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Briceno Goes In On Port of Belize Ownership
posted (July 24, 2020)
That "oppressor-man" talk is out of the revolutionary playbook, and, perhaps forced by circumstance, the PUP leader almost matched the Prime Minister's rhetoric against the Ashcroft Alliance:

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"So when people are hurting, when people really need, this multi-million dollar company decide that they are going to fire these 36 workers of which the great majority are members of the Christian Workers Union. This cannot be allowed to happen, not now, not ever. You can't go around this country and say you love Belize and then you decide that you will go and fire people just like that - can't do that. Today, despite that they have won in court, I called the receiver and the receivership to do the right thing and immediately reinstate these works. In the scope of things we are not talking about a lot of money, reinstate them."

Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"There was no real force, no real fire to the Leader of the Opposition's presentation. He said some nice things, he even go far as to suggest that he said things, but there was no conviction, to wonder whether that was the deal he made with the master. Well of course we lost the application for the injunction this morning, but that's not the end of it. Government will pursue all avenues including legal avenues to do absolutely what is necessary to try to get these people reinstated. I notice that the Leader of the Opposition, unlike this administration has not said that if the port of Belize does not cooperate, does not restore these people to their rights, that if he and his party were to become government, God forbid, that he would ensure that that MOU which is languishing with the port ability to go forward at which this administration has declared absolutely, unshakably that it will not sign and to hear the Leader of the Opposition say is the same position taken by their side of the house. That is what the Belizean people want to hear."

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