I think that he is only doing his job. To be fair to him, he is an absentee politician. He does not stay in the country much so he has to stay relevant and how best to stay relevant than putting out social media posts. It is not as though he has not communicated to me that he understands the complexities of crime and how it has evolved so negatively, particularly in Belize City.  He is fully cognizant of that, and it’s not as though he’s not aware that his father and his uncle and the last administration really abandoned and neglected south side Belize City, creating a dependency system that has now just really grown out of control. And so he knows, he well knows that we are working hard to try to fix this because he is there at every single opportunity to take photos with me. When we are at the prison he is there as well.”