But first, we go back to yesterday's cane farmers meeting. In today's House Meeting, we heard the Prime Minister talk about sidelining the radicals from within the association like Fred Ortega and Javier Keme. Well, yesterday, we heard much the same at the cane famers special meeting.
It happened at about 17 minutes into yesterday's meeting when one of the cane farmers, who was protesting at the meeting, proceeded to name Ortega; Keme; their CEO, Oscar Alonzo; Diody Novelo, a member of the BSCFA's negotiating team; and Lucilo Teck as persons not working for the best interest of the farmers.
It did not get any kind of support from the assembly, but here's that moment when the farmer harshly criticized these members, despite Chairman Cansino's attempt to shut him down:
Cane Farmer (translated)
"I want to ask our leaders for them to stop treating us like puppets. We are not puppets; we are not children. I want to ask them to tighten their belts. And today, we take a position for the benefit of all of us under the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, depending on the results of this resolution. This association can still live on, or it can die. The cane farmers aren't united, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thanks to these persons. These persons have divided us."
Oscar Alonzo - CEO, BSCFA
"We are an association that respects the views and the opinions of all members. That is his view, I respect it okay. The matter is, the cane farmers, the membership, knows what type of person I am, the work I do, the results I bring to them and I do not have anything against that resolution - that's his rights. It's the farmers that decides."
Ezequiel Cansino - Chairman of COM, BSCFA
"We do not have any intention to expel him from the BSCFA. They are members of the association, they are representing their own cane farmers and in the association, we accept the majority of everything. I think that if the majority continues to vote in favor in what we are doing, the majority wins."
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