U.D.P. Leader Supports Friday’s Protest in Belmopan  

Opposition Leader, Moses “Shyne” Barrow has responded to Nigel Petillo’s call. On Tuesday, he told us that he will join the protest in front of the Prime Minister’s office to add his voice to the cause.

 

Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“Nigel Petillo has reached out to me to get on board, as well as other civil society members. So, we will be having a protest at the prime minister’s office on Friday. So I invite everyone. No partisanship. The same way I can support the minister of tourism with the music festival and in welcoming superstars to Belize, we have to hold the government accountable when they are doing wrong. And this is absolutely outrageous. I call on the minister of finance to go back to the original plan. There is no way. Now, if, I don’t even see how they could explain the fact that this makes sense. You want to say if they could show how financially this saves them money, how did you save money by paying thirty-nine time the amount. Now if they paid two hundred thousand dollars, let us say the property was three hundred. If you pay six hundred thousand. They paid twice the amount for it. You could say it only cost six hundred thousand, we paid twice and maybe the entire presentation as to the justification might have passed the smell test.”