And while The Prime Minister wears his hat as head of government for those high level meetings which may decide Belize's cruise tourism future, on Friday night in Belize City - he wore his red hat for a party political event.
He was the keynote speaker at the endorsement convention held to install Tracy Taegar-Panton as the UDP standard bearer for the Albert Division. He focused a large portion of his speech on what he called "the frenzied activity by the opposition."
He's referring to the recent sense of urgency in PUP affairs: they held two press conferences last week and reports say insiders are trying to shake up some politically dubious divisions.
And their recent activity has caught the attention of Prime Minister, Dean Barrow. He said that until his government finishes rolling Petrocaribe out to all the rural areas of the country, his government has nowhere to go:
Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"They think that the general elections are near. And because they know that whenever those general elections come, they will go down to their third consecutive defeat. So they think that those elections are near. They see the defeat staring them in the face. So their going through all kinds of twisting and turning and contortions and acrobatic postures, positions to try to avoid the inevitable. but I want to tell them 'simmer down man, simmer down, don't get excited, don't get carried away because the general elections aren't coming right now'. And I can tell them why, you see that same PetroCaribe money that hot their hearts so much, we got our plans. The kind of roll out to the villages we developed, will take several months to complete. So nobody can hurry us into no general elections. Because before we call those general elections, we have to make sure that every rural constituency in this country feel the PetroCaribe money. In other words, we want that every village in this proud land of ours will have the residents, mom, dad, brother, sister and especially the children singing 'you see my new bridge? Petro gave me. You see my new street? Petro gave me. You see my classroom? Petro gave me'."
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