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2 JULY 2017 | ISSUE NO: 5052
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THE JOKE IS ON BOOTS GREEN CARD OR BANGLES?
Thursday, June 29, 2017 According to UDP Minister Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez, like his colleague Edmond Castro he has been invited to come into the US Embassy, but so he can be given a green card. And just like his colleague Edmond Castro, Martinez has not yet accepted that invitation. He says he has not made up his mind, but could it be that he is afraid that bangles, rather than a green card, may be waiting for him if he visits the Embassy? On Wednesday, when he reported to the Senate to be questioned by the Special Select Committee on his involvement in corruption in the Immigration Department, UDP Minister Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez was told that the Committee was not ready for him and he would have
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to return at a later date. The Minister was furious that his busy schedule was interrupted for no good reason and in an extended interview with the media outside the National Assembly dismissed the hearings as a circus, and a joke. Martinez’s name has come up in the Auditor-General’s report, but even more compelling than that, he was accused of Immigration illegality and corruption recently during testimony given by Alvarine Burgess. Burgess told investigators that on separate occasions she asked Martinez to facilitate Visas for Chinese nationals and he did so for a fee of $2000 each. She asserted that in order to do the facilitation through
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