And going now to Belmopan, there was a Senate to debate those 4 loan motions that the Barrow Administration passed in the House of Representatives last Friday.
You'll remember that at that House Meeting last week, the Opposition
was resisting some of these loan motions on several grounds. Among
other complaints, they asserted that the Barrow Government's term in
office is quickly coming to a close and that the Prime Minister should
not be allowed to saddle Belizeans with more debt, while he is on the
way out.
But, in the end, the majority had it, and those loan motions were
passed by House.
So, the Senate had its opportunity to review them yesterday, and once
again, these motions sparked fiery debate from parliamentarians in the
upper chamber.
Here's the debate over the 30 million dollars that the government wants
to borrow under the Caribbean Development Bank COVID-19 Emergency
Response Support Loan. It will give government a break from debt
service payments for exciting loans with the CDB, which may seem
harmless enough, but, not so in the senate. Here's the debate
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