On Thursday's newscast, we told you about how House Speaker Michael Peyrefitte is demanding an apology from the Auditor General, and amendment to her Audit Reports on Immigration and Nationality.
Well, as you know, it names a number of UDP Ministers, former Ministers, and UDP operatives as being involved in irregular and questionable issuances of passports, visas, and nationality certificates.
Well, there is another person who is disputing the Auditor General's findings. He's 76 year-old Ladyville Resident Valvin Seymore Duff Sr., who says that he is sure that the Dorothy Bradley got it wrong in his case. He said that he's been living uninterrupted in Belize for close to 40 years, so he does not know how and why he does not qualify for a passport.
Duff told us this evening that he got the surprising news from his friends who pointed it that his name was printed in the Belize Times Newspaper:
Duff was recommended by the then Belize Rural Central Area Representative Michael Hutchinson for the 2012 passport. He says that Hutchinson lives down the street from him, and they've been neighbours for years. His concern that if his name is not removed from the Auditor General's report, the Immigration Officials will deny him a passport renewal when his current one expires in a few years from now.
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