Cracks in the City is now obvious within the administration of Sharon Palacio, barely 10 months after she was elected as Mayor of a PUP City Council. 

In a string of 11 serious allegations brought out public by five City Belmopan Councillors against Mayor Palacio, there is the issue of lack of transparency and accountability in City Finances which merits a full audit to either confirm or deny such allegations.

According toa leaked letter endorsed by five Belmopan councillors, Mayor Palacio has gone against several portions of the Belmopan City Council Act. These areas include the employment and termination of staff, the disbursement of donations or the funding of programs without the expressed consent of a caucus, the removal of the Deputy mayor as a signatory to the City’s account, the removal of the Director of Traffic and the Director of the City’s Finance. 

The list of discrepancies sternly suggests that the mayor’s family members have often gone into City Hall giving directives to City staff.

Before going out public, Councillors claim that several attempts were made to obtain the documentation of pertinent reports for what they deem were atrocities but were unforthcoming.

When confronted by the media for her comment regarding the leaked letter, Mayor Palacio said she had no idea of any letter leaked out or its contents, she publicly denounced the attempt made by the councillors to tarnish her integral reputation and pointed finger at the deputy Mayor for being the instigator in the upheaval. 

While the City Councillors are seeking an audience with Belmopan Area Representative, Oscar Mira, to mediate to find an amicable solution to these complaints, Mayor Palacio said that ‘when the truth be told this entire nation will tremble. I will ensure that I speak up to the PUP’s hierarchy first as the matter is bigger than me”.

She quoted Fidel Catro’s famous “La historia me absolvera” and Bob Marley’s “Your best friend is your worst enemy”       

The offended Mayor wrote on her social media page concluding “I feel like Julius Caesar surrounded by 5 Brutus. She noted: All my Councillors want to be Mayor, which is not a bad desire, but give me my 3 years”.   

This article may signal the first of many other outbursts to come regarding internal grievances ln the administration of the people’s affairs however, it is believed that only the open integral truth is good enough so, let the truth be told.