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Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Belize Times

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Barrow is a BRAT! SUNDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Issue No. 4720

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Bar Condemns PM’s Disgraceful Behaviour…

On Monday, November 15th, the Bar Association of Belize released a scathing release condemning the actions of Prime Minister Dean Barrow in the House last Friday. In one of his rambling episodes of pontification, Mr. Barrow launched a pointed attack on the attorneys in the Bar Association, accusing them of all being PUP. The leader of the nation got decidedly personal in his words, referring to the attorneys as ‘a bunch of hypocrites and frauds.’ Not surprisingly, the Bar Association pulled no punches in its response telling Mr. Barrow to ‘man up’ and stop behaving like a spoilt child. The release states – “The Association condemns in the strongest possible terms the very public and unwarranted attacks upon the Association launched by the Honourable Prime Minister Dean Barrow in the House of R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s o n F r i d a y, November 12, 2010. The Honourable P r i m e Minister has obviously sought to put political labels on and personalize the reasoned position of the Association…” The executive of the Bar goes so far as to accuse the Prime Minister of dodging the

real issue, orchestrating the attack to distract attention from allegations of very real and deliberate interference in the Judiciary. The Association

Police Stumble on a $100M Coke Bust

states that the Prime Minister was attempting to “inflame and incite his supporters and thereby avoid the manifest need to address in a sober

and rational way the very serious allegation that the Honourable Prime Minister has sought to undermine the rule of law through unwarranted and unjustified interference with persons holding high judicial office.” This is not the first such attack on the Bar Association. Indeed, the last time that the Prime Minister was condemned for awarding indecent sums of money to his ex-wife by ensuring that she was government’s attorney of choice, he retaliated by claiming that all the members of the Bar Association except for his exwife had been bought and paid for by Lord Michael Ashcroft. Nobody could have imagined then that Dean Barrow’s own law firm is also on Lord Ashcroft’s payroll and was receiving (and is still receiving) vast sums of money from Ashcroft. But that is the caliber of the man who is the leader of this nation. And after making the point that the Prime Minister is interfering with the Judiciary and trying to dodge and hide the fact that he is doing so, the Bar Association really gets rough on Mr. Barrow for his unbecoming (Continued on pg. 3)

Sweetheart Deal for BTL

$48 - $63 Million Over 5 Years Minister of Police Doug Singh appeared perplexed and not even slightly exuberant as he faced the media days after the apprehension of a drug plane and the discovery of

what is alleged to be approximately $100M worth of cocaine packaged in 80 bales. One would have expected the Minister to be beside himself with (Continued on pg. 3)

Last Friday the Prime Minister of Belize introduced for its first reading the Income and Business Tax (Amendment) (No.2) Act, 2010 in the House of Representatives. The Leader of the Opposition Hon. John

Briceño immediately seized upon it and accused the Prime Minister of creating his own sweetheart deal for the future shareholders of Belize Telemedia Ltd. So how sweet is (Continued on pg. 3)

Gibe Memegili Wayumaha; Lidanba Uarani Wawansera


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