PM Says do Not Twist the Narrative on Land Clinic  

On Friday, Marconi Leal Junior, the standard bearer for Belize Rural North, hosted a land distribution clinic. However, Leal Junior mentioned that the clinic was only for registered voters in Burrell Boom Village. When asked why the clinic wasn’t open to all Belizeans, Prime Minister John Briceño seemed to lose his temper. Here’s what he had to say.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“Again  there goes Channel Seven twisting things man. Sometimes you need to be a journalist, man, and that don’t be anyway. Let me answer your question.  Basically, when you have these clinics, the area representatives have to pay for the,  to move all these people. The ministry does not have the funding. So the area representative, or in this case Marconi Leal Sr., and his son of extension, now the candidate, they pay thousands of dollars to have  employees who come to work, because they work late at night, and they have to host them in hotels.  So what is it that you want to do? You want to make sure that you can take care of the people that you want to serve. In this instance, it was the people of Belize Rural North.  When you look back, you all have the 2020 vision.  Maybe you should have used the word, registered voters, and probably just would have said the people living in the boom area. Because what has been happening is that the people here, People from all over the country go in there and then they’re not looking after the needs of the people that they’re going there for. So it has nothing to do with who’s registered or nothing. It’s simply because  they pay for this and so they want to make sure that they can give service to the people that they’re servicing. very much. Okay, That’s it.”