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Finally, the 60-page Report on the Senate Immigration Probe
posted (July 15, 2020)
There was a Special Sitting of the Senate in Belmopan today in which there were robust debate and several sparring matches between the parliamentarians of the Upper House. We'll have all that for you, but for context, there were three main pieces of business that the Senate focused on today.

Those included, the re-appointment of the Chairman of the Integrity Commission, the appointment of a new Chairman of the Elections and Boundaries Commission, and the most divisive motion of the day, the tabling of the majority report from the Senate Special Select Committee. And, that's where our coverage of today's Senate meeting begins. As we told you last night, the Committee has finished compiling a 160-page report on the 13-month-long Senate Hearings on Immigration.

Those ended in December 2017, and after the revision of over a hundred hours of sworn testimony from witnesses - most of whom were determined to deflect blame for systematic hustling and corruption at Immigration - the Committee presented its findings to the entire Senate.

In order for the report to become final and public, the Senators had to pass a motion to adopt it, and in the course of debating that motion, there were several, heated back-and-forth exchanges between Senators.

Here's an excerpt from that debate:

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