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PUP Deputy Leader Lathers Barrow Budget
posted (March 23, 2017)
The PUP Deputy Leader Cordel Hyde came up next, and he said that despite what Saldivar has put out there, there are difficult days ahead, particularly for the poor and vulnerable:...

Hon. Cordel Hyde- Area Rep, Lake I
"If you listen to those on the other side of the house: we should be happy because there will be no retrenchment this year and no wage freeze and no business tax increase; and don't get us wrong, you know, we are happy for our public officers and our business persons for this little break, but just because we have averted these possible calamities doesn't mean a more enduring catastrophe isn't about to take place. The truth is madam speaker, we have some difficult days ahead. History will condemn the UDP for the wild Petrocaribe spending but in the meantime the big wigs in the UDP are laughing all the way to the bank while the people are left holding the shaft. Madam speaker allow me to say something where the sale of BEL shares to SSB is concerned, the question I have is this: after the government has sold all the shares in BTL and BEL to SSB, what will they have to the sell next? What uno a sell? John? Rene? Pablo? Nobody no the buy. The only person weh wah buy John da mista Mason. But fih the fire department, they cut the budget by almost a million dollars you know. Now, anybody weh the listen to the news know that over the last year, da every other day there's a fire inna Belize. By the own statistics of the fire department there were a 165 fires last year. That means there is a fire almost every 2 days and they cut the budget by almost a million dollars. I dunno how they a deal with that. They have put a fatwa on the school feeding and nutrition program of the Ministry of Education. They are allocating a measly $8,000 for that program you know and last year they allocate $500,000, they spend almost $600,000 but this year's budget book have $8,000. Da wah sick sick joke mein. You say you pro poor but that program deh da wah good program weh dih Ministry a Education have. That program deh, hundreds of kids dih benefit, dih look forward to a meal everyday from that program and you wah give it $8,000; I no know weh dih go an."

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