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That is the final and culminating event of his trip - and it is meant to be memorable. Today, at a closing press conference, he told the media why he couldn't wait for an opportunity to address all of the Belizean public. Jules Vasquez reports:

Jules Vasquez Reporting

Flanked by the phalanx of security that accompanies him everywhere, Minister Louis Farrakhan stepped into the Santa Rita room at the Radisson in a genial mood - but in the 67 minute press conference, he was mercurial, at times easygoing and jocular, at times explosive and fiery, and occasionally, he smoldered.

But, overall, Farrakhan says the maturity of his 79 years has tempered his rhetoric:

Louis Farrakhan - Leader, Nation of Islam
"So my anger - listen to me good! It was against our former slave masters and their children. I had no love for them whatsoever, and today, they have to earn my respect, by being in fairer, and more just in the way they treat my brothers and sisters, my people. I am filled with the energy now of love, and the bitterness that I experienced, by seeing what happened to my people - the anger that I had, even the hatred that I had, and the desire to destroy those who destroyed my people, I realized that I couldn't be an effective teacher of the will and wisdom of a God who is the author of all causes, if I didn't understand what he had in mind for our suffering. So with understanding, you grow to study more and bitter less."

And that love he says is what keeps this 79 year old looking and sounding young, despite a hectic schedule of public speaking engagements:

Louis Farrakhan
"How do I remain so vital, so energetic,and so youthful? It's because I'm in love. I am in love first with God, the creator."

But he's not quite singing "Don't worry Be happy," Farrakhan is an admitted conspiracy theorist:

Louis Farrakhan
"Of course I'm a conspiracy theorist. How can there not be a conspiracy theory if 1% of the people own 98% of the wealth? Talk to me! Black on black crime is social engineering by wise men and women who have planned what we are doing. We are actually puppets on a string of a puppeteer, and it is the wisdom of God that will cut the string."

And the conspiracy he says is also against him:

Louis Farrakhan
"How did I survive in the great United States of America while talking like how I talk and walking like how I walk? It is not like the enemy does not want to put his hands on me, and yet may do so. They don't like what I say, no! I pay a price, brother, a big price. God has not let me pay the ultimate price, so I have out lived brother Malcom by double his age. I have out lived Dr. King by double his age, and I personally don't believe that God is going to allow anybody to assassinate me. They may put their hands on me. That's what they're planning to do, because they can't take what am doing. I'm here in your country, and they are monitoring everything I say, everything I do. And they're not excited because, my God, the people are listening to that man. And you know what, the people are believing that man."

And he says because of that, he's been ostracized and demonized:

Louis Farrakhan
"I can sit with Prime Ministers and Presidents in Africa, in the Caribbean Central, and South America, but I can't even sit with a Senator in America because they fear the power of the Jewish people to relegate them to pain and hurt, if they're seen with me. Though they will sneak around like Nicodemus."

And a lot of that, he blames, bitterly, on the media:

Louis Farrakhan
"What does your group - not you - the group that is called the media that is controlled in every society by money interest - Why am I hated? I'm soon to be 80. I robbed no man; I raped no woman. I beat no child. Who's going to speak truth to power except somebody that is un-bought? You don't have enough to buy me."

And 40 years after he came to Belize, the un-bought, unrepentant and obviously untamed Farrakhan hopes to deliver that message to the public tonight:

Louis Farrakhan
"When I was first here in 1975, Belize was predominantly black. It's not that now. From what somebody told me yesterday it's 25% black today. When you were over 50% 40 years ago, was that an accident or was that by desire? If we don't pay attention 25 years from now we will be extinct. So tonight, I cannot wait until tonight! I want to tell you who is behind and what is behind the decimation of the black population."

On Tuesday's newscast, we'll tell you about his public address at the Bird's Isle. At this hour, it hasn't started so if you're interested in hearing more, there's still time to get out there.