And while Caribbean Shores Kareem Musa threw his fair share of jabs at the budget, he also had plenty of firepower in reserve for the Barrow brothers: Shyne and Anwar. Here's what he dished on Shyne, followed by his Uncle's response:...
Hon. Kareem Musa
"Then you have others like my brother Shyne, he has a certificate from the big house. These guys haven't gotten certified yet on this side. He has a certificate and every Belizean remembers that when he first came to Belize he wanted nothing to do with our beloved country. All he wanted was to get back to America. But now that he has been blocked out of America, guess what, he wants to run. Very interesting times ahead for the UDP indeed."
Hon. Michael Finnegan
"Like the member from Caribbean Shores have a problem with the prime minister two sons. I never know Shyne was part of the budget debate. Every minute I hear Shyne and Shyne gone to jail. So the whole of Belize knows that. Shyne will not be the first or the last man who went to jail."
"Madam Speaker, I don't know what is the thing with him and the 2 Barrows boys. I don't know if because the 2 Barrow boys so good looking like their father or it's because they are black, or because they always dress elegantly. But you have a problem. Maybe I will ask Shyne to teach you how to dress, when you out on a brown shirt what color pants to put on etc, how you comb your hair and how you walk etc, because it looks like jealously - you get petty and small."
And while Finnegan played off the entire Shyne situation, he wasn't playing when he laid into the PUP for embracing a neoliberal philosophy:
Hon. Michael Finnegan
"You all have turn George Price institution and party into a rightwing Donald Trump organization. I listen to the Leader of the Opposition talk for over an hour and his biggest thing was the productive sector. Of course the productive sector is important, but they are trying to tell the Barrow administration that they should use Chavez money for the productive sector. You all will make Chavez turn in his grave."
"Chavez money is to help the poor, not the productive sector. The productive sector must learn to manage their business properly. That party across there is no more the PUP. I know what the PUP use to be under Mr. Price. You all are for the rich and the mighty and the powerful."
At newstime, the budget debate was still rolling along and the Prime Minister is expected to wind it up shortly.
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