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So he is the originator of the problem - but he says he also cleaned up the mess before he left office. And that gives rise to the argument over whose mess is it, really? As you might expect, both sides spent much of the day blaming each other.

Rt. Hon. Said Musa
"To compound what they called a mistake - what they called corrupt. To compound that they have committed the biggest corruption, because I say that when you look at the mess that the UDP prime minister has created through reckless misfeasance and I use those words "reckless misfeasance" saddling the Belizean people with a debt of 95.6 million dollars. I accuse you of incurring this 95 million dollars debt."

From there, Musa argued the point that the entire process of bringing the supplementary appropriations bill to the house for a vote was a charade - which, the PUP played its own part in:...

Rt. Hon. Said Musa
"So if the prime minister wanted to follow the parliamentary procedure today, he should have indicated to the house that that bill has the recommendation of the cabinet. But the reason why he did not is obvious, because they had already made up their minds that they will go through this formality, this mockery of the justice system. That is what he did not say that it has the recommendation of the cabinet, because the cabinet has decided and in deed all of them - that they will vote no today. Well let them vote no, but let them face the decision after they vote no, because if as I suspect the prime minister has been playing a political game all along, knowing fully well that his members will vote it down. In which case he is define the judicial system and the rule of law and I don't care what he says otherwise. He might be a senior counsel, he might be a very good lawyer, but the fact of the matter is you will be define the rule of law and constitution of Belize, which is the supreme law of the country."