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DPM’s Nephew Gets Contract For San Antonio Road (Again?)
Fri, August 1, 2014
As we've showed you all this year, Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega's Nephew, Imer Hernandez, has been getting successive contracts for road works in both Belize City and Orange Walk. Well, tonight we've confirmed that he has been granted a contract for the controversial San Antonio Road in Orange Walk.

It's controversial because when the news of this road hit the news last year May, this was the first time that Imer Hernandez's name was called. That's because as we showed you, members of the public alleged that he got paid 179 thousand dollars in 2012 for road works on that very same road, which allegedly weren't done. He maintained that he was only paid $50,000 for work which he did, and that he was never actually given a contract to pave that entire strip of road. He was backed by Prime Minister Dean Barrow who vouched that his company has passed international standards of scrutiny

Since then, he's scored some major contracts, and tonight we've confirmed he's won a bid for San Antonio Road, which has a value of 2 million dollars. Our official source says that the contract has either been signed over to Hernandez, or it will be done during the course of the weekend. When we contacted Hernandez himself by phone, he told us that he knew nothing of being awarded that contract, but he did confirm to us that he had placed a bid for it.

So, the story has come full circle, the stretch of road in which Hernandez's name was first called is now officially in his hands to be paved, and residents living on San Antonio will finally get the relief they've been begging Central Government to give them. That's because they've been living for several years under the intense dust which is dumped into their homes every time vehicles pass by, or when it is stirred by a heavy breeze.

We contacted the CEO in the Ministry of Works about the controversy surrounding the San Antonio Road, and he stated categorically, that this is the first contract which has been award for paving of this road. He added that others have been granted for small road works, but nothing like what Hernandez was accused of being paid for, but never completed.

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