He left Belize for Taiwan on Tuesday, September third, and exactly 12 weeks later Eric Chang returned to Belize today. He arrived at the Phillip Goldson International this afternoon on a flight from the US at around 4:00 pm. After 3 months, the media wasn't expecting him, so he didn't have to run the media gauntlet.
This evening, Chang did not return our requests for an interview or to give us a comment via text message. But we do know that he has contacted a colleague in the council because Mayor Darrell Bradley told us that's where he got the news.
Bradley added that he will call Chang tomorrow, but at this time no plans have been made for a meeting. The mayor confirmed that he has missed two council meetings - which means that he has not technically vacated his seat as a city councilor. The city council bye-laws state that to vacate his or her seat, a councilor must miss four successive meetings.
But Chang has been stripped of his works and zoning portfolio and his Deputy Mayorship. His political stock has also pretty much flat-lined because of his alleged link to the Citizen Kim scandal.
In early October, Chang had told the mayor he needed to stay back in Taiwan due to an illness in his family.
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