I borrow from the words of an American President who, surveying the wreckage of his predecessor's administration scattered all aross the political landscape, consoled his nation with the assurance: our national nightmare is over.

With gratitude to the people of this country, I rise to report to you today, Mr. Speaker, that here in Belize finally our long nightfall too is lifted. Together with the shade of the poet, Raymond Hugh Barrow, we welcome the sun, once again a barefoot boy skipping cross the sky. And we rejoice with him as he sounds his cry: get up, get up, the day is here, a new day is here.

And it is all because, from north to south, east to west, a
nation fed up with the plunder of its resources, on February 7 declared
enough is enough.

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