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Henry Charles Usher, PUP Party Chairman
"Now this is a last minute, or really as I think Senior Counsel Courtenay said, that it is not even last minute it is past the midnight hour in terms of bringing this claim. But I think it is important that we understand what is being said and the fact that the Prime Minister has already given his assurances that redistricting will happen. Don't forget that the Elections and Boundaries Commission did prepare a redistricting report, that report was tabled in the House and the corresponding legislation was also introduced in the house. It is at house committee so it's not like nothing has happened."

"The agenda for any parliament is done by the speaker of the house. Of course they go to the House Committee and say is it ready to come back and so on. Right now because parliament is dissolved there will be no house meeting before March the 12th to be able to bring it out of the house committee. I think what is also important for the Belizean people to understand is that why go to a foreign attorney why not use one of the local attorneys?"

REPORTER-
"They said they couldn't find any here."

Henry Charles Usher, PUP Party Chairman
"And a foreign attorney that has a dubious track record to say the least and I'm sure you'll see his track record if you google his name coming from Trinidad but also what is interesting is that the law firm the address of the law firm is Guava Street which the person who has a law firm there used to be the chairman of the Election and Boundaries Commission, so why is it that in his tenure he did not try to speed up the redistricting process. So I think it's all a last minute effort to frustrate the will of the people and I think that I'll let the lawyers talk about the legal part of it."