Minister Musa Says PSU President Started It

The back-and-forth between Police Commissioner Doctor Richard Rosado and PSU President Dean Flowers took center stage recently and now, Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa is weighing in. According to Musa, Flowers fired the first shot in this war of words. So, should the top cop even be involved in a union dispute? And what does the minister think about those bold ads targeting union leaders? We put those questions to him today. Here’s his response.

 

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs

“Well the Belize Police Department and Doctor Rosado are not creating any sort of ads or attacking the unions. So let us not try to bridge those two or combine those two together. I believe those are political ads. If you look back at the history of how this all started I believe that Mr. Flowers was personally heavily attacking the commissioner of police calling him a bully and puppet, which is  unreasonable in my opinion. Dr. Rosado was only acting in the most professional capacity. I think they handled all the demonstrations quite professionally. Obviously the one in Dangriga went on a bit longer, went on for almost two hours and of course the police department has a responsibility to commuters and citizens. That situation got a little tense obviously. The commissioner was able to sit down with the unions after that and they were able to make peace. The commissioner has aways been open to honoring the unions’ request when they want to peacefully protest, it is just that there has to be this level of cooperation and understanding which the unions have since demonstrated.”