And, from COVID to crime, the UDP's former Minister of National Security says that the Minister and his CEO need to resign after a year of spinning wheels on rutted roads:
Hon. Michael Peyrefitte - Chairman, UDP
"There is no question about it at this time. Kareem Musa and Kevin Arthurs most go and go now. They must resign or the Prime Minister must remove them from their posts. These two individuals had the most to see when they were in opposition. And know, they have the least to say, now that they are in charge of the ministry that they claim to know so much about when they were in Opposition. Imagine, for the first time in many years, you have a ministry that deals with primarily just the police from a policy standpoint, New Growth Industries seem to be just marijuana, which was something we had started laying the groundwork for. But it's primarily the police department that these two individuals are in charge of, and they have utterly failed. Look back to their Plan Belize statement on law enforcement, when they initiated this before the November elections. This is the statement that they made. This is an area plagued with internal problems and low
levels of public confidence. There are few immediate solutions, but one year, one year of intense and sustained actions moving in the right direction would make a huge difference. Well, as Shane said earlier, it's been a year, sir. So either, you have failed, and you're admitting you are failed, or you have failed to carry out intense and sustained actions moving in the right direction. Either way, you need to step down. Crime is out of control. Younger people are dying if you notice. Brazen robberies are on the rise. Silence from the leadership of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the police department's morale is at an all-time low."
