PSU President Denounces Links to ‘High Profile Investigation’

Public Service Union President Dean Flowers is hitting back at Police Commissioner Doctor Richard Rosado, after being accused of having ties to a major investigation. The hostility began when Flowers criticized the police’s handling of a recent teachers’ protest in Dangriga, accusing Commissioner Rosado of using intimidation tactics against the demonstrators. Rosado fired back, denying the claims and instead throwing a curveball, he urged the media to ask Flowers whether his phone number is connected to a “high-profile investigation involving public officers.” So, we did just that. And here’s what Flowers had to say.

 

Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union

“ I want to be very careful because. As I stated, does not have an iota of proof linking 600;5110 or 615-3110 to any investigation since the declaration of self-government since 1964. And as I stated, he, in his anger and in his emotion and his and in his failure to appreciate that what I was doing was simply saying to him, your strategy must be much more effective. You cannot govern and rule based on fear, which is what in my view, the police department attempted to do in Dangriga. Instill fear. It is no secret that the state has weaponized legislation against its citizens, primarily black men, primarily black men. It is no secret that an administration that is being accused of being a racist administration is now weaponizing the constitution retroactively against black men. And I said, I will not stand for that. Because what stops them from weaponizing the law against union leaders? Yeah. What stops them from doing that? What stops them from declaring Maya Mopan or Salva Pan or anywhere any union leader reside and so we can’t mobilize. And so we need to pay attention, and that was what I was calling out. His ego was bruised, and it’s not about me and him, it’s about the teachers and public officers, which includes him. And he needs to recognize that. He needs to recognize that if it was not for the Public Service Union of Belize, he would never be commissioner of Police. Never.”