U.D.P. Demands Apology from Osmond Martinez Over B.D.F. Comments

With only eight days left before the Toledo East by-election, all three candidates have ramped up their campaigns. The United Democratic Party has produced an advertisement demanding an apology from P.U.P. Candidate Osmond Martinez for comments he made about the Belize Defense Force on a morning show. The ad captured Martinez saying that as a child in Toledo, members of the Belize Defense Force would go into the banana fields, rape the women and ship the men off to Guatemala. Barrow also questioned Martinez’s ability to contest an election in Belize given his dual citizenship.

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“I shared with the media where he said that B.D.F. soldiers raped the women in Bella Vista and chased them to the banana farm and shift the men off to Melchor. These are reprehensible lies and the U.D.P. calls on Osmond Martinez and the People’s United Party to apologize forthwith. It is deplorable, despicable that someone who wants to serve in the National Assembly would be so desperate to reduce our patriots, the B.D.F, women and men who give of themselves, risk their lives, sacrifice their families, sacrifice so much for us, they should not be involved in our politics. If they want to attack the candidate, me the party, fine we will deal with that. That is what we signed up for. We have an issue as far as him being a dual citizen. I don’t know if any of you have asked him if he renounced his Honduran nationality. I believe that is a fair question and when you ask find him next I hope you will ask him because he will not be able to sit in the House of Representative if he is. We will do him a favor and hand him a defeat on Wednesday July seventeenth anyway. But I believe it is a fair question. And certainly this gentleman Osmond Martinez is not even from Toledo East. He is registered to vote in Caribbean Shores and lives in Caribbean Shores if he could show me a light bill or a water bill because I know they were very concerned about where I live. I have a light bill and water bill. And I had mih bed and mih fridge everything at one of my residencies located in Mesopotamia. Osmond Martinez cannot say the same. He is from Caribbean Shores. So the fact that we have a candidate the P.U.P. candidate that is not from Toledo east. He tries to create this fairytale story of growing up on the banana farms and now he is here to rescue Toledo east.”