As we told you at the top of the newscast, a noted Belizean Ray Lightburn
was knocked down and killed on the Northern Highway last night. And we close
tonight with a small taste of the of Ray Lightburn's wit. He launched
a small book about his life in July and at that time he regaled us with his
wit and wisdom.
[July 10,2009]
Ray Lightburn, Author
"Leader Emeritus George Cadle Price and CLB Rogers were both my mentors.
The British Government sent me to England to knock off the rough edges and I
decided to sharpen them. I was also accused of sending a couple pail of stuff
of certain people who were against our independence.
I joined the PUP movement at the age of eight I first saw George Price
at the Courthouse Plaza with my grandfather who was shouting stone them. As
it turns out my brother said I am still at that meeting after 48 years."
Jules Vasquez,
"Funky man, they call you funky man."
Ray Lightburn,
"Funky man is like groovy right."
Jules Vasquez,
"But you had to run what the Americans would call black-hat operations
in terms of you were the man who had to do a lot of the dirty work of politics."
Ray Lightburn,
"Somebody had to do it, I always said my feet are dirty but my hands
are clean and I am the best thing you've ever seen here."
Jules Vasquez,
"People seeing this would certainly be surprised that the man they see
on the street everyday who ain't good shape is able to write a book, is
able to speak cogently. What would you say to those people who say how dah man
who we see on the street can be this man who is able to write such a comprehensive
book?"
Ray Lightburn,
"King Solomon said in Ecclesiastic that I had everything and he said
I lost everything but I got rid of the burden, the weight is off my back and
he said now I am free and that is how I feel. I am a free spirit, I pass everything
over to God and I move on, I don't worry about anything."
Ray Lightburn, dead at 68. His funeral is scheduled for next week Tuesday
at St. Martin's de Porres Church.
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