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Rt. Hon. Dean Denies
posted (July 10, 2019)

And while the Prime Minister got that one line in the settlement - the FTC put many lines on him in its court filing!  

To hear the PM tell it - they invented meetings which he never had and undertakings which he never gave.  He read them directly from the court filing:

Rt. Hon Dean Barrow - Prime Minister
"Under this Belizean government supported the so call fraud, they said Prime Minister Barrow met with Pukke, Pukke is apparently the chief architect of the Sanctuary Bay development project. Prime Minister Barrow met with Pukke and his associates and many connections exists between Barrow's government and Sanctuary Bay. As relevant here, Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with SBE representatives in August 2014 after the development's problems were widely known. In August of 2014 none of you media people as far as I know made any report of any problems with Sanctuary Bay, so if there were already problems from that date, it is absolutely incorrect to say they were widely known about here in Belize. But what is even worse, I have never in my life, met with this Mr. Pukke, I met with nobody concerning Sanctuary Bay. I have never in my life been to Sanctuary Bay, I have some idea from reports from where it is located but never been there but they continue. Although the lack of discovery in this case has severely limited the FTC ability to explore the relationship between Sanctuary Bay Barrow and subordinate officials, according to Chadwick, SBE arranged a meeting with Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow regarding the role that the SBE Buy Belize advertising campaign played in Belize's economic development. As I said, there was no such meeting but supposing there had been, what is the fault in that? Where is the sting in that? Notable, AIBL CEO Pelayo, provided SBE a quote it could use in a white paper SBE presented to Barrow about the development significance to Belize. There was no such white paper presented to me, there could not have been because there was nobody with whom I met that could presented such a paper and if there had been such a presentation, that assuredly be on file."

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