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Mayor Says Yellowman Should Face Consequences for What He Did
Fri, May 26, 2017
Brian "Yellowman" Audinett menaced the media 10 days ago in the National Assembly gallery, and since then, the outcry against his behavior has been getting louder. The leader of the Opposition has written to the Speaker of The House asking her to remove him as Masebearer, and the media has written to the Chairman of the Senate Committee asking him to ban Yellowman from all future sittings of the Senate Committee. But now as a member of his own party has come forward to say that Yellowman was way out of line. Mayor Darrell Bradley gave the media a candid and cold review of Yellowman's antics today:

Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City
"What occurred is a stain not only on those people but it's a stain on the entire country. It affects me as a member of the party and I would wish that situations like that not happen. The media in our society discharges a very fundamental objective. The media provides a level of accountability, strengthens our democratic process. I was very dismayed by the fact that a session of the hearing had to be cancelled so that what you are doing is that you are in a result subverting a very essential process. You are actually making it such that what is most important that the people be satisfied that whatever in immigration is properly dealt with. You actually undermined that and any person who is involved in that, shame on them."

Reporter
"So Mayor, do you think that the United Democratic Party should hold these individuals accountable."

Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City
"I think that as a member of the party I think that, that should be done. I think all should also too in relation to the business of government itself, because there's national assembly and so forth. Again, this is our parliament. I tell my son, who is 4 years old that he must conduct himself in a certain way. I don't expect my son to tell me, I am his father and I am also the Mayor. So, nobody will see me carrying on in such a way in front of cameras, or doing this that demeans the office of Mayor. So, to me it should go without saying, that when certain actions happen, there must be consequences."

Reporter
"Do you think its justified that people are calling for the removal of Mr. Audinette as the macebearer of the house?"

Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City
"I think that if people want to call for his removal, that's within their right, we live within a free and public society. Whatever the consequence is, I am not the one who makes those decisions but, I do think that there should be consequences because again you hold an office in our land, its symbolic and we need to ensure that we have a conversation about what is the appropriate level of conduct and the when that level or that standard is lowered that we hold those people accountable and I am not the person who is responsible for that but, if I were, I know what I would have done."

And while the Mayor is focusing on the symbolism of the job, the Chairman of his party Alberto August and Yellowman aren't into such subtleties. They posed today for a defiant picture, sporting their multi-coloured, "Belizeans Against Courtney" shirts.

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