Senator Chanona and Developer Gegg Faces Off in Senate Inquiry  

Senator Janelle Chanona pressed developer David Gegg further on the lack of publicity behind the Portico Definitive Agreement when it was initially signed. She asserted that any investor would want to publicize such a huge achievement if it was intended for the benefit of Belizeans. Here is how that exchange played out.

 

Janelle Chanona, Senator

“Even before last year when this inquiry commenced, why no fanfare, why nobody is talking about it before that Cabinet leak?”

 

David Gegg, Developer, Portico Enterprises Limited

“Because the attacks by my competitors were continuous, daily nightly, social media, and I said let me just do my thing in the corner and here I am today and where are they?”

 

Janelle Chanona

“I can’t help but feel that if you had this and this project is what you say it is, would it have mattered what any critic said?”

 

David Gegg

“Senator I have a lot of contacts in the industry, the people who know they will benefit from the project, they are the ones I keep in contact with. I don’t have to go on TV and say this and that. I don’t even have social media, YouTube or whatever, Facebook, I don’t even have a Facebook, I don’t need it. There are too many garbage out there. I have my support, grass roots people on the ground who knows they are going to benefit from this project when it materializes. They are the ones who count.”