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PM Says PUP Should Have Acted Sooner
Fri, August 29, 2014
At the top of the news, you saw the uproar created by the executive committee for Belize Rural North in front of the PUP Headquarters. They railed for hours, demanding that the party leader come and meet with them, but he didn't. But, they were not completely ignored. The party chairman Henry Usher just called us and said he met with Chairman Carol Williams at 1:00 pm to assure her that as part of his investigation, he plans to meet with the Committee.

But, when we spoke to the Prime Minister today, he said the opposition is moving too slow. Just during the last five years Barrow has expelled Zenaida Moya - who was later re-instated, and, in a first, accepted as resignation from Marcel Cardona even though he had not resigned, and also sent Elvin Penner to the far end of the backbench. So he knows a thing or two about icing politicians. Here's his view on the Saldivar suspension:..

Jules Vasquez
"You sort of wrote the book in recent times on how to expel or remove or constructively resign standard bearers. Do you think that in this case the PUP should have moved in a more decisive manner simply expel Mr. Saldivar or do you think that the measured approach is more advisable?"

Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"I don't know that I ought to be giving the P.U.P. any kind of advice. I will say though that on the basis of their pronouncements during the course of events that unfolded surrounding Penner on the basis of stands they took indeed they ought to have moved far more quickly and far more forcefully with respect of Arthur Saldivar."

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