Godwin Haylock Calls Shyne Out

As we reported, the buses came from far and wide from all six districts, and so did the boats from Belize Rural South’s Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker. And the supporters took up a significant space in the seating gallery at the Belize City Civic Centre. An interesting twist to the event was that while Moses Barrow’s aunt, Queen Square Standard Bearer, Denise “Sister B” Barrow, was a no-show, Godwin Haylock, who is the U.D.P.’s new Standard Bearer in Queen Square, did show up to support the Alliance. Haylock pointed to Barrow’s abstention in the House to vote on Belize celebrating thirty-five years of diplomatic relations with Taiwan, something that he considered ridiculous.

 

Godwin Haylock, Standard Bearer, Queen Square

“When I saw that unconstitutional acts were being committed, standard bearers being removed, the latest one being that you go to the House after that and you say that we cannot support Taiwan, an ally of Belize with a straight “yes” vote. That abstaining was really ridiculous. I watched it again as we went to the House last Friday. You saw that the House Committee members were changed in a most malicious way. The truth is Dean Barrow, Sister B, the entire UDP of Queen Square will never support such as act.”

 

Reporter

“You’ve been known to be supportive of the Barrows and they are supportive of you. So for us you’re a young figure but a huge figure, but for you to go against Shyne Barrow on a personal level people will see that you’re a traitor.”

 

Godwin Haylock

“I feel that while the Barrows have the luxury of not coming out vocally against Shyne because they’re family members, I don’t have that luxury to go to the division and say I’m a Barrow and I can’t get into this. I must make a stance for my community and I feel deep down that the principles, the values that Dean Barrow brought to the Queen Square Division are the same values that he would want me to stand for today.”