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The Belize Times Established 1957
21 APRIL 2019 | ISSUE NO: 5143
The Truth Shall Make You Free
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WHO DOES BARROW SERVE? Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Swoosh... faster than Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, the Belize Territorial Dispute Referendum Bill 2019 (BTDRB) is now law given the Governor General’s signature. Even before Belize could take a sigh of relief that the Court of Appeal was confirming the righteousness of the Chief Justice’s Interim Injunction to the flawed April 10 writs of referendum, PM Barrow sloppily engineered another of his infamous ‘fixes.’ The problem with these ‘fix’ legislations used to legalize something retroactively is that in recent history, 2015, one has cost us half a billion dollars. In this occasion, the swiftness of the bill has onlookers befuddled. Why? The theories as to why the reckless speed to legislate are as numerous and varied as the number of persons you ask. The first is what the United Democratic Party states: They want the people to have their say. Any foreigner would think that this answer is a no-brainer given that it is in the middle of their name—Democratic. But this theory is quickly debunked as untrue. At the last house meeting, the Prime Minister was officially cast out the ICJ referendum for our families living abroad. One UDP minister hailed this as impossible since there was no ‘infrastructure’ for such. Maybe he meant that
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KAYA WINS 30th
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