“We Didn’t Need a Foreigner to Tell Us”, UDP on Sport Facilities

Next up was the issue of sporting facilities across the country, a topic tackled by Shane Williams, the U.D.P. candidate for Queen Square. As an athlete himself, Williams didn’t mince words, criticizing the government for the poor state of the Belize Mexico Center. His comments were a direct response to a story aired by News Five on Monday night.

 

Shane Williams, U.D.P. Candidate, Queen Square

“Belizean athletes truly deserve better. It took a foreign sports executive to have the minister sit down in front of the world on national tv and embarrass him for people to notice the deplorable state of sporting facilities in this country. We didn’t need a foreigner to tell us that it is unacceptable for the Belize Mexico Center to be abandoned like it has. Hurricane Lisa hit in 2022 and look at how the Mexico Center is in January 2025 and of all the sports centers in this country that would have been the least one I thought they would have been abandoned. You remember when COVID when our athletes couldn’t play basketball or any sports, Mexico Center was locked up like fort knocks with minister playing basketball during that time. Your favorite minister locked up in Mexico Centre while they play sports while the rest of the country was on lock down. So, Mexico Center would be the last facility you would expect this administration to totally abandoned. All the government has to do was fix the roof so that no further damage comes when it rains. Now, any simple rain deteriorates it further. All they had to do was maintain. We didn’t need a foreigner to tell us that.”